TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018

On this day:

1457 - The Gutenberg Bible became the first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. 1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.

1733 - Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water – soda water. 1802 - Matthew Flinders names Kangaroo island in South Australia for the fresh food it provides his crew.

1888 - The English Football League was established. 1897 - Edmund Barton heads a conference to discuss the proposed constitution for the Commonwealth of Australia. 1902 - Great Britain and Persia agreed to link Europe and India by telegraph.

1903 - Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought. 1905 - Child miners in Britain received a maximum 8-hour workday.

1915 - World War I: A German Zeppelin made a night raid on Paris railway stations.

1919 - The first international airline service was inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.

1939 World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania. 1942 - World War II: Japanese aircraft bomb Katherine in Australia’s Northern Territory. 1946 - The first U.S. built rocket to leave the Earth’s atmosphere reached a height of 80km. 1974 - Tasmania records its highest rainfall within a single day.

1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

2016 - Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at a metro station.

2017 - A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.