TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2019

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1802 - The Treaty of Amiens was signed ending the French Revolutionary War.

1838 - Eyre arrive at Lake Hindmarsh in South Australia.

1848 - A brutal murder is committed in colonial Brisbane, but the murderer’s legacy eventually leads to the founding of the University of Queensland.

1899 - The first international radio transmission between England and France was achieved by the Italian inventor G. Marconi.

1900 - The London Parliament passed the War Loan Act that gave £35 million to the Boer War cause in South Africa.

1907 - French troops occupied Oudja, Morocco, as a punitive action for the murder of French Dr Muchamp.

1930 - Brisbane and Sydney are joined by standard-gauge rail link.

1942 - The British raided the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire, France.

1993 - In China, Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin was appointed President.

1997 - Russian workers, nearly 2 million, held a nationwide strike to protest unpaid wages.

1997 - In Australia, Governor-General William Deane signed a bill to overturn a 1996 Northern Territory act to legalize assisted suicides. The 1996 act was the first in the world to permit assisted suicides.

2013 - Australia’s longest road bridge, spanning the Macleay River and surrounding floodplains in New South Wales, is opened to traffic. Birthdays

Louis XVII 1785

Alfred Vigny 1797 Nathaniel Currier 1813 William Conrad Rontgen 1845

Sir Henry Royce 1863 Patty Smith Hill 1868 Edward Steichen 1879 Thorne Smith 1892 Gloria Swanson 1899 James Callaghan 1912 British prime minister Snooky Lanson 1914 Richard Denning 1914 Robert “Junior” Lockwood 1915 - Blues guitarist Richard Hayman 1920 Sarah Vaughan 1924 Harold Nicholas 1924