TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1791 - George Vancouver formally claims southwestern Australia for Great Britain.

1829 - The first public appearance by London’s reorganised police force was met with jeers from political opponents. The force became known as Scotland Yard.

1903 - Prussia becomes the first locality in the world to make drivers' licences for automobiles compulsory.

1941 - The Babi Yar massacre, considered to be the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust, begins.

1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.

1984 - Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tonnes of US-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.

1992 - Brazilian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello.

1993 - Bosnia’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned land that had been taken by force.

BIRTHDAYS

Miguel de Cervantes 1547 Horatio Nelson (England) 1758

Gene Autry 1907 Richard Harkness 1907 Laszlo Biro 1899 - Inventor of the modern ballpoint pen Greer Garson 1908 Michelangelo Antonioni 1912 Stanley Kramer 1913 Trevor Howard 1916 Lizabeth Scott 1922

Bum Phillips 1923

Steve Forrest 1924 Anita Ekberg 1931

Jerry Lee Lewis 1935 Musician

Larry Linville 1939 Jean-Luc Ponty 1942 Madeline Kahn 1942

Ian McShane 1942

Lech Walesa 1943

Mike Post 1944 Patricia Hodge 1946 Bryant Gumbel 1948 Mike Pinera (Iron Butterfly) 1948

Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad) 1948

Alvin Crow 1950 Sebastian Coe 1956