This Date In History

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December 17th 2014 - This Date in History.


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497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
920 – Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
942 – Assassination of William I of Normandy.
1398 – Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1583 – Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
1586 – Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1600 – Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
1718 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
1777 – American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.
1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
1819 – Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
1835 – Great Fire of New York: Fire levels lower Manhattan.
1837 – A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
1892 – First issue of Vogue is published
1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
1918 – Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1926 РAntanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'̩tat is successful.
1927 – Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
1928 – Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
1943 – All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States with the repealing of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.
1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
1950 – The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
1960 – 1960 Munich C-131 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
1961 – Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
1967 – Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
1969 – The SALT I talks begin.
1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
1970 – Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
1981 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London, England, United Kingdom. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
1987 – Final Fantasy is released in Japan on the Famicon, marking the start of the Final Fantasy series and saving Square from bankruptcy.
1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.
1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
1989 – Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
1997 – The British Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 comes into force, banning all handguns with the exception of antique and show weapons.
2002 – Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
2003 – The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, England, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
2005 – Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
2005 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan.
2009 – MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
2010 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1992 MULRONEY SIGNS FREE TRADE DEAL
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- signs North American Free Trade Accord at ceremony on Parliament Hill; George Bush and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari sign in separate ceremonies; deal still must be approved in legislatures of 3 countries.

1917
Canada - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 leads Unionist government to victory in general election, 153 seats to 82 for the Liberals (62 of which are from Quebec); wins only three seats in Quebec due to opposition to conscription. Here he is shortly after in Whitehall with Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty.



In Other Events...

1996 Chechnya - Bandits kill 51-year-old Vancouver nurse Nancy Malloy and five other International Red Cross aid workers.
1996 Ottawa Ontario - Rodrigue Biron and Gilles Duceppe announce they are candidates to lead the Bloc québécois; Duceppe the eventual winner.
1991 St. John's, Newfoundland - Joseph Smallwood 1900-1991 dies at age 90; led Newfoundland into Confederation; was Premier for 23 years; wrote 'I Chose Canada.' A native of Gambo, he died leaving his Encyclopedia of Newfoundland unfinished.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Quebec government unveils Innovatech Grand Montreal, $415 million plan to renew city economy.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park rules that acid rain polluters must cut sulphur dioxide emissions by 64% in the next eight years.
1982 Brussels Belgium - European Economic Community bans import of harp and hooded seal pelts, main market for the fur.
1974 Quebec - Pierre Laporte cleared of charges linking him with organized crime; by the Quebec Commission on Organized Crime; late Quebec Labour Minister killed by FLQ terrorists in 1970.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada to print new bank notes; portraits of former Prime Ministers to replace Queen; Laurier on $5, Macdonald on $10, King on $50, Borden on $100.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa puts the Company of Young Canadians under stricter management and financial control.
1968 Montreal Quebec - City of Montreal offers $10,000 reward for the arrest of FLQ terrorist bombers.
1966 Quebec - Opening of Quebec Autoroute 15.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Senate approves new National Flag of Canada after Commons passage December 15. House of Commons votes to keep flying Union Jack as symbol of Canada's membership in Commonwealth.
1960 Quebec Quebec - Quebec joins National Hospital Insurance Plan, effective January 1, 1961; last province to join.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that food stamp premiums are legal.
1953 Vancouver BC - Vancouver's first TV station, CBUT, goes on the air.
1947 Sept-Iles, Quebec - Sept-Iles linked with the world by telephone.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Martin Sr. sworn in as federal Minister of National Health and Welfare.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie King Cabinet passes three orders-in-council providing for the deportation of five classes of Japanese Canadians.
1941 Hong Kong - Japanese repeat demand for surrender of the colony, but it is summarily refused by the British governor; garrison, which includes 450 Canadians, has no hope of relief, with the sinking of two British battleships off Singapore, and the crippling of the US fleet at Pearl Harbor; invasion comes the following day.
1939 Britain - First contingents of Canadian First Division start arriving in England for service in World War II.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Canada signs British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, a $1.281 billion program to train pilots, navigators, wireless operators and gunners from UK, Canada, Australia and NZ; instructors from the Royal Canadian Air Force working at 107 schools and 184 ancillary units across Canada will eventually train 130,000 Allied aircrew.
1924 Victoria BC - BC Iegislature adopts resolution opposing continued Oriental immigration.
1921 Ottawa Ontario - Beaver design of the new nickel 5¢ coin proclaimed; originally silver, but quickly changed to pure nickel; based on North West Company trade tokens.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel William Jacobs from Montreal the first Jewish Canadian elected to the House of Commons.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Bankers Association.
1875 Montreal Quebec - Violent bread riots at Montreal.
1867 Victoria BC - British Columbia Legislature meets for the first time at the new capital of Victoria.
1864 USA - US requires passports for entry from British North America for the first time.
1859 Montreal Quebec - Victoria Bridge opened to passenger train traffic; will be formally opened by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, on Aug. 25, 1860; the single-track iron tubular bridge entirely enclosed, which causes ventilation problems; slit 20" wide will be cut the full length of the bridge to let smoke escape.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Institut canadien; printer Joseph Guiborda member.
1822 Dauphin Manitoba - Peter Fidler dies at Fort Dauphin, Hudson's Bay Company fur-trader, explorer and cartographer.
1792 Quebec Quebec - Opening of the first assembly of Lower Canada.
1640 Montreal Quebec - The Company of One Hundred Associates agreed to grant the whole of Montreal Island to the Société de Notre Dame de Montréal; except for mountain and area to southwest (Lachine).

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December 18th 2014 - This Date in History.


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218 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.
1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1622 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over British General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1867 – The Angola Horror train wreck occurred.
1878 – John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
1878 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar
1888 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car
1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
1912 – The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9–0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long.
1935 – The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1939 – World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
1944 – World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
1956 – Japan joins the United Nations.
1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
1971 – Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1973 – The Islamic Development Bank is founded.
1978 – Dominica joins the United Nations.
1987 – Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
1989 – The European Economic Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
1997 – HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2002 – 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
2005 РThe Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adr̩.
2006 – The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
2010 – Anti-government protests begin in Tunisia, heralding the Arab Spring.









Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 FRENCH ONLY OUTSIDE
Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1996 passes Bill 178 requiring French only on outside signs; permits bilingual signs inside; exercises Quebec's constitutional right, Clause 33 of the Charter of Rights, the 'notwithstanding clause', to override the Dec. 15 decision of the Supreme Court, striking down sections of Quebec's Bill 101 requiring that commercial signs be in French only; a decision that called these sections an unreasonable violation of freedom of expression.

1950
Pusan Korea - 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, lands at Pusan; first Canadian troops in Korea.




In Other Events...

1997 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada hears arguments of amicus curiae André Joli-Coeur, since the Quebec government had refused to comment on the legality of a unilateral declaration of sovereignty.
1997 Montreal Quebec - Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte says in Le Devoir that it is up to the Quebec people, not the Supreme Court, to choose their own future; in response to protest from English Catholics, he later says his remarks lacked 'prudence'.
1997 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia government apologizes for 1992 Westray mine explosion that killed 26 miners.
1993 Canada - Grace Hartman dies at age 75; former national president of CUPE, first woman in Canada to lead a major national union.
1992 Halifax, Nova Scotia - John Crosbie cuts groundfish quotas up to 70%; says there are 'too many plants, too many boats, too many people chasing fish'; National Sea Products to close North Sydney and Lunenburg plants.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Air Canada President Hollis Harris says airline will post record loss of $300 m in 1992; will cut staff by 2,000.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Quebec completes major overhaul of Civil Code, governing all non-criminal law; after 35 years of reform.
1991 New York City - Céline Dion signs a $10 million contract with Sony Music.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Provigo acquires 87 grocery stores from Dominion Stores for $100 million.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Liberal leader Pierre Trudeau decides to postpone his retirement; will lead he Party back to power in majority win over Conservatives.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa abolishes Information Canada, Company of Young Canadians, and Opportunities For Youth program; due to cuts in government spending.
1974 Mississauga Ontario - Peter Demeter sentenced to life imprisonment for hiring unknown person to kill wife Christine and collect $1 million insurance money.
1971 Windsor Ontario - Thieves steal over $1 million from Windsor branch of the Royal Bank; 6 arrested several days later.
1969 Montreal Quebec - FLQ activist Pierre Vallières sentenced to 30 months in prison.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Henry Moore British sculptor donates 400 to 600 of his works to Art Gallery of Ontario.
1968 Cornwall Ontario - St. Regis Mohawks block Seaway International Bridge to protest customs duties on their US purchases; claim exemption under Jay's Treaty of 1794.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Quebec abolishes its Legislative Council.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government founds the multi-campus Université du Québec; Quebec's first public university and its fourth French language institution; includes six constituent universities, in Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Chicoutimi, Rimouski, Hull and Rouyn; two research institutes - the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and the Institut Armand-Frapper in Laval; as well as two superior schools, l'École nationale d'administration publique in Quebec City and l'École de technologie supérieure in Montreal; also Télé-université, which offers distance learning programs.
1954 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens star Maurice Richard gets his 400th career NHL goal in his 690th game.
1946 Bagotville Quebec - Daniel Johnson, père, elected MNA for Bagot; later Quebec Premier.
1946 Lethbridge Alberta - Four German prisoners of war hanged at the Lethbridge Provincial Jail for the murder of fellow prisoner Cpl. Karl Lehmann at the Medicine Hat POW camp in Sept. 1944.
1941 Kowloon, Hong Kong - Japanese troops cross the Lye Mun Passage after dark, in assault boats, landing craft and small boats towed by ferry steamers, to attack Hong Kong island; two platoons of the Winnipeg Grenadiers deployed to seize the hills known as Jardine's Lookout and Mount Butler where they engaged in intense fighting; heavily outnumbered, they are cut to pieces and both platoon commanders killed; the following day Brigadier Lawson is killed when the Japanese surround his West Brigade headquarters. All British and Canadian forces in Hong Kong will surrender on Christmas Day; Canadians lose 290 dead in battle, with 493 wounded; a total of 557 were killed or later died in Japanese prison camps.
1940 Britain - Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur 'CD' Howe 1886-1960 joins 152 other survivors of torpedoed liner 'Western Prince' in arriving safely in England.
1901 Indian Head, Saskatchewan - William Richard Motherwell 1860-1943 founds Territorial (later Saskatchewan) Grain Growers' Association at a meeting in the Indian Head Planing Mill; adopted resolutions dealing with such important matters as the appointment of a warehouse commissioner, loading platforms and car shortages; among those who attended that first convention were: Geo. Brown and G. Spring Rice, Regina; J. A. Brown, Spy Hill; Messrs. Barwell, Stevens, Invarson and McKinnon, Balcarres; H. Dorrell, Moose Jaw; George Lang, Indian Head; D. D. McFarlane, Welwyn; M. Snow, W. Gibson, J. Nix, Wolseley; R. J. Phin, Moosomin; Messrs. Wright and Fitzgerald, Grenfell; W. H. Ellis, J. B. Gordon and R. J. Campbell, Ellisboro; Robert Mills, W. P. Osler, I. Tinnel, Summerberry; Thomas Smith and E. Shaw, Kinlis; R. G. Ward, Firndale; W. M. Tate, Chickney; H. Oldors, Torlie; today a co-op of 75,000 farmers known as United Grain Growers.
1897 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates Geographic Board of Canada by order-in-council.
1893 Toronto Ontario - Robert Machray 1831-1904 elected first Anglican Primate of all Canada; he is Archbishop of Rupertsland.
1892 Quebec Quebec - Louis Taillon replaces de Boucherville as Quebec Premier.
1889 Canso Nova Scotia - CPR telegraph links up with the Atlantic Cable at Canso.
1854 Quebec Quebec - Founding of the Quebec & Saguenay Railroad.
1813 Lewiston New York - John Murray leads 500 British and Canadians in capture of old Fort Niagara from the Americans in the War of 1812; Fort Niagara; captures 300 prisoners; Phineas Riall leads party of Indians in 2 week raid on Manchester, Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Buffalo.
1792 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Antoine Panet 1751-1815 elected first President of the Lower Canada Assembly, which met in the Bishop's Palace at the top of Côte de la Montagne; already Speaker; first Quebec elections.
1603 Paris France - Pierre de Monts receives royal letters patent giving him trading rights in the territory north of peninsular Nova Scotia.

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December 19th 2014 - This Date in History.


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211 – Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives, the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother, Julia Domna.
1154 – Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1490 – Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1562 – The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
1606 – The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1675 – The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
1828 – Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1900 – Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
1907 – 239 coal miners die in a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
1912 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Verdun – On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
1920 – King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1927 – Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan are executed by the British Empire.
1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
1941 – World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army.
1941 – World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
1946 – Start of the First Indochina War.
1956 – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
1961 – India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
1964 – The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyễn Khánh dissolve the High National Council and arrest some of the members.
1967 – Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1974 – Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1975 – John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1979 – Geoffrey Boycott became the first cricketer to be stranded at 99 not out against Australia at Perth.
1981 – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1984 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1986 – Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
1995 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe.
1997 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1998 – President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
2000 – The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.
2001 РA record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Kh̦vsg̦l, Mongolia.
2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010 – Sachin Tendulkar scores a record-breaking 50th Century in Test cricket against South Africa at the SuperSport Park in Centurion, Gauteng.
2010 – Rahul Dravid crosses the 12000 runs milestone in Test cricket against South Africa at the SuperSport Park in Centurion, Gauteng.
2012 – Park Geun-hye becomes the first female president of South Korea.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1917 FIRST TWO NHL GAMES PLAYED
Montreal Quebec/ Toronto Ontario - NHL starts inaugural season: original members of the league are the Montreal Canadiens, the Montreal Wanderers, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs. Quebec will not start playing with the league until 1919; Quebec's best player Joe Malone joins the Canadiens and on opening night scores five goals, including likely the first goal ever scored in the NHL, as Montreal beats Ottawa 9-4. Malone will go on to score 44 goals during the 24-game season. In the game in Toronto, Montreal Wanderers Dave Ritchie also scores what may have been the first NHL goal in a 10-9 victory over the Toronto Arenas; also first NHL game played on artificial ice; Harry Hyland of the Wanderers also scores five goals in this game; it will be the team's lone victory in the NHL: less than a month later, their arena burns down and they withdraw from the league. Sixteen of the players on that first day wind up in the Hockey Hall of Fame. The rules: each team can only dress a maximum of 12 players. There are no bluelines, no icing rules and no forward passing beyond the centre-ice red line. Minor penalties are three minutes long, and there is no limit on overtime.

1984
Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky scores his career 1,000th point on an assist in a 7-3 win over the Los Angeles Kings; at age 23 the youngest and the 18th NHLer; reaches the mark in just his 424th regular-season game, the fewest by any player in League history; Guy Lafleur held the old record, reaching the 1000 point mark in 720 games, 296 more than Gretzky. Gretzky will go on to break Gordie Howe's career record of 1,850 points in 1989. Here he is with his hero a decade earlier.




In Other Events...

1997 Los Angeles, California - Canadian director James Cameron's epic 'Titanic' opens in movie theatres; will become the highest grossing film ever made; with theme song by Céline Dion.
1994 Hull Quebec - CRTC approves $3.1 billion takeover of Maclean Hunter Ltd. by Rogers Communications Inc.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Bob White, Canadian Auto Workers President, announces merger with the Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers; 6,500 aerospace and mining workers in Manitoba and BC.
1988 Winnipeg Manitoba - Premier Gary Filmon withdraws his resolution to ratify Meech Lake from the Manitoba legislature; to protest Robert Bourassa's passage of Bill 178 requiring French only on outside signs, but permitting bilingual signs inside;.Ontario Premier David Peterson later says that Bourassa's decision to use the notwithstanding clause 'drove a stake through the heart of the Meech Lake Accord'.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park brings in a law to ban extra billing by doctors under OHIP.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach; today the most successful coach in any major league sport.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa ends commercial relations with South Africa, to protest Apartheid racial policies.
1977 Europe - Ottawa resumes uranium shipments to European Economic Community; EEC agrees to follow 1974 Canadian nuclear safeguards.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Bertha Wilson appointed to Ontario Court of Appeal; first woman in Canada named to a provincial court of appeal; later the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Symphony Orchestra able to keep operating with financial aid from citizens, businesses, and governments.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces plans to cut Canadian Armed Forces reserves and close 41 armories.
1964 Halifax Nova Scotia - Royal Canadian Navy commissions HMCS Annapolis; 20th ship in destroyer escort program.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 speaks to Queen Elizabeth by new CANTAT cable carrying voice, picture, and teletype messages; first link in new round-the-world Commonwealth communications system.
1956 Bonn Germany - Canadian and West Germany sign agreement to train 360 West German aircrew in Canada.
1949 Washington DC - Canada, Britain and the US agree to standardize military arms and fighting methods.
1941 Hong Kong - Company Sergeant Major John Osborn of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, leading a bayonet charge against the Japanese on Mount Butler; throws himself on a Japanese grenade to save his comrades' lives; posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
1940 Atlantic - Royal Canadian Navy destroyer HMCS Saguenay torpedoed by a German U-boat.
1927 Montreal Quebec - Mgr. Raymond-Marie Rouleau named a Cardinal.
1927 England - Albert 'Frenchy' Belanger 1906-1969 beats England's Ernie Jarvis over 12 rounds to win the World Flyweight Championship by decision; 112 lb boxer from Toronto' Cabbagetown retired in 1930 after six years and 61 pro bouts which included 13 KO's, 24 decisions, 7 draws and 17 losses.
1917 Quebec City - Quebec Bulldogs play their first professional hockey game.
1904 Dawson City Yukon - Dawson City hockey team starts walking towards Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905.
1865 Ottawa Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 resigns from cabinet after clashing with Conservative members.
1846 Toronto Ontario - The mayors of Toronto and Hamilton exchange greetings to open Canada's first telegraph service; the line runs between Toronto and Hamilton over lines of Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara, & St. Catharines Telegraph Company, founded Oct. 22.
1837 St-Eustache Quebec - John Colborne frees 64 of the 120 Patriote prisoners taken at St-Eustache, then returns to Montreal.
1813 Montreal Quebec - James McGill dies, leaving £10,000 to found a university; merchant and former North West Company partner.
1813 Lewiston New York - Lt.-Col. John Murray leads 550 British and Canadians in surprise attack, capturing Fort Niagara from the Americans; Riall goes on to destroy Lewiston and Buffalo to retaliate for burning of Newark (Niagara) and Queenston.

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December 20th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

69 – Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.
217 – The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity.
1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third Crusade.
1522 – Siege of Rhodes: Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1606 – The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
1808 – Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
1860 – South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
1832 – HMS Clio under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of the Falkland Islands
1893 – The end of one of the most dramatic Test Matches of all time. In the first to involve six days of play, England became the first team to win one after following on at Sydney.
1915 – World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
1924 – Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
1941 – World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
1942 – World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.
1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1952 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
1955 – Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
1957 – The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
1959 – Unknown attackers murder the Walker family in Osprey, Florida.
1960 – The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
1967 – A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
1968 – The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
1971 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.
1973 – The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.
1977 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
1984 – The Summit Tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.
1985 – Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
1987 РIn the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Do̱a Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
1988 – The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna, Austria.
1989 – United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega. This is also the first combat use of purpose-designed stealth aircraft.
1991 – A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
1991 – Paul Keating sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia after defeating Bob Hawke in a leadership ballot of the Australian Labor Party.
1995 – NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
1995 – American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.
1996 – NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
1999 – Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
2004 – A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.
2005 – Aleksandër Moisiu University was founded in Durrës, Albania.
2007 – Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
2007 РThe Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Caf̩ by Brazilian modernist painter C̢ndido Portinari, are stolen from the Ṣo Paulo Museum of Art.
2013 РChina successfully launches the Bolivian T̼pac Katari 1 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.








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1991 OTTAWA SENATORS COME BACK
Miami Florida - NHL Governors grant permanent membership to the new Ottawa Senators and the Tampa Bay Lightning teams; the Ottawa group is led by real estate investor Bruce Firestone; the original Senators went out of business in 1932, due to the Depression.

1919
Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet passes Order in Council creating the government owned Canadian National Railways, to unite and rescue five near-bankrupt railroads: the Grand Trunk, Grand Trunk Pacific, Canadian Northern, Intercolonial and Canadian Government Railways [National Transcontinental]. The new CNR system is the longest in North America, with over 50,000 km of track in the US and Canada.



In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - Burton Cummings records solo album 'Up Close and Alone' before a live audience at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto; released March 27th, 1996.
1991 Argentia Newfoundland - US Navy announces plans to close Argentia base in 1994; 500 personnel will leave; once the largest US base on foreign soil.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Jean Campeau and Michel Bélanger finish their hearings, after some 200 briefs and 600 submissions; special Joint Commission set up by Robert Bourassa and Jacques Parizeau to study Quebec's relationship with Canada; first Bélanger-Campeau report will state that the cost of Quebec independence will be minimal; recommends a referendum on sovereignty by October if Quebec did not receive a suitable offer from the rest of Canada.
1988 Quebec Quebec - Three Liberal anglophones resign from the Bourassa cabinet to protest passage of Bill 178 requiring French only on outside signs, but permitting bilingual signs inside;.Ontario Premier David Peterson later says that Bourassa's decision to use the notwithstanding clause 'drove a stake through the heart of the Meech Lake Accord'.
1988 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Penguin Mario Lemieux scores his 600th NHL goal.
1985 New York New York - Ottawa native Denis Potvin assists on Mike Bossy's goal for his 916th career point as his New York Islanders skate to a 2-2 tie with the New York Rangers; breaks Bobby Orr's NHL record for points by a defenseman.
1983 Montreal Quebec - Guy Lafleur the 10th NHLer to score 500th goals as his Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers, 6-0; Steve Shutt also scores his 400th goal in the game.
1982 Montreal Quebec - Paul Rose freed from jail on parole; former FLQ terrorist sentenced to life imprisonment Mar. 31, 1971 for the murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Wayne Gretzky wins Canada's Male Athlete of the Year Award; first person to win three consecutive awards.
1981 Winnipeg Manitoba - Doug Small of the Winnipeg Jets ties an NHL record by scoring at the 5 second mark, as his team beats the St. Louis Blues, 5-4.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Gerald Keith Bouey 1920- Bank of Canada raises lending rate to record 17.36%; prompts emergency Commons debate.
1979 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque 1922-1987 Quebec Premier announces upcoming referendum for a mandate to negotiate sovereignty-association.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Hsio-Yen Shih 1933- appointed Director of the National Gallery of Canada.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament increases number of seats in the House of Commons from 264 to 282; effective at the next federal election.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Maurice Jean Nadon 1920- succeeds W.L. Higgitt as Commissioner of the RCMP.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to set up Commission of Human Rights and Interests; to protect Canadians from discrimination.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Henri Richard of the Montreal Canadiens scores his 1,000th point with an assist in a 2-2 tie with the Buffalo Sabres.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans whaling on Canadian east coast, because of declining numbers.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Canada puts embargo on export of oil and arms from Canada to Rhodesia.
1945 Windsor Ontario - Ford Motor Company and UAW come to agreement to end Windsor Strike; 17,000 workers off the job since Sept. 12; on Dec 13 both parties agreed to binding arbitration under Justice Ivan Rand of the Supreme Court of Canada; Rand's arbitration award, rendered Jan. 29, 1946, denied the UAW's demand for a closed shop, but provided for a compulsory checkoff of union dues for all employees in the bargaining unit whether they were union members or not.
1944 Burma - RCAF Squadrons Nos. 435 and 436 fly their first operational mission, supplying Wingate's Fourteenth Army on its epic march south on the Burma Road.
1943 Ortona Italy - Maj-Gen Christopher Vokes and the 1st Canadian Division ordered to take the medieval seaport of Ortona, as part of the advance of General Montgomery's Eighth Army up the Italian Adriatic coast; Royal Edmonton Regiment and Seaforth Highlanders of Canada attack from the south, since the town flanked by sea cliffs on the north and east and by a deep ravine to the west; Canadians suffer heavy casualties before German forces withdraw on the night of Dec 27; 1,372 Canadians killed at Ortona - almost 25% of all Canadians killed in the Mediterranean theatre.
1929 Ottawa Ontario - Canada resumes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
1919 Ontario - Government rescinds War-Time Restrictions Act; lifting ban on horse racing and grain liquor distilling.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet authorizes use of the collective title 'Canadian National Railways'; Order in Council P.C. 3122.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Minister of Finance W.S. Fielding assures Gugleilmo Marconi of a warm welcome in Nova Scotia to continue his experiments in wireless telegraphy, and offers Canadian government assistance; the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, with its underseas cable to Europe, had a monopoly in Newfoundland, and threatened to sue Marconi, who then set up shop in Cape Breton.
1893 Quebec Quebec - Official opening of the Chateau Frontenac hotel in Quebec City.
1891 London England - Montreal strongman Louis Cyr 1863-1912 withstands the pull of 4 horses.
1886 New Westminster, BC - All-Canadian telegraph system opens for regular traffic; first official inaugural message sent from New Westminster to Canso, Nova Scotia, in three minutes, and then relayed to England by submarine cable.
1883 Queenston Ontario - Opening of first cantilever bridge between the US and Canada over the Niagara River gorge. The 150 metre long structure is the first to be called a cantilever.
1864 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian militia sent near US border to guard against possible Fenian raids; Irish-American secret society dedicated to end of British rule in Ireland.
1817 Montreal Quebec - Bank of Montreal starts operations; incorporated three years later, on Dec. 20, 1820.
1792 Montreal Quebec - Opening of first Montreal Post Office, with regular twice-weekly mail service opened between Canada and the United States.

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December 21st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

69 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.
1124 – Pope Honorius II is elected.
1140 – Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg.
1237 – The city of Ryazan is sacked by the Mongol army of Batu Khan.
1361 РThe Battle of Linuesa is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the forces of the Emirate of Granada and the combined army of the Kingdom of Castile and of Ja̩n resulting in a Castilian victory.
1598 – Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1826 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
1832 – Egyptian–Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
1844 – The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1872 – Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.
1879 РWorld premi̬re of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1883 – The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed: .
1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
1910 – An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1919 – American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
1923 – United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816.
1936 – First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1941 – World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1946 – An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.
1951 – Libya became an independent country.
1962 – Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
1967 – Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1969 – The United Nations adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
1973 – The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens.
1979 – Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Peter Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
1992 – A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56.
1994 РMexican volcano Popocat̩petl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1999 – The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
2004 – Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
2012 – The world was predicted to end on December 21, 2012 according to some calendars.
2012 – The Walt Disney Company completed its acquisition of Lucasfilm and of the Star Wars franchise.








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1894 MACKENZIE BOWELL BECOMES PM
Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 becomes Prime Minister after death of John Thompson. A Senator, Bowell is Canada's 5th Prime Minister; he serves to April 27, 1896.

1943
Ortona Italy - 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade attacks the town of Ortona, starting a week-long battle; a savage house to house fight against heavily barricaded 'mouseholed' German infantry. Here's a picture of Canadian troops moving up a street against sniper fire; 1,372 Canadian soldiers will die during the week of fighting, one quarter of all casualties in the Mediterranean theatre.



In Other Events...

1992 St. John's, Newfoundland - John Crosbie says European Community will stop overfishing on high seas outside Canada's 200 mile limit; quotas ignored since 1986 on Grand Banks.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Barbara McDougall says Canada will recognize the new Czech and Slovak republics; Czechoslovakia federation to be dissolved Jan 01 after 74 years.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Frank Iacobucci appointed to Supreme Court replacing Bertha Wilson; Chief Justice of Federal Court since 1988; Vancouver native ex-Dean of Law at University of Toronto.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chrétien becomes Leader of the Opposition.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Machine football team play first CFL game.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Parizeau accepts presidency of Parti québécois on the understanding that his first role will be to promote the sovereignty of Quebec.
1983 Moscow Russia - Ottawa files formal claims for $2.1 million in damages from USSR on behalf of Canadian victims of Korean Air Lines flight 007, downed by a Soviet military missile.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes national Medicare Act; effective July 1, 1968.
1965 New York City - Canadian-born film producer Harry Saltzman and his partner Cubby Broccoli premiere their new James Bond movie, Thunderball, starring Sean Connery, at the Premier Showcase and Paramount theaters, where it plays around the clock; the picture will gross $141.2 million worldwide.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Theodore Hellyer 1923- Defence Minister announces $1.5 billion defence purchase plan; for 200 ground-support aircraft, 4 destroyers, 155 mm howitzers.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Weather Service gets first automatic picture transmission via satellite.
1959 Moncton, New Brunswick - First broadcast of Radio Canada's CBAFT-Moncton TV station.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Wartime Prices and Trade Board brings in butter rationing in Canada.
1933 St John's Newfoundland - Dominion of Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony after bankruptcy.
1914 New York City - Cobourg, Ontario, actress Marie Dressler stars in Tilley's Punctured Romance with Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and Mack Swain; the world's first six-reel, feature-length silent film comedy; directed by fellow Canadian Mack Sennett, it is based on her vaudeville act.
1910 Fort McPherson, NWT - Francis J. Fitzgerald and his Mounted Police patrol leave Fort McPherson on their 800 km mid-winter patrol to Dawson, in the Yukon Territory, to deliver mail and to confirm the presence of the Canadian police; will meet unusually heavy snow cover and - 46 C temperatures; Jan 18 turn back for Fort McPherson, but lose their way and run out of food after eating their dogs; by mid February the Lost Patrol members perish to a man; bodies recovered and buried in Fort McPherson March 28, 1911.
1907 Montreal Quebec - First issue of 'L'Action Sociale' newspaper.
1902 Sydney, Nova Scotia - First Wireless Telegraph Message exchanged between Canada and England; via Newfoundland.
1891 Springfield Massachusetts - James Naismith, from Almonte, Ontario, organizes the first game of basketball at Springfield YMCA Training College; played by 18 students who used two peach baskets and a soccer ball.
1891 Quebec Quebec - Charles Boucher de Boucherville sworn in as Conservative Premier of Quebec; replacing Honoré Mercier, who was removed from office on corruption charges; Boucherville dissolves the Assembly and calls an election on the 23rd.
1884 Khartoum Sudan - General Herbert Kitchener leads British troops into Khartoum; find General Charles Gordon's garrison was wiped out three days earlier; the expedition was transported up the Nile by Canadian voyageurs and Caughnawaga Mohawks recruited by Col. Garnet Wolseley, who had previously employed them during the Red River Campaign in 1870.
1883 Toronto Ontario - George T. Denison organizes first Canadian infantry and cavalry schools.
1859 Ottawa Ontario - John Rose, Commissioner of Public Works breaks sod to start construction of the Parliament Buildings.
1838 Montreal Quebec - Execution of rebels Joseph Cardinal and Joseph Duquet.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Governor Gosford delegates to certain officials the power to swear oaths of allegiance in Lower Canada; those who refuse are arrested under martial law.
1825 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Theatre Royal in Montreal.
1708 St. John's, Newfoundland - French troops based in Placentia destroyed an English settlement at St. John's, bringing the eastern shore under French control.

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December 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

69 – Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
880 – Luoyang, eastern capital of the Tang dynasty, is captured by rebel leader Huang Chao during the reign of Emperor Xizong.
1135 – Stephen of Blois becomes King of England
1216 – Pope Honorius III approves the Dominican Order through the papal bull of confirmation Religiosam vitam.
1622 – Bucaramanga, Colombia is founded.
1769 – Sino-Burmese War (1765–69) ends with an uneasy truce.
1790 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
1851 – India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
1864 – Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea".
1885 – Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1890 – Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
1894 – The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1920 – The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
1939 – Indian Muslims observe a "Day of Deliverance" to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
1944 – World War II: The Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam.
1947 – The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
1951 – The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
1956 – Colo, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity, is born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio.
1963 – The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles (290 km) north of Madeira, Portugal with the loss of 128 lives.
1964 – The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
1965 – In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
1974 РGrande Comore, Anjouan and Moh̩li vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
1984 – Bernhard Goetz shoots four African American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, New York.
1987 – In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
1989 – Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife flee Bucharest with a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.
1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 – Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.
1990 – The Croatian Parliament adopts the current Constitution of Croatia.
1991 – Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
1992 – The Archives of Terror are discovered.
1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
1997 – Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.
1999 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error. All 4 crew members are killed.
2001 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
2008 – An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m3) of coal fly ash slurry.
2010 – The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.









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1809 US NON-INTERCOURSE ACT HURTS CANADA
Washington DC - US passes Non-Intercourse Act; opens trade with all nations except Britain and France; to retaliate against Napoleon's Decrees and British blockade; causes commercial depression in Canada.

1856
Fort Erie Ontario - Buffalo & Lake Huron Railroad opens from Fort Erie to Stratford.




In Other Events...

1995 Quebec - Lucien Bouchard 1938- announces that he is a candidate for the leadership of the Parti québécois.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Perrin Beatty licenses 4 companies to provide digital Personal Communication Services (PSA) phone services; Telezone, Rogers Cantel, Mobility Canada (Bell) and Canada Popfone (MH).
1987 Moscow Russia - Canada beats Finland 4-1 to win first-ever gold medal at the annual Izvestia hockey tournament.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Court of Appeal declares that Article 58 or Bill 101 making French the sole language authorized on commercial signs is unconstitutional.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts building first six new naval frigates; part of $1.5 billion naval program.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Olive Diefenbaker dies; wife of John.
1974 Boston Massachusetts - Bruins Phil Esposito the 6th NHLer to score 500 goals.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Pierre Berton quoted in Canadian Magazine as saying, 'A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.'
1972 New York City - Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell receives a gold record for her album, For the Roses; includes song, 'You Turn Me on, IÕm a Radio'.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Supreme Court rules 1968 Montreal lottery illegal; Quebec sets up provincial lottery corporation; first draw to take place March 14, 1970.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend an hour with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and meet the Minister of Health, John Munro to discuss drug abuse.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Anglican Church of Canada ordains first woman deacon.
1969 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists explode bomb in a post office truck.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau tells the Commons that "There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Report of Organizing Committee recommends setting up Company of Young Canadians as a Crown Corporation.
1964 Quebec - Opening of the Eastern Townships Autoroute.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Reginald Binette kills four parishioners of Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Ottawa in robbery attempt; sentenced to life imprisonment May 1, 1964.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces plans to build the National Library of Canada.
1950 Korea - HMCS Athabaskan relieved for repairs and general maintenance; had performed carrier screen duty, escorted shipping, carried out blockade patrols and provided anti-aircraft protection and general support for the forces evacuating Inchon.
1943 Ortona Italy - Canadian First Division surrounds Ortona, cuts off German retreat; starts week-long battle with savage house to house fighting.
1941 Hong Kong - Japanese capture Sugar Loaf Hill at 12 noon, but Canadians from C Company of the Royal Rifles recapture the hill; later taken out to Stanley Fort down the peninsula, for a rest; will hold out until their ammunition, food and water are exhausted.
1924 Toronto Ontario - Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals as his team beats the Boston Bruins 10-2.
1922 Montreal Quebec - Official opening of the Mount Royal Hotel, with 1.046 rooms.
1897 Ottawa Ontario - Bering Sea Claims Commission recommends US pay Canadian sealers $463,454; to compensate for seizure of vessels.
1877 Montreal Quebec - Laval University opens a branch campus in Montreal, later the U of M.
1869 Newfoundland - Newfoundlanders vote against joining Confederation.
1859 Winnipeg Manitoba - The Nor'Wester the first newspaper published on the Canadian Prairies.
1837 Toronto Ontario - George Arthur 1784-1854 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; from March 23, 1838 to Feb. 9, 1841. last.
1821 Pictou, Nova Scotia - Thomas McCulloch publishes the first of his Letters of Mephibosheth Stepsure in serial form in the Acadian Recorder, chiding his fellow Pictonians to improve their farming practices and style of life; until Mar 1823; reprinted in 1862 and then in 1960 as The Stepsure Letters.
1807 Washington DC - US passes Embargo Act to stop all trade with foreign ports; to retaliate against Napoleon's Decrees and British blockade.

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December 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

484 – Huneric dies and is succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholics are free from persecutions.
558 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
562 – Hagia Sophia in Constantinople reopened with a rebuilt dome after a series of earthquakes caused the original to collapse.
583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.
679 – King Dagobert II is murdered while hunting.
962 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo.
1572 – Theologian Johann Sylvan executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.
1688 – As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees from England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.
1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
1793 РThe Battle of Savenay: a decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vend̩e during the French Revolution.
1823 – A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously.
1876 – First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
1893 – The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
1919 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
1936 – Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1938 – Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
1940 – World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
1941 – World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1948 – Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
1958 – Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
1970 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
1970 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a single-party state.
1972 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
1972 – The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
1979 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
1982 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
1990 – History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.
2002 – An MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25.
2003 – PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
2007 – An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
2010 – A monsoonal trough crosses the northeastern coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, bringing mass flooding across Queensland.









Today's Canadian Headline...

1900 CANADIAN SENDS WORLD'S FIRST VOICE COM BY RADIO
Brant Rock, Massachusetts - Reginald Aubrey Fessenden 1866-1932, a Canadian wireless expert working for the US Weather Service, broadcasts the world's first voice communications by AM (amplitude modulation) radio wave for a distance of 1.6 km between two 13 metre towers; asks his assistant, 'Is it snowing where you are, Mr. Thiessen?'
[see also tomorrow, Dec 24, 1906]

1983
Ottawa Ontario - Jeanne Sauvé 1922-1993 appointed Canada's first woman Governor General. Sauvé was born in Saskatchewan, brought up in Ottawa, was first elected to the Commons in 1972, was the first female French Canadian cabinet minister, and the first female Speaker of the House of Commons. After treatment for cancer, she was sworn in on May 14, 1984; she left Rideau Hall early in 1990 and died in January, 1993.



In Other Events...

1992 Ottawa Ontario - CRTC approves $40.5 m sale of Maclean Hunter Hamilton TV station CHCH; to Shaw Cablesystems and WIC Western International Communications; also $308 m sale of Cablecasting Ltd. to Shaw Cablesystems of Edmonton; from controlling shareholder David Graham..
1991 Toronto Ontario - Grafton-Fraser to close 221 Jack Fraser, George Richards, Grafton & Co, Madison, Bimini stores; 1700 full and part time jobs.
1991 Quebec - Gallup Poll says support for sovereignty-association in Quebec has dropped to 47% from 61% in May 1990.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint postpones bringing in new, smaller pennies, after protests from owners of coin-operated vending machines.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Capital Gains Tax, effective Jan. 1, 1972, 'Valuation Day'.
1970 New York City - Canadian folksinger Joni Mitchell awarded her first gold record for her third album, Ladies of the Canyon; contained hit single 'Big Yellow Taxi.'
1969 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government creates la Société d'exploitation des Loteries - Loto-Québec - to manage lotteries and off-track betting in the province.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint announces that dimes, quarters and 50-cent pieces will be struck from nickel instead of the more costly silver.
1966 Borden Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan Premier W. Ross Thatcher 1917- announces that farm house where John Diefenbaker spent childhood will be moved; near Borden, Saskatchewan.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Anglican, Baptist, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches agree to share pavilion at Expo '67.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of National Centre for the Performing Arts in Ottawa; annual National Festival of the Arts starts in 1967.
1945 Toronto Ontario - Archbishop James Charles McGuigan 1894-1974 nominated Canada's first non-French cardinal by Pius XII.
1944 Halifax, Nova Scotia - German submarine U-806 torpedoes Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper HMCS Clayoquot by the Halifax lightship; sinks on the 24th.
1900 Halifax Nova Scotia - William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 leads first Canadian contingent arrives back in Halifax from South Africa; completed Boer War service.
1869 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 replaces John Bruce as President of the National Committee of Metis.
1855 St-Thomas Quebec - Opening of Grand Trunk Railroad from Lévis to St. Thomas.
1771 Montreal Quebec - Marie Marguerite d'Youville dies; founder of the Grey Nuns, she was declared venerable in 1890 and the first steps in her beatification were taken in 1955.
1615 Oro Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leads defeated Huron war party back to Cahiagué after campaign against Iroquois across Lake Ontario.

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December 24th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

640 – Pope John IV is elected.
759 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di.
1144 – The capital of the crusader County of Edessa falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.
1294 – Pope Boniface VIII is elected, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
1500 – A joint Venetian–Spanish fleet captures the Castle of St. George on the island of Cephalonia.
1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.
1814 – The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
1818 – The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
1851 – Library of Congress burns.
1865 – The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
1871 – Aida opens in Cairo, Egypt.
1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
1911 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
1913 – The Italian Hall disaster ("1913 Massacre") in Calumet, Michigan, results in the death of 73 Christmas party goers held by striking mine workers, including 59 children.
1914 – World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
1924 – Albania becomes a republic.
1929 – Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
1941 – World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
1942 РWorld War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral Fran̤ois Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.
1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.
1951 – Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
1953 – Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
1955 – NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
1966 – A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
1968 – Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
1969 – Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate–LaBianca murder trial.
1973 – District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
1974 – Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
1979 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
1994 – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of 3 days 3 passengers are killed, as are all 4 terrorists.
1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India; aircraft eventually landed at Kandahar, Afghanistan. Ordeal ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (1 passenger killed).
2000 – The Texas Seven hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
2003 – The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
2005 – Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.
2008 – Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1781 CANADA'S FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE
Sorel Quebec - Friedrich, Baron von Riedesel 1738-1800 erects Canada's first Christmas tree for the garrison in Fort Sorel.

1906
Brant Rock, Massachusetts -
Quebec physicist Reginald Aubrey Fessenden 1866-1932 makes the world's first public radio broadcast and the first broadcast of music from his station near Boston on Christmas Eve; featured a female vocalist and Fessenden himself playing 'O Holy Night' on his violin to sailors on ships in the Atlantic and Caribbean; also sings carols, reads the Bible. In 1900 Fessenden had sent the world's first voice communications by radio wave for a distance of 1.6 km between two 13 metre towers. While working as a wireless expert for the US Weather Service, he developed the superheterodyne principle, the basis for all modern broadcasting, as well as the AM (amplitude modulation) broadcasting principle. Here he is with his crew at Brant Rock.



In Other Events...

1997 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Péladeau dies; founder and Chairman of Québécor.
1991 Port Colborne, Ontario - Mary Kinnear dies at age 93; appointed to the Senate 1967; one of Canada's first female senators.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after bitter two-week debate and closure.
1974 Hollywood California - Joni Mitchell goes Christmas caroling with her neighbours James Taylor, Carly Simon and Linda Ronstadt.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Coal Association of Canada, a national body representing the coal industry.
1950 Toronto Ontario - Pianist Glenn Gould makes his CBC broadcast debut on 'Sunday Morning Recital'; comes to prefer the microphone to the concert stage, and in 1964 gives up performing live.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - Canada formally recognizes the state of Israel.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - National Defence says there are now 681,615 volunteers and conscripts in the Canadian forces.
1924 Montreal Quebec - Illumination of the cross on Mount Royal; Sieur de Maisonneuve had placed a cross on the mountain on this day in 1642.
1894 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Canadian Artistic Society, funded by a lottery, with the goal of opening a national conservatory of music; started operations in 1896, giving free courses and paying teachers $25 a month; forced to close in 1901 when the federal government banned lotteries.
1888 Copper Cliff Ontario - First smelter blown in at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury.
1879 Winnipeg Manitoba - Temperature in Winnipeg drops to record -44.3 C (-47.8 degrees F).
1875 Sherbrooke Quebec - Sherbrooke gets city charter.
1866 London England - British North America delegates adopt the London Resolutions; choose name Dominion of Canada for new country; agreements made on the Intercolonial Railway, Imperial aid and religious school rights.
1814 Ghent Belgium - Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812; restores 1783 boundaries; the Americans had declared war on June 18th, 1812, accusing British vessels of violating US neutrality and territorial waters during the first Napoleonic war. There has been peace ever since between Canada and the US.
1783 Montreal Quebec - Loyalist troops stationed in Lower Canada are disbanded.
1642 Montreal Quebec - Sieur de Maisonneuve climbs Mount Royal and plants a cross on the summit.
1584 Red Bay, Labrador - Basque whaler Joanes de Echaniz dictates his last will and testament at Carol's Cove, near Red Bay; possibly the oldest surviving will in Canadian history.

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January 5th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1527 – Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning.
1554 – A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1675 – Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
1757 РLouis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-Fran̤ois Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 РAn Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm R̦ntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 – Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
1912 – The Prague Party Conference takes place.
1913 – First Balkan War: During the Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and that it would pay a "living wage" of at least $5 for a day's labor.
1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1949 – United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
1957 – In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
1968 – Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1969 – The Troubles: The Royal Ulster Constabulary raid the Bogside area of Derry, damaging property and beating residents. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1974 – Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at Vanda Station
1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 – The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
1976 – The Troubles: In response to the killing of six Catholics the night before, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK.
1991 – Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1910 MONTREAL CANADIENS PLAY FIRST GAME
Montreal Quebec - Le club athlétique Canadien hockey team play their first game, seven years before the founding of the NHL Their owner is J. Ambrose O'Brien and they are composed entirely of francophones until the 1911-12 season.

1987
Lakefield Ontario - Canadian author Margaret Laurence dies at age 60, losing a battle with cancer; best known for her novels The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), The Fire Dwellers (1969) and The Diviners (1974).




In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - Rogers Cablesystems President Colin Watson says 'We now know we have made a mistake,' as consumer revolt forces company to withdraw its negative option billing for seven new specialty cable-television channels; unless customers told Rogers they didn't want the channels, they would be automatically billed for them.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Victor Young, President of Fishery Products International, says the company will have to close its Grand Bank, Gaultois & Trepassy fish plants; Premier Wells announces $12 million subsidy; until 1991, saving 1300 jobs and 13 trawlers.
1986 Edmonton Alberta - Oilers star Wayne Gretzky becomes the first NHL player to score 100 or more points in seven consecutive seasons.
1983 Vancouver BC - Roman Catholic Bishops of Canada release New Year's message attacking government economic policy.
1982 Hamilton Ontario - Elizabeth Bagshaw dies at age 100; one of Canada's first female doctors, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1905, and practiced medicine for over 60 years.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans hiring skilled foreign workers in several mining, manufacturing and construction sectors; to protect Canadian jobs
1979 Edmonton Alberta - Opening of new dinosaur gallery at the Alberta Museum in Edmonton; houses three skeletons from Drumheller
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa protests US air raids on Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Paul Rose sentenced to two life terms for the kidnapping and non-capital murder of Pierre Laporte, Claude Simard gets life, Bernard Lortie gets 20 years
1967 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald's birthday, January 11, proclaimed as an official holiday, to be observed across country.
1967 Niagara Falls Ontario - US folk singer Jesse Winchester crosses Canadian border after being served draft papers for military service; applies to became a Canadian citizen..
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Charles F. Comfort 1900- appointed Director of National Gallery of Canada; succeeding Alan Jarvis (1915-1972)
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada upholds War Measures Act, passed in 1914, which gives federal Cabinet emergency powers to govern by decree when it perceives the existence of 'war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended'.
1913 Quebec Quebec - Inspector-General of Imperial Forces Ian Hamilton arrives in Quebec to inspect Canadian troops.
1874 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg holds first civic election. Only 304 voters were registered, but 331 ballots are cast.
1838 Washington DC USA - US President Martin Van Buren issues Neutrality Proclamation forbidding US citizens from taking sides in Canadian rebellions; issues second proclamation Nov. 21
1680 Peoria Illinois - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 starts building Fort Crevecoeur at Illinois Indian village of Pimitoui on Lake Peoria; later destroyed by mutineers because of fear of Native attack.
1616 Nottawasaga Bay Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets off to visit Petun (Tobacco) Nation, south of Nottawasaga Bay, with Father Le Caron.

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January 6th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1066 – Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) is crowned King of England.
1118 – Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
1205 – Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
1322 – Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
1355 – Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
1449 – Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.
1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
1579 – The Union of Arras is signed.
1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
1809 – Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.
1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash.
1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
1921 – Formation of the Iraqi Army.
1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
1951 – Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.
1960 – The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
1993 – Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
2000 – Celia, the last Pyrenean Ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her.
2005 – American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
2005 – A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
2009 – Israel conducts an assault on Gaza. Operation Cast Lead.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1920 FARMERS' GROUPS ESTABLISH THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY
Winnipeg Manitoba - T. A. Crerar chairs a meeting of Ontario and Prairie farmers' organizations to establish the National Progressive Party; he had resigned from Borden's Union cabinet in 1919 to protest the high tariff. The Progressive Party will elect 65 members to Parliament in the election of Dec. 1921.

1643
Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve, plants a cross at Ville Marie to offer thanks to God for saving the community from flooding.

1786
Saint John New Brunswick - First sitting of the NB legislature takes place at Saint John.




In Other Events...

1992 Quebec Quebec - Quebec judge rules that a 25-year- old paralyzed woman, 'Nancy B,' suffering from a rare neurological disorder and on life support, has no hope of recovery and has the right to die. Doctors will remove her life support on February 13, after a 30 day appeal period lapses.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada to move head office from Montreal to Toronto.
1977 Lakefield Ontario - Prince Andrew starts attending Lakefield College School near Peterborough, for two terms; second in line to the British throne
1975 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba to require disclosure of assets and business interests of legislators and senior officials.
1974 Ontario - Startup of the Global Television network in southern Ontario; Canada's third TV network is now known as CanWest-Global and is controlled by Izzy Asper.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Neil Young returns to Canada for his first concert since pre-stardom days.
1966 NWT - 'The Drum' first issued in English, Inuit, and Loucheux dialect; first newspaper of its kind in the Arctic.
1966 Ontario - Ontario lets federal government take responsibility for Native education, housing, and employment.
1965 Halifax Nova Scotia - Canada part of new NATO anti-submarine destroyer squadron.
1936 Webbwood Ontario - Barbara Hanley elected in the Northern Ontario town of Webbwood; Canada's first woman mayor.
1915 France - Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry go into action in France.
1877 Manitoba - McLean's open the first flour mill in Manitoba; wheat is quickly replacing fur as Manitoba's main product
1845 Stratford Ontario - Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets
1824 Quebec Quebec - First meeting of Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.
1818 Ontario - Peregrine Maitland 1777-1854 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves from Aug. 13, 1818 to Aug. 23, 1828
1789 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 founds an agricultural college at Quebec.

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January 7th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1566 – Pope Pius V is elected.
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1970 – The Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969 comes into effect.
1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons.
1991 РRoger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under Fran̤ois Duvalier, attempts a coup d'̩tat, which ends in his arrest.
1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2005 – The St Lawrence Lime is blown over in high winds.
2010 – Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1955 TV CAMERAS FIRST ENTER PARLIAMENT
Ottawa Ontario - The Speech from the Throne and the opening ceremonies of the Canadian Parliament are broadcast live on television for the first time.

1691
Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 is forced to issue card money to pay the troops in the Quebec garrison, due to the non-arrival of a supply ship.



In Other Events...

1996 Ontario - Blizzard kills two Ontario men in separate traffic accidents; two-day storm blamed for at least 100 deaths in north-eastern US, worst to hit the region in 70 years.
1986 Kingston Ontario - Chris Clifford of the Kingston Canadians the first goalie in the Ontario Hockey League to score a goal; in 53 year history of the OHL.
1984 Medicine Hat Alberta - Train wreck near Medicine Hat releases dangerous gases, forcing evacuation of 800 people.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Ontario seizes assets of Greymac Trust Company, Crown Trust Company, and Seaway Trust Company, owned by Leonard Rosenberg.
1981 Los Angeles California - Marcel Dionne of the NHL Kings scores his 1,000th point with a goal in a 5-3 victory over the Hartford Whalers.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Bora Laskin 1912- sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, succeeding Joseph-Honoré-Gérald Fauteux 1900-.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - US-owned Mercantile Bank of Canada to begin program to have at least 75% Canadian ownership by 1980.
1969 Manitoba - 600 Indians and Metis protest Manitoba Hydro project calling for a 10.7m (35-foot) increase in water level.
1966 Africa - Canada sends emergency food supplies to drought-stricken Zambia, Rhodesia, Bechuanaland, Basutoland; together with Britain and Australia
1963 Manitoba - Manitoba awards contracts for Red River Floodway, largest earth-moving job ever undertaken in Canada; called 'Duff's Ditch'
1960 Quebec - Antonio Barrette 1899-1968 becomes Premier of Quebec on the death of Paul Sauvé.
1925 Montreal Quebec - Harry Broadbent of the NHL Montreal Maroons scores five goals in a 6-2 victory over Hamilton.
1920 Toronto Ontario - Joe Malone of the Quebec Bulldogs scores two goals, leading his team to a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Arenas. Malone becomes the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer to that date with 59.
1902 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Mining Exchange Ltd. changes name to Standard Stock and Mining Exchange Ltd..
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 loses seven members of his Cabinet, as half resign in opposition to his leadership.
1867 Quebec - Private Timothy O'Hea is awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in 1866, protecting the lives of 800 emigrants on a Grand Trunk train menaced by a fire in a boxcar carrying explosives. This is the only VC awarded for a brave deed not done in the face of the enemy.
1859 Montreal Quebec - First Canadian silver coins issued.
1839 London Ontario - Crown executes rebels Hiram Lynn, Daniel Bedford, Albert Clark, Cornelius Cunningham, Joshua Doan and A Perley.
1836 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 loses his Assembly seat in a rowdy, corrupt election; Tories win majority; Bidwell also loses
1799 Quebec Quebec - Founding of the Quebec Library.
1756 Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; serves from July 23 to September 24, 1761.
1608 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 gets Port Royal grant reconfirmed; De Monts' trading monopoly extended for one year; one ship to go to Port-Royal, one to the St. Lawrence, one with Champlain to Quebec.

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January 8th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi.
387 – Siyaj K'ak' conquers Waka
871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
1297 РFran̤ois Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
1455 – The Romanus Pontifex is written.
1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
1734 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 – Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
1806 – Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
1904 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
1906 – A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
1912 – The African National Congress is founded.
1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1945 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1962 – The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
1963 – ******** da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
1979 – The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
1982 – The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
1989 – Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 237 on the ground; the aircraft's crew of 6 survive the crash.
2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
2003 – US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
2009 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1941 OTTAWA TO REGISTER JAPANESE CANADIANS
Vancouver BC - Federal Minister Ian Mackenzie announces that the RCMP will be registering all Japanese Canadians in British Columbia; a national security matter under the War Measures Act. They are later moved inland to detention camps.

1948
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sets record as longest serving Prime Minister in the Commonwealth, with 7,825 days in office; Canada's 10th Prime Minister.



In Other Events...

1996 Toronto Ontario - Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin announces he is quitting federal politics to run for the job of provincial Liberal leader and Premier of Newfoundland. He will be the only candidate to replace Clyde Wells.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer's federally-funded Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future launches its first satellite town hall meeting, people from Vancouver to Saint John, New Brunswick commenting.
1990 Caracas Venezuela - Canada formally joins the Organization of American States (OAS) as its 33rd member.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate at 987,000 or 8.6% of the work force; highest since figures first taken in 1946
1976 Canada - Canada, US, USSR, Sweden, Finland and Czechoslovakia agree to take part in Canada Cup hockey tournament.
1968 United Nations New York - Canada pledges $21.6 million to UN's world food program for 1969 and 1970 at FAO conference..
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $2,500,000 to eight provinces for cultural centres similar to Charlottetown and Quebec.
1964 Quebec - Roger Brossard appointed to investigate 1956 trial and execution of Wilbert Coffin; Royal Commissioner
1961 Portland England - British police arrest Canadian George Lonsdale and four others for spying at the Royal Navy base in Portland.
1954 Sarnia Ontario - First Alberta crude oil reaches Sarnia through pipeline from Edmonton.
1948 United Nations New York USA - A.G.L. Andy McNaughton 1887-1966 appointed permanent delegate to United Nations, and Canada's representative on UN Security Council.
1947 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in an NHL game.
1943 Manitoba - Stewart Sinclair Garson 1898-1964 succeeds John Bracken as Premier of Manitoba.
1870 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends issuing of licences to American fishing vessels; operating since end of reciprocity in 1866.
1869 Queenston Ontario - First suspension bridge over the Niagara Gorge at Niagara Falls was opened to traffic.
1838 Amherstburg Ontario - Edward Theller 1804-1859 fires on Fort Malden from vessel 'Anne', while Thomas Sutherland occupies Bois Blanc Island; US sympathizers of rebels called Hunter's Lodges

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January 9th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
1127 – Jin–Song wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty.
1150 – Prince Hailing of Jin and other court officials murder Emperor Xizong of Jin. Hailing succeeds him as emperor.
1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
1431 – Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
1822 РThe Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King Jọo VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake strikes California, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1861 – American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War".
1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow.
1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
1938 – Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens.
1941 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
1945 – World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
1947 – Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
1957 – British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
1960 – President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
1964 – Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
1965 – The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1992 – The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
2004 – An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
2005 – Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
2005 – The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
2011 – Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
2013 – A SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.
2014 – An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.








Today's Canadian Headline...

1899 MANITOBA RECORDS RECORD LOW
Manitoba - Manitobans suffer under a record low temperature of minus 52.8 Celsius (minus 63 Fahrenheit).

1949
Brantford Ontario - Tom Longboat 1888-1949 dies at age 61 on the Ohsweken Mohawk reserve. Longboat won the 1907 Boston Marathon, pursued a pro running career, then served with the Canadian Army in World War I.



In Other Events...

1997 Seoul Korea - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien starts visit to South Korea.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Judge acquits NDP MP Lorne Nystrom of shoplifting; Nystrom explained he put some contact lens cleaning discs in his pocket while distracted.
1988 Leith Scotland - Sylvana Tomaselli, from Toronto, marries the Earl of St. Andrews in a private ceremony; first Canadian to marry into the British Royal Family.
1982 New Brunswick - Three moderate earthquakes measuring 5.5 to 4.9 on the Richter scale shake New Brunswick; no serious damage or injuries; last similar quake was in 1855.
1981 New York New York - Sault native Phil Esposito plays his final pro hockey game, helping the New York Rangers skate to a 3-3 tie with the Buffalo Sabres. Espo goes on to become General Manager and Coach of the Rangers. In 1969 and 1974, playing for the Boston Bruins, he won the Hart Memorial Trophy for Most Valuable Player in the NHL, and helped lead the Bruins to two Stanley Cup Championships in 1970 and 1972.
1971 Biafra Nigeria - Ottawa gives $2,250,000 in relief to both sides in Nigerian civil war.
1967 Victoria BC - Centennial Train leaves Victoria; travelling museum will stop in 83 communities across Canada; until December 4
1965 Hope BC - Mountain avalanche kills 4 drivers on highway near Hope.
1954 Montreal Quebec - Bert Olmstead, Montreal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game.
1950 Colombo Sri Lanka - Canada attends Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs in Colombo, Ceylon; five-day meeting leads to the Columbo Plan.
1927 Montreal Quebec - Fire kills 77 children in a Montreal movie theatre.
1889 Queenston Ontario - Niagara Suspension Bridge collapses during a winter storm.
1888 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Opening of railway bridge across the St. Mary's River to US.
1885 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Opening of the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Charles Mair 1838-1927 escapes from Fort Garry with Thomas Scott.
1862 Halifax Nova Scotia - Grenadier Guards land at Halifax to garrison the Citadel.
1838 Amherstburg Ontario - Canadian militia capture US sloop 'Anne' used by republican rebels - the Hunters Lodges.
1666 Quebec - New France Governor Daniel de Remy de Courcelle 1626-1698 leads a 500-man military campaign against the Mohawks.

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January 10th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
9 – The Western Han Dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin Dynasty.
69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1791 – The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1806 – Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1810 РNapoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Jos̩phine.
1861 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1916 – World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dáil Éireann.
1923 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium.
1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
1985 – Sir Clive Sinclair launches the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, which became a notorious commercial failure and later a cult collector's item.
1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
2007 РA general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Cont̩ to resign.
2011 – 2010–2011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
2012 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.








Today's Canadian Headline...

1920 CANADA JOINS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Geneva Switzerland - Canada becomes a founding member of the League of Nations on the day the Treaty of Versailles, ending the First World War, takes effect; Canada and the other Dominions now speak for themselves on international affairs.

1811
Alberta - Norwester David Thompson 1770-1857 crosses the height of land of the Rocky Mountains on the Athabasca Pass; he will ascend the Columbia River to its source, then descend it to Astoria, becoming the first person to explore and map the whole length of the river.



In Other Events...

1993 Oakville Manitoba - 400 Oakville residents return home after three week exile in shelters and motels; as risk from toxic chemicals released in a train derailment.
1990 Paris France - Roger Lemelin receives France's Légion d'honneur medal; Montreal author (Les Plouffes); publisher of La Presse
1980 Quebec - Claude Ryan 1925- Quebec Liberal leader suggests more power to the provinces; in policy paper on constitutional reform
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Canada expels four Cubans, including two diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - First meeting of National Indian Advisory Board in Ottawa.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and provinces meet to discuss constitutional amendment issues and Trans-Canada Highway; federal-provincial conference until January 12
1946 London England - Canadian diplomats attend first General Assembly of the United Nations; until February 15; Canada to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission, the Economic and Social Council, and the International Court of Justice
1942 Montreal Quebec - Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion admitted to the Quebec Bar - Quebec's first female lawyers.
1931 Montreal Quebec - Philadelphia Quakers ended the Montreal Maroons 15-game winning streak, the longest in NHL history to date.
1920 Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Canadiens clobber the Toronto St. Patricks 14-7, in the highest point total NHL Hockey game; Chicago and Edmonton equalled the total goals in 1985.
1910 Montreal Quebec - Henri Bourassa 1868-1952 publishes first issue of 'Le Devoir'; opposes reciprocity with the US; claiming it will lead to American interference in Canadian affairs.
1850 Plymouth England - Robert McClure & Richard Collinson set sail in the Enterprise and Investigator to search for Franklin expedition; McClure sails into the Beaufort Sea via Bering Strait, to Banks Island.
1842 - Charles Bagot 1781-1843 arrives to take post as Governor General of British North America.
1823 Quebec - opening of third session of eleventh Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until March 22; licences to regulate public houses and sale of liquor and wine
1817 Fort Douglas Manitoba - Miles Macdonnell recaptures Fort Douglas from Metis; occupies the Fort for Lord Selkirk
1815 London England - British Government bans Americans from settling in Canada.

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January 11th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
1055 – Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1158 – Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
1693 – A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1912 – Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
1919 – Romania reincorporates Transylvania.
1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
1943 – World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
1943 – Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
1945 – Greek Civil War: Last day of the Dekemvriana clashes in Athens, Greece.
1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1949 – A record-setting snowstorm hits Los Angeles, California.
1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
1962 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
1994 РThe Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn F̩in.
1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
1998 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
2013 – One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.








Today's Canadian Headline...

1922 CANADIAN BOY THE FIRST TO BEAT DIABETES
Toronto Ontario - Leonard Thompson, a 14 year old Canadian, is the first person to have his diabetes successfully treated, with Banting and Best's new discovery, insulin.



In Other Events...

1996 Quebec Quebec - Bloc Quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard appointed Premier designate of Quebec by the Parti Quebecois.
1994 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa retires as Premier of Quebec; succeeded by Daniel Johnson, Quebec's 30th Premier.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Dylex Ltd., Canada's largest clothing retailer seeks court protection from its creditors and says it will shut 200 stores, eliminating 1,800 jobs.
1995 North America - NHL players and owners come to an agreement; 103-day National Hockey League lockout ends.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Henry Birks and Sons jewelry chain files for bankruptcy protection; closes 34 stores, then sells remaining 39 stores to Italian group.
1982 Toronto Ontario - CBC moves national news to 10 pm and introduces a new public affairs program The Journal, hosted by Barbara Frum, which will last for a decade.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Thomson Newspapers Ltd. of Toronto acquires control of FP Publications Ltd., owner of 8 papers; including Toronto Globe & Mail
1974 Toronto Ontario - Celia Franca 1921- retires after 23 years as Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada; succeeded on July 1 by David Haber
1967 Montreal Quebec - CP Hotels opens 38-story Chateau Champlain in Montreal; Canada's tallest hotel
1957 Port Said Egypt - Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent arrives in Egypt with men and supplies for the UN emergency force; Canadian strength in Egypt now about 1,000 men.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Winston Spencer Churchill British Prime Minister starts four-day visit to Ottawa.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government lifts some price controls, but food, clothing, fuel and rent still stay under the control of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
1914 Herald Island NWT Arctic - Captain Robert Abram Bartlett 1875-1946 sees Karluk crushed by ice near Herald Island, north of Siberia; one of three ships of Stefansson expedition.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - Protesting western farmers occupy the House of Commons; one sits in Laurier's seat and demands free trade with the US.
1909 Washington DC - The US and Canada (with the British in attendance) set up the International Joint Commission under the Boundary Waters Treaty; agree to submit major fishery and boundary disputes to World Court; also agree to work to prevent pollution of the Great Lakes.
1865 Halifax Nova Scotia - Joseph Howe 1804-1873 publishes the first of his Botheration Letters in the Halifax Morning Chronicle; his series attacking Confederation continues until March 2
1864 New Westminster BC - Frederick Seymour 1820-1869 appointed first Governor of the united province of British Columbia and Vancouver Island; from May 21, 1864 to June 10, 1869
1747 Minas Nova Scotia - Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers 1708-1750 leads 240 Canadians and 60 Indians from Chebucto against on the Chignecto; 2nd-in-command of French forces under Ramezay.

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January 12th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1528 – Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
1616 – The city of Belém is founded in Pará, Brazil by Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
1808 – The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1808 – John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1898 – Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
1899 – Thirteen crew members and five apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when the former founders off the coast of Devon.
1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1918 – Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
1926 – Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928.
1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1959 – The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
1962 – Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1971 – All in the Family The famous situation comedy premieres on CBS
1976 – The United Nations Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.
1991 – Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2004 – The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
2006 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2006 – The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
2007 – Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2010 – The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.









Today's Canadian Headline...

1977 KAIN AND AUGUSTINE WOW MOSCOW
Moscow Russia - Karen Kain 1951- and Frank Augustyn 1953- perform with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow; the National Ballet of Canada stars are the first Canadian dancers so honored.

1819
St. Boniface Manitoba - Founding of the Collège St-Boniface in Red River. Here's a William Napier watercolour of St. Boniface 40 years later.

1995
Cleveland Ohio - Toronto-born rock superstar Neil Young inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; with the Allman Brothers Band, Janis Joplin and Frank Zappa.



In Other Events...


1981 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Jean Chretien 1934- rewrites the Charter of Rights in proposed constitutional package, giving the provinces more power.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Air Canada suspends regular flights to Moscow, Prague, and Brussels, cuts domestic schedule; to offset 1976 operating losses
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court of Canada upholds restriction on use of French in Canadian airspace.
1951 Vatican City - Archbishop Paul-Emile Léger of Montreal appointed to the College of Cardinals.
1918 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals as his team beats Ottawa 9-4.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet Order in Council raises Canadian troop strength in World War I to 500,000.
1907 Toronto Ontario - First issue of the Financial Post published.
1842 Charlottetown PEI - John Ings publishes the first issue of The Islander newspaper.
1759 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe 1727-1759 appointed Major-General and Commander-in-Chief of land forces in expedition against Quebec.
1743 South Dakota - Francois de Varennes de La Verendrye sights Big Horn Range of Rocky Mountains with brother Louis-Joseph.
1598 Paris France - Troilus de Mesgouez, Marquis de La Roche c1540-1606 awarded further ownership and trade monopoly of New France from Henri IV; appointed Lieutenant General of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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January 13th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.
888 – Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1666 – French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived in Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
1815 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
1830 – The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
1833 – President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
1895 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
1913 – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
1934 – The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
1953 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
1958 – The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.
1963 – Coup d'etat in Togo results in assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio
1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
1964 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland.
1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison
1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
1974 – Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
1978 – U.S. Food & Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000.
1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 32 confirmed deaths amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1947 SUPREME COURT RULES
London England - Britain's Privy Council rules that Canada is within its rights in passing legislation making the Supreme Court of Canada the final court of appeal; marks the end of legal recourse to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, except in federal-provincial matters.

1943
Mediterranean, off Italy - Royal Canadian Navy Corvette Ville de Québec sinks a U-boat in the Mediterranean; RCN's first U-boat kill.



In Other Events...

1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ann Cools appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; first black Canadian to serve in the Upper Chamber.
1976 Ontario - Ontario signs agreement with Ottawa; 400,000 public sector employees put under the Anti-Inflation Board.
1966 Sri Lanka - Canada gives $1 million long-term loan to Ceylon, for purchase of industrial raw materials.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts skills program for unemployed; announced at federal-provincial conference on manpower training
1965 Ocean Falls BC - Avalanche kills 7 people at Ocean Falls.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - The third federal-provincial conference on the Constitution reaches a general agreement on the need to amend the BNA Act.
1949 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island bans sale and manufacture of margarine, to protect dairy industry.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - W. Clifford Clark d1952 suggests new Family Allowance scheme; estimates cost at $200 million.
1908 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
1849 Vancouver Island BC - Hudson's Bay Company signs lease with the British government for monopoly of trade on Vancouver Island for ten more years; for a fee of seven shillings per year.
1838 Buffalo New York USA - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 evacuates Navy Island and goes to Buffalo.
1837 Saint John New Brunswick - Fire devastates business district of Saint John.

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January 14th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1343 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.
1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
1639 – The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas.
1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
1814 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1933 – The controversial "Bodyline" cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine's England peak when Australian captain Bill Woodfull is hit over the heart.
1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1943 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
1953 – Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1957 – Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
1975 – Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".
1999 – Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city.
2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2004 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.
2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
2011 – Former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees his country to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for freedom, rights and democracy, considered as the anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring.
2012 – The Pirate Party of Greece is founded, on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party.








Today's Canadian Headline...

1968 ICE STORM DOWNS MUIR'S MAPLE
Toronto Ontario - Ice storm fatally damages the silver maple at 62 Laing Street that inspired Alexander Muir to write The Maple Leaf Forever.

1902
Halifax Nova Scotia - Canadian Mounted Rifles sail out of Halifax bound for Boer War in South Africa.



In Other Events...

1990 California USA - Laurence J. Peter dies at age 70; author of The Peter Principle, where employees rise to their level of incompetence.
1982 Vancouver BC - Clifford Robert Olson, from Coquitlam, is sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder of 11 children, 3 boys and 8 girls, aged nine to 18, from Nov 1980 to Aug 1981; RCMP agreed to give Olson's family $100,000 if he told them where he had buried the bodies.
1979 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Jean-Pierre Charette returns to Canada after 10 years in Cuba; sentenced to a jail term in March on charges of planting three bombs in 1978.
1977 Terrace BC - Northern Thunderbird Airlines aircraft crashes at Terrace, killing 12 people.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Police set up special ethnic squad to deal with Asian community problems; after racial attacks
1976 Toronto Ontario - The T. Eaton Company winds up its catalogue sales operation after over 10 years of heavy losses; stops publishing catalogue, issued since 1884
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Egg Marketing Agency notes 40 million egg surplus, increasing about 15 million a week.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Leger sworn in as Canada's 21st Governor General.
1971 Singapore - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- attends week-long Commonwealth Heads of Government conference in Singapore; suggests study of arms embargo of South Africa
1967 Montreal Quebec - Catholic elementary and secondary teachers strike, closing schools in Montreal and Trois-Rivieres; ends Feb. 17 when Quebec passes Bill 25.
1963 Seoul Korea - Canada and South Korea establish diplomatic relations.
1952 Stellarton, Nova Scotia - Underground gas explosion at McGregor coal mine kills 19 men.
1949 Halifax Nova Scotia - First non-stop trans-Canada flight arrives from Vancouver.
1944 France - Guy Bieler captured by the Gestapo in France; Canadian secret agent.
1943 Montreal Quebec - Alex Smart scores three goals in his first NHL game to lead the Canadiens to a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks; first NHLer to score hat trick in his first game.
1942 BC - Canada orders Japanese Canadians out of British Columbia coastal region; now defined as a 'protected area'.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of Dominion-Provincial Conference in the Parliament Buildings.
1930 Ontario - Canada signs agreement with Germany settling German property seized in Canada during First World War.
1875 Halifax Nova Scotia - First issue of the Halifax Herald newspaper published.
1875 Caraquet New Brunswick - Start of 2-week riot in Caraquet over Act for non-sectarian public schools in New Brunswick; militia called in to restore order
1830 Sarnia Ontario - 'The Rapids' settlement on St. Clair River given the name of Sarnia.

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January 15th 2015 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
1541 РKing Francis I of France gives Jean-Fran̤ois Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
1582 – Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1759 – The British Museum opens.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
1844 – University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1876 – The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).
1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
1919 – Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
1933 – A twelve-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.
1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
1943 – World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (The "Black Dahlia") is found in Los Angeles' Leimert Park.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
1951 – Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
1962 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
1966 РThe Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'̩tat.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 – Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
1970 – Moammar Gadhafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 – Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
1975 – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
1976 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1981 – John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Walesa.
1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
1992 – The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1993 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as "The Beast", is arrested in Sicily, Italy after three decades as a fugitive.
2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.
2013 – A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1878 TORIES ADOPT NATIONAL POLICY
Toronto Ontario - John A Macdonald's Liberal Conservative Party adopts a high-tariff National Policy platform, due to frustration in restoring freer trade with the US; the Party opts for protective tariffs, while keeping the door open to reciprocity where possible.

1541
Alberta - French King François I appoints Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval c1500-1560 first Viceroy of Canada, Newfoundland, and Labrador.



In Other Events...

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces massive VIA Rail cutbacks, due to $1 billion annual loss; will cut over 2,500 jobs and at least 14 of the company's 38 routes.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang starts 7-day state visit to Canada.
1982 Quebec Quebec - Quebec National Assembly forces 2,200 striking Montreal transit workers back to work.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Legislature votes to end two-month strike by 8,800 Toronto secondary teachers.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - George Maltby, Police Chief of St. James-Assiniboia, appointed first Ombudsman of Manitoba.
1964 Paris France - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 arrives in Paris; first official visit of a Canadian Prime Minister to France.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - The Board of Broadcast Governors (today's CRTC) records its hearings for the first time; distributed to radio and TV stations by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP Musical Ride placed on permanent, full-time basis.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley warns that Ottawa might have to invade provincial tax turf; in a tough speech to the Dominion-Provincial Conference.
1915 Basque BC - Canadian Northern Railroad completes line between Quebec City and Vancouver, British Columbia.
1892 Springfield Massachusetts - James Naismith, from Almonte, Ontario, first publishes his 'Rules of Basketball' in the YMCA's Triangle magazine.
1836 - Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford 1776-1849 bans private army groups, such as the British Rifle Corps.
1835 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada bans the sale of liquor to Indians; effective January 5, 1836
1808 Nova Scotia - George Prevost 1767-1816 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia; from May 13, 1808 to Aug. 25,1811
1636 Quebec Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 appointed first titular Governor of New France before de Champlain's death was known in France; soldier and Knight of Malta
1635 Saint John New Brunswick - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 granted land at mouth of Saint John River; builds Fort La Tour (Fort Jemseg).
1634 Beauport Quebec - Robert de Moncel Giffard 1587-1668 granted one of the first royal seigneuries by the Company of New France; he is a master surgeon.

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