This Day In History
• 871 - Battle of Basing: Danish invasion army beats Saxon Ethelred of Wessex
• 1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V • 1760 - Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
• 1771 - Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
• 1879 - Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.
• 1925 - Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
• 1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australianborn Governor-General of Australia
• 1946 - US President Harry Truman sets up the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1957 - Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula • 1965 - US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
• 1968 - Apollo Lunar Module is launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
• 1969 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
• 1973 - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
• 1975 - Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
• 1990 - President Mikhail Gorbachev sends Red Troops into the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan
• 1991 - Kuwaiti oil facilities are destroyed by Iraqi forces • 1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
• 1997 - Space shuttle Atlantis successfully returns to Earth • 1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit • 2003 - Last successful contact with NASA spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects. • 2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection • 2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president • 2013 - A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people • 2013 - The Bank of Japan doubles its inflation target to 2% and announces open-ended asset purchases for 2014 in the hope of ending deflation
• 2014 - Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres • 2017 - Chile declares a State of Emergency and requests international assistance as wildfires rage out of control • 2017 - Jared Kushner is sworn in as Senior Advisor to US President, Donald Trump
• 2018 - US government ends three-day shutdown after an agreement in Congress to extend funding
• 2018 - Netflix becomes the largest digital media and entertainment company in the world worth $100 billion