IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. —April 13. — 1743.—Thomas Jefferson born. 1769. —Captain. Cook , arrived af Tahiti in Endeavour, first voyage. 1829.—8i1l of Catholic Emancipation passed. 1861.—Tho Federal garrison at Charleston surrendered to the Confederation. 1868.—Capture of Magdala and end of Abyssinian War. 1894.—Strikes at Bradford; military, called out. 1899. Spanish - American peace signed. 1904.—Russian battleship Petropavlovak blown up by mine outside Port Arthur. 1915.—Russian Carpathian offensive stopped. 1928.—Koehl, Baron Heuvefeld, and Colonel Fitzraaurier made- first westward passage of Atlantic in —April 14. 1812.—Sir George Grey born. 1814.—Last battle of the Peninsular War; sortie of French garrison fron» Bayonne. 1852.—Rangoon captured by General Godwin. 1865.—Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (died April 15). 1874.—Railway opened between Wellington and Lower Hutt. 1900. —Paris Exhibition opened by. President Loubet. 1912.—Steamer Titanic. collided with an iceberg off Cape Race, Newfoundland ; 1,493 lives lost. 1918. —General Foch appointed generalissimo of Allied Forces. ■Prospects bright for agreement at the Three-Power Conference at Stresa* Strange will of 110 pages left by wealthy American. Australian potato growers request continuance of embargo on New Zealand imports. Thirteen “children killed in level crossing smash at Brockville (Maryland) . British Budget to be presented o * Monday. A primitive telephone system r i« installed in a village in the heart of Africa. The telephone instruments are made from cocoanut shells, and the wires are of fibre. Separation, orders are sought in Britain’s courts by 15,000 wives each year, while . 3.500 husbands go t« prison rather than pay the allowance fixed by the magistrate.