TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2018

On this day in history: 0483 - St. Felix III began his reign as Pope.

0607 - The 12th recorded passage of Halley’s Comet occurred.

1519 - Cortez landed in Mexico. 1847 - Kennedy departs Parramatta to trace the course of the Barcoo River, hoping it will lead to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north. 1875 - Giles departs Fowlers Bay on his third expedition to cross the western deserts. 1878 - The first collegiate golf match was played between Oxford and Cambridge. 1900 - In South Africa, British Gen Roberts took Bloemfontein.

1902 - In Poland, schools were shut down across the country when students refused to sing the Russian hymn God Protect the Czar.

1915 - The Germans repelled a British expeditionary force attack in France.

1935 Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming some biblical history.

1940 - The war between Russia and Finland ended with the signing of a treaty in Moscow.

1941 - Adolf Hitler issued an edict calling for an invasion of the USSR.

1946 - Reports from Iran indicated that Soviet tanks units were stationed 20 miles from Tehran.

1946 - Premier Tito seized wartime collaborator General Draja Mikhailovich in a cave in Yugoslavia.

1963 - China invited Soviet President Khrushchev to visit Peking.

1970 - Cambodia ordered Hanoi and Viet Cong troops to leave.

1974 - An embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries was lifted.

1995 - The first United Nations World Summit on Social Development concluded in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1997 - Sister Nirmala was chosen by India’s Missionaries of Charity to succeed Mother Teresa as leader of the Catholic order.

2012 - After 244 years of publication, Encyclopaedia Britannica announced it would discontinue its print edition.