TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019

On this day in history:

1618 - Johann Kepler discovered the third Law of Planetary Motion.

1702 - England’s Queen Anne took the throne upon the death of King William III.

1902 - The first test to pump water through the most difficult section of the Golden Pipeline to the Western Australian goldfields is successfully carried out.

1904 - The Bundestag in Germany lifted the ban on the Jesuit order of priests.

1907 - The British House of Commons turned down a women’s suffrage bill.

1909 - Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary.

1910 - In France, Baroness de Laroche became the first woman to obtain a pilot’s licence.

1910 - The King of Spain authorised women to attend universities.

1911 - In Europe, International Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time.

1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato was assassinated while leaving the Parliament in Madrid.

1941 - Martial law was proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests.

1942 - During World War II, Japanese forces captured Rangoon, Burma.

1943 - Japanese forces attacked American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. The battle lasted five days.

1954 - France and Vietnam opened talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina.

1966 - Australia announced that it would triple the number of troops in Vietnam.

1973 - 15 people are killed in a firebomb attack on the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub in Brisbane, Australia.

1973 - Two bombs exploded near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain. 234 people were injured.