Gday...

1774  -  Sea explorer and the first to circumnavigate Australia, Matthew Flinders, is born.

1949  -  The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is established. 

1968  -  American soldiers massacre villagers in My Lai, Vietnam.

1973  -  The current London Bridge, the most recent of many, is opened by Queen Elizabeth II. 

1978  -  Former Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, is kidnapped at gunpoint. 

1988  -  The northern Iraq Kurdish city of Halabja is bombarded with chemical weapons, killing thousands of civilians.

Cheers - John