TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2018

On this day in history:

0363 - The death of Roman Emperor Julian brought an end to the Pagan Revival.

1693 - The Ladies’ Mercury was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women’s magazine and contained a question and answer column that became known as a problem page. 1743 - King George II of England defeated the French at Dettingen, Bavaria, in the War of the Austrian Succession.

1787 - Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire .It was published the following May.

1801 - British forces defeated the French and took control of Cairo, Egypt.

1861 - The journal of Australian explorer William Wills closes, shortly before his death. 1862 - Explorer John McDouall Stuart crosses the Roper River in northern Australia, where he finds excellent pastureland. 1871 - The yen became the new form of currency in Japan. 1918 - Two German pilots were saved by parachutes for the first time.

1923 - Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch was wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade.

1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York’s Long Island. 1954 - The world’s first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow. 1967 - The world’s first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.

1988 - The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.

1994 - Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured. 2007 - Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.

2014 - At least fourteen people are killed when a Gas Authority of India Limited pipeline explodes in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

2015 - A midair explosion from flammable powder at a recreational water park in Taiwan injures at least 510 people.