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70 - Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans
1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius of Loyola and recognised by Pope Paul III



1694 - Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink and 3,000 die
1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain



1821 - Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw and the Mexican Empire declares its independence
1864 - Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed
1910 - First test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
1938 - Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
1939 - Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1940 - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - Nazi-Germany, Italy and Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
1942 - Heavy German assault in Stalingrad



1953 - Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya, Japan
1960 - Europe's first "moving pavement" (travelator) opens at Bank station, London
1961 - Sierra Leone becomes 100th member of the UN
1964 - Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Osland acted alone
1968 - "Hair" opens in London



1973 - Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Eath orbit (2 days)
1988 - Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ's burial cloth



Births

1601 - Louis XIII, King of France (1610-43)



1817 - Hiram R Revels, USA. 1st black US senator
1947 - Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), USA. Singer/musician



1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, USA. Actress

Deaths

1660 - St Vincent de Paul



1844 - Charles Nodier. French writer
1917 - Edgar Degas. Painter



1986 - Cliff Burton (Metallica). Rock bassist. Dies in bus crash at 24
1991 - Oona Chaplin. Wife of Charlie Chaplin

Sources: Today In History, Brainy History, Wikipedia

(Taking a break from writing up performance reviews at work)

1396 - Sultan Bayezid I beheads hundreds of crusaders
1580 - Francis Drake returns to England with Spanish treasure



1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution
1887 - Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1892 - Diamond Match Co patents book matches
1907 - New Zealand declares independence from United Kingdom
1918 - Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WWI



1938 - Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
1941 - Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev
1951 - Professor Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
1957 - Musical "West Side Story" opens on Broadway



1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk
1958 - USA peforms nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 - Longest speech in UN history (4 hours, 29 minutes by Fidel Castro)
1965 - Queen Elizabeth II decorates Beatles with Order of the British Empire
1969 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3 hours 33 minutes
1976 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor
1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (first ever non-US winner)


"Anyone who sacks a bloke because he doesn't turn up for work today is a bum".
Bob Hawke after Australia won the America's Cup, 1983



1988 - Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100m gold medal after failing drug test
1989 - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and US chemical weapons

Births

1888 - TS Eliot, USA. Poet/dramatist/critic.
1898 - George Gershwin, USA. Composer.
1934 - Winnie Mandela-Madikizela, South Africa. Anti-apartheid protestor and ex-wife of Nelson Mandela.
1945 - Brian Ferry, England. Singer/musician (Roxy Music).
1948 - Olivia Newton-John, England. Singer.



1956 - Linda Hamilton, USA. Actress.

Deaths

1820 - Daniel Boone. Frontiersman.
1965 - Clara Bow. Actress.





Sources: Today In History, Brainy History, Wikipedia

Gospel of Judas translated [National Geographic]

Final Australia WWI veteran dies

The last Australian veteran to see active service in World War I has died, aged 106.

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William Evan Allan joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1914, aged only 14.

He served on a cruiser, HMAS Encounter, until 1918, escorting troop convoys and tracking German warships. He remained in the navy for 34 years.

Mr Allan, who also saw active service in World War II and retired with the rank of lieutenant, will be given a state funeral in Melbourne.

Born in the New South Wales town of Bega in 1899, Mr Allan enlisted at the start of World War I and served as an able seaman from 1915.

The HMAS Encounter sailed in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Mr Allan remained in the navy until 1947, and was the only surviving Australian veteran of both world wars.

He spent much of World War II aboard the cruiser HMAS Australia, but according to friends was reluctant to talk about his experiences.

Australia's Minister for Veterans Affairs, De-Anne Kelly, said his death meant an entire generation who left Australia to defend their nation and the British Empire had been lost.

One Australian WWI veteran is still living, John Campbell Ross, 106, but although he enlisted in 1918 he never saw active service.