On This Day
Newcastle Herald
Monday July 12, 2004
1191 - In the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart takes the city of Acre.
1776 - The ship Resolution, commanded by Captain James Cook, leaves England to search for a northern sea passage through the Arctic from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, becomes Britain's first aviation fatality when he crashes his Wright biplane near Bournemouth. 1930 - Australia's Don Bradman sets a Test record with an innings of 334 against England at Leeds. 1973 - US pilots fly heavy air strikes against Cambodian insurgents as fighting is reported south and west of Phnom Penh. 1979 - After 80 years of British rule, Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands, achieves independence. 1993 - Earthquake in northern Japan unleashes landslides and tidal waves, killing 196 people. 1995 - Bosnian Serbs separate men from women and children among the captured after the fall of Srebrenica and take over the UN base that was supposed to protect them. 1996 - Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana agree the terms of their divorce, ending a 15-year marriage. 2001 - Haitian immigrant Abner Louima, tortured in a New York City police station, agrees to a $US8.7 million ($A16 million) settlement. 2002 - The UN Security Council approves a resolution that grants US peacekeepers serving in UN missions immunity from prosecution, for at least a year, by the International Criminal Court. Today's BirthdaysGaius Julius Caesar, Roman dictator (100 BC-44 BC); Elijah Wedgewood, British pottery maker (1730-1795); George Eastman, US inventor (1854-1932); Amedeo Modigliani, Italian artist (1884-1920); Al Grassby, Australian politician (1926-); Phillip Adams, Australian writer (1939-). Thought For TodayThe tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again - Alan Paton, South African author (1903-1988)TEXT: God is king over all the world. Praise him with songs.Psalms 47:7
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