TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2018

On this day in history:

1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem. 1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples. 1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1812 - Napoleon’s invasion of Russia began.

1898 - Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain.

1900 - The Reichstag approved a second law that would allow the expansion of the German navy.

1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.

1926 - Brazil quit the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany.

1931 - The territories of North Australia and Central Australia are reunited as the Northern Territory.

1935 - The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had been fighting since 1932.

1937 - The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.

1941 - In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the first step towards the establishment of the United Nations.

1944 - Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan.

1948 - Donald Bradman scores 138 in the First Test at Trent Bridge.

1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices in 1971.

1986 - South Africa declared a national state of emergency. Virtually unlimited power was given to security forces and restrictions were put on news coverage of the unrest. 1999 - NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia. 2003 - Optus launches the C1 satellite, the largest Australian hybrid communications and military satellite ever launched.