TODAY IS THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019

On this day in history:

1908 - Witches Falls, the world’s third oldest national park, is declared the first National Park in Queensland.

1910 - The first seaplane took off from water at Martinques, France. The pilot was Henri Fabre.

1930 - Constantinople and Angora changed their names to Istanbul and Ankara respectively.

1933 - In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.

1938 - In Italy, psychiatrists demonstrated the use of electric-shock therapy for treatment of certain mental illnesses.

1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to Francisco Franco.

1941 - The Italian fleet was defeated by the British at the Battle of Matapan.

1942 - Critchley Parker sets off in search of a new Jewish homeland within Australia.

1942 - British naval forces raided the Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire.

1945 - Germany launched the last of the V-2 rockets against England.

1947 - The American Helicopter Society revealed a flying device that could be strapped to a person’s body.

1981 - In Bangkok, Thailand, Indonesian terrorists hijacked a plane. Four of the five terrorists were killed on March 31.

1994 - Violence between Zulus and African National Congress supporters took the lives of 18 in Johannesburg.

2002 - The exhibit The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art opened at the National Gallery of Australia.

2008 - A strange object found on an outback property in Queensland is identified as ‘space junk’.

BIRTHDAYS

Santi Raphael 1483

Paul Whiteman 1890 August Busch 1899 Rudolf Serkin 1903

Frank Lovejoy 1912

Jay Livingston 1915

Dirk Bogarde 1921

Thad Jones 1923 Freddie Bartholomew 1924 Eric Dixon 1930

Bill Anthony 1930 Charlie McCoy 1941

Mike Newell 1942