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March 15th 2013 - This Date in History.

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44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
280 – Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin Dynasty.
351 – Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 – First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .
1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1783 РIn an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'̩tat never takes place.
1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
1892 – Liverpool F.C. is founded.
1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
1933 – Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
1952 РIn Cilaos, R̩union, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24 hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
1956 – My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
1961 – South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethiopian-Somali War.
1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1985 – Brazilian military dictatorship ends.
1986 – Hotel New World Disaster. 33 people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
1990 – Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
1991 – The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany went into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
2003 РPresident Ange-Felix Patasse is overthrown in a coup by Fran̤ois Boziz̩.
2011 – Beginning of the Syrian civil war.


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

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Solicitor General Pierre Cadieux announces that Sikhs in the RCMP can wear turbans and other religious garb while in uniform.

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa scraps gas export test; companies no longer need to prove exports beneficial.

1980 Dortmund West Germany - Tracey Wainman, age 12, the youngest Canadian skater to compete in a world championship.

1973 Alberta - Alberta Indians awarded $190,000 settlement in back payment of ammunition money promised to them under their 1877 treaty; sum of $2,000 should have been paid annually.

1972 Edmonton Alberta - First radio and TV coverage of regular sittings of the Alberta legislature.

1970 Boston Massachusetts - Boston Bruin Bobby Orr picks up four points against Detroit, to become the first NHL defenceman to score 100 points in a season; from Parry Sound, Ontario.

1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa suspends gold trading by Canadian banks and dealers; to dampen speculation.

1964 Montreal Quebec - Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton marry for the first time, in a civil ceremony in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; her fifth marriage, his second.

1962 Prague Czech Republic - Donald Jackson first in the world to land a triple lutz jump in figure skating competition; gives him a gold medal at the world championships.

1943 Freetown, Sierra Leone - Canadian Pacific steamer, Empress of Canada, torpedoed by German U-Boat and sunk off the coast of West Africa, with the loss of 400 lives.

1906 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta legislature opens first session in temporary quarters at the Thistle skating rink.

1894 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia votes for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

1894 Ottawa Ontario - Fourth session of 7th Parliament meets until July 23; protects young offenders in prisons by ordering separation from older prisoners, cuts duty on tea imported from UK.

1871 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba legislature opens its first session as a province.

1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Alexandre-Antonin Taché 1823-1894, Bishop of St. Boniface, meets Metis council at Fort Garry; new list of rights includes claim for separate schools.

1843 Victoria BC - Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc 1818-1889 appointed first priest on Vancouver Island.

1827 Cambridge Ontario - Absolom Shade's village of Shade's Mills becomes town of Galt; named after John Galt of the Canada Company; now part of Cambridge.

1827 Toronto Ontario - Royal Charter granted to King's College; now University of Toronto

1744 Paris France - France declares war on Britain, in War of the Austrian Succession; called King William's War in North America; to Oct. 14, 1748.

1657 Quebec - Mother Giffard de Saint-lgnace dies; first Canadian woman to take religious vows.

1615 Bristol England - William Baffin c1584-1622 sails as pilot and mapmaker in the Discovery, Captain Robert Bylot, on first voyage to Hudson Bay; charts Hudson Strait, west end of Southampton Island, and Foxe Channel.

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March 16th 2013 - This Date in History.

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597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
455 – Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).
1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1244 РOver 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Monts̩gur.
1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1812 – Battle of Badajoz (March 16 – April 6) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1818 – Second Battle of Cancha Rayada – Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 – Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1936 – Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melted snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and led to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1939 – Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1950 – Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1958 – The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1968 – General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
1983 – Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.



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

1649
Midland Ontario - Jesuit priests Jean de Brébeuf 1593-1649 and Jérôme Lalement 1593-1649 are tortured by Iroquois invaders at St-Louis; Brébeuf dies at 4 pm, his flesh stripped to the bone and his body burned with pitch and boiling water; Lalement, nephew of Jesuit superior Jérôme Lalement, dies the following day of burns; Brébeuf's skull is preserved in a golden reliquary in the Hotel Dieu at Quebec; he was canonized in 1930.
1843
Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 starts construction of Fort Camosun [Victoria]; first Hudson's Bay Company post on Vancouver Island.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Transport Minister Doug Lewis announces random drug and alcohol testing for workers in safety-sensitive jobs; up to 250,000 workers; in air, rail, ship, bus and trucking companies.
1990 Mexico City - Brian Mulroney 1939- signs 10 bilateral agreements with Mexico; discusses free trade with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
1985 Springfield Massachusetts - Eddie 'Iceman' Shore 1902-1985, hockey defenseman, dies at 83; born Nov 25, 1902 in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. Shore turned pro with the Regina Caps and Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Hockey League. When the WHL went bankrupt in 1926, he was acquired by the Boston Bruins, where he spent the rest of his career. Called the Edmonton Express, Shore was a rushing defenseman, who tended to knock down anyone who got in his way - he nearly killed Ace Bailey with a check in Dec 1934. Shore won the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP four times, and was a first-team all-star 8 times.
1981 Calgary Alberta - George Kinnear announces first Canadian attempt to scale Mount Everest, to be made in 1982 by group of 15 climbers.
1978 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Ottawa to finance 50% of three-year feasibility study of $3-billion Bay of Fundy tidal-power; delayed from 1974
1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau 1930- abolishes provincial Anti-Inflation Board.
1971 Sarnia Ontario - Ontario sues Dow Chemical of Canada Ltd. for $25 million for ecological damage to the Great Lakes.
1967 Quebec Quebec - Quebec raises provincial sales taxes from 6% to 8%; new program to supplement family allowance; highest sales tax in Canada.
1965 Waterloo Ontario - University of Waterloo starts bilingual course in Honours French and Political Science; for students preparing to enter federal Civil Service
1957 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points, pasting the New York Rangers 14-1.
1955 Montreal Quebec - Maurice 'Rocket' Richard 1921- of the Montreal Canadiens suspended by NHL President Clarence Campbell (l905-); triggers riot next day at Montreal Forum.
1947 New York City - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra [Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians] has a Number One Billboard hit with its dance tune Managua, Nicaragua.
1946 Hamilton Ontario - John Dick's headless, armless and legless torso found on Hamilton Mountain, leading to sensational trial of his wife Evelyn, later convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Government divides North West Territories into Districts of Keewatin, Mackenzie, and Franklin; brought into Dominion of Canada effective January 1, 1920.
1916 Washington DC - Canada signs Migratory Bird Treaty with the US.
1915 Southampton England - Second Canadian Division begins to arrive in England for service in World War I.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ontario) 13-4 for the Stanley Cup.
1900 Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, embarks troops for South Africa; the regiment consists of 537 mounted troops recruited in Manitoba, BC and the NWT.
1899 Ottawa Ontario - Fourth session of 8th Parliament meets until August 11; passes Pacific Cable Act, to subsidize a line from Vancouver to Australia & New Zealand.
1855 Kingston Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 passes his Militia Act, constitutes all males between the ages of 18 and 60 as military forces of Canada; all men under 40 to be mustered once a year; Governor-General to be the Commander in Chief of the militia.
1846 Canada - Charles Cathcart, Lord Cathcart 1783-1859 appointed Governor-General of the Canadas; serves from May 24, 1846 to Jan. 29, 1847
1800 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Joseph Casot 1728-1800, last Jesuit survivor of the French regime, dies at Quebec; the property of the order in Canada appropriates to the Crown.
1649 Huronia Ontario - War party of 1000 Iroquois invade Huronia, capturing St-Ignace before sunrise; they will destroy all the villages and Jesuit missions in the area.
1606 Maine - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets out on abortive expedition, reaching only as far as Port aux Coquilles on the Ste-Croix River; he returns to Port Royal when his party meets dangerous Indians.

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March 17th 2013 - This Date in History.

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45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
180 – Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1842 – The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is formed;
1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
1861 – The Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) is proclaimed.
1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
1921 – The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1939 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins,
1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1945 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
1948 – The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
1957 – A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
1958 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1963 – Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 – My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
2000 – More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide, orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. 35 Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
2008 – Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.
2011 – Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council adopts United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, authorizing a military intervention by member states to protect civilians in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.


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1765 FIRST ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN CANADA
Quebec City - First Canadian St. Patrick's Day celebrated by Irish troops serving in the British Army at Quebec.

1985
Quebec Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- welcomes President Ronald Reagan to a Canada-US Summit meeting in the Chateau Frontenac; called the Shamrock Summit because of their common Irish ancestry and the date - St. Patrick's Day. Here they are with their spouses singing When Irish Eyes are Smiling.

1577
London England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 gets commission from the Cathay Company to hunt for gold in the Arctic; he will return with tons of worthless pyrites, which are dumped as street ballast in London, giving rise to the legend that the streets of London were paved with gold.

1996 Toronto Ontario - Mike Gartner of the Maple Leafs scores 30th and 31st goals of the season in 4-2 victory over Vancouver; extends his NHL record of 30 goal seasons to 15.
1996 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens play first game in new Montreal Forum.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Housing Minister Alan Redway promises compensation to Chinese-Canadians forced to pay over $20 million for admission to Canada; from 1885-1923; from $50 to $500 per person.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes motion supporting free trade with the US; opposed by Liberals and NDP.
1978 Toronto Ontario - RCMP charge Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington and publisher Donald Creighton with violating Official Secrets Act; published information from secret report on Soviet espionage activities in Canada.
1972 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young's hit song Heart of Gold makes it to Number One in the US.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Commons-Senate committee recommends removal of judge Leo A. Landreville 1917- from Ontario Supreme Court; first in Canadian history.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $112 million program to improve Indian housing, water supplies, sanitation and roads.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Government introduces Canada Pension Plan Bill in House of Commons.
1955 Oakville Ontario - End of l09-day strike of Ford workers at Windsor, Oakville and Etobicoke.
1955 Montreal Quebec - Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadien Maurice 'Rocket' Richard 1921- suspended from NHL by league president Clarence Campbell; sparks 7 hour riot along Ste-Catherine St., with 100 arrests.
1945 France - German U-Boat torpedoes RCN minesweeper 'Guysborough' in the Bay of Biscay.
1944 Montreal Quebec - International Air Transport Authority created to regulate air traffic among nations; IATA headquarters to be in Montreal.
1906 Dublin Ireland - Canadian Tommy Burns knocks out Jene Roche in 80 seconds at the Royal Theatre in Dublin to retain his world heavyweight title.
1906 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Wanderers lose second game to Ottawa Silver 7, but win the Stanley Cup by scoring most total points in the 2 game series.
1902 Montreal Quebec - Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias 2 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1900 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1866 Washington DC - United States unilaterally ends Reciprocity Treaty, after Canadian fishing concessions to Americans end; operating since June 5, 1854; end of free trade starts a recession in Canada; causes public opinion in Maritimes to move toward Confederation.
1858 Toronto Ontario - St. Patricks Day riot breaks out during parade; one man fatally stabbed.
1845 Montreal Quebec - St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad Company gets charter to build to US border and Portland, Maine; to give Montreal year-round access to a winter port
1845 Montreal Quebec - Geological Survey of Canada is established.
1829 Ottawa Ontario - 200 Irish canal navvies riot on St. Patricks Day; one killed and many wounded.
1810 Quebec Quebec - Newspaper 'Le Canadien' suppressed by a magistrate and two constables; politicians claim it was an arbitrary proceeding.
1776 Boston Massachusetts - British forces leave Boston for Halifax after General George Washington seizes Dorchester Heights in a night attack.
1752 Quebec Quebec - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière 1685-1752 dies in office; replaced by Longueuil as Governor.
1666 Quebec Quebec - Daniel de Remy de Courcelle 1626-1698 returns to Quebec; lost over 60 men from exposure and hunger over winter campaign against the Iroquois.
1649 Midland Ontario - Jesuits burn Ste-Marie mission to prevent it falling into the hands of the Iroquois.

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March 18th 2013 - This Date in History.

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37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
235 – Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
1241 – Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1438 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, commencing the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1793 – The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1848 – The March Revolution goes onin the German Confederation; in Berlin a struggle between citizens and military occurs, costing ca. 300 lives. This starts the revolution in Northern Germany.
1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
1906 – Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1915 – World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
1921 – The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1937 – The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1937 – The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan.
1938 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1944 – The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
1945 – World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
1962 – The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1971 – In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1980 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
1990 – The Germans in the German Democratic Republic are called to the first democratic elections in this former communist dictatorship.
1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
1992 – White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.



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1892 LORD STANLEY DONATES A CUP
Montreal Quebec - Former Governor General Lord Stanley says he will donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions; awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only by NHL teams.

1997
Los Angeles California - Singer Joni Mitchell is reunited with a daughter, Killauren, she gave up for adoption many years earlier.
1945
Montreal Quebec - Maurice 'Rocket' Richard scores in 4-2 victory over the Boston Bruins; becomes the first NHLer to score 50 goals in a season. Richard does it in 50 games.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Juno Awards given by Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; Rita McNeil Best Female Vocalist, Kim Mitchell Best Male Vocalist, The Family Brown Best Country Group, George Fox Best Male Country Vocalist, k.d. laing Best Female Country Vocalist, Alannah Myles Best Album and Best Single, Blue Rodeo Best Canadian Group.
1986 Washington DC - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President Ronald Reagan agree on action to combat acid rain; after two-day summit.
1982 Hull Quebec - CRTC awards pay TV licences to six companies.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 9 goals in 1 period in a game against Toronto.
1957 London England - Canada takes part in disarmament conference with Britain, the US, the USSR and France.
1942 Canada - Canadian forces establish unified military commands in Atlantic, Newfoundland, Pacific areas.
1942 Dawson Creek, BC - US Army Engineers start building Alcan (Alaska) Highway to supply the North West in case of Japanese invasion..
1918 Ottawa Ontario - First session of 13th Parliament meets until May 24; will put 10% wartime luxury tax on cars, gramophones, records, player pianos, jewels
1929 Windsor Ontario - Engineers break ground for the Windsor-Detroit tunnel under the Detroit River.
1907 Ottawa Ontario - Railroad Commission orders CPR and Grand Trunk to cut passenger fare to 3 cents a mile.
1886 Lachine Quebec - CPR starts building Lachine Bridge over the St. Lawrence River.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 leaves Fort Garry to return to Ottawa to report on the situation in Red River.
1849 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 visits Toronto, where an attempt is made to lynch the former Mayor and rebel.
1836 Vancouver Washington - Hudson's Bay Company paddle wheel steamer Beaver arrives at Fort Vancouver; first steamboat on the Pacific Coast.
1766 London England - British pass Declaratory Act; gives Crown authority to make laws binding in the colonies; by and with consent of Parliament.
1687 Louisiana - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 assassinated at age 44 by mutineers on Gulf of Mexico.
1649 Midland Ontario - Jerome Lalement 1593-1673 killed by Iroquois after torture; Iroquois leave Huronia the following day.

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March 19th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1279 – A Mongolian victory Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
1563 – The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1812 – The Cádiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1853 – The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1885 – Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1895 РAuguste and Louis Lumi̬re record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1921 – Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed and five wounded.
1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1944 – World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1946 РFrench Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and R̩union become overseas d̩partements of France.
1954 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
1954 – Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.
1958 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label.
1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 – Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
1969 – The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
1989 – The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
1990 – The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2003 – United States President George W. Bush orders the start of war against Iraq.
2004 – Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
2004 – A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
2004 – 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
2011 РLibyan civil war: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Op̩ration Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.


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1981 SABRES PLASTER MAPLE LEAFS
Toronto Ontario - Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4; score 9 goals in the second period, the most goals in one period by an NHL team; total 31 goals and assists another NHL record.

1964
Ottawa Ontario - Sergeant Major Walter Leja awarded George Medal for heroic conduct while dismantling FLQ bombs in Montreal May 17,1963; the picture shows him lying in a Westmount street, severely wounded just after a mailbox bomb has gone off in his hands.

1885
Batoche Saskatchewan - Louis Riel 1844-1885 seizes hostages and sets up Provisional Government of Saskatchewan; North West Rebellion begins; Riel President, Gabriel Dumont Adjutant-General of the Army.

1990 New York City - Toronto singer Alannah Myles' song Black Velvet makes it to Number 1 on the Billboard Charts.
1990 Bridgetown Barbados - Brian Mulroney 1939- forgives $182 million debt owed by Caribbean countries; at 2 day Caribbean Commonwealth leaders conference; $93 million of Jamaica's debt forgiven.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - First world ice hockey tournament for women held in Ottawa.
1982 Albany New York - Quebec signs 13-year, $6 billion hydro-electric power export agreement with New York state.
1974 Quebec Quebec - Quebec brings in free dental care for all children under eight in the province.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in rigid federal rules barring any foreign ownership of Canadian uranium mining.
1969 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Jacques Bertrand 1916-1973 Quebec Premier drops Bill guaranteeing right to English-language education after heavy opposition; introduced Dec. 9, 1968.
1964 Cape Whittle Quebec - Over 100 cm of snow falls at Cape Whittle; Quebec's greatest one-day snowfall.
1941 Washington DC - United States and Canada sign pact to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1938 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in four minutes and fifty-two seconds of the 3rd period of a Toronto-New York Rangers hockey game.
1937 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes bill banning Canadian enlistment in the Spanish Civil War.
1914 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blueshirts sweep Victoria Capitals in 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - Minister of Inland Revenue Alexander Morris 1826-1889 introduces Act to legalize metric system in Canada.
1867 Victoria BC - British Columbia Legislative Council passes Act enabling province to enter Confederation.
1860 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick legislature decides not to invite the Prince of Wales, the visiting Canada, because of costs; decides to erase to day's debate from the record the following day.
1825 Portland Oregon - George Simpson c1787-1860 chooses new Fort Vancouver as headquarters of Columbia district; on Columbia River near present day Portland.
1747 Quebec Quebec - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquiere 1685-1752 appointed Governor of New France.
1687 Texas - René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 murdered by mutineers; he and his men are trying to reach the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico.

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March 20th 2013 - This Date in History.

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235 – Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1760 – The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1848 – Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1861 – An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1922 – The USS Langley (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau Concentration Camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
1951 – Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France.
1964 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
1972 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA car bomb kills seven and injures 148 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was the first of many car bomb attacks by the group.
1974 – Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
1980 – The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1990 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
1995 – A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
1999 – Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
2000 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
2006 – Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby..


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1986 SONDRA SLAPS AIDE
Washington DC- Sondra Gotlieb, wife of Canada's then-ambassador to the USA Alan Gotlieb, slaps an aide in public during a reception for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- issues 'What We Have Heard So Far,' interim report of Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future; talked to 75,000 Canadians.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Consumer and Corporate Affairs reports that personal and business bankruptcies reached their highest level ever; up 68% from 1990.
1990 Vancouver BC - Provincial environment ministers agree to cut use of disposable packaging by 50%; also tougher controls on pulp mill polluters; at Globe '90 Conference.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Denys Arcand big winner at 11th Annual Genie Awards; 12 of 14 awards including Best Movie (Jesus of Montreal), Best Director (Arcand); Best Actor (Lothaire Bluteau), Best Supporting Actor (Rémy Girard).
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- says Canada will open High Commission in Namibia; pledges $4 million in aid, assistance for army, police; on day of Namibian independence.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Government to pass law forcing financial institutions to keep records of large cash transactions; so criminals cannot launder money; urged by Canadian Bankers Association
1990 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- publishes a book of speeches attacking the Meech Lake Accord.
1990 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna proposes a parallel accord in an attempt to salvage Meech Lake; Accord to be approved intact with concessions to its opponents in a companion agreement.
1981 Alberta - Alberta Court of Appeal rules federal export tax (the Lougheed Levy) ultra vires.
1980 Quebec Quebec - National Assembly approves wording of referendum question on Sovereignty Association.
1974 La Grande Quebec - Hydro Quebec workers on James Bay project riot; destroy millions of dollars of equipment; project closes down.
1970 Paris France - Canada signs treaty with 19 other countries to found La Francophonie; body for cultural and technological exchange among French-speaking nations.
1968 Los Angeles California - Toronto rocker Neil Young arrested on drug charges; later fined.
1944 Aldershott England - Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 appointed to command of 1st Canadian Army; largest field formation ever formed by Canada; includes British, Dutch, Belgian, and Polish units.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King tells Parliament that Canada will consider any attack on Britain as an attack on the Commonwealth.
1929 Vancouver BC - British Columbia Telephone Company sets up subsidiary, North-West Telephone Company; world's first radiotelephone company.
1924 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens sweep Vancouver Millionaires in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
1914 New Haven, Connecticut - Canadian skaters attend the world's first international figure skating championships.
1910 Washington DC - Laurier's Finance Minister William S. Fielding 1848-1929 meets secretly with US President Taft to discuss reciprocity.
1901 Toronto Ontario - General Electric starts construction of a large Canadian factory in Toronto.
1878 St. John's Newfoundland - Postmaster-General John Delaney and meteorologist John Higgins install Newfoundland's first telephone.
1870 Toronto Ontario - John Joseph Lynch 1816-1888 consecrated first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government finally accepts terms of Rupert's Land Act of 1868; will acquire the territory.
1862 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 7th Parliament of Canada; meets until June 9; Grand Trunk Railway allowed to issue $500,000 in bonds with government guarantee, and postpone debt; line almost bankrupt.
1851 Queenston Ontario - Edward W. Serell finishes building Queenston-Lewiston Suspension Bridge, formally opened this day; engineers 318m span supported by stone towers.
1846 Toronto Ontario - Opening of second session of second Parliament of Canada; meets until June 9; Ryerson School Act creates a Board of Education; common schools
1800 Uxbridge Ontario - John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 grants 3,237 hectares (8,000 acres) in York County to Timothy Rogers; to settle Quaker community in King and Whitchurch Townships
1800 Granville Quebec - First Baptist Association in Canada founded in Granville, Lower Canada.
1793 Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Hart elected first Jewish MLA in Nova Scotia; representing Liverpool.
1686 Quebec Quebec - Pierre de Troyes d1688 plans expedition to expel English and capture traders in Hudson Bay working for Radisson; ordered by Governor Denonville.
1622 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 gives the de Caen brothers control of the merged Compagnie de Montmorency and the older Compagnie des Marchands.

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March 21st 2013 - This Date in History.

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537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
717 – Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1152 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1188 – Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1413 – Henry V becomes King of England.
1556 – In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 РWith the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-m̢ch̩.
1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 РCode Napol̩on is adopted as French civil law.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
1844 – The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
1857 – An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
1925 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 – Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
1937 – Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage – British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 – Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 – Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1964 – In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough").
1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 – Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1980 – US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.


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1970 AMERICAN WOMAN RELEASED
New York City - Burton Cummings and The Guess Who release their hit single American Woman; the Winnipeg group have a blockbuster number one single on their hands.

1666
Quebec Quebec - Intendant Jean Talon starts census of New France; 3,000 persons counted in the first Canadian census. Here he is visiting a typical habitant family.

1994 Los Angeles, California - Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goal.
1993 Toronto Ontario - Anne Murray inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame at Juno Awards ceremony; her 25th year in show business.
1992 Santa Barbara California - John Ireland dies of leukemia at 78; born Jan. 30, 1914 in Vancouver. Ireland was a Hollywood leading man, with over 200 movies and TV shows under his belt, including All the King's Men; Rawhide's Jed Colby, Cassie and Company. For more, check out the Internet Movie Database .
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules 9-0 that fetus not legal person; no guarantee to life under Criminal Code; upholds BC Court of Appeal ruling.
1990 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna tries to salvage Meech Lake accord, proposes 'companion resolution', with safeguards for women, natives and northerners; also gives Ottawa role in promoting linguistic duality.
1984 Europe - Canada signs agreement with 9 European countries to cut sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions; key components of acid rain
1977 Newfoundland - Greenpeace Foundation abandons protest against annual seal hunt off coast of Newfoundland; due to bad weather, ice conditions, and lack of money.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals.
1942 Vancouver, BC - James Woodsworth 1874-1942 dies; a Methodist minister, he was first leader of the CCF; pushed Mackenzie King to enact an old-age pension plan; born Etobicoke Ontario July 29, 1874.
1917 London England - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 attends Imperial War Conference; to April 27.
1916 France/Belgium - : German army starts offensive on the Somme before American troops can arrive to join the War; Second Battle of the Somme ends in November, with one million casualties.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught 1850-1942 appointed Governor General; serves until 1916.
1889 Sorel Quebec - Sorel gets city charter.
1885 Fort Carlton Saskatchewan - Louis Riel 1844-1885 demands surrender of Crozier's NWMP detachment at Fort Carlton; 32 km from Batoche.
1865 PEI - Prince Edward Island votes against Confederation.
1864 Canada - J. S. Macdonald & A-A Dorion Ministry resigns after failing to achieve coalition.
1836 Chambly Quebec - Collège de Chambly gets charter.
182 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Medical School incorporated; later part of McGill University.
1821 London England - North West Company agrees to merges with the Hudson's Bay Company; effective June 1, to run for 21 years under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company.

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March 22nd 2013 - This Date in History.

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238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1739 – Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1829 – The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1849 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1873 – A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
1906 – First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
1923 – The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1939 – World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1942 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
1943 – World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1954 – Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
1963 – The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom.
1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1972 – Eisenstadt v. Baird decision by the United States Supreme Court allows unmarried persons the right to contraceptives
1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
1984 – Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
1989 – Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1995 – Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women's World Figure Skating Champion.
1997 – The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
2006 – ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox.


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1894 STANLEY CUP DAY
Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association win the first Stanley Cup championship game, beating the Ottawa Capitals 3-1, and winning the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association tournament 3 games to 2. The AAAs (later the Montreal Victorias) were the first team to win what was known as known as Lord Stanley's Cup. A year earlier, Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston, former Governor General, had purchased the silver bowl in London for $48.67 to donate to the Canadian amateur champions; he said his sons had enjoyed playing hockey on the rink at Rideau Hall. Today, the Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports competition in North America.

1995 Buenos Aires Argentina - Victoria BC rower Silken Laumann 1965- tests positive for banned stimulant ephedrine at the Pan-American Games; the next day she and her three teammates are stripped of the gold medals they won in quadruple sculls; says she unknowingly took drug in a cold medicine..
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells introduces resolution to rescind Newfoundland support of Meech Lake accord; fears Meech Lake will cut Ottawa's ability to aid Newfoundland economically; effectively kills the deal.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- says he is optimistic Meech Lake can be saved by June 23rd deadline; in rare TV address.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament gives all party group mandate to study Meech Lake accord and to report back May 18; studying McKenna Option for companion agreement.
1984 London, Ontario - Jane Gray dies; Canada's first woman broadcaster began her career in 1924 at CJGC (now CFPL) radio London by hosting Canada's first advice show.
1979 New York City - NHL votes to absorb four World Hockey Association teams; the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and New England Whalers; end of the WHA.
1978 St-Jerome Quebec - Three prisoners emerge from St. Jerome prison with their six hostages after a two-week standoff, ending Canada's longest hostage-taking.
1973 Caughnawaga Quebec - St. Lawrence Seaway Authority grants $1.5 million and 321.7 hectares of land to Caughnawaga Indians; to compensate for 526 hectares expropriated in 1955 for Seaway.
1971 Halifax, Nova Scotia - First radio and TV coverage of the proceedings of the Nova Scotia legislature.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $2 million program to hire 276 Francophone graduates for public service jobs; jobs where French is 'la Langue du travail'.
1955 Mississauga Ontario - Fire at Malton Airport causes $5 million in damage.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Labour brings in National Selective Service Mobilization Regulations; program for industry meets wartime manpower shortage by directing people to jobs.
1929 New Orleans Louisiana - U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico off coast of Louisiana; Captain John Thomas Randell 1878-1939 and crew taken to New Orleans as prisoners for violating prohibition laws; manufacture of liquor still legal in Canada.
1922 Canada - 12,000 BC and Alberta coal miners go on strike; until August 24, 1923.
1914 Martin Point Alaska - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 leaves Martin Point with two companions and heads east toward Banks Island.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian troops ordered mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion.
1878 Victoria BC - R. B. McMicking demonstrates Victoria's first 2 telephones.
1849 Toronto Ontario - Robert Baldwin burned in effigy at a Toronto demonstration against Rebellion Losses Bill; with effigies of Mackenzie and Blake.
1834 Fredericton New Brunswick - Central Bank of New Brunswick chartered.
1740 Halifax Nova Scotia - Paul Mascarene c1684-1760 takes office as President of Council of Nova Scotia and administrator; until July 12, 1749.
1739 Paris France - François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière 1711-1740 appointed 5th Bishop of Quebec.
1723 Paris France - Compagnie des Indes [French West India Company] awarded tobacco monopoly in New France.

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March 23rd 2013 - This Date in History.

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1400 – The Tran Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Ho Quy Ly, a court official.
1568 – The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" – at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1862 – The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
1888 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, meets for the first time.
1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by forces of General Frederick Funston.
1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1918 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming Prisoners Of War
1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1935 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1939 – The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War.
1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1942 – World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
1962 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.
1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1989 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
1994 – A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 – Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
2005 – Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
2009 – FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo Narita International Airport, Japan, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.



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1670 FRENCH CLAIM LAKE ERIE
Port Dover Ontario - François Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 claims Lake Erie territory for France; with fellow Sulpician priest René de Galinée.

1752
Halifax, Nova Scotia - John Bushell 1715-1761 starts publishing Canada's first regular newspaper, the Halifax Gazette; until 1766, when it is shut down for criticizing the Stamp Act and replaced by the more official Nova Scotia Gazette. Originally from Boston, Bushell had worked with the late Bartholemew Green Jr., who set up the first printing press in Halifax. As today's Halifax Chronicle-Herald, it is the oldest existing newspaper in North America.

1994
Los Angeles California - Wayne Gretzky finally eclipses Gordie Howe's National Hockey League career record with his 802nd goal. Here he is with his hero. Howe had heard about a 10 year old Brantford Ontario kid who had scored 385 goals in 85 games, and decided to pay him a visit.

1991 New York City - Wayne Gretzky and his boss, Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall, acquire a 1910 Honus Wagner baseball card at auction at Sotheby's for $451,000, breaking the 1989 record: $115,000 for another Honus Wagner card.
1991 Paris France - Pauline Vanier dies in Paris at age 92; widow of former Governor General Georges Vanier.
1987 Kamloops, BC - Avalanche kills six American skiers and their Canadian guide.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Group of Seven artist Arthur Lismer dies at age 84.
1949 London England - Royal Assent given to the North America Bill, passed by the British Parliament for the union of Canada and Newfoundland.
1945 Germany - Allies cross Rhine north of the Ruhr.
1944 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens star Maurice 'Rocket' Richard scores all five Montreal goals in a 5-1 NHL playoff game win over Toronto.
1937 Toronto Ontario- Toronto Stock Exchange moves into new building at 234 Bay St.; cost $750,000; air conditioned; called the Ticker Place by the Star Weekly.
1923 Toronto Ontario - Foster Hewitt 1904-1985 announces his first hockey game, over the Toronto Star's radio station CFCA; known as voice of hockey.'
1893 Hamilton Ontario - First Canadian Club meeting.
1889 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton temperature reaches 22.2 C; warmest March day on record.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Abbé Joseph-Noel Ritchot 1825-1905 leaves for Ottawa with Alfred Scott to negotiate the Manitoba case with the Canadian government.
1865 London England - British Parliament votes £50,000 for Canadian defense; after Union ship Kearsarge sinks Confederate ship Alabama, built in UK.
1848 Quebec - Founding of l'Institut Canadien du Québec, a literary and philosophical society.
1838 Toronto Ontario - George Arthur 1784-1854 arrives to succeed Head as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.
1665 Paris France - Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle 1626-1698 appointed Governor of New France; serves from September 12, 1665 to September 12, 1672.
1665 Quebec City - Jean Talon 1626-94 appointed Intendant of New France, in charge of finance and justice; Canada's first civil administrator holds Canada's first census; serves from September 23, 1665 to October 22, 1668, then 1670-72.

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March 24th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1401 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 – James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora has abdicated the throne on 29 February. She has been wanting to rule jointly with her husband in the same manner as William and Mary in the British isles, but after the Riksdag of the Estates has said no to this, she has chosen to abdicate the throne in his favour instead.
1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
1731 – Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1765 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1829 – Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
1832 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
1860 – Sakuradamon incident (1860): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke
1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot all eight males inside.
1927 – Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1934 – U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1944 – Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1958 – Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
1959 РThe Party of the African Federation is launched by L̩opold S̩dar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
1972 – The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of petroleum after running aground.
1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1999 – Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 38 people
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
2000 – S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
2003 – The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.


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1936 LONGEST NHL GAME IN HISTORY
Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 after 16 minutes and 30 seconds of the ninth period (sixth overtime); this Stanley Cup game is longest in NHL history, at 176 minutes and 30 seconds; the win for the Wings actually comes after midnight, on March 25.

1996 Vancouver BC - Vancouver Grizzlies pro basketball team lose 90-85 to Cleveland; their 18th consecutive loss, after losing streaks of 18 and 19 games in 1995-96; first team in NBA history with two losing streaks of 18 or more games in the same season.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Progressive Conservatives filibuster in Commons in effort to halt Trudeau's constitutional package.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes act making the beaver the official symbol of Canada.
1975 Thunder Bay, Ontario - Thunder Bay has one of Ontario's greatest one day snowfalls, with 102 cm.
1972 Newfoundland - Frank Duff Moores 1933- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory in provincial election; 33 seats to 9 for Joey Smallwood's Liberals
1971 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Police Commission recommends forming contingency plan for emergencies; after examining Montreal police walkout of Oct. 7, 1969.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans commercial fishing on Lake St. Clair, sale of pickerel and perch from western Lake Erie; because of mercury contamination
1969 Washington DC - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts two day visit to Washington for talks with US President Nixon.
1965 Mount Kennedy Yukon - Robert F. Kennedy reaches top of mountain named by Canadian government in honor of the Senators late brother, President John F. Kennedy; first person to scale the highest unclimbed mountain in North America.
1964 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island adopts its own provincial flag.
1945 Netherlands - Canadian Corporal Fred Topham wins VC for bravery as Canadian paratroopers and air support help Canadian Army cross the Rhine in Operation Varsity; start of the liberation of the Netherlands.
1921 Victoria BC - Mary Ellen Smith sworn in as Minister without Portfolio in the British Columbia government; first female cabinet minister in the British Empire; won January, 1918 Vancouver by-election after death of her husband Ralph, Finance Minister in the Liberal government; re-elected in 1920 and 1924.
1889 Sorel Quebec - Sorel incorporated as a city.
1865 Quebec City - John A. Macdonald, George-Etienne Cartier, George Brown and Alexander Galt leave for Britain to discuss the union of the BNA provinces.
1838 New York City - Francis Bond Head 1793-1875 leaves for England by way of New York State; retiring Upper Canada Lieutenant Governor.
1837 Quebec City - Lower Canada gives blacks the right to vote.
1786 London England - British government prohibits trade between British North America and the US.
1761 Halifax Nova Scotia - German soldiers and settlers establish first Lutheran Church in Canada.
1745 Boston Massachusetts - William Pepperell 1696-1759 leads expedition against Louisbourg, Nova Scotia; force composed largely of untrained Harvard students.
1670 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 orders 100,000 livres of silver and copper coins minted for New France; the 15 sol piece is today a rarity.

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March 25th 2013 - This Date in History.

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421 – Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
708 – Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.
1199 – Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
1409 – The Council of Pisa opens.
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1634 – The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1821 – (Julian Calendar) Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually began since 23 February 1821. The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly-found state.
1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D.C.
1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1924 – On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1949 – The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity.
1957 – The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1958 – Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistani Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
1971 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1975 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1990 – The Happy Land fire was an arson fire that kills 87 people trapped inside an illegal nightclub in the New York City borough of The Bronx.
1992 – Pakistan national cricket team won the 1992 Cricket World Cup first time in the history of cricket, Final was played at Melbourne Cricket Ground .
1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
1996 – An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.



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1903 CANADA SHORT CHANGED IN ALASKA BORDER FIX
Washington DC - Anglo-American Convention decides to define the Alaska-Canada border as it is today; US President Theodore Roosevelt had threatened to send in troops if the boundary was not fixed the way the US wanted. Left out of the talks, Canada ended up with no seaports in northern BC or the Yukon, and the resulting anti-British sentiment led to the founding of the Department of External Affairs in 1909.

1958
Malton Ontario - 14,000 Avro employees cheer maiden flight of supersonic fighter the AVRO CF-105 Arrow; one of world's most advanced airplanes at the time; cancelled five months later.

1996 Canada - Jean Chrétien's Liberal Party wins 5 federal bye-elections, the Bloc Quebecois 1.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government says it will lift restrictions on foreign ownership in Canada's oil and gas industry.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Commons Environment Committee urges 20% cut in carbon dioxide emissions; to help combat global warming.
1986 Calgary Alberta - Montreal Canadians beat Calgary Flames 4-3 to win the NHL final series four games to one, and their record 23rd Stanley Cup.
1986 USA - Brian Boitano of the U.S. wins his second world figure skating title, in spite of Canadian Kurt Browning's quadruple jump, the first ever landed in competition.
1982 London England - The Canada Bill to patriate the BNA Act gets final approval in the House of Lords.
1982 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers bags two goals and two assists against the Calgary Flames, becoming the first in the NHL to score 200 points in a season.
1982 Oakville Ontario - Colin and Gregory Rankin born; North America's first test-tube twins.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Law Reform Commission asks Parliament to amend the Criminal Code regarding several crimes; abortion, indecency, bigamy, incest, obscenity, gambling.
1972 Chicago Illinois - Bobby Hull joins Gordie Howe, becomes the second National Hockey League player to score 600 career goals.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Roland Michener 1900- appointed Governor General; serves until 1974
1965 Montreal Quebec - RCMP seize $25 million worth of pure heroin.
1957 Bermuda - Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 starts two-day meeting with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Mario Scelba Prime Minister of Italy visits Ottawa.
1937 Toronto Ontario - Lionel Conacher misses on the first Stanley Cup penalty shot.
1924 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens sweep Calgary Tigers in 2 for the Stanley Cup; second of 1924
1907 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but win Stanley Cup by scoring most total points in the 2 game series.
1897 Ottawa Ontario - Second session of 8th Parliament meets until June 29.
1893 Toronto Ontario - Toronto cab driver fined for driving on Sunday; $2 or 10 days in jail
1886 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Legislature passes Workman's Compensation Act; first Act of its kind in Canada.
1884 Toronto Ontario - Victoria College in Toronto becomes Victoria University.
1880 Toronto Ontario - Globe editor George Brown shot in his office by George Bennett, a disgruntled ex-employee; dies later of wounds; Bennett hanged for murder.
1862 Kingston Ontario - John Lewis 1825-1901 elected first Anglican Bishop of Ontario.
1853 Windsor Ontario - Samuel Ward & Mary Ann Shadd publish first edition of 'The Provincial Freeman', a newspaper for the 40,000 blacks who had fled slavery in the southern US.
1839 Aroostook NB - Truce called in damaging Aroostook lumber war over New Brunswick boundary with Maine; later agreement between Lord Ashburton and Daniel Webster.
1820 Fredericton NB - Incorporation of the Bank of New Brunswick at Saint John.
1807 London England - British Parliament abolishes the slave trade.
1805 Montreal Quebec - Assembly passes an act to preserve apple trees; first Canadian legislation for the control of farm pests.
1776 St-Pierre Quebec - American invaders win skirmish at St. Pierre.
1752 Quebec City - Charles Le Moyne, 2nd Baron de Longueuil 1687-1755 appointed Intendant of New France after death of La Jonquière.

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March 26th 2013 - This Date in History.

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590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1027 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1351 – Combat of the Thirty : Thirty Breton Knights call out and defeat thirty English Knights.
1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1812 – An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1881 – Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 РThe M̩tis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
1913 – Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza – British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
1931 – SwissAir is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1934 – The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1958 – The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1974 – Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.
1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
1978 – Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C..
1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C..
1991 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
1991 – Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved.
1995 – The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1998 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
1999 – The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 – A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2005 – The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the demonstration.



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1908 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND SAYS NO TO CARS
Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island Assembly passes a law to ban all automobiles from its roads.

1921
Lunenburg Nova Scotia -
Smith & Rhuland launch 40 m long schooner Bluenose, built at a cost of $35,000; designed by William J. Roue of Halifax, both for fishing and racing. In 1921, under Captain Angus Walters 1882-1968, she wins the Halifax Herald International Fisherman's Trophy, emblematic of the fastest ship in the North Atlantic fishing fleet; wins 5 times, never afterward defeated for this trophy; also returned from her first trip to the Grand Banks as highliner of the Lunenburg fleet, having caught more than any other ship. The government put her likeness on the ten cent piece in 1937; she stopped racing in 1938. Bluenose was sold in 1942 to Havana interests; she was wrecked on a reef off Haiti in 1946.

1996 Ottawa Ontario - Canada's Anik E-1 communications satellite suffers electronic fault in Space, loses 50% of its capacity.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa passes legislation ordering 30,000 striking railway employees back to work, ending nation-wide week of chaos for travellers, commuters and shippers.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Barbara Frum dies of leukemia at age 54; broadcast journalist, host of CBC Radio's As It Happens and CBC-TV's The Journal.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- sends McKenna's 'companion resolution' to Meech Lake Accord to an all-party Commons committee; begins public hearings.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Ontario Liberal MP Sheila Copps gives birth to a girl; first Member of Parliament to give birth.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- announces that his government is ending the National Energy Program; move to market value for crude; equal treatment for oil patch.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Bora Laskin 1912-1984 dies; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
1979 Newfoundland - Brian Peckford 1942- takes office as Progressive Conservative Premier of Newfoundland, succeeding Frank Moores.
1975 Alberta - Premier Peter Lougheed 1928- increases majority in election win.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises minimum wage for federal employees from $2.20 to $2.60 per hour.
1974 Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler 1923- acquittal overturned by Quebec Appeal Court in spite of 'not guilty' jury decision; decision later upheld by Supreme Court of Canada.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Theodore Hellyer 1923- Defence Minister announces plans to integrate army, navy, and air force into one service.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Parliamentary Press Gallery President James McCcok says radio and TV broadcasters can now apply for membership.
1956 Washington DC - Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 meets with US President Dwight Eisenhower and Mexican President Adolpho Ruiz Cortines for talks.
1945 Canada - Commonwealth Air Training Program ends after graduating 131,500.
1945 Germany - Canadians part of five Allied armies now on the attack east of the Rhine.
1940 Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King 1874-1950 wins nineteenth federal general election 181 seats to 40 for the Conservatives under R. Manion; Social Credit 10; CCF 8; Independents 6; wins with 51% of popular vote.
1926 Montreal Quebec - Georges Vézina dies; NHL Hall of Fame goalie, Montreal Canadiens.
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Seattle Metropolitans beat Montreal Canadiens 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup; first US team to win.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Vancouver Millionaires sweep Ottawa Senators in 3 games for the Stanley Cup.
1885 Duck Lake Saskatchewan - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 ambushes force of 98 NWMP officers and volunteers, led by Superintendent Crozier, at Duck Lake; forces police to retreat to Prince Albert with 12 dead; start of the Northwest Rebellion (Second Riel Rebellion).
1874 Ottawa Ontario - First session of third Parliament meets until May 26; passes Act for construction of Canadian Pacific Railway.
1870 Ontario - News of the execution of Thomas Scott at Red River reaches Ontario; angers anti-Catholic Orangemen, who see the Metis action as religiously motivated.
1845 Montreal Quebec - Thomas Aylwin & Dominick Daly fight a harmless duel without injuring each other; one of Canada's last duels.
1821 London England - George Simpson c1787-1860 appointed Governor of the Southern Department of the new amalgamated Hudson's Bay Company, based at Moose Factory; senior officer in place of Williams after Norwester partners protest. William Williams d1837 appointed Governor of Northern Department, based at York Factory; opposed as senior officer by North West Company partners.
1789 Pictou Nova Scotia - Founding of Pictou Academy.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Bishop François de Laval 1623-1688 gets royal grant to found a seminary at Quebec.
1616 Bristol England - William Baffin c1584-1622 leaves on 5th voyage on 'Discovery'; will sail past Greenland coast and north another 480 km.

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196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
1812 – Hugh McGary Jr. established what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 – Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeat England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo led Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine-American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1918 – Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
2002 – Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2004 – HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 – Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.


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1935 CANADA'S LITERARY GG
London England - John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, appointed governor-general of Canada. An author himself (his novel The Thirty Nine Steps is regarded as the first modern thriller), he instituted the Governor-General's literary awards in 1937.

1855
New York City - Halifax inventor Abraham Gesner 1797-1864 gets US patents for kerosene distillation process; he and a group of investors set up the highly successful North American Kerosene Gas Light Company, to market the new lamp fuel that will completely replace whale oil.

1996 Toronto Ontario - Larry Murphy gets a goal and an assist in the Maple Leafs' 6-2 victory over Vancouver. With points 1,000 and 1,001, Murphy joins Paul Coffey, Ray Bourque and Dennis Potvin as the fourth defensemen in NHL history to reach 1,000 points.
1995 Montreal Quebec - Bell Canada says it will slash 10,000 jobs over three years while spending $1.7-billion (Canadian) to remake Canada's largest phone company.
1992 Albany, New York - New York State decides not to sign $17 billion contract with Quebec Hydro; QH to go ahead with $12.6 billion Great Whale project.
1991 Quebec City - Belanger-Campeau Commission suggests referendum if Ottawa proposals not good enough; suggests keeping Canadian dollar, Crown Corporations.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Provincial finance ministers decline to help Ottawa collect GST.
1982 New York City - Take Off, by Bob & Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas from SCTV) with Geddy Lee of Rush on vocals, peaks at #16 on the pop singles chart.
1980 Toronto Ontario - TSE Index drops 5.3%, biggest one day loss since 1940; after attempt by Hunt Brothers of Texas to corner silver market
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and provinces agree that the price of domestic crude oil will rise from $4 to $6.50 a barrel.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - France, Britain, Portugal, and Denmark agree with Canada to gradually eliminate fishing rights.
1969 St-Jerome Quebec - Ottawa to build new international airport at Mirabel, near St-Jerome, 42 km north of Montreal.
1967 Canada - Soviet Union defeats Canada 2-1 to win world hockey championship.
1966 Churchill Manitoba - Canada launches 158 kg. instrument package into upper atmosphere; to study aurora borealis; first all-Canadian space project, using Black Brant rocket.
1964 Cyprus - First Canadians start duties with UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy; Montreal goaltender
1953 United Nations New York - Canada presents gift of seven main doors for United Nations Building in New York.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes War Appropriation (United Kingdom) Finance Act; $700 million British debt written off. The cost to each Canadian is $87.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Canada recognizes the U.S.S.R.
1920 Hollywood California - Film star Mary Pickford 1892-1979, born Gladys Smith in Toronto, marries Douglas Fairbanks, her partner in United Artists with Charles Chaplin. The pair divorce in 1936.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast League beat the Montreal Canadiens to become the first US team to win the Stanley Cup.
1913 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of French language newspaper 'Le Droit' in Ottawa; to lead fight against Regulation #17 forbidding French schools.
1883 Regina Saskatchewan - Pile-O'-Bones made capital of the Northwest Territories, which includes Alberta, Saskatchewan and the present-day Northwest Territories; soon renamed Regina to honour Queen Victoria.
1867 London England - British North America Act receives Royal Assent; date of Confederation to be announced shortly.
1848 Fredericton NB - Fredericton incorporated as the 'Celestial City'.
1834 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 elected Reform alderman in first Toronto civic elections; a month after expulsion from Upper Canada Assembly; first Mayor of Toronto.
1647 Quebec Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 sets up Council of New France to manage the fur trade; with Governor of Quebec, Jesuit Superior and Governor of Montreal; first constitutional body in Canadian history.
1632 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Isaac de Launoy de Razilly 1587-1635 takes over Port-Royal for Company of New France; appointed by Cardinal Richelieu.
1614 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 rescues starving survivors of Port Royal and takes them back to France; deeds property to son Charles, who remains with a few friends.
1613 Cupids, Nfld. - Wife of Nicholas Gure gives birth to Newfoundland's first English child.

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March 28th 2013 - This Date in History.

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37 – Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sells the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1794 – Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1889 – The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airline lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
1941 – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
1942 – World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mao Khe, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
1969 – The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
1970 – Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260.
1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1979 – Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election.
1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
1994 – BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
2000 – Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
2005 – The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
2006 – At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.


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1885 TROOPS SENT WEST ON CPR
Toronto Ontario - General Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 leaves for the west in command of 5,000 troops to fight the North West Rebellion; reaches the end of the CPR on April 2, and splits up; Middleton goes to Batoche, Otter sent to Battleford, Strange goes after Big Bear.

1944
Toronto Ontario - Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 dies at age 74; comic author, McGill University political economist (1908-36); author of Literary Lapses (1910), Nonsense Novels (1911) Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914), Frenzied Fiction (1918) and many others, he died leaving his autobiography, The Boy I Left Behind Me, still unfinished (published in 1946).

1996 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Jaromir Jagr scores his 60th goal of the season as the Penguins beat the Florida Panthers 3-2. He and Mario Lemieux, with 64 goals, are the first teammates to score 60 or more goals in a season since Wayne Gretzky (73) and Jari Kurri (71) of the Edmonton Oilers in 1984-85. Jagr also sets record for most points by a European player in one NHL season with 140.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- says Department of External Affairs will operate Radio Canada International after CBC drops funding; 50% cut in service.
1984 Brampton Ontario - Eaton's store in Brampton gets union certification; first union in company's history.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Andreas Papandreou, Greek Prime Minister, starts state visit to Canada.
1982 Los Angeles California - Mark Messier and Dave Lumley, both of the Edmonton Oilers, each score a goal before the 24 second mark of a hockey game against the LA Kings, to record the fastest two goals by one team, at the beginning of a game, in NHL history.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Heritage Canada incorporated as a national trust to promote preservation of scenic and historic sites.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Crowd of 6,000 students demand that McGill University be turned into a French institution.
1960 Sudbury Ontario - Ontario charters Laurentian University in Sudbury as a bilingual institution.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Augustus Frederick, Earl of Athlone 1874-1957 approved by Cabinet as next Governor-General.
1935 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Radio Commission prohibits 'sales talks or spot advertising' on Sundays.
1928 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa's first automatic street light system goes into operation.
1922 Toronto Ontario - Toronto St Pats beat Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1918 Quebec Quebec - Anti-conscription riots break out in Quebec City; four civilians killed in shooting match with soldiers over Easter weekend.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Government abolishes offices of Yukon Commissioner and Administrator; all powers vested in the Gold Commissioner.
1885 Prince Albert Saskatchewan - Acheson Gosford Irvine 1837-1916 withdraws NWMP force from Fort Carlton to Prince Albert; had arrived with reinforcements to fight the North West Rebellion.
1864 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Legislature appoints delegates to Charlottetown conference on Maritime Union.
1851 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick agrees to give financial support to European & North American Railroad.
1843 Kingston Ontario - John A. Macdonald elected an alderman for Kingston; Canada's first prime minister.
1795 Nootka Sound BC - Spanish evacuate trading post at Friendly Cove to British.
1768 Halifax Nova Scotia - Michael Francklin 1733-1782 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia; serves until Feb. 16, 1776
1636 Huronia Ontario - François de La Haye arrives in Huron country to interpret language; he adapts well to Huron customs and they call him 'the double man'.

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March 29th 2013 - This Date in History.

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502 – King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians subject to the same laws.
1430 - The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.
1461 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, 15-year old Japanese girl, burnt at the stake for an act of arson committed due to unrequited love.
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1809 РKing Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'̩tat. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
1847 – Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
1882 – The Knights of Columbus are established.
1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
1941 – The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
1945 – World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
1947 – Malagasy Uprising(Insurrection in Madagascar) against French colonial rule.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
1962 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11 and a half day constitutional crisis.
1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
1974 – Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the 3rd century BCE.
1982 – The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
1990 – The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.
1999 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2004 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
2008 – Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.
2010 – Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.



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1993 CALLBECK FIRST ELECTED FEMALE PREMIER
PEI - Catherine Callbeck leads her Prince Edward Island Liberals to a 31 seat landslide; first woman in Canada to be elected premier; Tory leader Pat Mella wins the only opposition seat in the PEI legislature. Note: BC's Rita Johnson was the first woman Premier, but she replaced retiring Bill Vander Zalm in 1991, and lost the subsequent election.

1778
Nootka Sound BC - James Cook 1728-1779 lands at Nootka ('Friendly Cove') on the west coast of Vancouver Island, after 8 month voyage from England en route to search for a western entrance to the North West Passage; first Europeans to set foot on the island receive a warm welcome; trade iron goods, trap sea otters.

1867
London England - The British Parliament passes the British North America Act; to establish the Dominion of Canada, uniting Canada West (Ontario), Canada East (Quebec), Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; today's Constitution Act. Here are George Brown and John A. Macdonald during discussions leading to the drafting of the BNA Act.

1996 Vancouver BC - Vancouver Grizzlies lose 105-91 to the Utah Jazz, breaking the NBA record for consecutive losses in a season - 21 in a row.
1991 Vancouver BC - Premier Bill Vander Zalm says he will step down when his Social Credit party chooses a new leader; he is being investigated for improper real estate dealings relating to the sale of his family's Fantasy Gardens to a Taiwanese billionaire.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard releases Green Plan working paper to clean up the environment.
1989 Calgary Alberta - Sergei Priakin signed by Calgary Flames; first Soviet player allowed to play in North America by Soviet Ice Hockey Federation.
1985 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist.
1984 USA - Lynn Williams 1925- Toronto union leader elected President of United Steelworkers of America; first Canadian to hold the post.
1982 London England - Canada Bill given royal assent.
1978 Hartford Connecticut - New England Whalers star Gordie Howe becomes the first 50-year-old to play professional hockey.
1976 Hollywood California - Budge Crawley of Ottawa's Crawley Films wins Oscar for best feature-length documentary for his The Man Who Skied Down Everest; first Canadian feature film to win an Oscar.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - CBC announces it will gradually remove commercials from its AM radio stations.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Luis Echeverría Mexican President starts three-day visit to Canada.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ralph E. Collins 1922- appointed first Canadian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Dominion Bank sells first debentures; first in Canadian banking history.
1966 Toronto Ontario - Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, outpoints Canadian heavyweight boxing champion George Chuvalo in a 15-round slugfest in Toronto.
1966 Quebec Quebec - Dow Brewery destroys 4,546,000 litres of beer after 16 people die in Quebec City area; 1 million gallons go down the drain.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves Canada Pension Plan; compulsory except in Quebec, which sets up its own comparable plan.
1963 Quebec Quebec - Vandals wreck Wolfe Monument on the Plains of Abraham.
1960 New York City - Paul Anka's hit single Puppy Love goes to number #1 on the Billboard charts; Ottawa pop singer.
1927 Toronto Ontario - Government control of liquor sales replaces prohibition in Ontario; origin of LCBO and Brewers Retail stores.
1922 Beaupré Quebec - Fire destroys basilica of Ste-Anne de Beaupré; shrine originally built in 1658 by sailors who escaped a shipwreck.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba sets up joint council to settle labour disputes; Industrial Conditions Act.
1906 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg street railway employees riot during two-day strike.
1919 Montreal Quebec - Montreal AAA and Seattle Millionaires each win 2 games, with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded.
1895 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Commission on selling of liquor concludes that restrictive laws do not decrease sale of liquor; appointed in 1892.
1892 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Cricket Association established.
1873 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the School of Practical Science for Mining and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto; today's Faculty of Engineering.
1848 Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls runs dry for 24 hours due to an ice jam on Lake Erie; beginning at 5 am; only time on record
1845 London Ontario - London & Gore Railroad incorporated as the Great Western Railway of Canada.
1841 Halifax Nova Scotia - St. Mary's College at Halifax, a Jesuit institution for the liberal arts, gets a provincial charter.
1841 Wolfville Nova Scotia - Queen's College at Horton, a liberal arts college founded by the Baptists in 1838, becomes Acadia College; today Acadia University.
1808 Williamstown Ontario - John Johnson 1742-1830 gives patent and grants 12 acres of land for Williamstown Fair; oldest continuously operating farm fair in Ontario.
1630 St-Germain-en-Laye France - England and France sign Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye; returns Quebec and Acadia holdings, captured in 1628-29, to the Company of New France and de Caen's United Company; gives firmer land title to the Quebec colonists.

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598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
1282 – The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 – Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
1814 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1863 – Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1885 – The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1909 – The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
1910 – The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.
1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1918 – Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1939 – The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745km/h).
1940 – Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
1944 – Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg. Along the English eastern coast 795 aircraft are despatched, including 572 Lancasters, 214 Halifaxes and 9 Mosquitos. The bombers meet resistance at the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands from German fighters. In total, 95 bombers are lost, making it the largest Bomber Command loss of World War II.
1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.
1949 – A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
1954 – The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1976 – The first Land Day protests are held in Israel/Palestine.
1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Another 2 people were wounded at the same time.
1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
2006 – The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law.
2009 – Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.


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1644 FRENCH BATTLE IROQUOIS IN MONTREAL
Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve 1612-1676 defeats a large band of marauding Iroquois on the site of the Place d'Armes; aided by force of 30 settlers; they had massacred several habitant families.

1885
Battleford Saskatchewan - Cree chief Poundmaker [Pitikwahanapiwiyin] 1826-1886 attacks and surrounds Battleford with 200 warriors; local settlers forced to seek shelter in NWMP barracks for a month. A formidable soldier, Poundmaker had participated in the signing of Treaty 6, and in 1881 had guided the Marquis of Lorne from Battleford to Calgary. But he was distressed at the treatment given the Cree people, and had agitated for fulfillment of the promises made under Treaty.

1990 Quebec Quebec - Riot police in Quebec City break up demonstration by 2,000 marchers against university tuition fee increases; students also occupy Montreal Stock Exchange; over 250 arrested.
1981 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland Court of Appeals rules Ottawa does not have right to change constitution unilaterally.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces plans to immunize about 12 million Canadians against 'swine flu' in the autumn.
1973 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba starts guaranteed annual income experiment; Ottawa to fund 75% of the cost.
1972 Halifax Nova Scotia - Last daily rum ration issued to Canadian naval personnel.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - CBC airs first simultaneous FM radio/TV broadcast of a symphony concert; users of both can experience stereo sound.
1968 Washington DC - Canada and US agree to renew NORAD for 5 year period, from May 12.
1967 Victoria BC - opening of SEACOM: Southeast Asia Commonwealth Cable; 40,000 km link between Britain, Canada and Australia
1954 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Transit Commission opens Yonge Street subway; first line in Canada.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie King said Canada will not conscript men for foreign service.
1925 Montreal Quebec - Victoria Cougars beat Montreal Maroons 3 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1918 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Arenas beat Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1916 Montreal Quebec - Montreal AAAs beat Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that marriages of Catholics by Protestant clergymen are valid.
1885 Stratford Ontario - Stratford incorporated as a city.
1874 Hull Quebec - Louis Riel arrives in the east from Manitoba to claim his parliamentary seat of Provencher; he stays in Quebec because of a warrant for his arrest in Ontario for the killing of Thomas Scott.
1872 Toronto Ontario - First issue of Toronto 'Mail' published; part of today's Globe and Mail.
1864 Ottawa Ontario - Etienne-Paschal Taché 1795-1865 forms Taché-Macdonald government with John A. Macdonald.
1852 London England - Imperial Government authorizes railroad from Halifax to Quebec.
1838 London England - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada, and Governor-General of British North America; serves from May 29, 1838 to Nov. 1, 1838
1834 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 appointed first mayor of Toronto by the Council, defeating John Rolph.
1832 Halifax Nova Scotia - Incorporation of Bank of Nova Scotia; first bank in the province.
1814 Lacolle Quebec - James Wilkinson leads 4,000 Americans into defeat at Lacolle; forced to retreat back across border to Plattsburg; Americans were occupying Odelltown during the War of 1812.
1809 London England - Labrador Act gives Labrador to Newfoundland; boundaries later disputed by Quebec; Privy Council make final decision in 1927.
1784 Montreal Quebec - Hotel Dieu collects a subscription of £345, 10s, 9d 'in favour of the poor.'
1743 Pierre South Dakota - François de Varennes de La Vérendrye buries lead plaque in territory of Little Cherry Indians, claiming the country for France; with brother Louis-Joseph.

1968
And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

Céline Dion 1968-1889
superstar chanteuse, was born on this day at Charlemagne, Quebec in 1968. Dion is the youngest of 14 children whose parents operated a small club east of Montreal, where she started performing at age 5 with her entire family. Her first song, composed at age 12, caught the eye of manager René Angelil, who financed the recording of her debut album, and later married her. In 1982, she won the Gold Medal at the Yamaha World Song Festival in Tokyo. In 1983, she became the first Canadian ever to receive a Gold Record in France. In 1988, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland, before a TV audience of 600 million. Her English language breakthrough came when she recorded the title track for the Disney hit Beauty and the Beast, which garnered an Academy Award and a Grammy. Her second English album, 'Celine Dion,' had such hit singles as Love Can Move Mountains, Water From The Moon, If You Asked Me To and Did You Give Enough Love. In 'The Colour Of My Love', Dion duetted with British singer Clive Griffin on When I Fall In Love, featured on the soundtrack of the movie Sleepless in Seattle. Her most recent hit is My Heart Will Go On, the theme song from the film Titanic, that she sung at the Oscar ceremony.

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March 31st 2013 - This Date in History.

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307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1146 РBernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V̩zelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1822 РThe massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eug̬ne Delacroix.
1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
1877 – The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
1885 – The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1899 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
1931 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 РA coup d'̩tat in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
1965 – An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
1986 – A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 167.
1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1990 – 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1994 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1995 – TAROM Flight 371 crashed, killing all of the 10 crew and 50 passengers on board.
1995 – Selena, an American singer, was murdered by her friend and employee of her boutiques Yolanda Saldívar who was embezzling money from the establishments. The event was named "Black Friday" by Hispanics.
2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.


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1958 DIEF WINS LANDSLIDE
Canada - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 wins biggest victory to date in Canada's 24th general election; takes 208 seats to 49 for the Liberals under St-Laurent; 8 CCF; a majority of 151, with 50 Quebec seats; gets 53.6% of popular vote; serves as Prime Minister to April 22, 1963.

1949
St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland joins Confederation as Canada's 10th province; oldest Dominion in the British Commonwealth joins 82 years after Confederation; Joey Smallwood first Premier, until 1972; here he is signing the agreement.
1987 New York City - Canadian Matt Frewer stars in science fiction adventure Max Headroom, making its debut on ABC-TV.
1984 St. John's Newfoundland - One-legged runner Steve Fonyo dips his artificial leg in St. John's Harbour to start run across Canada to raise money for cancer research, and to honour the memory of his friend Terry Fox; his 7,294 km run will be successful.
1982 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Canada's first fibre optics cable manufacturing plant opens in Saskatoon.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Biochemist Charles Best dies at age 79; co-discoverer of insulin, used to treat diabetes.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes Ontario law reform providing for equal division of family assets following marriage break-up.
1975 Toronto Ontario - CN Tower reaches 555.35 metres in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure; the giant communications mast cost $44 million, uses 145,000 tonnes of concrete and steel.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Northmen of the fledgling WFL sign Miami Dolphins Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, and Paul Warfield; the league goes nowhere.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - University of Toronto historian Donald Grant Creighton 1902-1978 first recipient of Canada Council's Molson Prize; with Quebec poet Alain Grandbois.
1964 Quebec Quebec - Ottawa and provinces start four-day conference in Quebec City; discuss Canada Pension Plan, tax equalization.
1962 Brockville Ontario - Brockville incorporated as a city.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley announces that wartime meat rationing by coupon will begin in early May.
1937 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange closes at 193.6; up 200% in since 1932
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton Eskimos in 2 for the Stanley Cup; second of 1923
1914 Newfoundland - Seventy-eight hunters die, many crippled by frostbite, in a two day long storm when their sealing steamer, the Newfoundland, fails to pick them up due to mistaken orders.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Canada now has 3,000 officers and men in the Permanent Force; 5,615 officers and 68,991 men in the militia.
1906 London England - King Edward VII grants British Columbia's Coat-of-Arms.
1890 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba legislature passes the Manitoba School Act, abolishing separate schools for Catholics and Protestants, effective May 1; non-sectarian system of public education.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa disallows BC's Chinese Restriction Act.
1854 Rae Isthmus NWT - John Rae 1813-1893 sets out across Rae Isthmus for Pelly Bay; meets Inuit who saw Europeans on the west coast of King William Island, and found graves on the mainland near mouth of Back River; he buys silver spoons belonging to the Franklin expedition.
1831 Montreal Quebec - Montreal incorporated as a city; no longer an out-port of Quebec.
1831 Quebec Quebec - Quebec incorporated as a city.
1821 Montreal Quebec - McGill University granted Royal charter.
1713 Utrecht Netherlands - Treaty of Utrecht returns Nova Scotia to Britain; France keeps Ile Royale (Cape Breton) and Ile St-Jean (PEI).
1547 Paris France - King Henri II 1519-1559 starts reign; to 1559; on death of François I.

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April 1st 2013 - This Date in History.

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Events:C/P


286 – Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.
325 – Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
457 – Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army.
527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
1318 – Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from England.
1340 – Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
1545 – Potosí is founded after the discovery of major silver deposits in the area.
1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.
1826 – Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin
1854 – Charles Dickens' Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine, Household Words.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks.
1867 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
1871 – The first stage of the Brill Tramway opened.
1873 – The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547.
1887 – Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1893 – The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
1908 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes Mein Kampf.
1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1933 – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
1933 – English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
1935 – India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India is formed.
1936 – Odisha formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal becomes a state in India.
1937 РAden becomes a British crown colony. Bombing of Ja̩n, Spain by Nazi forces.
1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
1941 – The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted.
1941 – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali as Prime Minister.
1944 – Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
1945 – World War II: Operation Iceberg – United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war.
1946 – Aleutian Island earthquake: A 8.6 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159, mostly in Hilo.
1946 – Formation of the Malayan Union.
1947 – Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.
1948 – Cold War: Berlin Airlift – Military forces, under direction of the Russian-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin.
1948 – Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
1949 – The Canadian government repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years.
1949 – The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
1955 – The EOKA rebellion against The British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification ("enosis") with Greece.
1957 – The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
1959 – Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.
1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
1967 – The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.
1970 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacred over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
1973 – Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
1974 – In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being.
1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne
1976 – Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S..
1976 – The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect hoax is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
1978 – The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1979 – Iran becomes an Islamic Republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
1989 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
1992 – Start of the Bosnian war.
1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion.
1999 – Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
2001 – An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, People's Republic of China and is detained.
2001 – Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first country to allow it.
2006 – The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the "British FBI", is created in the United Kingdom.
2009 – Croatia and Albania join NATO.
2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.


Today's Canadian Headline...


1868 CANADIANS CELEBRATE FIRST APRIL FOOLS' DAY
Ottawa Ontario - First Canadian April Fools' Day on record. Poisson d'avril!

1873
Prospect Nova Scotia - The luxury Liner Atlantic, sailing from Liverpool to New York, turns into Halifax Harbour to get coal, but strikes a reef near Mars Rock, Meagher's Island; 546 people drown in heavy seas, while local fishermen manage to save 300.

1733
Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Canada's first lighthouse lit for the first time, using coal from nearby Morien and Spanish River; the round 200 metre tower, made with cement from limestone burned in local kilns, is the first fireproof concrete structure in North America.
1995 Hollywood, California - Jack M. Warner 1916-1995 dies; born Mar 27, 1916 in London Ontario; movie executive, co-founder Warner Bros.
1992 North America - NHL Players Association launches players' strike, first in the league's 75-year history; walkout ends 10 days later; NHLPA claims gains in free agency and licensing rights.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa signs final land claim agreement with Yukon Indians; gives them surface title to 41,000 sq km; of land, plus mineral rights and $232 million cash.
1983 Uniondale, NY - Montreal native Mike Bossy the first NHLer to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons; New York Islander star.
1980 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr's NHL record with his 103rd assist.
1980 Carleton Place, Ontario - First sheltered workshop in Canada to go on strike; Mentally disabled workers win raise in weekly salary to $10 from $7.50
1979 Ottawa Ontario - National Energy Board raises export tax on light crude oil $1.00 per barrel to $8.00.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises the federal minimum wage to $2.90 per hour.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - CRTC gets authority to regulate all forms of broadcasting; changes name to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
1975 Canada - Canadian radio and TV stations first start giving the temperature in Celsius.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Transport Commission permits full air charter service; booking in advance required.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the National Film, Television and Sound Archives; started unofficially in 1960.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Patrick Hartt 1919- heads new Law Reform Commission of Canada to examine changes to Canada's Criminal Code.
1971 Vandenberg AFB, California - Canadian ISIS II satellite launched to study ionosphere.
1970 Yellowknife NWT - Ottawa transfers governing of eastern and upper Arctic to NWT government; from Indian Affairs and Northern Resources department.
1969 Quebec Quebec - Quebec legalizes civil marriages.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) becomes the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, under the Broadcasting Act; today's Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
1967 NWT - Robert Gauchie found by rescue workers after 58 day search; bush pilot forced down in remote section of NWT.
1960 Ottawa Ontario -Government approves National Energy Board recommendation for natural gas exports to the US.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Canada's revised Criminal Code of Canada goes into effect.
1954 Kitchener Ontario - Woodside becomes National Historic Park; early home of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 appointed Minister of new Department of Defence Production.
1950 The Hague Netherlands - Defence Ministers of 12 NATO powers meet to approve plan of collective security; until April 3.
1948 Toronto Ontario - first production of Spring Thaw; long-running Canadian comedy revue.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Munitions & Supply puts gasoline on coupon rationing; national speed limit of 64 km an hour proclaimed.
1941 Peru - Canadian armed merchant cruiser Prince Henry intercepts two German ships off Peru; ships scuttled.
1932 Ottawa Ontario -RCMP absorbs provincial police forces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba and Alberta.
1927 Washington DC - American Department of Labor puts immigration quota on Canadians looking for work in the USA.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a separate service; RCAF previously founded by Billy Bishop in 1918 as a separate brigade.
1920 Ottawa Ontario -Ottawa Senators beat Seattle Metropolitans 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1918 Edmonton Alberta -Alberta government declares total prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1892 Ottawa Ontario -North American Canal Company wins contract to deepen St. Lawrence; build canals to Lake Erie.
1868 Ottawa Ontario -Government fixes a uniform first class postal rate of three cents; establishes Post Office Savings Bank.
1824 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Clowes finishes Rideau Canal engineer's route survey and reports to Governor Maitland.
1776 Halifax Nova Scotia - Ships carrying 1,124 United Empire Loyalists arrive at Halifax from Boston; many with the British Army; in all, 40,000 Americans remain loyal.
1776 Quebec Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 relieved at Quebec by General David Wooster.
1625 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia divided into two provinces, with counties, bishoprics and baronetcies.

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1453 – The Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II begins the siege of Constantinople.
1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida.
1755 – Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
1801 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen – The British capture the Danish fleet.
1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.
1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1885 – Cree warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada, killing 9.
1900 – The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
1912 – The ill fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1921 – The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Brazil are established.
1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.
1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
1973 – The Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia.
1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
1975 – Construction of the CN Tower is completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It reaches 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure.
1980 – President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act in an effort to help the U.S. economy rebound.
1982 – Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
1986 – Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist most widely known for the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
1994 – The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum
2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
2004 – Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.
2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.


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1968 CANADA'S FIRST LOTTERY 30 YEARS AGO
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau creates Canada's first modern lottery, to help pay $250 million deficit from Expo '67; first such lottery in Canada.

1975
Toronto Ontario - CN Tower completed; reaches 555.35 metres in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure; the giant communications mast cost $44 million, uses 145,000 tonnes of concrete and steel.

1992 Guelph Ontario - Stable fire kills 69 horses at Mohawk Raceway; worst racetrack fire in Canadian history.
1991 Victoria BC - Rita Johnston sworn in as Premier on resignation of Bill Vander Zalm; Canada's first woman Premier (Catherine Callbeck of PEI will be the first woman elected Premier).
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Donald James Reimer sentenced to life in prison for causing death of three people while drunk driving; toughest penalty ever for crime; to be appealed.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Law Reform Commission recommends forcing polluters to compensate the public for damaging the environment.
1980 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky the first teenaged NHLer to score 50 goals in a season.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens win 34th straight home game without a loss, for an NHL record.
1977 Vancouver BC - Opening of Vancouver's restored Orpheum Theatre; new home for Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
1974 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick Supreme Court fines K. C. Irving Ltd. and 3 other companies $150,000 for press monopoly of the province's English language newspapers.
1970 Victoria BC - BC Supreme Court judge upsets compulsory breath test law for suspected impaired drivers; verdict appealed.
1970 Edmonton Alberta - Medical Research Council & University of Alberta start Canada's first organ transplant research group; based at University of Alberta.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Ontario rules that ores mined in the province after Jan. 1, 1970 must be processed in Canada.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Australian Prime Minister J. G. Gorton starts visit to Canada.
1965 Ottawa Ontario -Provinces agree on Canada Pension Plan.
1962 Peace River Alberta - Alberta Government Telephones and CN Telecommunications opens 640 km microwave system; from Peace River to Hay River, NWT.
1955 Halifax Nova Scotia - Opening of Angus L. Macdonald Bridge linking Halifax and Dartmouth.
1947 Toronto Ontario - First cocktail bars open in 'Toronto the Good'.
1931 Canada -Toronto and Montreal Stock Exchanges make joint ticker arrangements.
1906 Regina Saskatchewan - First session of the Saskatchewan legislature opens.
1887 Juneau Alaska - US seizes Canadian sealing ships in North Pacific; other seizures on the 9,12, and 17th.
1886 Sackville New Brunswick - Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy at Sackville gets college charter; today's Mount Allison University.
1885 Frog Lake Saskatchewan - Wandering Spirit massacres 9 white settlers and Metis at Frog Lake; takes one man and two women prisoner with 7 other Crees.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Lucius Seth Huntington MP 1827-1886 charges that Hugh Allan and G.W. McMullen gave funds to government in return for CPR charter; non-confidence motion defeated 107 to 76.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - Dominion of Canada's first census shows a population of 3,689,257, including 2,110,000 of British origin and 1,083,000 of French origin.
1840 Toronto Ontario - Torontonians hold public street ox roast to celebrate Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert.
1667 Quebec Quebec - Jean Talon 1626-94, Intendant of New France, establishes the Code Civil and first civil courts of law in the name of King Louis XlV 1638-1715.

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April 3rd 2013 - This Date in History.

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1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1077 – The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
1559 РThe Peace of Cateau-Cambr̩sis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1929 – RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston
1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1948 – President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948 – In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1956 – Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
1961 – The Leadbeater's Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.
1974 – The Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his cabin in Montana, United States.
1996 – A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.
2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody.


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1930 FIRST CUP IN OLD FORUM
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup for the first time in the new Montreal Forum, beating Boston Bruins 4-3 in game 2 of a two-game series sweep.

1946
Ottawa Ontario -
Canada agrees to acquire the Canadian section of the Alaska Highway, including telephone systems, buildings and other assets, for $108 million (1,221 miles at $88,000 a mile); 2,450-kilometre highway originally cost US$140 million to build, as a wartime supply route in case of Japanese invasion of North America. Here's a painting of it under construction.
1996 Vancouver, BC - NBA Vancouver Grizzlies beat Minnesota 105-103, snapping a 23-game losing streak; expansion Grizzlies one loss short of record of 24 set by Cleveland Cavaliers (1982).
1992 St. John's, Newfoundland - Congregation of Christian Brothers formally apologizes to victims of physical and sexual abuse at 94-year-old Mount Cashel orphanage; first complaints of abuse arose in 1970s; building to be razed, and proceeds used to help victims.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Redpath Industries to market new product Sucralose; potential rival to Nutrasweet; does not break down at high temperatures in baking.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Cree Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come files for injunction to stop $7.5 billion Great Whale Hydro development in James Bay region; says it will harm environment and damage way of life, by flooding 5,000 sq km of ancestral lands.
1988 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Penguin Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Wayne Gretzky's 7 year streak.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government proposes bill allowing country-wide referendum on national unity.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point with an assist in a 7-4 triumph over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports record $2.19 billion paid out in 1974 for unemployment insurance benefits.
1973 Quebec Quebec - Francois Cloutier Quebec Education Minister to spend $100 million to improve language teaching; also to encourage immigrants to enroll children in French schools.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to reduce Canadian forces in Europe but remain in NATO alliance.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa removes restrictions on selling gold purchased by the Royal Mint from Canadian producers.
1967 Natal BC - Coal mine explosion kills 15 and injures 9 miners near Natal.
1940 London England - Alexander Augustus Frederick, Earl of Athlone 1874-1957 appointed Governor General; serves from June 21, 1940 to March 16, 1946.
1933 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores at 1:44:46 of overtime beyond the one hour regulation game to beat Boston Bruins 1-0 in Stanley Cup semifinals; longest NHL game to date.
1916 St. Eloi Belgium - Second Canadian Division troops see action at St. Eloi in Flanders; until April 20.
1907 Regina Saskatchewan - Legislature passes bill establishing the University of Saskatchewan.
1898 Yukon - Chilkoot Pass avalanche kills 88 men during the Klondike gold rush.
1836 Toronto Ontario - Baldwin, Rolph & Dunn resign from Bond Head's council to protest lack of democracy.
1826 Saint John NB - Financial panic hits New Brunswick as word spreads that banks in London had failed and the timber trade had collapsed; so-called Black Monday.
1756 St-Malo France - Marquis de Montcalm sails from France for Canada; he will die at the battle of the Plains of Abraham.
1669 Paris France - Louis XIV orders permanent militia established in New France.

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