ON THIS DAY

1788:

HMS Supply, first ship of Britain’s First Fleet to Australia, reaches Botany Bay.

The World War I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France.

Author Rudyard Kipling dies in England. United States and Soviet Union agree on draft treaty to control nuclear weapons. Australia’s worst rail crash, at Granville in Sydney, kills 83 people when a train hits a concrete bridge.

Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson files for divorce from Michael Jackson.

Australian golfer Robert Allenby is reportedly bashed, robbed and kidnapped while in Hawaii.

1919: 1936: 1968: 1977: 1996: 2015: Birthdays:

Edmund Barton, Australia’s first prime minister (1849-1920); Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie the Pooh author (1882-1956); Cary Grant, US actor (1904-1986).