TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2017. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1494 - Spain and Portugal divided the new lands they had discovered between themselves. 1498 - Christopher Columbus left on his third voyage of exploration.

1546 - Peace of Ardes ended the war between France and England. 1654 - Louis XIV was crowned king of France. 1770 - Lieutenant James Cook names Palm Island, off Australia’s eastern coast.

1825 - Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) officially separates from New South Wales.

1863 - Mexico City was captured by French troops.

1900 - Boxer rebels cut the rail links between Peking and Tientsin in China.

1929 - The sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome.

1935 - Pierre Laval received emergency powers to save the franc. 1939 - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the US It was the first visit to the US by a reigning British monarch. 1948 - The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia. 1981 - Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed Iraq’s only nuclear reactor.

1983 - The US ordered Nicaragua to close all six of its consulates and informed 21 Nicaraguan consular officials that they could not longer remain in the US 1994 - The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declared the RMS Titanic, Inc. (RMST) salvor-in-possession of the wreck and the wreck site of the RMS Titanic.