The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland)
Thursday
On this day in history:
Today is Thursday,
0326 – Constantine refused to carry out the traditional pagan sacrifices.
1394 – Charles VI of France issued a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France.
1564 – Maximillian II became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1587 – Japanese strong-man Hideyoshi banned Christianity in Japan and ordered all Christians to leave.
1593 – France’s King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1759 – British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt.
1851 – An uncredited diary entry describes the “~Yowie’ of Southeast Queensland in detail.
1862 – After successfully crossing Australia from south to north, John McDouall Stuart raises the British flag at the mouth of the Mary River.
1907 – Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
1909 – French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He travelled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel.
1914 – Russia declared that it would act to protect Serbian sovereignty.
1924 – Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians.
1943 – Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.
1952 – Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the US.
1973 – The numbat is proclaimed as Western Australia’s official faunal emblem.
1984 – Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
1994 – Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had existed between them since 1948.
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