Gday...
583 - Today is the feast day of Brendan the Navigator, one of the early Irish monastic saints.
1770 - Marie Antoinette marries Louis Auguste, who later becomes King Louis XVI of France.
1891 - Henry Lawson's iconic poem, "Freedom On the Wallaby", is published for the first time.
1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which the Jews mounted a concerted resistance against the Nazis, ends.
1990 - Jim Henson, creator of the 'Muppets', dies.
Cheers - John
Gday...
583 - Today is the feast day of Brendan the Navigator, one of the early Irish monastic saints.
1770 - Marie Antoinette marries Louis Auguste, who later becomes King Louis XVI of France.
1891 - Henry Lawson's iconic poem, "Freedom On the Wallaby", is published for the first time.
1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which the Jews mounted a concerted resistance against the Nazis, ends.
1990 - Jim Henson, creator of the 'Muppets', dies.
Cheers - John