TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1777 - Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War.

1855 - The first railway line in New South Wales is opened.

1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front.

1943 - Operation Jaywick, the secret Australian raid on Singapore Harbour, occurs.

1950 - UN troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean Conflict.

1980 - The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.

1984 - Britain and China initialled a draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong when the Chinese take over ruling the British Colony.

2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that Vojislav Kostunica had won Yugoslavia’s presidential election and declared a run-off. The declared run-off prompted mass protests.

2001 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced plans to formalise a cease-fire and end a year of fighting in the region.

2006 - Facebook was openened to everyone at least 13 years or older with a valid email address.

Birthdays

Ivan Pavlov 1849 Physiologist

T.S. Eliot 1888

George Raft 1895 George Gershwin 1898 Ted Weems 1901

Jack LaLanne 1914 Barbara Britton 1919 Bobby Shantz 1925 Marty Robbins 1925

Julie London 1926 Patrick O’Neal 1927 Philip Bosco 1930 - Actor Joyce Jameson 1932 Winnie Mandela 1934 Donna Douglas 1939 George Chambers (The Chambers Brothers) 1931 David Frizzell 1941

Joe Bauer (The Youngbloods) 1941

Kent McCord 1942 - Actor Anne Robinson 1944 Bryan Ferry 1945 - Singer