This Date In History

henric · Mar 29, 2014

March 30th 2014 - This Date in History.

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598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
1282 – The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 – Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
1815 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1841 – The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1863 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/kmÂ²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1885 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1899 – German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
1909 – The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
1910 – The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.
1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1918 – Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1939 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745km/h).
1940 – Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
1944 – Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg. Along the English eastern coast 795 aircraft are despatched, including 572 Lancasters, 214 Halifaxes and 9 Mosquitos. The bombers meet resistance at the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands from German fighters. In total, 95 bombers are lost, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of World War II.
1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
1949 – A riot breaks out in AusturvÃ¶llur square in ReykjavÃk, when Iceland joins NATO.
1954 – The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1976 – The first Land Day protests are held in Israel/Palestine.
1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Another two people are wounded at the same time.
1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
2006 – The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law.
2009 – Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1644 FRENCH BATTLE IROQUOIS IN MONTREAL
Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve 1612-1676 defeats a large band of marauding Iroquois on the site of the Place d'Armes; aided by force of 30 settlers; they had massacred several habitant families.

1885
Battleford Saskatchewan - Cree chief Poundmaker [Pitikwahanapiwiyin] 1826-1886 attacks and surrounds Battleford with 200 warriors; local settlers forced to seek shelter in NWMP barracks for a month. A formidable soldier, Poundmaker had participated in the signing of Treaty 6, and in 1881 had guided the Marquis of Lorne from Battleford to Calgary. But he was distressed at the treatment given the Cree people, and had agitated for fulfillment of the promises made under Treaty.

In Other Events...

1990 Quebec Quebec - Riot police in Quebec City break up demonstration by 2,000 marchers against university tuition fee increases; students also occupy Montreal Stock Exchange; over 250 arrested.
1981 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland Court of Appeals rules Ottawa does not have right to change constitution unilaterally.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces plans to immunize about 12 million Canadians against 'swine flu' in the autumn.
1973 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba starts guaranteed annual income experiment; Ottawa to fund 75% of the cost.
1972 Halifax Nova Scotia - Last daily rum ration issued to Canadian naval personnel.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - CBC airs first simultaneous FM radio/TV broadcast of a symphony concert; users of both can experience stereo sound.
1968 Washington DC - Canada and US agree to renew NORAD for 5 year period, from May 12.
1967 Victoria BC - opening of SEACOM: Southeast Asia Commonwealth Cable; 40,000 km link between Britain, Canada and Australia
1954 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Transit Commission opens Yonge Street subway; first line in Canada.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie King said Canada will not conscript men for foreign service.
1925 Montreal Quebec - Victoria Cougars beat Montreal Maroons 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1918 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Arenas beat Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1916 Montreal Quebec - Montreal AAAs beat Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that marriages of Catholics by Protestant clergymen are valid.
1885 Stratford Ontario - Stratford incorporated as a city.
1874 Hull Quebec - Louis Riel arrives in the east from Manitoba to claim his parliamentary seat of Provencher; he stays in Quebec because of a warrant for his arrest in Ontario for the killing of Thomas Scott.
1872 Toronto Ontario - First issue of Toronto 'Mail' published; part of today's Globe and Mail.
1864 Ottawa Ontario - Etienne-Paschal TachÃ© 1795-1865 forms TachÃ©-Macdonald government with John A. Macdonald.
1852 London England - Imperial Government authorizes railroad from Halifax to Quebec.
1838 London England - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada, and Governor-General of British North America; serves from May 29, 1838 to Nov. 1, 1838
1834 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 appointed first mayor of Toronto by the Council, defeating John Rolph.
1832 Halifax Nova Scotia - Incorporation of Bank of Nova Scotia; first bank in the province.
1814 Lacolle Quebec - James Wilkinson leads 4,000 Americans into defeat at Lacolle; forced to retreat back across border to Plattsburg; Americans were occupying Odelltown during the War of 1812.
1809 London England - Labrador Act gives Labrador to Newfoundland; boundaries later disputed by Quebec; Privy Council make final decision in 1927.
1784 Montreal Quebec - Hotel Dieu collects a subscription of Â£345, 10s, 9d 'in favour of the poor.'
1743 Pierre South Dakota - FranÃ§ois de Varennes de La VÃ©rendrye buries lead plaque in territory of Little Cherry Indians, claiming the country for France; with brother Louis-Joseph.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 30, 2014

March 31st 2014 - This Date in History.

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307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
627 – Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at VÃ©zelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1561 – The city of San CristÃ³bal, TÃ¡chira is founded.
1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist EugÃ¨ne Delacroix.
1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of ValparaÃso, Chile.
1877 – The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
1885 – The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1899 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
1901 – 1901 Black Sea earthquake
1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
1913 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of mordernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence. This concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
1931 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 – A coup d'Ã©tat in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
1965 – An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
1986 – A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 167.
1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1990 – Approximately 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1994 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1995 – TAROM Flight 371 crashed, killing all of the ten crew and 50 passengers on board.
1995 – Selena, an American singer, was murdered by her friend and employee of her boutiques Yolanda SaldÃvar who was embezzling money from the establishments. The event was named "Black Friday" by Hispanics.
2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province - In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1958 DIEF WINS LANDSLIDE
Canada - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 wins biggest victory to date in Canada's 24th general election; takes 208 seats to 49 for the Liberals under St-Laurent; 8 CCF; a majority of 151, with 50 Quebec seats; gets 53.6% of popular vote; serves as Prime Minister to April 22, 1963.

1949
St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland joins Confederation as Canada's 10th province; oldest Dominion in the British Commonwealth joins 82 years after Confederation; Joey Smallwood first Premier, until 1972.

In Other Events...

1987 New York City - Canadian Matt Frewer stars in science fiction adventure Max Headroom, making its debut on ABC-TV.
1984 St. John's Newfoundland - One-legged runner Steve Fonyo dips his artificial leg in St. John's Harbour to start run across Canada to raise money for cancer research, and to honour the memory of his friend Terry Fox; his 7,294 km run will be successful.
1982 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Canada's first fibre optics cable manufacturing plant opens in Saskatoon.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Biochemist Charles Best dies at age 79; co-discoverer of insulin, used to treat diabetes.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes Ontario law reform providing for equal division of family assets following marriage break-up.
1975 Toronto Ontario - CN Tower reaches 555.35 metres in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure; the giant communications mast cost $44 million, uses 145,000 tonnes of concrete and steel.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Northmen of the fledgling WFL sign Miami Dolphins Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, and Paul Warfield; the league goes nowhere.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - University of Toronto historian Donald Grant Creighton 1902-1978 first recipient of Canada Council's Molson Prize; with Quebec poet Alain Grandbois.
1964 Quebec Quebec - Ottawa and provinces start four-day conference in Quebec City; discuss Canada Pension Plan, tax equalization.
1962 Brockville Ontario - Brockville incorporated as a city.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley announces that wartime meat rationing by coupon will begin in early May.
1937 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange closes at 193.6; up 200% in since 1932
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton Eskimos in 2 for the Stanley Cup; second of 1923
1914 Newfoundland - Seventy-eight hunters die, many crippled by frostbite, in a two day long storm when their sealing steamer, the Newfoundland, fails to pick them up due to mistaken orders.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Canada now has 3,000 officers and men in the Permanent Force; 5,615 officers and 68,991 men in the militia.
1906 London England - King Edward VII grants British Columbia's Coat-of-Arms.
1890 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba legislature passes the Manitoba School Act, abolishing separate schools for Catholics and Protestants, effective May 1; non-sectarian system of public education.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa disallows BC's Chinese Restriction Act.
1854 Rae Isthmus NWT - John Rae 1813-1893 sets out across Rae Isthmus for Pelly Bay; meets Inuit who saw Europeans on the west coast of King William Island, and found graves on the mainland near mouth of Back River; he buys silver spoons belonging to the Franklin expedition.
1831 Montreal Quebec - Montreal incorporated as a city; no longer an out-port of Quebec.
1831 Quebec Quebec - Quebec incorporated as a city.
1821 Montreal Quebec - McGill University granted Royal charter.
1713 Utrecht Netherlands - Treaty of Utrecht returns Nova Scotia to Britain; France keeps Ile Royale (Cape Breton) and Ile St-Jean (PEI).
1547 Paris France - King Henri II 1519-1559 starts reign; to 1559; on death of FranÃ§ois I.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 31, 2014

April 1st 2014 - This Date in History.

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286 – Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.
325 – Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
457 – Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army.
527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
528 – The daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei was made the "Emperor" as a male heir of the late emperor by Empress Dowager Hu, deposed and replaced by Yuan Zhao the next day; she was the first female monarch in the History of China, but not widely recognised.
1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
1318 – Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from England.
1340 – Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
1545 – PotosÃ is founded after the discovery of major silver deposits in the area.
1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin
1854 – Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine, Household Words.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks.
1867 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
1871 – The first stage of the Brill Tramway opens.
1873 – The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.
1887 – Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
1908 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school is founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten to death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes Mein Kampf.
1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1933 – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
1933 – English cricketer Wally Hammond sets a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
1935 – India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India is formed.
1936 – Odisha formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal becomes a state in India.
1937 – Aden becomes a British crown colony.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: JaÃ©n, Spain is bombed by Nazi forces.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: GeneralÃsimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
1941 – Fantana Alba massacre: between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Guards.
1941 – The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted.
1941 – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali as Prime Minister.
1944 – Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
1945 – World War II: Operation Iceberg – United States troops land on Okinawa in the last major campaign of the war.
1946 – Aleutian Island earthquake: A 8.6 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159, mostly in Hilo.
1946 – Formation of the Malayan Union.
1947 – Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.
1948 – Cold War: Berlin Airlift — Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
1948 – Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
1949 – The Government of Canada repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years.
1949 – The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become Ireland.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
1955 – The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification ("enosis") with Greece.
1957 – The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
1959 – Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.
1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
1967 – The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
1970 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
1973 – Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
1974 – In the United Kingdom, the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.
1976 – Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S..
1976 – The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect, soon revealed as an April Fools' Day hoax, is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
1978 – The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1979 – Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
1986 – Sector Kanda: Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attacks a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
1989 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
1992 – Start of the Bosnian War.
1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion.
1999 – Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
2001 – An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, People's Republic of China and is detained.
2001 – Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first country to allow it.
2006 – The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the "British FBI", is created in the United Kingdom.
2009 – Croatia and Albania join NATO.
2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1868 CANADIANS CELEBRATE FIRST APRIL FOOLS' DAY
Ottawa Ontario - First Canadian April Fools' Day on record. Poisson d'avril!

1873

Prospect Nova Scotia - The luxury Liner Atlantic, sailing from Liverpool to New York, turns into Halifax Harbour to get coal, but strikes a reef near Mars Rock, Meagher's Island; 546 people drown in heavy seas, while local fishermen manage to save 300.

1733
Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Canada's first lighthouse lit for the first time, using coal from nearby Morien and Spanish River; the round 200 metre tower, made with cement from limestone burned in local kilns, is the first fireproof concrete structure in North America.

In Other Events...

1995 Hollywood, California - Jack M. Warner 1916-1995 dies; born Mar 27, 1916 in London Ontario; movie executive, co-founder Warner Bros.
1992 North America - NHL Players Association launches players' strike, first in the league's 75-year history; walkout ends 10 days later; NHLPA claims gains in free agency and licensing rights.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa signs final land claim agreement with Yukon Indians; gives them surface title to 41,000 sq km; of land, plus mineral rights and $232 million cash.
1983 Uniondale, NY - Montreal native Mike Bossy the first NHLer to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons; New York Islander star.
1980 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's NHL record with his 103rd assist.
1980 Carleton Place, Ontario - First sheltered workshop in Canada to go on strike; Mentally disabled workers win raise in weekly salary to $10 from $7.50
1979 Ottawa Ontario - National Energy Board raises export tax on light crude oil $1.00 per barrel to $8.00.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises the federal minimum wage to $2.90 per hour.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - CRTC gets authority to regulate all forms of broadcasting; changes name to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
1975 Canada - Canadian radio and TV stations first start giving the temperature in Celsius.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Transport Commission permits full air charter service; booking in advance required.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the National Film, Television and Sound Archives; started unofficially in 1960.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Patrick Hartt 1919- heads new Law Reform Commission of Canada to examine changes to Canada's Criminal Code.
1971 Vandenberg AFB, California - Canadian ISIS II satellite launched to study ionosphere.
1970 Yellowknife NWT - Ottawa transfers governing of eastern and upper Arctic to NWT government; from Indian Affairs and Northern Resources department.
1969 Quebec Quebec - Quebec legalizes civil marriages.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) becomes the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, under the Broadcasting Act; today's Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
1967 NWT - Robert Gauchie found by rescue workers after 58 day search; bush pilot forced down in remote section of NWT.
1960 Ottawa Ontario -Government approves National Energy Board recommendation for natural gas exports to the US.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Canada's revised Criminal Code of Canada goes into effect.
1954 Kitchener Ontario - Woodside becomes National Historic Park; early home of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 appointed Minister of new Department of Defence Production.
1950 The Hague Netherlands - Defence Ministers of 12 NATO powers meet to approve plan of collective security; until April 3.
1948 Toronto Ontario - first production of Spring Thaw; long-running Canadian comedy revue.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Munitions & Supply puts gasoline on coupon rationing; national speed limit of 64 km an hour proclaimed.
1941 Peru - Canadian armed merchant cruiser Prince Henry intercepts two German ships off Peru; ships scuttled.
1932 Ottawa Ontario -RCMP absorbs provincial police forces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba and Alberta.
1927 Washington DC - American Department of Labor puts immigration quota on Canadians looking for work in the USA.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a separate service; RCAF previously founded by Billy Bishop in 1918 as a separate brigade.
1920 Ottawa Ontario -Ottawa Senators beat Seattle Metropolitans 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1918 Edmonton Alberta -Alberta government declares total prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1892 Ottawa Ontario -North American Canal Company wins contract to deepen St. Lawrence; build canals to Lake Erie.
1868 Ottawa Ontario -Government fixes a uniform first class postal rate of three cents; establishes Post Office Savings Bank.
1824 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Clowes finishes Rideau Canal engineer's route survey and reports to Governor Maitland.
1776 Halifax Nova Scotia - Ships carrying 1,124 United Empire Loyalists arrive at Halifax from Boston; many with the British Army; in all, 40,000 Americans remain loyal.
1776 Quebec Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 relieved at Quebec by General David Wooster.
1625 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia divided into two provinces, with counties, bishoprics and baronetcies.

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henric · Apr 1, 2014

April 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de LeÃ³n first sights land in what is now Florida.
1755 – Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
1801 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British capture the Danish fleet.
1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia, and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.
1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1885 – Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing 9.
1900 – The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
1917 – World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside London Waterloo station.
1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
1973 – The Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia.
1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng NgÃ£i Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
1975 – Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It reaches 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure.
1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound.
1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist most widely known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
1994 – The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum.
2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated; a siege ensues.
2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; their attack is thwarted.
2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1968 CANADA'S FIRST LOTTERY 30 YEARS AGO
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau creates Canada's first modern lottery, to help pay $250 million deficit from Expo '67; first such lottery in Canada.

1975
Toronto Ontario - CN Tower completed; reaches 555.35 metres in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure; the giant communications mast cost $44 million, uses 145,000 tonnes of concrete and steel.

In Other Events...

1992 Guelph Ontario - Stable fire kills 69 horses at Mohawk Raceway; worst racetrack fire in Canadian history.
1991 Victoria BC - Rita Johnston sworn in as Premier on resignation of Bill Vander Zalm; Canada's first woman Premier (Catherine Callbeck of PEI will be the first woman elected Premier).
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Donald James Reimer sentenced to life in prison for causing death of three people while drunk driving; toughest penalty ever for crime; to be appealed.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Law Reform Commission recommends forcing polluters to compensate the public for damaging the environment.
1980 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky the first teenaged NHLer to score 50 goals in a season.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens win 34th straight home game without a loss, for an NHL record.
1977 Vancouver BC - Opening of Vancouver's restored Orpheum Theatre; new home for Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
1974 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick Supreme Court fines K. C. Irving Ltd. and 3 other companies $150,000 for press monopoly of the province's English language newspapers.
1970 Victoria BC - BC Supreme Court judge upsets compulsory breath test law for suspected impaired drivers; verdict appealed.
1970 Edmonton Alberta - Medical Research Council & University of Alberta start Canada's first organ transplant research group; based at University of Alberta.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Ontario rules that ores mined in the province after Jan. 1, 1970 must be processed in Canada.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Australian Prime Minister J. G. Gorton starts visit to Canada.
1965 Ottawa Ontario -Provinces agree on Canada Pension Plan.
1962 Peace River Alberta - Alberta Government Telephones and CN Telecommunications opens 640 km microwave system; from Peace River to Hay River, NWT.
1955 Halifax Nova Scotia - Opening of Angus L. Macdonald Bridge linking Halifax and Dartmouth.
1947 Toronto Ontario - First cocktail bars open in 'Toronto the Good'.
1931 Canada -Toronto and Montreal Stock Exchanges make joint ticker arrangements.
1906 Regina Saskatchewan - First session of the Saskatchewan legislature opens.
1887 Juneau Alaska - US seizes Canadian sealing ships in North Pacific; other seizures on the 9,12, and 17th.
1886 Sackville New Brunswick - Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy at Sackville gets college charter; today's Mount Allison University.
1885 Frog Lake Saskatchewan - Wandering Spirit massacres 9 white settlers and Metis at Frog Lake; takes one man and two women prisoner with 7 other Crees.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Lucius Seth Huntington MP 1827-1886 charges that Hugh Allan and G.W. McMullen gave funds to government in return for CPR charter; non-confidence motion defeated 107 to 76.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - Dominion of Canada's first census shows a population of 3,689,257, including 2,110,000 of British origin and 1,083,000 of French origin.
1840 Toronto Ontario - Torontonians hold public street ox roast to celebrate Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert.
1667 Quebec Quebec - Jean Talon 1626-94, Intendant of New France, establishes the Code Civil and first civil courts of law in the name of King Louis XlV 1638-1715.

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henric · Apr 2, 2014

April 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

503 BC Â– According to the Fasti Triumphales, Roman consul Publius Postumius Tubertus celebrated an ovation for a military victory over the Sabines.
686 Â– Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
1043 Â– Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1077 Â– The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
1559 Â– The Peace of Cateau-CambrÃ©sis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
1834 Â– The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1860 Â– The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
1865 Â– American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1882 Â– American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1885 Â– Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1888 Â– The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1895 Â– The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1922 Â– Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1929 Â– RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
1933 Â– First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston
1936 Â– Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1942 Â– World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
1946 Â– Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1948 Â– President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948 Â– In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
1955 Â– The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1956 Â– Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
1961 Â– The Leadbeater's Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
1968 Â– Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
1969 Â– Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1973 Â– Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
1974 Â– The Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the April 25Â–28, 2011 tornado outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
1975 Â– Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1981 Â– The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1996 Â– Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his cabin in Montana, United States.
1996 Â– A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
1997 Â– The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
2000 Â– United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2004 Â– Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2007 Â– Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2008 Â– ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
2008 Â– Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.
2013 Â– More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1930 FIRST CUP IN OLD FORUM
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup for the first time in the new Montreal Forum, beating Boston Bruins 4-3 in game 2 of a two-game series sweep.

1946
Ottawa Ontario -
Canada agrees to acquire the Canadian section of the Alaska Highway, including telephone systems, buildings and other assets, for $108 million (1,221 miles at $88,000 a mile); 2,450-kilometre highway originally cost US$140 million to build, as a wartime supply route in case of Japanese invasion of North America.

In Other Events...

1996 Vancouver, BC - NBA Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota 105-103, snapping a 23-game losing streak; expansion Grizzlies one loss short of record of 24 set by Cleveland Cavaliers (1982).
1992 St. John's, Newfoundland - Congregation of Christian Brothers formally apologizes to victims of physical and sexual abuse at 94-year-old Mount Cashel orphanage; first complaints of abuse arose in 1970s; building to be razed, and proceeds used to help victims.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Redpath Industries to market new product Sucralose; potential rival to Nutrasweet; does not break down at high temperatures in baking.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come files for injunction to stop $7.5 billion Great Whale Hydro development in James Bay region; says it will harm environment and damage way of life, by flooding 5,000 sq km of ancestral lands.
1988 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Penguin Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Wayne Gretzky's 7 year streak.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government proposes bill allowing country-wide referendum on national unity.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point with an assist in a 7-4 triumph over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports record $2.19 billion paid out in 1974 for unemployment insurance benefits.
1973 Quebec Quebec - Francois Cloutier Quebec Education Minister to spend $100 million to improve language teaching; also to encourage immigrants to enroll children in French schools.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to reduce Canadian forces in Europe but remain in NATO alliance.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa removes restrictions on selling gold purchased by the Royal Mint from Canadian producers.
1967 Natal BC - Coal mine explosion kills 15 and injures 9 miners near Natal.
1940 London England - Alexander Augustus Frederick, Earl of Athlone 1874-1957 appointed Governor General; serves from June 21, 1940 to March 16, 1946.
1933 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores at 1:44:46 of overtime beyond the one hour regulation game to beat Boston Bruins 1-0 in Stanley Cup semifinals; longest NHL game to date.
1916 St. Eloi Belgium - Second Canadian Division troops see action at St. Eloi in Flanders; until April 20.
1907 Regina Saskatchewan - Legislature passes bill establishing the University of Saskatchewan.
1898 Yukon - Chilkoot Pass avalanche kills 88 men during the Klondike gold rush.
1836 Toronto Ontario - Baldwin, Rolph & Dunn resign from Bond Head's council to protest lack of democracy.
1826 Saint John NB - Financial panic hits New Brunswick as word spreads that banks in London had failed and the timber trade had collapsed; so-called Black Monday.
1756 St-Malo France - Marquis de Montcalm sails from France for Canada; he will die at the battle of the Plains of Abraham.
1669 Paris France - Louis XIV orders permanent militia established in New France.

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henric · Apr 3, 2014

April 4th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

503 BC – According to the Fasti Triumphales, Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrated a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
1147 – First historical record of Moscow.
1287 – King Wareru founds Kingdom of Ramannadesa, and proclaims independence from Pagan Empire
1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1660 – Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
1721 – Sir Robert Walpole takes office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
1768 – In London, England, Great Britain, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
1796 – Georges Cuvier delivered his first paleontological lecture at Ã‰cole Centrale du Pantheon of the MusÃ©um national d'histoire naturelle on living and fossil remains of elephants and related species, founding the science of Paleontology.
1812 – U.S. President James Madison enacts a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.
1818 – The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
1841 – William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and with the shortest term served.
1850 – The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
1850 – Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
1859 – Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
1865 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Kiev.
1873 – The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
1887 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
1905 – In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
1913 – The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
1930 – The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
1933 – U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
1939 – Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
1944 – World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
1945 – World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
1945 – World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
1949 – Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1958 – The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
1965 – The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
1967 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1968 – AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
1973 – The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
1973 – A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff; 172 die.
1976 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
1979 – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1981 – The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
1984 – President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1988 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1991 – The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
2007 – Fifteen British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
2013 – More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1949 CANADA JOINS NATO
Washington DC - Canada signs the North Atlantic Treaty with Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the U.S.; becomes founding member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization; NATO members pledge to defend each other in event of Soviet attack.

1957
Cairo Egypt - Herbert Norman 1909-1957 Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, jumps from the roof of his apartment building to his death after suspicions he was a possible Communist sympathizer were released by a US Senate Subcommittee; a friend of Lester Pearson, he was a Party member in his youth; allegations against him have so far proven groundless, or at least not made public.

In Other Events...

1994 Normandy France - French organizers reverse cancellation of long-standing hotel reservations for over 100 Canadian Army veterans at the 50th anniversary ceremonies marking the D Day landings. Huge public outcry after vets bumped to accommodate US TV news crews and other VIPs.
1990 New York City - Toronto's Alannah Myles has a Billboard hit with Black Velvet; peaks at #1 on the U.S. pop singles chart.
1990 Paris France - OECD says Canada pays $117,000 for every farm job it saves by subsidizing agriculture; farm support programs raise output 17%.
1990 Albany New York - New York State passes law requiring environmental impact statements on Canadian projects before buying additional power from Hydro-Quebec.
1988 Kansas City, Missouri - Toronto Blue Jay George Bell hits three home runs in opening day game against the Royals' Bret Saberhagen; a major league first.
1986 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky gets three assists to break his own single-season record for assists; also sets single season NHL record with his 213th point.
1966 Kenya - Canada starts five-year, $350,000 project to help increase wheat production in Kenya; an environmental fiasco.
1960 New York City - Ottawa's Paul Anka has a Billboard hit with Puppy Love; peaks at #2 on the U.S. pop singles chart.
1947 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the International Civil Aviation Organization, with headquarters in Montreal.
1942 Sri Lanka - RCAF Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall spots Japanese fleet heading for Ceylon; alerts naval base and averts disaster for the British Fleet and a second Pearl Harbour.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Canada recognizes the government of General Francisco Franco of Spain, following the end of the Spanish Civil War.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet passes wartime order-in-council stipulating that every male between 16 and 60 be regularly employed.
1917 Victoria BC - British Columbia gives women the provincial vote.
1902 Oxford England - British financier Cecil Rhodes leaves $10 million in his will to provide scholarships for Empire and American students at Oxford University.
1896 Vancouver BC - News of the Yukon's Klondike gold strike reaches the outside world.
1894 Ottawa Ontario - John Sparrow David Thompson 1845-1894 hosts Canada-Newfoundland Confederation Conference in Ottawa until April 16; the Dominion will not join Canada until 1949.
1893 Toronto Ontario - Opening of the new Ontario Legislature in Queen's Park; built on the site of a lunatic asylum..
1887 London England - Opening of the first Colonial Conference in London; forerunner of Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conferences.
1858 Langley BC - Start of the Fraser River gold rush in British Columbia.
1827 London England - William Parry 1790-1855 leaves England for the Arctic on the 'Hecla'; James Ross (1800-1862) second- in-command.
1784 Saint John New Brunswick - Andrew Stockton marries loyalist girl in what was then called Parrtown; New Brunswick's first wedding on record.

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henric · Apr 4, 2014

April 5th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1081 – Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.
1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1536 – Royal Entry of Charles V into Rome: the last Roman triumph.
1566 – Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1710 – The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
1792 – U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1804 – High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
1818 – In the Battle of MaipÃº, Chile's independence movement – led by Bernardo O'Higgins and JosÃ© de San MartÃn – win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
1932 – Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
1943 – World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
1944 – World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11-month occupation.
1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on television.
1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
1956 – In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
1957 – In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1976 – In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
1986 – Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle DiscothÃ¨que in West Berlin, Germany.
1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and Astronaut Sonny Carter.
1992 – Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
1992 – The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
1998 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1971 FIRST WOMAN TO REACH NORTH POLE
North Pole - Frances Phipps the first woman to reach the North Pole; wife of Canadian pilot Weldy Phipps.

1669

Quebec City - Jean Talon 1638-1715 grants a royal bounty to large families in New France in the name of Louis XlV; in Canada's first baby bonus, the Crown gives 300 livres to families of 10 children, 400 to families of 12.

In Other Events...

1987 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title.
1981 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores five points against Winnipeg Jets to set a record for points per game average in one season; also reaches 300 point plateau faster than any player in NHL history.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Willy Adams 1931- appointed Senator for the North West Territories; first Inuit to sit in Parliament; Rankin Inlet NWT native.
1972 Gravenhurst Ontario - China's championship Table Tennis team visits Norman Bethune House in Gravenhurst.
1974 Kleinburg Ontario - Alexander Young 'AY' Jackson dies at age 91; painter, storyteller, leading member of the Group of Seven.
1971 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Gentilly nuclear power station starts service near Trois-RiviÃ¨res; world's first reactor fueled by natural uranium, cooled by ordinary water.
1966 China - Canada signs three-year deal to sell $550 million worth of wheat to China.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Commission on Transportation recommends paying annual subsidies of $40 million to CN and CP; also letting them abandon uneconomic lines.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Vincent Auriol President of France starts three day visit to Ottawa; addresses Senate and House of Commons.
1932 St. John's Nfld. - Group of petitioners ransack the Newfoundland Assembly when their demands are not met.
1917 Victoria BC - British Columbia grants women the right to vote in provincial elections.
1908 Edmonton Alberta - First dial telephones in Canada for general use were put into service in Edmonton.
1885 Winnipeg Manitoba - Two permanent artillery batteries arrive in Winnipeg.
1842 Saint John, NB - Opening of the first public museum in Canada.
1832 Brockville Ontario - Brockville incorporated as a town.
1790 Grimsby Ontario - First town meeting in Ontario held at Grimsby; marks start of local self-government in the province.

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henric · Apr 5, 2014

April 6th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

46 BC Â– Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
402 Â– Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
1199 Â– King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
1250 Â– Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
1320 Â– The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1327 Â– The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
1385 Â– John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
1453 Â– Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
1580 Â– One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
1652 Â– At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1667 Â– An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
1712 Â– The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
1776 Â– American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
1782 Â– King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founded the Chakri dynasty.
1793 Â– During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1808 Â– John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
1812 Â– British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
1814 Â– Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1830 Â– The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
1860 Â– The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day SaintsÂ—later renamed Community of ChristÂ—is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
1861 Â– First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
1862 Â– American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins Â– in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
1865 Â– American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek Â– Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
1866 Â– The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
1869 Â– Celluloid is patented.
1888 Â– Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
1893 Â– Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
1895 Â– Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
1896 Â– In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1909 Â– Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
1911 Â– During the Battle of DeÃ§iq, DedÃ« Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the MalÃ«sori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
1917 Â– World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
1919 Â– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
1923 Â– The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
1924 Â– First round-the-world flight commences.
1926 Â– Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
1929 Â– Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
1930 Â– Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
1936 Â– Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
1941 Â– World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
1945 Â– World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
1945 Â– World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
1947 Â– The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
1957 Â– Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
1962 Â– Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
1965 Â– Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
1965 Â– The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
1968 Â– In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
1968 Â– Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
1970 Â– Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
1972 Â– Vietnam War: Easter Offensive Â– American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
1973 Â– Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1973 Â– The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
1982 Â– Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV"Â—meaning Finnish TVÂ—a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
1984 Â– Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
1994 Â– The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president JuvÃ©nal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
1998 Â– Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
1998 Â– Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
2004 Â– Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
2005 Â– Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
2008 Â– 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities .
2009 Â– A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
2010 Â– Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
2011 Â– In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
2012 Â– Azawad Declaration of Independence is declared.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1909 PEARY CLAIMS POLE; DEBUNKED BY CANUCK
Ellesmere Island NWT - Commander Robert Peary claims to have reached the North Pole on this date, with a party of six, including his black servant Matthew Henson and four Inuit; began journey, his sixth attempt, at Ellesmere Island; his claim has been thoroughly debunked, most recently by Ottawa adventurer Richard Weber, who skied the route, and says Peary can only have drifted far to the north-east of the Pole.

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- chosen as Liberal Party leader on fourth ballot, replacing Lester Pearson; gets 1203 votes, to Robert Winters' 954, John Turner's 194. The Justice Minister becomes Canada's 15th Prime Minister when Pearson officially steps down on April 22; serves to June 16, 1984.

In Other Events...

1991 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Preston Manning stresses Reform Party wants Quebec to stay in Canada, but not at any cost; wants strong central government, tighter spending controls.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard announces Quebec/Ottawa agreement to set up Saguenay Marine Park to save St. Lawrence beluga whales; autopsies of dead whales show high toxin levels in their blubber.
1990 Poland - Don Mazankowski Deputy Prime Minister ends three day visit to Poland by signing $30 million loan guarantee; for Canadian businesses, mostly in cattle and dairy modernization.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland Legislature votes to rescind support for Meech Lake accord.
1990 Quebec City - Liberals and Parti Quebecois team up to pass motion rejecting any modifications to Meech Lake accord; hours before Newfoundland rejection.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - US President Ronald Reagan addresses the House of Commons; says he and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney have agreed to discuss a bilateral accord on acid rain.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams' single Somebody peaks at #11 on the Billboard pop chart.
1982 Newfoundland - Brian Peckford 1942- leads Progressive Conservatives to reelection victory in Newfoundland, winning 44 of 52 seats.
1980 Houston Texas - Gordie Howe completes record 26th season as a hockey player.
1976 Quebec City - Quebec Superior Court rules against 10 Protestant school boards opposed to the Official Languages Act.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Bomb explosion at the Cuban Trade Commission in Montreal kills one person.
1967 Edmonton Alberta - George Brinton McClellan 1908- named ombudsman of Alberta, first in Canada; former Commissioner of the RCMP.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 announces plans to promote bilingualism in the public service.
1965 Dar es Salaam Tanzania - Ottawa starts program to equip and train air force of Tanzania.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Leonard S. Marchand 1932- appointed Special Assistant to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration; first aboriginal Canadian appointed to Cabinet staff.
1964 Chichester England - Canada's Stratford Festival starts three weeks of performances in Chichester to celebrate 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth.
1961 United Nations New York - Canada presents cheque for $260,000 collected by Canadian children for UNICEF.
1960 New York City - Paul Anka's single Puppy Love peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop chart.
1954 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens score three goals in 56 seconds in a Stanley Cup playoff game against Detroit.
1942 Aldershott England - General Andrew G.L. (Andy) McNaughton 1887-1966 forms the First Canadian Army in Britain with five divisions, two armored brigades, and 3 other divisions slated for home defence.
1926 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Maroons beat Victoria Cougars 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1886 Vancouver BC - Vancouver incorporated as a city.
1885 Fort Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 leads about 800 militia from Fort Qu'Appelle toward Batoche.
1851 Kingston Ontario -Canadian postal service transferred from British control; sets uniform postal rate of 3 pence a letter.
1829 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the first Bytown Post Office.
1672 Paris France - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 appointed Governor of New France; a Godson of Louis XIII, he serves from September 12, 1672 to Sept., 1682; then 1689-98.
1609 Albany New York - Henry Hudson d1611 sails 'Half Moon' up Hudson River to site of Albany; searching for North West Passage for Dutch East India Company.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 6, 2014

April 7th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
1141 – Empress Matilda, became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'
1348 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
1776 – Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1831 – D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends – the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
1927 – First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1939 – World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1943 – Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
1945 – World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1980 – The United States severs relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.
1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1928 OLD MAN PATRICK SUBS FOR GOALIE
Montreal Quebec - Lester Patrick, General Manager of the New York Rangers, suits up and replaces his injured goalie Lorne Chabot, and Frank Boucher scores at 7:05 into overtime to give the Rangers a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Maroons in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals. Patrick, one of the founders of the NHL, and a former goalie himself, is 45 years old. The Rangers go on to win the series.

1868

Ottawa Ontario -Thomas D'Arcy McGee is shot and killed by a Fenian assassin outside his Sparks St. lodging house, as he is turning the key in his lock. McGee was returning late after making a speech in Parliament; he had denounced the Fenians, a militant Irish-American group dedicated to expelling the British from Ireland by force.

In Other Events...

1996 Halifax Nova Scotia - Canadian vessels Athabaskan, Terra Nova and Protecteur arrive home from Gulf War; ships left in early August; HMCS Huron leaves for the Gulf to help enforce the embargo against Iraq.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Gunman hijacks bus near Montreal and drives it to Parliament Hill; disarmed by police.
1973 Vietnam - Communist insurgents shoot down helicopter in South Vietnam, killing one Canadian and three other members of the International Commission for Control and Supervision (ICCS) team.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Arthur Hailey has his radio script, Flight into Danger, accepted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Hailey later writes the best-selling novel, Airport.
1914 Nechako BC - H. B Kelliher, chief engineer of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, drives in the last spike of the western division of the line at Nechako River Crossing west of Prince George; first train arrives in Prince Rupert April 9; the Winnipeg to Prince Rupert line will officially open Sept 9; later part of the CNR.
1892 Toronto Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 dies at age 70; former PM still an MP.
1869 Charlottetown, PEI - Last public hanging In Prince Edward Island.
1851 Kingston Ontario -Province of Canada Post Office issues three-penny black, first Canadian postage stamp; one example survives.
1741 Quebec Quebec - Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand c1708-1760 appointed last Bishop of New France before the Conquest.
1691 Paris France - Joseph Robinau de Villebon 1655-1700 appointed Governor of Acadia; headquarters on site of Saint John, NB.
1498 France - King Louis XII d1515 starts reign; to 1515; on death of Charles VIII (from 1483).

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 7, 2014

April 8th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

217 Â– Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
632 Â– King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde)Â—possibly on orders of his half-brother Dagobert IÂ—along with his infant son Chilperic. He claims Aquitaine and Gascony, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in the West.
876 Â– The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
1093 Â– The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
1139 Â– Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
1149 Â– Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
1232 Â– MongolÂ–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin Dynasty.
1271 Â– In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
1730 Â– Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
1740 Â– War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate HMS Princess.
1808 Â– The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.
1820 Â– The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1832 Â– Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
1864 Â– American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield Â– Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
1866 Â– Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.
1886 Â– William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1895 Â– In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
1904 Â– The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
1904 Â– British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
1904 Â– Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
1906 Â– Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
1908 Â– Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
1911 Â– Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
1913 Â– The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
1916 Â– In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.
1918 Â– World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
1924 Â– Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of AtatÃ¼rk's Reforms.
1929 Â– Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1935 Â– The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
1942 Â– World War II: Siege of Leningrad Â– Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
1942 Â– World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
1943 Â– U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
1945 Â– World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
1946 Â– Ã‰lectricitÃ© de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
1950 Â– India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
1952 Â– U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
1953 Â– Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
1954 Â– A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
1954 Â– South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
1959 Â– A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
1959 Â– The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
1960 Â– The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
1961 Â– A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
1968 Â– BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
1970 Â– Bahr el-Baqar incident: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. 46 children are killed.
1974 Â– At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.
1975 Â– Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
1987 Â– Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
1992 Â– Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1993 Â– The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.
1999 Â– Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
2004 Â– Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
2005 Â– Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
2006 Â– Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
2008 Â– The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1969 EXPOS PLAY BALL
Montreal Quebec - Lester B. Pearson throws out the first ball as the Montreal Expos play their first game at Jarry Park, beating the National Baseball League St. Louis Cardinals 8-7; opening game of franchise, first regular-season major league baseball game in Canada, and outside the US..

1609
Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 and 12 survivors prepare to return to France as ice in the St. Lawrence thaws; 16 out of his crew of 28 have died from scurvy due to lack of vitamin C; seeing the French suffer, the local Iroquois teach them how to make 'tisane d'anneda', or cedar tea, a medicine containing the vitamin.

In Other Events...

1981 Ottawa Ontario - Parties agree to end debate on the Constitution in the House of Commons.
1980 Uniondale, NY - New York Islander Denis Potvin scores 2 shorthanded goals in one period against LA Kings; ties NHL record.
1976 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia the eighth province to sign an anti-inflation agreement with Ottawa.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa restricts imports of cattle treated with growth hormone diethystilbestrol (DES); suspected carcinogen.
1963 Canada - Lester B. Pearson captures 130 seats for the Liberals in the 26th federal general election; PM Diefenbaker holds on to 94 seats; Social Credit keep 24, NDP 17; will form minority government.
1954 Moose Jaw Saskatchewan - TCA North Star airliner crashes after colliding with RCAF trainer over Moose Jaw, killing 37 people.
1946 Geneva Switzerland - Canadian delegation attends last League of Nations assembly in Geneva; replaced by the United Nations.
1945 Germany - Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 now commanding five Canadian divisions and two tank brigades.
1945 Zutphen Netherlands - Canadians capture Zutphen; final offensive in Holland.
1945 Hong Kong - Canadian cruiser HMCS Uganda joins British Pacific Fleet.
1944 France - RCAF dive bombers start attacks on French railway years to damage supply routes prior to D-Day.
1937 Oshawa Ontario - Premier Mitchell Hepburn 1896-1953 sends in police to deal with illegal sit-down strike at General Motors plant; strike ends April 26; police called 'Hepburn's Hussars'.
1915 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes Liquor Licence Act; creates Board of Commissioners to handle liquor distribution; origin of Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO).
1904 London England Britain - Lord Lansdowne signs Convention with French counterpart Cambon to settle the French Shore question; French fishermen lose landing rights on Newfoundland coast in return for cash and concessions in Africa.
1875 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Northwest Territories Act; appoints a lieutenant-governor and a Northwest Territories council with legislative and executive powers to sit at Battleford Saskatchewan; sets up separate administration run from Ottawa.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Lucius Seth Huntington 1827-1886 sits on select Commons committee to examine his charges of CPR election financing, known as The Pacific Scandal.
1751 Halifax Nova Scotia - William Pigott opens the first inn in Nova Scotia; first in English Canada.
1668 Paris France - Claude de Boutroue d'Aubigny 1620-1680 appointed Intendant of New France; serves at Quebec from October 22, 1668 to October 22, 1670.
1610 St-Malo France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves on fourth voyage to New France.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 8, 2014

April 9th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

193 – Lucius Septimius Severus is proclaimed Emperor by his troops in Illyricum (Balkans). He marches with his army (16 legions) to Rome.
475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
537 – Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. He starts, despite of shortages, raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate.
1241 – Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
1288 – Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces are defeated by Tran forces in the Battle of Bach Dang in present-day northern Vietnam.
1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of NÃ¤fels.
1413 – Henry V is crowned King of England.
1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
1454 – The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.
1511 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
1609 – Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
1782 – American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Ã‰douard-LÃ©on Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
1867 – Alaska Purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
1909 – The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun – German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
1918 – The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
1940 – World War II: Operation WeserÃ¼bung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
1940 – Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March – United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast.
1945 – World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of KÃ¶nigsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
1945 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1947 – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
1947 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
1948 – Jorge EliÃ©cer GaitÃ¡n's assassination provokes a violent riot in BogotÃ¡ (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
1948 – Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
1952 – Hugo BalliviÃ¡n's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
1960 – Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg.
1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
1965 – Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
1967 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1969 – The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
1975 – 8 people in South Korea, who are involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
1981 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
1989 – The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
1991 – Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union
1992 – A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces; Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces.
2005 – Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles; Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.
2009 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 850 are injured when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Iranian province of Bushehr.
2013 – A gunman murders 13 people in a spree shooting in the village of Velika Ivanča, Serbia.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1987 GREAT ONE NOTCHES SEVEN IN POST SEASON PLAY
Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game for the third time; passes Jean Beliveau as all-time playoff scoring champion.

1917
Vimy France - Arthur William Currie 1875-1933 leads all four divisions of the Canadian Corps. fighting as a unit for the first time, with one British brigade under Lt.-Gen. Julian Byng, to Easter Monday victory at Vimy Ridge. Using 1,000 guns and a masterful artillery barrage technique developed by Currie and his gunners, they take the German stronghold where the French and British had earlier failed; 4,000 Canadians killed, 6,000 wounded. From that day onward, Germany is on the defensive.

In Other Events...

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari winds up three day visit to Canada to promote continental free trade pact.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Gilbert Chartrand defects from Bloc Quebecois back to Conservatives, says Bloc wants destruction of Canada; also concerned by PQ decision to support Bloc.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Francois LisÃ©e publishes 'Dans l'oeil de l'aigle' claiming that RenÃ© Levesque regularly gave the US an advance look at sensitive legislation before showing it to the Parti Quebecois Cabinet.
1990 Ottawa Ontario -Angus Reid releases poll showing the Mulroney Tories at only 15% of decided voters; historic low for governing party; Liberals 53%, NDP 23%, Reform 6% (30% in Alberta), 29% undecided.
1990 Yellowknife NWT - Ottawa signs final land claim agreement with 15,000 Dene-Metis of Mackenzie Valley; they are awarded surface title to 181,230 sq km land, mineral rights to 10,000 sq km and $500 million cash over 20 years.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that the right to strike is not guaranteed by the constitution.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes Canada Health Act; provinces allowing extra billing will lose $1 for every $1 collected starting July 1.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and Premiers start two-day meeting in Ottawa; fail to agree on future domestic oil prices.
1973 Washington DC -Canada and US agree on contingency plan to clean up potential off-shore oil spills.
1962 Toronto Ontario - CPR employees at Royal York Hotel in Toronto end 11-month strike.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Harold Macmillan British Prime Minister visits Ottawa for two days of talks with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
1946 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1945 Netherlands - Canadian troops trap the remaining German armies in the Netherlands, cutting off all land escape routes.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 appointed Minister of Munitions and Supply; phases out War Supply Board.
1935 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games for the Stanley Cup.
1932 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games for the Stanley Cup.
1929 Washington DC - Canadian Ambassador Vincent Massey 1887-1967 protests against sinking of Canadian schooner I'm Alone; crew released; case of rum-runner to go to arbitration.
1919 Ottawa - Government appoints Royal Commission on Industrial Relations; to look at high cost of living as it affects labour.
1912 Cobh Ireland - White Star liner Titanic leaves Queenstown for NY; to pass the coast of Newfoundland in four days.
1869 London England - HBC shareholders accept terms of Rupert's Land Act of 1868; Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada.
1799 Toronto Ontario - Asa Danforth begins building road from the town of York toward the Trent River; an American immigrant, he gives his name to Danforth Avenue.
1682 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 recalled as Governor by the King after bitter quarrels with Intendant Jacques Duchesneau.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 9, 2014

April 10th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

428 – Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
837 – Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles).
879 – Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks.
1407 – The lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont.
1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
1874 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law.
1912 – The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her only voyage.
1916 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
1941 – World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
1944 – Rudolf Vrba and AlfrÃ©d Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
1953 – Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko.
1963 – 129 American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
1968 – Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
1972 – 20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
1972 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
1973 – A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashed in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people.
1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1988 – The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.
1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
1998 – Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).
2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1990 GST TO BECOME LAW
Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes the Goods and Services Tax bill 144 to 114, ending nine months of bitter wrangling; the 7% tax will replace the 13.5% Manufacturers Sales Tax as of Jan 1; Alex Kindy and David Kilgour ejected from Tory Caucus for voting against the GST; the bill now goes to the Senate.

1790
Nootka BC - Spanish start building forts in Nootka Sound to exploit sea otter harvest; try to head off English traders after the recent visit by Captain Cook.

In Other Events...

1996 Winnipeg Manitoba - Scotty Bowman's Detroit Red Wings defeat Winnipeg Jets 5-2 becoming the second team in NHL history to win 60 regular-season games; the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens were the first; the Wings will end the season with 62 wins.
1992 North America - NHL strike ends after 10 days.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- meets US President George Bush for talks on Acid Rain and East-West relations; US Acid Rain Act cleared Senate April 3; cuts emissions 50% by year 2000.
1990 Washington DC -International Joint Commission says Canada and the US must stop dumping toxic substances into Great Lakes; disease and birth defects a serious threat.
1984 BC - BC pulp and paper workers go back to work after two-month lockout and strike.
1982 Edmonton Alberta - Los Angeles Kings beat the Oilers 6-5 in overtime, after trailing 5-0 in the third period.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa creates two new national parks; one at Artillery Lake northeast of Yellowknife; the other on the Trent Canal, Ontario.
1965 London Ontario - Opening of $1,000,000 air terminal at London.
1965 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - German freighter Transatlantic sinks after colliding with Dutch ship Hermes; 3 sailors killed.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Food and Drugs Act, getting more control over sale of drugs.
1959 Hamilton Ontario - Canada's first privately-owned nuclear research reactor goes into operation, at McMaster University.
1956 Montreal Quebec -Montreal Canadiens beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 to win the first of a record five consecutive Stanley Cups; they win the series 4 games to 1.
1952 Detroit Michigan -Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Canadiens in four straight games to win the Stanley Cup.
1947 Montreal Quebec -Montreal Royals of the International League sell their star player Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers; appears in uniform for the Dodgers the next day, the first black player to break the colour barrier in major league baseball.
1947 Ottawa Ontario -Founding of National Wildlife Week to honour conservationist Jack Miner, born on this day in 1865.
1942 Ottawa Ontario -William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 agrees with Roosevelt to approve resolutions of Joint Economic Committees; to balance US-Canadian agricultural trade.
1937 Ottawa Ontario -Act of Parliament creates Trans-Canada Airlines, now Air Canada; company will have two passenger planes and a biplane by September launch.
1934 Detroit Michigan - Chicago Black Hawks beat Detroit Red Wings 1-0, winning the Stanley Cup 3 games to 1.
1912 Ottawa - Government appoints Board of Grain Commissioners, to inspect and regulate the grain trade.
1900 Capetown South Africa - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 arrives in South Africa commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse.
1889 Welland Ontario - Opening of the enlarged Welland Canal.
1875 Regina Saskatchewan - Northwest Mounted Police ordered to build a post on the site of the city of Calgary.
1866 Campobello New Brunswick - Irish American Fenians attack Campobello Island from Eastport, Maine; persuaded to leave by British warships, US agents.
1841 Halifax Nova Scotia - Halifax incorporated as a city.
1812 Washington DC - United States calls out the militia in preparation for a war against Britain that will begin June 18; attack on Upper Canada imminent.
1684 Quebec City - Royal ordinance prohibits emigration from New France to the English colonies to the south.
1682 Louisiana USA - RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 starts return trip up the Mississippi with Tonty, after claiming Louisiana for France.
1645 Saint John New Brunswick - Charles Menou d'Aulnay 1604-1650 attacks Charles de La Tour's fur stronghold of Fort Sainte-Marie with 200 men; FranÃ§oise-Marie Jacquelin 1602-1645 La Tour's wife holds fort against d'Aulnay with 45 men against 200; La Tour in Boston seeking English help.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 10, 2014

April 11th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of KrakÃ³w is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1241 – Batu Khan defeats BÃ©la IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1908 – SMS BlÃ¼cher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
1913 – The Nevill Ground's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.
1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in Terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1989 – Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1993 – 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo ChÃ¡vez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo ChÃ¡vez resignation on national TV.
2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2007 – 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2011 – A explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2012 – An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1785 LOYALISTS WANT NEW PROVINCE IN UPPER CANADA
Montreal Quebec - John Johnson 1742-1830 helps draw up a petition for the United Empire Loyalists, asking for a separate province, with freehold land tenure and British Common Law; origin of Upper Canada and the Province of Ontario.

1872

Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald 1815-1891 starts a productive fifth session of the first Parliament, until June 14; his Ministry will pass the Dominion Lands Act granting free 65-hectare (160 acre) homesteads in Manitoba (dismayed French and Metis leave for Saskatchewan); the Trade Unions Act making unions legal (repeals Anti-Combination Acts, guarantees right to workers to organize without restraint of trade laws); and an Act creating a Public Archives of Canada; now the National Archives of Canada.

In Other Events...
1991 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Labour Minister Bob Mackenzie passes Employee Wage Protection Program, giving workers up to $5,000 in owed wages, termination pay; if company goes bankrupt; bill retroactive to Oct 1.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- protests the US challenge of a Free Trade Tribunal ruling for Canadian pork producers in a letter to President Bush.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to give $15 million compensation to families of victims of 1985 Air India Flight 182 disaster; 80 lawsuits already settled for over $10 million.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Harold Ballard dies at age 86; President of Maple Leaf Gardens and the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1961; sole owner since 1972, when he took control after the death of Stafford Smyth; leaves bulk of his $110 million estate to charity in Apr 18 will.
1989 Landover, Maryland - Philadelphia Flyers' goalie Ron Hextall scores short-handed into an empty net in an 8-5 victory over Washington Capitals; first NHL goalie to score a playoff goal. In 1987, he was the first goalie to score a regular season goal..
1986 New York City - Canadian 1921 50 cent piece fetches a record US$22,000 at auction.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate in March of 13.6% or 1,658,000 unemployed; a new record.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to provide $280 million in world food aid in 1975-76.
1972 Quebec - 200,000 Hydro-Quebec workers, teachers, and hospital staff go on 2-week strike; largest in history; legislated back to work; 3 strike leaders sentenced to one year in jail.
1967 Ottawa Ontario -Bower Edward Featherstone convicted under the Official Secrets Act of acquiring confidential naval charts; federal civil servant sentenced on April 24 to 2 1/2 years in prison.
1940 Quebec Quebec - Women allowed into the chamber of the Quebec Legislature for the first time, to hear Premier Godbout's speech asking for the vote for Quebec women.
1936 Toronto Ontario - Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Albert Edward Kemp 1858-1929 chairs new Overseas Military Council.
1904 Sydney Nova Scotia - Sydney incorporated as a city.
1839 Greenock Scotland - John Galt 1779-1839 dies at Greenock; Canada Company head, founder of Guelph, Ontario.
1768 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys one-third of the town of Montreal.
1713 Utrecht Netherlands - Treaty of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession; France cedes Acadia and Newfoundland to Britain, but keeps fishing rights; recognizes British title to Hudson Bay.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 11, 2014

April 12th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

238 Â– Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide.
240 Â– Shapur I is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
467 Â– Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
627 Â– King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York.
1204 Â– The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
1557 Â– Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
1606 Â– The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
1776 Â– American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
1820 Â– Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
1831 Â– Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1861 Â– American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1862 Â– American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
1864 Â– American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
1865 Â– American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
1877 Â– The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1910 Â– SMS ZrÃnyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
1917 Â– World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
1927 Â– April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1928 Â– The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1934 Â– The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
1934 Â– The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1935 Â– First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
1937 Â– Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1945 Â– U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
1955 Â– The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
1961 Â– The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
1963 Â– The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
1970 Â– Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
1980 Â– Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'Ã©tat, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
1980 Â– Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1981 Â– The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place - the STS-1 mission.
1990 Â– Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
1992 Â– The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1994 Â– Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
1998 Â– An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
1999 Â– US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2002 Â– A female suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2007 Â– A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
2009 Â– Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as its official currency.
2010 Â– A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 TERRY FOX STARTS MARATHON OF HOPE
St. John's Newfoundland - Terry Fox 1958-1981 dips his artificial leg into the Atlantic to start his cross-country 'Marathon of Hope', backed by the Canadian Cancer Society, to raise money for cancer research. Fox is a victim of osteogenic sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. He will end his run on Sept.1 in Thunder Bay Ont when cancer is discovered in his lungs. He will cover 5373 km at a pace of nearly 40 km per day and will raise $1.7 million. Terry Fox will end his battle with cancer on June 28, 1981.

1838

Toronto Ontario - Rebel Col. Samuel Lount and Captain Peter Matthews publicly hanged for treason and sedition during the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada. Lount had seven children; petitions for mercy and clemency and a personal appeal by his wife Elizabeth to Lt-Gov.

In Other Events...

1996 Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings win 5-3 over Chicago Blackhawks, to became first NHL team with 61 wins in a season; also match NHL record of 36 home wins in a season, set by 1975-76 Philadelphia Flyers.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government brings in legislation to sell 45 per cent of Air Canada's shares initially, with the remainder to be disposed of at a later date.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Five Vancouver-area residents, members of a group called Direct Action, are charged with 1982 bombing of the Litton Systems plant in Toronto that makes guidance systems for cruise missiles.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans imports from Argentina, to protest invasion of Falkland Islands.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Maurice (Rocket) Richard scores his last NHL goal before retiring, helping his Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Harold Rupert Leofric George Alex, Lord Alexander 1891-1969 named Governor General of Canada; serves until January 28, 1952.
1945 Westerbork Netherlands - Canadian troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp at Westerbork.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 presents White Paper on Employment and Income; a blueprint for the coming election.
1941 Boston Massachusetts - Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in four games for the Stanley Cup.
1938 Chicago Illinois - Chicago Black Hawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1936 Moose River Nova Scotia - J. Frank Willis 1909-1969 broadcasts non-stop for 69 hours after explosion traps three men in Moose River mine; two survivors; C.R.B.C. broadcasts picked up by 650 US stations and 58 in Canada.
1917 Toronto Ontario - Ontario gives women the provincial vote for the first time.
1898 Hamilton Ontario - John Moodie imports a Winton automobile, first gasoline-powered automobile brought to Canada.
1876 Montreal Quebec -Founding of Beaver Steamship Line, formerly the Canadian Shipping Co., with three new iron-screw steamers to replace the old sailing ships; the Montreal to Liverpool service is sold to the CPR in 1903, and is the origin of CP Ships.
1876 Ottawa Ontario - Government creates the new District of Keewatin out of northern Manitoba and north-western Ontario.
1872 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg hit with record 33 cm of snow.
1819 London England Britain - George Ramsay, Lord Dalhousie 1770-1838 appointed Governor General of British North America.
1751 Nova Scotia - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La JonquiÃ¨re 1685-1752 requires Acadians moving to French territory to take an oath of allegiance and join the militia.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 12, 2014

April 13th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
1612 – Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island.
1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage.
1699 – Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the Tenth Sikh Guru, Created Khalsa on this day at Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
1849 – Hungary becomes a republic.
1861 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
1868 – The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.
1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
1919 – The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
1941 – A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1944 – Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
1958 – Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
1975 – Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
1984 – India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
1987 – Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
1992 – The Great Chicago flood devastates much of central Chicago.
1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1984 ROSE HITS NUMBER 4,000 AS AN EXPO
Montreal Quebec - Montreal fans welcome Pete Rose in his first game as an Expo; he hits a double - his 4,000th career hit - against his former teammates, the Philadelphia Phillies; only National League player to reach this milestone since Ty Cobb got 4,109 total hits with American League teams Detroit and Philadelphia.

1885
Swift Current Saskatchewan - William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 leads 550 men from Swift Current toward Battleford in the North West rebellion. Here are the troops marching along newly stung telegraph poles.

In Other Events...

1996 New Jersey - Ottawa Senators beat New Jersey Devils 5-2, making the Devils the first Stanley Cup champions in 26 years to miss the playoffs; 1969-70 Montreal Canadiens (with current Devils coach Jacques Lemaire) the last to miss post season play.
1993 Victoria BC - British Columbia government allows limited logging of half of Clayoquot Sound; last major old-growth rainforest on Vancouver Island.
1981 Quebec - Rene Levesque's Parti Quebecois re-elected with a large majority.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports March unemployment figures at 90,000, or 8.1% of the workforce; highest since figures first collected in 1953.
1972 Ottawa Ontario -US President Richard Nixon starts two-day visit to Canada; signs Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
1966 St. Petersburg Russia - Soviet Liner Alexandr Pushkin leaves Leningrad for Montreal as the USSR launches North Atlantic passenger service.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government grants $3.3 million for nation-wide festival of performing arts during centennial year.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Constantine Caramanlis Greek Prime Minister starts three-day visit to Canada.
1944 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Black Hawks in four games for the Stanley Cup.
1940 Toronto Ontario - NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1942 Egypt - RCAF's 417 Fighter Squadron heads for Egypt to join Desert Air Force.
1933 Toronto Ontario - NY Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1927 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat the Boston Bruins with 2 wins and 2 ties for the Stanley Cup.
1925 St. John's Newfoundland - Women in Newfoundland granted the right to vote in provincial elections.
1912 Toronto Ontario - James Pliny Whitney 1834-1914 announces Ontario to restrict use of French in schools; English only language of instruction; after Merchant Report deplores state of bilingual schools.
1900 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa first Canadian city to receive telephone service with a common battery system; no batteries needed in home telephones.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - First session of sixth Parliament meets until June 23; sets up Department of Trade and Commerce; employee pension funds.
1877 Fort Benton, Montana - A US newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, coins a slogan for the RCMP - 'They always get their man.'
1870 Ottawa Ontario - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 reports to Militia Minister George-Etienne Cartier on the situation in Red River.
1859 Fredericton, NB - The University of New Brunswick is incorporated.
1858 Toronto Ontario - John Quinn's Peninsula Hotel destroyed when storm cuts channel through peninsula, creating Toronto Island.
1838 Toronto Ontario - Lount & Matthews hanged for treason and sedition during Rebellion of 1837; despite protests and petitions for mercy; Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews.
1608 St-Malo France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves for New France for a third time aboard the Don-de-Dieu as Lieutenant of de Monts' new company; with orders to set up a trading post at Quebec; arrives at Tadoussac June 3.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 13, 2014

April 14th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius.
69 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
193 – Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
1028 – Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
1205 – Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
1294 – TemÃ¼r, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1341 – Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1434 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Year's War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1715 – The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina.
1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (died April 15th).
1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1906 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1931 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1941 – World War II: German general Erwin Rommel attacks Tobruk.
1942 – Malta receives the George Cross for its gallantry. The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1945 – Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1967 – GnassingbÃ© EyadÃ©ma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
1969 – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
1978 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
1986 – 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃ¡vez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1912 TITANIC RADIOS FOR HELP
Cape Race, Newfoundland -
Two young wireless radio operators, Robert Hunston and James Goodwin, hear the first distress call from the luxury liner RMS Titanic, en route to New York south of the Grand Banks. An iceberg has grazed the ship's side, popping iron rivets and shearing off a fatal number of hull plates below the waterline.

10:25 pm: According to Hunston's first entry in the log, Goodwin "hears the Titanic calling C.Q.D. [Come Quickly, Danger - the precursor to S.O.S.], giving position."
10:35 pm: Titanic calls that they have moved five or six miles and "Have struck iceberg."
10:40 pm: They hear Titanic call the nearest ship, the Carpathia, saying "We require immediate assistance."
10:58 pm: They hear the terrible news: "Have struck iceberg and sinking."
11:36 pm: They hear another ship, the Olympic, asking the Titanic where it is steering; Titanic replies "We are putting women off in boats." [continued tomorrow... ]

In Other Events...

1997 Ottawa Ontario - Quebec City lawyer Guy Bertrand places his petition asking for a ruling on the legality of Quebec separation before the Supreme Court of Canada.
1996 Detroit Michigan - Scotty Bowman's Detroit Red Wings wrap up the winningest season in NHL history by defeating Dallas 5-1. The Red Wings finished with 62 victories, beating the 60 wins of the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court, citing new evidence, rules unanimously that David Milgaard's 1970 murder conviction in the death of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller should be quashed; recommends a new trial. The Saskatchewan government sets Milgaard free two days later, but decides not to have another trial, nor offer compensation, since the Supreme Court did not rule if he was innocent or a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of the 32nd Parliament; until July 18, 1981.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Anti Inflation Board wound up; oil stocks begin three year price boom.
1976 Quebec - 90,000 Quebec teachers stage 24-hour illegal walkout; summonses served on 100 teachers' union locals.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court of Appeal rules that divorced women can sue their former husbands for damages.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Judy LaMarsh chairs Ontario Royal Commission to examine violence in the media; former Secretary of State of Canada.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in four games for their fifth Stanley Cup in a row.
1955 Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1953 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1948 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs sweep the Detroit Red Wings in four games for the Stanley Cup.
1945 Arnhem Netherlands - Canadian Army occupies Arnhem, completes liberation of the low countries.
1944 Montreal Quebec - Hydro-QuÃ©bec founded by the Quebec Hydro-Electric Commission after the Duplessis government expropriates Montreal Light, Heat and Power Consolidated and its subsidiary, Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Company; after public criticism of poor service and high rates.
1931 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Black Hawks 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1928 New York City - NY Rangers beat the Montreal Maroons 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1892 Windsor Ontario - Windsor incorporated; gets city charter.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act to create uniform currency in Canada; sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents and mills.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - Noon cannon on Parliament Hill fired for the first time.

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henric · Apr 14, 2014

April 15th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

769 – The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
1395 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1638 – Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.
1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army.
1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1738 – Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War
1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.

1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
1935 – Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
1936 – Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
1940 – The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
1942 – The George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta – its people and defenders" by King George VI.
1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
1965 – The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
1984 – The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City.
1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing 3 people and injuring 264 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1912 TITANIC'S LAST WORDS
Cape Race, Newfoundland - Robert Hunston and James Goodwin, junior wireless radio operators at Cape Race, hear the last of the RMS Titanics's distress calls as the stricken ship continues to send out signals. According to Hunston's entry in the log,

12:50 am EST: The wireless operator of the Virginian, 200 miles away, reports that they have been trying to reach the White Star liner, but have lost communication with the Titanic and that the last signals, at 12:27 am, were "blurred and ended abruptly."
2:00 am: Hunston and Goodwin get their first request for information from New York; according to Hunston, "this is followed by 300 more chiefly from newspapers to many ships asking for news." Hunston refuses because wireless communications are confidential.
6:00 am: "After daylight news commences to arrive from ships stating Carpathia picked up 20 boats of people. No word of any more being saved."
Only 711 survive out of a total of 2,224 passengers and crew; 209 bodies are taken to Halifax, and 150 of them are buried in a Halifax cemetery. One of the victims is Montreal industrialist Charles Hays, President of the Grand Trunk Railway.

In Other Events...

1992 New York City - Canadian actor William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk) inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, along with his fellow Star Trek players Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) and DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy).
1992 Uniondale NY - New York Islander coach Al Arbour coaches his record breaking 1,438th NHL game.
1991 Charlottetown PEI - Scientist Ken Croasdale reports that the fixed link bridge from Nova Scotia to PEI will have no damaging effect on ice movement in the Northumberland Strait.
1991 London England - Finance Minister Michael Wilson says Canada will give $4 million to the $14 billion fund of the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, set up to help rebuild Eastern European economies.
1984 St-Malo France - Fleet of tall ships leaves St-Malo on a race to Canada; celebrating the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's discovery of Quebec.
1981 Regina Saskatchewan - Provincial court rules that Rev. AndrÃ© Mercure does not have right to French trial on speeding charge; judgment severely limits use of French in Saskatchewan and Alberta courts.
1981 Quebec - Quebec Court of Appeal rules in favour of Ottawa's constitutional package.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expos playtheir first baseball game in the Olympic Stadium - the Big O - after moving from Jarry Park.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa awards to Dome Petroleum Ltd. of Calgary a permit to drill the first offshore wells from artificial islands in the shallow Beaufort Sea.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament raises salaries of Members by one third.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Lucien Lamoureux presides over his 3,010th House of Commons session, becoming the Speaker with the longest service in Canadian history.
1974 Quebec - Group of nine Quebec women win $1 million first prize in the first Lottery Canada Olympic draw.
1971 Halifax Nova Scotia - Harry Douglas Smith appointed first Ombudsman of Nova Scotia; former president of King's College, Halifax.
1969 St. John's Newfoundland - CN replaces the Newfie Bullet train between St. John's and Port aux Basques with buses.
1958 Montreal Quebec - CP Hotels open their Montreal flagship, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
1952 Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in four games for the Stanley Cup.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Donald Gordon resigns as Chairman of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board; succeeded by Ken Taylor; returns to Bank of Canada as Deputy Governor.
1945 Bergen-Belsen Germany - Canadian and British troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany.
1941 France - No. 402 Fighter Squadron makes RCAF's first attack over enemy territory.
1937 Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1937 Halifax Nova Scotia - Trade unions legalized in Nova Scotia.
1928 Greenley Island Newfoundland - Canadian aircraft rescues crew of downed German airship Bremen; forced down on Greenley Island in the Strait of Belle Isle.
1925 New York City - New NHL team, the NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) lose their first game, 3-1.
1923 Toronto Ontario - Insulin becomes available for general use; discovered in 1922 by Banting and Best at the University of Toronto; extracted from the pancreas of animals or synthesized in the laboratory, insulin is a natural hormone for carbohydrate metabolism in the body.
1920 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint releases new Canadian small cent coin.
1907 Alberta/BC -More than 3,000 Alberta and BC coal miners go on a three-week strike.
1901 Woodstock Ontario - Woodstock incorporated as a city.
1885 Fort Pitt Saskatchewan - NWMP Inspector Francis Jeffrey Dickens 1844-1886 abandons Fort Pitt and withdraws to Battleford after white settlers decide to surrender to Big Bear during the North West Rebellion; he is the third son of novelist Charles Dickens.
1872 Toronto Ontario - 3,000 members of 13 unions march in Queen's Park labour parade; annual event in the 1870s.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - Second session of the first Dominion Parliament meets until June 22; passes act for temporary government for Rupert's Land and NWT.
1859 Winnipeg Manitoba - First steamboat, the International, starts operating on the Red River, carrying freight and passengers between Fort Garry and St. Paul, Minnesota.
1814 Kingston Ontario - Kingston Navy Dockyard launches two warships, the Prince Regent and the Princess Charlotte; under Commodore Sir James Yeo, they will blockade the American fleet in Sackett's Harbour and capture Oswego, restoring Canadian control of Lake Ontario in the War of 1812 and ending the threat of US invasion.
1672 Quebec Quebec - Royal edict prohibits fur traders from going into Indian villages; Indians must bring their furs down to the settlements.
1626 St-Malo France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 starts his 11th voyage to New France.

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henric · Apr 15, 2014

April 16th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt.
1346 – Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1521 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1780 – The University of MÃ¼nster in MÃ¼nster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1917 – Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 – World War II: The Ustaše, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.
1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
1992 – The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 23 before committing suicide.
2012 – The trial for Anders Behring Breivik begins in Oslo, Norway.
2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, the strongest in the country in 40 years, killing at least 35 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1874 COMMONS EXPELS LOUIS RIEL, MP FOR PROVENCHER
Ottawa Ontario - Louis Riel 1844-1885 is expelled from the House of Commons as a fugitive, since there is a warrant for his arrest in Ontario for the shooting of Thomas Scott in Red River.

1542
La Rochelle France - Jean-FranÃ§ois de La Roque de Roberval 1500-1560 sets sail with three ships and 200 convicts to found a colony on the St. Lawrence. Appointed France's first viceroy in Canada, Sieur de Roberval explores upriver as far as Montreal, searching for the legendary kingdom of the Saguenay; the expedition is a failure and the survivors return home in 1543.

In Other Events...

1995 Brussels, Belgium - Canada signs deal with the European Union, ending a bitter dispute over fishing rights in the North Atlantic; both sides say agreement will protect threatened fish stocks.
1992 Stony Mountain, Manitoba - David Milgaard released from prison after serving over 22 years for first-degree murder of a Saskatoon nurse; Supreme Court had quashed his conviction, but Saskatchewan decided not to retry or compensate him.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Manufacturers Association (CMA) says Canadians will save $6.5 billion a year if 500 or so interprovincial trade barriers removed.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jay Kelly Gruber first Toronto pro baseball player to hit the cycle - a single, double, triple and home run - in a 15-6 victory over Kansas City Royals.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security; will make annual reports to Parliament; funded by Ottawa.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - All Premiers except Ontario and New Brunswick agree to patriate Constitution at once with no changes.
1980 Vancouver BC - Rene Levesque accepts the interprovincial amending formula which renounces Quebec's historic veto right in exchange for financial compensation for those provinces who refuse the right to retreat from federal equalization programs.
1961 Chicago Illinois - Chicago Black Hawks beat Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1957 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1954 Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1949 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs win their third consecutive NHL Stanley Cup by sweeping the Detroit Red Wings in four games.
1945 Groningen Netherlands - Canadians take Groningen after four-day battle.
1945 Halifax Nova Scotia - German U-Boat torpedoes Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper HMCS Esquimalt off Halifax.
1941 Washington DC - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 meets Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House to discuss how Canada can earn more $ US for American purchases.
1939 Toronto Ontario- Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup; first NHL playoff expanded to the best-of-seven games format.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Government takes tariff duties off wheat, flour, and semolina.
1907 Montreal Quebec - McGill University medical building destroyed by fire.
1903 Ottawa Ontario - Canada raises tariff on German imports to retaliate for a similar move by Germany.
1895 Chatham Ontario - Chatham incorporated as a city.
1894 Ottawa Ontario - John Sparrow David Thompson 1845-1894 narrowly fails to bring Newfoundland into Confederation; conference fails to agree on terms.
1887 Thorold Ontario - Rebuilt and enlarged Welland Canal opened for navigation.
1874 Guelph Ontario - William Johnston founds an agricultural college at Guelph; becomes the Ontario Agricultural College, today's Guelph University.
1856 Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 declares all gold found in BC to be the property of the Crown.
1853 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Locomotive Works builds 'Toronto'; first steam locomotive built in Canada.
1825 Newfoundland - Thomas Cochrane 1789-1872 appointed first resident Governor of Newfoundland; serves from Oct. 8, 1825 to 1827.
1818 Washington DC - US Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Agreement, on the US-Canada border, and no naval vessels on the Great Lakes.
1796 Brantford Ontario - Molly Brant dies; sister of Joseph Brant and mistress of Sir William Johnston.
1739 Winnipeg Manitoba - FranÃ§ois de Varennes de La VÃ©rendrye sets out to find a river flowing westward from Lake Winnipeg.

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henric · Apr 16, 2014

April 17th 2014 - This Date in History.

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69 – After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor.
1080 – The King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
1349 – Fall of the Bavand dynasty, and rise of the Afrasiyab dynasty.
1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.
1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
1521 – Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.
1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.
1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
1895 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
1937 – Daffy Duck's first appearance, in Porky's Duck Hunt.
1941 – World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung KÃ¶nigstein.
1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
1945 – Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
1946 – Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.
1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1964 – Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 – Czechoslovakian Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
1971 – The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
1973 – George Lucas begins writing the treatment for The Star Wars.
1975 – The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
1978 – Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'Ã©tat in Afghanistan.
1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau (Embassy) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
1986 – Nezar Hindawi's attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv is thwarted.
2006 – Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1892 DEATH OF ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
Toronto Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 dies at age 70 while still an MP; born Jan 28, 1822 in Perthshire Scotland; second Prime Minister of Canada, 1873-78, and first member of the Liberal Party to hold that office.

1982
Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- signs the Royal Proclamation of Canada's constitution in a ceremony on Parliament Hill; brings into force the Constitution Act, 1982, effective April 18; ends British authority in Canada, replaces BNA Act; incorporates Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Canada remains a constitutional monarchy and member of the Commonwealth.

In Other Events...

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Monique Landry promises Iran $6.5 million to help Kurdish refugees; total Canadian relief of $16.6 million added to $2 million for Turkish camps.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans Meme breast implant, reports it can break down, release cancer causing chemicals.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard releases draft rules forcing 90 pulp and paper mills to install secondary waste treatment plants; estimated 50% of all waste dumped into Canadian waters; will cost industry $5 billion.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General proclaims Section 15 of the Charter of Rights, the equality rights guarantee.
1974 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan to provide free prescription drugs to provincial residents.
1971 Los Angeles California - Carmen Lombardo 1903-1971 dies at age 67; born in London, Ontario July 16, 1903. Singer, saxophonist, composer and arranger for the band he and his brother founded - the Guy Lombardo Orchestra.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Quebec Savings Bank granted full chartered bank status; founded in the 1840s as La Banque Populaire.
1970 Yellowknife NWT - National Defence to make Yellowknife permanent headquarters for the Canadian military in the North.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - National Archives of Canada acquires Louis Riel's 32-page, hand-written account of the 1870 North West Rebellion.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expos' Bill Stoneman pitches a no-hitter to beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Sylvia Ostry 1927- appointed director of the Economic Council of Canada.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Roland Michener 1900- takes office as the third Canadian born Governor-General.
1965 Terrace Bay Ontario - Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train derails near Terrace Bay, killing one, injuring 47.
1964 Timmins Ontario - Texas Gulf Sulphur announces Kidd Creek copper-zinc-silver discovery; leads to highest daily volume in North American stock exchanges to date: 28.7 million shares.
1962 United Nations New York - Canada elected to UN Commission on Human Rights for three year term; beginning January 1,1963.
1945 Apeldoorn Netherlands - Canadians clear the Germans out of Apeldoorn.
1919 Fredericton NB - Women in New Brunswick granted right to vote in provincial elections.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Parliament meets in camera for wartime discussion; first secret session.
1866 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Assembly votes in favour of Maritime Union.
1856 Quebec Quebec - Quebec City made the temporary seat of the government of the Province of Canada, replacing Kingston.
1855 Charlottetown PEI - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, incorporated as a city.
1851 Saint John New Brunswick - Square-rigger Marco Polo launched; used to carry immigrants from England to Australia, the ship set records that earned it the title of The Fastest Ship in the World.
1840 Queenston Ontario - Fenian rebel Benjamin Lett sets off a Good Friday blast, blowing the top off the Brock Monument.
1754 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Claude-Pierre Pecaudy de Contrecoeur 1705-1775 captures an English post at the confluence of the Ohio and Allegheny rivers; builds Fort Duquesne, after ejecting a group of English settlers from Virginia.
1680 Kahnawake, Quebec - Catherine [Kateri] Tekakwitha dies; first native candidate for Sainthood.
1645 Saint John New Brunswick - Charles Menou d'Aulnay 1604-1650 defends Fort La Tour against a counter-attack.
1610 England Britain - Henry [Henrik] Hudson d1611 sets sail on the Discovery to look for the North West Passage; he will discover Hudson Bay and die there, cast adrift by mutineers the following June.

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henric · Apr 17, 2014

April 18th 2014 - This Date in History.

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1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1797 – The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
1807 – The Harwich ferry disaster occurred near the North Sea port of Harwich on the Essex coast (England) in which 60-90 people drowned during the capsizing of a small ferry boat.
1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
1864 – Battle of DybbÃ¸l: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1923 – Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port.
1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1942 THE COMEBACK LEAFS
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs pull off the greatest comeback in NHL playoff history with their fourth straight win, a 3-1 victory over Detroit Red Wings, winning the Stanley Cup 4 games to 3. Maple Leafs goalie Turk Broda lets in just seven goals in the final four games.

In Other Events...

1991 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Provincial Police lay new charges of physical and sexual abuse of children against the Christian Brothers, a lay Catholic teaching order; after evidence of alleged incidents in schools in Uxbridge and Alfred.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - The Constitution Act, 1982, comes into effect as Canada's Constitution; proclaimed the previous day by Queen Elizabeth II 1926- in a ceremony on Parliament Hill.
1977 Boston Massachusetts - Jerome Drayton 1945- the eighth Canadian to win the Boston Marathon.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa ends tax breaks for Canadians advertising on US border TV stations and in foreign owned Canadian magazines.
1973 Dallas Texas - Toronto rocker Neil Young premieres his movie, 'Journey Through the Past', at the Dallas Film Festival.
1971 Kingston Ontario - Kingston penitentiary inmates stage four-day riot, holding five guards hostage; two convicts murdered, 11 injured.
1967 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba imposes 5% sales tax, effective June 1.
1967 Quebec - Union of Quebec Specialized Education Teachers convicted of contempt of court, fined $2,000; 2,300 teachers had rejected 1966 court injunction forbidding them to strike.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Helen Battle Hogg 1905- First woman to be appointed President of the Royal Canadian Institute; University of Toronto astronomer.
1963 Canada -Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 wins election 129 seats to 95; 17 CCF; 24 Social Credit; returned to power with minority government.
1963 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - French President Charles de Gaulle arrives in Ottawa for four-day visit.
1960 Moscow Russia - Canada and Soviet Union sign 3-year trade pact; USSR to buy $25 million Canadian goods annually.
1959 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens win their fourth straight Stanley Cup with a 5-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 5.
1946 Jersey City NJ - Jackie Robinson has four hits, including a three-run homer, as the Montreal Royals beat Jersey 14-1; first black man to play in professional baseball's all-white leagues.
1944 New York City - London Ontario born Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians have a #1 Billboard Pop Hit with It's Love-Love-Love; one of 26 No. 1 songs for the orchestra, the only dance band to ever sell more than 100 million records.
1925 Montreal Quebec - Nesbitt, Arthur & Thomson found Power Corporation of Canada Ltd as an investment, holding and management company.
1921 Ontario - Ontario votes for prohibition of the manufacture, importation, and sale of liquor; to take effect July 19.
1908 Paris France - Canadian boxer Tommy Burns KOs Jewey Smith in the fifth round to retain his World Heavyweight title.
1895 Ottawa Ontario - Fifth session of 8th Parliament meets until July 22.
1876 Toronto Ontario - John Ross Robertson founds the Toronto Telegram newspaper.
1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Louis Roy 1771-1799 publishes the first issue of his broadsheet, the 'Upper Canada Gazette or American Oracle' in Newark; first newspaper in Ontario.
1763 Quebec Quebec - Marie-Josephte Corriveau [alias la Corriveau] hanged near the Plains of Abraham for murdering her husband Louis Dodier, who apparently beat her; the corpse of the celebrated murderess is hung for a month in an iron cage at Lauzon by the Pointe-Levy for passers-by to see; the cage is discovered in 1851.

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