TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2018.

On this day in history:

1189 - England’s King Richard I was crowned in Westminster.

1783 - The Revolutionary War between the US and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.

1855 - All property of the Sydney Railway Company is transferred to the New South Wales government.

1894 - The Cambus Wallace runs aground off Stradbroke Island in southern Queensland in the first of two events which cause the island to be broken into North and South.

1901 - The Australian flag is flown for the first time.

1939 - Australian Prime Minister, Robert Gordon Menzies, announces that Australia is at war with Germany.

1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

1943 - Italy was invaded by the Allied forces during World War II.

1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.

1967 - In Sweden, motorists stopped driving on the left side of the road and began driving on the right side.

1981 - Egypt arrested more than 1500 opponents of the government.

1986 - Peat Marwick International and Klynveld Main Goerdeler of the Netherlands agreed to merge and form the world’s largest accounting firm.

1994 - Russia and China announced that they would no longer be targeting nuclear missiles or using force against each other.

BIRTHDAYS

Helen Wagner 1918 Irene Papas 1926 - Actress Bill Fleming 1926 Hugh Sidney 1927 Tompall Glaser 1933 Freddie King (Frederick Christian) 1934 - Guitarist and singer Richard Castellano 1934 Pauline Collins 1940 Actress Al Jardine 1942 - Musician (The Beach Boys) Charlie Sheen 1965 - Actor