TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2019

On this day in history:

1026 - Conrad II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XIX.

1799 - Napoleon captured Jaffa Palestine.

1780 - The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor was published for the first time. It was the first Sunday newspaper in Britain.

1793 - The Holy Roman Emperor formally declared war on France.

1838 - George Grey discovers evidence to suggest other Europeans had explored Australia’s northwest hinterland prior to white settlement.

1898 - In South Africa, the world’s first game reserve, the Sabi Game reserve, was designated.

1934 - The Flying Doctor Service announces that it will expand from Queensland into Western Australia.

1942 - The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.

1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared East Pakistan to be the independent republic of Bangladesh.

1984 - Australia introduces the $100 note.

1989 - The first free elections took place in the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin was elected.

1995 - Seven of the 15 European Union states abolished border controls.

1996 - A bronze statue to Captain Matthew Flinders’ cat is unveiled at the New South Wales State Library.

2000 - In Russia, acting President Vladimir Putin was elected president outright. He won a sufficient number of votes to avoid a runoff election.

BIRTHDAYS

Nathaniel Bowditch 1773 Louise Otto 1819 Edward Bellamy 1850 A.E. Housman 1859 Robert Frost 1874

Al Jolson 1886 Clarence Stroud 1907 Chips Rafferty 1909 Tennessee Williams 1911 Sterling Hayden 1916 Rufus Thomas 1917 Strother Martin 1919

Joe Loco 1921

Bob Elliott 1923

James Moody 1925 Pierre Boulez 1925 Maurice Simon 1929