TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

On this day in history:

1792 - The French Republic was proclaimed.

1831 - The first drawing of a numbat is made, following the first recorded sighting.

1914 - Three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were killed. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine.

1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully.

1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.

1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.

1985 - France admits to bombing the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland Harbour

1988 - Canada’s government apologised for the internment of Japanese-Canadian’s during World War II. They also promised compensation.

1990 - Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yememin and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh. The Saudi accusations were unspecific.

1991 - An article in the London newspaper The Mail revealed that John Cairncross admitted to being the “fifth man” in the Soviet Union’s British spy ring.

1992 - The UN General Assembly expelled Yugoslavia for its role in the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina. Birthdays

Paul Muni 1895

Allan ‘Rocky’ Lane 1901 John Houseman 1902 Martha Scott 1914 Eugene Roche 1928

Joni James (Joan Carmello Babbo) 1930

Pat (Chiyoko) Suzuki 1930 Harriet King 1935

Ray Norton 1937

Paul LeMat 1945

King Sunny Ade 1946 Mark Phillips 1948 Harold Carmichael 1949 David Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) 1951

Shari Belafonte-Harper 1954 - Actress

Debby Boone 1956 - Singer June Forester (The Forester Sisters) 1956