ON THIS DAY

1693: The first women’s magazine, The Ladies’ Mercury, is published by John Dunton in London.

1844: Founder of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, and his brother are killed by a mob who break into an Illinois jail where they have been imprisoned on politically-related charges.

1880: Ned Kelly and his gang of bushrangers occupy Glenrowan Hotel in Victoria.

1954: The world’s first nuclear power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow.

1969: Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, clash with police, an incident which is considered the birth of the LGBT rights movement.

2007: British Prime Minister Tony Blair resigns after a decade in power. Birthdays: General Sir John Monash, Australia’s outstanding military commander in World War I (1865-1931); Paul Roos, former AFL player and current AFL coach (1963-).