TODAY IN HISTORY:

In 1228, Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, died. Langton formulated the original division of the Bible into chapters. He is also credited with creating much of the “Magna Carta.”

In 1540, England’s King Henry VIII had his six-month marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.

In 1793, Upper Canada, now Ontario, prohibited the importation of slaves and ruled that slaves’ children should be freed at age 25. But the act didn’t free any existing slaves in the colony.

In 1816, Argentina proclaimed its independence from Spain.

In 1900, the British Parliament accepted the “Commonwealth of Australia Act,” which united the Australian colonies of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia under a federal government.

In 1904, after nearly 200 years of fishing on the French shore, France relinquished its rights over part of the Newfoundland coast.

In 1942, Otto Frank’s family went into hiding from the occupying Nazis in a backroom area of his Amsterdam food-products business. The family, including young diarist Anne Frank, was discovered and arrested on Aug. 4, 1944 and sent to concentration camps. Only Otto Frank survived.

In 1947, Princess Elizabeth’s engagement to Philip Mountbatten was announced. They were married Nov. 20 in London’s Westminster Abbey.

In 1952, the first diesel locomotives in the Rocky Mountains went into operation, replacing steam power on the CPR between Calgary and Revelstoke.

In 1960, seven-year-old Rodger Woodward became the first person to survive an accidental plunge over Niagara Falls. Roger, his 17-yearold sister Deanne and 40-year-old family friend James Honeycutt were boating on the Niagara