TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2019

On this day in history:

1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.

1802 - Matthew Flinders names Kangaroo island in South Australia for the fresh food it provides his crew.

1873 - Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico.

1888 - The English Football League was established.

1897 - Edmund Barton heads a conference to discuss the proposed constitution for the Commonwealth of Australia.

1901 - Japan proclaimed that it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.

1902 - Great Britain and Persia agreed to link Europe and India by telegraph.

1903 - Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.

1904 - The first colour photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.

1905 - Child miners in Britain received a maximum 8-hour workday.

1906 - France lost the first ever rugby game ever played against Britain.

1915 - A German zeppelin made a night raid on Paris railway stations.

1935 - Persia was renamed Iran.

1942 - Nine Japanese aircraft bomb the town of Katherine in Australia’s Northern Territory.

1946 - The British granted Transjordan independence.

1974 - Tasmania records its highest rainfall within a single day.

1977 - Indira Ghandi resigned as the prime minister of India.

1995 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned to Earth after setting a record for 438 days in space. BIRTHDAYS

Sir Anthony Van Dyke 1599 Chico Marx 1887

Louis L’Amour 1908 Wilfrid Brambell 1912

Karl Malden 1913 Virginia Grey 1917

Ross Martin 1920 Werner Klemperer 1920 Marcel Marceau 1923

Bill Wendell 1924

Easy Ed Macauley 1928

Pat Robertson 1930 Stephen Sondheim 1930 William Shatner 1931

May Britt 1933

J.P. McCarthy 1933

M. Emmett Walsh 1935 Johnny Ferguson 1937