The Gold Coast Bulletin

ON THIS DAY

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1498: Christophe­r Columbus, on his third voyage to the New World, arrives at the island of Trinidad.

1886: Death of Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer and pianist.

1928: MGM releases their first talking motion picture, White Shadows in the South Seas.

1944: US troops break through the German lines around the Normandy beachhead, opening the way to liberating the rest of France.

1964: US Ranger 7 spacecraft transmits to Earth first close-up pictures of the moon.

2013: Australia’s Independen­t Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) recommends criminal charges against Labor figures Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald.

Birthdays: Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis champion (1951-); JK Rowling, British author of Harry Potter books (1965-).

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