TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2019 On this day in history:

28 - John the Baptist is beheaded in the first century.

70 - Romans begin their destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish temple.

1817 - Explorers Oxley and Evans return to Bathurst after their unsuccessful attempt to follow the Lachlan River.

1833 - The “Factory Act” was passed in England to settle child labour laws.

1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.

1941 - Arthur Fadden, the second of five men who served as Australian Prime Minister during World War II, is sworn into office.

1945 - US General Douglas MacArthur left for Japan to officially accept the surrender of the Japanese.

1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.

1991 - The Communist Party in the Soviet Union had its bank accounts frozen and activities were suspended because of the Party’s role in the failed coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.

1991 - The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.

1992 - The UN Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.

2004 - India test-launched a nuclear-capable missile able to carry a one-tonne warhead. The weapon had a range of 1560 miles.

BIRTHDAYS

John Locke 1632

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 Preston Sturges 1898 Barry Sullivan 1912

Ingrid Bergman 1915 George Montgomery 1916 Isabel Sanford 1917 Charles White 1920 Charlie “Bird” Parker 1920 Wendell Scott 1921

Sir Richard Attenborough 1923 Dinah Washington 1924 Dick O’Neill 1928

John McCain 1936

Elliott Gould 1938 William Friedkin 1939

Ellen Geer 1941

Robin Leach 1941 Sterling Morrison 1942