TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018

It is International Women’s Day

On this day in history:

1702 - England’s Queen Anne took the throne upon the death of King William III.

1902 - The first test to pump water through the most difficult section of the Golden Pipeline to the Western Australian goldfields is successfully carried out.

1907 - The British House of Commons turned down a women’s suffrage bill.

1910 - In France, Baroness de Laroche became the first woman to obtain a pilot’s licence.

1910 - The King of Spain authorised women to attend universities.

1911 - In Europe, International Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time.

1911 - British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Gray declared that Britain would not support France in the event of a military conflict.

1917 - Russia’s “February Revolution” began with rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called the “February Revolution” due to Russia’s use of the Old Style calendar.

1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated while leaving the Parliament in Madrid.

1941 - Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests.

1942 - During World War II, Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma.

1943 - Japanese forces attacked American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. The battle lasted five days.

1966 - Australia announced that it would triple the number of troops in Vietnam.

1973 - 15 people are killed in a firebomb attack on the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane, Australia.

1973 - Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain. 234 people were injured.

1982 - The US accused the Soviets of killing 3000 Afghans with poison gas.

1989 - In Lhasa, Tibet, martial law was declared after three days of protest against Chinese rule.

2005 - In norther Chechnya, Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed during a raid by Russian forces.