This Date In History

henric · Apr 5, 2015

April 6th,2015 - This Date in History.

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46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
402 – Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1667 – An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founded the Chakri dynasty.
1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1830 – Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
1841 – U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become President upon William Henry Harrison's death.
1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
1869 – Celluloid is patented.
1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
1911 – During the Battle of DeÃ§iq, DedÃ« Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the MalÃ«sori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
1923 – The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
1924 – First round-the-world flight commences.
1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
1968 – In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
1974 – The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
1979 – Student protests break out in Nepal.
1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV"—meaning Finnish TV—a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president JuvÃ©nal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
2008 – The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.
2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
2010 – Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
2012 – Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

In Other Events...

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

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 6, 2015

April 7th,2015 - This Date in History.

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397 – The wearing of barbarian clothing in the City of Rome is banned by the Emperor Honorius.
451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
1141 – Empress Matilda, became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
1348 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767).
1776 – Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1789 – Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1831 – D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends: The Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by Irish Republicans, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
1927 – First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1939 – World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1943 – Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
1945 – World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1980 – The United States severs relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.
1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

1868
Ottawa Ontario -Thomas D'Arcy McGee is shot and killed by a Fenian assassin outside his Sparks St. lodging house, as he is turning the key in his lock. McGee was returning late after making a speech in Parliament; he had denounced the Fenians, a militant Irish-American group dedicated to expelling the British from Ireland by force.

1977
Toronto Ontario - The Toronto Blue Jays play their inaugural regular season game in a light snowfall at the CNE Exhibition Stadium; the expansion team beats the Chicago White Sox 9-5. Al Woods, pinch-hitting for Steve Bowling in the fifth inning, hits a home run in his first at bat; first American League baseball game played outside the United States.

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

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 7, 2015

April 8th,2015 - This Date in History.

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217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated. He is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
632 – King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde)—possibly on orders of his half-brother Dagobert I—along with his infant son Chilperic. He claims Aquitaine and Gascony, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in the West.
876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
1093 – The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
1149 – Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
1232 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty.
1271 – In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers.
1665 – English colonial patents are granted for the establishment of the Monmouth Tract, for what would eventually become Monmouth County in northeastern New Jersey.
1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMS Princess.
1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.
1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
1832 – Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
1866 – Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire.
1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
1906 – Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
1916 – In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.
1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
1924 – Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of AtatÃ¼rk's Reforms.
1929 – Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1935 – The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
1942 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad: Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
1946 – Ã‰lectricitÃ© de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
1950 – India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact.
1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
1954 – South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
1959 – The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
1961 – A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
1964 – Gemini 1 (unamanned test flight) launched.
1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
1970 – Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.
1974 – At Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.
1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
1987 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
1992 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1993 – The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.
1999 – Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
2004 – War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.
2005 – Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
2006 – Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club.
2008 – The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
2013 – The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

In Other Events...

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

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 8, 2015

April 9th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

193 – Lucius Septimius Severus is proclaimed Emperor by his troops in Illyricum (Balkans). He marches with his army (16 legions) to Rome.
475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
537 – Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. He starts, despite shortages, raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate.
1241 – Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
1288 – Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces are defeated by Trần forces in the Battle of Bach Dang in present-day northern Vietnam.
1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of NÃ¤fels.
1413 – Henry V is crowned King of England.
1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
1454 – The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.
1511 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter.
1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
1609 – Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.
1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
1782 – American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.
1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Ã‰douard-LÃ©on Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
1867 – Alaska Purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
1909 – The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
1918 – The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
1940 – World War II: Operation WeserÃ¼bung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
1940 – Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March: United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast.
1945 – World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force
1945 – World War II: The Battle of KÃ¶nigsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
1945 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1947 – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
1947 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
1948 – Jorge EliÃ©cer GaitÃ¡n's assassination provokes a violent riot in BogotÃ¡ (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
1948 – Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.
1952 – Hugo BalliviÃ¡n's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
1960 – Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg.
1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
1965 – Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
1967 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1969 – The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
1975 – Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
1981 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
1989 – The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
1991 – Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union
1992 – A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
1999 – Battle of Košare begins, part of Kosovo War.
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces; Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader Saddam Hussein, pulling down a grand statue of him and tearing it to pieces.
2005 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.
2009 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

1682
Louisiana USA - RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 erects a cross and proclaims the Mississippi delta the property of Louis XIV; calls it Louisiana and the Mississippi River la RiviÃ¨re Colbert after the administrator of France; he and Tonty had arrived at the Gulf on April 6 with 22 other French explorers.

In Other Events...

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

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henric · Apr 9, 2015

April 10th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

428 – Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
879 – Louis III and Carloman II become joint Kings of the Western Franks.
1407 – The lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma".
1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
1741 – War of the Austrian Succession (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843): defeat for Austria at Mollwitz on this date.
1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria.
1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1856 – The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University in Vermont.
1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die.
1872 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of the Law.
1912 – RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
1916 – The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
1941 – World War II: The Axis powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
1944 – Rudolf Vrba and AlfrÃ©d Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
1953 – Warner Bros. premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
1959 – Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, marries Michiko.
1963 – One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
1968 – New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine founders and sinks at the mouth of Wellington Harbour.
1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
1972 – Twenty days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is murdered by communist guerrillas.
1972 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
1972 – Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
1973 – A British Vickers Vanguard turboprop aircraft crashes in a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104 people.
1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1988 – The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.
1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
1998 – Northern Ireland peace deal reached (Good Friday Agreement).
2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials
2014 – Kathleen Sebelius resigns as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in light of fallout from the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

In Other Events...

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

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henric · Apr 10, 2015

April 11th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of KrakÃ³w is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1241 – Batu Khan defeats BÃ©la IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.
1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.
1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.
1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.
1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom
1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.
1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1908 – SMS BlÃ¼cher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.
1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
1913 – The Nevill Ground's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.
1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.
1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.
1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee buses are launched.
1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
1989 – Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo ChÃ¡vez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announces Hugo ChÃ¡vez resignation on national TV.
2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.
2007 – 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
2012 – An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

1872
Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald 1815-1891 starts a productive fifth session of the first Parliament, until June 14; his Ministry will pass the Dominion Lands Act granting free 65-hectare (160 acre) homesteads in Manitoba (dismayed French and Metis leave for Saskatchewan); the Trade Unions Act making unions legal (repeals Anti-Combination Acts, guarantees right to workers to organize without restraint of trade laws); and an Act creating a Public Archives of Canada; now the National Archives of Canada.

In Other Events...

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

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henric · Apr 11, 2015

April 12th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

238 – Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide.
240 – Shapur I is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, bishop of York.
1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1861 – American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
1864 – American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1910 – SMS ZrÃnyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
1934 – The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1935 – First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; Vice President Harry Truman, becomes President upon Roosevelt's death.
1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
1961 – The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'Ã©tat, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
1980 – Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place - the STS-1 mission.
1990 – Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1994 – Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
1998 – An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2002 – A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2007 – A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as its official currency.
2010 – A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
2014 – A wildfire ravages the Chilean city of ValparaÃso, killing 16, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying over 2,000 homes.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

1838
Toronto Ontario - Rebel Col. Samuel Lount and Captain Peter Matthews publicly hanged for treason and sedition during the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada. Lount had seven children; petitions for mercy and clemency and a personal appeal by his wife Elizabeth to Lt-Gov. George Arthur failed. Before mounting the gallows, Lount said he would do it again, in order that Canada would be free.

In Other Events...

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

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 12, 2015

April 13th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
1612 – Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island.
1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage.
1699 – Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the Tenth Sikh Guru, Created Khalsa on this day at Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
1849 – Hungary becomes a republic.
1861 – American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
1868 – The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala.
1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
1919 – The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
1941 – A Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1944 – Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
1945 – World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria.
1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.
1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKULTRA.
1958 – Cold War: American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
1975 – Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
1984 – India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
1987 – Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
1992 – The Great Chicago flood devastates much of central Chicago.
1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
2014 – A bus traveling from Villahermosa to Mexico City crashes into a tractor-trailer and catches fire, killing at least 36 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

In Other Events...

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

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 13, 2015

April 14th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Caesar's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius.
69 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions.
193 – Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
1028 – Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
1205 – Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
1294 – TemÃ¼r, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1341 – Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1434 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz. The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Years' War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1715 – The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina.
1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches San Francisco. The pony riders carried additionally, along with the mail, a small personal bible.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (died April 15th).
1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1906 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1928 – The Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1931 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
1935 – "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
1940 – World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1941 – World War II: German general Erwin Rommel attacks Tobruk.
1942 – Malta receives the George Cross for its gallantry. The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1945 – Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
1956 – In Chicago, videotape is first demonstrated.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1967 – GnassingbÃ© EyadÃ©ma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
1969 – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
1978 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
1986 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2 lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃ¡vez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey, protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
2014 – Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

1612
Hudson Strait Quebec/ NWT - Thomas Button d1634 sails Henry Hudson's old ship the Discovery, with the Resolution, into Hudson Bay to search for Hudson's remains; names island at entrance to Hudson Strait after the Resolution; discovers the Nelson River and winters there, calling the territory New Wales.

In Other Events...

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

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 14, 2015

April 15th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

769 – The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
1395 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army.
1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1738 – Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
1907 – Triangle Fraternity was founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
1921 – Black Friday: Mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
1935 – Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
1936 – Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
1940 – The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
1942 – The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI.
1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
1984 – The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City.
1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
2014 – More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.
2014 – A total lunar eclipse occurs, producing a Blood Moon.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

1750
Toronto Ontario - Pierre Robineau de Portneuf 1708-1761 starts to build Fort Toronto near the Mississauga village of Teiaiagon on the orders of the Marquis de La JonquiÃ¨re, Governor of New France. He will complete the post, situated on the east bank of the Humber River up from Lake Ontario, on May 20. Growing trade and a threat from the English at Oswego and in the Ohio valley soon convince the French to build a larger, more secure post, Fort RouillÃ©, completed the following spring farther east on the site of the CNE at the foot of Dufferin Street.

In Other Events...

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

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henric · Apr 15, 2015

April 16th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt.
1346 – Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1521 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1780 – The University of MÃ¼nster in MÃ¼nster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1917 – Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia from exile in Switzerland.
1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 – World War II: The Ustaše, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.
1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1–0.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
1992 – The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
1995 – George W. Bush names April 16 as Selena Day in Texas, after she was killed two weeks earlier.
2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
2012 – The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
2014 – The MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

In Other Events...

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

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henric · Apr 16, 2015

April 17th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1080 – The King of Denmark Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
1349 – Fall of the Bavand dynasty, and rise of the Afrasiyab dynasty.
1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.
1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.
1521 – Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor.
1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army. The Republic of Siena is incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.
1797 – Citizens of Verona, Italy, begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces, which will end unsuccessfully.
1861 – The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, becoming the 8th state to join the Confederate States of America.
1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
1895 – The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
1937 – Daffy Duck's first appearance, in Porky's Duck Hunt.
1941 – World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung KÃ¶nigstein.
1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
1945 – World War II: Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from Nazi forces.
1946 – Syria obtains its independence from the French occupation.
1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1964 – Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 – Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
1971 – The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
1973 – George Lucas begins writing the treatment for The Star Wars.
1975 – The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
1978 – Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'Ã©tat in Afghanistan.
1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau (Embassy) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
1986 – Nezar Hindawi's attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv is thwarted.
2006 – Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
2014 – NASA's Kepler confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

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

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972 announces creation of the Order of Canada, effective July 1; to honour outstanding citizens for service to Canada or humanity at large. The honour will be granted by the Governor General, and new Governor General Roland Michener will be first to hold the Order.

In Other Events...

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

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henric · Apr 17, 2015

April 18th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

796 – King Ã†thelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is placed on the throne, but is within 27 days abdicated.
1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1797 – The Battle of Neuwied: French victory against the Austrians.
1807 – The Harwich ferry disaster occurred near the North Sea port of Harwich on the Essex coast (England) in which 60-90 people drowned during the capsizing of a small ferry boat.
1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
1864 – Battle of DybbÃ¸l: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1923 – Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
1930 – BBC reported there was no news, then played out with piano music.
1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port.
1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5–4 decision.
2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
2013 – A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
2014 – Sixteen people are killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest.

Today's Canadian Headline...

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

1990
Toronto Ontario - W. O. Mitchell 1914-1998 wins Steven Leacock Humour Award for 'According to Jake and the Kid,' published in 1989 by McClelland & Stewart; also won for the original 'Jake and the Kid' in 1962.

In Other Events...

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

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henric · Apr 18, 2015

April 19th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria).
797 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after Constantine dies of his wounds, and Irene proclaims herself basileus.
1012 – Martyrdom of Ã†lfheah in Greenwich, England.
1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: FÃ¼rst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
1539 – Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt.
1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1865 – Funeral service for Abraham Lincoln is held in the East Room of the White House.
1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1897 – LÃ©o Taxil exposes his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.
1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad MÃ¼nstereifel.
1975 – India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
1985 – 200 ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1948 CÃ”TÃ‰ TAKES 4TH BOSTON MARATHON
Boston Massachusetts - GÃ©rard CÃ´tÃ© wins his fourth Boston Marathon; native of St-BarnabÃ© Quebec a former snowshoe champion.

1904
Toronto Ontario - Great Toronto fire starts in the evening, and rages for two days fed by high winds; the city's 200 firefighters call on crews from London, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Peterborough and Buffalo for help, but bitter cold and a lack of adequate water pressure makes the fire hoses almost ineffective. No people or horses perish, but the fire does an estimated $12 million dollars damage and destroys 104 buildings, leaving 14 acres of the city's business core in ice-covered ruins. 'Standing at the corner of Front and Bay streets,' writes a Globe reporter on April 21, 'one begins to realize the extent of the awful destruction that has been wrought. On every hand are ruins almost as far as one can see.' Here's a panorama of the rebuilt city in 1910.

1907
Boston Massachusetts - Six Nations Onondaga marathon runner Tom Longboat wins the Boston marathon in a time of 2:24:24; a year later he wins the Gold Medal in Long Distance Running at the 1908 Olympics.

In Other Events...

1995 Quebec Quebec - Publication of the Report of the National Commission on the Future of Quebec - La Commission nationale sur l'avenir du QuÃ©bec.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Ministry of National Defense announces 5 year renewal of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement with the US.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Fisheries Minister Bernard Valcourt says fishery should be pared down and year-round work provided, instead of seasonal work and; unemployment insurance that destroys work ethic.
1990 Simcoe Ontario - Five teenagers charged with setting massive tire fire at the Tyre King Recycling dump in Hagersville; burned for 17 days in February, forcing 500 from homes.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Brian ****son 1916- sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; after death of Justice Bora Laskin Mar 26.
1984 Halifax Nova Scotia -CP Air buys Eastern Provincial Airways, Canadian regional airline.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises taxes to pay for 4-year, $4.8 billion recovery program; 1983-84 projected deficit of $31.3 billion.
1972 Winnipeg Manitoba - Province announces tougher boxing regulations after Stewart Gray's death Feb. 22 during a match with Canadian champion Al Sparks
1963 Montreal Quebec - Alan Chippindale elected First President of the Canadian Mutual Funds Association at first Annual Meeting.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - National Capital Commission expropriates 62.3 hectare Lebreton Flats area of central Ottawa.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Sankara Pillai slain in his office by intruder; first Secretary of Indian High Commission.
1947 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 to take the Stanley Cup 4 games to 2.
1944 Boston Massachusetts - GÃ©rard CÃ´tÃ© wins his second straight and third career Boston Marathon; native of St-BarnabÃ© Quebec a former snowshoer.
1927 New Brunswick - New Brunswick takes control of the sale of liquor in the province.
1912 Nova Scotia - Mystery man Jerome dies at about age 58; found on a beach with both legs amputated, he refused to talk or write, and died unidentified.
1883 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys the Parliament Buildings in Quebec City.
1862 St. Andrew's Ontario - Simon Fraser 1776-1862 dies; fur trader, explorer of the BC river that bears his name.
1775 Concord Massachusetts - British troops fire on American minutemen starting the American Revolution; lasts until Nov. 30, 1782.
1627 Paris France - Cardinal Richelieu signs the charter of the Company of One Hundred Associates, with a contract to develop and colonize Canada.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 19, 2015

April 20th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
1453 – Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople.
1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
1535 – The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting VÃ¤dersolstavlan.
1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1689 – The former king, James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration
1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 – The Septinsular Republic is established.
1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
1828 – RenÃ© CailliÃ© becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
1876 – The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
1912 – Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston.
1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
1916 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
1939 – Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song "Strange Fruit".
1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945 – World War II: FÃ¼hrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1951 – Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
1978 – Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
1980 – Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
1985 – The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
1998 – German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 21 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
2007 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
2012 – One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1968 BOMBARDIER FIRST CANADIAN TO THE POLE
NWT - Ralph Plaistead and Jean-Luc Bombardier lead Canadian-US expedition to the North Pole on four snowmobiles; the trip takes 42 days and its the first indisputable arrival; Plaistead a St. Paul, Minnesota native sponsored by CBS-TV; Bombardier, the nephew of snowmobile inventor Joseph Armand Bombardier, is the first Canadian to reach the Pole.

1968
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- sworn in at Rideau Hall as Canada's 15th Prime Minister, succeeding Lester Pearson, who was PM since April 22, 1963; Trudeau serves until June 4, 1979.

In Other Events...

1990 Toronto Ontario - Hillsdown Holdings buys 30% the Canada Packers shares held by the McLean family to own 56% of new $4 billion company; British owner of Maple Leaf Mills.
1990 Kingston Ontario - Correctional Service of Canada task force recommends closing Kingston Prison for Women; founded in 1934; replace with 10-person cottage-like facilities and an Aboriginal Healing Lodge.
1989 Newfoundland - Clyde Wells leads Newfoundland Liberals to victory in provincial election; later says the province will rescind the Meech Lake agreement unless the pact is changed.
1982 Edmonton Alberta - Businessman Peter Pocklington held hostage in his home for almost 12 hours by a gunman demanding $1 million; police end the incident by rushing the house; Pocklington and the gunman are slightly injured.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $41 million program to upgrade the East Coast fishery.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament gives unions the right to appeal Anti-Inflation Board rulings.
1973 Cape Canaveral Florida - Anik-II launched from Cape Canaveral; Canada's second communications satellite, and the world's first commercial satellite in orbit.
1971 Washington DC -Canada and the US sign agreement for $45 million communications satellite, to be launched in 1974.
1969 Montreal Quebec -6,200 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers go on month-long strike; grounds most commercial aviation.
1966 Ottawa Ontario -Alex Colville 1920- awarded $9,000 prize for designs for Canadian Centennial coins; Canadian artist.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Eric Williams Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago starts four-day visit to Ottawa.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Wilfred O'Neill, a 65-year-old night watchman, is killed by a terrorist bomb placed in a garbage container at the Montreal army recruiting centre; work of new Front de LibÃ©ration du Quebec; O'Neill first victim of the FLQ.
1958 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 5-3, taking the Stanley Cup 4 games to 2; their third Cup in a row.
1941 Hyde Park New York - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 signs Hyde Park Agreement with Franklin D. Roosevelt; eases exchange crisis, pools some defence purchasing, resources and production.
1931 St. Catherines Ontario - Opening of new Welland Canal, linking Lakes Erie and Ontario; wide enough to carry big lakers.
1920 Antwerp Belgium - Canadian athletes join 18 other nations at the opening of the seventh modern Olympic Games; total of 2,692 competitors.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Government calls up men from ages of 20 to 22 for military service.
1910 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes a Bill setting up the Royal Canadian Navy.
1907 Thunder Bay Ontario - Port Arthur and Fort William incorporated as cities; become the single city of Thunder Bay Jan. 1, 1970.
1899 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange moves next door to 20 King St E., renting premises from A.E. Ames; establishes clearing house for stocks.
1893 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island amalgamates its Legislative Council with the Assembly.
1885 Calgary Alberta - Thomas Bland Strange 1831-1925 leads 600-man Alberta Field Force from Calgary towards Fort Edmonton.
1836 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of company to build a Niagara River suspension bridge.
1769 Cahokia Illinois - Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas, murdered by an Illinois Indian; six years earlier he helped lead the Ottawa, Hurons (Wyandots), Potawatomis and Ojibwas in a rising against the British garrisons on the Great Lakes.
1534 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sets sail on first voyage with two ships; commissioned by FranÃ§ois I to find passage to Asia and 'lands where there is a great quantity of gold'; makes crossing to Newfoundland in just 20 days; explores Strait of Belle Isle, which he hoped was the beginning of a river leading to China; says of the coast, 'I believe that this was the land God gave to Cain'; returns Sept. 5.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 20, 2015

April 21st,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

753 BC – Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
900 – The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Tondo, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah, pardons from all debt the Honourable Namwaran and his relations.
1092 – The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II
1506 – The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics.
1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
1526 – The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
1615 – The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.
1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
1806 – Action of 21 April 1806: A French frigate escapes British forces off the coast of South Africa.
1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of EckmÃ¼hl.
1821 – Benderli Ali Pasha arrives in Constantinople as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; he remains in power for only nine days before being sent into exile.
1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio LÃ³pez de Santa Anna.
1856 – Australian labour movement: Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne march from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House to achieve an Eight-hour day.
1863 – BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h, the founder of the BahÃ¡'Ã Faith, declares his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest".
1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-JÃ¸rgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
1914 – Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz, Veracruz.
1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
1925 – The Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals is published in Il Mondo, establishing the political and ideological foundations of Italian Fascism.
1934 – The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
1941 – Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
1952 – Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1960 – BrasÃlia, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
1962 – The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
1963 – The Universal House of Justice of the BahÃ¡'Ã Faith is elected for the first time.
1964 – A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
1965 – The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
1967 – Greek military junta of 1967–74: A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'Ã©tat, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
1970 – The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
1982 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1992 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Alexander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.
1993 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
2004 – Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.
2010 – The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev; it will be unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.
2012 – Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1921 OTTAWA WINS STANLEY CUP
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.

1918
Bertangles France - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen 1881-1918 shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Captain Roy Brown 1893-1944 of Carleton Place, Ontario, a flight leader in the 209th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps .It is likely that Australian ground fire downed the Red Baron, victor over 80 Allied planes. The tail of von Richthofen's plane is on display at Toronto's Royal Military Institute.

In Other Events...

1991 Montreal Quebec - Jean ChrÃ©tien 1934- urges a referendum in early 1992; suggests giving veto to four regions - Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and the West - and the allocation of power to the government that can handle it best.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts sign Heisman Trophy winner and expected number one pick of the Dallas Cowboys, Rocket Ismail, to a $26 million contract.
1986 PEI - Joe Ghiz leads Prince Edward Island's Liberal Party to win 21 of 32 seats in the provincial election, ending the 7-year government of the Conservatives.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expo David Palmer is pitching a perfect game against the St. Louis Cardinals when the home plate umpire calls the game in five innings on account of rain. Palmer had made 57 pitches and was leading the Cards 4-0; the fourth shortened, perfect game in major-league baseball history.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Foster Hewitt dies; radio and television voice of NHL games for over 50 years.
1977 New York City - Billy Martin's Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-6; Martin pulled the Yankee line-up out of a hat.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Over 200,000 Quebec public service workers end their ten day strike.
1961 Quebec Quebec - Premier Jean Lesage institutes the Parent Commission on education in Quebec; influenced by Les Insolences du frÃ¨re Untel by Jean-Paul Desbiens, a critique of religious control over education in the province.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 leaves for Mexico City for talks with President Lopez Mateos.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Labour Congress formed from a merger of the Canadian Congress of Labour and the Trades and Labour Congress.
1951 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King sets record 20 years, 10 months and 10 days of service as a Commonwealth prime minister.
1908 NWT - Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940 claims to have reached the North Pole on this date, ahead of US Admiral Peary; first man to do so; claim rejected in 1909; still a controversy, although in actual fact neither reached the Pole at all.
1906 Washington DC - Britain and US sign convention fixing the Canada-Alaska boundary at the 141st meridian.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Oaths Act gives CPR select committee power to question witnesses under oath; declared unconstitutional that July.
1821 Toronto Ontario - Bank of Upper Canada incorporated.
1806 St-Boniface Manitoba - Marie-Anne Gaboury marries Jean-Baptiste LagimodiÃ¨re; the first white woman to live in Western Canada, Gaboury is Louis Riel's grandmother.
1785 Quebec Quebec - Trial by jury begins in Canada with the adoption of British common law.
1664 Quebec Quebec - Governor bans the littering of streets with 'straw, manure or anything else'; first hygiene regulations in New France.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 21, 2015

April 22nd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

238 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Ãlvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
1519 – Spanish conquistador HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17Â° east of the Moluccas.
1622 – The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
1809 – The second day of the Battle of EckmÃ¼hl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio LÃ³pez de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when one of his fellow captives mistakenly gives away his identity.
1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.
1889 – At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
1911 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
1912 – Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China-Burma-India theater.
1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and 80 escape.
1945 – World War II: FÃ¼hrerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
1983 – The German magazine Stern claims that the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
1992 – In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
1993 – Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released.
1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
1997 – The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old EliÃ¡n GonzÃ¡lez from his relatives' home in Miami.
2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
2008 – The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
2013 – Six people die in a shooting in Belgorod, Russia.
2013 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.
2014 – More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1945 CANADIANS FEED STARVING DUTCH
Netherlands - Canadian Army halts front operations in western Holland due to the need to feed the starving Dutch people, their fields flooded and their barns looted by the retreating Germans.

1915
Ypres Belgium - Germans release poisonous chlorine (mustard) gas across the fields of Flanders towards French Algerian troops at Ypres; opens up 6.5 km gap; Canadian 13th Battalion stands firm under heavy shelling; many Canadians gassed.

In Other Events...

1991 Victoria BC - Brian Mulroney 1939- promises Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs to settle all land claims by the year 2000.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Willard Estey retires from the Supreme Court of Canada.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Samuel Grange 1920- heads Ontario Royal Commission of inquiry into deaths of 28 babies at Hospital for Sick Children; nurse Susan Nelles wrongly charged.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to boycott 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, to protest Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1979 Toronto Ontario - Mick Jaggar and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones give a benefit concert for the blind as part of Richard's release on drug charges.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Robert B. Bryce 1910- heads new Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration; to examine corporate power and mergers in Canada.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Consumers' Gas acquires controlling interest in Home Oil Ltd. of Calgary.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa allocates $41.2 million in federal aid to Newfoundland, and $32.5 million to New Brunswick; to compensate for regional inequality.
1968 Oakville Ontario - 11,000 Ford of Canada workers end six-day strike.
1965 Montreal Quebec - The Rolling Stones start their first North American tour in Montreal.
1964 Saskatchewan - W. Ross Thatcher 1917- wins Saskatchewan provincial election for Liberals, displacing CCF-NDP after 20 years.
1963 Quebec Quebec - Royal Commission on Education recommends formation of Quebec Ministry of Education and complete reorganization of education in the province.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup, winning back the trophy after 11 years; they will keep it for the next three seasons.
1945 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley appointed Vice-Chairman of Treasury Board for duration of War; (DM Finance was ex-officio Secretary of the Treasury Board).
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - NWMP Inspector Francis Jeffrey ****ens 1844-1886 reaches Battleford after abandoning Fort Pitt when white settlers decide to surrender to Big Bear during the North West Rebellion; he is the third son of novelist Charles ****ens.
1844 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Bytown Packet, later the Ottawa Citizen.
1737 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec- Opening of Canada's first iron smelter at Les Forges de St-Maurice.
1635 London England - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling 1577-1640 given new grants of land in Canada by Charles I; proprietor of Nova Scotia.

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henric · Apr 22, 2015

April 23rd,2015 - This Date in History.

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215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
711 – Dagobert III is crowned King of the Franks.
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Ã†thelred the Unready as king of England.
1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
1516 – The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) is signed in Ingolstadt.
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
1655 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1910 – American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara, Turkey. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
1927 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
1932 – The 153-year-old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on LÃ¼beck.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann GÃ¶ring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl DÃ¶nitz.
1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: Forty-two villagers are killed.
2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".
2013 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1915 FIRST VC FOR THE CANADIAN ARMY
St. Julien, Belgium - Canadian 13th Battalion Quebec Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada) moves up reserves to plug a gap in the line at Ypres. Lance-Corporal Frederick Fisher goes forward with his company machine-gun under heavy fire, and covers the retreat of a battery, losing four of his gun team. He then obtains four more men, and moves forward again to the firing line, but is killed while bringing his machine-gun into action under very heavy fire. For his bravery, Fisher is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously on June 23, the first Canadian-born man to win the VC while serving in the Canadian Army.

1851
Quebec Quebec - Civil engineer Sandford Fleming 1827-1915 designs the red Three-Pence Beaver stamp issued this day; the Province of Canada's first regular postage stamp. In 1849, Fleming rescued the portrait of Queen Victoria from the burning Parliament Buildings in Montreal; he will later serve as Engineer-in-Chief of the Intercolonial and Canadian Pacific railways.

In Other Events...

1997 Toronto Ontario - Ted England, head trader at Peters & Co. Ltd., purchases 100 shares of Bell Canada, the last trade ever made on the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, as the TSE closes its floor after 145 years and moves to computer trading.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson convinces Quebec civil servants to take 6 month pay freeze; Treasury Board President in the Bourassa government.
1989 St. John's Newfoundland - Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland sets up a five-member panel to inquire into the sexual abuse of children during the 1970's at the Mount Cashel Orphanage.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves the final draft of Canada's proposed new constitution.
1979 PEI - John Angus MacLean 1914- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory over Bennett Campbell's Liberals in Prince Edward Island election.
1974 Sudbury Ontario - Ontario Ministry of the Environment temporarily closes Falconbridge Nickel; air pollution index 102; first industrial closure in Ontario for this reason.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - First public hearings of the CRTC held in the Chateau Laurier Hotel.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Taschereau appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
1950 Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings beat the NY Rangers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1928 Ontario - William H. Clark appointed first British High Commissioner to Canada; takes office September 22.
1924 Canada - Canadians hear radio broadcast of the voice of King George V opening the Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
1906 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Legislature sets the provincial speed limit at 10 mph in the city and 20 mph in the country.
1887 Toronto Ontario - Founding of McMaster University in Toronto as a union of Woodstock College and the Toronto Baptist College; moved from Hamilton, the college will again move back to Hamilton and the Bloor St. building becomes the Royal Conservatory of Music of the University of Toronto.
1879 Guelph Ontario - Guelph incorporated as a city.
1830 PEI -Catholic Emancipation Act gives Catholics in Prince Edward Island the right to vote.
1827 Halifax Nova Scotia - Digging starts on the Shubenacadie Canal, to connect Halifax with the Bay of Fundy.

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henric · Apr 23, 2015

April 24th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
1547 – Battle of MÃ¼hlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, FranÃ§ois, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
1923 – In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego.
1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
1957 – The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore
1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco CaamaÃ±o, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'Ã©tat against Juan Bosch.
1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2005 – Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog.
2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1915 TWO MORE VCS IN FLANDERS
Ypres Belgium - Germans pour shells and mustard gas against Canadian troops, but their attack is repelled. Canadians win two Victoria Crosses during this day in Flanders:

At St-Julien, Company Sergeant-Major William Hall (1885-1915) of the 8th Battalion, 90th Winnipeg Rifles, makes a second attempt to help a wounded man lying 15 yards from the trench, in the face of very heavy enfilade fire by the enemy, when he is killed by a bullet in the head [awarded posthumously 23 June].
Near Kerselaere, Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew (1892-1961) of the 7th Battalion, British Columbia Regiment, is in action as battalion machine-gun officer, with two guns in action on high ground, when the enemy's attack breaks in full force. With no reinforcements in sight, Lt. Bellew and his Sergeant Peerless decide to fight it out; Peerless is killed and Bellew wounded, yet he keeps up his fire until his ammunition fails, and he is taken prisoner. [awarded on his release from POW camp, May 15 1919].
1885
Fish Creek Saskatchewan - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 engages the Metis troops of Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 at Fish Creek; battle a stalemate; Middleton badly mauled and his advance to Batoche slowed; loses 11 killed and 48 wounded.

1895
Boston Massachusetts - Joshua Slocum, from Briar Island, NS, leaves Boston to begin his solo around-the-world voyage on an 11 metre oystercatcher called Spray; first sails to Yarmouth to refit; will return from his epic circumnavigation July 3, 1898.

In Other Events...

1996 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh Penguins need four overtime periods to win 3-2 over the Washington Capitals; their victory ties the Stanley Cup series 2-2; longest NHL game in 60 years.
1993 Ames Iowa - Toronto rocker Neil Young joins Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Travis Tritt, Lyle Lovett, Dwight Yoakam, Bruce Hornsby and Ringo Starr at Farm Aid Six concert.
1992 St. John's Newfoundland - Hughes report confirms assertions of former Mount Cashel residents that they suffered physical and sexual abuse at the Newfoundland orphanage run by the Christian Brothers.
1990 Cornwall Ontario - Violence erupts on Akwesasne Mohawk reserve, over gambling on the New York portion of the reserve; bomb damages dozens of cars and a Canadian police station.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada ruling allows Sunday shopping in most provinces.
1984 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky the third person to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot.
1983 Sheffield England - Canadian Cliff Thornburn wins the World Professional Snooker Championships; first person to record a maximum 147 break.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes amendments to constitutional proposals; eight Liberals abstain from voting.
1972 Ottawa Ontario -Government bans fishing off New Brunswick and Port aux Basque, Newfoundland, to conserve fish stocks.
1971 Ottawa Ontario -David Lewis 1909-1981 chosen party leader on 4th ballot by New Democratic Party, replacing Tommy Douglas; gets 1046 votes, to James Laxer's 612.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Creditiste MPs GÃ©rard Girouard and GÃ©rard Ouellet defect to the Conservative Party.
1952 Sarnia Ontario - First shipment of oil from Alberta arrives in Ontario by pipeline and lake freighter.
1952 Los Angeles California - Canadian actor Raymond Burr makes his TV acting debut on the Gruen Guild Playhouse in an episode titled, The Tiger; later stars in Perry Mason and Ironside series.
1951 Kapyong Korea - Canadian troops defend Kapyong Valley in Korea against two-day Chinese attack; 10 dead, 23 wounded.
1942 Toronto Ontario - Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874-1942 dies at 68; published 22 works of fiction, 450 poems and 500 short stories, including Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon.
1928 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that the words 'qualified persons' in Section 24 of BNA Act do not apply to women, that 'by the Common Law of England, women were under a legal incapacity to hold public office.' Five prominent Alberta women will appeal the decision to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at Westminster.
1896 London England Britain - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 appointed High Commissioner to Britain, replacing Sir Charles Tupper.
1895 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament decides not to bring in prohibition after reading Report of Royal Commission.
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 relieves NWMP garrison at Battleford.
1866 Victoria BC - Victoria connected to British Columbia mainland via cable and telegraph.
1629 Savoy France - France and England sign Treaty of Susa; all territory captured after signing to be returned; Kirke's capture of Quebec later that year is therefore nullified.
1626 Dieppe France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sails on his 11th voyage to Canada.
1615 Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Honfleur for New France.

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henric · Apr 24, 2015

April 25th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

404 BC – Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over Transcaucasia is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
1707 – A coalition of England, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 – La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
1882 – Tonkin Campaign: French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri RiviÃ¨re seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

Anzac Beach – Australian and New Zealand forces invade Turkey
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1940 - MerkiÃ°, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation goverment.
1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945 – Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.
1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
1946 – Naperville train disaster kills 47 in Naperville, Illinois.
1951 – Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
1990 – Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2005 – One hundred seven people die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1940 QUEBEC WOMEN WIN VOTE
Quebec City - Quebec women allowed to vote and run for office in provincial elections, 22 years after women were granted the federal vote. In 1927, Idola St-Jean founded l'Alliance canadienne pour le vote des femmes du QuÃ©bec. The following year, ThÃ©rÃ¨se Casgrain founded La Ligue des droits de la femme. Both these groups lobbied Liberal Premier AdÃ©lard Godbout, who finally succeeded in getting the clergy to drop their opposition.

1849
Montreal Quebec - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, providing payment for people who lost property in the rebellions of 1837-1838. Angry Tory mobs are furious the Queen's representative would sign a bill rewarding treason. They throw garbage and dead rats at members of the Assembly, and pelt an official reading the Riot Act with onions. That night, the mobs set fire to the Legislature, destroying parliamentary and government records; the official portrait of Queen Victoria is rescued from the flames by a young engineer named Sandford Fleming. Lord Elgin barely escapes to the viceregal residence at Monklands; he was not permitted to call out troops to quell riots because they were British, and could not interfere in a Canadian civil matter. As a result of this lack of public security in Montreal, the government decides to move to Toronto; so begins the period of wandering government, when Kingston and Quebec City will also share the duties of being the capital of the Canadas.

1959
Montreal Quebec - St. Lawrence Seaway opens for traffic as the first ship enters the locks south of Montreal; 650 km. waterway between Montreal and Lake Erie. To commemorate the event, Canada and the US both issued a similar stamp. Some of the Canadian issue got inverted, resulting in this collector's dream.

In Other Events...

1995 Berwick-Upon-Tweed England - Alexander Knox 1907-1995, actor, scriptwriter, dies at 88 of bone cancer. Born Jan .16, 1907 in Strathroy Ontario, Knox played in 70 movies, including Gorky Park and Two of a Kind. He was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in Wilson (1944). For more, check out the Internet Movie Database.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - George Erasmus suggests new national treaty separate from the current constitutional negotiations; Chief of Assembly of First Nations.
1991 Montreal Quebec -Interprovincial Pipeline mothballed; Quebec refiners can buy oil cheaper offshore; Sarnia to Montreal 832 km line built in 1974 energy crisis.
1991 Toronto Ontario -Gallup Poll finds Reform Party backed by 16%, up from 7% in March; PCs 14%; Liberals 32%, NDP 26%; undecided 37%, up from 24% in March.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Edmund C. Bovey dies at 74; President of Northern Ontario Natural Gas, founding company of Norcen Resources; Past President of Ontario and National Ballet of Canada.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Tory Finance Minister Michael Wilson's budget leaked by Global TV reporter Doug Small. When opposition parties reject his request for an emergency evening sitting, he calls a 10 pm news conference to announce budget highlights.
1989 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Penguin Mario Lemieux ties NHL record of 4 goals in the first period of a playoff game.
1985 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game for the second time.
1984 Moscow Russia - Canada signs agreement with Soviet Union to cooperate in Arctic research and resource development.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to pay $630 million for new Coast Guard ships, and $147 million for fire-fighting aircraft.
1979 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal strikes down an 1890 law prohibiting the use of French in the provincial legislature, courts and schools.
1974 United Nations New York - Canada to support UN Emergency Force in Middle East for additional six months.
1972 Toronto Ontario - Paula the cat, a ten month old tabby, survives a fall from the 26th floor of an apartment building.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes Act unifying the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force into one unit, the Canadian Armed Forces.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3 for their third consecutive Stanley Cup.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and PEI sign an agreement with Ottawa to build the Trans-Canada Highway.
1945 San Francisco California - Canada one of 50 nations attending founding conference of United Nations, opening in San Francisco; to June 26; approves United Nations Charter.
1945 Germany - RCAF's No. 6 Group makes its last bombing raid over Germany.
1940 Scotland - Two Canadian battalions held back in Scotland; on the way to join British force bound for Norway.
1908 Westmount Quebec - Westmount incorporated as a city; Montreal residential area.
1900 Israel's Port South Africa - Canadians engage Boers in Battle of Israel's Port.
1890 Blackfoot Crossing Alberta - Indian leader Crowfoot dies on the Blackfoot reserve; head Chief during signing of Treaty Seven.
1862 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier's Militia Bill for a more efficient military leads to the Macdonald-Cartier government's defeat.
1815 Ontario - George Murray 1772-1846 appointed provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves until July 1, 1815.
1720 Halifax Nova Scotia - First Governor and Council of Nova Scotia appointed.

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