It was a quiet day in Sydney. Not so in Meckering WA, however... At 10.59am a 6.9 earthquake rocked and ruined the small township and created a 40km long surface faulting. There was even building damage recorded in Perth, some 130km West, and tremors were felt as far away as Geraldton, Kalgoorlie and Esperance.
Luckily, no fatalities occurred, but as a result from the experiences made, Western Australian building codes were tightened after the event.
Elsewhere in the world, William the Conqueror defeated the Saxon Army and killed King Harold I in the Battle of Hastings (1066), Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeated King Edward II of England at Byland,
forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence (1322), Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI, but still delivered his speech regardless (1912), A.A. Milne first published his book "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1926), "Desert Fox" Field Marshall Erwin Rommel committed suicide, rather than being tried for treason by the Nazis (1944), the Cuban Missile Crisis began (1962), Dr. Martin Luther King became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1964), Wayne Gretsky scored his first NHL goal (1979) and Tim Berners-Lee issued an apology for the unnecessary ""//"" in URLs he designed
for the World Wide Web (2009) ... :-)
As for birthdays.... William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony Pennsylvania (1644, London), 34th US President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890, Denison/Texas), "Agent 007" Roger Moore (1927, London), Harry Rodger Webb, aka Sir Cliff Richard (1940, Lucknow/India) and Usher (1978, Dallas/Texas) ... among others
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