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June 17th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yo****eru.
1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1596 – The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
1773 РC̼cuta, Colombia, is discovered by Juana Rangel de Cu̩llar.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1789 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
1843 – The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
1861 – Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
1863 – Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
1940 – World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed; Britain's worst maritime disaster.
1940 – World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
1967 – The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
1971 – President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1991 – Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1992 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1988 MULRONEY WELCOMES G7 TO TORONTO
Toronto Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney welcomes the G-7 leaders of the world's seven biggest industrial democracies to Toronto for their annual economic summit; forecasts progress on dismantling farm subsidies and alleviating Third World debt.

1871
New York City - Anna Swan of Nova Scotia, at 2.27 metres (7'5") marries Martin Buren of Kentucky, at 2.19 metres (7'2"); world's tallest married couple work for Barnum Circus.


In Other Events....

1991 Elliot Lake Ontario - Ontario Hydro Chairman Mark Eliesen extends contract with Rio Algom Ltd to end of 1993; will purchase higher-priced uranium, and help community.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - South African black leader Nelson Mandela and wife, Winnie, arrive in Canada; later will take an 11 day tour of the U.S.
1982 Quebec - Quebec doctors start 5-day strike to press for 38.5% increase in fees.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chrétien and Saskatchewan Attorney-General Roy Romanow co-chair Constitutional talks in Ottawa; break off Aug. 29 with no agreement on 12 items of change.
1975 France - French court orders France to compensate Canadian environmental activist David McTaggart; his ship Greenpeace III was rammed and boarded by a French naval vessel in the South Pacific in June 1973 as McTaggart was protesting French nuclear testing.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Rioting prisoners do $3 million damage at St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary.
1958 Vancouver BC - Collapse of half-completed Second Narrows Bridge across Burrard Inlet; with weight of 30 ton train; 19 workmen killed, 20 injured, $23 million damage.
1946 Windsor Ontario - Tornado hits Windsor, killing 16 and injuring hundreds.
1936 Renfrew Ontario - Opening of Petawawa military airport; called the Silver Dart Aerodrome, to mark the flight of the Silver Dart there in 1909.
1928 Newfoundland - Amelia Earhart embarks on transatlantic flight to Wales as a passenger/copilot in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz; in 1932, she will be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo.
1925 Geneva Switzerland - Canada signs League of Nations protocol prohibiting the use of poisonous gases and bacteria in warfare.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942 jailed during Winnipeg General Strike; government agents arrest and jail six union ringleaders.
1903 NWT - Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 starts Arctic voyage on his ship Gjoa; first east to west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
1882 Selkirk Manitoba - Government completes CPR from Fort William to Selkirk.
1871 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick Assembly passes Common Schools Act establishing separate schools.
1868 London England - Anthony Musgrave, former governor of Newfoundland, appointed governor of British Columbia.
1864 Ottawa Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 meets with Macdonald, Galt and Cartier to discuss possibility of forming coalition government; with federation as part of the program.
1845 Toronto Ontario - Paul Kane 1810-1871 leaves on expedition to the west; spends summer sketching around Lakes Huron and Michigan.
1779 Castine Maine - Francis McLean c1717-1781 builds fort at Castine, Maine, with 650 men, to serve as a Halifax outpost, provide refuge for loyalists and to block any attacks from New England.
1777 St-Jean Quebec - John Burgoyne 1722-1792 leaves St. John with a force of 7,700 British and German regulars, plus Canadians and Indians; takes 138 artillery pieces.
1776 Quebec - End of the American invasion of Quebec as the last troops of the Army of the Continental Congress start leaving the province.
1755 Saint John New Brunswick - Robert Monckton 1726-1782 takes Fort Gaspereau without firing a shot; French abandon garrison at mouth of Saint John River; last French forts in Acadia gone.
1753 Lunenburg Nova Scotia - Lunenburg settled by Germans from Halifax.
1745 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - William Pepperell 1696-1759 and his 4,000 Colonial New England troops, with naval support from Commodore Peter Warren; with Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, capture Louisbourg from Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor 1713-c1775; most civilians sent to Rochefort, France; Louisbourg returned to France in 1748.
1687 Quebec Quebec - Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville 1637-1710 sets out on an expedition against the Iroquois with Pierre de Troyes.
1673 Indiana - French missionary explorers Marquette and Joliette reach the Mississippi River.
1616 London England - Promoter Sir William Vaughan acquires the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland's southeast corner from the London and Bristol Company; will start a Welsh colony at Renews and Trepassey Harbour.
1605 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves with de Monts to hunt for a better site for the colony; sails 650 km south to Cape Cod Massachusetts; draws first charts of New England coastline.

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June 18th 2014 - This Date in History.


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618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.
1053 – Battle of Civitate: Three thousand horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1633 – Charles I, is crowned King of Scots at St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1799 РAction of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perr̩e is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain, Canada, and Ireland.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
1830 – French invasion of Algeria.
1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
1859 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
1940 – "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
1945 – William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
1953 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
1954 РPierre Mend̬s-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
1972 – Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá'í Faith.
1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike.
1994 – The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
2007 – The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina killing nine firefighters.
2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
2012 – Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud is appointed Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.






Today's Canadian Headline....

1812 US GOES TO WAR AGAINST CANADA
Washington DC - US President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on Britain due to seizure of American vessels in Napoleonic Wars, and British support of native resistance to US westward expansion; beginning of War of 1812; to Dec. 24, 1814; only major war, other than Indian wars, fought on Canadian soil.

1603
Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Quebec with Grave du Pont to go on an exploring trip up the 'River of Canada' - the St. Lawrence; finds that the Algonkians have taken over from the Iroquois as the dominant tribe since the arrival of Jacques Cartier 80 years earlier.


In Other Events....

1993 Montreal Quebec -Expo's Dennis Martinez wins his 200th game; 92nd major league pitcher to reach that mark.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Gilles Loiselle's Public Service Reform Act simplifies hiring, firing and transfer of employees; greater discretion in contracting out work.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Michael Wilson suspends further exports of automatic arms to Middle East for six months; pending policy review by Commons committee.
1991 Maniwaki Quebec - Quebec gives Barriere Lake Algonquin band control of ancestral lands in La Verendrye reserve.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Robert de Cotret brings in legislation to make environmental-impact studies mandatory for federal projects or joint projects.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post President Donald Lander declares $149 million profit and $60 million dividend payment to the Government; says corporation not yet ready for privatization.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Nelson Mandela tells joint session of the Commons and Senate that Canadian support is crucial in ending Apartheid; Deputy President of the African National Congress was jailed for 27 years.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Bert Pearl dies Canadian musician the star of CBC Radio's Happy Gang from 1937 to 1959.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams his single Heaven stays at #1 on the Billboard charts for the second week.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Premier Frank Miller defeated on series of confidence votes by alliance of Liberals and NDP; resigns next day, ending 42 years of Conservative rule in Ontario; Liberal leader David Peterson and 23-member cabinet sworn into office June 26.
1984 New Brunswick - New Brunswick celebrates bicentennial of founding as a British colony.
1983 Space - NASA astronaut Sally Ride, first US woman in space, deploys Canada's Anik C2 communications satellite into Earth orbit from the Challenger space shuttle.
1980 New York City - Ottawa comic Dan Ackroyd premieres his movie The Blues Brothers, co-starring John Belushi.
1979 Newfoundland - Premier Brian Peckford wins his first election as provincial Conservative leader.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - National Gallery opens exhibition of 203 Group of Seven paintings; to commemorate 50th anniversary of Group's founding.
1962 Canada - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 wins minority in 25th federal general election 116 seats to 100; 30 Social Credit; 19 CCF; defeats Lester Pearson with 37.3% of popular vote.
1959 Torbay Newfoundland - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives with Prince Philip to start 45 day Canadian tour; earlier that day, CBC Montreal broadcast the first live telecast from England to Canada, showing the Queen and Prince Philip leaving London.
1940 Halifax Nova Scotia - French cruiser Emile Bertin arrives in Canada with $305 million in gold from the Bank of France; gold released after the war.
1940 England - RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces compulsory military training for home defence.
1928 Wales - US aviator Amelia Earhart arrives on a flight from Newfoundland in about 21 hours; first woman to fly across the Atlantic; will later make the flight solo.
1915 Banks Island NWT - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 sights new uncharted land, and claims it for Canada.
1900 Victoria BC - Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Robert McInnes 1840-1904 forced to resign by resolution of BC Legislature.
1899 Lethbridge Alberta - Opening of CPR line through Crows Nest Pass to Kootenay Landing; subsidized by 1897 Crows Nest Pass Agreement, which also set fixed freight rates on Prairie grain traffic.
1882 Montreal Quebec - CPR buys Montreal-Ottawa line.
1855 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Opening of rebuilt Sault Ste. Marie Canal; original canal built by the North-West Company in 1797.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Denis-Benjamin Papineau 1789-1854 joins Draper to form the Draper-Papineau Ministry; after resignation of Viger on June 17.
1846 Toronto Ontario - First telegraph system was opened to Hamilton and Niagara Falls.
1822 London England - Boundary Commission draws up border along St. Lawrence River and through Great Lakes.
1820 Cumberland House Manitoba - John Franklin 1786-1847 leaves Cumberland House on expedition to the Coppermine River.
1816 Ontario - Celebration of first Thanksgiving Day in Upper Canada: deliverance from Americans in War of 1812.
1793 Fraser River BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Fraser River.
1784 London England - King George III partitions Nova Scotia to create the province of New Brunswick.
1776 St-Jean Quebec - US invaders under John Sullivan 1740-1795 retreat to St. John's.
1776 Montreal Quebec - John Johnson 1742-1830 arrives at Montreal with 200 followers from the Mohawk Valley; Loyalist from Albany, New York.

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June 19th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 – Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
1867 РMaximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Quer̩taro, Quer̩taro.
1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1911 – the Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded.
1913 – Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented.
1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1965 – Nguyen Cao Ky becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1973 HOWE TO PLAY WITH HIS SONS IN WHA
Houston Texas - Retired Detroit Red Wings star Gordie Howe jumps to the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association to join his sons, Mark and Marty; gets a $1 million, four year contract; Houston will win the WHA title and Gordie his seventh MVP title.

1973
Moscow Russia - National Ballet of Canada stars Karen Kain 1951- and Frank Augustyn 1953- win first prize for duet ensemble at International Ballet Competition, attracting drew 75 contestants from 23 countries; perform the Bluebird Pas de Deux from Sleeping Beauty; Kain also wins women's silver medal.

1816
Fort Douglas Manitoba - Rupert's Land Governor Robert Semple 1777-1816 intercepts Cuthbert Grant and Metis party transporting pemmican; killed with 19 of his men in Seven Oaks Massacre on the Frog Plain near Fort Douglas; the Metis encouraged by Nor'Westers who wanted to drive out the Hudson's Bay Company.


In Other Events....

1996 Montreal Quebec -Boston Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque named to the NHL's first all-star team for the 12th time, tying Gordie Howe's record for most career first-team selections. Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux wins Art Ross Trophy as League's leading scorer.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Boris Yeltsin visits Ottawa; signs $200 m wheat deal to tide Russia over until fall harvest; Russian President tells Canada's Parliament his country has let go of totalitarianism to embrace democracy.
1992 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta francophones win right to control own school boards and set curriculum; after 10 year battle; 1990 Supreme Court ruling 'where numbers warrant'.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian sprinter Brian Morison banned from competition for two years by Athletics Canada for steroid use.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Pelletier replaces Michel Fournier as Liberal Leader Jean Chretien's chief of staff; former Quebec City mayor.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Petro-Canada public issue of 39.5 million shares almost sold out in one day; Ottawa to distribute 19.5% of Petro-Canada.
1991 Kitimat BC - Ottawa required to conduct environmental review of Alcan's Kemano II hydro dam in northern BC; Ottawa to appeal ruling.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Super-committee on the Constitution set up; 20 MPs and 10 senators to travel across Canada; to present federal proposals to provinces, interest groups.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Opening of annual Group of Seven summit; leaders agree on tougher action to fight illegal drug trade, forgive some African debt and endorse Canada-US Free Trade Agreement.
1983 Vancouver BC - opening of BC Place, 60,000 seat domed stadium; cost $126 million to build.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans import and sale of cut-rate US editions of Canadian books; dumped products competing with higher priced Canadian editions.
1975 Mexico Mexico - Canadian delegation attends opening of World Conference on International Women's Year.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Nuclear Association to award named for Dr. W. Bennett; to recognize accomplishments of a Canadian in nuclear science and engineering.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Airline Pilots Association joins international 24-hour strike to protest against hijacking; 2,000 members demand better airport security.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up Prices and Incomes Commission to study causes and effects of inflation.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves Canada's participation in NORAD - the joint North American Air Defence Command.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Canada recognizes independence of former French North African colonies of Morocco and Tunisia.
1940 London England - Britain organizes to evacuate children to Canada.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and Britain plan steps to be taken if the Royal Navy is forced to withdraw to Canada.
1938 Vancouver BC Canada - RCMP and Vancouver police use tear gas and clubs to remove strikers from Art Gallery and Post Office; Vancouver's 'Bloody Sunday'.
1934 Saskatchewan Canada - James Garfield Gardiner 1883-1962 leads Liberals to victory in provincial election.
1934 Ontario - Mitchell Frederick 'Mitch' Hepburn 1896-1953 leads Liberals to victory in provincial election.
1930 Alberta - John Edward Brownlee 1884-1961 leads United Farmers of Alberta to victory in provincial election; UFA in power since 1924.
1924 Canada - Postal workers strike until June 29.
1918 France - Canadian air ace Billy Bishop shoots down five German planes in his last dogfight, bringing his total enemy kills to 72.
1917 France - Arthur William Currie 1875-1933 succeeds Englishman Julian Byng as commander of the Canadian Corps.
1915 Edmonton Alberta - Graduates of the McDougall Commercial High School start the Commercial Graduates Basketball Club, later the Edmonton Grads; they will win 502.in 522 games over 25 years including several world championships.
1914 Crows Nest Pass Alberta - Hillcrest coal mine explosion and fire kills 188 miners.
1903 Regina Saskatchewan - Barr colonists incorporate Regina as a city.
1874 Pembina Manitoba - 200 new NWMP recruits arrive at Fort Dufferin.
1866 Sherbrooke Quebec - Timothy O'Hea puts out fire in Grand Trunk train loaded with 95 barrels of gunpowder; saves passengers and troops; awarded first and only Victoria Cross for valor inside Canada.
1837 Toronto Ontario - Opening of second session of thirteenth Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until July 11.
1813 Ontario - Francis, Baron de Rottenburg 1757-1832 appointed to command of British forces in Upper Canada as Sheaffe is transferred to Montreal; also appointed President of Council and administrator of Upper Canada; serving until Dec. 13, 1813
1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes act prohibiting importation of slaves into the colony; first such law in British empire.
1791 Ontario/Quebec - British establish provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada out of Province of Quebec; under the Constitution Act.
1776 Chambly Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 gives Sir John Johnson a Royal Warrant to raise a regiment of American loyalists in Canada; called the 1st King's Royal Regiment of New York.
1758 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe 1727-1759 opens fire on Louisbourg's Island battery from Lighthouse Point on this night; takes until the 25th to silence the battery.
1721 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys 138 houses, about half the town of Montreal.
1687 Kingston Ontario - Jean Bochart de Champigny c1645-1720 seizes a group of Iroquois at Fort Frontenac; sends them to France as galley slaves.
1644 Quebec - Jesuit priest François-Joseph Bressani 1612-1672 tortured by Iroquois, then given to old woman to care for to replace a dead relative.
1625 Quebec Quebec - Jean de Brébeuf 1593-1649 arrives in New France with Charles Lalement, Enémond Masse, François Charton, Gilbert Burel; build habitation on the St. Charles River; first Jesuit missionaries in Canada.
1610 Sorel Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 again defeats the Iroquois in a battle near the mouth of the Richelieu River.

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June 20th 2014 - This Date in History.


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451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1887 – Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
1919 – One hundred fifty die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1943 – The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
1959 – A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
1963 – The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1969 – The respected Holy Quran recitor Shiekh Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi passes away.
1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1973 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
1982 – The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
2001 – Andrea Yates, in an attempt to save her young children from Satan, drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston, Texas.
2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
2009 – During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on video and spreads virally on the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".
2009 – The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece opens to the public.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1942 JAPAN ATTACKS CANADA
Estevan Point BC - Japanese submarine shells isolated Estevan Point on Vancouver Island, with little damage; only time Canadian land territory under fire in World War II, there were submarine attacks inside Canada's territorial waters, notably the sinking by a German U-Boat of HMCS Charlottetown Sept. 11, 1942, one km from Rinouski.

1996
Cape Canaveral Florida - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk blasts off on board Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-78, the longest to date at 15 days, 12 hours. The mission carries the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS).


In Other Events....

1994 Toronto Ontario - Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones start rehearsing for their Voodoo Lounge tour outside Toronto.
1992 Halifax Nova Scotia - John Savage, mayor of Dartmouth, elected leader of the province's Liberal party; 7,000 Liberals cast ballots from their homes punching their personal ID numbers into telephones.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Mohamed Al-Mashat inquiry into his fast track immigration agrees on flawed and controversial processing of case; Iraqi diplomat and defector from Saddam Hussein.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Premier Robert Bourassa 1933- 1977 pushes through Bill 150 in closing session requiring a referendum on sovereignty by October 1992; recommended by Bélanger-Campeau Commission; also decreases payments to municipalities; puts wage freeze on public sector; also announces Aug. 12 Montmorency by-election; vacated by ex-revenue minister Yves Séguin; Séguin quit to protest combining the PST with the GST.
1991 Germany - Brian Mulroney 1939- attends Conference of Security and Co-operation in Europe; adopts Canadian proposal to monitor arms build-ups.
1991 Kitchener Ontario - Uniroyal Goodrich Tire keeps one of two plants; makes deal with United Rubber Workers Union; saving 1,000 of present 2,000 jobs.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper delays vote on Meech Lake accord beyond deadline to have it discussed in public hearings.
1988 Chicoutimi Quebec - Lucien Bouchard wins byelection for Mulroney's Conservatives in Lac St.-Jean; Bouchard will later quit the Party and found the Bloc Quebecois after the 1990 failure of the Meech Lake Accord.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Premier René Lévesque announces he will resign as leader of the Parti Quebecois; Pierre-Marc Johnson will succeed him Sept. 29 after a leadership convention; PQ down in the polls and constitutional hopes pinned on Mulroney in Ottawa.
1984 Sudbury Ontario - Cave-in in at Falconbridge Nickel mine kills 4 miners.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends 5-year exploration freeze, opens over 400 million hectares offshore; effective Aug. 1.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Start of nine-day 'gens de l'air' strike by Canadian air traffic controllers over use of French at Quebec airports; ends after agreement between Ottawa, pilots and controllers.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 opens the National Library and Archives Building on Wellington Street beside the Supreme Court.
1966 Moscow Russia - Canada sells Soviet Union $800 million worth of wheat and flour; the world's biggest wheat deal to date, at 336 million bushels.
1959 Escuminac New Brunswick - Severe storm in Northumberland Strait sinks 22 boats, drowns 35 fishermen.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Fred Rose sentenced to six years in prison for spying for the Soviet Union; charged after Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, defected and implicated Rose, Canada's only Communist Party (Labour-Progressive) MP.
1943 Ungava Bay Quebec - Chubb sights the New Quebec Crater; one of the world's largest, at 403 metres deep and nearly 11 km around.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes a conscription law providing for service in Canada if needed.
1897 London England - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 attends Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in London.
1882 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins Canada's fifth general election with 139 seats, to 72 for Edward's Blake's Liberals.
1877 Hamilton Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton.
1877 Saint John New Brunswick - Fire rages through Saint John, wiping out the entire business district and burning down 1,612 houses (over two-thirds of the housing stock), leaving 15,000 homeless; kills over 100 people, causes $27 million worth of damage.
1877 Winnipeg Manitoba - First classes meets at the University of Manitoba.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Public Archives of Canada, as part of the Department of Agriculture; today's National Archives of Canada, based in Gatineau, Quebec.
1871 Brooklyn New York - Charles Francis Hall 1821-1871 leaves Brooklyn on the Polaris in an attempt to reach the North Pole between Greenland and Ellesmere Island.
1857 Kingston Ontario - William Eyre 1805-1859 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until Nov. 2.
1849 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Institute, to provide lectures, and an arts and science library; now the Royal Canadian Institute.
1837 Windsor England - Queen Victoria ascends the British throne at age 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV; will reign for 63 years until her death in 1901.
1822 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
1704 Grand Pré Nova Scotia - Benjamin Church 1639-c1718 captures Les Mines in campaign of revenge against Acadia; also attacks Pigiguit and Cobequid (Truro).
1686 Moose Factory Ontario - Pierre de Troyes d1688 captures Fort Monsipi; renames it Fort St-Louis; seizes all HBC posts except Nelson.
1685 Fort Monsipi NWT - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 captures Fort Monsipi from the English, after an overland trek from New France.

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June 21st 2014 - This Date in History.


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217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
1582 – Sengoku jidai: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyo, was forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1734 РIn Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Ang̩lique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Victoria.
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Ã…land Islands.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1749 FOUNDING OF HALIFAX
Halifax Nova Scotia - Edward Cornwallis c1713-1753 arrives to found a settlement at Chebucto with two regiments and 2,576 settlers from England, Ireland and Germany; brings building supplies, a fire engine, hospital equipment and a midwife; with the help of New England builders, he starts laying out the town; later renamed in honour of Secretary of War George Dunk, the Earl of Halifax.

1813
Queenston Ontario - US Col. Charles Boerstler, moving to make a surprise attack on Lt. James Fitzgibbon's British outpost at Beaver Dams, halts at Queenston for the night; billets soldiers at the farm of Loyalist James Secord and his wife Laura Secord 1775-1868. The Secords overhear the American plans, so Laura steals away to warn the British; makes her way west through swamps, then climbs the heights at Twelve-Mile Creek to St. Davids; after passing three American sentries, she is captured by Iroquois, who lead her to Fitzgibbon after a 30 km trek.

1919
Winnipeg Manitoba - City police and 90 RCMP surround City Hall square as the Mayor of Winnipeg reads the Riot Act from the steps to disperse hundreds of unemployed war veterans illegally parading to support the Winnipeg General Strike; Police ordered to fire a volley into the crowd to disperse them, then charge when they do not disperse; two strikers killed, 30 injured; so-called Bloody Saturday leads Mayor to call in the army; end of strike 4 days later.


In Other Events....

1996 Space -Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk starts study to determine effects of spaceflight on mental skills that are critical to performing tasks in space; on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Victor Goldbloom appointed to replace d'Iberville Fortier as Canada's official languages commissioner; Liberal cabinet minister when Quebec introduced language laws.
1990 St. John's Nfld. - Brian Mulroney flies to St. John's to address the Newfoundland Assembly, with the Meech Lake vote scheduled for the next day, but he does not extend the deadline.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Ross Munro dies at age 76; former journalist, war correspondent for Canadian Press, editor and publisher of the Edmonton Journal, Winnipeg Tribune and Montreal Gazette.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa makes public the expulsion of eight Soviet diplomats for industrial espionage.
1985 Hollywood California - London, Ont. native Hume Cronyn stars in Ron Howard's Cocoon, opening on this day; along with his wife Jessica Tandy, plus Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Brian Dennehy, Gwen Verdon, and Jack Gilford.
1985 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque resigns as Premier of Quebec; his Parti Quebecois is down in the polls and the province's constitutional hopes are now pinned more on Brian Mulroney.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill establishing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; CSIS to replace RCMP in dealing with foreign espionage, terrorism and subversion.
1977 Saint John New Brunswick - Flash fire kills 21 prisoners, injures 7 more, as well as 6 police officers and a fireman, in police lockup at City Hall; starts in detention area in a padded maximum security cell; surviving prisoner, John Kenney later convicted of arson and sentenced to five years in jail.
1974 Vancouver BC - Inaugural run of refurbished steam train the Royal Hudson.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Ontario lends $351,000 to Toronto publishers McClelland & Stewart; part of $961,000 loan to maintain Canadian ownership.
1966 Guelph Ontario - Renovated birthplace of John McCrae 1872-1918 designated a national historic site; author of the World War I poem In Flanders Fields; opens to public opened Sept. 8, 1968.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 sworn in as Canada's first Conservative Prime Minister in 22 years; until April 22, 1963; Leader of the Opposition 1956-1957, and 1963-1967.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Ellen Louks Fairclough 1905- sworn in as Secretary of State; Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister; Hamilton-born accountant moves to Immigration in 1958, and becomes Postmaster General in 1962.
1954 Sept-Iles Quebec - Opening of railway linking Sept-Iles with Quebec-Labrador iron ore deposits at Schefferville.
1952 Provo Utah - Canadian aviation pioneer Wilfrid 'Wop' May dies while on holiday in the US; born Carberry, Manitoba in 1896, joined the 202nd City of Edmonton Battalion in 1916; transferred to Royal Flying Corps; was being chased back to base in March, 1918, by German ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen when the Red Baron was shot down by ground fire. In 1921, after a year with Imperial Oil, he went into the air freight business; in Jan.1929, flew a two-seater Avro Avian aircraft with an open cockpit in 40-below cold to deliver diphtheria antitoxin to northern communities hit by epidemic.
1946 St. John's Newfoundland - Gordon Macdonald 1894-1962 appointed Newfoundland's last Governor-General; serves until 1949.
1940 Vancouver BC - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 sets sail from Vancouver on RCMP patrol vessel St. Roch; to reach Halifax via Arctic; makes first successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage.
1924 Los Angeles California - Toronto-born actress and producer Mary Pickford marries her business partner in United Artists, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - William John Hanna 1862-1919 appointed Food Controller of Canada to control wartime supplies.
1912 Montreal Quebec - First edition of the weekly Financial Times.
1887 Windsor England - Queen Victoria celebrates her golden jubilee marking 50 years on the throne.
1856 Prescott Ontario - Montreal Telegraph Company installs submarine telegraph to Ogdensburg, N.Y.; link to New York.
1844 Saint-Boniface Manitoba - Four Sisters of Charity, Sisters Valade, Lagrave, Lafrance and Coutlée arrive at Red River, after 59 days of canoeing and portaging through wilderness from Lake Superior. Invited by Bishop Joseph-Norbert Provencher, the Grey Nuns are part of the first religious community to settle in the Canadian West; they start teaching in makeshift schools until their convent, the Provincial House, is completed in 1847. They also provide medical care for the settlers, and vaccinate over 3,000 people when smallpox breaks out in 1870; in 1871, they open the four-bed Saint-Boniface General Hospital; the first in the West.
1817 Fort Douglas Manitoba - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 arrives at Fort Douglas, followed by Coltman with order to restore goods seized in Governor Alexander Macdonell's dispute with North West Company; Nor'Westers refuse and flee to avoid arrest.
1792 Vancouver BC - Capt. George Vancouver 1757-1798 meets the Spanish trading ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver.
1764 Quebec Quebec - William Brown c l737-1789 publishes city's first newspaper, the bilingual Quebec Gazette; set up first printing shop in Quebec with Thomas Gilmore (d. 1773); province's first periodical.
1734 Montreal Quebec - Marie-Joseph Angélique hanged for setting fire to her master's house; she was a black female slave protesting her condition.
1692 Wells Maine - Abenaki Indians raid English settlements in Maine and new Hampshire; Durham N.H. raided two days later; backed by Frontenac; King William's War.
1686 Churchill Manitoba - Pierre de Troyes d1688 renames Charles Fort (Fort Rupert) Fort St-Jacques and Fort Albany Fort Ste-Anne; returns to Quebec.
1665 Quebec Quebec - First of 24 companies of the Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières start arriving in New France; the first duty of the 1300 soldiers is to invade the Iroquois territories; 400 will stay to colonize New France after their three year service.

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June 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
1527 – Fatahillah chased away Portugal from Sunda Kelapa harbour, and peoples celebrated it as birthday of Jakarta, Indonesia.
1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.
1622 – Portuguese forces repel a Dutch invasion at the Battle of Macau during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
1825 – The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
1870 – US Congress created the United States Department of Justice
1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
1898 – Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
1907 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
1940 РFrance is forced to sign the Second Compi̬gne armistice with Germany.
1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
1941 – The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
1945 – The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
1954 – In Christchurch (New Zealand) Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother because they think she is in the way of their close friendship (movie Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson in 1994). See Parker–Hulme murder case.
1957 – The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river.
1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.
1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.
1986 The controversial Hand of God goal by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century also by Maradona. Argentina would win 2-1 and go on to win the world cup.
1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
2002 – An earthquake measuring 6.5 Mw strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
2009 – Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
2012 – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1864 BROWN JOINS GREAT COALITION
Ottawa Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 forms the Great Coalition Ministry with Cartier and Macdonald to work toward Confederation, joining Oliver Mowat and William McDougall in cabinet; Taché holds nominal post of Prime Minister.

1611
Hudson Bay NWT - Twelve mutineers force Henry Hudson, son John, and seven of his weaker crew into a boat and cast them adrift on Hudson Bay; after winter of hardship, Discovery's crew were convinced he intended to continue his search for a north west passage and not return to England, and that he had hidden a large supply of food in his quarters. Nine mutineers make it back to England; four are tried for murder, but acquitted.

1983
Space - Remote manipulator Canadarm, built by Spar Aerospace in Toronto, used by NASA shuttle crew during flight STS-7 to release and retrieve the SPAS-01 satellite. The 15.2m arm is capable of accurately maneuvering payloads of 30,000 kg in the weightlessness of space. Its weight on Earth is 410 kg. Click here to see the Canadarm's flight history to date.



In Other Events....

1996 Space -Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, with three other crew - Dr. Jean-Jacques Favier, Dr. Charles Brady and Dr. Richard Linnehan - start first-ever, comprehensive study of sleep, 24-hour circadian rhythms and task performance in the microgravity environment of space; on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78.
1995 Calgary Alberta - Country Music Television network acquires a minority stake in Calgary-based cable channel New Country Network; end of bitter cultural battle.
1995 Saskatchewan - Roy Romanow wins second term in Saskatchewan election for the NDP.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn presents Gulf and Kuwait medals to 42 Persian Gulf War veterans; 3,600 others also to get medals.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa tells the National Assembly, 'Le Canada anglais doit comprendre de façon très claire que, quoi qu'on dise et qui qu'on fasse, le Québec est, aujourd'hui et pour toujours, une société distincte, libre et capable d'assumer son destin et son développement.'
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Lowell Murray says he will ask the Supreme Court to push back deadline on Meech Lake Accord to accommodate Manitoba hearings; but only if Newfoundland votes for accord later in the day. In Winnipeg, Elijah Harper refuses the unanimous agreement Manitoba needs to extend its own debate.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells decides not to call a vote on Meech Lake Accord after Elijah Harper's refusal to agree in Manitoba; says he is angry at Lowell Murray's ultimatum of earlier in the day; which he calls 'the final manipulation'; final death of Meech Lake accord.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty with a six-vote majority; last execution in Canada in 1962; motion to reinstate death penalty defeated on June 30th, 1987, after eight-day debate.
1968 Toronto Ontario - 3,700 Metropolitan Toronto outside workers, including garbage collectors, go on strike.
1960 Quebec - Jean Lesage 1912- and his Liberal Party defeat Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale Party to win their first election in 16 years; beginning of the 'Quiet Revolution.'
1955 Clarenville Newfoundland - Cable ships start laying new transatlantic telephone cable at Clarenville.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Menzies Prime Minister of Australia, starts four-day visit to Canada.
1941 Russia - Germany invades USSR; Canada now allied with Soviet Union.
1935 Ottawa Ontario - Richard Bedford R. B. Bennett 1870-1947 meets leaders of the 2,000 unemployed On to Ottawa trekkers; the meeting is not a success.
1931 Newfoundland - Ruth Nicholas crash lands her plane while attempting to become the first female to fly across the Atlantic alone.
1923 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba adopts government control of sale of liquor, instead of prohibition.
1918 Canada - Government holds second compulsory National Registration of men and women over age 16; except for cloistered nuns, persons in active service, prison or an asylum.
1914 Ste-Luce-sur-Mer Quebec - Diving operations start to sunken Empress of Ireland to recover bodies and valuables from the wreck; on Aug. 20, the Purser's safe will be raised.
1873 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island Assembly agrees to petition Britain to allow the province to join Canada; date later set as July 1.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament agrees to pay Hudson's Bay Company £300,000 plus 1/20 of the fertile belt for Rupert's Land, which included much of the Prairies; passes Act providing for the government of the Northwest Territories.
1857 Red River Manitoba - Company of Royal Canadian Rifles sent to Red River to police trade, train local militia and counter American influence.
1854 Halifax Nova Scotia - Colin McKinnon 1810-1879 founds St. Francis Xavier University in Halifax; moves to present location in Antigonish in 1856.
1838 Pelham Ontario - Niagara militia drive back James Morreau with his Republican exiles and American sympathizers; end of week long Short Hills raid.
1827 Spitsbergen Norway - Expedition from Spitsbergen leaves for North Pole; reaches farthest northern point - 82°45' - in July; record stands for 48 years.
1826 NWT - John Franklin 1786-1847 sets out for Mackenzie Delta; west with Back toward Bering Strait to meet the Blossom and Beechey; Richardson and Kendall explore eastward to mouth of Coppermine.
1825 London England - Parliament passes the Canada Trades and Tenures Act, abolishing feudal and seigniorial rights in British North America.
1816 Norway House Manitoba - Red River settlers flee Metis and Norwester violence, take refuge at Norway House, Hudson's Bay Company post at north end of Lake Winnipeg.
1812 Brockville Ontario - British schooner Duke of Gloucester and another brig battle the US schooner Julia in War of 1812 naval engagement; Julia limps back to Ogdensburg; British ships to Kingston.
1807 Howse Pass BC - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches Howse Pass with wife and family; finds small branch of Columbia called Blaeberry River; names the upper waters of the Columbia the Kootenay River.
1774 London England - Parliament passes the Quebec Act; guarantees Catholic religious freedom; Coûtume de Paris for civil code, English law for criminal offenses; government by appointed council; trial by jury; also extends boundaries of Province of Quebec into Ohio Valley; to go into effect May 1, 1775.
1661 Rivière Maheu Quebec - Sénéchal de Lauzon killed in battle against the Iroquois.
1603 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 lands at site of Quebec; no sign of Jacques Cartier's Iroquois village of Stadacona; names Montmorency Falls.

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June 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
1280 – The Battle of Moclín takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada. The battle resulted in a Granadian victory.
1305 – A peace treaty between the Flemish and the French is signed at Athis-sur-Orge.
1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn (south of Stirling) begins.
1532 РHenry VIII and Fran̤ois I sign a secret treaty against Emperor Charles V.
1565 – Turgut Reis (Dragut), commander of the Ottoman navy, dies during the Siege of Malta.
1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
1661 – Marriage contract between Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza.
1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
1713 – The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada.
1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeats Prussia.
1780 – American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township).
1794 – Empress Catherine II of Russia grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
1810 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
1812 – War of 1812: Great Britain revokes the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1848 – Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris, France.
1860 – The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
1865 – American Civil War: at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate, Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."
1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1913 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1919 – Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
1941 – The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
1942 – World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
1946 – The National Democratic Front wins a landslide victory in the municipal elections in French India.
1947 – The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1956 – The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferring a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa.
1958 – The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
1959 – Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
1959 – A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
1960 – The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
1967 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1969 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
1969 – Software Industry IBM announced that effective January 1970 it would price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
1972 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1972 – Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India Flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
2012 – Ashton Eaton breaks the decathlon world record at the United States Olympic Trials.
2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
2013 – Terrorists kill 10 climbers and a local guide during the Nanga Parbat massacre.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1974 DIEF THE CHIEF AGAIN
Ottawa Ontario - Former PC Prime Minister John Diefenbaker sworn in as an MP for the 12th consecutive time; a record in Canadian politics.

1896
Canada - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 and his Liberals win the 8th federal general election, beating Charles Tupper 123 seats to 88; with 45.1% of popular vote vs. Tupper's 46.1%; runs on reciprocity; 49 of his 118 MPs from Quebec; PM until 1911.

1940
Vancouver BC - Sgt. Henry A. Larsen leaves on the RCMP schooner St. Roch bound for Halifax via the Northwest Passage; ship will take southerly route through Arctic islands, and after two winters trapped in the ice, will reach Halifax Oct. 11, 1942; first ship to make the voyage from west to east, and in both directions, and to circumnavigate North America; St. Roch declared national historic site in 1962; berthed at Vancouver Maritime Museum.



In Other Events....

1996 Space - Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78, continues studying the effects of microgravity on areas such as muscle and circadian rhythms, how living in space affects sleep patterns and mental and physical functions; crew take a series of performance and mood tests using a laptop computer to assessed the quality of their sleep last night; also do mental exercises, which show the speed and accuracy of their responses to rotated letters, math problems, letter sequences and rotated images. Thirsk also performs exercises on Torque Velocity Dynamometer to get precise measurements of muscle strength, power and endurance in Space.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- says his government plans to spend over $4 billion on 50 helicopters to replace aging naval Sea Kings; delivery to start in 1998; Chretien will scrap contract after election in 1993, but later reworks deal.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Premier Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 refuses to talk about constitutional reform with provincial counterparts again; leaves door open to talks with Ottawa after failure of Meech Lake.
1990 Calgary Alberta - Jean Chretien 1934- wins federal Liberal leadership on first ballot with 2652 votes, almost 1500 more than Paul Martin Jr.; Sheila Copps 3rd (499), Tom Wappel 4th (267), John Ninziata 5th (64).
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- tells national TV audience the failure of the Meech Lake Accord is not the failure of Canada, unity will prevail; says no more constitutional conferences without Quebec.
1987 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 and his Liberal majority in the Quebec National Assembly approve the Meech Lake Accord, the first legislature to do so; starts countdown on three year ratification period.
1985 Atlantic - Bomb planted on Air India Boeing 747 jet out of Montreal explodes over the ocean south of the coast of Ireland; 329 dead; planted by Sikh terrorist later captured in London; greatest loss of Canadian lives in commercial flying history.
1983 Space - NASA astronauts on board Shuttle Challenger flight STS-7 deploy Telesat's 1238 kg Anik-C2 communications satellite using the Canadarm.
1978 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Referendum Act sets up procedure for referendum on Sovereignty Association with Canada.
1975 Vancouver BC - Shock rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaking 6 ribs.
1974 New York City - Orillia-born singer Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown the Number 1 Billboard hit for the second week in a row.
1972 Canada - 2,200 CBC broadcast technicians end five-month strike.
1971 Saskatchewan - Allan Emrys Blakeney 1925- NDP wins Saskatchewan election for the NDP, defeating the Liberals under Ross Thatcher.
1971 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 rejects the proposed constitutional charter drafted a week earlier in Victoria; wants legislative primacy in income security.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives in Canada with the Queen Mother for a five-day visit.
1962 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan government and provincial doctors sign deal settling the Medical Care Insurance Act dispute.
1961 Bonavista Newfoundland - Forest fires along Bonavista Bay force 3,000 people to leave their homes.
1944 Normandy France - Canadian army goes into action for the first time, as a separate unit, not under Montgomery's British command.
1943 Montreal Quebec - Trans-Canada Air Lines inaugurates transatlantic service.
1942 Canada - Start of conscription for Second World War home service, in Canada only.
1935 Prince Edward Island - PEI Liberals win all 30 seats in provincial legislature; first Commonwealth assembly elected without any sitting opposition; New Brunswick Liberals under Frank McKenna will repeat feat in 1987.
1925 Yukon - Seven mountaineers first climb Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak, in the St. Elias Range on the Yukon- Alaska border.
1920 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau elected Liberal Premier of Quebec; sworn in July 9.
1887 Halifax Nova Scotia - Founding of the Halifax & West India Steamship Company and Canada Atlantic Steamship Company.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Macdonald government passes Act creating Banff National Park; first Canada's national parks system.
1870 London England - Imperial Order-in-Council transfers Rupert's Land and North West Territory to Canada; to take effect July 15.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 and his Metis provisional government formally accept George-Etienne Cartier's Manitoba Act.
1840 London England - British Parliament passes the Act of Union, providing for the union of Upper and Lower Canada under a single government.
1817 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Bank of Montreal, with £250,000 capital; Canada's oldest chartered bank.
1813 Queenston Ontario - US Col. Charles Boerstler prepares to leave before dawn on the 24th to make a surprise attack on Lt. James Fitzgibbon's British outpost at Beaver Dam, 15 km to the west; Laura Secord 1775-1868 had left two days earlier to warn Fitzgibbon.
1812 London England - Great Britain, not aware of US President James Madison's declaration of war, suspends one of the major causes of the war, the blockade orders that had hampered U.S. shipping by stopping them from entering French ports. Henry Clay and the War Hawks in Congress used the orders as an excuse to go to war to conquer Canada.
1767 London England - Prince Edward Island land lottery was held; Earl of Egmont wanted full feudal title, but the land was divided up for colonization by those with military or other public service.
1713 Nova Scotia - French residents of Acadia given one year to plead allegiance to Britain or leave the country.

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June 24th 2014 - This Date in History.



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109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
474 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada. It is claimed to be largest battle in the history of Ireland.
972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: forces led by Alfonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" that will be reached in 1139 after the Battle of Ourique.
1230 РThe Siege of Ja̩n started in the context of the Spanish Reconquista.
1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost completely destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
1571 – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
1622 – Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
1812 РNapoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Arm̩e crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
1846 – The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France.
1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
1880 РFirst performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congr̬s national des Canadiens-Fran̤ais.
1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
1916 – World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
1932 – A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.
1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
1954 – First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass — Vietminh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.
1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1963 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
1967 – The worst caving disaster in British history takes six lives at Mossdale Caverns.
1981 – The Humber Bridge is opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.
1982 – "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
1989 – Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.
1995 – "Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2010 – Kevin Rudd is deposed as Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the Australian Labor Party. Julia Gillard wins the subsequent leadership ballot.
2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
2012 – The last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1834 ST-JEAN-BAPTISTE SOCIETY SINGS CARTIER'S O CANADA
Montreal Quebec - Ludger Duvernay hosts founding banquet as President of the of St-Jean-Baptiste Society; the maple leaf is chosen as the emblem of the association, and 'Nos institutions, notre langue nos droits' the motto. At the close of the evening, the gathering rise to sing a patriotic song, 'O Canada, mon pays, mes amours,' composed for the occasion by a 20 year old lawyer, former rebel and Secretary of the Society, George-Etienne Cartier.

1880
Quebec Quebec - Calixa Lavallée 1842-1891 first performs his O Canada at a St-Jean Baptiste Day banquet attended by the Governor General, the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise; the lyrics, by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, are at the time only in French.


In Other Events....

1995 East Rutherford, N.J. -New Jersey Devils beat Detroit Red Wings 5-2 to win their first Stanley Cup in a four game sweep.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Senator Michael Cogger to be reimbursed for legal fees from court inquiry into RCMP investigation of his business.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - John Hoyles shows higher price rises than expected in furniture and publishing industries since start of GST; Executive Director of the GST Consumer Information Office.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports government payrolls up by 1.6%, while payrolls in the entire Canadian workforce down 2.2% in first quarter.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mulroney says there will be no more conferences on Canadian unity without Quebec participation; day after failure of Meech Lake Accord.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Crowd of 200,000 march in first St-Jean-Baptiste Day parade since 1969, when there was serious rioting; chant 'Le Quebec aux Quebecois.'
1990 Montreal Quebec - Montreal AIouette football club folds on eve of Canadian Football League season opener; lost $17 million in previous four CFL seasons; fan support dropped to 11,000 a game in 1986; will be resuscitated.
1989 Toronto Ontario - The Who start North American tour at same venue they played their farewell performance in 1982.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Clarence Campbell dies at age 78; National Hockey League President for 31 years, from 1946 to 1977; born July 9, 1905 in Fleming Sask.; a Rhodes Scholar who captained the hockey team while at Oxford, Campbell refereed at the 1928 Olympic lacrosse final and officiated in the NHL for 155 scheduled games and 12 play off matches before joining the Canadian Army; in 1944 became a major and led the 4th Canadian Armoured Division. In March 1955, his suspension of Maurice Richard in the playoffs led to a riot in Montreal. Campbell was responsible for bringing in the All-Star game in 1947, the NHL Pension Fund in 1948 and establishing the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960.
1984 Winona Texas - Ex Montreal Alouette star David Overstreet killed when his car crashes into two gasoline pumps and explodes.
1977 Drummondville Quebec - André Fortin killed when his car plunges into a river; national leader of Social Credit party.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in $1.5 million compensation program for losses due to mercury contamination.
1968 Sutton, Massachusetts - Sandra Post 1943- wins the US Ladies' PGA Championship; the Oakville, Ontario golfer is the first rookie and first foreign player to take the title.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- showered with rocks and bottles on reviewing stand during St-Jean Baptiste Day riot; so-called 'Lundi de la matraque' - Nightstick Monday - as 290 arrested, 130 injured.
1957 Toronto Ontario - Fred Davis hosts Front Page Challenge as it debuts on CBC as a 13-week summer replacement program; will become North America's longest-running game-interview TV show.
1944 Shetland Islands Scotland - RCAF Flight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell 1910-1944 and crew on anti-submarine patrol in amphibious plane when they tangle with a German U-Boat; sink it with depth charges, but have to ditch their plane in rough seas; crew take turns in life raft, and rescued the next day, but Hornell dies from hypothermia; awarded Victoria Cross posthumously.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur Howe 1886-1960 sets up Wartime Industries Control Board.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King tells Parliament that 'The government I lead will not bring in measures for conscription of Canadians for service overseas'.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister James L. Ralston 1881-1948 notes that $700 million war appropriation may be inadequate, since 'events are moving with lighting speed;' his budget imposes 10% war exchange tax on 'non-empire' imports.
1918 Montreal Quebec - Royal Flying Corps Captain Brian Peck inaugurates first airmail service in Canada, piloting a biplane loaded with mail sacks to Toronto.
1916 Hollywood California - Toronto-born Mary Pickford the first film star to get a million dollar deal, and produce her own movies; Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures signs her for $250,000 per film with a guaranteed minimum of $10,000 a week against half of the profits, including bonuses and the right of approval of all creative aspects of her films. Pickford got $275 a week as early as 1911, and $500 a week in 1913 when producer B.P. Schulberg dubbed her 'America's Sweetheart'.
1904 London England - King Edward VII confers the right to use the prefix 'Royal' on the North-West Mounted Police, in recognition of 30 years of loyal service.
1897 Regina Saskatchewan - Frederick William Haultain 1857-1942 elected Premier of the Northwest Territories; gets responsible government for the territory.
1894 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules Manitoba Catholics have grounds for appeal of Manitoba acts; overturns Feb. 20 decision of Supreme Court.
1878 Montreal Quebec - Canada's earliest recorded tennis tournament held at Montreal Lacrosse Club.
1856 Kingston Ontario - Legislative Council of Canada West becomes elective.
1848 Woodstock Ontario - Incorporation of the Woodstock & Lake Erie Railroad.
1813 Niagara Ontario - Force of 440 British Iroquois attack and harass Col. Charles Boerstler and 570 Americans as they move through wooded country to attack the British outpost at Beaver Dam; Lt. James Fitzgibbon 1780-1863 was already warned of their approach by the Iroquois and Laura Secord 1775-1868; to escape being massacred, Boerstler surrenders with 462 men to Fitzgibbon and his 50 British regulars; Americans forced back across Niagara River in this Iroquois victory in defence of Canada.
1782 London England - Henry Hamilton c1734-1796 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Canada; serves until Aug. 13, 1785.
1747 Chesterfield Inlet NWT - William Moor and Francis Smith discover Chesterfield Inlet; reach Douglas Harbour in Wager Bay and see no northwest passage.
1615 Riviere des Prairies Quebec - Joseph Le Caron c1586-1632 celebrates Mass near Montreal with Frè Jamany; first recorded Mass celebrated by a Récollet missionary in Quebec.
1611 Hudson Bay NWT - Henry Hudson d1611 mutineers sail for England; only eight survive; not punished for actions.
1610 Hudson Bay NWT - Henry Hudson d1611 enters the strait now named after him.
1610 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Micmac chief Membertou and 20 family members baptized by Jessé La Fleche at Port Royal; first Roman Catholic missionary in Canada; first Christian converts in New France.
1604 Saint John New Brunswick - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 skirts New Brunswick shore with Samuel de Champlain; enters river they name Saint John, then continues west.
1534 St. Peter's Bay PEI - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Island, and lands at St. Peter's Bay.
1497 Newfoundland - Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) c1450-1498 arrives either at Newfoundland or Cape Breton on the Matthew with his sons after a 35 day voyage; calls region St. John's Isle (origin of city name); his second voyage; claims the region for England; first discovery since Vikings.

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June 25th 2014 - This Date in History.


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524 РThe Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of V̩zeronce.
841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
1940 – World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35.
1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
1967 – Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
1975 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has a state of internal Emergency declared in India.
1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1898 SALLY ANN REACHES THE KLONDIKE
Dawson City Yukon - Salvation Army group finishes 882 km trek over the Chilkoot Pass from Skagway Alaska to organize a mission for the Klondike gold miners; provides food, shelter, and medical services until 1912.

1968
Canada -Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- wins 28th federal general election 155 seats to 72; 22 NDP; 14 Creditiste; 1 other; defeats Robert Stanfield with 45.5% of popular vote. Click to see an example of Trudeaumania.



In Other Events....

1997 Toronto Ontario -Justice Minister Anne McLellan declares in a Toronto Sun interview that 'We cannot be held hostage. If there must be another referendum, the process must be made clear... as well as the consequences of the result.'
1993 Ottawa Ontario - Vancouver Centre MP Kim Campbell 1947- sworn in as Canada's 19th Prime Minister, with 24 member cabinet by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn; Canada's first woman PM; names Jean Charest, her chief rival in the PC leadership vote June 13, as Deputy Prime Minister.
1991 Whapmagootui Quebec - James Bay Cree erect barricade at Whapmagootui airport to forcing cancellation of first public hearings into Hydro-Quebec's Great Whale dam project.
1991 St. John's Newfoundland - T. Alex Hickman cleared by Canadian Judicial Council on financial dealings with banks under review; Chief Justice of Newfoundland Supreme Court trial division.
1991 United Nations New York - Armand Roy named by United Nations to head multinational peacekeeping force in western Sahara; 700 Canadian infantry to monitor cease-fire in Morocco.
1988 Montreal Quebec - Expo Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drug abuse.
1982 Ontario - Igor Gouzenko dies; former cipher clerk working in the USSR Embassy in Ottawa, defected on Sept. 5, 1945 revealing details of Soviet espionage ring; lived rest of life under protective cover.
1980 London England - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- meets British PM Margaret Thatcher to discuss Canada's plans for patriation of constitution.
1974 Beijing China - Canada sells China $50 million worth of wheat.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives in Canada for a 10-day visit with Prince Philip.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Fisheries Minister Jack Davis announces $1.5-million assistance program for fishermen and processors hurt by mercury contamination of fish in Ontario and Atlantic Canada.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Government issues White Paper on Foreign Policy; outlines ways to safeguard sovereignty and increase foreign aid.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - André Laurendeau and Davidson Dunton's Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism tables final reports in the House of Commons.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa report on Indian policy recommends full citizenship for Indians, abolition of Indian treaties.
1969 Manitoba - Edward Richard Schreyer 1935- leads New Democratic Party to victory in provincial election.
1969 New York City - Winnipeg rock group The Guess Who receive a gold record for their hit single, These Eyes.
1968 Oshawa Ontario - Edward Broadbent 1936- first elected to Parliament from Oshawa; future NDP leader; re-elected in 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1984.
1968 Hamilton Ontario - Lincoln Alexander first black Canadian elected to House of Commons; PC Party member.
1968 Kamloops BC - Len Marchand the first aboriginal Canadian elected to the House of Commons; Liberal party member.
1963 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta starts voluntary medical care program.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules Royal York Hotel in Toronto cannot discharge employees on legal strike.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Hyato Ikeda Japanese Prime Minister starts two-day visit to Canada.
1957 London England - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 appointed Canada's High Commissioner to Britain; effective Aug. 1; former Conservative leader.
1950 South Korea - Beginning of Korean War as 240 tanks from Communist North Korea cross the 38th parallel, ignore UN Security Council call for a cease-fire; conflict ends July 27th, 1953.
1945 San Francisco California - Canada joins 49 other countries to discuss a charter for the United Nations.
1942 Bremen Germany - RCAF joins RAF in thousand-bomb raid on port of Bremen; Second World War.
1940 Atlantic - Canadian destroyer Fraser sunk in collision off France.
1927 Prince Edward Island - Albert Charles Saunders 1874-1943 leads Liberals to win over Conservatives in provincial election; province also votes to continue prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1926 Churchill Manitoba - CNR takes over Hudson Bay Railway Company; continues building line to Churchill.
1925 Nova Scotia - Edgar Nelson Rhodes 1877-1942 leads Conservatives to power in NS provincial election.
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Aurélien Bélanger elected to Ontario Legislature as prominent Franco-Ontarian spokesman.
1923 Ontario - George Howard Ferguson 1870-1946 leads Conservatives to power in Ontario provincial election.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Trades and Labour Council calls off Winnipeg General Strike; started May 15; many union ringleaders convicted of seditious conspiracy and given prison terms.
1914 Banks Island NWT - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 reaches Banks Island.
1912 Toronto Ontario - James Pliny Whitney 1834-1914 issues the Ontario Circular of Instructions - with the notorious Regulation 17, limiting teaching in French in so-called bilingual districts; until 1927.
1878 Victoria BC - George Anthony Walkem new Premier of BC, replacing Andrew Elliott; serves to June 6, 1882.
1858 Victoria BC - Victoria Gazette and Anglo-American first published; BC's first newspaper.
1855 Hamilton Ontario - Great Western Railroad puts its steamers Canada and America into service from Hamilton to Oswego, NY; route to New York City and Erie Canal.
1853 York Factory Manitoba - John Rae 1813-1893 leaves York Factory to survey west coast of Boothia Peninsula; between Castor and Pollux River and Bellot Strait.
1847 Fort Yukon Alaska - Alexander Murray 1818-1874 reaches Yukon River; starts building Fort Yukon post at junction of Yukon and Porcupine River; north of Arctic Circle in Alaska.
1840 Montreal Quebec - Montreal gets new city charter.
1840 Quebec Quebec - Quebec gets new city charter.
1829 Brantford Ontario - John Brant (Tekarihogen) appointed superintendent of the Six Nations Reserve at Oshwekan; son of Joseph Brant.
1759 Isle aux Coudres Quebec - James Wolfe 1727-1759 nears Quebec with 8,500 men and a fleet of 168 ships commanded by Admiral Charles Saunders c1715-1775.
1758 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe 1727-1759 finally silences Louisbourg's Island battery after six days of bombardment; opened fire on the 19th from Lighthouse Point; all external batteries now secure.
1686 Fort Albany NWT - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 captures Fort Albany after a siege.
1647 Quebec Quebec - First horses arrive in Canada; gift from the King of France to Governor Montmagny; origin of Canadian breed.
1625 Quebec Quebec - Missionary Nicolas Viel murdered by Iroquois while paddling in a canoe; first priest reported killed by Indians.

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June 27th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1358 – Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1759 – General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1760 – Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
1806 – British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1899 – A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
1905 – Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China; later, a document detailing these plans, the "Tanaka Memorial" is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.
1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1954 – The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
1957 – Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
1973 – The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
1976 – Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1977 – France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1985 – U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System.
1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
1991 – Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
2007 – Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.
2007 РThe Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Aleṃo in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Aleṃo massacre.
2008 – In a highly scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.







Today's Canadian Headline....


1995 MOUNTIES HIRE DISNEY
Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mounted Police grants an exclusive marketing license to its likeness and image to the Walt Disney Company, who will pay the force royalties and control copyright infringement.

1972
Winnipeg Manitoba - Bobby Hull signs 10-year contract for $2,500,000 to coach and play for the Winnipeg Jets of the fledgling World Hockey Association, giving the WHA instant credibility; hockey's first millionaire, Hull plays out his career with Swedish stars Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson.

1975
L'Anse aux Meadows Newfoundland - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- opens National Historic Park at L'Anse aux Meadows at tip of Great Northern Peninsula; evidence of Viking landing in North America found in 1961.



In Other Events....

1996 Space - Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78 takes part in Astronaut Lung Function Experiment, to get a better understanding of how gravity affects the pulmonary system during rest and heavy exercise; also continues to enter responses to a battery of problem-solving tasks on the laptop computer Performance Assessment Work Station. Information from tests of the crew's mental function abilities will be used to create future crew schedules, taking advantage of peak mental performance periods.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Striking printers force Toronto Star to stop the presses for the first time in 99 years; 56 pages of features printed earlier distributed free.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Robert Nixon resigns as Interim Leader of Ontario Liberals; replaces Tom Wells as Agent-General in London.
1991 Oka Quebec - Jerry Peltier elected interim Grand Chief of Kahnesatake, urging end of traditional selection by democratic system; ex head of Kahnesatake Mohawk Coalition.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Hugh Segal appointed as senior advisor to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; long-time Conservative party worker.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- releases final report of the Citizens' Forum on Canada's Future; rethinking of Canada's structures; says Canadians are frustrated with politicians, calls for national referendum on constitutional change; returns to post as Chairman of CRTC.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court unanimously rules unions can collect dues from non-union members in a bargaining unit and use the money for political contributions and other purposes not related to collective bargaining.
1991 Quebec - Manitoba and Ontario natives support Great Whale Crees to fight new hydroelectric projects.
1990 Calgary Alberta - Queen Elizabeth starts five-day Canadian tour.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament adjourns for summer; establishes new Department of Forestry, Canadian Space Agency and; Dep. of Industry, Science & Technology; replaces Ministry of Regional Industrial Expansion.
1989 Baltimore Maryland - Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston faces Orioles Frank Robinson in a baseball game; first time two black managers have opposed each other in regular season major league play.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - External Affairs Minister Joe Clark meets Soviet ambassador Alexei Rodionov to ease confrontation over expulsion of 9 Soviet diplomats accused of spying, and barring 10 from returning to Canada. Clark called for a freeze on additional expulsions.
1986 Edmonton Alberta - Oilers' Wayne Gretzky wins the Hart Trophy as the NHL's Most Valuable Player (MVP) for the 7th consecutive year; will also win in 1987 and 1989.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau says he will not seek 9th term of office; Mayor of Montreal for over 29 years.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau named 1984 winner of Albert Einstein Peace Prize for his global campaign to ease East-West tensions.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes National Anthem Act, declaring Calixa Lavallée's 'O Canada' the national anthem replacing God Save the Queen; allows for minor changes to Robert Stanley Weir's English lyrics.
1976 Puerto Rico - Canada attends 2-day economic summit of seven major Western nations in Puerto Rico.
1974 New York City - Orillia born folk singer Gordon Lightfoot has a # 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Sundown.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Richard Nixon US President starts visit to Canada.
1960 New Brunswick - Louis J. Robichaud 1925- leads Liberals to win in NB provincial election.
1957 Japan - COTC starts first direct radio-telegraph service from Canada to Japan.
1949 Canada - Louis St. Laurent leads Liberal Party to victory in 21st federal general election; captures 190 of 262 seats, 65 more seats than held previously.
1897 Montreal Quebec - The Lumière Brothers from Paris hold the first cinema projection in Montreal at the Palace Theatre, on Boulevard St-Laurent.
1890 Canada - Canadian boxer George 'Little Chocolate' Dixon 1870-1909 wins world bantamweight crown.
1867 Toronto Ontario - Liberal Party opens two day convention in Toronto; organized by George Brown.
1860 Toronto Ontario - Don Juan wins the Queen's Plate, run for first time at Toronto's Carlton Track; North America's oldest continuously held horse race.
1854 Washington DC - New Brunswick chemist Abraham Gesner awarded patent for distilling kerosene from petroleum; completely replaces whale oil in lamps in a few years.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Incorporation of La Banque du Peuple.
1825 London England - John Galt 1779-1839 incorporates the Canada Land Company to settle the Queen's Bush in south-western Ontario.
1778 Quebec Quebec - Frederick Haldimand 1718-1791 arrives in Quebec as Governor-in-Chief of Canada; serves to May 22, 1786.
1759 Quebec Quebec - General James Wolfe 1727-1759 lands a body of troops across from Quebec and blockades the St. Lawrence River to French shipping; starts siege lasting 75 days.
1726 France - Jacques d'Espiet de Pensens d1737 sets sail to take possession of Ile St-Jean (Prince Edward Island) for France.

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June 28th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull.
1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
1389 – Battle of Kosovo between Serbian and Turkish armies.
1461 – Edward IV is crowned King of England.
1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651 – The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: A New England colonial army captures Louisbourg, New France, after a forty-seven-day siege (New Style).
1776 – The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1778 – The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
1838 – Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier
1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
1880 – The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
1881 – Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
1895 – Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue
1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
1948 – The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1950 – Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers, argued to be between 100,000 and 200,000 are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducted Seoul National University Hospital Massacre.
1956 – in Poznań, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1969 – Stonewall Riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
1983 – Partial collapse of Connecticut's busy I-95 Mianus River Bridge, killing three.
1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
2001 – Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY to stand trial.
2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran political crisis.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1981 TERRY FOX LOSES BATTLE
Vancouver BC - Terry Fox 1958-1981 dies at age 22; one-legged runner of Marathon of Hope loses battle to lung cancer in a Vancouver hospital; started marathon in St. John's, Newfoundland; stopped near Thunder Bay; raised $25 million to fight cancer; Flags across Canada lowered to half mast in his honour.

1609
Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets out to explore Iroquois country, with 11 French and 60 Indians.

1926
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 resigns after eight months of minority government to avoid an adverse vote on a customs scandal; Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy 1862-1935 [in the picture] refuses to dissolve Parliament and call a general election, will ask Arthur Meighen to form government; the King-Byng crisis.


In Other Events....

1991 Montreal Quebec -William J. Bennett dies.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Patricia Starr sentenced to six months in jail for fraud and breach of trust in dealing with Queen's Park; former political fundraiser for Liberal Party of Ontario.
1991 Hull Quebec - CRTC supports right of CBC to close and cut back operations at 11 stations; Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.
1990 Hull Quebec - Hull Mayor tells a visiting Queen Elizabeth she is not welcome so soon after the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $112 million National AIDS strategy; to stop transmission, search for a cure, and treat sufferers; also national registry, AIDS secretariat, education programs.
1989 Sherbrooke, Quebec - Food poisoning from tapioca pudding strikes by 130 nuns in a convent.
1988 Victoria/Toronto - BC and Ontario legislatures ratify Meech Lake Accord.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes law banning tobacco advertising.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in '6 and 5' wage restraint program for federal employees; 6% limit in 1983, then 5%; federal deficit projected to rise to $19.6 billion.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Communications Minister Francis Fox gets passage of Freedom of Information Act; allowing greater public access to government documents; new Information Commissioner will hear complaints from individuals denied access and decide if data should be made public.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in Six-and-Five wage controls over two years.
1979 Halifax Nova Scotia - Second International Gathering of the Clans at Halifax.
1973 Manitoba - Premier Ed Schreyer's NDP government keeps power in the provincial election, winning a five-seat majority.
1968 Calgary Alberta - Premier Ernest Manning opens Calgary's 182 m, 10,884 tonne Husky Tower; takes 63 second elevator ride to reach the top; Marathon Realty acquire the Tower in 1970 and the Husky name is removed.
1965 Fort Frances Ontario - Premier John P. Robarts 1917-1982 opens Trans-Canada Highway from Fort Frances east to Atikokan.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 announces special drought relief for farmers.
1950 New York City - United Nations calls on 59 member nations to end Korean conflict, as North Korean forces capture Seoul.
1944 France - RCAF fighters down 26 German planes over France; mostly in support of railway year bombing.
1930 Brockville Ontario - Lightning strikes drill boat John B. King in the St. Lawrence River, setting off dynamite and killing 31 crew members.
1919 Versailles France - Canadian delegation signs the Treaty of Versailles, drawing up conditions of peace for the defeated powers in World War I exactly five years after it began; Canada insisted on separate representation at the signing.
1894 Ottawa Ontario - Delegates from Britain, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand attend Intercolonial Trade meeting; to develop commercial ties and cut tariff barriers.
1886 Montreal Quebec - The Pacific Express, the Canadian Pacific Railway's first through passenger train to the Pacific coast, leaves Montreal for Port Moody, BC; will take almost 6 days to make trip.
1867 Montreal Quebec - First annual meeting of Society of Friends [Quakers] of Canada.
1848 Goderich Ontario - William Tiger Dunlop 1792-1848 dies; Warden of the Forests of the Canada Company.
1845 Quebec Quebec - Another Quebec fire destroys the suburb of St. John and 1,300 houses.
1838 Montreal Quebec - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 banishes eight Patriote leaders to Bermuda without trial; including Dr. Wolfred Nelson; proclaims amnesty for 107 jailed rebels (released on bail of $5-20,000), but not those 16 patriotes still in the US (including George-Etienne Cartier), and the ten accused of the murder of George Weir.
1838 London England - Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey, beginning a reign that will last 64 years.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Medical Institute joins McGill University as the Faculty of Medicine.
1793 Montreal Canada - Founding of Anglican Bishoprics for Upper and Lower Canada; Jacob Mountain appointed Quebec's first Anglican Bishop.
1776 Montreal Quebec - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 holds meeting with 300 Iroquois, who declare their allegiance to Britain.
1776 Lake Champlain Quebec - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 starts to pursue a retreating Benedict Arnold up Lake Champlain.
1769 Charlottetown PEI - Order-in-council sets up separate PEI government; under the name of St. John Island.
1759 Quebec Quebec - General Wolfe starts setting up his main camp on the Montmorency River, across from Montcalm's trenches. Monckton ordered to set up batteries at Lévis across from Quebec.
1672 Quebec - Charles Albanel c1616-1696 reaches mouth of Rupert River on James Bay, making friendly contact with Indians; claims land for France, proves Hudson Bay can be reached overland.
1672 France - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 sets sail from France, arriving in Quebec in early autumn.
1613 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Captain Samuel Argall comes up the coast from Boston to attack the French settlements at Acadia.
1602 Hudson Strait NWT - George Weymouth explores 500 km into Hudson Strait but turned back by ice.

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June 29th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness; his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 – France annexes Tahiti.
1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
1895 – Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1926 – Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 – The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1927 – First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.
1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1972 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1974 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
1976 – The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1995 – The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2012 – A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1930 FIRST CANADIAN SAINTS
Rome Italy - Pope Pius XI canonizes Jean de Brébeuf and 7 other Jesuits martyred in the 1600s; the first North American saints.

1922
Vimy France -
France formally transfers ownership of 100 hectares at Vimy Ridge to Canada; German bastion along Vimy Ridge won by all four divisions of the Canadian Corps on Easter 1917; Parks Canada now operates Vimy memorial park and monument dedicated by Edward VIII in 1936. This land is not strictly speaking part of Canada, but France granted "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes". Unlike an embassy, it is subject to the laws of France.

1937
Valcourt Quebec - Joseph-Armand Bombardier 1884-1951 patents his Bombardier B-7 Snow Tractor, a seven-passenger tracked machine costing $7,500; the inventor produced his first Snowmobile in 1923, when he couldn't make it to the nearest hospital during a blizzard, and lost an infant son.




In Other Events....

1996 Space -Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78 talks with students at Maple Grove Education Center in Nova Scotia via the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment; also participates in a series of arm tests measuring the turning effect on muscles when force is applied, using the Torque Velocity Dynamometer; also tests in thinking skills, and in determining how the head and eyes track visual and motion targets in microgravity.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Dave Stewart of the Oakland A's pitches a no-hitter as he beats the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 at SkyDome; Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers also pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals in a 6-0 victory at Dodger Stadium; first pitchers to toss complete-game no-hitters in both the National and American Leagues on the same day.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Gilles Bernier and Richard Grise charged by RCMP with two counts of fraud and breach of trust in connection with two contracts; Bernier MP for Beauce, Grise ex-MP for Chambly.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Liberal and PQ leaders Robert Bourassa and Jacques Parizeau agree to form non-partisan commission to study Quebec's constitutional future.
1985 New York City - Yankee Dave Winfield's 8th inning Grand Slammer beats the Toronto Blue Jays 15-14 after Jays blow 11-4 lead; Mattingly also Grand slams; Winfield will later become a member of the World Series winning Jays team.
1985 New York City - Montreal rocker Gino Vannelli's Black Cars peaks at #42 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1985 Vancouver BC - Businessman Jimmy Pattison pays $2.229,000 for a yellow Rolls-Royce formerly owned by the Beatles.
1983 Bécancour Quebec - France and Quebec agree to build jointly-financed $1.5 billion aluminum smelter at Bécancour; 130 km north east of Montreal.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa lets $3.2 billion contract for six new Canadian navy patrol frigates; $650 million to refit four ships.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from Soviet Union while on tour in Canada with the Bolshoi Ballet; helped by Globe & Mail dance critic John Fraser; granted permission to stay.
1974 New York City - Orillia, Ontario, folk singer Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown stays at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart for the second week.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa puts controls on export of oilseeds and products, to slow cut of animal feedstock; extended to include edible oils, animal fat and protein feeds.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that motorists can seek legal counsel before taking alcohol breath tests.
1967 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts week-long visit to Canada with Duke of Edinburgh to celebrate the Canadian Centennial.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Chief Justice Frédéric Dorion 1909- issues report showing official bribery to free suspected drug smuggler; causes resignation of federal Justice Minister Guy Favreau (1917-1967)
1954 Ottawa Ontario - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill starts two-day visit to Ottawa with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
1944 Camilly France - Canadian Second Corps under Guy Simonds sent to join the Second Army in the Caen sector with the Eighth Army on its left and the First Corps on its right; second Infantry Division sent immediately since infantry casualties heavy; Crerar told his First Army headquarters not required in the line at present.
1927 Camp Borden Ontario - Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller first tested on an Avro 504 trainer; Rothesay, NB, aeronautical engineer creates one of Canada's great global inventions.
1926 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 appointed Prime Minister following King-Byng controversy; in power to Sept. 25.
1925 London England - King George V opens Canada House in Trafalgar Square; new HQ for High Commission.
1906 Liverpool England - CP ocean liner Empress of Ireland departs on maiden voyage to Quebec; will sink on 96th voyage, May 29 1914.
1898 St. John's Newfoundland - First through passenger train across Newfoundland leaves St. Johns at 19:20 and arrives Port aux Basques at 22:45, June 30.
1892 Victoria BC - Theodore Davie replaces John Robson as Premier of British Columbia; to March 2, 1895.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - Ahearn & Soper start operating their Ottawa Street Railway Company with four electric tram cars; first street car service in Ottawa; origin of OC Transpo.
1871 London England - Canada granted the right to create new provinces.
l864 Beloeil Quebec - Grand Trunk Railway train runs through an open switch near St-Hilaire, killing ninety-nine people; Canada's worst railway disaster.
1850 Nanaimo BC - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island; will prove valuable for refueling Royal navy ships and CPR trains.
1849 Montreal Quebec - Montreal newspapers support annexation to the US as a possible remedy for commercial depression.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Patriote assembly at Montreal demands democratic rights.
1789 Hay River NWT - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 enters a river flowing northwest from Great Slave Lake after hearing about salt water from the Yellowknife Indians; the Mackenzie River (later named after him) takes him to the Arctic Delta on July 10; the North West Company partner is trying to find a way to ship furs to the west coast.
1786 Scotland - Alexander Macdonnell leaves west highlands with 526 Catholic emigrants for Canada; they settle west of Montreal in Glengarry County, Ontario, and build a church called 'The Blue Chapel'.
1767 London England - Parliament passes the Townshend Revenue Act; colonists to pay extra import duties for salaries of colonial governors and judges.
1749 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers c1700-1752, new Governor of Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island), arrives to take possession for France.
1701 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Jacques-François de Mombeton de Brouillan 1651-1705 arrives in Acadia as commander; Governor from 1702 to 1705.
1603 Lac St-Pierre Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 reaches Lac St. Pierre; Cartier's Lac Angoulème; enters mouth of Richelieu River; journeys upriver to St-Ours Rapids.
1534 Prince Edward Island - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 explores north and west shores of PEI, but thinks it part of the mainland; notes 'the loveliest climate you could ever see, and great heat'; will land in Canada for the first time.

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June 30th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
1917 – World War I: Greece declares war on the Central Powers.
1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both planes. It is the worst-ever aviation disaster at that point in time.
1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1991 – Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, starts "The Great Gage Park Decency Drive" picketing the park, starting their notorious picketing campaign that would later include funerals of AIDS victims and fallen American military.
1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
1998 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1992 CANADIAN CONVOY TO SARAJEVO
Croatia - Canadian peacekeepers start trek to Sarajevo, Bosnia; 800 troops in armored vehicle convoy move to keep airport open as part of international relief effort to bring in food and medicine.

1965
Toronto Ontario - Rex Woods starts project to duplicate Robert Harris painting of the Quebec Conference of 1864, that was burned during the fire of 1917; to be presented to Canada by Confederation Life.

1948
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 delivers his last speech to the House of Commons before his retirement.


In Other Events....

1996 Space - Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78 holds a press conference with Toronto journalists; tells how their research will not only benefit astronauts as they conduct long-term space missions, but also people on Earth; some research will aid studies on osteoporosis and the affects steroids have on bones, and also may help doctors on Earth develop treatments for muscle diseases like muscular dystrophy.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- unveils equestrian statue of herself on Parliament Hill; by BC sculptor Jack Harman.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Chief Justice Brian Dickson retires from the Supreme Court of Canada; served as justice since 1973; replaced Bora Laskin in April 1984.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada stops issuing one-dollar bills, and starts replacing them with the dollar coins that come to be known as loonies.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Thomas Hockin starts first stage of financial deregulation by opening ownership of securities industry; with Monte Kwinter, his Queen's Park counterpart.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- sworn in as Canada's 17th Prime Minister, replacing Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919-; PM until Sept 17.
1983 Toronto Ontario - C-Channel pay TV arts network goes off the air; operating only since Feb. 1.
1983 Calgary Alberta - Ottawa and Alberta agree to set Canadian oil at $29.75 per barrel, or 75% of world price; producers get world price for oil discovered 1974-80.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - National Research Council timekeepers join international colleagues in adding a leap second to the last minute of June, to keep atomic time in tune with solar time; same process followed Dec. 1989.
1983 Canada - Simpson-Sears retailing chain fined $1 million for misleading advertising; largest such fine in Canadian history.
1982 Montreal Quebec - NHL decides Eric Lindros will go to the Flyers instead of the Rangers; New Jersey's new NHL franchise also officially named the Devils after fan balloting.
1981 Canada - Canadian postal workers start 42-day strike.
1976 Victoria BC - British Columbia Court of Appeal rules that the province owns seabed mineral resources between Vancouver Island and the mainland; rejects federal claims.
1976 Goose Bay Newfoundland - US Air Force closes base at Goose Bay, Labrador, when lease expires.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post bans open-window envelopes since they snag in letter sorting machines.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Canada's first National Lesbian conference.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark marries Maureen McTeer, a researcher in the Progressive Conservative Party office in Ottawa.
1972 Dorchester Ontario - Billy Joe Booth killed in an aircraft explosion; nine year defensive linesman with Ottawa Rough Riders.
1972 Vancouver BC - Rolling Stones open their seventh American/Canadian tour; will hit San Diego, Tucson, Albuquerque, Washington, Montreal and New York.
1972 Revelstoke BC - A record 963.2 inches of snowfall falls in one season on Mt. Copeland; since July 1 of the previous year.
1967 Bell Island Newfoundland - Dosco Industries Ltd. closes Bell Island iron mine after 72 years of operation.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Zakir Husain President of India starts two-day visit to Canada.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens new Ottawa International Airport.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Canada asks International Joint Commission for approval to build St. Lawrence hydro plants; in international rapids section.
1945 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Star-Phoenix publishes classified ad reading: FOR SALE. one homemade coffin. Never used. Reason for selling: Improved health; fit 6' 2''.
1944 Off the Shetlands, Scotland - Flight Lt. David Hornell VC scores U-boat kill; one of four by RCAF 162 Squadron this June.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act to establish a Department of Reconstruction.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie King government brings in Bill 80, sanctioning his promise not to bring in conscription for overseas service; passes July 23 by 141-45.
1930 Rome Italy - Archbishop Forbes of Ottawa holds a Pontifical Mass at the Vatican to celebrate the first Catholic canonization of North Americans, the Jesuit martyrs.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Army sets up Hospital Commission to provide treatment for wounded; name changed to Military Hospitals Commission in October.
1912 Regina Saskatchewan - Tornado roars through the downtown core of Regina in five minute rampage at 4:50 pm, killing 28, and damaging or destroying three churches, the new Carnegie Library, commercial buildings and homes; 2,500 left homeless. Mayor Peter McAra cancels Dominion Day celebrations.
1866 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick approves Confederation; votes funds for Intercolonial Railroad.
1864 Canada - Christopher Dunkin 1812-1881 passes the Canada Temperance Act, regulating local option laws passed in Canada West in 1853 and Canada East in 1855; the so-called Dunkin Act.
1859 Niagara Falls Ontario - Charles Blondin (Jean-François Cravelet) crosses Niagara by tightrope before a crowd of 25,000; drinks champagne; does a back somersault; recrosses blindfolded, on a bicycle, on stilts, pushing a wheelbarrow while carrying a man on his back; the so-called 'Prince of Manila'.
1858 Victoria BC - First Chinese colonists reach Victoria.
1851 Toronto Ontario - Robert Baldwin retires from public life.
1848 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Schools closed for a year because city council refuses to raise funding from £500 to £2,000 per annum.
1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 helps found the Committee of Vigilance of Upper Canada; to form a provisional revolutionary government for Upper Canada.
1812 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada gives US citizens 14 days to leave the province.
1777 Ticonderoga New York - John Burgoyne 1722-1792 reaches Fort Ticonderoga; starts week-long siege.
1772 Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 arrives back at Fort Prince of Wales from the Arctic, proving that no water route exists across North America; he writes up account of journey; first to describe Inuit life in Coppermine area.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Aemilius Paulus Irving 1714-1796 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until Sept. 24, 1766.
1759 Lévis Quebec - Brigadier General Robert Monckton captures Point Lévis after a short fight; sets up camp and moves artillery into position to start firing on Quebec, less than a kilometre away. Montcalm sends Abenaki warriors to harass the English.
1690 Manitoba Canada - Henry Kelsey c1667- 1724 travels up the Hayes and Fox Rivers to Moose Lake.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Henri de Chastelard de Salières arrives in New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment, 100 officers and 1,000 men; begins forts at Sorel, St-Louis, Ste-Thérèse, Ste-Anne and St-Jean.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 arrives in New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment to do battle with the Iroquois.
1578 Greenland - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 takes possession of Greenland for Elizabeth I; calls it West England.
1398 Guysborough Nova Scotia - Legend has it that Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, lands at Guysborough on this day, and visits the sites of Pictou and Stellarton.

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July 1st 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fightings king Totila is mortally wounded.
1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of Castilian during the Reconquista.
1523 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1569 – Union of Lublin: the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1653 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1766 РJean-Fran̤ois Lefebvre de la Barre was a young French nobleman, famous for having been tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
1770 – Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1782 – American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg (1782).
1837 – A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1862 – The Russian State Library is founded.
1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 – American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 – Spanish–American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 – Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1915 – Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Fliegertruppe air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme – On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1921 – The Communist Party of China is founded.
1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa Trek.
1942 – World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.
1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.
1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 – Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 – The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 – Independence of Somalia.
1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its Head of state.
1962 – Independence of Rwanda.
1962 – Independence of Burundi.
1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1967 – Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
1968 – The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 – The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO.
1970 – President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1972 – The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
1976 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 – The Wonderland murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ãœberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2003 – Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 – The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway in China.
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2008 – Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
2013 – The United Nations mission MINUSMA begins its operative mandate in Mali.
2013 – Neptune's moon S/2004 N 1 is discovered.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1927 MESSAGE OF THE CARILLON
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie King dedicates the Peace Tower carillon in the first Trans-Canada radio network broadcast hookup over telephone and telegraph lines; celebrating the Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary) of Confederation.


1909
Melville Island NWT
- Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, captain of the government steamship Arctic, places a metal plaque at Parry Rock claiming Canadian sovereignty over the entire Arctic Archipelago; US and Norwegian whalers and mining companies were trying to convince their governments to pursue territorial claims. That's him with the musk ox calf. 'I took possession of Baffin Island for Canada in the presence of several Eskimo,' said Bernier, 'and after firing nineteen shots I instructed an Eskimo to fire the twentieth, telling him that he was now a Canadian.



In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Alan Lund dies; former artistic director of the Charlottetown Festival; staged Anne of Green Gables.
1983 Edmonton Alberta - Start of ten-day World University Games; Canada has best-ever showing: third behind US and USSR.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Calixa Lavallée's 'O Canada' officially proclaimed the national anthem of Canada; written in 1880 for St-Jean-Baptiste celebration; original words by A-B Routhier; English by Stanley Weir (1908).
1974 Toronto Ontario - David Haber 1927- appointed Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada, succeeding Celia Franca.
1971 Vancouver BC - Pierre Trudeau 1919- opens $2.5 million museum for aboriginal artifacts on UBC campus; gift from Canada to honour province's centennial.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pierre Trudeau tells Canada Day heckler concerned about unsold grain, 'Relax mister. You can't carry the weight of the world on your shoulders every day. This is a fun day.'
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Unveiling of bronze statue of former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950, by Raoul Hunter, on Parliament Hill.
1968 Geneva Switzerland - Canada signs nuclear non-proliferation treaty with the US, Britain, USSR and 57 other countries.
1967 Winnipeg Manitoba - United College becomes the University of Winnipeg.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- attends centennial celebrations on Parliament Hill.
1966 Toronto Ontario - CTV station CFTO-TV transmits first colour television in Canada.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Labour Code comes into effect for all government employees.
1962 Saskatchewan - Ninety percent of doctors of the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons close their offices for 23 days, providing only hospital-based emergency services; delays start of Tommy Douglas' CCF government Medicare compulsory medical care insurance plan; reach compromise July 23 after amendments to Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Act.
1960 Canada - Treaty and registered aboriginal Canadians given the right to vote.
1959 New Brunswick - Federal-provincial hospital plan goes into effect in New Brunswick.
1958 Conrwall Ontario - Ontario Hydro engineers blast away St. Lawrence River cofferdam; lets water build up for power station; man-made Lake St. Lawrence will be 40 km long, 64 km wide.
1958 Canada - CBC starts nationwide TV broadcasts as new Trans-Canada microwave relay system goes into operation.
1958 Canada - Federal-provincial hospital plan goes into effect in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland.
1944 Bretton Woods New Hampshire - Canada attends United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference; until July 22.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Wartime sugar rationing starts in Canada.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Unemployment Insurance Act comes into effect; establishment of Unemployment Insurance Commission.
1935 Regina Saskatchewan - City police and RCMP wade into crowds at Regina Exhibition Grounds rally to arrest leaders of the On to Ottawa trek after they return from unsuccessful meeting with Prime Minister Bennett in Ottawa; one policeman killed, many police and rioters injured; end of trek by 2000 relief camp strikers from Western Canada; four days later the protesters are given rail transportation home.
1927 Ottawa Ontario - Governments of Canada and Britain first communicate directly, bypassing the Governor-General.
1927 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes law requiring all drivers in Ontario to have a license.
1926 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 takes Canada back on the gold Standard.
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes legislation which virtually suspends all Chinese immigration to Canada; day known to Chinese community as Humiliation Day. In 1885, Chinese immigrants were required to pay an entry fee, or head tax of $50 for entry into Canada; by 1900, as immigration continued, the amount was raised to $100 and then to $500.
1916 Beaumont-Hamel France - Newfoundland troops capture Beaumont-Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme; bloodiest battle in history will cause casualties of one million dead or wounded by the time it ends in November.
1912 Nanaimo BC - Canadian Pacific leases the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company on Vancouver Island.
1904 St Louis Missouri - Third modern Olympic games open in St Louis; to Nov. 23; Canada does not send a team, but some Canadian athletes compete along with 13 official nations and 625 competitors; Montreal policeman Etienne Desmarteaux will win gold in the hammer throw.
1890 Hamilton Bermuda - Telegraph cable links Canada and Bermuda.
1886 Calgary Alberta - Huge fireworks display celebrates arrival of the Pacific Express, the CPR's first through passenger train to the Pacific coast, en route for Port Moody, BC.
1885 Washington DC - US terminates reciprocity and fishery clauses worked out at Treaty of Washington March 8, 1871; Americans allowed to fish under treaty terms until end of season.
1881 St Stephen New Brunswick - World's first international telephone call made to Calais, Maine.
1881 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange moves into first permanent HQ at 24 King Street East; boom year; price of a seat as high as $4,000.
1878 Geneva Switzerland - Canada admitted to membership in Universal Postal Union.
1873 PEI - Prince Edward Island enters Confederation as the seventh Canadian province on same terms as BC; provincial government, annual grants, debt takeover (nearly bankrupt due to $4 million railway debt).
1876 Quebec Quebec - Through rail travel opens to Halifax from Quebec.
1871 Victoria BC - British Columbia enters Confederation as the sixth Canadian province; keeps provincial government, debt takeover, undertaking to build Pacific railroad.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament makes decimal currency system uniform across Canada.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Parliamentary Library in Ottawa.
1870 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 passes Order-in-Council committing government to start building a railway to Pacific within two years, as condition of BC's entry into Confederation; after false starts and consolidations, construction will begin May 1881.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Department of Marine and Fisheries.
1867 Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 sworn in as Canada's first Prime Minister; to November 5, 1873; the new Dominion starts life with just 30 civil servants.
1867 Canada -Proclamation of the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada out of Upper Canada (now Ontario, with its capital at Toronto), Lower Canada (now Quebec, with its capital at Quebec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Canada not yet allowed to deal directly with other states or control immigration; Canadian armed forces still commanded by British officers.
1865 Quebec Quebec - Quebec City becomes the capital of Canada East.
1860 Ottawa Ontario - The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, lays the cornerstone of the Parliament Buildings of the Province of Canada.
1860 Saint John, New Brunswick - European and North American Railway opens from Saint John to Shediac; becomes part of the Intercolonial Railway on this day in 1867.
1860 London England - Britain transfers control of Indian affairs to Canada.
1858 Montreal Quebec - First Canadian coins minted, in denominations of one cent, five cents, 10 cents and 20 cent pieces; no regular issue of bills until 1870.
1857 Aberdeen Scotland - Aberdeen Scotland: Francis McClintock sails in the Fox to determine fate of Franklin expedition; organized by Lady Franklin; has to delay search of King William Island until 1859.
1838 Coppermine NWT - Simpson & Dease reach mouth of Coppermine River.
1835 Quebec Quebec - Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford 1776-1849 appointed Governor-in- Chief of Lower Canada; serves from Aug. 25, 1835 to March 30, 1838
1828 Fort Vancouver BC - Alexander McLeod attacks lodge of Challum Indians to avenge murder of HBC clerk in January; Chief Trader at Fort Vancouver.
1815 Toronto Ontario - Frederick Robinson 1763-1852 appointed provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves until Sept. 21, 1815
1796 Detroit Michigan - Jay Treaty comes into effect; British withdraw from Detroit, Grand Portage, and Michilimackinac; both parties have free use of Great Lakes.
1792 Kingston Ontario - Lt-Col John Graves Simcoe arrives to take up his post as first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada.
1782 Lunenberg Nova Scotia - American privateers attack Lunenberg.
1752 Paris France - Ange Duquesne de Menneville, Marquis de Duquesne c1700-1778 appointed Governor of New France; serves from July 1 to June 24, 1755.
1742 Churchill Manitoba - Christopher Middleton d1770 explores north from Churchill on board the Furnace to find North West passage; with William Moor (d1765) in Discovery.
1629 Baleine Nova Scotia - James Stuart, Lord Ochiltree lands with 60 colonists at Baleine, Cape Breton; granted barony by William Alexander.

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July 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

437 – Emperor Valentinian III, begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
626 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an.
963 – The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
1298 РThe Battle of G̦llheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
1504 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
1555 – The Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1561 – Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1613 – The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
1644 – English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1822 – 35 African American slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
1823 – Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1839 РTwenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqu̩ take over the slave ship Amistad.
1853 – The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1917 – The East St. Louis Riots end.
1921 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox-Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Imperial Germany.
1934 РThe Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst R̦hm.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1950 – The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1966 РThe French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Ald̩baran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1986 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana were burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
1993 – 37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
2013 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.







Today's Canadian Headline....


1885 BIG BEAR SURRENDERS TO END REBELLION
Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan - Big Bear surrenders to General Strange after his men run out of food and ammunition; end of North West Rebellion; sentenced with Poundmaker to three years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary.

1808
Musqueam BC
- Simon Fraser 1776-1862 reaches Pacific near New Westminster; thinks he has traveled down the Columbia River.



In Other Events....

1996 Space - Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78 joins second 72-hour periods of the Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Study; first-ever comprehensive study of sleep, 24-hour circadian rhythms and task performance in a microgravity environment.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - John Crosbie orders $700 m northern cod fishery shut down for two years to conserve stocks; Fisheries Minister puts 19,000 fishermen and plant workers out of work.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Symphony Orchestra members take pay cut to prevent bankruptcy; from minimum $57,000 to $48,300.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court of Appeal rules psychiatrists cannot give medication against wishes of patients; challenged by professionals and relatives of mentally ill.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox falls short of record-tying 15th consecutive victory when Toronto Blue Jays score three runs in the eighth inning for a 4-2 decision.
1974 Edmonton Alberta - Ralph Steinhauer sworn in as Alberta's first native Lieutenant Governor.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Bora Laskin 1912- sworn in as administrator of Canada during the illness of Governor General Jules Léger.
1971 Beijing China - China Premier Chou En-lai receives first Canadian ministerial mission to the People's Republic.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts two-week visit to Manitoba to join centennial celebrations with Prince Philip, Prince Charles, and Princess Anne; also visit NWT.
1969 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - University of Saskatchewan opens first college of veterinary medicine in western Canada.
1969 St John's Nfld. - Canadian National abandons Newfoundland passenger trains to Port aux Basques; replaced by buses.
1963 Barbados - Canada sends 50,000 doses of polio vaccine to Barbados.
1962 Saskatchewan - Volunteer doctors provide emergency services in the province when most doctors go on strike to protest the NDP government's compulsory medical plan.
1941 Canada - RCAF authorized to enlist women; followed by army, navy.
1940 Atlantic - German U-Boat torpedos liner Arandora Star en route to Canada; survivors rescued by destroyer St. Laurent.
1926 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 defeated by one vote on non-confidence motion; calls election for Sept 14; PM since June 29.
1924 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton's temperature reached 36.7C; highest on record in over 100 years.
1892 Victoria BC - Theodore Davie replaces John Robson as Premier of British Columbia; serves to March 2, 1895.
1887 Pacific - US seizes Canadian sealer Anna Bick in the Bering Sea.
1885 Fort Carlton Saskatchewan - Big Bear surrenders to General Strange after his men run out of food and ammunition; end of Rebellion; sentenced with Poundmaker to three years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary.
1821 London England - Act for Regulation of the Fur Trade; extends Hudson's Bay Company monopoly of fur trade.
1821 Lachine Quebec - Lower Canada takes over Lachine Canal building from private company.
1743 Manitoba - François de Varennes de La Vérendrye returns to Fort La Reine with brother Louis-Joseph.
1685 Moosonee Ontario - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 captures Fort Rupert from English.
1679 Minnesota - Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth c1639-1710 makes treaty with local tribes; plants arms of France at Sioux village of Izatys on Lake Michigan; first European to visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi.
1654 Ontario - Simon Le Moyne 1604-1665 journeys to Iroquois country, where he promises to send missionaries the following year; missionary to Hurons.
1613 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Samuel Argall c1572-c1641 burns and destroys St-Sauveur, then Port Royal settlement; first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia.
1578 Hudson Strait NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sights Baffin Island; driven south by storm into what he calls 'Mistaken Strait'; likely Hudson Strait.

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July 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
1608 РQu̩bec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
1819 – The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
1839 – The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
1844 – The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
1849 – The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1852 – Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.
1863 – American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
1866 РAustro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of K̦niggratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).
1938 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
1940 РWorld War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El K̩bir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
1944 – World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
1952 – The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States.
1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
1969 – The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
1970 – The Troubles: The "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
2013 Р2013 Egyptian coup d'̩tat: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for Morsi's resignation, to which he didn't respond. President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Adly Mansour is declared acting president.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1898 NOVA SCOTIAN FIRST TO SAIL AROUND THE WORLD ALONE
Newport Rhode Island - Joshua Slocum (1844-1909), from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, completes the first solo circumnavigation of the globe.

1608
Quebec Quebec
- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 starts building his Habitation at the foot of Cape Diamond on the site of Place Royale; a fortified trading post with trenches, cellars and a palisade; July 3 may also be Champlain's birthdate in 1567.



In Other Events....

1996 Space - Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78 continues second of two integrated 72-hour Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Studies; answers questions from students at three different schools in Canada; performs left leg muscle strength, power and endurance tests in the Spacelab using the Torque Velocity Dynamometer. French Payload Specialist Dr. Jean-Jacques Favier puts on head and torso sensors and resumes the Torso Rotation Experiment designed by Dr. Douglas Watt of McGill University in Montreal, to help identify the causes of motion sickness during space flight, and develop countermeasures.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Jury acquits 34 Mohawks for their part in the 77 day armed standoff at Oka in 1990.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court of Appeal rejects Air Canada bid to stop $8 million sale of Air Toronto to PWA Corp.; two airlines struggling for ownership for 14 months.
1991 Hagersville Ontario - Judge sentences youth to 16 months detention for setting $30 million tire fire in Hagersville, Feb. 1990; 3 others also found guilty and got shorter sentences.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Crowd of 50,000 attend Blue Jays 44th home game; crowd boosts seasonal attendance past the 2,000,000 mark faster than any team in major league baseball history.
1974 Caracas Venezuela - Canadian Environment Minister Jack Davis 1916- wants deep-sea salmon fishing restricted; Canada to extend jurisdiction to 370 km (200 mile) limit; at Law of the Sea Conference.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park legalizes Sunday horse racing in Ontario; responsibility given to the municipalities.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Four FLQ terrorists given 8-year sentences for stealing weapons from two Quebec armouries; FLQ splinter group.
1957 Pugwash Nova Scotia - Cyrus Eaton founds annual Pugwash Conference; week-long meeting on world affairs and science; bringing together west and east.
1944 Goose Bay Newfoundland - Temperature hits 37.8 C; Labrador's hottest day on record.
1942 Washington DC - Canada and the United States form joint military, naval, and air office in Washington.
1940 Windsor England - King George VI 1895-1952 declines to send his two princesses to Canada for protection in wartime.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Canada signs trade agreement with Belgium.
1922 London England - British extend Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement of 1921 to include Canada.
1909 Cobalt Ontario - Forest fire in Porcupine District leaves one-third of Cobalt's 6,000 residents homeless.
1904 Montreal Quebec - First run of The Ocean passenger train between Montreal and Halifax; longest running train in Canada, operating continuously over same 1400 km route.
1901 Calgary Alberta - W.F. (Billy) Cochrane drives first automobile in Calgary; a steam-powered Locomobile, steered by a tiller rather than a wheel.
1898 Rhode Island - Joshua Slocum, from Briar Island, NS, becomes the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the earth.
1897 Eldorado Creek Yukon - G. A. Lancaster files claim on Eldorado Creek, Yukon, later known as Gold Hill.
1893 Kamloops BC - Kamloops incorporated as a city.
1876 Quebec Quebec - Intercolonial railway opens from Quebec City to Halifax.
1839 NWT - Simpson & Dease set off to explore eastward with opening of ice.
1838 Toronto Ontario - Francis Hincks founds the Toronto Examiner newspaper.
1814 Fort Erie Ontario - Major General Jacob Brown crosses Niagara River and captures poorly defended Fort Erie from the British; War of 1812.
1812 St. Clair River - Frederic Rolette 1785-1831 captures General William Hull's schooner Cayahoga and finds Hull's battle plans; War of 1812.
1811 Washington - David Thompson 1770-1857 travels down Columbia River to junction of Snake River and Columbia; raises British flag and claims territory for Britain.
1797 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Law Society of Upper Canada established.
1778 Wyoming Pennsylvania - John Butler leads Butler's Rangers and native allies in savage raid on Wyoming; can't prevent massacre of 360 men, women & children.
1770 Lunenburg Nova Scotia - Bruin Romkes Comingo 1723-1820 ordained minister of Dutch Calvinist church in Lunenburg; first Presbyterian ordination in Canada.
1756 Oswego New York - John Bradstreet 1714-1774 defeats de Villiers de Jumonville at Fort Ontario.
1603 Lachine Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 reaches Sault Saint-Louis or the Lachine Rapids; no sign of Cartier's Hochelaga; hears of great freshwater lakes to the west; convinced that Asia lies beyond; calls rapids La Chine.

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July 4th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
836 – Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
993 – Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.
1054 – A supernova is seen by Chinese, Arab and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1456 – Ottoman wars in Europe: The Siege of Nándorfeqhérvár (Belgrade) begins.
1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1610 – The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
1634 РThe city of Trois-Rivi̬res is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada)
1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cedes lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York State.
1831 – Samuel Francis Smith writes My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized.
1855 – In Brooklyn, New York City, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published.
1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army was repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdrew from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
1865 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
1878 – Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year it had 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
1903 – Philippine–American War officially is concluded.
1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
1918 – Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
1918 – Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
1926 – Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
1927 – The Lockheed Vega first flew.
1934 – Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
1941 – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village.
1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives.
1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
1950 – Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
1951 – A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
1951 – William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor.
1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
1982 – Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
1998 – Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1886 FIRST THROUGH TRAIN TO BC
Port Moody BC - Crowd of 1500 British Columbians cheer as the Pacific Express, the CPR's first scheduled transcontinental passenger train from Montreal, rolls into Port Moody, the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, after a five and a half day journey of 4650 km; with 170 passengers in two immigrant sleeping coaches, two first-class coaches and two first-class sleeping coaches (named Yokohama and Honolulu); also attached are one dining car (Holyrood), two baggage cars, and a mail car with 16 bags of English and Canadian mail; arrival 16 years after Cartier's Order-in-Council authorized building of the road as part of the terms of union with BC.

1696
Montreal Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 embarks from Montreal in a canoe flotilla with 2,150 men to travel up the St. Lawrence to Fort Frontenac and mount a new attack on the Iroquois.

1634
Trois-Rivières Quebec - Jean La Violette founds Three Rivers with 6 arpents of land granted by the Company of One Hundred Associates; a fur trader sent by Champlain. here is the town in the early 1700s.



In Other Events....

1996 Space - Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78 performs hand-grip tests in the Spacelab using the Torque Velocity Dynamometer; exercises on a stationary bicycle-like device called the ergometer to maintain cardiovascular conditioning in the microgravity environment, to help researchers gather data on in-flight muscle atrophy; continues tests on the human behavior workstation, doing problem-solving exercises which help track each crew members' level of mental fatigue; continues the Astronaut Lung Function Experiment to measure effects of microgravity on pulmonary system during rest, heavy exercise and deep breathing.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Privacy Commissioner Bruce Phillips urgently recommends legislation against interception of cellular telephone conversations.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Patricia Starr receives $3,500 fine for breaking Ontario's election finance laws; convicted of fraud June 28; former political fundraiser for Ontario Liberals.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - President of South Korea Roh Tae-Woo holds talks with PM Mulroney in Ottawa; to improve trade and political ties.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Conservatives raised 20% less in 1990 than 1989; Liberal, NDP, Reform parties got more; Elections Canada reports.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Quebec puts two-year freeze on immigration; maximum of 45,000 in 1991 and 1992; public fears immigrants threaten jobs in poor economy.
1991 Regina Saskatchewan - Grant Devine 1934- Gross Revenue Insurance Plan combines crop and revenue insurance; funds throughout year in 3 payments instead of year end.
1989 New Brunswick - Federal PC cabinet minister Bernard Valcourt injured while motorcycling; later charged with impaired driving and dropped from the cabinet.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams has a #1 hit with 'Heaven'.
1982 Toronto Ontario - TSE Index drops to 1346, down 44% from November 1980.
1980 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- criticizes provincial Premiers for refusing to endorse charter of rights without getting new powers; at Liberal convention in Winnipeg.
1974 Newfoundland - At least 250 large icebergs are counted along the eastern shores off Newfoundland.
1973 Trois-Pistoles, Quebec - Liberian tanker collides with a grain-carrier in the St. Lawrence River at Trois-Pistoles.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Menzies Prime Minister of Australia starts three-day visit to Canada.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canadian Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act; allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes CNR Capital Revision Act; releases Canadian National Railways from 50% of its debt; cuts interest payments for 10 years.
1945 Berlin Germany - Canadian troops enter Berlin as part of British garrison force; to share occupation duties.
1944 Carpiquet France - Canadians take village of Carpiquet and part of airfield; Keller's 8th Brigade: North Shores, Queen's Own, and le Régiment de la Chaudière, with the 7th Brigade's Winnipeg Rifles under command; supported by the 10th Canadian Armoured Regiment (Fort Garry Horse) and the Assault Vehicles, Royal Engineers of the 79th British Armoured Division; the Canadians have 428 field guns, backed by naval fire including the 9 16-inch guns of the battleship Rodney and the 15-inch guns of the monitor Roberts; take 117 dead and 260 wounded; position held for five days until Caen is taken in Operation Charnwood.
1939 Fort Ross, NWT - Overnight temperature at Fort Ross drops to -12.2 C; one of the lowest July temperatures ever recorded in Canada.
1911 Montreal Quebec - Tobacco millionaire William C. Macdonald 1831-1917 gives McGill University 10 hectares (Macdonald Park) for a stadium.
1907 Coma, California - Canadian pugilist Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires to retain the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
1905 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes bill establishing Alberta and Saskatchewan as provinces.
1898 Sable Island, NS - French ship La Bourgogne collides with British ship the Cromartyshire; 560 persons drown.
1893 Chicago Illinois - Tug of war team from Zorra Township, Ontario, wins world championship at the Chicago World Fair.
1886 Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta - Poundmaker dies at the home of his foster father, Chief Crowfoot, after spending a year in jail at Stony Mountain; former chief of the Cree band that held Fort Battleford under siege and defeated the troops of Col. W.D. Otter at Cut Knife Hill in southern Saskatchewan.
1884 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald appoints commission to investigate Chinese immigration in British Columbia after Welsh and English miners protest low wages paid to the Chinese; starting in 1885, Chinese immigrants will be required to pay an entry fee, or head tax of $50 for entry into Canada.
1849 Montreal Quebec - Four Montreal English newspapers support the Annexation Association; proposing that Canada join US if that is the only way to ease the commercial depression.
1837 Missisquoi Quebec - Patriote assembly meets at Stanbridge to demand democratic rights; many American sympathizers attend.
1836 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 starts newspaper The Constitution to mark the 60th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence.
1789 Nootka Sound BC - Estaban Jose Martinez 1742-1798 seizes British ship Argonaut and others for infringing Spanish sovereignty; on Spanish warship Princesa.
1774 Cumberland House Manitoba - Matthew Cocking 1743-1799 helps Samuel Hearne establish Cumberland House, company's first permanent western inland settlement; Hudson's Bay Company Chief Factor at York Fort.
1754 Farmington Pennsylvania - George Washington 1732-1799 retreats to Great Meadows after French counter-attack; builds a crude stockade named Fort Necessity on the Monongahela River; the French and Indians attack, Washington loses half his men, and surrenders to Jumonville's older half-brother Captain Louis Coulon Ecuyer, Sieur de Villers; Captains Robert Stobo and Jacob Van Braam held hostage, while Washington and his men make their way back to Virginia.
1654 Boston Massachusetts - Robert Sedgwick 1611-1656 leaves Boston to avenge French attacks on English vessels by attacking Acadia; commander-in-chief of New England coast.
1648 Hillsdale Ontario - Jesuit friar Antoine Daniel killed when Iroquois break peace and attack Huron villages of St. Joseph II and St. Michel in Huronia.
1609 Quebec/NY - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 discovers what was later named Lake Champlain in his honour; on Quebec and New York border.

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July 5th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius
1295 – Scotland and France form an alliance, the so-called "Auld Alliance", against England.
1316 – The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada
1594 – Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begins an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Campaign of Danture in Sri Lanka.
1610 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
1803 – The Convention of Artlenburg is signed, leading to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
1809 – The Battle of Wagram is fought.
1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain.
1813 – War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York commence.
1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Chippawa – American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippawa, Ontario.
1833 – Lê Văn Khôi along with 27 soldiers stage a mutiny taking over the Phiên An citadel, developing into the Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng.
1833 – Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1878 – The coat of arms of the Baku Governorate is established.
1884 – Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
1934 – "Bloody Thursday" – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
1935 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
1940 – World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.
1941 – World War II: Operation Barbarossa: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
1943 – World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
1943 – World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel.
1945 – World War II: The liberation of the Philippines is declared.
1946 – The bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France.
1948 – National Health Service Acts creates the national public health systems in the United Kingdom.
1950 – Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
1950 – Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
1954 – The Andhra Pradesh High Court was established.
1962 – Algeria becomes independent from France.
1971 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.
1973 – A BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills eleven firefighters.
1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
1975 – Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal.
1977 – Military coup in Pakistan: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, is overthrown.
1987 – The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers were born and, in the following years, continued to kill with the tactic.
1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions were later overturned.
1995 – The Republic of Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
1999 – Wolverhampton, England is hit by storms, including a tornado. The area was hit again with severe storms on August 1.
1999 – U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
2004 – The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
2006 – North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly failed in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.
2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.
2012 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).







Today's Canadian Headline....

1937 WHEW WHAT A SCORCHER
Yellow Grass Saskatchewan Temperature at Yellow Grass reaches 45C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada; 110F+.

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Roland Michener invested by Queen Elizabeth with the first ribbon and pendant star of the Order of Canada; founding of the Order of Canada.



In Other Events....

1997 George, Washington - Halifax singer Sarah McLachlan premieres Lilith Fair, her all-female pop festival tour, at the George Amphitheatre; with Suzanne Vega, Paula Cole and Jewel.
1994 Montreal Quebec - Report of provincial inquiry says Montreal police force poorly supervised, badly trained and racist.
1993 St. Catharines Ontario - Justice Francis Kovacs puts publication ban on trial of Karla Homolka in sex slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy; to ensure fair trial for her estranged husband Paul Bernardo, facing first-degree murder charges.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- accepts parallel constitutional reform process run by natives; to provide input to parliamentary unity committee.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Jake Epp concludes closing Sarnia-Montreal oil pipeline will not threaten oil supply; built during energy crisis 15 years ago.
1991 Canada - Ottawa seizes Bank of Credit and Commerce Canada's assets and closes all four branches; result of international money-laundering investigation.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Gregory Evans says in report to Nova Scotia government that Donald Marshall is due $1.5 million; for spending 11 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays now 10 games back in the American League, but will go on to win the AL East title.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- sets up Task Force on Canadian Unity, chaired by Jean-Luc Pépin and John Robarts.
1975 Newfoundland - Joey Smallwood elected leader of the new Liberal Reform Party of Newfoundland and Labrador; former Newfoundland Premier.
1975 New York City - Canadian rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 'Hey You' peaks at #21 on the pop singles chart.
1972 Lausanne Switzerland - National Ballet of Canada ends first European tour; perform in Monte Carlo, London, Glasgow, Paris, Stuttgart.
1970 Toronto Ontario - Air Canada DC-8 crashes during a landing attempt 10 km west of Malton (Pearson International Airport) en route from Montreal to Los Angeles; all 109 aboard killed.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Start of restoration of Wolfe-Montcalm Monument destroyed by separatists in 1963.
1958 Orillia Ontario - Brewery Bay residence of Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 opened as the Leacock Memorial House.
1957 Nobleford Alberta - Charles Sherwood Noble dies; settled in Claresholm district of southern Alberta from North Dakota, but drought, poor harvests and low prices for grain forced him into bankruptcy; in 1935 developed a new plough that sliced under the sod, leaving grass and weeds behind to protect topsoil from the wind; built a factory to manufacture the Noble Cultivator.
1950 Esquimalt BC - Royal Canadian Navy destroyers HMCS Cayuga, Athabaskan, and Sioux leave Esquimalt for Pearl Harbor escorted by cruiser Ontario; to come under UN control during Korean War.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley introduces new decontrol program in Parliament; list of goods to remain under price ceilings.
1942 Port Hope Ontario - Ian Fleming the first graduate of the Special 25 training school for spies; later member of MI5, creator of James Bond novels.
1930 Niagara Falls Ontario - Daredevil George Stathakis dies in a plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel, but his turtle survives.
1923 Sydney Nova Scotia - Sydney miners and steel workers strike for higher wages and union recognition; government investigating commission accepts their demands.
1913 Seattle Washington - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 leaves Seattle on the Karluk; three-year Arctic expedition sponsored by Canadian government.
1885 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island founds own telephone company.
1814 Chippewa Ontario - Major General Jacob Brown defeats Gen. Phineas Riall and 1,800 British at Street's Creek (Chippewa); British retreat back toward Burlington, destroying Chippewa Bridge to prevent pursuit; 148 British dead, 48 Americans; with Winfield Scott.
1813 Plattsburgh New York - British begin three weeks of raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York; War of 1812 raids.
1777 Ticonderoga New York - Arthur St. Clair 1734-1818 abandons Ticonderoga this night after leaving strategic Mount Defiance carelessly defended; leaves important supplies for the British under General John Burgoyne 1722-1792.
1758 Lake George New York - General James Abercromby leaves the ruins of Fort William Henry at the head of Lake George to attack the French at Fort Carillon; army of 6,000 British regulars, and almost 9000 provincials from New England, New York and New Jersey, embarks in hundreds of batteaux and whale boats.
1717 Quebec Quebec - New France authorities withdraw card money from circulation; had lost half its face value; originally used to pay the army.
1700 Saint John New Brunswick - Joseph Robinau de Villebon 1655-1700 dies in office; Governor of Acadia.
1626 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives back in Quebec after exile; sets to work building outpost at Cap Tourmente.
1610 Bristol England - Bristol merchant John Guy dc1629 sails with brother Phillip and 38 other colonists from Bristol to Newfoundland; appointed governor of first English colony in Newfoundland with instructions to fortify the settlement at Cupids (then known as Cuper's Cove) in Conception Bay, experiment with farming, cut spars and planks, make salt, potash and glass, collect samples of ore and fish and trade in cured fish and train oil.

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July 6th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra, where Epaminondas defeated Cleombrotus I, takes place
640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt).
1044 – The Battle of Ménfő between troops led by Emperor Henry III and Magyar forces led by King Samuel takes place.
1189 – Richard I "the Lionheart" accedes to the English throne.
1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.
1411 – Ming China's Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after the third treasure voyage and presents the Sinhalese king, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to the Yongle Emperor.
1415 – Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.
1484 РPortuguese sea captain Diogo C̣o finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1495 – First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo – Charles VIII defeats the Holy League.
1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.
1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.
1560 – The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
1573 – Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1609 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
1614 – Żejtun and the surrounding villages suffer a raid from Ottoman forces. This was the last unsuccessful attempt by the Ottomans to conquer the island of Malta.
1630 – Thirty Years' War: Four thousand Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Siege of Fort Ticonderoga: After a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
1779 – Battle of Grenada: The French defeat British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.
1785 – The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
1801 – First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
1854 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1887 – David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
1893 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that killed 71 people and injured 200.
1917 – World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
1936 – A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell.
1939 – Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
1940 – Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as Australia's longest cantilever bridge is formally opened.
1941 – Nazi Germany launches its offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court martial.
1944 – The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
1962 – As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
1962 – The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
1964 – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1966 – Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
1967 – Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
1975 – The Comoros declares independence from France.
1986 – Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
1989 – The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Fourteen bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
1995 – In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and kills more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then- UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called "the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War".
1997 – The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
1999 – U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted on him in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.
2003 – The 70-metre Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044 and 2049 respectively.
2006 – The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-openes for trade after 44 years.
2013 – At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
2013 – A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
2013 РA 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-M̩gantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1896 CABINET EXTENDS BORDERS OF QUEBEC TO THE ARCTIC
Ottawa Ontario - Order-in-Council enlarges boundaries of Quebec to Hudson Bay; adds 306,765 km2 to the province.

1924
New York City - Winnipeg-born inventor and radio pioneer William Stevenson sends first photo across Atlantic by radio, to England.

1892
St. John's Newfoundland - Three day fire destroys most of St. John's. The picture shows the devastation along the waterfront; note the cathedral on the hill is still standing.



In Other Events....

1996 Space - Payload Specialist Bob Thirsk, on Shuttle Mission STS-78 starts to wrap up the last of his experiment operations in the Spacelab module with fellow Mission Specialists Susan Helms, Rick Linnehan, Chuck Brady and Jean-Jacques Favier; they then start deactivating Spacelab, although the hatch between Columbia and the lab will not be closed until early the following morning.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Dennis Bennie sells Delrina Corp. to Symantec Corp. in US$415 million deal; will cost jobs of almost 25% of the software company's 730 employees.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Shreveport Pirates play their first CFL game, against Ottawa Roughriders.
1993 St. Catharines Ontario - Justice Francis Kovacs sentences Karla Homolka to two concurrent 12-year prison terms for manslaughter in the sex slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.
1991 Pictou Nova Scotia - Princess Anne leaves Pictou after six day visit to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Burst pipe at National Archives damages 100 atlases dating between 1490 and 1600, 2,000 books; and a collection of 150 year old manuscripts.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Government sells remaining 53% interest in Air Canada, completing privatization of the airline.
1988 Off Scotland - Two Canadians among 167 crew members killed as gas leak leads to explosion and fire on the Occidental Petroleum drill rig Piper Alpha in the North Sea; 64 survivors rescued.
1984 Oshawa Ontario - General Motors of Canada starts investing over $1 billion for new facilities; including 125 industrial robots.
1978 Yukon - Ottawa bans all new development in 38,850 km2 area of northern Yukon; will set up management program for 110-140,000 animal caribou herd.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Solicitor General Francis Fox announces Royal Commission to investigate allegations of illegal RCMP activities; to be headed by David C. McDonald.
1975 Wetaskiwin Alberta - Hailstone weighing 249 grams falls near Wetaskiwin.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa lets Interprovincial Pipe Line's increase crude oil capacity to Ontario and BC; $42 million program.
1972 Moscow Russia - Canada and Soviet Union announce program of cultural and scientific exchanges.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 announces $71 million in grants and development loans to Caribbean Commonwealth countries; over next 5 years.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Gasoline Retailers Fraternity of Quebec start three-day strike against oil companies; close most Montreal service stations.
1961 Canada - Robert Norman Thompson 1914- elected national leader of Social Credit Party; succeeds Solon Earl Low (1900-1962).
1948 Washington DC - Canada joins discussions leading to North Atlantic Security Pact; with delegates from Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, UK, and US.
1935 Montreal Quebec - First flight of Fairchild 82A bush plane, Canadian-designed successor to the FC-2W-2 and 71 models; phased out to produce Bristol Bolingbroke in wartime.
1934 London England - Canadian soprano Sarah Fischer sings in 30 minutes of excerpts from Carmen; first opera telecast by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
1934 Edmonton Alberta - Charles Bédaux departs with five Citroen half-tracks were built especially for the journey on an automobile safari through the Peace River district to the Alaska Panhandle; first part of the route over a 500 mile muddy, unpaved road to Fort St. John, BC; tractors abandoned in muskeg in August; expedition board power boats at Whitewater, British Columbia in September, and returned to Pouce Coupe.
1925 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and British West Indies sign new trade agreement.
1921 Quebec Quebec - Quebec's warmest day at 40.0C.
1918 Edmonton Alberta - Katherine Stinson's plane forced down by engine trouble in the first official airmail flight in Western Canada.
1912 Stockholm Sweden - Small Canadian contingent attends opening of the 5th Olympic games in Stockholm.
1908 New York City - Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for the North Pole.
1906 Quebec Quebec - Empress of Ireland arrives at Quebec at 05:30 on maiden voyage from Liverpool; with 215 1st-class passengers, 314 2nd-class passengers and 777 3rd-class passengers; best day's run was 460 knots, a record for the North Atlantic service.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes the Lord's Day Observance Act after bitter debate; to ban work, sport, entertainment, and most business on Sundays.
1862 London England - British government approves in principle British North American union.
1858 Kingston Ontario - Alexander Tilloch Galt 1817-1893 proposes union of British North American provinces; Canadian Finance Minister.
1850 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys over 1,000 buildings in Montreal.
1795 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Fourth session of first Parliament of Upper Canada meets until Aug. 10; regulation of doctors, new registry of deeds and wills.
1777 Ticonderoga NY - British force under General John Burgoyne takes Fort Ticonderoga from Arthur St. Clair and his rebels during the American Revolution.
1758 Ticonderoga NY - General James Abercromby lands at Howe's Cove at the northern end of Lake George, to attack Montcalm's French at Fort Carillon; army of almost 15,000 advances in four columns; retreat after death of Lord Howe; will try again the following morning.
1757 St-Jean Quebec - French troops depart for assault on Fort William Henry; companies of La Reine, La Sarre, Languedoc, and Guyenne, plus 1,000 men of La Marine, a three hundred man unit known as Villiers' Volunteers, 2,500 Canadians, 1,800 Indians (Ottawa, Menomonee, Sauk, Potawatomie and Fox), two companies of artillery, one company of workmen, and the artillery train; Lévis to take command of Carillon and await arrival of Montcalm.
1757 Quebec Quebec - French troops sent to re-enforce Louisbourg; the Corps Royal, consisting of six officers, four hundred recruits from France, and twenty artillery men, plus two battalions of the Berry Regiment.
1711 Quebec Quebec - Les Arrets de Marly limit dues payable to seigneurs; uncultivated or uncleared lands must revert to seigneurs.
1669 Montreal Quebec - Sulpician priests François Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 and René de Bréhant de Galinée 1645-1678 leave Montreal with La Salle to convert Potawatomi Indians of Mississippi; will discover and explore the Ohio River.

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July 7th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
1534 – European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick.
1543 – French troops invade Luxembourg.
1575 – Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
1770 – The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
1798 – Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the "war".
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
1846 – Mexican–American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
1863 – United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
1892 – Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
1915 – World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
1915 – An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1915 – Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
1941 – World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947 – The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1952 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 – Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
1956 – Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1980 – Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 – During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
2002 – A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al-Qaeda leader.
2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover – B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing 10 people.








Today's Canadian Headline....


1969 TRUDEAU PASSES OFFICIAL LANGUAGES ACT
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes Trudeau's Official Languages Act, declares French and English to be the official languages of Canada; makes French equal to English in federal institutions; eases francophone access to the federal public service.

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Tadoussac Quebec - Helene Boullé de Champlain arrives in New France; Champlain's wife enchants the Indian children, who admire her clothes and ask her to sing.

1975
Winnipeg Manitoba - Edward 'Ed' Broadbent 1936- chosen leader of New Democratic Party on fourth ballot; replacing David Lewis; 984 votes, to Rosemary Brown 658; here he is with Stephen Lewis.



In Other Events....

1996 Cape Canaveral, Florida - Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Dr. Bob Thirsk lands with his Shuttle STS-78 mission crewmates at Kennedy Space Center at 8:37.30 a.m. EDT, after Columbia completed 272 revolutions of the earth, and a record 16 day 21 hours 48 min 30 sec flight.
1995 Memphis Tennessee - Memphis Mad Dogs play their first CFL home game against the BC Lions.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- reaches agreement with 9 premiers on constitutional reform proposals sent to Quebec's premier Bourassa; elected Senate of 8 seats per province; forms basis of Charlottetown Accord rejected Oct. 26.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP charges 6 companies, including Crown corporations Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. and Uranium Canada Ltd., with conspiracy to fix prices in an international cartel.
1981 PEI - Prince Edward Island police get power to take citizens from homes without warrant and hold for drug treatment; wide powers in two new Acts.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Ex Canadian lightweight boxing champion Cleveland Denny dies 17 days after being knocked out by champion Gaetan Hart.
1976 Brussels Belgium - Canada signs agreement with the European Economic Community for mutual cooperation.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa legislates end to seven-week longshoremen's strike in St. Lawrence River ports.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - First 35 people appointed as Companions of the Order of Canada, a decoration honoring outstanding Canadian citizens.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - St. Patrick's College merges with Carleton University; formerly part of the University of Ottawa.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Bill to incorporate Bank of Western Canada; Canada's ninth chartered bank.
1964 Pine Point NWT - Opening of traffic on Great Slave Lake Railway, operated by Canadian National, from Roma Junction, Alberta.
1954 Winnipeg Manitoba - Rainbow Stage opens in Winnipeg's Kildonan Park to present operettas and musicals using local performers; first full-length musical is Brigadoon, in the fall of 1955; Canada's longest running outdoor theatre.
1944 Caen France - Highland Light Infantry ordered to attack fortified German positions in Buron, a source of dangerous fire from Germans, while Canadian and British bombers drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen.
1938 Canada - R. J. Manion chosen as party leader by Conservative Party, replacing R.B. Bennett; leader until May 13, 1940.
1858 Newfoundland - Frederick N. Gisbourne 1824-1892 starts laying underwater telegraph cable from Ireland to Newfoundland.
1793 Charlottetown PEI - First meeting of the Assembly of Prince Edward Island.
1787 Nootka BC - Frances Barkley arrives in British Columbia; wife of Charles Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle; the 17 year old is the first European woman in BC.
1776 Montreal Quebec - John Johnson 1742-1830 founds battalion of American loyalists, known as the King's Royal Regiment of New York.
1759 Niagara New York - Brigadier General John Prideaux arrives from Oswego at French Fort Niagara with a thousand Iroquois warriors under Sir William Johnson; the following day, they demand surrender from French Commander Pouchot .
1667 Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 makes peace with the Mohawks.
1534 New Brunswick - Jacques Cartier trades furs with Micmac; first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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