BIBLE THOUGHT
God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
PSALM 46:5 NIV, COURTESY OF BIBLE SOCIETY AUSTRALIA
476Flavius
Orestes, father of and the real power behind Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor, is captured and executed by a German warrior.
1830Inventor
Peter Cooper’s steam locomotive, Tom Thumb, loses a race to a horsedrawn railway coach in Baltimore in the US.
1833The
Slavery Abolition Act, abolishing it through most of the British Empire, gets royal assent in London.
1914The
first major engagement of the British and German navies in WWI occurs at the Battle of Heligoland Bight. The Germans losing four ships and 1000 sailors and the British 33 sailors.
1923Building
of the (first)
Parliament House in Canberra begins.
1941Menzies
announces he will quit as PM the next day.
1947Legendary
bullfighter Manolete is fatally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain.
1963200,000
people march on Washington, D.C., in a high point of the civil rights movement, remembered for Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream speech.
1996The
marriage of Prince Charles and Diana ends after 15 years with the granting of a decree absolute.
2006Australian
Democrats founder Don Chipp dies, aged 81, in Melbourne.
2017Former
Iron
Man champion Dean Mercer dies of a heart attack aged 47.
2020Japan’s
PM Shinzo Abe resigns due to health.