This Date In History

henric · Feb 4, 2015

February 5th,2015 - This Date in History.

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62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of CÃ¡diz begins.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 – University of Wisconsin-Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
1939 – GeneralÃsimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de EspaÃ±a", or Leader of Spain.
1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of GonaÃ¯ves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 THE MAN CALLED INTREPID IS HONORED
Hamilton Bermuda - Sir William Stephenson is awarded the Order of Canada; the ailing Winnipeg-born engineer pioneered digital wireless photo transmission. He worked for British intelligence during World War II under the code name Intrepid, and was the personal contact man between Churchill and Roosevelt.

1963
Ottawa Ontario - John Diefenbaker's minority government is defeated 142-111 in House of Commons in two non-confidence motions over nuclear weapons policy, and Defence Minister Harkness' resignation; Dief resigns, and will be beaten by Lester Pearson in the federal general election.

1667
Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Mining of bog iron nuggets begins at Three Rivers; later smelting at Les Forges de St-Maurice. This is the first large scale iron mining in Canadian history.

In Other Events...

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Quebec and Ottawa sign immigration accord giving Quebec exclusive responsibility for selecting immigrants who wish to live in the province.
1989 Vail Colorado - Karen Percy wins silver medal in Women's World Alpine Ski Championship; native of Banff, Alberta.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau inducts Joni Mitchell into Canada's Juno Hall of Fame.
1980 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe plays in his 23rd and final NHL all-star game at age 51; Howe, from Floral, Saskatchewan, will retire from the Hartford Whalers at the end of the season.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Start of construction on CN Tower, a communications transmission mast and observation post; to be the world's tallest freestanding structure
1972 Quebec - Quebec prison guards and game wardens start five-week strike; disrupts courts and forces closure of 22 of 35 jails.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Start of 3-day federal-provincial conference in Ottawa; provinces officially recognize French language rights.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government agrees to provide new funding for fine art work by Canadian artists, and creates the Art Bank; formula = l% amount of construction contracts for federal buildings.
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy - Close of seventh Winter Olympic games at Cortina d'Ampezzo. Canada failed to win a Gold Medal, and the USSR team took away Canada's crown in Ice Hockey.
1954 Queen Elizabeth Islands NWT - Most northerly group of Canada's Arctic islands, discovered by William Baffin in 1616, and not seen again until 1818, are named after Queen Elizabeth.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Government starts three-year, $5 million rearmament program for Canadian armed forces.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Justice J.C. McRuer appointed to head new Royal Commission to examine allegations of Soviet spy ring operating in Canada; due to revelations of USSR Embassy defector Igor Gouzenko 1919-1982.
1934 Toronto Ontario - The Standard Exchange refuses to comply with a new provincial Act forcing them to amalgamate with the Toronto Stock Exchange; the two remain in separate buildings until the new TSE Ticker Palace opens in 1937.
1923 Doucet Quebec - Temperature dips to -54.4 degrees Celsius in Doucet; coldest day recorded in Quebec.
1920 Windsor Nova Scotia - Fire guts King's College at Windsor; governors agree to affiliate with Dalhousie University in Halifax.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns as Leader of the Opposition and retires to England.
1889 Ottawa Ontario - The Catholic Oblate College of Ottawa becomes Ottawa University.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Hugh Allan 1810-1882 awarded charter for the Canadian Pacific Railway; to be financed with a $30 million subsidy and grant of 20 million hectares of land (50 million acres).
1857 London England - British House of Commons appoints a committee to investigate the business affairs and governing powers of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1790 Montreal Quebec - Chief Justice W. T. Smith writes to Lord Dorchester advising a federation of the provinces of British North America.

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henric · Feb 5, 2015

February 6th,2015 - This Date in History.

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1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1806 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 – Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
1862 – American Civil War: forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
1899 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1914 – The BondetÃ¥get, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, takes place in Sweden
1918 – British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
1919 – The five-day Seattle General Strike begins.
1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1934 – Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1975 – A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
1988 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1996 – Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
2012 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1837 FIRST PLAY ON PARLIAMENT HILL
Ottawa Ontario - Actors in the British garrison on Barrack Hill, the site of Canada's Parliament Buildings, produce Bytown's first play, 'The Village Lawyer.'

1952
London England - King George VI dies in his sleep; born Dec. 14, 1895; his eldest daughter Princess Elizabeth accedes to the Throne as Queen Elizabeth II. The stamp was issued to commemorate her wedding to Prince Philip a year earlier.

In Other Events...

1990 Chicago Illinois - Brett Hull becomes the first son of an NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50 goals himself.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Federal competition tribunal approves $5 billion Imperial Oil takeover of Texaco Canada.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Premier Rene Levesque drives over a man lying in a Montreal street; coroner rules no criminal responsibility; Levesque fined $25 for not wearing his glasses at the time of the accident.
1975 Edmonton Alberta - Peter Lougheed's government cuts personal income tax by 28%, making Albertans lowest-taxed Canadians.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian airport radar and communications technicians strike, halting all but military air traffic until March 2.
1968 Grenoble France - Canadian team attends opening of the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble; with total 37 nations and 1293 competitors; to Feb. 18.
1967 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba brings in 5% sales tax to finance education and social services; to take effect June 1.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - National Advisory Council on Fitness and Amateur Sports gives first grants; first to Canadian Wheelmen's Association (cycling) and the Canadian Amateur Ski Association.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Mines and Technical Surveys opens new Surveys and Mapping Building; Ottawa's largest government building to date
1943 Mediterranean - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian corvette Louisbourg in the Mediterranean.
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany - Canadian team attends opening of the 4th Winter Olympic Games in Garmisch; with total 28 nations and 755 competitors; to Feb. 16.
1932 Lake Placid New York - Canadian and American teams present Dog Sled Racing as a demonstration sport at the 3rd Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 chosen as Conservative Party leader, replacing Sir Charles Tupper; to July 10, 1920; becomes Leader of the Opposition at the same time.
1894 Ontario - Residents of Ontario vote for the prohibition of alcohol in a provincial plebiscite.
1893 Paris France - Canada signs reciprocity treaty with France, to come into effect October 14, 1895; French wines given low rates of duty.
1865 Ottawa Ontario - Confederation debates begin.
1813 Brockville Ontario - US Capt. Benjamin Forsyth crosses frozen St. Lawrence with 52 riflemen and attacks Brockville the next day; takes 52 hostages in War of 1812 skirmish.
1722 Quebec Quebec - The Council of New France makes abandoning children a death penalty offence; parish Priests are asked to publicize the law every few months.

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henric · Feb 6, 2015

February 7th,2015 - This Date in History.

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457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1074 – Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – NapolÃ©on's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
1813 – Action of 7 February 1813: stalemate two evenly matched frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy, ArÃ©thuse and HMS Amelia.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
1842 – Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
1863 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1897 – Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
1898 – Dreyfus affair: Ã‰mile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1904 – A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
1940 – The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1943 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1944 – World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
1951 – Korean War: 705 suspected communist sympathizers are butchered by South Korean forces.
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 – The Beatles first arrive in the United States. Their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.
1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1991 – Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2009 – Bushfires in Victoria leaves 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
2012 – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
2013 – At least 51 people are killed in a crash involving a bus and truck in Zambia.
2014 – Over 350 people were injured in the anti-government unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1867 PARLIAMENT PONDERS BNA ACT
London England - Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, introduces a draft bill into the House of Lords to unite the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. It is called the British North America Act.

1976
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Darryl Sittler, centering a line with Lanny McDonald and Errol Thompson, scores 6 goals on Boston Bruins goalie Dave Reece. He adds 4 assists, in the 11-4 victory, for a record 10 points in one game, a feat unequaled in NHL history (even by Wayne Gretzky). Sittler wound up the season with 100 points, the first player in Leaf history to reach that plateau.

1891
Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 declares 'A British Subject I was born, a British subject I will die' during his final speech in the House of Commons, before entering his last election campaign.

In Other Events...

1998 Nagano, Japan - Canadian team competes in the opening events of the 18th Winter Olympic games at Nagano.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Marshall Jr. wins apology from Nova Scotia for suffering due to 11 years false imprisonment for a murder committed in 1971; after a royal commission exonerates him; he eventually receives $270,000 in cash damages from Province.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Vancouver-Quadra MP John Napier Turner 1929- resigns as Leader of the federal Liberal party; replaced by Herb Gray as interim leader.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Bob Rae 1949- elected Ontario NDP leader.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Justice L. P. Pigeon retires from the Supreme Court of Canada; TV cameras are allowed into the Court for the first time to film the proceedings.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canada officially recognizes North Vietnam.
1972 Montreal Quebec - La Presse employees end four-month strike; began Oct. 27, 1971
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ten provincial premiers agree to draft new constitution giving the French language equal status with English throughout Canada.
1926 Red Bank Ontario - Start of gold rush at Red Bank.
1922 New York New York - Lila Acheson Wallace 1889-1984 and her husband Dewitt Wallace sell the first 5,000 copies of their new magazine, the Reader's Digest, the most-read periodical in history, with a current circulation of 15 million. Lila was born in 1889 at Virden, Manitoba.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet sets up War Purchasing Board; authority to make all purchases for government.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - Richard Scott brings in Canada Temperance Act (Scott Act); gives provinces and local governments the option in licensing.
1874 Victoria BC - Crowd of several hundred people marches into BC legislature to demand resignation of Premier Amor de Cosmos for delaying building of the CPR.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 invites at least two Metis to go to Ottawa to present list of rights to government.
1792 Niagara Ontario - John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 advertises Upper Canada Crown Lands for sale; with fee scales; how to apply; US citizens wishing to settle can get free land grants.
1758 Halifax Nova Scotia - Governor Charles Lawrence proclaims a resolution passed by the Nova Scotia Council to organize the first Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia; it will be the first popularly elected parliament in Canada.

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henric · Feb 7, 2015

February 8th,2015 - This Date in History.

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421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
1575 – Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1726 – The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 – Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq
1817 – Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San MartÃn and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 – Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 – D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1945 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1948 – The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1955 – The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 – Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1963 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 – The First full Color Television program in the World, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena.
1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1969 – Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 – South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.
1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1986 – Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-MÃ©gantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
1993 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 – The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
2010 – A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
2013 – A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
2014 – A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1984 CANADIANS IN SARAJEVO
Sarajevo Bosnia - Canadian team attends ceremony of lighting the Olympic flame to open the 14th Olympic Winter Games in Kosevo Stadium, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; with 1,579 athletes representing 49 other countries. The Olympic facilities were virtually all destroyed during the civil war in Bosnia.

1879
Toronto Ontario - Sanford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time, by dividing the world into 24 equal time zones, with standard time within each zone; in lecture at the Canadian Institute in Toronto. Idea adopted by North American railways four years later.

1948
St Moritz, Switzerland - Fifth Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz. The RCAF Flyers win the Ice Hockey Gold, and Ottawa's Barbara Ann Scott takes home the Gold Medal in Figure Skating.

In Other Events...

1995 Ottawa Ontario - Romeo LeBlanc appointed Governor General; Acadian native; former teacher, journalist, federal Cabinet Minister.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa slashes tobacco taxes to reduce rampant cigarette smuggling; Quebec, Ontario and the Maritime provinces follow; failure to control smuggling.
1992 Albertville, France - Canadian team attends opening of the 16th Winter Olympic Games in Albertville.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chretien 1934- announces he will run for the Leadership of the federal Liberal party; on resignation of John Turner
1986 Hinton Alberta - Nine-car VIA Rail passenger train collides head-on with a CN freight, killing 29, injuring 93.
1983 Uniondale New York - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scores all-star record four goals, all in the third period, as the Campbell Conference beats the Wales 9-3 at Nassau Coliseum.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Former NHL president Clarence Campbell found guilty of conspiring to give Senator Louis GiguÃ¨re a benefit in connection with a contract for airport duty-free shops; the Sky Shop affair.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games).
1960 Montreal Quebec - Federal-provincial conference on the Centennial backs Montreal bid for 1967 World's Fair.
1945 Reichswald Germany - First Canadian Army attacks German positions in the Reichswald; part of Allied offensive into Germany; west of Rhine, north of Ruhr Valley.
1936 Toronto Ontario - Charlie Conacher notches the first successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, against the New York Rangers.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - George Eulas Foster 1847-1931 chairs new War Trade Board.
1905 Toronto Ontario - James Pliny Whitney 1834-1914 takes office as Premier of Ontario; first Conservative government in Ontario since 1872
1853 Ottawa Ontario - J. B. Turgeon, the Mayor of Bytown, petitions town Council to change name of Bytown to Ottawa.
1839 Aroostook New Brunswick - American and Canadian loggers clash in Aroostook lumber war over undefined boundary with Maine; truce struck on March 25.
1690 Schenectady New York - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 organizes attack by Mohawk natives and French troops against Schenectady; 60 people killed, 30 captured.
1631 London England - Charles I grants Cape Breton Island to Robert Gordon of Lochinvar and son Robert.
1631 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 names Charles de La Tour Governor and Lieutenant-General of New France and Acadia; commission partly restored after peace treaty in 1632; La Tour builds Fort Ste-Marie at mouth of Saint John River, rich fur region.
1604 Paris France - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 forms de Monts Trading Company with Champlain and GravÃ© du Pont; Canada's first chartered company; with capital from Rouen, St. Malo and La Rochelle merchants.

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henric · Feb 8, 2015

February 9th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1849 – New Roman Republic established
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 – World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in FÃ¸rdefjorden, Norway.
1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1951 – Korean War: Geochang massacre
1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States troops with a combat mission, a Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion, are sent to South Vietnam.
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
1971 – The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
1973 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Odisha, India.
1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1964 CANUCKS TAKE SLED GOLD
Innsbruck Austria - Ninth Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck. Brothers Vic and John Emery, with Douglas Anakin and Peter Kirby, take home Canada's only Gold Medal, in Bobsledding. The quartet set a world record in their first run, and repeat their victory at the 1965 World Championship.

1996
Reno Nevada - Canada's Donovan Bailey sets world record for the 50-meter dash with a time of 5.56 seconds at the Reno Air Games; old record of 5.61 set by Manfred Kokot of East Germany in 1973 and American James Sanford in 1981.

1931
Ottawa Ontario - Vere Brabazan Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough 1880-1956 appointed Governor-General of Canada, serving from April 4, 1931 to September 29,1935.

In Other Events...

1991 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Cameron chosen as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and new Premier of Nova Scotia, replacing John Buchanan, who resigned Sept 1990 to take a Senate seat
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Erik Neilsen 1924- chosen as interim party leader by Progressive Conservative Party; to June 11, 1983; replacing Joe Clark.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa orders 11 Soviet embassy officials deported for allegedly trying to infiltrate the RCMP Security Service.
1974 USA - Gordon Sinclair's recording of his radio commentary, The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion) peaks at #24 on the pop singles chart.
1966 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League announces it is doubling in size with a new West Division and six new teams - the California Seals, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues. The original teams - Toronto, Montreal, New York, Detroit, Chicago and Boston - will make up the NHL East Division.
1883 Guelph Ontario - Ontario's first free public library opens at Guelph.
1879 Quebec Quebec - North Shore Railroad opens from Montreal to Quebec.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Metis establish a provisional government at Red River; Louis Riel 1844-1885 elected President.
1760 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Captain John Byron 1723-1786 starts tearing down the fortifications of Louisbourg on orders from British PM William Pitt.
In World Events...
1984 Moscow Russia - Soviet President Yuri Andropov dies at age 69; ex head of KGB was in power only 15 months.
1969 Washington - Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight; world's largest airplane ushers in the jumbo jet age.
1964 New York City - The Beatles first appear on the Ed Sullivan Show before 73.7 million TV viewers. They sing She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand.
1950 Washington DC - Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that the US State Department is infested with Communists.
1916 London England - Britain brings in conscription with the Military Service Act.
1895 Massachusetts - Volleyball invented by W.G. Morgan.
1861 Montgomery Alabama - Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States of America.
1825 Washington DC - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US President.

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henric · Feb 9, 2015

February 10th,2015 - This Date in History.

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1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
1930 – YÃªn BÃ¡i mutiny in French Indochina
1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2009 – The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1763 FRANCE GIVES UP CANADA
Paris France - France signs Peace of Paris ending the Seven Years War. France gives up Canada, keeping only St. Pierre and Miquelon and part of Louisiana; Spain cedes claims in the northwest, gets California.

In Other Events...

1991 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Cameron chosen as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and new Premier of Nova Scotia.
1983 Washington DC - Canada signs agreement allowing US testing of military equipment in Canada, including cruise missiles.
1982 Bromont, Quebec - Group of 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands; to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $18 million for underwater electrical cable from New Brunswick to PEI.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa limits seal catch in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Newfoundland and Labrador.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 3-day constitutional conference; Premiers agree to more study of constitutional reform.
1965 Vancouver BC - Lumber magnate H. R. MacMillan donates $8.2 million to the University of British Columbia for postgraduate education.
1956 Quebec Quebec - Wilbert Coffin hanged for murder of three American hunters, killed in the GaspÃ© in 1953; many insist the GaspÃ© prospector was innocent.
1947 Paris France - Canada signs mop-up peace treaties with former Axis powers Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland.
1942 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian corvette Spikenard.
1922 London England - Peter Charles Larkin 1856-1930 appointed High Commissioner for Canada in Britain; wealthy tea merchant and benefactor of Mackenzie King
1906 Prince Rupert BC - Prince Rupert chosen as the name of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's terminus. Fifteen thousand people entered the $250 contest to choose a name - Eleanor Macdonald of Winnipeg was the winner.
1906 London England - Canadian Tommy Burns knocks out Jack Palmer in the fourth round to defend his world heavyweight title.
1892 Washington DC - Canadian and US negotiators fail to reach decision on reciprocity after five days of talk.
1876 St. Catharines Ontario - St. Catharines incorporated as a city.
1876 Toronto Ontario - Crooks Act takes power to grant tavern licences away from Ontario municipalities; now under provincial board.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 organizes second Provisional Government of Red River.
1841 Kingston Ontario - The Act of Union comes into effect; uniting Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with Kingston as its capital; Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 appointed first Governor-General of United Canada; until his death on Sept. 19, 1841.
1838 Quebec Quebec - Constitution of Lower Canada suspended as of March 27; Special Council proclaimed March 29.
1829 Fredericton New Brunswick - College of New Brunswick gets Royal Charter as King's College, Fredericton; today the University of New Brunswick.
1802 London England - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being first to cross the North American continent by land.
1638 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 grants Charles La Tour the rest of Nova Scotia, plus Cap de Sable and Fort La Tour on the Saint John River; Charles d'Aulnay, cousin of Razilly, is appointed Lieutenant-General of Acadia; hostility arises between La Tour and d'Aulnay.

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henric · Feb 10, 2015

February 11th,2015 - This Date in History.

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660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
244 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
1177 – John de Courcy's army defeats the native Dunleavey Clan in Ulster. The English establish themselves in Ulster.
1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1626 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Roman Catholicism the state religion of Ethiopia.
1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
1794 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymanders" for the first time.
1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
1826 – Swaminarayan writes the Shikshapatri, an important text within Swaminarayan Hinduism.
1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du rÃ©giment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
1858 – Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.
1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1873 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first National Diet convenes in 1890.
1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
1929 – Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers.
1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
1939 – A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
1943 – World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
1968 – Israeli–Jordanian border clashes rage.
1968 – The Memphis Sanitation Strike begins.
1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
1979 – The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1981 – Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
1990 – Buster Douglas, a 40:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title and cause one of the largest upsets in sports history.
1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President JosÃ© Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
2008 – Namdaemun, a 550-year-old gate in South Korea, was toppled by fire.
2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the papacy, the first pontiff to resign in more than half a millennium.
2014 – A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1869 WHELAN HANGED IN OTTAWA
Ottawa Ontario - Patrick James Whelan c1840-1869 hanged in a snowstorm before a crowd of 5,000 people for the murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee; denies he did it; second last public execution in Canada.

1922
Toronto Ontario - Frederick Grant Banting 1891-1941 announces the discovery of insulin, used to treat diabetes, at the University of Toronto; with colleagues C.H. Best (1899-1978), J.B. Collip (1892-1965) and J.J.R. Macleod (1876-1935).

In Other Events...

1984 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record of 11 goals.
1978 Cranbrook BC - Pacific Western Airlines aircraft crashes at Cranbrook, killing 43 people; snowplow on runway during PWA jet's landing.
1977 Nova Scotia - Fisherman catches 20.2-kg lobster off Nova Scotia; the world's heaviest known crustacean.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa unveils $1.7 million aid package to bolster the Canadian book publishing industry.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadien captain John Beliveau scores his 500th NHL goal.
1971 Washington DC - Canada with 62 other countries signs treaty banning nuclear weapons from the ocean floor.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University; 97 persons charged with conspiracy to commit mischief and arson.
1967 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first Canada Winter Games; held for a week in Quebec City
1964 Port-au-Prince Haiti - Haiti expels eighteen Canadian Jesuits on grounds their activities are subversive.
1963 Kapuskasing Ontario - Shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded.
1957 New York City - Founding of the NHL Players Association, with Detroit Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected President of the NHLPA.
1940 Montreal Quebec - John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield 1875-1940 Governor-General dies in Montreal.
1928 St Moritz, Switzerland - Canadian team attends opening of the second Winter Olympic games in St Moritz.
1920 London England - Canada attends opening meetings of the Council of the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Government sets up Food Board, replacing the Food Controller; controlled by Ministry of Agriculture
1907 Edmonton Alberta - Founding of the Supreme Court of Alberta.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 deplores employment of children under age 12; in the first Annual Report of the Bureau of Labour.
1897 Ottawa Ontario - Fire destroys part of the West wing of the Parliament Buildings.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 introduces the Manitoba Remedial School Bill, to force Manitoba to restore separate schools; withdrawn on April 16 after no decision.
1887 Vancouver BC - CPR opens Pacific steamship service to the Orient.
1839 London England - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 submits his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' to Parliament; recommends Union of the Canadas and the provinces of British North America
1834 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie forcibly ejected from the Upper Canada legislature.

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henric · Feb 11, 2015

February 12th,2015 - This Date in History.

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881 – Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Holy Roman Emperor
1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging OrlÃ©ans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1814 – Battle of ChÃ¢teau-Thierry (1814)
1814 – Battle of La Victoria (1814)
1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
1817 – An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
1818 – Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near ConcepciÃ³n, Chile.
1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1832 – Ecuador annexes the GalÃ¡pagos Islands.
1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
1855 – Michigan State University is established.
1894 – Anarchist Ã‰mile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, France, killing one and wounding 20.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1909 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
1912 – The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1924 – George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music," in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.
1934 – In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange EspaÃ±ola.
1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1947 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1947 – Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
1961 – Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
1968 – Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1983 – One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1992 – The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
2002 – An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1989 MORE GRETZKY RECORDS
Los Angeles California - Wayne Gretzky sets two more NHL records, his 45th hat trick and his tenth 40+ goal season.

1917
London England - Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 arrives in London to sit as a member of the British [Imperial] War Cabinet.

In Other Events...

1994 Victoria BC - Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease.
1994 Lillehammer, Norway - Canadian team attends opening ceremonies of the 17th Olympic Winter games in Lillehammer.
1994 Toronto Ontario - Rev. Victoria Matthews consecrated the first female Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada.
1990 Chambly Quebec - Phil Edmonston wins riding of Chambly for NDP in federal by-election; first NDP/NPD seat in Quebec; consumer advocate Edmonston author of the Lemon Aid series.
1990 Hagersville, Ontario - Tire dump fire set by teenage boys forces hundreds of families from their homes, causes massive air pollution.
1976 Toronto Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- resigns his Vancouver Quadra seat in the House of Commons and joins Toronto law firm; until 1984, when he returns to politics, winning the Liberal leadership and becoming Prime Minister.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Three-month-old baby receives Canada's first successful liver transplant at Montreal's Notre-Dame Hospital.
1966 Banff Alberta - Nancy Greene 1943- wins women's slalom title at Canadian International Ski Championships; from Rossland, BC; first FIS World Cup race held in Canada.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.
1949 Europe - Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.
1942 Brest France - German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau escape from Brest after allied air bombings; nine Canadian squadrons lose seven planes in the attack.
1894 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Legislature votes to hold plebiscite on prohibition of alcohol.
1816 St. John's Newfoundland - St. John's almost completely destroyed by a fire.
1800 Fredericton New Brunswick - College of New Brunswick founded at Fredericton; today the UNB.

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henric · Feb 12, 2015

February 13th,2015 - This Date in History.

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1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th-13th.
1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1503 – Disfida di Barletta – tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1572 – Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.
1575 – Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims and marries Louise de Lorraine-VaudÃ©mont on the same day.
1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government begins to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency rules Sweden until 1672.
1668 – Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1849 – The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Şaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
1861 – In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.
1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1934 – The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls.
1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1971 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
1978 – Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1982 – The RÃo Negro massacre takes place in Guatemala.
1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
2000 – The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
2013 – A plane crash kills five people and injures nine others in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1937 CANADIAN PRINCE VALIANT
New York City - Halifax native Harold Foster 1892-1982 publishes his first Prince Valiant comic strip, calling his original creation 'an illustrated historical novel.' Famed for its superb medieval detail, the strip was Foster's masterpiece, and he would write and illustrate it for the next 42 years; he had already drawn the Tarzan strip from 1929-1937.

1988
Calgary Alberta - Calgary plays host to over 1,800 athletes from 57 countries as the 15th Winter Olympics opening ceremonies take place in Olympic Plaza.

1833
Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton incorporated as a city; oldest in Ontario.

In Other Events...

1995 Montreal Quebec - Lucienne Robillard elected for the Liberals as the Party wins 3 bye-elections, keeping two seats in Ottawa and Montreal, winning one from the Bloc Quebecois. The new standings: Liberal 177, BQ 53, Reform 52, NDP 9, PC 2, Ind 2.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $75-100,000 in compensation for each victim of the drug thalidomide born between 1959 and 1961.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Bombardier proposes $5.3 billion high speed rail link between Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto; based on French TGF (TrÃ¨s Grande Vitesse) train
1985 Montreal Quebec - Denis Lortie found guilty of first-degree murder of 3 Quebec National Assembly workers in his machine gun attack of May, 1984; the Canadian Armed Forces corporal sprayed the chamber with bullets before being calmed.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Parliamentary committee recommends 65 amendments to original constitutional package.
1974 Quebec - Quebec Court of Appeals denies Indian-Inuit coalition permanent injunction against James Bay power; courts awaiting the outcome of earlier appeal
1973 Quebec Quebec - Gendron Royal Commission on the French Language recommends making French official language of Quebec; Gendron Report
1972 Sapporo, Japan - The 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo; Canada fails to take home a Gold Medal.
1971 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- chosen Ontario Progressive Conservative leader, succeeding John Robarts.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Terrorist bomb explodes at Montreal and Canadian Stock Exchanges, injuring 27.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Liquor Board Employees end 70-day strike.
1963 St. Catharines Ontario - John Parmenter Robarts 1917-1982 charters Brock University in St. Catharines; scheduled to open in 1964
1954 Toronto Ontario - Agnes Macphail dies at age 63. A former country school teacher in Grey County, she became Canada's first woman MP in the 1921 federal election, and held her seat until she was defeated in 1940, and became an Ontario MPP. She was a champion of the rights of farmers, women and prisoners was Canada's first woman delegate to the League of Nations.
1947 Leduc Alberta - Vern 'Dry Hole' Hunter strikes oil near Leduc, sparking a new Alberta oil boom; Toronto Stock Exchange lists 40 new Western Canadian oil and gas companies
1907 Portage la Prairie Manitoba - Portage la Prairie incorporated as a city.
1900 Fredericton New Brunswick - Founding of first chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE); women's patriotic and philanthropic organization.
1900 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick provincial legislature opens first under Confederation.
1841 Kingston Ontario - William Draper & Charles Odgen form Draper-Ogden Ministry until Sept. 1842; two Attorneys General; Robert Baldwin accepts seat on Executive Council.
1833 Toronto Ontario - British American Assurance Company incorporated at York; first insurance company in Ontario
1759 Halifax Nova Scotia - First use of secret ballot in Canada in Nova Scotia Assembly; first legislature in British territory to permit secret voting.
1641 New York USA - Iroquois Confederacy of the Long House formally declares war against New France; still resent Champlain's treaty with the Hurons and Algonquins.
1641 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 ordered to return to France due to pressure from d'Aulnay; his commission revoked ten days later; he disobeys and stays in Acadia.

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henric · Feb 13, 2015

February 14th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
1014 – Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1076 – Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population is forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
1400 – Richard II dies, most likely from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke.
1556 – Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1804 – Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 – Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children (The National Children's Hospital in Dublin was founded over 30 years previously in 1821), is founded in London.
1855 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
1918 – The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
1919 – The Polish–Soviet War begins.
1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1929 – Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1942 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1943 – World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1943 – World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-JÃ¼rgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1944 – World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
1945 – World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
1945 – World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.
1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1949 – The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1950 – Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.
1956 – The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1966 – Australian currency is decimalised.
1970 – The iconic live album Live at Leeds by The Who is recorded.
1979 – In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1981 – Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
1990 – Ninety-two people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
1990 – The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
1998 – An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in YaoundÃ©, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which kills 120.
2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2004 – In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2005 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in six fatalities (including gunman) and 21 injuries.
2011 – As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1927 THE BIRTH OF THE LEAFS
Toronto Ontario - Conn Smythe takes over the Toronto St. Patricks team and renames them the Maple Leafs. For the next 4 years the team plays out of the old Mutual Street Arena, until Smythe's ice palace on Carlton Street, Maple Leaf Gardens, is finished in 1931.

1826
Hull Quebec - Lt. Colonel John By 1781-1836 of the Royal Engineers arrives in Hull to plan construction of the Rideau Canal from Ottawa River to Lake Ontario.

In Other Events...

1984 Moscow Russia - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- attends funeral of Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov; has discussions with Soviet leaders on peace.
1979 North York Ontario - North York officially becomes a city; part of Metropolitan Toronto.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Unity Bank of Canada and Provincial Bank of Canada merge; number of chartered banks reduced from 12 to 11
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces $50 million project to extend CBC radio and television service to northern regions.
1973 Yukon - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- agrees to set up committee to negotiate Native land claims in the Yukon.
1964 Halifax Nova Scotia - Oceanographic research vessel Hudson commissioned at Halifax.
1956 Oshawa Ontario - 17,000 General Motors employees end 148-day strike.
1952 Oslo Norway - Canadian team attends opening of the sixth Olympic winter games at Oslo.
1920 Montreal Quebec - Incorporation of the University of Montreal.
1918 Montreal Quebec - Fire at Grey Nuns Orphanage kills 64 children.
1915 France - First Canadian Division arrives in France from England, and moves into Flanders.
1896 Montreal Quebec - Winnipeg Victorias beat the Montreal Victorias 2-0 for the Stanley Cup.
1890 Toronto Ontario - Fire partly destroys main building of the University of Toronto; $500,000 in damage
1761 Mackinac Michigan - British troops occupy Fort Michilimackinac.
1663 Paris France - Canada becomes a Royal Province of France.

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henric · Feb 14, 2015

February 15th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1113 – Pope Paschal II issues a bill sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers.
1493 – While on board the NiÃ±a, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1690 – Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
1798 – The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier
1804 – The Serbian revolution begins.
1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1870 – Stevens Institute of Technology is founded and offers the first Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
1879 – Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
1891 – AllmÃ¤nna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
1901 – The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
1909 – The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
1921 – Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
1923 – Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
1925 – 1925 serum run to Nome: The serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, with Balto being the lead dog of the last team.
1933 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
1942 – World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.
1944 – World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
1945 – World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1952 – King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
1953 – Parliamentary elections held in Liechtenstein.
1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
1961 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family members.
1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1971 – The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1972 – JosÃ© MarÃa Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
1976 – The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.
1979 – Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
1982 – The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
1991 – The VisegrÃ¡d Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
1999 – Abdullah Ã–calan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is arrested in Kenya.
2000 – Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
2001 – First draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
2014 – Renaud Lavillenie of France breaks Sergey Bubka's world record in pole vault with a mark of 6.16 m.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1946 KING REVEALS GOUZENKO SPY PROBE

Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 tells Parliament about Soviet spy ring activities in Canada; explains measures needed to investigate, detain suspects; based on revelations from Igor Gouzenko, a former clerk at the USSR Embassy in Ottawa; charges are later laid against 21 people, and 11 are convicted.

1968
Grenoble France - Nancy Greene 1943- wins Gold Medal in Women's Giant Slalom at the Tenth Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Here she is on the podium after her win.

1965
Ottawa Ontario - Canada's new Maple Leaf flag is unfurled in ceremonies on Parliament Hill; adopted after two-year debate and Royal Proclamation Jan. 28; replaces the Red Ensign.

In Other Events...

1996 Victoria British Columbia - Ottawa settles claim with the Nisg'a Indians of BC; grants $190 million and full title to 1,930 sq km
1996 Hull Quebec - Prime Minister Jean ChrÃ©tien scuffles with a protestor disrupting Flag Day ceremonies.
1991 Washington DC - Canada joins Mexico and US in talks on a continental free-trade pact.
1982 Newfoundland - Oil drilling rig Ocean Ranger capsizes and sinks during a fierce storm on the Grand Banks 315 km east of St. John's; all 84 crewmen, mostly Newfoundlanders, drown in worst marine disaster in Canada since World War II.
1980 United Nations New York - Iran officially complains to the UN that Canada had abused diplomatic privilege by smuggling six Americans out of Iran using diplomatic passports.
1980 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky ties NHL record with 7 assists.
1979 Hollywood California - Anne Murray wins Grammy Award for top female vocalist. pianist Oscar Peterson, wins the jazz instrumental soloist Grammy.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Royal Bank transfers three head office departments from Montreal to Toronto.
1976 Innsbruck Austria - 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck. Kathy Kreiner takes home the Gold Medal in Womens Giant Slalom.
1973 Victoria BC - Pearson College of the Pacific to be built near Victoria; modeled after United World College of the Atlantic in Wales; named after Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa restricts oil exports to US, due to possible shortages.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Government lifts the last wartime price controls on goods; brought in during World War II.
1932 Lake Placid New York - Third Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid; Winnipeg Hockey Club team takes home Gold Medal in Ice Hockey for Canada.
1930 Ottawa Ontario - Cairine Wilson appointed Canada's first woman Senator.
1926 Prince Albert Saskatchewan - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 wins by-election in Prince Albert after losing North York riding Oct 29, 1925.
1910 Berlin Germany - Canada signs reciprocity agreements with Germany; mutual tariff reductions.
1888 USA - Joseph Chamberlain signs Chamberlain-Bayard Treaty giving US fishermen rights in inshore Canadian waters; later rejected by British Parliament, but US fishermen allowed to take out Canadian licenses.
1881 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Pacific Railway contract receives Royal Assent.
1880 Little Egypt Nova Scotia - Canada's first quintuplets born in Little Egypt, near Pictou; three live one day, the other two survive two days.
1872 Victoria BC - BC Legislature meets for the first time as a Province of Canada.
1781 Coteau du Lac Quebec - William Twiss finishes building North America's first lock canal at Coteau du Lac, on the St Lawrence River.
1764 St. Louis Missouri - Pierre LaclÃ¨de founds a fur trade post at St. Louis.
1625 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain appointed representative of the viceroy of Canada and instructed to find a route to China.

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henric · Feb 15, 2015

February 16th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

116 – Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
1874 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1899 – Iceland's first football club, KnattspyrnufÃ©lag ReykjavÃkur, is founded.
1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
1943 – World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
1943 – World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
1957 – The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
1961 – The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique BermÃºdez is assassinated in Managua.
1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
1999 – Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Ã–calan.
2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.
2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1971 FUDDLE DUDDLE DAY
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau, under opposition attack in the Commons, utters an apparently unparliamentary expression that he later describes as 'fuddle-duddle.'

1984
Sarajevo Bosnia - Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games; fourth medal of his career.

1867
London England - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 marries Susan Agnes Bernard, the sister of his personal secretary; which event, he quips, 'was an example of union'.

In Other Events...

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Pierre Kingsley appointed Chief Electoral Officer, replacing Jean-Marc Hamel; Elections Canada
1985 Toronto Ontario - Novelist Marian Engel dies of cancer at age 51; author of Bear.
1984 Sarajevo Bosnia - Canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male; again wins Silver in 1988 Calgary Olympics.
1973 Havana Cuba - Canada signs anti-hijacking agreement with Cuba; each country to prosecute hijackers in the other's country, or return them to the country where the hijacking took place.
1970 Europe - Ottawa's Betsy Clifford wins the Gold Medal in Giant Slalom at the FIS World Alpine Ski Championship.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Premiers meet for two-day federal-provincial conference; agree on anti-inflation measures; agree on banning phosphates in laundry detergents.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Anne Francis (Florence Bird) chairs new Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada; 'to ensure for women equal opportunities with men'; first Canadian commission headed by a woman later made 167 recommendations, including paid maternity leave.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 140-47. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949.
1940 Halifax Nova Scotia - RCAF's No. 110 Army Cooperation Squadron sails for Britain; first of 48 squadrons to go overseas.
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - Fourth Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch; Canada takes home Gold Medal in Ice Hockey.
1934 Newfoundland - David Murray Anderson 1874-1936 presides over ruling Newfoundland Commission; three Newfoundlanders and three non-Newfoundlanders; appointed by Britain.
1900 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias 2 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1881 Montreal Quebec - George Stephen signs charter and incorporates Canadian Pacific Railway; President until 1888; with partners R. B. Angus, Duncan Mclntyre, Donald A. Smith, J. J. Hill, and J. S. Kennedy.
1872 Victoria BC - - First session of the British Columbia legislature opens.
1857 Ontario - Early thaw and floods in Canada West destroy mill dams and bridges.
1838 London England - British Parliament passes an act suspending the constitution in Lower Canada.
1835 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Legislature votes to erase records of William Lyon Mackenzie's many expulsions from that body.
1825 London England - John Franklin 1786-1847 leaves England on second expedition, with George Back, John Richardson, and surveyor Edward Kendall, to explore from the Mackenzie Delta; they travel overland via New York.
1597 Paris France - Troilus de Mesgouez, Marquis de La Roche c1540-1606 gets grant from Henry IV for expedition to New France.

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henric · Feb 16, 2015

February 17th,2015 - This Date in History.

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364 – Roman Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back to Constantinople in suspicious circumstances.
1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Ã‡elebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
1500 – Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome.
1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormans.
1819 – The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
1838 – Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
1854 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
1863 – A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
1864 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its premiÃ¨re at La Scala in Milan.
1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
1933 – Newsweek magazine is first published.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
1944 – World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
1949 – Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1964 – In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1964 – Gabonese president Leon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
1972 – Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T.
1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
1978 – The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1980 – Mount Everest, 1st Winter Ascent by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops massacre more than 20 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradağlı.
1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
1996 – In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
1996 – NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
2003 – The London congestion charge is introduced.
2006 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
2008 – Kosovo declares independence as the Republic of Kosovo.
2011 – Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1932 MOUNTIES GET THEIR MAN
Rat River Yukon - Albert Johnson, 'the Mad Trapper of Rat River,' killed by RCMP in shoot-out after 48-day 240 km manhunt in 40 below weather; charged with killing one Mountie, Constable Edgar Millen and wounding two others. The Mounties enlisted World War I air ace/bush pilot Wop May to help them track Johnson.

1919
Ottawa Ontario - Sir Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 dies of a stroke at age 77; Canada's first Prime Minister of French ancestry; spent 45 uninterrupted years in the House of Commons; Canada's 7th PM 1896 to 1911, longest unbroken tenure in Canadian history.

1834
Quebec Quebec - Augustin-Norbert Morin & Louis-Joseph Papineau draft Ninety-Two Resolutions demanding responsible government; adopted 56 to 32 by Lower Canada Assembly.

In Other Events...

1996 Ottawa Ontario - Michel Gauthier appointed interim Leader of the Bloc QuÃ©becois; replacing BQ founder Lucien Bouchard, who moves to provincial and PQ politics.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa temporarily blocks import of Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses; the Ayatollahs of Iran considers the novel to be blasphemous to the Koran, and demand that Rushdie be assassinated.
1986 Versailles France- Canadian and Quebec delegations attend the first Francophone Summit - la francophonie.
1983 St John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland Supreme Court rules the province owns offshore resources as far as the territorial limit, but not to the edge of the continental shelf.
1982 London England - British Parliament gives approval in principle to proposed Canadian Constitution.
1982 Alberta - Gordon Kessler 1942- wins Alberta provincial by-election for separatist Western Canada Concept party.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Start of final round of constitutional debates in the House of Commons.
1973 Newfoundland - Temperatures on the island hit record low of -51 degrees Celsius.
1970 London England - Joni Mitchell plays her final concert, in the Royal Albert Hall.
1968 Springfield Massachusetts - Opening of the James Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, to honour the Almonte, Ontario, born inventor of the game.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament founds Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation; supporting all federally incorporated trust & loan companies; pays out $4 billion from 1967-1988, with the collapse of 20 institutions.
1967 Quebec Quebec - Quebec passes Bill 25, ordering teachers to return to classrooms within 48 hours; right to strike suspended until May 30, 1968
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 reduces age at which Old Age Pensions will be paid to 65 instead of 70; change to be phased in over five years.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens new National Gallery of Canada.
1937 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland sets up a commission to examine future; Dominion on the verge of financial collapse.
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senator Cy Dennehy becomes the NHL's all time leading scorer to date with 143 goals.
1869 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; today's Humane Society
1764 Quebec - William Gregory appointed first Chief Justice of Quebec.

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henric · Feb 17, 2015

February 18th,2015 - This Date in History.

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1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1268 – The Livonian Order is defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
1332 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1637 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
1745 – The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta.
1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
1865 – American Civil War: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
1885 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
1906 – Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1913 – Pedro LascurÃ¡in becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1932 – The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
1938 – During the Nanking Massacre tha Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee" and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
1943 – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 – Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
1947 – First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
1965 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1969 – Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1978 – The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu and is won by Gordon Haller.
1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
1983 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
1991 – The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.
2001 – Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Indonesia, that will ultimately result in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
2004 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
2007 – Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
2014 – At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1968 END OF GRENOBLE GAMES
Grenoble, France - 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble; Canada's Nancy Greene takes home Gold Medal in Giant Slalom

1980
Lake Placid New York - Canada wins 2 medals at Winter Olympics in Lake Placid; Steve Podborski 1957- takes Bronze Medal in Downhill Skiing (Ken Read's ski comes off in the starting gate); Gaetan Boucher 1959- wins Silver Medal in Speedskating.

1980
Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- defeats Joe Clark in the general election 146 seats to 103, with 32 for the NDP; wins majority government after nine months out of office; there are now no Liberal MPs west of Winnipeg. Only a few weeks earlier, Trudeau had announced he was retiring as Liberal Party leader.

In Other Events...

1981 Edmonton Alberta - NHL Oilers Wayne Gretzky scores five goals and two assists (four goals in the third period), to lead Edmonton to a 9-2 win over the St. Louis Blues.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Four Saskatchewan NDP MPs say they will oppose Ottawa's constitutional package.
1980 Victoria BC - 2,200 BC railway workers vote to end 5-week strike against provincial railway.
1972 Kitimat BC - Record 44.2 inches of snow fall on Kitimat.
1966 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Legislature passes non-compulsory medical care plan; to take effect July 1.
1965 Stewart BC - Avalanche on Grandue Mountain kills 18 copper miners, 8 others at Oranduc Mines camp 48 km north of Stewart.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Carleton University in founds graduate School of International Affairs.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Commission on Health Services outlines workings of new pre-paid medical care plan; second report
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Leonard Walter Brockington, Claude Champagne and Arthur Lismer awarded Canada Council medals.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Council gets anonymous $4,250,000 for advanced studies in medicine, science, engineering.
1960 Lake Tahoe California - Canadian team attends ceremonies as Vice President Richard M. Nixon opens the Eighth Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley; with 29 other nations and 665 competitors.
1936 Montreal Quebec - New York Americans (with 28) and Montreal Maroons (with 24) score NHL record 32 points in one game.
1932 Montreal Quebec - Sonja Henie wins her sixth straight World Women's Figure Skating Championship; following her win, she retires to Hollywood to become an actress.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Cy Dennehy of the Ottawa Senators scores his 52nd goal in a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs; becomes the all-time NHL scorer to date.
1905 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks Goaltender Fred Broy, in the American Hockey Association, scores a goal against Quebec; scores again on March 7, 1906, against the Montreal Victorias.
1900 Paardeburg South Africa - Canadian troops play major role in nine-day Battle of Paardeburg; take over 130 casualties.
1899 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks sweep Winnipeg Victorias in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
1899 White Pass Yukon - Michael J. Heney completes White Pass & Yukon Railway to summit of White Pass; 177 km from Whitehorse; completes road in 1900.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Charles Arkoll Boulton 1841-1899 captured outside Fort Garry with Thomas Scott and group of Canadians trying to overthrow Louis Riel's government.
1814 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada MP Joseph Wilcocks expelled posthumously from the Assembly at York for being a traitor; led American raids into Canada.

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henric · Feb 18, 2015

February 19th,2015 - This Date in History.

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197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1649 – The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
1861 – Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
1876 – Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1937 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1948 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1965 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals LÃ¢m Văn PhÃ¡t and Trần Thiện KhiÃªm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn KhÃ¡nh.
1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1985 – EastEnders BBC's flagship soap opera broadcasts for the first time.
1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2003 – An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2011 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang Dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
2012 – Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo LeÃ³n.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1973 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIGITAL DATA SYSTEM
Montreal Quebec - Trans Canada Telephone System introduces Dataroute, the world's first national digital data system.

1984
Sarajevo Bosnia - Gaetan Boucher 1959- wins 2 Gold (1000m & 1500m) and a Bronze medal in Speedskating at Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo. Here he is with his medal haul.

1897
Stoney Creek Ontario - Adelaide Hunter Hoodless 1857-1910 founds the Federation of Women's Institutes of Canada; motto 'For Home and Country'; promotes pasteurization of milk as one of its main projects (her infant son died after drinking impure milk); also helps found the National Council of Women, the Victorian Order of Nurses and the YWCA in Canada.

In Other Events...

1996 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint unveils new $2 coin design; a bimetallic Polar Bear.
1996 Ottawa Ontario - Denver Colorado - Patrick Roy reaches 300 victories as the NHL Avalanche beat Edmonton Oilers 7-5; second youngest goaltender and 12th overall to reach the mark.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Vaclav Havel visits Canada; asks for aid in rebuilding country; President of Czechoslovakia.
1984 Sarajevo Bosnia - Brian Orser 1962- wins silver medal in figure skating at Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- resigns as Progressive Conservative leader, but vows to fight for leadership at upcoming convention.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canada claims jurisdiction over waters of Northwest Passage, and between islands of Arctic archipelago.
1969 Quebec - Rene Lippe Montreal judge appointed mediator to end 18-months of rotating strikes of 70,000 Quebec teachers.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson's minority government loses a tax bill vote in the Commons, but win a vote of confidence Feb. 28th, after the Opposition demands that the government resign.
1955 Montreal Quebec - Bernie Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens scores 5 goals in a 10-2 rout of the New York Rangers.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada agrees to provide $25 million for first year of six-year Colombo plan aid scheme.
1930 Quebec Quebec - Quebec legislature rejects bill to admit women to the practice of law.
1928 St Moritz Switzerland - Second Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz; the University of Toronto Grads take home Canada's third consecutive Gold Medal in Ice Hockey.
1920 Montreal Quebec - Shareholders of the Grand Trunk Railway ratify sale to federal government, to become part of the Canadian National Railway system.
1908 New York City - Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940 sets out for North Pole in steamer `John R. Bradley'; US explorer
1889 Ottawa Ontario - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 pardoned by Crown for role in 1885 Rebellion; Saskatchewan Metis leader
1860 Cape Sable Nova Scotia - Steamship 'Hungarian' wrecked off Cape Sable; 205 lives lost
1814 Toronto Ontario - Joseph Willcocks posthumously ejected as a member of the Parliament of Upper Canada because he turned traitor and led American raids against the Province.
1732 Quebec Quebec - Religious houses in New France forbidden to shelter fugitives from justice.
1631 Quebec Quebec - First Lutheran baptism in Canada.

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henric · Feb 19, 2015

February 20th,2015 - This Date in History.

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1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1685 – RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1810 – Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed.
1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of PÃo de TristÃ¡n during the Battle of Salta.
1816 – Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
1835 – ConcepciÃ³n, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
1846 – Polish insurgents lead an uprising in KrakÃ³w to incite a fight for national independence.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
1865 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President TomÃ¡s Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco.
1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiÃ¨re performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1921 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.
1931 – The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943 – The ParÃcutin volcano begins to form in ParÃcutin, Mexico.
1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1956 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
1978 – The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1987 – Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
1988 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1989 – An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England.
1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2006 – In South Korea the United Liberal Democrats, the three top political parties was merged into Grand National Party.
2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
2013 – The smallest extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered.
2014 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 ORSER WINS SILVER, LOSES BATTLE OF BRIANS
Calgary Alberta - Brian Orser wins his second Silver Medal in Men's Figure Skating at the Calgary Olympic games; he repeated his result in Sarajevo in 1984; narrowly loses the 'Battle of the Brians' against US figure skater Brian Boitano, who takes the Gold.

In Other Events...

1993 Ottawa Ontario - Constitutional Affairs Minister Joe Clark announces he will not seek re-election; led Tories for 7 years, Prime Minister June 1979 to March 1980; MP for High River for 21 years.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Painter A. J. Casson dies at age 93; last surviving member of the Group of Seven; specialized in watercolours of Ontario towns.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Michael Wilson brings in deficit trimming federal budget; no new taxes; cuts $2.5 billion in transfer payments, squeezing the provinces; cancels Polar 8 Icebreaker; freezes CBC budget.
1985 Primrose Alberta - First successful US cruise missile test in Canadian airspace; released from a B-52 bomber over Beaufort Sea, the missile successfully makes its way to the target in Alberta.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Immigration Department to relax Canadian refugee policy, allowing more to remain in Canada.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - John Munro 1931- announces formation of Hockey Canada, federal corporation to develop a national hockey team; Canadian Health Minister
1964 Shawinigan Quebec - Terrorists raid armoury in Shawinigan.
1961 Washington DC - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 holds talks with President Kennedy in Washington.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Start of 12-year federal-provincial program of aeromagnetic surveys to pinpoint Canada's mineral wealth.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister George Pearkes announces the Diefenbaker Cabinet decision to cancel AVRO CF-105 Arrow interceptor project because of costs; Bomarc-B missiles to be installed; A. V. Roe President Crawford Gordon immediately fires 5,000 of 10,000 employees; 14,000 in the industry eventually lose their jobs. Recent comments by former Minister Pierre Sevigny bring into question who ordered the seven existing aircraft scrapped
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Secretary of State Ellen Fairclough is Acting Prime Minister during absence of John Diefenbaker, campaigning in Newfoundland.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Government issues Canada's first Family Allowance cheques.
1930 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa transfers control of BC natural resources to the province of British Columbia; under the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement
1915 NWT - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 maps coast of Banks Island to Alfred Point.
1894 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules Manitoba Catholics have no grounds for appeal of Manitoba School Act of 1890; decision appealed to Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
1865 Quebec Quebec - Legislative Council of Canada votes 45-15 for Confederation.
1808 Toronto Ontario - Joseph Willcocks d1814 jailed for making 'false, slanderous, and highly derogatory' statements about members of the Assembly; Leader of the Opposition in Upper Canada.
1796 Holland Landing Ontario - Queen's Rangers cut out Yonge St. 55 km to Pine Fort Landing on Lake Simcoe; to Georgian Bay by Feb. 27
1666 Montreal Quebec - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 arrives in New France and settles at Montreal.

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henric · Feb 20, 2015

February 21st,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

362 – Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1437 – James I of Scotland is assassinated.
1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1543 – Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
1918 – The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1945 – World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1958 – The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 – President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.
1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1986 – The Legend of Zelda, the first game of The Legend of Zelda series, was released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System.
1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 CLARK CALLS IT QUITS
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Joe Clark submits resignation to Governor General, three days after his Tory government was defeated by Pierre Trudeau's Liberals.

1935
London England - John Buchan 1875-1940 appointed Governor-General of Canada as Baron Tweedsmuir; Buchan was also a biographer and novelist, who wrote one of the first modern thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps.

1982
Toronto Ontario - David Peterson 1943- elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, succeeding Stuart Smith; a member of the Legislature from London, Ontario, Peterson will go on to defeat Frank Miller's Conservatives and become Premier of the province.

In Other Events...

1995 Leader Saskatchewan - Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett touches down at Leader, becoming the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Canada lets International Atomic Energy Agency verify Canada's peaceful use of nuclear power.
1969 Montreal Quebec - RÃ©jane Laberge-Colas 1923- appointed to Quebec Superior Court for the district of Montreal; Montreal lawyer the first woman named to the bench of a Superior Court in Canada.
1961 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Royal Commission endorses water fluoridation to cut tooth decay.
1945 Goch Germany - Canadian Army breaks through the Seigfried Line, reaches Goch.
1941 Newfoundland - Canadian co-discoverer of insulin Frederick Banting 1891-1941 killed at age 49 in Newfoundland air crash en route to England on a wartime medical mission; Nobel Prize winner.
1921 Quebec Quebec - Quebec the first province to establish government control of liquor; for a period of time Quebec is the only jurisdiction in North America with no prohibition of alcohol.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - James Alexander Lougheed 1854-1925 appointed Minister of Soldiers Civil Re-establishment; relocation, hospital care, pensions for returning soldiers and war workers
1891 Springhill Nova Scotia - Coal gas explosion in Springhill kills 129 miners.
1881 Winnipeg Manitoba - Horace McDougall sells Winnipeg telephone system to Bell; first Winnipeg telephone directory has 42 subscribers.
1849 Halifax Nova Scotia - Pony Express carries first despatches from to Digby for relay to Saint John, New Brunswick telegraph.
1824 Saint John NB - 18-year old Saint John boy hanged for stealing 25 cents.
1731 Quebec Quebec - Gilles Hocquart 1694-1783 appointed Intendant of New France; serves from August 20 to Sept. 2, 1748
1642 Nova Scotia - Charles Menou d'Aulnay 1604-1650 ordered to arrest Charles de La Tour for insubordination.

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henric · Feb 21, 2015

Events:C/P.

705 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty.
1316 – Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut
1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1651 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 – By the Adams–OnÃs Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
1847 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.
1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1889 – United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1921 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing Â£53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2012 – A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
2014 – President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1813 RED GEORGE INVADES THE USA
Ogdensburg New York - Lt. Col. 'Red George' Macdonnell c1779-1871 leads 400 Prescott regular militia and Glengarry Light Infantry in a pre-dawn raid on US Fort Ogdensburg across the frozen St. Lawrence; to retaliate for Feb. 6 attack on Brockville; War of 1812.

1976
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- narrowly elected PC Party leader on 4th ballot; replaces Robert Stanfield; gets 1187 votes, to Claude Wagner's 1112; Brian Mulroney, whose campaign was judged too slick, finishes third.

In Other Events...

1998 Nagano, Japan - Canadians take home record medal haul as 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano.
1996 St. John's Newfoundland - Brian Tobin wins Newfoundland Election; gains 37 out of 48 seats in the Newfoundland Legislature.
1996 Victoria British Columbia - Glen Clark sworn in as Premier of BC replacing Mike Harcourt; former provincial Cabinet Minister.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard returns to the House of Commons where MPs give him a standing ovation; he had lost part of his leg to the so-called flesh-eating disease in late 1993.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Lucienne Robillard appointed federal Minister of Labour; newly elected Liberal for Montreal riding.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Martin tables his first Budget as Finance Minister; wants to cut deficit from $45 to 39 billion; cuts tobacco taxes to curb smuggling; announces four military bases to close, including Royal Roads in BC and CollÃ¨ge Militaire St-Jean in Quebec.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Health Canada project finds traces of cigarette smoke compounds in fetal hair; first biochemical proof that even offspring of non-smoking mothers are affected by passive smoke.
1990 Los Angeles California - k.d. laing wins Grammy Award as top female country singer in the USA; Alberta native.
1990 Vancouver BC - Grain carrier collides with Polish fishing vessel in Vancouver Harbour; spilling 40,000 litres of diesel fuel.
1984 Quebec Quebec - Czech brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 points each in a game for the NHL Quebec Nordiques.
1977 Washington DC - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- tells US Congress that Canada will remain united despite concerns about Quebec separation; first speech given by Canadian Prime Minister to US Congress
1969 Montreal Quebec - Bomb explodes at Liberal Party social club, injuring two people.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 announces creation of Radio-QuÃ©bec, a provincially owned radio and television network.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Montreal police seize millions of dollars worth of smuggled heroin.
1945 Atlantic - German U-Boat torpedoes Royal Canadian Navy corvette Trentonian.
1943 Gibraltar Mediterranean - Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Weyburn strikes mine and sinks near Gibraltar.
1893 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Legislature declares beer of not over 4% alcohol a 'temperance drink'.
1887 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins federal election 126 seats to 89 for Edward Blake of the Liberals; majority cut to 37 seats in a House of 215.
1851 Ottawa Ontario - The Bytown Packet newspaper changes its name to the Ottawa Citizen.
1851 Kingston Ontario - James Morris 1798-1865 appointed the Province of Canada's first Postmaster-General.
1838 Kingston Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 abandons plan to attack Kingston from Hickory Island in the Thousand Islands.
1825 London England - Britain and Russia set inland boundaries of Alaska/BC at first mountain range and 141st meridian.

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henric · Feb 22, 2015

February 23rd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
1554 – Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of MarihueÃ±u in Chile.
1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
1821 – Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia (now part of Romania).
1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio LÃ³pez de Santa Anna.
1854 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
1870 – Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
1885 – Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
1898 – Ã‰mile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1900 – Second Boer War: Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
1903 – Cuba leases GuantÃ¡namo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
1905 – Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
1918 – Last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
1927 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1934 – Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
1943 – Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
1944 – The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
1945 – World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los BaÃ±os internment camp.
1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
1966 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1980 – Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1981 – In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'Ã©tat by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1983 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
1991 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'Ã©tat, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1998 – In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ã–calan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of GaltÃ¼r, killing 31.
2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
2007 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2008 – A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
2012 – A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
2014 – The closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics take place in Sochi, Russia.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 CALGARY HOSTS THE WORLD
Calgary Alberta - Games of the XV Winter Olympiad open in Calgary.

1909
Baddeck, Nova Scotia - J. A. D. McCurdy flies the Bell designed Silver Dart at an altitude of about 10 metres for nearly one kilometre across Baddeck Bay; first airplane flight in Canada by a Canadian; first powered flight in British Empire.

In Other Events...

1992 Albertville France - The XVI Winter Olympic Games end in Albertville; Canada takes home two Golds - Kerrin-Lee Gartner for Downhill Skiing and the Womens Relay Short Track team for Speed Skating.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Rookie Vancouver MP Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female Justice Minister in Mulroney Cabinet shuffle, replacing Doug Lewis; BenoÃ®t Bouchard becomes Minister of Industry, Science and Technology.
1982 Montreal Quebec - Claude Charron 1947- resigns as PQ House Leader and from the Parti Quebecois cabinet after admitting stealing a sports jacket from an Eaton store.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa places sanctions on USSR and Poland to protest Polish martial law; not including food exports to those countries.
1979 Kelowna BC - W.A.C. Bennett dies at age 78; Premier of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972.
1970 Toronto Ontario - First presentation of Juno Awards to honour the best Canadian recording artists; the award is named after CRTC Chairman and later CBC/SRC President Pierre Juneau.
1969 Vancouver BC - Start of hovercraft service between Vancouver and Nanaimo; first scheduled hovercraft service in Canada.
1965 Quebec - Jacques HÃ©bert gets 30 days in jail, $3,000 fine for contempt of court; for statements in book on Wilbert Coffin murder; 'J'Accuse les assassins de Coffin.'
1965 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Medical Services Insurance Committee recommends health insurance plan similar to Alberta's.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government approves collective bargaining and arbitration in the Civil Service.
1951 Korea - Canadian troops with 27th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade make first contact with enemy.
1914 British Columbia - Fraser River rockslide nearly wipes out the area's salmon fishing industry.
1906 San Francisco California - Tommy Burns of Hanover, Ontario, at just 5'7" and 175 lb., defeats title holder Marvin Hart in a grueling 20 rounds to claim the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules Manitoba prohibition law of 1900 null and void.
1894 Toronto Ontario - Ottawa's hockey club refuses to go to Toronto to play in the second annual Stanley Cup game, so the Cup is awarded to the Montreal AAA (Amateur Athletic Association) for the second time.
1893 Montreal Quebec - Former Governor General Frederick Arthur, Baron Stanley of Preston awards the first Stanley Cup to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) hockey team; says his sons enjoyed playing hockey when they lived in Ottawa.
1875 Hull Quebec - Hull incorporated as a city; formerly Wrightville.
1855 Kingston Ontario - Parliament grants Â£900,000 loan guarantee to Grand Trunk Railroad; flushes the Canadian economy with cash.
1838 Wallaceburg Ontario - American republican sympathizers occupy Fighting Island in the Detroit River to back Canadian rebels.
1782 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 named Commander in Chief of British North America.
1770 Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 sets out on second expedition over Barrens with Chipewyan chief Matonnabe; to find headwaters of Coppermine River.

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henric · Feb 23, 2015

February 24th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

303 – Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.
484 – King Huneric removes the Christian bishops from their offices and banished some to Corsica. A few are martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants. They are killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians.
1303 – Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence.
1387 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1525 – Spanish-Imperial army defeat French army at Battle of Pavia.
1538 – Treaty of NagyvÃ¡rad between Ferdinand I and John ZÃ¡polya.
1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1607 – L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its premiÃ¨re performance.
1711 – The London premiÃ¨re of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1821 – Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala .
1822 – The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1826 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1875 – The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1881 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
1916 – Governor-General of Korea established clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1918 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25.
1942 – An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
1944 – Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures HuÃ©.
1971 – The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
1976 – Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
1980 – The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.
1981 – An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1983 – A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
1984 – Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
1989 – United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing 9 passengers out of the business-class section.
1996 – The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
1999 – The U.S. state of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2011 – Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).

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1905 WHAT A WAY TO TREAT LORD STANLEY'S MUG
Ottawa Ontario - Members of the Ottawa Silver Seven, winners of the Stanley Cup, celebrate their victory by booting the cup onto the frozen Rideau Canal; Captain Harry Smith retrieves it unharmed the following day.

1982
Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his 77th goal of the season to break Phil Esposito's single-season NHL scoring record; adds goals 78 and 79 before the game ends; en route to his awe-inspiring 92 goal season. Here he is with the Stanley Cup.

1956
Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth authorizes the Coats-of-Arms of the Yukon and North West Territories.

In Other Events...

1993 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney announces he is stepping down as Prime Minister and Progressive Conservative Party leader; says his biggest disappointment was the failure of the Meech Lake Accord; Justice Minister Kim Campbell will win the June Tory leadership convention.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Tommy Douglas dies; former Saskatchewan CCF Premier and national NDP leader was the first in North America to bring in government Medicare health plan.
1982 Alberta - Dome Petroleum and Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands project.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Canada proposes cutting sulphur dioxide emissions by 50% by 1990; with equal US pledge, to reduce acid rain; no US response.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government tables new criminal legislation, including abolition of hanging, increased minimum sentences for murder, stricter gun control and greater wire-tapping power for police.
1972 Ellesmere Island NWT - Panarctic Oils makes first oil discovery in the Arctic, on Ellesmere Island.
1963 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick proclaims its official flag.
1925 Washington DC - Canada and US sign boundary treaty; create International Lake of the Woods Control Board.
1915 ArmentiÃ¨res France - Canadian Corps takes over 6.5 km section of trench line near ArmentiÃ¨res.
1887 Montreal Quebec - T.C Keefer 1821-1915 presides at the first meeting as founding President of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.
1887 Vancouver BC - Vancouver loses city charter after failing to control rioting against Chinese immigrants.
1875 Provencher Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 re-elected for Provencher and again expelled and declared an outlaw.
1843 London England - Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe 1785-1846 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from March 30, 1843 to Nov. 26, 1845
1797 Saint John New Brunswick - Political rivals John Coffin and James Genie fight a duel; neither is killed, as the combatants fire into the air, and honour is restored.
1663 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 cancels charter and takes over assets of the Company of One Hundred Associates (or Company of New France) which was given exclusive rights over fur trading in the New World in exchange for promises to colonize; also takes over other private trading and colonizing charters; New France made a royal colony of New France; law courts come into existence.
1662 Quebec Quebec - Bishop FranÃ§ois de Laval announces that those selling liquor to the Indians will be excommunicated from the Church.

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