ON THIS DAY

1868: US inventor Christopher Latham Sholes patents an invention he calls a “Type-Writer”.

1931: Australian aviator Harold Gatty and American Wiley Post take off from New York on first flight around world in a single-engine plane.

1972: President Nixon and his chief-of-staff H.R. Haldeman discuss plan to use CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation.

1980: Australia’s first test tube baby, Candice Reed, is born in Melbourne.

2011: The Australian government signs an $11billion deal with Telstra for the NBN rollout.

2013: Edward Snowden, who leaked information on US spying, arrives in Moscow seeking asylum.

2014: Australian journalist Peter Greste and two of his Al Jazeera colleagues are jailed in Egypt.

Birthdays: Australian actor Bryan Brown (1947-); Australian commentator Gordon Bray (1949-); Australian actor Joe Edgerton (1974-).