TODAY IN HISTORY

1142: Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah

1422: Henry VI becomes King of England at nine months of age 1745: Jacobite Rising 1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland

1882: Cricket’s legend of The Ashes is born with the first of two mock obituaries lamenting England’s loss to Australia. 1888: The body of Jack the Ripper’s first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London’s East End

1897: British General Kitchener’s army occupies Berber, North of Khartoum 1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope (kinetographic camera), a device which produces moving pictures 1933: The town of Stuart in the Northern Territory is renamed Alice Springs.

1942: U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships in month (639,946 tons)

1943: First battle of Essex/new Yorktown – US assault on Marcus Island

1943: Japanese occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo

1944: Allied offensive at “Gothic-line” Italy

1944: French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris

1944: French troops liberate Bordeaux

1944: Soviet and Romanian troops march into Bucharest 1945: The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies

1957: Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain

1994: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris