TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.

1860 - Burke and Wills first reach Cooper Creek.

1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.

1910 - Francisco I. Madero led a revolution that broke out in Mexico.

1926 - The 1926 Imperial Conference accords Australia the status of self-governing Dominion, of equal status to Great Britain.

1943 - During World War II, US Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.

1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

1947 - Britain’s Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.

1959 - Britain, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden met to create the European Free Trade Association.

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the US ended its blockade of the island.

1986 - Dr. Halfdan Maher, the director of the World Health Organization, announced the first coordinated global effort to fight the disease AIDS.

1987 - Police investigating the fire at King’s Cross, London’s busiest subway station, said that arson was unlikely to be the cause of the event that took 31 lives.

1988 - Egypt and China announced that they would recognise the Palestinian state proclaimed by the Palestine National Council.

1989 - Over 200,000 people rallied peacefully in Prague, Czechoslovakia, demanding democratic reforms.

1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.

1994 - The Angolan government and rebels signed a treaty in Zambia to end 19 years of war.