HISTORY ON THIS DAY The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Australia Sep 29, 2014 28 1941 642 General Amr ibn al-As marches into Alexandria and the Arab conquest of Egypt, which began with an invasion three years earlier, ends in peaceful capitulation. 1399 Richard II becomes the first king of England to abdicate after his zeal for personal power upsets the nobility. 1827 The Supreme Court discharges journalist Robert Wardell without penalty after a trial for seditious libel, for referring to governor Ralph Darling in The Australian newspaper as ignorant and obstinate. 1829 The first regular police patrols appear on the streets of London. The officers are called Bobbies, or Peelers, after home secretary Robert Peel, who sponsored the Bill setting up the force. 1830 A police party led by a Lieutenant Brown battles the Ribbon Gang of 13 bushrangers at Abercrombie Caves near Bathurst, including Ralph Entwistle. Two police are killed. Ten of the gang are later hanged. 1864 Senior Sergeant Thomas Smyth, 29, dies after being shot while trying to capture the bushranger Dan Morgan near Henty. 1896 Canadian lone yachtsman Captain Joshua Slocum, 52, sails into Newcastle Harbour, NSW, on his way to being the first man recorded to have sailed solo around the world. 1906 The US occupies Cuba after a rebellion surrounding Tomas Estrada Palma’s re-election, following claims of election fraud. 1913 Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the engine bearing his name, vanishes from an English Channel steamer. 1923 Jewish migration to Palestine, under British rule, is sanctioned under a League of Nations mandate. 1941 Over two days Germans massacre 33,771 Jewish people at Babi Yar (monument pictured), a ravine near Kiev, in WWII.
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