TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018

On this day in history:

1700 - Russia gave up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire. 1758 - British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at Krefeld in Germany.

1760 - The Austrians defeated the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.

1757 - Robert Clive defeated the Indians at Plassey and won control of Bengal.

1810 - Governor Macquarie opens Australia’s first post office.

1848 - A bloody insurrection of workers in Paris erupted. 1884 - A Chinese Army defeated the French at Bacle, Indochina.

1902 - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renewed the Triple Alliance for a 12 year duration.

1913 - The first Federal postage stamps in Australia are issued. 1934 - Italy gained the right to colonise Albania after defeating the country.

1951 - Soviet UN delegate Jacob Malik proposed cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.

1952 - The US Air Force bombed power plants on Yalu River, Korea.

1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.

2000 - 15 people die in a fire at a Backpacker hostel in Childers, Queensland. 2006 - The world’s oldest known animal in captivity, a 176-year-old tortoise, dies. 2012 - Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.

2013 - Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.

2013 - Militants stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan and killed ten climbers, as well as a local guide.

2014 - The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction. 2016 - The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.

2017 - A series of terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan resulting in 96 deaths and wounded 200 others.