BIBLE THOUGHT
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
JOHN 14:27 NIV, COURTESY OF BIBLE SOCIETY AUSTRALIA
1649
English troops, commanded by Oliver Cromwell, massacre 3500 people in the Irish town of Drogheda after defeating the town’s garrison, a coalition of royalists and Catholics.
1777
The British defeat the Americans, led by General George Washington, at the Battle of Brandywine Creek in the War of Independence.
1795
NSW Governor John Hunter’s (pictured) term begins.
1803
Lieutenant John Bowen arrives at the Derwent River aboard Albion with a party of 48 to settle Van Diemen’s Land.
1914
Two Australian battalions land near Rabaul, in Australia’s first action in World War I, to capture a German wireless station at Bita
Paka. Seven Australians are killed.
1971
Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev dies.
1973
Chile’s president Salvador Allende dies in Chilean Army Commander-in-chief Augusto Pinochet’s coup. Chilean military officials say he committed suicide.
1984
In Adelaide, Justice James Mcclelland opens a royal commission into British atomic bomb tests undertaken in Australia in the 1950s and ’60s, after claims servicemen were used as guinea pigs.
1997
Scotland votes yes on referendum to set up a separate Scottish parliament.
2001
Terrorists crash two hijacked aeroplanes into the World Trade Centre in New York City, bringing down the twin 110-storey towers, and killing almost 2800 people. Another plane hits the Pentagon, killing at least 189 people. A fourth plane crashes in rural southern Pennsylvania, killing the 44 people aboard.
2011
Australian tennis star Samantha Stosur defeats Serena Williams to win the US Open.