ON THIS DAY

1827:

Turkey’s Sultan Mohammed II rejects right of allies to mediate in war with Greece.

The Story Of The Kelly Gang is released. The 70-minute Australian film was the word’s first feature-length movie.

Eight East Germans escape to West Berlin by crashing a bus through checkpoint barriers. Sixteen Vietnam War veterans seize the Statue of Liberty during anti-war protest. Israeli troops hand dozens of villages back to the Palestinian Authority in the final phase of a pullback in the West Bank.

Russia moves toward finalising a ban on Americans adopting Russian children. US-led forces pound ISIS with 31 air strikes in a day in Iraq and Syria.

Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976); Australian actor Steve Bisley (1950-); US essayist David Sedaris (1956-).

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