Townsville Bulletin

BIBLE THOUGHT

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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.

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