TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, November 19, 2018

On this day in history:

1794 - Britain’s King George III signed the Jay Treaty. It resolved the issues left over from the Revolutionary War.

1813 - George Evans departs Sydney to explore the land west of the Blue Mountains discovered by Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth.

1834 - Edward Henty establishes an illegal settlement at Portland Bay, Victoria.

1928 - Time magazine presented its cover in colour for the first time. The subject was Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

1942 - During World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.

1946 - Australian country music singer Slim Dusty records his first single.

1970 - Hafiz al-Assad seized power in Syria.

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to set foot in Israel on an official visit.

1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a treaty of non-aggression.

1994 - The UN Security Council authorised NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking from neighbouring Croatia.

1998 - Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sold at auction for more than $71 million.

1999 - In Istanbul, Turkey, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe concluded a two-day summit after adopting a new arms accord. During the conference, Russia was criticised for its military campaign against Chechnya’s separatist movement.

2002 - The oil tanker Prestige broke into two pieces and sank off northwest Spain. The tanker lost about 2 million gallons of fuel oil when it ruptured November 13 and was towed about 150 miles out to sea.

Birthdays

James Garfield 1831 Tommy Dorsey 1905 Indira Gandhi 1917

Alan Young 1919

Larry King 1933

Dick Cavett 1936

Ted Turner 1938 Garrick Utley 1939