TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1803 - Lieutenant Governor Collins arrives in Port Phillip Bay on Australia’s southern coast to establish a new settlement.

1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.

1908 - The Yass-Canberra area is named as the site for the new Federal Capital Territory of Australia.

1914 - During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium.

1940 - St. Paul’s Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.

1957 - The final major British atomic bomb test is conducted at the remote South Australian site of Maralinga.

1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb”.

1986 - The musical Phantom of the Opera by

Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London.

1989 - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh.

2003 - Queen Elizabeth II knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).