TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, October 9, 2019 On this day in history:

1769 - Explorer James Cook first sets foot on New Zealand.

1803 - Lieutenant - Governor Collins arrives in Port Phillip Bay on Australia’s southern coast to establish a new settlement.

1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.

1908 - The Yass-Canberra area is named as the site for the new Federal Capital Territory of Australia.

1914 - During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium.

1940 - St. Paul’s Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.

1957 - The final major British atomic bomb test is conducted at the remote South Australian site of Maralinga.

1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb.”

1986 - The musical Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London.

1989 - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh.

2003 - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).

BIRTHDAYS

Rube Marquard 1889 Bruce Catton 1899

Aimee Semple McPherson 1890 Otto Schnering 1891 Alistair Sim 1900 Howard St. John 1905 Edward Andrews 1914 Fyvush Finkel 1923 Donald Sinden 1923

Joe Pepitone 1940

John Lennon 1940 - Musician (Beatles)

John Alec Entwistle 1944 Musician (The Who) Jackson Browne 1948 Musician

Robert Wuhl 1951

PJ Harvey (Polly Jean Harvey) 1969 - Musician, singer, songwriter

Sean Lennon 1975 - Singer, songwriter, son of John Lennon