ON THIS DAY

1792:

France’s King Louis XVI faces charges of treason. He is convicted and executed.

First transatlantic radio signal is sent by Italian Guglielmo Marconi from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John’s, Newfoundland.

Bank of the United States in New York fails and closes all its 60 branches.

South Australia’s first test-tube baby, Matthew James Wooton, is born.

More than 150 countries agree at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth’s greenhouse gases.

The Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives votes to impeach president Bill Clinton for perjury.

Holden announces it will stop manufacturing in Australia in 2017.

Model Maggie Tabberer (1936-); Jermaine Jackson, American entertainer, (1954-).

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