TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2019

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1492 - King Henry VII of England invaded France.

1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.

1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his “theory of evolution” which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.

1902 - William Gocher defies the Australian law that prohibits daylight bathing in the ocean, and sets a new precedent in surf-swimming.

1925 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.

1941 - Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.

1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.

1958 - Guinea, the French colony in West Africa, proclaimed its independence. Sekou Toure was the first president of the Republic of Guinea.

1988 - Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered free elections.

1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany a protest took place demanding the legalisation of opposition groups and the adoption of democratic reforms.

1990 - The Allies ceded their rights to areas they occupied in Germany.

1993 - Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and set up burning barricades.

1998 - About 10,000 Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq and attacked Kurdish rebels.

Birthdays

Richard III 1452 Mahatma Gandhi 1869 Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890

Greene 1904 Don McLean 1945 Donna Karan 1948 Avery Brooks 1948 Annie Leibovitz 1949 Sting (Police) 1951