TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019

On this day in history:

1461 - Edward IV secured his claim to the English thrown by defeating Henry VI’s Lancastrians at the battle of Towdon.

1841 - The isolated town of Eyre is named, after Eyre’s party finds fresh water two metres below the sandy surface.

1848 - Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam.

1867 - The British Parliament passed the North America Act to create the Dominion of Canada.

1901 - The first federal elections were held in Australia and Sir Edmund Barton is officially elected as the first Prime Minister.

1903 - A regular news service began between New York and London on Marconi’s wireless.

1936 - Italy firebombed the Ethiopian city of Harar.

1941 - The British sank five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean.

1946 - Gold Coast became the first British colony to hold an African parliamentary majority.

1983 - Erno Rubik was granted a patent for his Magic Cube.

1986 - A court in Rome acquitted six men in a plot to kill the Pope.

2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia became members of NATO. BIRTHDAYS

Cy Young 1867

Howard Lindsay 1888 Phillip Ahn 1905 Edward Biggs 1906

Phil Foster 1914

Eugene McCarthy 1916 Pearl Mae Bailey 1918 Eileen Heckart 1919 Judith Guest 1936

Scott Wilson 1942 Vangelis 1943

Eric Idle 1943

John Major 1943

Billy Vukovich 1944 Bobby Kimball 1947 Michael Brecker 1949

Bud Cort 1950

Chris Lawford 1955

Terry Jacks 1956 Christopher Lambert 1957 Amy Sedaris 1961

Elle MacPherson 1964 John Popper 1967 Regina Leigh 1968