TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, March, 2020

On this day in history:

1190 – The Crusaders began the massacre of Jews in York, England.

1521 – Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives. 1907 – The world’s largest cruiser, the British Invincible was completed at Glasgow. 1908 – China released the Japanese steamship Tatsu Maru.

1917 – Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicated his throne.

1935 – Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty. 1939 – Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia. 1945 – Iwo Jima was declared secure by the Allies. However, small pockets of Japanese resistance still existed. 1949 – The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is established.

1978 – Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by leftwing urban guerillas. Moro was later murdered by the group. 1982 – Russia announced they would halt their deployment of new nuclear missiles in Western Europe.

1984 – Mozambique and South Africa signed a pact banning the support for one another’s internal enemies.

1994 – Russia agreed to phase out production of weaponsgrade plutonium.

1998 – Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.

1999 – The 20 members of the European Union’s European Commission announced their resignations amid allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement.