TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2019

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1492 - The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.

1822 - A penal settlement is established at Macquarie Harbour on the remote west coast of Van Diemen’s Land.

1860 - The existence of the theoretical planet Vulcan, between Mercury and the Sun, is announced.

1872 - Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.

1929 - The United States and Canada reached an agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls.

1942 - The Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War II.

1955 - South Australia’s Vice-Regal Summer Residence, Marble Hill, is destroyed by bushfires.

1968 - Fidel Castro announced petroleum and sugar rationing in Cuba.

1971 - 66 die in a crowd crush at a football match in Scotland.

1998 - Russia began circulating new roubles in effort to keep inflation in check and promote confidence. Birthdays

Nathaniel Bacon 1647 Philip Freneau 1752 Martha Thomas 1857 James Melton 1904

Sir Michael Tippett 1905 Vera Zorina (Eva Hartwig) 1917

Isaac Asimov 1920

Anna Lee 1923

Jason Evers 1927

Gino Marchetti 1927 Julius LaRosa 1930 Roger Miller 1936

Jim Bakker 1939 Donald B. Keck 1941 Christopher Durang 1949 Chick Churchill (Ten Years After) 1949

Wendy Phillips 1952 Joanna Pacula 1957 Gabrielle Carteris 1961 Cuba Gooding, Jr. 1968 Christy Turlington 1969 Todd Haynes 1961

Tia Carrere 1967

Taye Diggs 1971

Kate Bosworth 1973