TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2019

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1798 - Sea explorers Flinders and Bass set out to prove that Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) is an island.

1854 - Scottish gold miner James Scobie dies, a catalyst to events that will eventually result in the Eureka Stockade.

1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.

1950 - The US-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.

1959 - The far side of the moon is photographed for the first time.

1963 - US President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.

1981 - The Egyptian parliament, after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, named Vice President Hosni Mubarak the next president of Egypt.

1985 - The United States announced that it would no longer automatically comply with World Court decisions.

1989 - In Budapest, Hungary’s Communist Party renounced Marxism in favour of democratic socialism.

2000 - Vojislav Kostunica took the oath of office as Yugoslavia’s first popularly elected president.

2001 - The US and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state’s support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001.

2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the recall election of Governor Gray Davis. Birthdays

June Allyson 1917 Martha Stewart (Haworth) 1922

Al Martino 1927

R.D. Laing 1927

Diana Lynn 1927 Desmond Tutu (South Africa) 1931

Thomas Keneally 1935 John Cougar Mellencamp 1951

Yo-Yo Ma 1955

Simon Cowell 1959