Grazier’s broken axle helped airline take off
A broken car axle led to the chance meeting that brought grazier Fergus McMaster into the story of the founding of Qantas
Today In History
Fear of French fuelled race to settle the west
Captain Charles Fremantle raised the British flag to establish the Swan River Colony 190 years ago today, after a race to beat the French
Daring French aeronaut floated to fame and love
A crowd of onlookers gasped as Andre-Jacques Garnerin severed a rope holding his basket to a balloon. But he plummeted safely back to earth thanks to a parachute he had invented
80 years later: Creepy message in a bottle
It’s been over 80 years since the mysterious disappearance of a Brisbane public servant and socialite who vanished from a train station.
More Stories
Presidential assassins not all bang on target
PRESIDENT Gerald Ford thought Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who pulled a pistol on him in 1975, was “an aberration”.
Daring raid that sparked an era of Viking conflict
EVIL portents in the year 793 preceded a seaborne raid of Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of the medieval Kingdom of Northumbria. It would mark the start of the Viking era in England.
Ocean’s film franchise began at petrol pump
WHEN aspiring film director Gilbert Kay heard a gas station attendant tell a story about army buddies robbing Vegas Casinos he thought he might be on a winner
Antarctica hero’s wife, son built on his legacy
WHEN news of Robert Falcon Scott’s death in the Antarctic filtered out to the world one of the last people to hear was his wife Kathleen.
Kennedy cut down on path to White House
THE atmosphere of euphoria when Senator Robert Kennedy won the California primary for the Democratic presidential nomination soon turned to terror as shots rang out 50 years ago at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
LA’s zoot-suited Latino race riots
EIGHTEEN months after the US joined World War II, the nation’s soldiers and sailors were waging a separate war at home on the streets of Los Angeles, California.
China’s first Manchurian incident killed war lord
CONFLICT and chaos prevailed in Manchuria in 1928, as four million refugees arrived from drought-plagued Shandong.
Romance didn’t bloom for Loch Ard survivors
WHEN 18-year-old Eva Carmichael was shaken from her sleep aboard the Loch Ard she made her way to the deck only to be swept into the ocean and into a media frenzy.
Original URL: https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/today-in-history/page/33