TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1361 - A duel occurs between a dog and the Frenchman who murdered his master.

1818 - Oxley discovers and names Port Macquarie.

1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.

1945 - US President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.

1952 - 112 are killed as three trains crash at Harrow, London.

1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.

1982 - In Poland, all labour organisations, including Solidarity, were banned.

1996 - Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.

1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.

1998 - Canada and Netherlands were voted into the UN Security Council.

2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.

2003 - China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.

2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.

2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.