Martin Luther King Jr’s life ended with single shot
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Today In History
Sole survivor’s record 133 days adrift at sea
BRAZILIAN fishermen spotted a raft adrift off the coast of Brazil in 1943. Aboard the raft was a man who had survived 133 days at sea.
Mystery killers lurked Whitechapel’s streets
WHEN Emma Smith was found dead on the streets of Whitechapel 130 years ago today, it started a period when many women feared for their lives.
Dirty business of Australia’s first Grand Prix
Although Victoria and South Australia have long argued over who holds the Australian Grand Prix, Victoria was the first state to run the event
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The birth of a fashion icon
SEVENTY years ago today a fashion icon was born. The bikini’s creator had the most unlikely of professions — he was a mechanical engineer.
Tarzan’s been swinging around for almost a century
WITH The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgard, opening on Thursday, it is 98 years since Elmo Lincoln brought Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle-boy orphan to life for silent movie audiences.
‘Talkies’ sounded the death knell for so many silent stars
BY the time Greta Garbo ordered, “Gimme a whvisky, gincher ale on the side … and don’t be stingy, baby,’’ in 1930, the careers of several Hollywood contemporaries had already hit the floor.
Australians took a long time to crack the Tour de France
WELL before Cadel Evans won the Tour de France in 2011, Australia had a long, proud history of involvement in the Tour going back to 1914, before the outbreak of World War I.
A most dishonorable minister for murder
EDDIE Obeid may have been crooked, but he looks like a choirboy compared to the minister for murder, the dishonourable Thomas Ley
Religious war drew our troops into first battle on foreign soil
WHEN Muhammad Ahmad declared himself a Muslim messiah in Sudan in 1881 it would spark a conflict that would eventually involve troops from Australia.
The day it snowed in Sydney
ONE hundred and eighty years ago today Sydneysiders woke up to a light blanket of white from the mountains almost to the sea. Although the Blue Mountains still sees regular falls, the event has not repeated on the coast.
Israeli hostage rescue drama sparked trail of blockbusters
ISRAEL’S response to a bizarre terror union of anti-Nazi German student radicals and Palestinian liberationists who hijacked an Air France Airbus on June 27, 1976, was made for Hollywood.
Wounded farm boy’s courage under fire made history on the Western Front
UNDER shells raining out of the midnight darkness of June 25, 1916, Private Willam Jackson ventured into no-man’s land at Bois-Grenier in northern France to rescue his comrades
A leap of faith for parachute pioneer
IN the 1940s many bomber crews under attack had no option but to parachute to safety from high altitudes. But in 1943 a US doctor made a record-breaking jump because he wanted to see what would happen.
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