This Date In History

henric · Feb 24, 2015

February 25th,2015 - This Date in History.

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138 – The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
493 – Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
628 – Khosrau II is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
1336 – 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1631 – FranÃ§ois de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders.
1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000–1500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had "the support of a great power" (i.e. Russia).
1831 – Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1843 – Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
1848 – Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights.
1856 – A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1875 – Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 – Marie-AdÃ©laÃ¯de, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 – World War I: the Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1919 – Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for ReichsprÃ¤sident.
1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
1941 – February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 – World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 – The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 – The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1964 – U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of HÃ My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the HÃ My massacre.
1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated by the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo
1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1987 – Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1992 – Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 – Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
1997 – Yi Han-yong, North Korean defector was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
2009 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1940 HOCKEY NIGHT HITS THE TUBE
New York City - Montreal Canadiens lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers in Madison Square Gardens in the world's first televised hockey game; on Westinghouse station W2XBS-TV.

In Other Events...

1991 Toronto Ontario - Silver speculator Bruce McNall, hockey star Wayne Gretzky and entertainer John Candy jointly buy CFL Toronto Argonauts; Gretzky and Candy are later financially embarrassed by the bankruptcy of McNall.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 sets up provincial study group to examine Meech Lake Accord; says Quebec will not return to constitutional negotiations if Meech Lake fails.
1989 Whistler BC - Rob Boyd wins a World Cup downhill race in home town of Whistler; first Canadian to win a FIS World Cup Ski race in Canada.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Osler Inc investment dealers 'deemed to be insolvent as of the opening of business' today.
1982 St. John's Newfoundland - Ottawa and Newfoundland governments start joint inquiry into Ocean Ranger disaster.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons starts inquiry into bank profits, in wake of record interest rates.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Flames score 11 goals against New York Islanders.
1972 Pickering Ontario - Ontario Hydro opens $75 million Pickering nuclear power plant; has been the largest single producer of electricity in the world.
1971 Vancouver BC - Boston Bruins left-winger Johnny Bucyk, center Ed Westfall and defenseman Ted Green scored 3 goals in 20 seconds against the Vancouver Canucks; an NHL record.
1971 Vancouver BC - Chapin Scott Paterson, an American citizen, hijacks a US Boeing 747 en route to Vancouver; turned over to FBI same day.
1966 Toronto Ontario - Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 cuts a ribbon opening the 13 km long $200 million east-west Toronto subway.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Commons receives preliminary report of Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
1952 Oslo, Norway - Closing of the VI Winter Olympic games at Oslo; the Edmonton Mercurys take home Canada's only Gold Medal, in Ice Hockey.
1951 Buenos Aires Argentina - Canadian team attends opening of the first Pan American Games, in Buenos Aires.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Official opening of CBC's international short wave service, Radio Canada International.
1918 New York City - Carnegie Corporation donates $1 million to McGill University; to recognize the university's wartime services.
1908 St. Boniface Manitoba - St. Boniface incorporated as a city.
1904 Toronto Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games for hockey's Stanley Cup.
1880 Fredericton New Brunswick - Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Fredericton.
1838 Amherstburg Ontario - Canadian militia routs American republican sympathizers on Fighting Island, in the Detroit River.
1832 Montreal Quebec - The Company of Proprietors of the Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad get a charter; first railway incorporation in Canada; work not begun until 1835; first train July 21, 1836.
1651 Paris France - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 commissioned as Governor of Acadia after d'Aulnay's drowning.
1620 Paris France - Henri, Duc de Montmorency appointed Viceroy of New France; with Champlain as Lieutenant.
1610 Dieppe France - Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 sets sail from Dieppe to recolonize Port Royal; with son Charles de Biencourt and Claude de La Tour.

End of C/P.

henric · Feb 25, 2015

February 26th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

747 BC – Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1794 – The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1876 – Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park.
1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1946 – Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
1960 – A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1966 – Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
1971 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
1980 – Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
1987 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1991 – Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
1995 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
2012 – A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
2013 – A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1857 CANADA ASKS THE QUEEN TO CHOOSE
Toronto Ontario - The Assembly of the Province of Canada formally requests Queen Victoria to choose a new permanent capital, after deadlock between supporters of Quebec, Montreal, Kingston and Toronto; originally in Montreal, the capital was moved to Kingston after Tory riots in 1849, then Quebec, then Toronto.

1960
Lake Tahoe California - Anne Heggtveit wins the Gold Medal in Slalom at the 8th Winter Olympic games in Squaw Valley; from Chelsea, Quebec, Heggtveit is the first Canadian to win Gold in skiing; she also takes the FIS World Slalom and Alpine Combined titles this year.

1986
Geneva Switzerland - Goaltending great Jacques Plante 1929-1986 dies at his home near Geneva at age 57; born Jan 17, 1929 at Mount Carmel Quebec; a six time Vezina trophy winner (five in a row with the Montreal Canadiens 1955-60); Plante introduced the protective goalie mask to hockey after being hit in the face in New York Nov 1, 1959.

In Other Events...

1979 Manitoba/Saskatchewan - Total solar eclipse crosses western Canada, casting a moving shadow 250 km wide.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Marchand 1918- resigns as Quebec leader of the federal Liberal Party; stays on as Minister of Transport
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts program to raise Francophone numbers in the Canadian Armed Forces to at least 28%.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Mitchell William Sharp 1911- Finance Minister 'repatriates' US $426 million currency and gold deposited with the International Monetary Fund; to drive up the value of the Canadian dollar.
1960 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government allows Quebec universities to accept $41 million in federal grants held in trust.
1954 Ottawa - Dag Hammarskjold United Nations Secretary-General starts two-day visit to Ottawa.
1945 Rhine Germany - Canadian Army Sergeant Aubrey Cosens wins VC for bravery in Rhine fighting.
1942 Vancouver BC - Government starts evacuating 21,000 Japanese Canadians from coastal regions of British Columbia to interior work camps; under War Measures Act.
1920 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Parliament opens in newly rebuilt Centre Block; sessions were held in the Museum of Nature after the disastrous Feb. 13 1916 fire.
1851 Toronto Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 helps found Toronto Anti-Slavery Society.
1838 Pelee Island Ontario - Rensselaer Van Rensselaer invades Pelee Island in Lake Erie with 500 American sympathizers of the Canadian rebels; until March 3
1826 Montreal Quebec - George Simpson c1787-1860 given authority over both Northern and Southern departments of the Hudson's Bay Company; William Williams recalled after opposition from North West Co. partners
1820 London England - George Simpson c1787-1860 appointed Associate Governor of Rupert's Land for the Hudson's Bay Company.
1798 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 sets off up Red River to explore headwaters of Mississippi.

End of C/P.

henric · Feb 26, 2015

February 27th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China.
1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1812 – Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1829 – Battle of Tarqui is fought.
1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
1881 – First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
1898 – King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
1900 – FuÃŸball-Club Bayern MÃ¼nchen is founded.
1902 – Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for war crimes.
1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire, apparently by the Communists.
1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1955 – Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1962 – Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.
1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1964 – The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
1973 – The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1988 – Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.
1989 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
1995 – Zakho: A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho leaves about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 – Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu prigrims.
2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
2007 – The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
2012 – A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion, killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others.
2013 – At least 19 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata, India.
2013 – Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 MANLEY TAKES SILVER AT CALGARY

Calgary Alberta - Elizabeth Manley of Ottawa wins Silver Medal in Women's Figure Skating at the Calgary Winter Olympics; East Germany's Katarina Witt wins Gold, Debi Thomas of the US gets the Bronze. Witt is the first woman figure skater since Sonja Henie to win gold medals in two consecutive Winter Olympic Games.

1994
Lillehammer, Norway - 17th Winter Olympics end in Lillehammer; Canada takes home three Golds - Myriam BÃ©dard for Biathlon (2) and (in the picture) Jean-Luc Brassard for Moguls Freestyle Skiing.

In Other Events...

1996 St. Louis Missouri - Former Oiler Wayne Gretzky leaves the Los Angeles Kings NHL team and joins the St. Louis Blues; he will later jump to the NY Rangers.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Martin tables his second Budget as Finance Minister; wants to cut federal spending 8.8% and bring the deficit down to 3% of GDP.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upholds Canada's anti-pornography law; rules sexually explicit material is obscene and not protected by the freedom of expression guarantee in the Charter of Rights.
1991 Iraq - Coalition under US General Norman Schwarzkopf proclaims victory over Iraq in the six-week Gulf War; Canadian troops start to return home after combat operations cease; Canada sent a total of 2,400 troops, 26 fighter planes, 3 warships and a field hospital.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa withdraws from $4.1 billion OSLO oil sands project.
1982 New Brunswick - Doug Young 1946- elected leader of New Brunswick Liberal Party.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones rock group is arrested by the RCMP and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic and possession of cocaine; police seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine and narcotics paraphernalia; Richards is released on $25,000 bail; later found guilty, but released on condition the Stones play two benefit concerts for the blind.
1976 Beijing China - Canadian Wheat Board sells China 963,989 tonnes of wheat.
1974 New York City - Joni Mitchell's album Court and Spark turns gold; her highest charting singles are Help Me and Free Man in Paris.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 2nd session of the 29th Parliament; until May 8,1974
1957 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian group buys shares of Investors Syndicate of Canada from Murchison and Allegeny interests; Dominion Securities, Webb & Knapp and ISC officers including Clarence Peterson.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada posts army officer to staff of Supreme Allied Commander; first step in providing Canadian ground troops in Europe for NATO
1917 Toronto Ontario - Women in Ontario win right to vote in provincial elections.
1909 Toronto Ontario - Ontario adds Crest, Supporters and Motto to provincial Coat-of-Arms.
1900 Victoria BC - Charles Augustus Semlin 1836-1927 dismissed as BC Premier by Lt-Governor T. R. McInnes.
1842 Shanty Bay Ontario - Opening of St. Thomas' Church, Shanty Bay, built of 'rammed earth'.
1839 Toronto Ontario - Opening of fourth session of thirteenth Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until May 11; adopts resolutions favouring a union of Upper and Lower Canada.
1751 Quebec - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La JonquiÃ¨re 1685-1752 sends Pierre-Marie Raimbeau de Simblin to build a fur trade fort at Lac de la Carpe to curb British influence south of Hudson Bay.

End of C/P.

henric · Feb 27, 2015

February 28th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

202 BC – coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China.
628 – Khosrau II is executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II.
870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
1246 – The Siege of JaÃ©n ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen.
1525 – The Aztec king CuauhtÃ©moc is executed by HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s's forces.
1638 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
1700 – Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
1710 – In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under JÃ¸rgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
1784 – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
1811 – Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence
1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
1844 – A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
1847 – The Battle of the Sacramento River during the Mexican–American War is a decisive victory for the United States leading to the capture of Chihuahua.
1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
1867 – Seventy years of Holy See-United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
1870 – The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
1874 – One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
1883 – The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston
1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
1893 – The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
1914 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in GjirokastÃ«r, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
1922 – The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
1928 – C.V. Raman discovers the Raman effect.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
1935 – DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
1939 – The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
1942 – The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men.
1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
1948 – Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots in Accra.
1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit.
1972 – Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai CommuniquÃ©.
1975 – In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
1980 – Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1986 – Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1991 – The first Gulf War ends.
1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
1995 – Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993.
1997 – An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
1997 – The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators.
1997 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
1997 – Military Coup in Turkey
1998 – First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
1998 – Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
2001 – The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
2001 – Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
2002 – During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
2004 – Over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 CANADA SHUT OUT OF GOLD AT CALGARY
Calgary Alberta - Closing of the 15th Winter Olympic Games. Canada won two Silver Medals, in Singles Figure Skating (Feb 20 - Brian Orser and Feb 27 - Elizabeth Manley), as well as Bronze in Ice Dancing (Feb 23 - Tracy Wilson & Rob McCall), Womens Downhill (Feb 19 - Karen Percy) and Womens Super G (Feb 22 - Karen Percy again).

1996
New York City - Ottawa native Alanis Morissette wins four Grammy awards including best female vocal for You Oughta Know and album of the year for Jagged Little Pill; at the 38th annual Grammy Awards.

In Other Events...

1995 Fredericton New Brunswick - Judicial report on sexual abuse of boys at Kingsclear Training Centre released; critical of bureaucratic indifference that allowed abuse to continue for almost 30 years.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Publisher Ernst Zundel convicted for distributing hate literature in a book that said the mass extermination of Jews in Germany in World War II never occurred.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- goes for a walk in an Ottawa blizzard and decides to resign; announces decision the following day; Canada's 15th Prime Minister.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports Canadian Gross National Product fell 4.8% in 1982; sharpest decline since 1933
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament creates VIA Rail Canada Inc.; Crown corporation to operate passenger rail service.
1975 Europe - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts 16-day European tour for closer ties with the European Economic Community.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes law giving the North West Territories a second NWT MP.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 survives non-confidence motion by 138 votes to 119.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Toronto International Airport terminal building.
1960 Lake Tahoe California - Closing of the VIII Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley; Canada takes home two Gold Medals - Anne Heggtveit for Slalom and Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul for Pairs Figure Skating, as well as a Silver in Hockey (Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen) and a Bronze in Men's Figure Skating (Donald Jackson).
1956 Chatham Ontario - Chatham restaurant fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Vincent Massey 1887-1967 sworn in as first Canadian-born Governor General 1952-59; former President of the Massey-Harris Company 1921-25; Canada's first ambassador to the US 1926-30; Canadian High Commissioner in London 1935-46.
1931 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass in football.
1925 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leafs extend win streak to 9 games; longest in Leaf history to date.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 beat Queen's University Kingston to win the Stanley Cup.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Third session of 14th Parliament meets until July 19; census made basis of Commons representation; income tax exemption per child
1877 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the University of Manitoba by provincial statute.
1876 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the gothic Parliamentary Library in Ottawa.
1860 Woodstock Ontario - Opening of Woodstock College.
1860 Canada - Opening of third session of sixth Parliament of Canada; meets until May 19; defeats two George Brown measures declaring Union of Canada a failure.
1838 Quebec - Robert Nelson 1794-1873 raids Lower Canada from Vermont with Cyrille CÃ´tÃ©; proclaims republic; stopped by militia.

End of C/P.

henric · Feb 28, 2015

March 1st,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul, celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
350 – Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar.
1457 – The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
1476 – Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.
1562 – Twenty-three Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1593 – The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
1628 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1700 – Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
1713 – The siege and destruction of Fort Neoheroka begins during the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, effectively opening up the colony's interior to European colonization.
1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
1803 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
1811 – Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
1845 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1847 – The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
1852 – Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1854 – German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1868 – The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
1870 – Marshal F.S. LÃ³pez dies during the Battle of Cerro CorÃ¡ thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1896 – Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1901 – The Australian Army is formed.
1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
1912 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
1917 – The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
1932 – Declare the Manchukuo Founding.
1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
1936 – A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
1939 – A Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
1941 – W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..
1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 – Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1956 – Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee
1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
1961 – American President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961 – Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of CoÃ±aripe.
1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
1966 – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
1971 – A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1971 – President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
1972 – The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
1989 – The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 – Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist JÃ³zef Oleksy.
1995 – Yahoo! is incorporated.
1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
1999 – Ottawa Treaty enters into force.
2000 – The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
2000 – Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 mi) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (8.5 tons).
2002 – The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2004 – Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
2005 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in "national standards,".
2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
2007 – "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
2008 – The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008, as a result ten people are killed.
2014 – At least 29 people are killed and 130 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 GRETZKY ALL-TIME ASSIST LEADER
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky picks up assist No. 1,050 in a game against the Los Angeles Kings, becoming the NHL's all-time assist leader; he breaks the 26-year mark of Gordie Howe in only 681 games, vs Howe's 1,767 games.

1939
Montreal Quebec - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 opens first Trans Canada Air Lines transcontinental passenger service from Montreal to Vancouver; Minister of Industry, Trade aned Commerce.

1883
Regina Saskatchewan - Nicholas Flood Davin 1843-1901 publishes the first issue of the Regina Leader; today's Leader-Post is Saskatchewan's oldest surviving newspaper; Davin was an Irish lawyer who served as a war correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, came to Canada in 1872 and worked for the Toronto Globe before heading west.

In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - Real estate developer Bramalea Inc. seeks court protection from its creditors; for the second time in the 1990s.
1991 Hamilton Ontario - Maclean-Hunter sells CHCH-TV to WIC Western International Communications for $46 million.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Track coach Charlie Francis tells Dubin Inquiry that his pupil Ben Johnson and other athletes knowingly took banned steroids; testifies Johnson started using steroids in 1981; Johnson also admits guilt in testimony that June.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government drops rule requiring licences for private ownership of satellite TV dishes.
1981 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta cuts oil production to protest Ottawa's energy policy; Ottawa replies by compensation charge as Energy Minister Marc Lalonde matches Alberta cutbacks by a 'Lougheed Levy' to subsidize imports.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament revises Canada Elections Act, ending political party status for seven groups; twelve parties stay officially registered.
1976 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Government founds Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund with windfall oil royalties.
1974 Victoria BC - BC Court of Appeals rules Indian child can be adopted by non-Indian parents without losing status.
1971 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- takes office as Premier of Ontario.
1965 Kejimkujik Nova Scotia - Parks Canada announces $6 million to develop Kejimkujik National Park in southwestern Nova Scotia.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa unveils design for $18 million Centre for Performing Arts in National Capital; with 2,300-seat opera, 900 seat theatre and 300 seat studio.
1965 La Salle Quebec- Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex in La Salle.
1963 Victoria BC - BC government establishes Victoria College as the University of Victoria; founds Simon Fraser University in Burnaby.
1953 Washington DC - US removes embargo on Canadian livestock placed after outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 1952.
1945 Hochwald Germany - Canadian Army Major Frederick Tilston wins VC for bravery in Hochwald Forest.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends meat rationing.
1943 Dawson Creek BC - Work begins on the Alaska highway.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Women's Army Corps as part of the Canadian forces; CWACs have full military titles and hold commissions.
1927 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decides in favour of Newfoundland claim on Labrador boundary; long-standing dispute between Newfoundland and Quebec; two years earlier, Newfoundland had offered to sell Labrador to Quebec for $30 million.
1917 Edmonton Alberta - Founding of the Alberta Provincial Police Force.
1888 Ottawa Ontario - Post Office starts first parcel post service between Canada and the US.
1878 Hampton New Brunswick - G. & G. Flewwelling lease New Brunswick's first telephones.
1815 Quebec - Disbanding of Lower Canada militia after War of 1812.
1755 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Armand Dieskau 1701-1767 appointed commander of the French regular troops in Canada.
1751 Paris France - Jean-Louis, Comte de Raymond c1702-1771 appointed Governor of Ile Royale [Cape Breton Island] with headquarters at Louisbourg.
1632 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain appointed first Governor of the royal colony of New France.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 1, 2015

March 2nd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges began the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
986 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
1121 – Dirk VI becomes the Count of Holland.
1127 – Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of LezhÃ«.
1458 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the King of Bohemia.
1476 – Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of NeuchÃ¢tel.
1484 – The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
1498 – Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
1561 – Mendoza, Argentina is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro del Castillo.
1657 – Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted three days
1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
1791 – Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
1807 – The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
1808 – The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1811 – Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San NicolÃ¡s on the River Plate.
1815 – Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka.
1825 – Roberto CofresÃ, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1865 – East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
1867 – The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
1877 – U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
1885 – Sino-French War: French victory in the Battle of Hoa Moc near Tuyen Quang, northern Vietnam.
1901 – The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1917 – The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
1919 – The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
1955 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
1956 – Morocco gains its independence from France.
1962 – In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'Ã©tat.
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1965 – The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
1969 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1969 – Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1978 – Czech VladimÃr Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1983 – Compact Discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1989 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
1991 – Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2004 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
2012 – A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1729 LET THEM PLAY CARDS
Paris France - King Louis XV 1710-1774 authorizes a new issue of playing card money in New France; not enough printed bills or coinage to pay the troops; Governor at Quebec allowed to sign playing cards as specie.

1699
Biloxi Mississippi - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 builds Fort Maurepas on the Gulf of Mexico; French control now extends all the way down the Mississippi River.

In Other Events...

1993 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court allows proceedings to be televised for the first time; a hearing on taxation.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules Manitoba Metis Federation can go to court to claim Red River Valley land promised in 1870s.
1990 Canada - Mark Tewksbury swims the 50m Backstroke in a world record time of 25.06 seconds. He also wins the Commonwealth Games 100m Gold this year.
1982 Halifax Nova Scotia - Ottawa and Nova Scotia sign agreement on offshore resources; Ottawa keeps final say on development; ownership of offshore resources still not settled.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Progressive Conservative members boycott Parliament for two weeks; to protest of American Energy Security Bill.
1977 Washington DC - Francis Fox 1939- signs agreement in Washington for exchange of prisoners with US; Canadian Solicitor-General.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Time magazine puts out last Canadian edition; loses advertising after Ottawa changes tax laws.
1972 Pickering Ontario - Ottawa plans new international airport in Pickering Township, 48 km east of Toronto; immediate protests from local residents.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Transport Commission orders CN to continue Super Continental passenger service; despite financial losses.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- appointed Canada's first Commissioner of Official Languages.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa stops foreign takeover of Denison Mines, Canada's largest uranium mining company, by US interests.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Lucien Rivard, jailed while fighting extradition to US on narcotics charges, escapes from Montreal prison using a garden hose to climb a prison wall; charges of bribery connected with the escape result in resignation of Justice Minister Guy Favreau; Rivard caught four months later, extradited to US, sentenced to 20-years.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - National Defence publish first Canadian casualty list from Korea; six soldiers killed.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa hit with 48.3 cm snowfall, one of its biggest single day March snows.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian budget introduces unique pay-as-you-earn income tax system.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Senate rejects Bill to legalize sweepstakes.
1923 Washington DC - Canada signs Halibut Treaty with US to preserve North Pacific fish stocks; Canada's first independent international treaty; didn't need UK signature.
1916 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes Temperance Act.
1901 Toronto Ontario - Ontario starts $1 million highways program.
1878 Quebec Quebec - Conservative Premier of Quebec Charles-Eugene Boucher de Boucherville 1822-1915 dismissed from office by Lieutenant-Governor Luc Letellier de St-Just; for keeping financial dealings secret; Liberal Henri-Gustave Joly de LotbiniÃ¨re 1829-1908 asked to form new government.
1877 Belleville Ontario - City of Belleville incorporated.
1877 Brantford Ontario - City of Brantford incorporated.
1831 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes act legalizing marriages by Methodist ministers.
1648 Paris France - Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge et d'Argentenay c1612-1660 appointed Governor of New France; serves from August 20 to October 20, 1651.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 2, 2015

March 3rd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its premiÃ¨re at the OpÃ©ra-Comique in Paris.
1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
1918 – Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1924 – The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal AtatÃ¼rk.
1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1938 – The Mallard the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England
1939 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in LuleÃ¥, Sweden.
1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
1945 – World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1958 – Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the ValparaÃso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
2005 – Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
2009 – The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
2012 – Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1994 THE EAGLE IS BANDED
Boston Massachusetts - Alan Eagleson indicted on 32 counts of embezzlement, fraud and racketeering; former head of the NHL Players Association and Toronto hockey lawyer refuses to go to the US to face the grand jury; beginning of three years of legal wrangling.

1975
Yellowknife NWT - Thomas Berger 1933- starts public hearings into social and environmental costs of planned 4,184 km pipeline; Justice of the BC Supreme Court.

In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - For the second time in the 1990s, real estate developer Bramalea Inc. seeks court protection from its creditors.
1991 Vancouver BC - Celine Dion wins Juno Awards for Best Album and Best Female Vocalist; George Fox wins Best Male Country Vocalist; Colin James wins Best Single and Top Male Vocalist; Rita McNeil wins Best Female Country Vocalist; Prairie Oyster win Best Country Group; Blue Rodeo win Best Group; Tragically Hip win Entertainer of the Year.
1984 Toronto Ontario - New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Toronto Maple Leafs (6).
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada confirms that Canada entered a recession in 1982.
1981 Edmonton Alberta - NY Islanders and Edmonton Oilers skate to an 8-8 tie.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- succeeds Joe Clark as Prime Minister; Clark PM since June 4, 1979.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- resigns as Official Language Commissioner.
1970 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts visit to Ottawa and Vancouver with Princess Anne.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Canadien Jean Beliveau scores one goal in a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings; second NHL player to score 1,000 career points.
1965 New York City - Canadian actor Christopher Plummer stars as Count von Trapp in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, The Sound of Music, opening on this day; his co-stars are Julie Andrews and Eleanor Parker.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves change of name of Trans-Canada Air Lines to Air Canada; to take effect January 1, 1965.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Cairine Wilson dies at age 77; Canada's first woman senator, Canada's first woman delegate to the United Nations
1953 Karachi, Pakistan - Canadian Pacific Comet jet crashes with 11 fatalities; world's first commercial jet crash.
1942 England - First combat flight of the Canadian-built Avro Lancaster bomber.
1921 Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team's discovery of insulin.
1920 Canada - Montreal Canadiens score NHL record 16 goals in a 16-3 rout of the Quebec Bulldogs.
1919 Vancouver BC - First international airmail delivered, in a flight from Vancouver to Seattle, Washington.
1887 Washington DC - US Congress passes Fisheries Retaliation Act; bans Canadian vessels from US waters; stopped imports of Canadian fish.
1875 Montreal Quebec - First recorded hockey game using roughly modern rules.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves British Columbia's terms to join Canada; negotiated by George-Etienne Cartier.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ambroise-Dydime Lepine l834-1923, heading the Metis Provisional Government court-martial, sentences Thomas Scott to death; Charles Arkoll Boulton 1841-1899 sentenced to death but his life is spared.
1841 Montreal Quebec - Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, starts a 20 month-long round the world trip.
1838 Pelee Island Ontario - John Maitland routs Van Rensselaer and supporters of Upper Canadian rebels who captured Pelee Island on February 2; routed by regulars of 32nd and 83rd Regiments and the Essex Militia.
1722 Quebec Quebec - Council divides New France into parishes; Quebec has 41, Three Rivers 13 and Montreal 28.
1655 Montreal Quebec - Montreal physician offers first medical insurance.

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henric · Mar 3, 2015

March 4th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 – Croatian Knyaz Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship NiÃ±a from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 – HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. The United States Bill of Rights is written and proposed to Congress.
1790 – France is divided into 83 dÃ©partements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 – Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1814 – Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1908 – The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1913 – The United States Department of Labor is formed.
1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1918 – The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
1962 – A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1974 – People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in the seriously damaged city of Bucharest, Romania.
1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1983 – Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1991 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 – 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1982 WILSON FIRST WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT
Ottawa Ontario - Bertha Wilson 1933- appointed first woman to sit on Supreme Court of Canada; Ontario Court of Appeal Justice; resigned Jan, 1991.

1994
Durango Mexico - Toronto actor John Candy dies at 43 of a heart attack while filming Wagons East on location in Mexico; Candy was a Second City TV Network regular (Johnny LaRue/The Shmenge brothers' Yosh); his films include Radio Candy, 1941, Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation, The Three Amigos!, Summer Rental, Brewster's Millions, The Great Outdoors, Splash, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Home Alone (with Catherine O'Hara), JFK, Uncle Buck, Camp Candy, Cool Runnings.

In Other Events...

1989 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Ed Broadbent 1936- announces resignation as NDP leader after 14 years as an MP; leadership convention in December; Oshawa MP succeeded by Yukon MP Audrey McLaughlin.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Canadien Guy Lafleur scores his 1000th NHL Point.
1981 Mississauga Ontario - Ontario Labour Relations Board rules that Westroc Industries had right to lock out employees in July.
1977 Toronto Ontario - The Rolling Stones record their Love You Live album in Toronto.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - First TV coverage of a Canadian parliamentary committee.
1971 Vancouver BC - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church; first Prime Minister to marry while in office; couple divorce in 1984.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP to replace remaining dog teams with snowmobiles.
1968 Gabon - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 suspends diplomatic relations with the African country of Gabon.
1967 Montreal Quebec - 4,500 civic clerical workers accept two-year contract; end 34-day strike with City of Montreal
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Demonstrators protest Vietnam war on Parliament Hill.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Liberal Justice Minister Cardin breaks news of the Munsinger Affair scandal, involving former Diefenbaker Associate Minister of National Defence Pierre Sevigny 1917- and his relationship with Gerda Munsinger, known to the RCMP as a prostitute with East German contacts.
1966 Hamilton Ontario - Studebaker of Canada stops car production.
1966 Tokyo Japan - Canadian Pacific DC-8 explodes on landing at Tokyo, killing 64 people, including 18 Canadians.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Cairine R. Wilson dies at 77; first Canadian female senator appointed
1961 Ireland - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 starts three-day visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Dublin, Ireland; first Canadian prime minister to officially visit Ireland.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Guy Mollet Prime, Minister of France, addresses Parliament.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy, addresses joint session of Senate and House of Commons.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Communist MP Fred Rose and 13 others charged with spying for the Soviet Union; result of Gouzenko revelations.
1933 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange stays open as US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt closes all US banks and stock exchanges; puts embargo on gold exports; good for Canadian mining shares; $US down 35 cents
1881 St. Thomas Ontario - St. Thomas gets city charter.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - Sandford Fleming appointed engineer in charge of the Canadian Pacific Railway survey.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Thomas Scott executed by firing squad at Fort Garry.
1868 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Young Men's Christian Association in Toronto.
1868 Toronto Ontario - Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC) chartered in Toronto.
1865 New Brunswick - Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 defeated in New Brunswick elections; a vote against Confederation
1848 Montreal Quebec - Sherwood-Daly Ministry resigns.
1837 Fort Erie Ontario - Fort Erie Canal Company incorporated.
1837 Kingston Ontario - Bishop Alexander Macdonnell founds Regiopolis College, in the Hotel Dieu, Kingston.
1814 Wardsville Ontario - Americans defeat British at Battle of Longwoods; between London and Thamesville.
1791 London England - Constitutional Act introduced in the British House of Commons; to divide Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

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henric · Mar 4, 2015

March 5th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of CÃ¡diz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premiÃ¨re performance at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1936 – First flight of Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1940 – Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoşani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
1984 – Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2012 – Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony campaign with the release of Kony 2012.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 TONTO RIDES INTO SUNSET
Woodland Hills California - Jay Silverheels dies; born Harold J. Smith May 26, 1919 on the Six Nations Reserve, Brantford Ontario; lacrosse player, boxer, actor, he played The Lone Ranger's sidekick Tonto; founded the Indian Actors Workshop in 1963.

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Georges-Philias Vanier 1888-1967 dies at age 78; soldier, Royal 22Ã¨me Regiment; Canada's 19th Governor-General 1959-67, and the first French Canadian to hold the position.

In Other Events...

1995 Pembroke Ontario - Canadian Airborne Regiment officially disbanded at laying-up of the colors ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa; 660 paratroopers dismissed.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Robert de Cotret announces $25 million plan to cut toxic discharges into Great Lakes; part of Green Plan.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Crown charges 8 Canadian flour mills with rigging prices for food aid; $500 million over 12 years.
1985 Uniondale New York - Montreal native Mike Bossy of the NHL New York Islanders becomes the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons. Wayne Gretsky and Guy Lafleur have each scored 50 goals in six seasons.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canada Oil and Gas Act; Petro Canada gets automatic 25% of all new offshore finds; to speed offshore oil and gas development
1982 Aspen Colorado - Steve Podborski 1957- wins men's downhill skiing World Cup title over Austria's Harti Weirather; Toronto native the first non-European to win, with three Cup wins and two seconds during the season.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- suggests Ottawa can take unilateral action to patriate BNA Act if provinces unable to agree.
1969 Montreal Quebec - RÃ©jane Laberge-Colas appointed first woman judge in the Quebec Superior Court.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Justice John C. McRuer's Royal Commission on Civil Rights recommends greater protection for the individual.
1945 San Francisco California - US, China, Soviet Union and Britain invite Canada to attend founding United Nations Conference.
1943 Germany - British and Canadian bombers start Battle of the Ruhr; year-long bombing offensive against Germany.
1910 Rogers Pass BC - Avalanche kills sixty-two railroad workers in the Rogers Pass.
1891 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins his last election 121 seats to 94; fights under the slogan 'The old man, the old flag, the old policy'
1891 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins the seventh general election, and his last, 121 seats to 94; defeats Wilfrid Laurier with 51.5% of popular vote; slogan 'the old man, the old flag, the old policy'.
1874 Charlottetown PEI - First session, after Confederation, of the Prince Edward Island legislature.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - First session of second Parliament meets until August 13; abolishes Secretary of State for Provinces; sets up Department of Interior
1872 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Typographical Union goes on 17 week strike against the Globe newspaper for nine-hour workday; 24 union members still arrested for 'conspiracy to restrain trade'- by striking.
1870 Ottawa Ontario - Garnet Joseph Wolseley 1833-1913 chosen to lead military expedition to Red River; Deputy Quartermaster-General
1844 Montreal Quebec - Province of Canada revolving seat of government moved from Kingston to Montreal.
1844 Toronto Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 publishes first edition of the Toronto Globe.
1838 Toronto Ontario - Bank of Upper Canada suspends payment; until Nov. 1, 1839.
1838 Paris Ontario - Founding of the village of Paris; near fine clay deposits used for plaster of Paris
1838 Kingston Ontario - Incorporation of the Town of Kingston.
1804 Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 starts to descend the Peace River.
1800 Quebec - Fourth session of second Parliament of Lower Canada meets until May 29; penalties for harbouring runaway sailors, bridge over Jacques Cartier R.
1764 Quebec Quebec - Governor James Murray requires inhabitants of Quebec to declare their French money; before May 1
1648 Quebec Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 convenes first sitting of the Council of New France.
1496 Bristol England - Italian merchant and explorer John Cabot [Giovanni Caboto Montecataluna] c1450-1498 gets letters patent from Henry VII for voyage; sails from Bristol with one ship, forced to return.

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henric · Mar 5, 2015

March 6th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
845 – Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra
961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
1204 – The Siege of ChÃ¢teau Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 – York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1902 – Real Madrid C.F. was founded.
1912 – Italian forces became the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1968 – The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
1968 – Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1834 TORONTO'S BIRTHDAY
Toronto Ontario - City of Toronto, formerly York, incorporated; population now 10,000; first municipal election to be held March 27th.

1617
Quebec Quebec - Louis HÃ©bert signs agreement to become the first colonist of New France; he is a farmer and apothecary, and will provide herbal medicines to the inhabitants.

1880
Ottawa Ontario - Governor General John Douglas Sutherland, Marquis of Lorne 1845-1914 helps found the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

In Other Events...

1997 Nakina Ontario - Students at Nakina Public School, 100 km east of Lake Nipigon, exchange email with Queen Elizabeth, as she launches her official royal website from Buckingham Palace.
1995 Regina Saskatchewan - Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. agrees to pay US$810 million for Texasgulf Inc of North Carolina.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 papers and memorabilia displayed at the National Library in Ottawa; first exhibit of its kind in Canada
1962 Riondel BC - Sons of Freedom Doukhobors bomb electric power pylon near Riondel.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada nullifies Quebec 'Padlock Law' of 1937; says jurisdiction federal and not provincial.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the wartime Agricultural Supplies Board.
1925 Truro Nova Scotia - 12,000 Nova Scotia coal miners go on strike until August 6.
1909 Hamilton Ontario - Samuel Carter appointed first President of Co-operative Union of Canada, an insurance company founded at Gore Park in Hamilton; native of Guelph; origin of The Cooperators.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa increases Pacific Cable subsidy to $2 million.
1889 Toronto Ontario - Emile Zola's novels seized and destroyed by customs officers after they are ruled obscene.
1884 Toronto Ontario - Opening of free public library in Toronto; today's Toronto Public Library.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 appointed Leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing George Brown.
1852 Newfoundland - Newfoundland Electric Telegraph completed between St. John's and Carbonear.
1852 Toronto Ontario - Group of Toronto brokers frame 'a code of Rules and Regulations' for Toronto Stock Exchange
1837 London England - British Parliament passes Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions; the Governor of Lower Canada can now pay salaries of officials; without approval of the Assembly, who are refusing to vote funds.
1834 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of London and Gore (later Great Western) Railroad between Hamilton and London; first railway incorporated in Upper Canada.
1645 Paris France - Founding of la Compagnie des Habitants; gets trade and colonization rights to New France; succeeds Company of New France.

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henric · Mar 6, 2015

March 7th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
238 – Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1902 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war.
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
1936 – Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 – Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1878 TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE FOUNDED
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange incorporates; Ontario charter confirms TSE organization; rate scale :1/2% for stocks and debentures;1/4% if over $2,000.

1719
Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Michel-Philippe Isabeau starts to build Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island; engineer under director of fortifications Jean-FranÃ§ois de Verville, who recommended the site in 1716. The fortress takes 25 years to build; here's a picture of the completed work, with the town and harbour in the foreground.

In Other Events...

1991 Toronto Ontario - BenoÃ®t Bouchard awards Spar Aerospace $195m to design Mobile Servicing System for Freedom space station; $1.2b over next ten years; 11 companies involved
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Lloyd Eisler & Isabelle Brasseur win Silver Medal in Pairs figure skating at World Figure Skating Championships;
1990 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Court of Appeal rules Nova Scotia Micmacs have constitutional right to hunt and fish for food as long as they obey conservation guidelines.
1990 Toronto Ontario - British Gas bids $1.1 billion for Consumers Gas from Reichmann family.
1986 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretsky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist.
1977 Saskatchewan - Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan acquires second mine; provincial ownership of potash industry now 20%.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts 5-year plan to build 50,000 housing units for rural and native families; payments geared to incomes.
1972 NWT - Norah Willis Michener Yukon gives 13 sq km to NWT for game reserve; to establish Norah Willis Michener Game Preserve; wife of Governor General
1969 Montreal Quebec - Pierre-Paul Geoffroy 1941- pleads guilty to 129 charges of placing bombs, conspiracy, theft, and possession of dynamite; FLQ member connected to 31 Montreal-area bombings
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian External Affairs Minister Paul Martin says Canada to participate with US in developing airborne radar system to replace DEW Line.
1965 Canada - Roman Catholic churches in Canada celebrate Mass in English or French for the first time.
1963 Quebec - FLQ starts campaign of violence by hurling Molotov cocktails at three Canadian Army armories.
1954 Stockholm, Sweden - Canada loses to Russia 7-2 in International Ice Hockey final; Russia's first World Ice Hockey tournament..
1945 Cologne Germany - Allied forces cross the Rhine River south of Cologne, and take the city.
1940 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens lose NHL record tying 15th straight game at home.
1939 New York City - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians record their signature tune, Auld Lang Syne, for Decca Records; Lombardo born in London, Ontario.
1921 Ottawa Ontario - Cy Dennehy of the Ottawa Senators scores six goals in a 12-5 victory over the Hamilton Tigers.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Government appoints receiver for bankrupt Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad.
1900 Poplar Grove South Africa - Canadians engage Boers in artillery fight at Poplar Grove.
1878 London Ontario - University of Western Ontario chartered.
1878 Montreal Quebec - UniversitÃ© of MontrÃ©al chartered.
1867 Fredericton New Brunswick - NB legislature rejects Confederation; angling for better terms, and the Intercolonial Railway.
1866 Ottawa Ontario - Canada puts 10,000 militia on alert after Fenians hold meeting in New York and threaten invasion; as precaution against anticipated attacks on St. Patrick's Day.
1842 Kingston Ontario - Founding of Queen's University; first in Ontario.
1800 Hull Quebec - Philemon Wright founds Wrightstown, today's Hull.
1657 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 prohibits sale of liquor to Indians in New France.
1604 Havre-de-Grace France - Francois Grave du Pont c1554-1629 leaves for Acadia on first ship of de Monts' expedition from Havre-de-Grace.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 7, 2015

March 8th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.
1126 – Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and LeÃ³n.
1576 – Spanish explorer Diego GarcÃa de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of CopÃ¡n.
1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 – GnadenhÃ¼tten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1801 – War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1911 – International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1914 – First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
1921 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 – The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1942 – World War II: Dutch forces surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1947 – Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the 228 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.
1949 – President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor Bảo Đại sign the Ã‰lysÃ©e Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
1963 – The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'Ã©tat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1966 – A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army militants destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1971 – The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
1983 – While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1985 – A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia with the loss of all 239 people aboard.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1945 TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Canada - International Women's Day first celebrated on this day in Canada and around the world.

1901
Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, arrives back in Halifax with his regiment after fighting the Boers in South Africa.

In Other Canadian Events...

1993
Somali Republic - Canadian Navy supply ship HMCS Preserver heads home after three-month tour of Somalia; her three Sea King helicopters airlifted 430 tonnes of supplies into Mogadishu.
1991
St. John's Newfoundland - Clyde Wells suggests giving Quebec a limited veto, but not recognizing Quebec as a distinct society; calling it a lesser status
1990
Halifax Nova Scotia - Kurt Browning wins second consecutive World Men's Figure Skating title, over Soviet Victor Petrenko.
1990
Sydney Nova Scotia - RCMP accept blame for bungled Donald Marshall investigation.
1990
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Calder receives Governor General's Literary Award for English Non-Fiction for his book Willie; Louis Hamelin receives Governor General's Literary Award for French Fiction for his novel La Rage; Paul Quarrington receives Governor General's Literary Award for English Fiction for his novel Whale Music; Judith Thompson receives Governor General's Literary Award for English Drama for her play The Other Side of the Dark; from Governor Gen. Ray Hnatyshyn; 51st Governor General's Literary Awards.
1990
Ottawa Ontario - Michael Wilson gets Commons to pass budget; British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta to take Ottawa to court over cuts in transfer payments.
1984
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that Ottawa owns oil resources of the Hibernia field, off Newfoundland.
1984
Primrose Lake Alberta - First US cruise missile tested over western Canada; unarmed missile stays attached to B-52 bomber.
1983
Vancouver BC - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts three-day visit to BC with Prince Phillip.
1982
London England - British House of Commons passes Canada Bill, allowing Canada to patriate its constitution; House of Lords will give final reading March 25th; Queen Elizabeth will sign the Royal Proclamation of the Constitution in a ceremony April 17th on Parliament Hill.
1965
St. John's Newfoundland - Government grants free tuition to all Newfoundland first-year students at Memorial University; first in Canada.
1961
London England - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 attends nine-day Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference; censures South African policy of apartheid.
1954
Korea - Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent visits Canadian brigade in Korea during world tour.
1922
Ottawa Ontario - First session of 14th Parliament meets until June 28; sets up Canada Wheat Board; passes National Defense Act
1907
Regina Saskatchewan - Founding of the Supreme Court of Saskatchewan.
1906
Ottawa Ontario - Second session of tenth Parliament meets until July 13; passes Lord's Day Observance Act; bans Sunday work, transport and show
1906
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 beat Smith Falls (Ontario) for the Stanley Cup.
1877
Manitoba - First session of the Council of the District of Keewatin.
1875
Toronto Ontario - First official daily Toronto Stock Exchange report published in the Globe; afterwards reported on a regular basis.
1873
Saskatchewan - Northwest Territories Council prohibits the sale of liquor at the urging of Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 ; called the Smith Act.
1871
Washington DC - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 invited to attend British negotiations that lead to signing of Washington Treaty; deals with Alabama claims, western boundary, new reciprocity
1870
St. Boniface Manitoba - Alexandre-Antonin TachÃ© 1823-1894 arrives in Red River to negotiate with Louis Riel; Bishop of St-Boniface.
1867
London England - British Parliament gives final reading to the British North America Act; few MPs attend to vote; more rush in after to vote against a more contentious bill to place a tax on dogs. BNA Act proclaimed March 29th.
1855
Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; first suspension bridge built to carry trains; first train crosses March 9.
1837
Montreal Quebec - Bank of British North America opens in Montreal.
1836
St. Andrews New Brunswick - New Brunswick & Canada Railroad Company chartered; from St. Andrews to Quebec; boundary scrap with US delays construction
1820
Toronto Ontario - Samuel Smith 1756-1826 appointed administrator of Upper Canada; serves until June 30, 1820.
1815
Charlottetown PEI - Peter Byers, a black, sentenced to death for stealing five pounds; 2 weeks earlier his brother Sancho sentenced to hang for stealing a pound of butter and a loaf of bread.
1799
Calgary Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 explores North Saskatchewan River; later up Bow River with Duncan McGillivray past site of Calgary.
1765
Montreal Quebec - Fire levels one-quarter of the town of Montreal.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 8, 2015

March 9th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
632 – The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1230 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1500 – The fleet of Pedro Ãlvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
1796 – NapolÃ©on Bonaparte marries his first wife, JosÃ©phine de Beauharnais.
1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of TacuarÃ.
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its premiÃ¨re performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1847 – Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
1908 – Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1944 – World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
1945 – World War II: A coup d'Ã©tat by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1956 – Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
1989 – Financially troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
2006 – The first episode of Waterloo Road is aired on BBC One.
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
2015 – The 200th, and final, episode of Waterloo Road is aired on BBC Three 9 years to the day after episode 1 was aired.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1995 CANADA FIRES FIRST SHOTS IN TURBOT WAR
Off Labrador - Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin orders Canadian fisheries patrol vessel to seize a Spanish trawler for illegally taking undersized turbot outside Canada's 200-mile offshore limit; boat fires warning shots across bow of Spanish trawler Estai; leads to dispute between Canada and the European Union.

1990
St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord; approved by the previous Peckford administration; this will effectively kill the Accord.

1855
Niagara Falls Ontario - First Great Western Railway locomotive crosses the 255 m. long Niagara Falls suspension bridge to the USA, giving Ontario direct rail connection to New York. This is the world's first wire cable suspension bridge; it was built across the Gorge from 1851-55 by engineer John Roebling, who later built the Brooklyn Bridge.

In Other Canadian Events...

1991
Montreal Quebec - Quebec Liberals adopt Report by lawyer Jean Allaire, released January 29; also endorse the Charter of Rights, and an elected Senate.
1986
Buffalo New York - Sabres' Gilbert Perrault scores his 500th NHL goal in a 4-3 victory over New Jersey Devils.
1984
New York City - Toronto comedian John Candy stars with Darryl Hannah and Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's Splash, opening in movie houses this day.
1981
Toronto Ontario - NHL Buffalo Sabres score nine second-period goals, crushing the Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4.
1980
Ottawa Ontario - National Archives of Canada acquires 1,000 historic Canadian documents; including the original order for the expulsion of the Acadians.
1977
Vancouver BC - Terry Fox 1958-1981 loses right leg above the knee to cancer; fitted with artificial leg; learns to walk, drive a car, play golf
1977
Ottawa Ontario - Health and Welfare bans saccharin from foods, cosmetics, and drugs; potentially carcinogenic; tests showed the sugar substitute caused cancer in laboratory rats.
1973
Montreal Quebec - Canada starts direct air service with Federal Republic of Germany and People's Republic of China.
1970
Yellowknife NWT - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- opens first ever Arctic Winter Games in Yellowknife; five days of Arctic and other sporting events
1967
Ottawa Ontario - Hamilton Southam 1916- appointed first director of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
1951
Toronto Ontario - Commons approves incorporation of TransCanada Pipelines; to build 5,000 km natural gas pipeline from Alberta to Quebec; sparks Pipeline Debate when Government asks for $80 million loan to a consortium of Canadian and American investors.
1948
Montreal Quebec - NHL President Clarence Campbell expels New York Rangers Billy Taylor and Boston Bruins Don Gallinger for life on charges of associating with known gamblers.
1942
Ottawa Ontario - James Garfield Gardiner 1897-1972 announces new agricultural policy - less wheat, more of everything else; suggests price rise to 90Â¢ bushel; largest carryover of wheat in history = 480 million bushels.
1928
Vancouver BC - First telephone call between Vancouver and London, England.
1907
Hamilton, Ontario - Hamilton news seller fined $30 for selling US papers on a Sunday.
1906
Lethbridge Alberta - Coal miners at Lethbridge go on strike; until December 2.
1904
Brandon Manitoba - Lester Patrick the first hockey defenseman on record to score a goal; Brandon Wheat Kings player.
1901
Victoria BC - Naturalized Japanese Canadians win right to vote; successfully appeal BC Elections Act
1895
Montreal Quebec - Montreal AAA beat Queens University (Kingston) for the Stanley Cup.
1873
Ottawa Ontario - John A Macdonald's government proposes establishment of a Mounted Police force for the North West Territories; act passed May 23.
1870
Victoria BC - BC Legislature passes resolution to send delegates to Ottawa to negotiate Confederation; J. S. Helmcken and Joseph Trutch chosen to go.
1824
Quebec - Lower Canada Assembly passes Fabrique Act; priests in every parish to provide one school for every 100 families.
1824
Quebec Quebec - Canada adopts the patent system.
1815
Quebec Quebec - Treaty of Ghent proclaimed at Quebec; end of War of 1812.
1541
Paris France - Jean-Francois de La Roque de Roberval c1500-1560 authorized to take first boatload of convicts to Canada to found a colony; Jacques Cartier broke away from Roberval and went to Canada on his own.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 9, 2015

March 10th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
1607 – Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
1629 – Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
1735 – An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1816 – Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
1830 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.
1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of SÃ©gou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1906 – The CourriÃ¨res mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
1909 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
1917 – Some provinces and cities in the Philippines were incorporated due to the ratification of Act No. 2711 or the Administrative Code of the Philippines.
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million in damage.
1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
1966 – Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn ChÃ¡nh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.
1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
1975 – Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign - North Vietnamese troops attack Ban MÃª Thuột, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon on the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
1980 – Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
1980 – Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing.
1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
2000 – The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
2005 – Tung Chee-hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.
2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1876 WHAT WOULD HE THINK OF SYMPATICO?
Boston Massachusetts - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful test of his new invention, the telephone, a month after patenting the device. He transmits the first intelligible speech, room to room, telling his assistant, 'Come here, Watson. I need you.' Back at his father's house in Brantford Ontario on August 3, he makes the first building-to-building call with his uncle David Bell, and a year later sets up the world's first telephone service in Hamilton, with four customers.

In Other Canadian Events...

1991
Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933- says federalism is best choice for Quebec; major changes will make Canada work better.
1989
Dryden Ontario - Air Ontario jet crashes after take off from Dryden, killing 24, injuring 45; inquiry later blames wing icing for the crash.
1981
NWT - Panarctic Oils Ltd. finds oil in offshore exploratory well in the eastern Arctic.
1976
Toronto Ontario - First radio and television coverage of regular sittings of the Ontario legislature at Queen's Park.
1966
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa drafts guidelines for American subsidiaries operating in Canada.
1945
Wesel Germany - First Canadian Army forces Germans across Rhine opposite Wesel, ending month-long campaign west of the Rhine; lose 5,304 dead in Rhine campaign.
1934
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs achieve longest undefeated streak in their history, winning or tying 18 games in a row.
1920
Quebec Quebec - Quebec's Joe Malone scores 6 goals to lead the Bulldogs to a 10-4 rout of the Ottawa Senators.
1915
Neuve Chapelle France - Canadians see action in Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
1913
Quebec Quebec - Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney Nova Scotia Millionaires in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
1910
Prince Rupert BC - Prince Rupert incorporated as a city.
1903
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 beat Montreal AAA 8-0 for the Stanley Cup.
1871
Winnipeg Manitoba - Opening of first session of first Legislative Council of Manitoba.
1842
Kingston, Ontario - Queen's University founded in Kingston.
1813
Fredericton New Brunswick - Six companies of the 104th Regiment of Foot, plus 4th New Brunswick Regiment, start 52-day march overland to the St. Lawrence in winter; travel on snowshoes, pulling supplies on toboggans, lose only one man, arriving in Kingston April 12.
1793
Toronto Ontario - Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe and his wife Elizabeth dine on boiled black squirrel, porcupine, roasted passenger pigeon, raccoon, fish, beef and veal.
1626
Quebec Quebec - Jesuits granted the seigneury of Notre-Dame-des-Anges on the St. Charles River; first of many grants to religious order.
1604
Havre-de-Grace France - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 follows Grave du Pont in second ship to Acadia; Governor of Acadia

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 10, 2015

March 11th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

222 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
1387 – Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
1641 – GuaranÃ forces living in the Jesuit Reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of MbororÃ© in present-day PanambÃ, Argentina.
1649 – The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
1702 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1784 – The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
1811 – During AndrÃ© MassÃ©na's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give MassÃ©na time to escape.
1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 – The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
1867 – The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom
1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1916 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy "super-dreadnought".
1917 – World War I:Mesopotamian Campaign — Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1931 – Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1932 – Boomming Ben, the last Heath Hen was seen for the final time.
1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur flees Corregidor.
1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1945 – World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
1946 – Rudolf HÃ¶ss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Ban Me Thuot commune from the South Vietnamese army.
1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2004 – Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2007 – Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
2009 – Winnenden school shooting: 16 are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
2010 – Economist and businessman SebastiÃ¡n PiÃ±era is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
2012 – A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
2014 – Russia annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Getting 2014 Crimean crisis and 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1996 LAST GAME IN THE OLD FORUM
Montreal Quebec - NHL Canadiens beat Dallas Stars 4-1 in the last game played in the 72-year-old Montreal Forum.

In Other Canadian Events...

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Environment Canada starts issuing weekly ozone warnings.
1991
Orillia Ontario - Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $275 million six year program to improve drinking water and sewage treatment on Indian reserves.
1987
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney holds private meeting with the premiers to brief them on plans to seek a free-trade deal with the US; rejects demands for formal ratification by provinces.
1987
Los Angeles California - LA Kings Wayne Gretsky scores his 1,500th NHL point.
1986
Uniondale New York - New York Islander Mike Bossy, a native of Montreal, becomes the first NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons.
1984
Magdalen Islands Quebec - Magdalen Islands seal hunter damage helicopter chartered by International Fund for Animal Welfare protesters.
1981
Ottawa Ontario - US President Ronald Reagan visits Ottawa; US agrees to ease social security eligibility claims, for those who have worked in both countries
1978
Winnipeg Manitoba - Bobby Hull of the WHL Winnipeg Jets joins Gordie Howe by getting career point number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.
1961
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks run up NHL record 40 penalties, 20 each
1949
Brussels Belgium - Canada helps draft North Atlantic Security Treaty with Britain, USA, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Norway; leads to creation of NATO.
1947
Toronto Ontario - Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold.
1943
Ottawa Ontario - W. A. Mackintosh chairs new Sub-Committee on Postwar Reconstruction; with Bob Bryce, Louis Rasminsky , J. J. Deutsch (EA), O. E. Skelton (Bank), Baldwin (PCO)
1935
Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada starts operations under Governor Graham Towers; has mandate to issue currency and regulate money supply; government-owned central bank.
1931
Quebec Quebec - Province of Quebec extends civil rights to women, but still withholds the right to vote.
1912
Quebec Quebec - Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep Stanley Cup; first Stanley Cup game to be played in three 20-minute periods; formerly in 30-minute halves
1905
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage (Kenora) Thistles for the Stanley Cup.
1904
Ottawa Ontario- Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1892
Springfield Massachusetts - James Naismith, from Almonte, Ontario, organizes the world's first public game of his new invention - basketball; at the YMCA training college.
1908
Ottawa Ontario - Laurier government creates National Battlefields Commission; partly to save Quebec's Plains of Abraham from property development.
1885
Fort Carlton Saskatchewan - Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier 1847-1901 warns Ottawa of danger of rebellion in Saskatchewan; NWMP Superintendent at Fort Carlton
1879
Guelph Ontario - Guelph incorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt.
1865
Quebec Quebec - Assembly of Canada votes 91-33 to proceed with Confederation.
1850
Victoria BC - Richard Blanshard arrives at Fort Victoria; reads proclamation establishing the new colony of Vancouver Island, with himself as the first Governor.
1835
Toronto Ontario - George Kingsmill sets up first formal police force in Canada; High Constable of Toronto
1617
Honfleur France - Louis Hebert c1575-1627 coaxed back to New France from Honfleur with wife Marie Rollet and three children.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 11, 2015

March 12th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
1550 – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
1689 – The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.
1868 – Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1885 – Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
1910 – Greek cruiser Georgios Averof is launched at Livorno.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
1921 – İstiklal Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
1922 – Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
1934 – Konstantin PÃ¤ts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
1942 – Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an Allied surrender to the Japanese Empire.
1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1950 – The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
1961 – First Winter Ascent of the Eiger north face.
1967 – Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become Acting President of Indonesia.
1968 – Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 – The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1993 – The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
1993 – Janet Reno is sworn in as the United States' first female attorney general.
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2005 – Karolos Papoulias becomes President of Greece.
2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2014 – An explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 and injures 70 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1987 ORSER BEATS BOITANO AT THE WORLDS
Cincinnati Ohio - Brian Orser of Penetanguishene, Ontario beats defending champion Brian Boitano to became the men's World Figure Skating Champion; first Canadian to win the title since Stratford's Don McPherson in 1963.

1972
Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe retires from the NHL after 26 seasons, to take a front office job with the Red Wings organization. A year later, at age 45, a bored Howe leaves Detroit and joins his sons Mark and Marty with the World Hockey Association Houston Aeros, followed by the Hartford Whalers. When the WHA folds, Howe finds himself back in the NHL at age 51.

In Other Events...

1993 North America - Huge blizzard batters east coast of the US and Canada; wind piles snowdrifts ran as high as four metres; over 110 deaths.
1990 Canada - Gallup poll shows PC support dropping to 17%; Liberals rise to 50%, NDP stall at 25%.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Security guard Claude Brunelle killed as three Armenian terrorists raid Turkish Embassy
1984 Ottawa Ontario - King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain arrive in Canada for a 6-day state visit.
1976 Come By Chance Newfoundland - Come By Chance oil refinery declared bankrupt; established in 1973 by John Shaheen with Premier Joey Smallwood's support.
1975 Hamilton Ontario - RCMP charges 13 companies and 14 people with conspiring to defraud Ottawa and Ontario of $4 million; Liberal Party members cleared in Hamilton Harbour dredging scandal.
1971 Quebec City - Quebec to compensate those arrested during the October Crisis and not charged; will destroy files and fingerprints
1966 Chicago Illinois - Bobby Hull scores his first goal of season and his career 51st against New York Rangers; first NHL player to score more than 50 goals in a season, beating Maurice Richard's record.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - James Garfield Gardiner 1897-1972 cuts wartime wheat quotas to 65% of 1940 acreage; no price increase; $4/acre subsidy for land diverted to summer fallow; $2 for hay
1930 Ottawa Ontario - World War I air ace Billy Barker killed in a plane crash at Rockcliffe; shot down 53 enemy planes during the war, won Victoria Cross for a single-handed combat against some 60 German aircraft.
1926 Canada - Coal miners accept wage deal recommended by Royal Commission; including l0% wage cut
1921 Montreal Quebec - Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 founding president of the Canadian Authors Association.
1910 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3 for the Stanley Cup.
1908 Hammondsport, New York - Frederick W. 'Casey' Baldwin the first Canadian and first British subject to fly an airplane; crashes into Lake Keuka; he stops flying three years later and joins Alexander Graham Bell in designing hydrofoil boats at Baddeck.
1908 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Wanderers sweep Winnipeg Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup; 2nd game of 1908
1903 Ottawa Ontario - Third session of ninth Parliament meets until October 24; raises head tax on Chinese immigrants to $500
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of second part of first session of first Dominion Parliament; meets until May 22; free entry of US raw materials
1883 Ottawa Ontario - Port Moody BC - First steel for construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway arrives in British Columbia.
1857 Burlington Heights Ontario - Great Western Railway bridge between Toronto and Hamilton collapses; 79 people killed, 18 injured as train falls 12 metres to the frozen Desjardins Canal below; the builder/financier of the railway, US promoter Samuel Zimmerman, is one of those killed.
1820 Dunkeld Scotland - Alexander Mackenzie dies; explorer, North West Company partner; first person to cross the North American continent and reach the Pacific over land.
1672 Montreal Quebec - Francois Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 lays out Montreal's main street, names it Rue Notre-Dame.
1664 London England - King Charles II grants territory between the St. Croix and Kennebec Rivers to his brother James, Duke of York.
1658 Quebec Quebec - Governor forbids inhabitants of New France to leave colony without permission.
1613 Honfleur France - RenÃ© Le Coq de La Saussaye leaves for Acadia; sent by Antoinette de Pons, Marquise de Guercheville; to get Biard and Masse from Port Royal

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 12, 2015

March 13th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

624 – Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad's army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraish of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
874 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
1138 – Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
1591 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi Dynasty led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
1697 – NojpetÃ©n, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'Ã©tat.
1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its premiÃ¨re performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
1884 – The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
1897 – San Diego State University is founded.
1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1921 – Mongolia is proclaimed an independent monarchy, ruled by Russian military officer Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a dictator.
1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1940 – The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in KrakÃ³w.
1954 – First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện BiÃªn Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon GuantÃ¡namo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
1963 – Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona
1964 – American Kitty Genovese is murdered, the media erroneously report that many of the victim's neighbours witnessed the crime yet failed to help, prompting research into the bystander effect.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
1985 – The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..
1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1996 – Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Watt Hamilton who then commits suicide.
1997 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 – The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
2012 – At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
2013 – Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1928 CANADIAN WOMAN LICENSED TO FLY
Hamilton, Ontario - Eileen Vollick 1899-1972 gets pilot's licence; first Canadian woman to be a licensed pilot.

1971
Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Paul Rose given a life sentence for the non-capital murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis of 1970. His brother Jacques Rose, Francis Simard and Bernard Lortie also sentenced. In November, Rose also gets additional life term for kidnapping Laporte; granted full parole in 1982.

In Other Canadian Events...

- 1991
Ottawa Ontario - US President George Bush meets PM Brian Mulroney; signs Air Quality Agreement, committing both countries to curb emissions, pledging to end acid rain within 10 years; 150,000 Canadian lakes damaged; 15,000 considered dead.
- 1991
Munich Germany - Lloyd Eisler & Isabelle Brasseur again win silver medal for Pairs at World Figure Skating Championships.
- 1990
Edmonton Alberta - Federal Court of Appeal rules Oldman Dam review mandatory; $353 million dam 70% complete.
- 1989
Beaver River Alberta - Deborah Grey elected first Reform Party Member of Parliament in a bye-election in Beaver River.
- 1987
Washington DC - Washington Capitols score 5 goals against NHL Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 minutes, 3 seconds.
- 1978
Hull Quebec - CRTC rejects introduction of pay TV in Canada.
- 1974
Beaufort Sea NWT - Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Jean ChrÃ©tien 1934- bans off-shore drilling in Beaufort Sea until summer of 1976; to conduct environmental studies.
- 1967
Ottawa Ontario - Public Service Staff Relations Act provides new bargaining rights for over 20,000 public employees; civil servants win right to strike; Treasury Board now central management body
- 1964
United Nations New York - Canada agrees to contribute to UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus.
- 1961
Aldershott England - Major-General Allard the first Canadian to command a British army division..
- 1953
United Nations New York - USSR vetoes UN Security Council recommendation that Canada's Lester Pearson be named Secretary General.
- 1940
Fredericton New Brunswick - Joseph Burns McNair succeeds A.A. Dysart as Liberal Premier of New Brunswick.
- 1927
Ottawa Ontario - Canada's old-age pension bill gets Royal Assent.
- 1919
Calgary Alberta - Western International Labour Conference delegates vote to form 'One Big Union' (OBU); from four western provinces; meet to March 15.
- 1916
Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba the first province to vote for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
- 1912
Quebec Quebec - Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
- 1909
Montreal Quebec - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 sets up Strathcona Trust, a fund for military training and cadet corps in schools.
- 1900
Fort Chipewyan NWT - James William Tyrrell 1863-1945 starts 2,782 km survey trek from Great Slave Lake to Chesterfield Inlet.
- 1885
Victoria BC - British Columbia Legislature passes Chinese Restriction; bans entry of Chinese immigrants; later ruled unconstitutional.
- 1859
Windsor Ontario - John Brown 1800-1859 brings first black slaves to Canada from the US via the Underground Railway; he is later made famous in a song, John Brown's Body, about a raid he made on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
- 1521
Lisbon Portugal - Joao Alvarez Fagundes records his discoveries made the previous year at Chedabucto Bay and south coast of Newfoundland; with Lisbon notary.

End of C/P.

henric · Mar 13, 2015

Events:C/P.

44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1903 – The Hay–HerrÃ¡n Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
1903 – The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the RÃo Virilla between Heredia and TibÃ¡s. 248 are killed and 93 wounded.
1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 – World War II: The KrakÃ³w Ghetto is "liquidated".
1945 – World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
1978 – The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 – In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn FÃ©in, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
1988 – Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'Ã©tat.
2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
2007 – The first World Maths Day was celebrated
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1923 WORLD'S FIRST HOCKEY BROADCAST
75 YEARS AGO TODAY
Regina Saskatchewan - Pete Parker, of CKCK Radio Regina, does the world's first play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional hockey game, as Edmonton beats Regina 1-0.

In Other Events...

1997 Quebec Quebec - Quebec City Chamber of Commerce spends $500,000 for 20-room house formerly used by ex-Premier Jacques Parizeau as an official residence; Lucien Bouchard refused to move in.
1991 Munich Germany - Kurt Browning wins third consecutive World Figure Skating title over Victor Petrenko of Soviet Union; from Caroline, Alberta
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Marc Garneau 1949- named first Canadian to go into space; member of the Canadian Space Agency's Canadian Astronaut Program.
1979 Edmonton Alberta - Peter Lougheed 1928- wins third term in provincial election.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports unemployment passed the 1,000,000 mark in February for the first time.
1974 Quebec Quebec - Quebec to make French the official language of the province.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Eight Trinidad students convicted of conspiracy to obstruct computer centre at Sir George Williams University [now part of Concordia]; fined a total of $32,500 or up to four years in prison; ordered deported.
1969 Mill Village Nova Scotia - Canada opens second satellite-tracking ground station at Mill Village.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Wishart Flett Spence chairs Royal Commission to investigate Gerda Munsinger case and security risk; reports September, 1966.
1962 Detroit Michigan - Red Wings Gordie Howe the second NHLer to score 500 goals, after Maurice Richard.
1961 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Massey College, centre for graduate studies at the University of Toronto; Robertson Davies will be appointed Master.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister John Diefenbaker rejects Newfoundland Premier Joey Smallwood's request for a royal commission on Newfoundland labor problems.
1946 Montreal Quebec - Labor-Progressive MP Fred Rose arrested for conspiracy to transmit wartime secrets to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 6 years in prison for spying; result of Gouzenko revelations.
1916 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan gives women the provincial vote.
1907 Quebec - Quebec government opens technical schools at Montreal and Quebec.
1903 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage (Kenora) Thistles for Stanley Cup.
1899 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks beat Queens University (Kingston) for the Stanley Cup.
1892 Ottawa Ontario - Government appoints Royal Commission to investigate the sale of liquor.
1879 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 brings in average 25% tariff on US goods; if US repeals or lowers duties, Canada will match them. This is the Conservative Party's National Policy of Protection.
1843 Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 lands at Clover Point on Vancouver Island with 15 men to build new Hudson's Bay Company Fort Camosun (later Victoria); moving HBC trade headquarters from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State)
1808 Quebec Quebec - Lower Canada House of Assembly expels Jewish member, Ezekiel Hart, for invalidating his oath by substituting the word 'Jewish' for 'Christian'.
1782 Quebec Quebec - John Johnson 1742-1830 named Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.
1746 London England - Charles Knowles 1704-1777 appointed Governor of Cape Breton Island, serves from June 2, 1746 to November 30, 1747.

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henric · Mar 14, 2015

Events:C/P.

44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
280 – Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin Dynasty.
351 – Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 – First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes "jizya" (per capita tax).
1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'Ã©tat never takes place.
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign : U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana.
1874 – France and Viet Nam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1877 – First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
1892 – Liverpool F.C. is founded.
1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
1933 – Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
1935 – Percy Shaw founded his company Reflecting Roadstuds Limited to make cat's eyes.
1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
1952 – In Cilaos, RÃ©union, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
1956 – My Fair Lady receives its premiere performance on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
1961 – South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethiopian-Somali War.
1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1985 – Brazilian military dictatorship ends.
1986 – Hotel New World Disaster: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
1991 – The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
2011 – Beginning of the Syrian civil war.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1603 CHAMPLAIN'S FIRST TRIP TO CANADA
Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Honfleur with GravÃ© du Pont and Pierre de Monts on de Chaste's ship 'Bonne RenommÃ©'; his first major voyage to Canada.

In Other Events...

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Solicitor General Pierre Cadieux announces that Sikhs in the RCMP can wear turbans and other religious garb while in uniform.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa scraps gas export test; companies no longer need to prove exports beneficial.
1980 Dortmund West Germany - Tracey Wainman, age 12, the youngest Canadian skater to compete in a world championship.
1973 Alberta - Alberta Indians awarded $190,000 settlement in back payment of ammunition money promised to them under their 1877 treaty; sum of $2,000 should have been paid annually.
1972 Edmonton Alberta - First radio and TV coverage of regular sittings of the Alberta legislature.
1970 Boston Massachusetts - Boston Bruin Bobby Orr picks up four points against Detroit, to become the first NHL defenceman to score 100 points in a season; from Parry Sound, Ontario.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton marry for the first time, in a civil ceremony in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; her fifth marriage, his second.
1962 Prague Czech Republic - Donald Jackson first in the world to land a triple lutz jump in figure skating competition; gives him a gold medal at the world championships.
1943 Freetown, Sierra Leone - Canadian Pacific steamer, Empress of Canada, torpedoed by German U-Boat and sunk off the coast of West Africa, with the loss of 400 lives.
1906 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta legislature opens first session in temporary quarters at the Thistle skating rink.
1894 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia votes for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1894 Ottawa Ontario - Fourth session of 7th Parliament meets until July 23; protects young offenders in prisons by ordering separation from older prisoners, cuts duty on tea imported from UK.
1871 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba legislature opens its first session as a province.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Alexandre-Antonin TachÃ© 1823-1894, Bishop of St. Boniface, meets Metis council at Fort Garry; new list of rights includes claim for separate schools.
1843 Victoria BC - Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc 1818-1889 appointed first priest on Vancouver Island.
1827 Cambridge Ontario - Absolom Shade's village of Shade's Mills becomes town of Galt; named after John Galt of the Canada Company; now part of Cambridge.
1827 Toronto Ontario - Royal Charter granted to King's College; now University of Toronto
1744 Paris France - France declares war on Britain, in War of the Austrian Succession; called King William's War in North America; to Oct. 14, 1748.
1657 Quebec - Mother Giffard de Saint-lgnace dies; first Canadian woman to take religious vows.
1615 Bristol England - William Baffin c1584-1622 sails as pilot and mapmaker in the Discovery, Captain Robert Bylot, on first voyage to Hudson Bay; charts Hudson Strait, west end of Southampton Island, and Foxe Channel.

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henric · Mar 15, 2015

March 16th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.
455 – Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).
934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1244 – Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of MontsÃ©gur.
1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars.
1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of RoatÃ¡n.
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1812 – Battle of Badajoz (March 16 – April 6) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1818 – In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under JosÃ© de San MartÃn.
1861 – Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1864 – American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left his tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1936 – Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and lead to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1939 – Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
1945 – Ninety percent of WÃ¼rzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later killed by his captors.
1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
2003 – Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American woman involved with the International Solidarity Movement, is killed trying to prevent a Palestinian home from being destroyed by a bulldozer in Rafah.
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1989 BROWNING WINS FIRST OF FOUR IN PARIS
Paris France - Kurt Browning wins men's gold medal at World Figure Skating Championship; fourth Canadian in 78 years; will win the title three more times before turning pro in 1994.

1843
Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 starts construction of Fort Camosun [Victoria]; first Hudson's Bay Company post on Vancouver Island.

In Other Events...

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Transport Minister Doug Lewis announces random drug and alcohol testing for workers in safety-sensitive jobs; up to 250,000 workers; in air, rail, ship, bus and trucking companies.
1990 Mexico City - Brian Mulroney 1939- signs 10 bilateral agreements with Mexico; discusses free trade with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
1985 Springfield Massachusetts - Eddie 'Iceman' Shore 1902-1985, hockey defenseman, dies at 83; born Nov 25, 1902 in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. Shore turned pro with the Regina Caps and Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Hockey League. When the WHL went bankrupt in 1926, he was acquired by the Boston Bruins, where he spent the rest of his career. Called the Edmonton Express, Shore was a rushing defenseman, who tended to knock down anyone who got in his way - he nearly killed Ace Bailey with a check in Dec 1934. Shore won the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP four times, and was a first-team all-star 8 times.
1981 Calgary Alberta - George Kinnear announces first Canadian attempt to scale Mount Everest, to be made in 1982 by group of 15 climbers.
1978 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Ottawa to finance 50% of three-year feasibility study of $3-billion Bay of Fundy tidal-power; delayed from 1974
1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau 1930- abolishes provincial Anti-Inflation Board.
1971 Sarnia Ontario - Ontario sues Dow Chemical of Canada Ltd. for $25 million for ecological damage to the Great Lakes.
1967 Quebec Quebec - Quebec raises provincial sales taxes from 6% to 8%; new program to supplement family allowance; highest sales tax in Canada.
1965 Waterloo Ontario - University of Waterloo starts bilingual course in Honours French and Political Science; for students preparing to enter federal Civil Service
1957 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points, pasting the New York Rangers 14-1.
1955 Montreal Quebec - Maurice 'Rocket' Richard 1921- of the Montreal Canadiens suspended by NHL President Clarence Campbell (l905-); triggers riot next day at Montreal Forum.
1947 New York City - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra [Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians] has a Number One Billboard hit with its dance tune Managua, Nicaragua.
1946 Hamilton Ontario - John ****'s headless, armless and legless torso found on Hamilton Mountain, leading to sensational trial of his wife Evelyn, later convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Government divides North West Territories into Districts of Keewatin, Mackenzie, and Franklin; brought into Dominion of Canada effective January 1, 1920.
1916 Washington DC - Canada signs Migratory Bird Treaty with the US.
1915 Southampton England - Second Canadian Division begins to arrive in England for service in World War I.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ontario) 13-4 for the Stanley Cup.
1900 Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, embarks troops for South Africa; the regiment consists of 537 mounted troops recruited in Manitoba, BC and the NWT.
1899 Ottawa Ontario - Fourth session of 8th Parliament meets until August 11; passes Pacific Cable Act, to subsidize a line from Vancouver to Australia & New Zealand.
1855 Kingston Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 passes his Militia Act, constitutes all males between the ages of 18 and 60 as military forces of Canada; all men under 40 to be mustered once a year; Governor-General to be the Commander in Chief of the militia.
1846 Canada - Charles Cathcart, Lord Cathcart 1783-1859 appointed Governor-General of the Canadas; serves from May 24, 1846 to Jan. 29, 1847
1800 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Joseph Casot 1728-1800, last Jesuit survivor of the French regime, dies at Quebec; the property of the order in Canada appropriates to the Crown.
1649 Huronia Ontario - War party of 1000 Iroquois invade Huronia, capturing St-Ignace before sunrise; they will destroy all the villages and Jesuit missions in the area.
1606 Maine - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets out on abortive expedition, reaching only as far as Port aux Coquilles on the Ste-Croix River; he returns to Port Royal when his party meets dangerous Indians.

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