Today In History
Illawarra Mercury
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. 1920 - The Panama Canal is formally opened, six years after the first ship sailed through it. 1930 - Australia's Don Bradman sets a Test record with an innings of 334 against England at Leeds. 1967 - Chinese Communist mobs in Hong Kong wreck government building and attack police in the most violent of four days of anti-British rioting. 1973 - US pilots fly heavy air strikes against Cambodian insurgents as fighting is reported south and west of Phnom Penh. 1989 - A farmer in eastern France goes on a shooting rampage, killing 14 people before being captured. 1993 - Earthquake in northern Japan unleashes landslides and tidal waves, killing 196 people. 2000 - The long-delayed International Space Station's service module is lifted off into orbit. The module contains flight controls, the sewage system and sleeping quarters for the crew.
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