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June 2nd 2013 - This Date in History.

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455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1615 РThe first R̩collet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1793 РFrench Revolution: Fran̤ois Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1866 – Fenian raids: the Fenians are victorious in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1886 – The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
1994 – An RAF Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland killing all 29 on board. The original cause of the crash is ruled as pilot error, this verdict is overturned in 2011.
1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.



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1997 CHRETIEN TO PRESIDE OVER PIZZA PARLIAMENT
Canada -Jean Chrétien wins re-election for the Liberals with 155 seats, to 60 Reform, 44 Bloc Quebecois, 21 NDP, 20 PC and 1 Independent; major bloc voting and the regionalization of parties sees the Liberals strong in Ontario and West Quebec, and Reform in Western Canada. Preston Manning's Reform Party will form the Official Opposition in the so-called Pizza Parliament.

1917
Germany - William Avery 'Billy' Bishop 1894-1956 seriously damages a German aerodrome and airfield and destroys three German planes far behind enemy lines, an action that wins him the Victoria Cross; most successful Canadian airman in the Royal Flying Corps, with 72 kills.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP unfurls its official flag.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney hosts all-night negotiations to iron out the remaining Meech Lake wrinkles; first ministers agree unanimously to present the Accord to their legislatures.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - The 10 premiers agree that Ottawa can carry on free trade-talks with the US without direct participation by the provinces.
1984 New York City - NBC-TV special Welcome To The Fun Zone stars Canadians Howie Mandel and John Candy.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec raises provincial minimum wage from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour; highest in Canada.
1970 Peru - Canada gives $1 million in emergency relief assistance to Peruvian earthquake victims; sends aircraft to ferry services, tents, and flour.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government sets retirement age for Senators at 75.
1953 London England Britain - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- crowned in Westminster Abbey 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI; marked by official ceremonies across Canada; first coronation to be televised.
1952 Montreal Quebec - TV broadcasting starts in Canada when Radio Canada's Channel 2 shows a test pattern.
1929 Guelph Ontario - Severe tornado hits Guelph, knocking out some city services for almost three years.
1925 Saskatchewan - Charles Avery Dunning 1885-1958 leads Liberals to re-election victory in Saskatchewan provincial election.
1916 Mount Sorrel France - Canadian troops see action at Mount Sorrel; to June 13.
1913 Canada - Trade agreement with British West Indies comes into effect; about 50 Canadian products get 20% tariff reduction.
1889 Portland Maine - CPR opens Short Line Railroad through Maine to connect Montreal with Saint John.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 resigns as leader of Liberal opposition in Parliament; replaced by Laurier on June 7.
1886 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes an Act establishing the Dominion Experimental Farm.
1866 Fort Erie Ontario - John O'Neill 1834-1878 leads 700 Fenians against raw Canadian militia at the Battle of Ridgeway; militia units panic, but stout defense eventually turns Fenians back.
1855 Fort Resolution NWT - James Anderson & James Stewart leave Fort Resolution to confirm Rae's report on Franklin; find articles from Franklin's ships at Back River, more relics at Montreal River.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Opening of third session of second Parliament of Canada; meets until July 28; control of Post Office; duties lowered on American imports; British imports raised to uniform 7.5%.
1847 Montreal Quebec - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 enters cabinet for the first time as Receiver-General.
1800 Trinity, Newfoundland - John Clinch administers the first smallpox vaccination in North America.
1800 Toronto Ontario - Fourth session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 4; introduction of British criminal law into the Canadas.
1794 Toronto Ontario - Third session of first Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 9; sets up Court of King's Bench; passes Act restraining domestic animals.
1776 Chambly Quebec - John Thomas 1725-1776 dies of smallpox which is ravaging the invading American army; succeeded by John Sullivan.
1763 Michilimackinac Michigan - Pontiac takes Fort Michilimackinac.
1755 Fort Beausejour Nova Scotia - Robert Monckton 1726-1782 lands over 2,000 troops at mouth of Missaguash River in Acadia; attacks Vergor at Fort Beausejour.
1671 Montreal Quebec - Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle 1626-1698 leaves Montreal on peace mission to the Iroquois on Lake Ontario.
1615 Quebec Quebec - First Récollet missionaries arrive from Rouen (Fathers Denis Jamet, Jean Dolbeau and Joseph Le Caron, with Brother Pacifique Duplessis); build first monastery and chapel.

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June 3rd 2013 - This Date in History.

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350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
1658 РPope Alexander VII appoints Fran̤ois de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
1862 – A 3000-strong riot occurred at Wardsend Cemetery in the Sheffield, England, against rumours of bodysnatching from the grounds.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
1866 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
1888 – The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1889 – The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1932 – Lou Gehrig and his teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty-one times in one-hundred and twenty years.
1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
1950 – The first successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; the summit of Annapurna is reached by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.
1959 – Singapore was declared a self-governing state it was still a part of the British Empire.
1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
1968 – Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1969 – Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics compiled on the deadly storm by the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
1998 – Eschede train disaster: an ICE high-speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.



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1987 MULRONEY AND PREMIERS INK DEAL
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- and the 10 provincial premiers initial the Meech Lake Accord constitutional deal after an all-night meeting in the Langevin Block; if approved by Parliament and all 10 provincial legislatures within three years, it will give Quebec special status within Canada and increase the powers of the provinces.

1668
Gravesend England - Medart Chouart des Groseilliers 1618-1690 sets sail on the ketch Nonsuch on a trade voyage to Hudson Bay, after convincing a group of London merchants to back him; the trading voyage will be a success, leading to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670.
1995 New York City -Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a #1 pop chart hit with his Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
1994 London England - Queen Elizabeth unveils war memorial in Green Park to honour Canadians who fought and died in both world wars.
1990 Hull Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- meets Premiers over dinner at the Canadian Museum of Civilization to discuss the Meech Lake Accord; meeting stretches to week long closed-door conference, but Newfoundland and Manitoba will be unable to keep their part of the bargain.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Official opening of SkyDome, Toronto's $500 million domed stadium; 50,000 baseball fans soaked by rain when retractable roof opens.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises Petroleum Compensation Charge by $1.25 per barrel; to offset drop in value of Canadian dollar; Lougheed levy raised $1.10.
1972 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young's Old Man peaks at #31 on the pop singles chart.
1972 Vancouver BC - Mob of 2,000 fans fail to crash a Rolling Stones rock concert; 31 policemen injured before crowd dispersed.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Ontario stops construction of Spadina Expressway in Toronto, after strong civic opposition; construction started in 1964.
1970 Romania - Canada grants up to $7.5 million in relief assistance to flood victims in Romania.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Mint to replace silver in coins with a nickel alloy, beginning in August.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares 12 Mile Limit; (19.3 km) exclusive fisheries zone off the Canadian coast; effective May, 1964.
1961 Regina Saskatchewan - Temperatures soar above 32 degrees to start 10 day Prairie heat wave.
1959 Washington DC - US President Eisenhower bounces a message off the moon to Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker.
1955 Vancouver BC - CP Airlines starts first Vancouver-Amsterdam service over North Pole.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - Haile Selassie I Emperor of Ethiopia starts four-day visit to Canada.
1953 London England - Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 attends six-day meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers.
1948 Newfoundland - First Newfoundland referendum returns 69,000 votes for self-government, 64,000 for union with Canada; 22,000 for no change (colonial status).
1935 Vancouver BC - 1,000 unemployed men board freight cars in Vancouver to begin the On to Ottawa protest trek.
1934 London England - Dr. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, knighted by King George V.
1922 Niagara Falls Ontario - Lt.-Gov. Harold Cockshutt unveils the Memorial Tower, designed by architect Charles Wilmott, to honor Niagara residents killed during the First World War.
1918 Quebec - Post office starts new airmail service linking Montreal and Quebec City with Boston and New York.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet sets up Board of Pension Commissioners to administer naval and military pensions.
1909 Ottawa Ontario - W.L. Mackenzie King sworn in as first Canada's Deputy Minister of Labour.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa carpenters go on strike for higher wages and union certification.
1889 Saint John New Brunswick - First Canadian Pacific train beyond Montreal arrives in the ice-free port of Saint John, marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a coast to coast railway.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier elected Leader of the Liberal Party.
1885 Steele Narrows Saskatchewan - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 leads the NWMP detachment against Big Bear, but the Cree leader again escapes; last military engagement fought on Canadian soil.
1876 London England - Montreal team introduces the sport of lacrosse to Britain.
1866 Fort Erie Ontario - George Peacocke leads British regulars and Canadian militia to relieve Fort Erie; O'Neill's Fenians escape across the border, meeting a heroes' welcome.
1856 Windsor Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia government opens the Windsor Branch Railway from Windsor to Windsor Junction; oldest constituent of the Dominion Atlantic Railway.
1813 Kingston Ontario - James Yeo 1782-1818 leaves for Niagara with reinforcements, stores and 300 soldiers.
1799 PEI Canada - Island of St. John officially proclaimed as Prince Edward Island.
1789 Fort Chipewyan NWT - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sets out from Fort Chipewyan down the Slave River, to find a way to ship furs to the west coast; the Yellowknife Indians will tell him of a river flowing northwest from Great Slave Lake, and he will travel down the Mackenzie River, reaching the Arctic Delta on July 10; a North West Company partner.
1778 Montreal Quebec - First issue of the Literary Gazette (Gazette Littéraire) published; will become the Montreal Gazette.
1753 Montreal Quebec - Louis La Corne 1703-1761 sets out to command western fur trading posts; builds Fort St-Louis on the Saskatchewan.
1753 Montreal Quebec - Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais Youville 1701-1771 gets the administration of 'Hôpital Général de Montréal transferred permanently to the Grey Nuns.
1658 France - François de Laval 1623-1688 appointed vicar apostolic in New France by the Pope.
1620 Quebec Quebec - Récollets lay cornerstone of Notre-Dame-des-Anges; both a church and a monastery, it is today the oldest stone church in French North America.
1613 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 reaches site of Ottawa.
1608 Tadoussac Quebec Canada - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Tadoussac with Etienne Brulé his third voyage to New France.

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June 4th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1039 – Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1745 – Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
1783 РThe Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfi̬re (hot air balloon).
1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1794 – British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
1802 – Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1825 – General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
1859 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1872 – Ottoman Holiday: In honor of a popular thespian, known for comedy, pranks are pulled on friends and colleagues.
1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.
1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1932 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'etat establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
1939 – Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
1957 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
1961 – In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
1965 – Duane Earl Pope robs the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution-style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime later puts Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
1967 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army.
1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2001 – Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
2004 – Marvin Heemeyer's eventually suicidal protest rampage with an improvised bulletproofed bulldozer destroys 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, including the town hall.
2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
2012 – The Diamond Jubilee Concert is held outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall, London. Organised by Gary Barlow, the concert is part of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1976 CANADA TAKES CHARGE OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF
Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares 370 km (200 nautical mile) offshore fisheries jurisdiction zone, effective Jan 1, 1977; Canada to set numbers of fish harvested and quotas for foreign fleets.

1979
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- takes office as Canada's 16th Prime Minister one day before his 40th birthday; succeeds Pierre Trudeau, PM since April 20, 1968. Canada's youngest PM, and the first native westerner to serve as Prime Minister, Clark includes in his cabinet the first black minister (Lincoln Alexander) and the youngest ever cabinet minister (Perrin Beatty, 29).
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark's Referendum Bill passed by the Commons; most NDP and Bloc Quebecois opposed; says he will prefer to get provincial agreement instead.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Diane Francis appointed Editor of the Financial Post, replacing John Godfrey.
1990 Moncton New Brunswick - Daniel Maston charged with spiking a lunch room cooler with radioactive heavy water; exposing 8 co-workers to high radiation when they drank the water.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney calls first ministers conference in final push to get unanimous support for Meech Lake Accord before June 23 deadline for ratification.
1989 Boston Massachusetts - Red Sox leading Blue Jays 10-0 in the seventh inning, Jays take the game 12-11 in the 12th; their 12th consecutive victory at Fenway Park.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Prince Edward arrives in Canada for a week-long visit.
1988 Saskatchewan/ Manitoba - Start of week-long, record-breaking heatwave on the Prairies.
1984 Alliston Ontario - Honda Canada Inc. starts building $100 million factory in Alliston; to produce 40,000 cars annually.
1983 Cincinnati Ohio USA - Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers one of 19 Canadians killed as Air Canada DC-9, flying from Texas to Toronto, catches fire and has an emergency landing; 23 of 46 passengers and crew die of smoke and flames due to a fire caused by smoking in a washroom.
1980 Hartford Connecticut - Gordie Howe announced his retirement as a player at age 52.
1979 Sudbury Ontario - 12,000 Inco workers at Sudbury end 12-month strike; accept three-year contract.
1975 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick Supreme Court overturns monopoly convictions against K. C. Irving Ltd. and others.
1969 Quebec City/Toronto - Ontario and Quebec form permanent Commission for Ontario-Quebec Co-operation.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Attorney General Claude Wagner sworn in as Quebec's first Minister of Justice.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Achmed Sukarno President of Indonesia, starts two-day visit to Ottawa.
1944 France - Bomber Command starts operations against railheads and coastal batteries as a prelude to D-Day.
1940 London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill says Britain will 'fight on alone' if necessary; with the Commonwealth.
1940 France - RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron posted to France.
1940 Dunkirk France - Dunkirk evacuation completed; 340,000 Allied troops get safely to Britain; Canadians recross Channel with only six men missing.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Mayor of Winnipeg mobilizes protest against Winnipeg General Strike.
1907 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Lt.-Gov. Sir William Mortimer Clark opens the Memorial Hall at Niagara; first building in Ontario constructed for use solely as an historical museum.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Fitzpatrick 1853-1942 appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1868 London England - British government tells Canada it will not let Nova Scotia withdraw from Confederation.
1851 Prince Regent's NWT - William Kennedy and Joseph-René Bellot sail the Prince Regent to Prince Regent's Inlet to search for Franklin; Bellot a French naval officer.
1843 Victoria BC - Founding of the town of Victoria, British Columbia.
1812 Washington DC - Congress votes for war against Britain; the War of 1812 begins June 18, when President James Madison officially proclaims the U.S. to be at war.
1792 Washington USA - Capt. George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
1765 Mackinaw Michigan - Alexander Henry 1739-1824 appointed Captain of western trading posts, with headquarters at Michilimackinac.
1763 Mackinaw Michigan - Chippewas captured Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1760 Nova Scotia - Twenty-two ships carrying New England planters arrive in Nova Scotia to take land forcibly vacated by the Acadians.
1742 Quebec Quebec - Le Canada launched; first French warship built in Canada sails for Rochefort, France.
1671 Sault Ste Marie Ontario - Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson d1677 takes possession of lands around Sault Ste. Marie and claims Huron and Superior areas for France; sent by Jean Talon to do a survey of the area.
1534 PEI - Prince Edward Island sighted by Jacques Cartier.

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June 5th 2013 - This Date in History.

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70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salermo.
1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
1837 – Houston, Texas, is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
1941 – Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
1942 – World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
1944 – World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
1963 – The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1967 – The Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 – The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
1976 – The collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, in the United States.
1977 – A coup takes place in Seychelles.
1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1984 – The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
1989 – The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1993 – Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
1995 – The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
2000 – The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
2012 – The Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, becomes the first U.S. Governor to survive a recall election.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1895 DAVIN PROPOSES VOTE FOR WOMEN
Ottawa Ontario - Regina MP Nicholas Flood Davin 1843-1901 introduces a motion in the House of Commons giving women the vote; it is soundly defeated.

1813
Stoney Creek Ontario - John Harvey 1778-1852 makes surprise attack with 700 British regulars of the 8th and 49th Regiments and some Canadian militia against 2,000 strong American force under Brigadiers William Winder and John Chandler at Stoney Creek; Americans withdraw toward Forty Mile Creek after midnight; War of 1812.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization says cod stocks at lowest level ever; suggests cutting catch to 50,000 tonnes; half caught already.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company to change 8 remaining Simpsons stores to Bay, selling 5 others to Sears; store founded in 1872 in Toronto.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays lose 5-3 against the Milwaukee Brewers in their first game in the SkyDome; first pitch by Jimmy Key to Paul Molitor a curve-ball strike (ball sent to the Baseball Hall Of Fame).
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Government tables white paper calling for 15 year expenditure of $200 billion on defence, including ten nuclear submarines.
1984 Lloydminster Saskatchewan - Husky Oil Ltd. starts $3.2 billion heavy oil upgrader backed by Ottawa, Alberta and Saskatchewan; largest energy project since 1978 slow in getting off the ground.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Federal and provincial Finance Ministers start two-day meeting; agree to limit inflation; more funds to poorer provinces.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting dimes and quarters to pure nickel as soon as possible; to head off silver speculators and hoarding.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Edwin Godfrey Newman first native Indian appointed a magistrate.
1966 Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 leads Union Nationale to victory in Quebec provincial election; will only serve two years of the mandate before his death.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald's home Earnscliffe declared a National Historic Site; residence of British High Commissioner.
1944 Normandy France - D-DAY-1; Soldiers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, part of British 6th Airborne Division's 3rd brigade make advance overnight landing before D-Day; "C" company lands in the most easterly drop-zone near Varville, blows up a bridge across the Divette River, destroying a German strong-point and then moves back four miles to the village of le Mesnil.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet declares 16 Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal under wartime emergency legislation; jails leaders.
1897 Quebec Quebec - Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier sails to England to attend Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; he will return knighted as Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
1884 Montana - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906, accompanied by with Michel Dumas, Moise Ouelette, and James Isbister, visits Louis Riel in Montana, where he is teaching; after several days of discussion, he agrees to return to help the Metis protect their rights.
1876 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada holds its first sitting; presiding is William Richards, first chief justice, appointed Oct. 1875.
1854 Washington DC - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 signs Reciprocity Treaty with US negotiator William Marcy; opens U.S. to natural produce only in return for freedom of operation on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; begins Oct 15; leads to great prosperity in the Canadas, until it is canceled by the Americans in March 1866.
1817 Kingston Ontario - Launching of steamship Frontenac; first steamer on the Great Lakes makes its inaugural trip west to the town of York.
1798 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Second session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 5; sets up county system; makes valid marriages performed by non-Anglicans.
1741 Siberia - Vitus Jonassen Bering 1681-1741 sails from Kamchatka Peninsula to explore Alaska.
1673 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 requires coureurs de bois to give notice if they leave settlement to trade for more than two days; royal decree to control independent traders makes them divert trade south.
1613 Cobden Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 loses his astrolabe near Lac des Chats on the Ottawa River; one such instrument, supposedly found on June 7, 1867, is not old enough to be Champlain's.

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June 6th 2013 - This Date in History.

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Events:C/P.


1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops
1513 – Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1523 – Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected king of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
1644 – The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
1654 – Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav. The reasons for her abdication are that she wants to become a catholic (which is forbidden in the strictly Protestant Sweden) and does not want to marry to produce an heir to the throne.
1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire, is crowned.
1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.
1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.
1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1822 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
1832 – The June Rebellion of Paris is put down by the National Guard.
1833 – The U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden–Norway.
1859 – Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1889 – The Great Seattle fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
1892 – Chicago 'L' (commuter rail system) begins operation
1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1909 РFrench troops capture Ab̩ch̩ (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 – New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven original teams.
1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
1971 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1981 – Bihar train disaster: a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
1982 – The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under the Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee", eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
2002 – Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
2008 – The Comcast Center officially opens, making it the tallest building in Philadelphia.
2012 – The Siege of Al-Qubeir ends Syrian forces defeat terrorists separtists that had held the city, Syria, killing 78 people.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1994 VETS CELEBRATE D-DAY ANNIVERSARY
Normandy France - Canadians join a contingent of 35,000 WW II Allied veterans (and even some Germans) commemorating the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France.

1944
Normandy France - D-DAY: Operation Overlord's 60-mile front opens a new campaign in western Europe as about 14,000 Canadian soldiers join in the landing on Juno beach between Courseulles and St-Aubin-sur-Mer. RCN minesweepers help clear the lanes in, and RCAF bombers and fighters help soften up the German defenses. The main task of the Canadian Army is to push through the gap between Bayeux and Caen. The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion red berets were part of the advance landing during the night, capturing a bridge near Caen with the British. At about 7:40 am, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd and 3rd Armoured, under Major-General R. F. L. Keller, start landing in rough seas. The 8th Brigade capture Bernières-sur-Mer [in the picture] by 9:30 am but mines and German anti-tank guns hold up the advance inland, creating a traffic jam in the village streets; they take Bény by evening. The 7th Brigade captures Courseulles, Ste-Croix and Banville, with heavy losses. The 9th Brigade make it through Bény to Villons-les-Buissons, less than four miles from Caen, and nearly at their goal - Carpiquet airport. Canadian casualties that day are less than expected - 715 wounded, 359 dead.

1891
Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 dies at Earnscliffe at 10:15 on a Saturday night; the bells of Ottawa toll 76 times for Canada's first Prime Minister; he will be buried in Kingston, Ontario, where he came as a boy from Scotland. The picture shows him in his final year in the House of Commons.
1996 Denver Colorado -Peter Forsberg of the Avalanche scores a hat trick in the first period of Colorado's 8-1 win over Florida to take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals; sixth player in Stanley Cup finals history to score three goals in a period. Colorado's Joe Sakic also had three assists in the second period tying a finals record.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Belgian Brewer Omterbrew offers $2.7 billion for John Labatt Ltd., owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Argonauts, the SkyDome and Labatt's brewery.
1993 New York City - Canadian production of Kiss of the Spiderwoman awarded seven Tonys; Brent Carver named best actor in a musical.
1992 Rio de Janeiro Brazil - John Crosbie welcomes 180-nation accord on sustainable fishing on the high seas; at UN Environmental Conference - the Earth Summit.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules 6-1 that public servants can work on election campaigns; except for top bureaucrats, who must remain neutral.
1990 Modena Italy - John Ralston Saul wins Italian book award, the Premio Litterario Internazionale Citta di Modena, for his adventure novel The Paradise Eater; published in English in 1988; Ottawa native.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland House of Assembly rescinds approval of the Meech Lake Accord; government of Clyde Wells essentially kills the Accord, which needed unanimous provincial assent.
1979 Vancouver BC - BC Iongshoremen start 13-day strike, disrupting prairie wheat shipments.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Ontario announces plans to examine health hazards in gold and uranium mines.
1973 Alert Bay BC - Raising of the world's tallest totem pole, at 173 feet.
1973 Eastport Maine - Canada bans US oil tankers from Canadian waters to reach planned oil refinery at Eastport, Maine.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts program to help illegal immigrants become Canadian citizens; about 50,000 apply for landed immigrant status before Oct 15 deadline.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes resolution for bilingual federal public service by 1978.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Black Watch of Canada retired from battle order.
1966 Toronto Ontario - Presbyterian Church in Canada agreed to ordination of women as elders and ministers.
1957 Toronto Ontario - CBC TV program Front Page Challenge first broadcast.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes the Trans-Canada pipeline bill.
1945 Montreal Quebec - Provisional civil aviation organization established by 26 UN countries, including Canada.
1929 Ottawa Ontario - CNR takes over Kent Northern; Inverness Ry & Coal Co; Montreal & Southern; Quebec Oriental; Atlantic, Quebec & Western; Saint John and Quebec railways.
1929 Saskatchewan - Conservatives win Saskatchewan provincial election.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Government incorporates the Canadian National Railways Company; consolidating the Canadian Northern and Canadian Government Railways.
1910 Rome Italy - Canada signs reciprocity agreements with Italy; mutual tariff reductions.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 takes office on Macdonald's death; a Senator; Prime Minister to Nov. 24, 1892; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister, and first native-born PM.
1891 Cornwall Ontario - Cornwall hit by a tornado that destroys 500 homes.
1879 Toronto Ontario - Northern Railway of Canada becomes part of the Northern and Northwestern Railway, now part of Canadian National.
1861 Niagara Falls Ontario - Maid of the Mist the first vessel to navigate the Niagara River's whirlpool rapids.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Alessandro Gavazzi foments riots in Quebec after lecturing in the Presbyterian Church on the 'errors of Rome'; former Italian priest.
1829 St. John's Newfoundland - Shanawdithit dies; last known survivor of the Beothuk Indians.
1821 Montreal Quebec - Laying of cornerstone of Montreal General Hospital.
1813 Stoney Creek Ontario - Lt.-Col. John Harvey finishes victory over two brigades of invading Americans, who retreat to Fort George by June 8; War of 1812.
1771 Quebec Quebec - Hector Theophilus Cremahé 1720-1788 appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec; serves from Sept. 26, 1771 to May 23,1782.
1707 Annapolis Nova Scotia - John March 1658-1712 attacks Port-Royal; Massachusetts militia colonel.
1543 La Malbaie Quebec - Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval 1500-1560 explores a short distance up the Saguenay River.


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June 7th 2013 - This Date in History.

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Events:C/P.


421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding is celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
1099 – The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli.
1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1880 РWar of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campa̱a del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1893 – Mohandas Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 – Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav, and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign the Ninth-of-May Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1967 – Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.
1977 – 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins.
1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
1998 – James Byrd, Jr., of Texas is killed when white supremacists drag him behind a pickup truck along an asphalt pavement.
2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is killed in an airstrike by the United States Air Force.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1944 PANZER SS SHOOT CANADIAN POWS IN COLD BLOOD
Normandy France - D-DAY + 1; the 3rd Canadian Division, 9th Canadian Brigade, North Novas with the Sherbrooke tanks for support, and some Cameron Highlander machine-gunners, push through Buron and Authie toward Capriquet airport, 3 miles west of Caen; lose naval gunfire support, pass out of range of Canadian artillery, and lose contact with a British brigade ordered elsewhere; Lt Col Petch decides to withdraw to higher ground, but C company attacked by the German 12th SS Panzer at Authie, just North of Caen-Bayeux road; 250 North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 60 Sherbrooke Fusilier tankmen are killed or captured; 23 Canadian POWs are executed that night by the Panzers.

1866
Frelighsburg Quebec - Fenian leader Spier leads 1,800 raiders across the border; they loot around Pigeon Hill; plunder St-Armand and Frelighsburg, then retreat when the Canadian militia cavalry arrive and attack them [in the picture]; US troops later seize their supplies at St. Alban's, and they retreat south.
1996 Quebec Quebec - Quebec's Chief Electoral Officer charges 11 business and student organizations, some in Ontario, with violating the referendum law.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Benoit Bouchard announces $435,000 aid program for Oka to help rebuild battered economy after 78 day standoff with the Mohawks.
1989 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky wins his ninth NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Ernie Whitt has three hits and drives in three runs as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 in their first game in the SkyDome, before a crowd of more than 45-thousand; first game in major league history played indoors and outdoors in the same day; with rain threatening in the fifth inning, operators start closing the $100 million retractable roof at 8:48 pm, finishing 34 minutes later, too late to prevent a short game delay.
1962 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives in Canada with Queen Mother for l0-day visit.
1956 Niagara Falls Ontario - Two-thirds of an Ontario Hydro power generating station collapses into the Niagara River gorge, about a kilometre below the Falls.
1950 New York City - Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo and his orchestra have a #1 hit with their recording of The Third Man Theme.
1939 Niagara Falls Ontario - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, leave Canada after their Royal Tour and make the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
1909 New York City - Toronto born actress Mary Pickford makes her motion picture debut in The Violin Maker of Cremona.
1904 Ottawa Ontario - Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton, Earl Dundonald 1852-1935 dismissed as Commander-in-Chief of military forces in Canada for criticizing the Minister of Militia; end of practice of Imperial officers commanding the forces in Canada.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 elected leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing Edward Blake; later Canada's 7th Prime Minister.
1886 Rome Italy - Montreal Bishop Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau 1820-1898 created Canada's first Roman Catholic cardinal by Pope Leo XIII.
1862 Washington DC - United States and Britain sign a mutual treaty to suppress the slave trade..
1834 Back River NWT - George Back descends the Back River to Chantry Inlet on the Arctic coast, then returns to Fort Reliance; learns of Ross' safe return to England.
1832 Quebec Quebec - Irish Immigrants arrive aboard the sailing ship Carrick from Dublin; a government inspector lets the vessel leave the quarantine station, but some of the Irish have Asian cholera, which soon spreads in Quebec and Montreal; the resulting epidemic kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Dedication of Notre-Dame Church on the Place d'Armes.
1824 Quebec Quebec - Francis Burton appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves until Sept. 16, 1825.
1819 Toronto Ontario - Opening of fourth session of seventh Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until July 12; authorizes land grants to war veterans.
1816 British Columbia - James Keith 1784-1851 put in charge of the North West Company's Fort George and coastal district, as the NWC divides the Columbia district in two; Donald McKenzie 1783-1851 put in charge of the inland district.
1800 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River.
1776 Trois Rivières Quebec - Arthur St. Clair 1734-1818 skirmishes with the British at Three Rivers; the American invaders are beaten back the next day by Simon Fraser and the 24th Regiment.
1689 Paris France - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 reappointed Governor of New France, with instructions to capture Hudson Bay and New York; recalled seven years earlier.
1677 Ontario - Olivier Morel de La Durantaye 1640-1716 claims the Lake Erie-Huron area for France.
1654 Paris France - Louis XIV crowned King of France.
1586 North Atlantic - John Davis c1543-1605 sends the Sunneshine and North Starre to look for a passage between Iceland and Greenland.
1585 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sails on the Sunneshine and Mooneshine, with Queen Elizabeth's royal patent to discover the North West Passage.
1576 Bristol England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sails on the Gabriel and Michael to search for the North West Passage; licensed by the Muscovy Company; backed by Elizabeth I and London merchants; will sight Greenland, and name Frobisher Bay after himself.

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68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
218 – Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1776 РAmerican Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivi̬res РAmerican attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivi̬res, Quebec.
1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.



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1944 D-DAY+2 - MORE MURDERS OF CANADIAN POWS
Caen France -Canadians move inland from Juno beach; Rommel orders Kurt Meyer's 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to attack the Canadian 7th Brigade at Putot-en-Basin (8 kms west of Caen). They cross the railway and outflank the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, destroying the three forward companies; the rest withdraw, leaving their wounded behind; the Canadian Scottish, Canscots and 1st Hussars then use an artillery barrage from the 12th and 13th field regiments to retake Putot, but Meyer counter-attacks with 22 Panther tanks, the Regina Rifles fight a night-long battle, and hold. During these fights, the SS murder several Canadian POWs, including six Winnipeg Rifles, and a Red Cross stretcher-bearer, who are ordered into a wood and shot in the temple; 13 more Canadians are executed within 100 yards of the Command post; the bodies of 7 more are found near-by, all shot in the head with small arms; finally, 40 Winnipegs and Cameron Highlanders are marched into a field, ordered to sit together with the wounded at their centre, and machine gunned; 5 escape.

1685
Quebec Quebec - Jacques de Meulles d1703 uses card money to pay soldiers during a coin shortage; the playing cards are used whole, or cut into halves and quarters; redeemed in 1718, but in common use until the inflations of the 1750s.

1995
Ontario - Mike Harris wins Ontario election for the Progressive Conservatives, defeating Bob Rae of the NDP, in power since 1990; takes 82 out of 130 seats.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Space Agency chooses 4 new astronauts from 5,300 applicants; Chris Hadfield, aviation systems specialist, Air Force Major, age 32; Julie Payette, computer engineer with Bell-Northern Research; Montreal native, age 28; Robert Stewart, geophysicist with University of Calgary; Calgary native, age 37; Dafydd Williams, Toronto physician, age 37.
1991 Calgary Alberta - Jack Pierce dies at 67 during a cattle roundup at his Turner Valley ranch; founder of Ranger Oil in the 1950s.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts two-month public service hiring freeze.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Gilbert LaBine dies, discoverer of pitchblende at Great Bear Lake, and developer of what is now the Eldorado refinery at Port Hope, Ont., where the U-235 for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was made.
1976 Inuvik NWT - Thomas Berger 1933- ends hearings into social and environmental effects of the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline; Justice of the BC Supreme Court.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Leger 1913-1980 suffers a stroke; administrative duties taken by Chief Justice.
1972 London England - Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972 receives Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth; former Prime Minister.
1968 Orillia Ontario - Former residence of Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 at Brewery Bay near Orillia designated a national monument.
1968 London England - James Earl Ray suspected assassin of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. arrested four days after the murder traveling with two forged Canadian passports.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Ludwig Erhard Chancellor of West Germany arrives in Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Pearson.
1944 Atlantic - Flight Officer K. O. Moore, piloting a Canadian Liberator bomber, destroys two German U-Boats in 22 minutes.
1940 Montreal Quebec - RCAF's No. 1 Fighter Squadron leaves for Britain.
1927 Ontario - Canada protests immigration quotas applied to Canadians crossing border to take US jobs.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates office of Dominion Fuel Controller.
1900 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island passes Canada's first prohibition law.
1893 Victoria BC - Steamship Miowera arrives in Victoria from Sydney, Australia; first steamer of the Canadian Australian Line.
1886 Montreal Quebec - Édouard-Charles Fabre 1827-1896 appointed first Archbishop of Montreal.
1881 Montreal Quebec - Montreal fire destroys 642 houses.
1866 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the fifth session of the eighth Parliament of Canada; meets until Aug. 15; last session as the Province of Canada.
1866 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet suspends writ of Habeas Corpus for one year; to capture persons suspected of complicity in Fenian invasions.
1859 Victoria BC - British Columbia establishes the BC Supreme Court.
1843 Toronto Ontario - John Strachan 1778-1867 enrolls first students in King's College, predecessor of the University of Toronto; first President; later founds Trinity College.
1826 Toronto Ontario - Tory youths dump printing press of William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 into Toronto Bay; he had angered the Family Compact with articles in his newspaper, the Colonial Advocate.
1824 Quebec Quebec - Noah Cushing receives a patent for a washing and fulling machine; first patent issued in Canada.
1813 Stoney Creek Ontario - James Yeo 1782-1818 arrives off Forty Mile Creek with a fleet from Kingston with reinforcements after the Battle of Stoney Creek; American invaders under Winder and Chandler retreat toward Niagara.
1790 Windsor Nova Scotia - King's College opens at Windsor, Nova Scotia; founded by a group of Loyalist scholars from what is now Columbia University in New York; gets Royal Charter in 1802; later moves to Halifax.
1776 Trois Rivières Quebec - Simon Fraser leads 24th Regiment in beating back St. Clair's American invaders at Three Rivers.
1736 Lake of the Woods Ontario - Jean-Baptiste Gaultier de La Vérendrye 1714-1736 and 20 of his men are massacred by a Sioux raiding party near Fort St. Charles in the Lake of the Woods; son of Pierre; dead include Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau (1705-1736).
1731 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Vérendrye 1685-1749 leaves Montreal with three sons Jean-Baptiste, Pierre, and François and 50 men to explore and trade in the west; with nephew Christophe Dufrost de La Jemerais (1708-1736).
1542 St. John's Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves Charlesbourg after a difficult winter; 35 Frenchmen may have been killed by Iroquois; meets Roberval in Nfld.; refuses order to join him and returns to France.

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411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
53 – The Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
68 – The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
1311 – Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
1772 РThe British schooner Gasp̩e is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set.
1856 – Five-hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1873 – Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
1885 – A peace treaty is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in a British prison under mysterious circumstances.
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1924 – In the second attempt to climb Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappear, possibly having first made it to the top.
1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1946 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1957 – First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW) in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
1965 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quat, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1968 – The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
1973 – In horseracing, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
1974 – Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
1979 – The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) kills seven.
1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon. He will not be released until 1991.
1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
2006 – 60th Anniversary Celebrations of Bhumibol Adulyadej's Accession.
2007 – In horseracing, Rags to Riches was the first filly in 106 years to win the Belmont Stakes Belmont Stakes.
2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding, breaking the dam holding the lake back.



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1977 JOEY RESIGNS
St. John's Newfoundland -Joey Smallwood resigns from the House of Assembly; Newfoundland Premier 1949-72; brought the province into Confederation in 1949.

1944
Norrey France -D-Day +3; Kurt Meyer withdraws his defeated 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to Rots, then throws his last fresh Panther tank company in broad daylight against the Regina Rifles position at Norrey; but the 17-pounder Sherman Firefly tanks of the 1st Hussars drive him back. Later in the day, the Queens Own Rifles and 1st Hussars capture the village of Le Mesnil-Patry, seven miles forward of Norrey; attacked by 88s, they lose 19 of the Hussar Shermans in fifteen minutes; the Queen's Own Rifles have 87 casualties, the 1st Hussars 60. Later in the day, the SS executes 18 more Canadian POWs at Abbey d'Ardenne, Kurt Meyer's HQ, on his orders.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Inco Ltd. pays $700 million to buy 30% of Diamond Fields Resources Inc.'s metal deposit at Voisey Bay, Labrador; will eventually acquire control.
1993 Los Angeles California - Alexis Smith 1921-1993 dies; born Gladys Smith at Penticton, BC in 1921; Smith was a leading film actress in the 1940 and 1950s; also won a Tony for her performance in the Sondheim musical Follies (1971); played J. R. Ewing's enemy Lady Jessica Montford on the TV show Dallas from 1984 to 1990.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 to clinch their 24th Stanley Cup title in the 100th anniversary season; goalie Patrick Roy wins Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP.
1990 Hull Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- reaches compromise with 10 provincial Premiers over the Meech Lake Accord; series of agreement and add-ons.
1989 Cold Lake Alberta - Jane Foster and Deanna Brasseur pass course to become Canada's first two female fighter pilots available for combat roles; possibly the world's first.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada denies Newfoundland's 12-year quest for a better contract with Quebec for power from the Churchill Falls Hydro project.
1984 Halifax Nova Scotia - Fleet of tall ships arrives at Halifax; celebrating the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's discovery of Quebec; will visit several Canadian cities before arriving at Quebec.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Pittsburgh Penguins pick Mario Lemieux as their number one draft choice in the NHL Entry draft.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- decides with the 10 Premiers that federal-provincial ministers will negotiate a list of 12 items of constitutional change; announces the next day that Ottawa might act unilaterally.
1979 Vancouver BC - Fred (Cyclone) Taylor dies; born at Tara, Ont. June 23, 1885; played for the Ottawa Senators (1908), the Renfrew Millionaires (1909-11) and the Vancouver Millionaires (1913-21), scoring 194 goals in 186 games; elected first living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame at the charter meeting in 1947.
1973 Belmont New York - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat to victory in the 105th Belmont Stakes in a world record time for a 1 1/2 mile course (2:24) and a record for the largest margin of victory in the Belmont (31 lengths); also takes horse racing's Triple Crown, the first winner in 25 years.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa founds Canada Development Corporation; to help develop Canadian-owned and managed companies.
1969 British Columbia - BC Premier W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 dedicates the Keenleyside Dam on the Columbia River.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Canadian political party leaders debate policy on television for the first time (Pierre Trudeau, Robert Stanfleld, Tommy Douglas and RŽal Caouette).
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends wartime control and rationing of dairy products.
1942 Valetta Malta - George 'Buzz' Beurling 1921-1948 reaches Malta; starts rise to top rank of Canadian fighter pilots; the Montrealer will shoot down 15 enemy aircraft while with the Royal Air Force.
1935 Richmond Hill Ontario - First observations made at the University of Toronto's David Dunlap Observatory.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg City Council dismisses Police Force during Winnipeg General Strike.
1900 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island first province to bring in prohibition; not repealed until 1948.
1866 Sherbrooke Quebec - British Army soldier Timothy O'Hea enters a burning Grand Trunk Railway boxcar, rips the lids from munition boxes, and douses the flames with buckets of water; the Irish Private will become the only person to earn the Victoria Cross for an incident In Canada.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Alessandro Gavazzi foments another riot in Montreal; troops fire on crowd, leaving ten dead; former Italian priest.
1846 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton gets city charter.
1846 St. John's Newfoundland - Fire destroys the wharves and most of the houses in St. John's, leaving thousands of people homeless.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 appoints Legislative Council of 24 members, which holds its first meeting on June 11.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Thirty Montrealers 'take the pledge' to abstain from alcohol at first temperance meeting in Canada.
1818 Quebec Quebec - founding of the Bank of Quebec, with £75,000 in capital.
1793 Toronto Ontario - Assembly passes law prohibiting the importation of slaves into Upper Canada.
1790 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 leaves Cumberland House to survey the Saskatchewan River.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 proclaims martial law and calls out militia to augment 800 British regular troops; suspends administration of the Quebec Act to meet the American invasion.
1643 Montreal Quebec - Iroquois ambush and kill five farmers and inhabitants of Montreal.
1537 Rome Italy - Pope Paul III declares in his encyclical Veros homines that 'Indians are human beings, with the qualities and faults of human beings.'
1534 Quebec - Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Laurence River; looking for gold and a northwest passage to the Orient; names the river for St. Lawrence on his feast day.

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1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1329 – The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
1523 - Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
1539 – Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 РSigning of the Treaty of Compi̬gne between France and the Netherlands.
1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1719 – Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1838 – Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1854 – The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1898 – Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
1912 – The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, IA.
1916 – The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 – Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1940 – World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 – World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be sucked from the cockpit, no one dies.
1991 – The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
1996 РPeace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn F̩in.
1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.


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1937 BORDEN DEAD AT 83
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 dies at age 83; Canada's 8th Prime Minister; June 26 1854, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia; called to Nova Scotia Bar in 1878; Leader of the Opposition 1901-1911; 1901-1920 Conservative Party Leader; 1911-1917 Prime Minister; 1917-1920 led Union Government (coalition of pro-conscription Liberals and Conservatives).

1957
Canada - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 wins a minority in the 23rd Canadian federal election with 40.9% of popular vote; takes 112 seats to 105 for Louis St. Laurent's Liberals; 25 CCF; 19 Social Credit; 4 others; PM to 1963; first Conservative victory in 27 years.
1996 Miami Florida -Colorado Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy makes 63 saves for his third post season shutout, and Uwe Krupp scores at 4:31 of the third overtime, as the Avs beat the Florida Panthers 1-0 in triple overtime to take their first Stanley Cup with a four-game sweep; third longest game in Stanley Cup finals history.
1992 New York City - International Court of Arbitration gives France control zone of 24 nautical miles around St-Pierre-Miquelon; plus 10.5 mile corridor from sea; only 18% of what France wanted.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - David Croll dies at 91; MPP 1934, MP 1945; Senate 1955; chaired committees on aging, credit and poverty; immigrated from Russia in 1905.
1990 Fredericton New Brunswick - Frank McKenna passes Meech Lake accord in the provincial legislature after his concerns are addressed in a compromise meeting.
1985 London England - Toronto financier Conrad Black acquires 14% of The Daily Telegraph newspaper for $17 million; will later win control.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- returns to Canada after tour of D-Day battlefields in Europe and 3-day Western summit in London.
1982 Montreal Quebec - CFL Montreal Concordes lose to Toronto in their first game; football team will later revert to former name, the Alouettes, but eventually fold.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Dome Petroleum buys Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas.
1979 NWT Canada - Energy, Mines, and Resources dismantles Project Lorex, or the Lomonsov Ridge Experiment; scientific station set up on the Arctic ice to study a submarine ocean range had drifted 240 km across the North Pole since April; Gov. Gen. Ed Schreyer, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made scuba dives from the project.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises export price of natural gas to the US by 21%.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament creates new Department of the Environment under a Minister of State; Canada also agrees in principle on a joint attack with the U.S. on pollution in the Great Lakes.
1966 Vancouver BC - CPR signs deal with National Harbours Board to end 30-year argument over Vancouver waterfront; enables development of waterfront.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Lal Bahadur Shastri Prime Minister of India arrives in Ottawa for a five-day visit.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - US President Harry S. Truman starts two-day visit to Ottawa; first president to pay a state visit to Canada.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King justifies his wartime policy by stating that the best approach is: 'Conscription if necessary but not necessarily conscription.'.
1940 Canada - Defence Minister Norman Rogers killed in a plane crash.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares war on Italy; the same day, Italy declares war on France and Britain; World War II.
1930 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the Winnipeg Rugby Football Club; today's Blue Bombers.
1925 Toronto Ontario - United Church of Canada holds first service under its new name; merger of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches.
1884 Montana - Louis Riel leaves his teaching post to return to Canada to lead what was to become the Northwest Rebellion.
1878 Victoria BC - Fort Rod Hill built to protect Esquimalt in the event of a war with Russia.
1857 Kingston Ontario - Canadian Assembly passes bill bringing in the American decimal (dollar) system of currency; goes into effect midnight, Dec. 31.
1857 Quebec - St. Hyacinthe and Trois-Rivières incorporated as cities.
1842 New York City - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 moves his family to New York to try and start a printing business.
1839 Canandaigua New York - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 sentenced to eighteen months in jail for violating US neutrality laws.
1838 Pelham Ontario - James Morreau leads a rebel raiding party across the Niagara River; attacks St. Johns, in Pelham Township June 11; gets as far as Short Hills by June 21.
1817 Toronto Ontario - Samuel Smith 1756-1826 appointed administrator of Upper Canada; serves from June 11, 1817 to Aug. 13, 1818.
1791 London England - Parliament passes the Constitutional Act, providing for the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, each with a separate legislature.
1650 Midland Ontario - Jesuits abandon Ile Saint-Joseph, their last mission in Huronia, established in 1623; return to Quebec carrying the bleached bones of two martyrs, Fathers Jean de Brébeuf and Jérôme Lalement, who had been tortured and killed by the Iroquois; Hurons also flee to Quebec, and settle at Lorette.
1611 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Pierre Biard c1567-1622 writes first recorded letter sent to France from the new world; Jesuit missionary at Port Royal.
1527 Gravesend England - Royal Navy captain John Rut, sent by Henry VIII, leaves on the Mary Guildford and the Samson on an expedition to find a passage to Asia; Samson lost at sea.


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1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
1345 – The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1488 – Battle of Sauchieburn: fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the King.
1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1594 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1770 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
1825 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
1865 – The Naval Battle of Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1898 – Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.
1898 – The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.
1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
1903 – Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
1907 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 – The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1944 – USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
1955 – Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1963 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionise American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segragation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.
1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1970 – After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
1971 – The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
1972 – The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.
1978 – Altaf Hussain founds the students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
1981 – A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
1982 – The Sentosa Musical Fountain was officially opened as part of the second phase of construction on the island of Sentosa, Singapore.
1998 – Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2004 – Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
2007 – Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.
2012 – Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide, which buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days of digging, only five bodies were recovered and the search was called off.


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1944 CANADIAN ADVANCE HALTED IN NORMANDY
Le-Mesnil-Patry France - D-Day +5; 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) and Queens Own try to outflank Carpiquet by moving from Norrey-en-Bessin through Le-Mesnil-Patry towards Cheux, but they meet heavy mortar, machine-gun and 88mm anti-tank gun fire from the 12th Panzer SS, slowing the Sherman tanks; only 2 that enter the town survive; 59 men are killed, 21 wounded; the Queen's Own also loses 55 killed and 44 wounded; in the 6 days of June 6-11, 1017 Canadians are killed in action and 1814 more are wounded.

1534
Brest Harbour Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 and his crew celebrate the first recorded Catholic mass in North America; Brest Harbour used by cod fishermen for wood and water; notes poverty of Labrador- not even 'a cartful of earth... this is the land that God gave to Cain'.

1983
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- chosen as party leader on 4th ballot by Progressive Conservatives, replacing interim leader Erik Neilsen; by 1,584 votes to Joe Clark's 1,324 on the 4th ballot; first PC leader from Quebec since Confederation.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- closes 3 months of constitutional talks; says all except Newfoundland like Senate reform ideas; suggests possible referendum.
1992 Martensville Saskatchewan - Police charge couple Ron and Linda Sterling and son Travis, 6 others with 170 counts of sexual assault, forcibly confining children; operators of unlicensed babysitting service; most charges quashed.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops calls for change to prevent sexual abuse by priests; says dioceses should check allegations, support victims.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- tells Globe & Mail interviewers he intended to stall the first ministers talks until the last minute; says it is important to know 'when to roll all the dice'.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells, who promised only to seek the judgment of the people of Newfoundland on the Meech Lake Accord, concedes there isn't time to arrange a referendum by June 23; told by Ottawa the deadline can't be extended, he opts for a free vote in the House of Assembly.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Stanley Waters named to Senate by P.M. Mulroney; after Don Getty promised no further elections until studies done; Getty held Canada's first Senate election in Oct 1989 to push reform.
1978 Temiskaming Ontario - High waves swamp canoeing expedition from St. John's school in Claremont, Ontario; 12 students and a teacher drowned in Lake Temiskaming on the Ontario-Quebec border.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Electoral boundary changes increase number of seats in House of Commons by 18 to 282; at next general election.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - National Energy Board cuts oil exports to the US by 12%.
1976 Vancouver BC - United Nations Habitat conference on human settlements ends in Vancouver.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $55 million in aid to flood victims on the Ottawa and Gatineau Rivers.
1971 Washington DC - Canada and US agree to pollution control program in the Great Lakes.
1966 San Diego California - Torontonian David Bailey 1945- first Canadian to break four-minute mile (3:59.1).
1964 Hungary - Canada and Hungarian People's Republic sign three-year trade pact; first between two countries in postwar era.
1962 Nelson BC - Start of preliminary hearing against 72 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors for incidents between 1958 and 1961; conspiracy charges will be dismissed August 7.
1945 Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 wins Canada's twentieth federal general election 125 seats to 67; CCF 28; Social Credit 13; Independents 12; defeats John Bracken with 40.9% of popular vote.
1943 Hot Springs Georgia - Canada signs international agreement on post-war relief; origin of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
1941 Ottawa Ontario - DBS issues census results, showing Canada's population has reached 11,506,655.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Princess Juliana of the Netherlands arrives in Canada to seek refuge during the Second World War; will settle in Ottawa.
1936 Quebec Quebec - Joseph-Adélard Godbout becomes Liberal Premier of Quebec.
1934 Flin Flon Manitoba - Miners in Flin Flon go on strike until July 14.
1931 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes to proclaim Remembrance Day, November 11, as a general holiday.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Borden's Union government introduces the Conscription Act in the Commons, then calls an election to get a mandate; election that followed passage of the bill one of the most divisive in Canadian history.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates the Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners, to be established in Regina.
1889 Toronto Ontario - D'Alton McCarthy 1836-1898 founds Equal Rights Association in Toronto to argue for repeal of Quebec's Jesuits Estate Act, claims government let Roman Catholic Church control political decision-making; Conservative MP backed by Orange Order also agitated against Catholic separate schools in Manitoba and the Northwest.
1847 King William Island NWT - Rear Admiral John Franklin 1786-1847 dies in his ice-bound ship; command goes to Francis Crozier; James Fitzjames second-in-Command; 14 others already dead; remainder sick from eating tainted canned rations.
1847 Lapierre House Yukon - Alexander Murray 1818-1874 sets out from Lapierre House on the Bell River to build Fort Yukon for the Hudson's Bay Company.
1782 Halifax Nova Scotia - William Black preaches his first sermon in Canada, as first Canadian Methodist minister.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Royal Highland Regiment soldiers issued two quarts of spruce beer daily.
1638 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Jesuit Relations describe first recorded earthquake in Canada; tremors for six months, from Gaspé to Montreal, but no casualties reported.
1636 Quebec Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 arrives in Quebec as Governor and Lieutenant General of New France; to 1648; first Governor in title; builds upper town; forbids French to sell firearms to Indians.
1611 Hudson Bay, off Northern Quebec - Hendrick Hudson's ship, the Half Moon freed from the ice; heads north for home.
1603 Saguenay Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 explores 56 km up Saguenay River; hears of salt sea to the north, but doesn't believe it is the Pacific.
1583 Plymouth England - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 leaves Plymouth on second voyage with five ships; Delight, Raleigh, Golden Hind, Swallow and Squirrel; chartered to search for the Northwest Passage, and a patent from the English crown to explore and colonize America.

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June 12th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1381 – Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1889 – 78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1940 – World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 – Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.



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1947 ON KING! ON YOU HUSKIES!!
New York City -First broadcast of radio show Sergeant Preston of The Yukon; about a Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King; continued until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958); show created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, originators of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

1758
Louisbourg Nova Scotia -
James Wolfe takes possession of the Light-House Point, destroyed and abandoned by Governor Drucour after the British landing on June 8; at 2 am, Major Scott marches with 500 Light Infantry and Rangers, making a sweep through the woods, in order to take the Light-House battery; Wolfe follows at 5 am, with four companies of Grenadiers, and 1200 men detached from the line; he will secure the area, bring in artillery by sea, and open fire on Louisbourg's Island battery on the night of the 19th.
1995 Quebec Quebec -Jacques Parizeau sets up Common Front for the Referendum with Lucien Bouchard of the Bloc Quebecois and Mario Dumont of the Liberal splinter group Parti de l'Action Democratique; Quebec Premier wants another sovereignty referendum in the Autumn; Bouchard insists on having a political and economic partnership with Canada as part of the question.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- and his CRTC rule 4-1 to let Unitel, BCRL compete in $7.5 billion long-distance market with phone companies; Chairman of Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.
1991 Toronto Ontario - US Trade Representative Carla Hills opens trilateral talks for North American Free Trade zone; Michael Wilson says culture will not be on the table.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Monique Landry announces $3 million bailout of World University Service of Canada; partly a CIDA loan; WUSC founded 1939 to send teachers to third world.
1991 Winnipeg Manitoba - Cree lawyer Ovide Mercredi beats Phil Fontaine, leader of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, on the fourth ballot, to become the new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, representing Canada's 500,000 status Indians; replaces George Erasmus in $85,000-a-year post; member of First Nations Circle on the constitution; Manitoba vice-chief since 1989.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Journalist Lise Bissonnette named Director (editor) of the Montreal daily Le Devoir.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper uses rules of procedure to block the introduction of the resolution ratifying the Meech Lake Accord in the Manitoba legislature; a Cree and NDP MLA, Harper forces the legislature to delay opening debate on the constitutional agreement, which eventually dies.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Patricia Starr charged along with the National Council of Jewish Women (Toronto section) of 71 counts of violating Ontario's election spending law; exceeding maximum allowed; former Liberal fund-raiser.
1986 Ontario - Ontario MDs strike to protest a government ban on extra-billing.
1985 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League Celebration of Excellence awards Wayne Gretsky his sixth Hart Trophy as MVP.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Premier William Davis says Ontario to give Roman Catholic separate schools the same status and funding as Ontario's public education system to Grade 13; previously only to Grade 10.
1983 Hollywood California - Norma Shearer dies at age 80; movie actress, model, born Edith Shearer at Montreal Aug. 10, 1902. Shearer's major role was in The Divorcee; she was the wife of studio executive Irving Thalberg.
1979 Toronto Ontario - Bobby Orr, Harry Howell and Henri Richard named to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts constitutional program entitled 'A Time For Action'; proposes charter of rights; plus repatriation of the constitution and an amending formula.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Progress Club sponsors 2-day Canadian Special Olympics for handicapped athletes.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Hall & Dennis issue Living and Learning report; suggest abolishing grades, percentage marks, corporal punishment; committee to examine Ontario educational system.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Harold Macmillan British Prime Minister addresses Parliament during visit to Ottawa.
1952 British Columbia - W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 invited to form a Social Credit minority government after BC provincial election.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and the U.S. sign two agreements to avoid double taxation of their citizens and to prevent income tax evasion.
1944 France - D-DAY +6; Canadian 3rd Division is withdrawn from battle for three weeks, until July 4, after mauling in Normandy.
1927 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dismisses appeal by Roman Catholics for separate schools in Ontario.
1903 Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls incorporated as a city.
1901 Montreal Quebec - City of Montreal passes by-law making indoor toilets compulsory.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Fire in a Montreal theatre kills 200 people.
1811 London England - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 completes purchase of 300-thousand square km of Red River land from the Hudson's Bay Company; at a price of 10 shillings a year rent on the land; five times bigger than his native Scotland.
1799 Toronto Ontario - Third session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until June 29; provisions for education and support of orphans.
1793 Portage Lake BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Continental Divide at Portage Lake; his party first Europeans to cross Divide north of Spanish territories.
1690 Churchill Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 sets out from York Factory with party of Stone and Assiniboine Indians on journey lasting two years; Hudson's Bay Company employee will record first European description of grizzly bears and buffalo.
1670 Ontario - Daniel de Remy de Courcelle 1626-1698 gets Iroquois to stop war against Algonquins.
1647 Quebec Quebec - Jesuits lay cornerstone of College at Quebec.
1611 Hudson Bay NWT - Hendrick Hudson d1611 starts return voyage, but his ship Discovery is again locked in spring ice.


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June 13th 2013 - This Date in History.

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313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
1381 – The Peasants Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1625 – King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
1917 – World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1952 – Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last US Number 1 song.
1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
1978 – Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
1997 – Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.
2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.



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1944 MYNARSKI WINS VC
over Cambrai France - Winnipeg-born Andrew Mynarski 1916-1944 is Flight Sergeant on Lancaster bomber A for Able in No. 419 Squadron on the night of June 12-13, their 13th mission, when it is attacked by a Junkers night fighter and set on fire. Mynarski tries to rescue crewmate Pat Brophy, the trapped rear gunner, but his clothes and parachute catch fire; by the time he jumps he is badly burned, and later dies of his burns; Brophy survives, carrying a four leaf clover Mynarski gave him just before takeoff; valor wins him a posthumous Victoria Cross.

1673
Kingston Ontario - René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 builds Fort Cataraqui at the mouth of the Cataraqui River on the orders of Count Frontenac; succeeded by Fort Frontenac; five years later La Salle will use the fort as a staging base for his explorations down the Mississippi.

1993
Ottawa Ontario -Kim Campbell, native of Port Alberni, BC, chosen to succeed Brian Mulroney as Progressive Conservative Party leader, defeating Jean Charest; rookie MP held Justice and Defence portfolios; First woman Prime Minister of Canada 25 June- 4 November; will lose election on October 25th, winning just two seats in the Commons; resigns as leader December 13th.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Alan Rock gets his Gun Control Act passed in the Commons 192 votes to 63; controversial gun-control legislation calls for eventual registration of all firearms.
1991 Bonn Germany - Brian Mulroney 1939- meets Chancellor Helmut Kohl and urges financial aid for Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that almost all laws in Manitoba are constitutionally invalid because they were written in English only.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - U.S. asks Canada for formal authority to test the cruise missile in Canada; approval granted July 15.
1968 Quebec Quebec - La Haye Commission on urbanization recommends reorganizing Quebec Municipal Affairs Department.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - National Capital Commission expropriates 16,590 hectare Green Belt surrounding Ottawa.
1941 St. John's Newfoundland - L. W. Murray heads new Canadian convoy escort force based on Newfoundland; Northwest Atlantic Canada's responsibility.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - James Layton Ralston 1881-1948 becomes Defence Minister on Norman Rogers' death in a plane crash.
1940 Britain - Canadian brigade leaves for France to form defence line across Brittany peninsula; a failure; Paris falls to Germans the next day.
1930 Provost Alberta - Dirty rain falls in Provost, a combination of wind blown dirt and precipitation.
1916 Edmonton Alberta - Emily Murphy of Edmonton appointed first woman police magistrate In the British Empire.
1908 Paris France - Canadian Tommy Burns 1881-1955 knocks out Bill Squires in the 8th round to win the world heavyweight boxing championship.
1898 Dawson Yukon - William Ogilvie 1846-1912 appointed Commissioner of new Yukon Territory; serves until 1901; with a Legislative Council partly elected, partly appointed by the Governor General. Yukon separated from Northwest Territories and given separate territorial status, two years after the Klondike gold discovery, capital placed at Dawson City, the largest community north of Seattle and west of Winnipeg, with about 30,000 people.
1895 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba ignores federal order of March 21 to restore rights of Catholics to denominational schools.
1886 Vancouver BC - Fire wipes out much of Vancouver, destroying nearly 1,000 buildings; 50 people killed, and only 4 houses left standing; rebuilding will begin within days, helped by the recent arrival in the city of the CPR.
1882 Victoria BC - Robert Beaven becomes Premier of British Columbia, until Jan. 27, 1883; replacing George Walkem (since June 25, 1878).
1871 Newfoundland - Hurricane kills 300 on Labrador coast.
1854 Richmond Nova Scotia - Construction starts on Nova Scotia Railroad at Richmond, near Halifax.
1853 Bradford Ontario - Northern Railroad reaches Bradford.
1851 Victoria Island NWT - John Rae 1813-1893 crosses Dease Strait from Cape Alexander looking for Franklin survivors; explores Victoria Island from Cambridge Bay to Pelly Point; after return to Kendall River June 10.
1833 Toronto Ontario - John Wilson kills Robert Lyon in the last fatal duel in Ontario; the two law students and former friends quarrelled over remarks made by Lyon about a local teacher, Elizabeth Hughes; Wilson will be acquitted of murder; later marries Hughes and becomes an MP and judge.
1829 London England - John Ross 1777-1856 sets sail aboard the Victory on Arctic expedition lasting four years; with nephew, James Ross.
1818 Dublin Ireland - Richard Talbot sails for Canada with 200 Irish settlers who will found St. Thomas, Ontario.
1813 Boston Massachusetts - Philip Vere Broke, commanding HMS Shannon, with 38 guns, defeats US warship Cheseapeake, commanded by James Lawrence, off Boston Harbour; tows her to Halifax as a prize.

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June 14th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France captured the city of Winchester and soon conquered over half of the Kingdom of England.
1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1285 – Forces led by Prince Tran Quang Khai of Vietnam's Trần Dynasty destroys most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
1287 – Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
1807 РEmperor Napoleon's French Grande Arm̩e defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
1839 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
1872 – Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1907 – Norway gives women the right to vote.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations
1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
1940 – World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
1940 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
1944 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
1947 – Roswell UFO incident: a supposed UFO crash lands in Roswell, New Mexico.
1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 – The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1959 – A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
1965 – Nguyen Cao Ky becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
1967 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
1982 – The Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
1985 – TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
1994 – The 1994 Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated CA$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries. One person is left with permanent brain damage.
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1617 FIRST FRENCH FAMILY IN CANADA
Tadoussac Quebec - Marie Rollet d1649 arrives in Canada with husband Louis Hébert and three children; first French family in Canada; Hébert Canada's first doctor and herbalist.

1919
St. John's Newfoundland - British Army Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown take off in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight; their 3,100 km flight ends 16 hours later with a nose-down landing in a Clifden, County Galway, Ireland peat bog; they win the £10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail, and are both awarded knighthoods.

1935
Regina Saskatchewan - 'On to Ottawa' trek reaches Regina from Vancouver; now numbering 2,000; leaders continue on to Ottawa to protest government economic policies during the Depression.
1995 New Brunswick -Steve and Lorelei Turner convicted of manslaughter in failing to provide the necessities of life to a child; in starvation death of their 3 year old son.
1994 Vancouver BC - Fans riot in the streets after the NHL Canucks lose the Stanley Cup to the New York Rangers 4 games to 3 at Madison Square Garden; police use TV news videotapes of the riot to lay charges; first Ranger win in 54 years.
1991 Berlin Germany - Brian Mulroney 1939- says Canada will scale down military in Europe; 8,000 at Lahr and Baden Baden; 1,400 to be withdrawn this year.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Michael Wilson says Free Trade tribunal ruling for Canadian pork exporters proves deal works; end of countervail pork duty; $20 million refund.
1990 Geneva Switzerland - World's fair officials choose Hanover, Germany over Toronto by a one-vote margin to host Expo 2000.
1988 Montreal Quebec - Pianist Angela Cheng of Edmonton the first Canadian to win the top prize at the Montreal International Music Competition.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- says farewell to Liberal Party in gala tribute at the opening night of the Liberal party leadership convention.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - CBC President Al Johnson asks for public input in changing the corporation's program philosophy.
1971 Victoria BC - Ottawa and provinces start four-day federal-provincial constitutional conference at Victoria.
1966 Quebec - Quebec longshoremen end 39-day strike; get 34% wage increase.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - James Elliott Coyne 1910- Bank of Canada Governor resigns over policy difference with PM Diefenbaker.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Liberal Minister of Trade and Commerce C.D. Howe makes his famous comment: 'What's a million?'
1950 Niagara Falls Ontario - U.S. signs deal to allocate Canada more water from the Niagara River to generate hydro-electric power.
1949 Yukon - Yukon temperature hits 36.1 degrees Celsius; warmest day on record.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Library Association.
1944 Normandy France - All units of the exhausted 3rd Canadian Infantry Division put on reserve after taking le Mesnil-Patry; Germans concentrated 7.5 of their 8 armoured divisions, and half of their 12 other divisions against Canadians and British; Canadians spend second half of June in reserve before resuming attack on Capriquet airfield.
1937 Toronto Ontario - Bert Pearl first hosts CBC radio show The Happy Gang, with Kay Stokes, Bob Farnon and Blaine Mather; will run for 22 years until 1959; Pearl dies in 1986.
1932 Quebec - Dorimène Roy Desjardins dies; co-founder with her husband Alphonse of les Caisses populaires Desjardins.
1894 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Massey Hall for musical performances.
1892 Ontario/Quebec - Tornado rages down the Ottawa Valley between Renfrew and Montreal, killing 12 persons.
1887 Vancouver BC - Canadian Pacific steamer Abyssinia the first passenger ship from the Orient to dock at Vancouver; from Yokohama, Japan.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Macdonald government passes the Canadian Pacific Railway general charter and the Trade Unions Bill, which legalized unions.
1864 Ottawa Ontario - Taché & Macdonald Ministry loses vote of censure.
1853 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Incorporation of the St. Maurice Iron Works.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Opening of the first session of the first Parliament of United Canada; meets until Sept. 18; will pass act unifying the banking system, District Council Act, abolish the pillory.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Robert Baldwin resigns from Ministry over lack of French Canadians and Reformers in Councils of government; Reformers hold majority in Assembly.
1808 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the first Methodist church in Montreal.
1649 Midland Ontario - Jesuits and their Huron allies abandon the Huronia missions after Iroquois attacks; retreat to Christian Island in Georgian Bay; leave Huronia completely the following year.
1610 Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 joins new expedition against Iroquois with Algonkian/Huron allies.

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June 15th 2013 - This Date in History.

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Events:C/P.


763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
1184 – King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. According to legend, this battle also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world's first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.
1246 – With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded.
1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
1580 – Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1776 – Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
1785 РJean-Fran̤ois Pil̢tre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1859 – Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1867 – Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
1905 – Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
1913 – The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
1920 – Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
1920 – A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
1945 – The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1954 – UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
1972 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.


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1995 WEBER & MLAKHOV FIRST TO POLE ALONE
NWT -Richard Weber of Chelsea, Quebec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov reach Ward Hunt Island, Canada's northernmost point of land, becoming the first to ski to the North Pole and back without support teams or outside help; started 1500 km trek Feb. 13; proved that Robert Peary could not have reached the Pole.

1944
Regina Saskatchewan - Baptist Minister T.C. Tommy Douglas 1904-1986 takes 47 of 55 seats, to the liberals 5, to win the Saskatchewan election for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation; forms Canada's first socialist (CCF) government; Douglas resigned his Commons seat to run; he will be Premier for the next 17 years, resigning to become first head of the New Democratic Party.
1995 New York City - Moody's lowers Quebec's credit rating due to political uncertainty and high taxes.
1993 Alberta - Ralph Klein leads provincial Conservatives to 7th majority win in a row; Party trailed in opinion polls under former leader and Premier Don Getty, before electing Klein, a former Liberal, mayor of Calgary.
1992 Sarajevo Bosnia - Lewis MacKenzie Canadian General optimistic about latest ceasefire in capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina; UN Chief of Staff trying to reopen airport to aid flights.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes new sexual assault legislation - the 'no means no' rape law; defines consent by requiring voluntary agreement by the woman; no consent if incapacitated, given by third person, or under abuse of authority.
1991 Fredericton NB - Dennis Cochrane elected Leader of the Progressive Conservatives in New Brunswick, beating Bev Lawrence 955 to 166; replaces Barbara Filliter, who resigned after 17 months in office.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper blocks Premier Gary Filmon's attempt to introduce the Meech Lake resolution in the Manitoba Legislature; puts in procedural roadblocks until June 20; says Meech Lake did not address native concerns.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Patrick Nowlan resigns PC caucus to protest Mulroney's 'highly manipulative' handling of Meech Lake negotiations; veteran Nova Scotia MP.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Canada expels eight Soviet diplomats for industrial espionage; not made public until June 21.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Ontario passes North America's first pay equity legislation.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams has a No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Heaven.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces temporary closure of the Canadian embassy in Beirut.
1980 Canada - Bob Nolan dies at 72; country singer, poet, songwriter born Robert Clarence Nobles Apr. 1, 1908; of Sons of the Pioneers.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Judy LaMarsh issues Report of the Ontario Royal Commission on Violence in the Media; rejects greater censorship; advises stricter control over print and broadcast media.
1974 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot has a No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Sundown.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa restricts export of gasoline and heating oil to slow down increase in export of these products.
1962 Wallops Island Virginia - Canada launches first space vehicle, 11.3 kg non-orbiting instrument package.
1951 Montreal Quebec - Fire kills 35 elderly persons at l'Hospice Ste-Cunégond.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament amends Northwest Territories Act to provide for partly elective NWT Council.
1944 France - First RCAF fighter wings move into France after D-Day.
1940 France - Canadians withdraw from France over a two day period.
1919 Clifden, County Galway, Ireland - British Army Captain John Alcock and Royal Flying Corps Lt. Arthur Brown make a nose-down landing in a peat bog in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 16 hours, 20 minutes; they win the £10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail, and are both awarded knighthoods.
1915 Givenchy France - Lt. Frederick William Campbell of the 1st Bn. Western Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force moves two machine-gun detachments forward under heavy fire at Givenchy; reaches the German front line trench with one gun after nearly all his detachment killed or wounded; holds back German counter-attack by advancing further and firing off 1,000 more rounds before getting hit by fire; dies four days later at age 48; awarded Victoria Cross posthumously Aug. 23, 1915.
1905 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland bans sale of bait and granting of licenses to Canadian and foreign fishing fleets.
1902 Canada - Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time.
1900 Ottawa Ontario - Manitoba Catholics ask Ottawa for relief from Manitoba law abolishing separate schools.
1900 Victoria BC - James Dunsmuir becomes Premier of British Columbia, succeeding Joseph Martin; serves to Nov. 21, 1902.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - J.J.C. Abbott sworn in as Prime Minister after being chosen leader of Conservative Party.
1887 Niagara Falls Ontario - Carlisle D Graham survives his second ride over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel.
1875 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Presbyterian Church of Canada.
1873 Cypress Hills Saskatchewan - Renegade American whisky/fur traders massacre Assiniboine Indians in their camp; leads to formation of the North-West Mounted Police.
1863 London England - Robert Benson acquires control of the Hudson's Bay Company for the International Financial Society, a syndicate of bankers.
1859 Washington USA - Hudson Bay Company pig breaks into potato patch of American squatter; nearly triggers British-American war over ownership of one of the San Juan Islands.
1846 Washington DC - U.S. President James Polk signs the Oregon Treaty (Treaty of Washington), declaring the 49th parallel and the Strait of Juan de Fuca the boundary between Oregon and British America; Queen Victoria signs the Treaty two days later. The treaty was a compromise - the British claimed Oregon and the Americans claimed all of the west coast up to the southern limit of the Russian territory of Alaska - 54/40 - the slogan 'Fifty-four forty or fight' was a Democratic Party slogan in the 1844 election.
1815 Red River Manitoba - Most Selkirk settlers, who had grown dependent on buffalo for survival, forced to leave for Upper Canada because of harassment by Metis hunters; North West Company traders wanting to challenge the authority of the Hudson's Bay Company were backing the Metis nationalists; settlement reestablished the following August.
1814 Port Dover Ontario - Major General Jacob Brown leads 500 American raiders across Lake Erie to burn and loot Port Dover and Long Point; War of 1812.
1811 Vancouver Island BC - John Jacob Astor's ship Tonquin attacked by local Nootka who kill the sailors and destroy the ship the next day; end of New York fur trader's hopes for northwest coast trade in competition with North West Company.
1790 Manitoba Canada - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches mouth of Saskatchewan River; travels from Cumberland House.
1776 Montreal Quebec - American General Benedict Arnold orders Montreal burnt as the Army of the Continental Congress retreats south; citizens put the fire out.
1676 Quebec Quebec - Chief citizens of Quebec hold meeting to fix price of bread.
1673 Arkansas USA - Marquette & Joliet arrive at upper reaches of Mississippi, after paddling more than 800 km; explore south; believe Mississippi empties into Gulf of Mexico.
1629 Gaspé Quebec - Brothers David, Lewis and Thomas Kirke reach Gaspé on a second privateering expedition with nine ships; plan to capture Quebec and the St. Lawrence River trade; accompanied by Sir William Alexander, Jr., proprietor of Nova Scotia, who sails directly south for Port Royal, while the Kirkes found a settlement at Port aux Baleines.
1616 Tadoussac Quebec - Récollet friar Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children at Tadoussac; later Trois-Rivières.
1605 Nova Scotia - Pontgravé arrives at St. Croix.
1534 Cabot Strait Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 steers southward along west coast of Newfoundland to Cabot Strait, then turns west.

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June 16th 2013 - This Date in History.

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363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
632 – Yazdegerd III ascends to the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sassanid Dynasty (modern Iran).
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia (Old Style).
1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
1755 РFrench and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beaus̩jour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1795 – First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis' Retreat".
1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1922 РGeneral election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn F̩in win a large majority.
1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français).
1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins
1972 – The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
1976 – Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1989 – Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
1981 – President Reagan awards Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-80; first foreign citizen given the honour.
1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
2000 – Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Shebaa Farms.
2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
2012 – China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts – including the first female Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang – to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1833 NINETEEN YEAR OLD KILLED IN PERTH PISTOL DUEL
Perth Ontario - John Wilson 1809-1869 kills 19 year old Robert Lyon in last duel in Upper Canada; Wilson was acquitted, and later became a judge of the Ontario Supreme Court.

1984
Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- chosen as Liberal Party leader on second ballot, with 1862 votes, to Jean Chretien's 1368, Don Johnston's 192; defeats six others; replaces Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister, but will lose ensuing election to Brian Mulroney.
1997 Gaspé Quebec -Non-profit Corporation du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie takes over former CN line between Chandler and Gaspé; line owned by local municipalities, operated by Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs which started operations between Matapedia and Chandler in Dec. 1996
1993 Cyprus - Canada closes UN peacekeeping mission on Cyprus after 29 years of service by 35,000 soldiers; control of Canadian sector handed to British and Australian troops the previous day.
1991 Deidesheim Germany - Brian Mulroney 1939- holds joint news conference with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; want more aid to Soviet Union; express concern over Quebec separation.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Atlanta Brave Otis Nixon steals six bases against the Montreal Expos to set modern National League record; ties major league record set by Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia A's in 1912.
1981 Washington DC - President Reagan awards Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-80; first foreign citizen given the honour.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Jean Keable 1929- heads Quebec Commission of inquiry into illegal police activities; after conviction of three officers for entering a press office without a search warrant.
1976 Washington DC - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- visits Washington to reaffirm Canada's commitment to NATO anti-submarine patrol; presents President Ford with book 'Between Friends/ Entre Amis'.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India starts 8-day visit to Canada.
1972 Churchill Falls Newfoundland - Prime Minister Trudeau pushes a button to start Churchill Falls, Labrador, on the Hamilton River, the largest single-site hydro-electric power project in the western world.
1967 Monterey California - Toronto rocker Neil Young and his band Buffalo Springfield join Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who, Otis Redding, the Mamas and the Papas, The Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane and Hugh Masekela at the Monterey Pop Festival; 50,000 people attend free rock fest.
1958 Manitoba Canada - Dufferin 'Duff' Roblin 1917- leads Progressive Conservatives to win in Manitoba election.
1914 Ste-Luce-Sur-Mer Quebec - First dive to the sunken Empress of Ireland to test diving equipment; as a Commission of Inquiry convenes in Quebec under Lord Mersey; on June 22, diving operations start to recover bodies and valuables from the wreck; on Aug. 20, the Purser's safe is raised.
1898 Dawson Yukon - First issue of the Klondike Nugget published; 50¢ an issue.
1894 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Bulletin reports presence of oil in what is now Alberta.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 chosen in convention to succeed Macdonald as Leader of the Conservatives and Canada's third Prime Minister for 17 months; resigned due to ill health Nov. 24 1892; first Prime Minister to lead the country from the Senate; was Dean of Law, McGill 1855-1880; Mayor of Montreal 1887-88.
1890 Placentia Junction Nfld. - Newfoundland awards contract for railway from Placentia Junction to Hall's Bay.
1884 Adolphustown Ontario - United Empire Loyalists celebrate centennial of the Peter VanAlstine settlement in Adolphustown, Prince Edward County.
1832 Prescott Ontario - Prescott hit by first case of Asian cholera in Upper Canada; brought on an Irish immigrant ship.
1784 Adolphustown Ontario - Peter VanAlstine lands with his band of Loyalists in Adolphustown.
1755 Chignecto New Brunswick - Robert Monckton 1726-1782 leads 2,000 British troops in capture of Fort Beauséjour on the Isthmus of Chignecto from Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor 1713-c1775; Fort Gaspereau, the last French fort in Acadia, surrenders the next day; giving the British full control of what is now New Brunswick.
1744 Annapolis Nova Scotia - French make unsuccessful assault on Annapolis Royal (Port Royal).
1703 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council reorganized as Superior Council.
1659 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 grants aid to emigrants to New France.
1659 Quebec Quebec - François de Laval 1623-1688 arrives in Canada as Vicar Apostolic of New France; becomes first Bishop of Quebec in 1674.
1587 Upernavik Greenland - John Davis c1543-1605 reaches Gilbert Sound; sails north along Greenland's west coast to Upernavik; calls it Sanderson's Hope, after his merchant backer, William Sanderson.

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June 17th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yo****eru.
1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1596 – The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
1773 РC̼cuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cu̩llar.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1789 – In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
1843 – The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
1861 – Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
1863 – Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1898 – The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933 – Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
1940 – World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1940 – World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1948 – A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
1958 – The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada opens. It is still open today.
1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
1967 – The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
1971 – President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
1972 – Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1991 – Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1992 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.


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1988 MULRONEY WELCOMES G7 TO TORONTO
Toronto Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney welcomes the G-7 leaders of the world's seven biggest industrial democracies to Toronto for their annual economic summit; forecasts progress on dismantling farm subsidies and alleviating Third World debt.

1871
New York City - Anna Swan of Nova Scotia, at 2.27 metres (7'5") marries Martin Buren of Kentucky, at 2.19 metres (7'2"); world's tallest married couple work for Barnum Circus.
1991 Elliot Lake Ontario - Ontario Hydro Chairman Mark Eliesen extends contract with Rio Algom Ltd to end of 1993; will purchase higher-priced uranium, and help community.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - South African black leader Nelson Mandela and wife, Winnie, arrive in Canada; later will take an 11 day tour of the U.S.
1982 Quebec - Quebec doctors start 5-day strike to press for 38.5% increase in fees.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chrétien and Saskatchewan Attorney-General Roy Romanow co-chair Constitutional talks in Ottawa; break off Aug. 29 with no agreement on 12 items of change.
1975 France - French court orders France to compensate Canadian environmental activist David McTaggart; his ship Greenpeace III was rammed and boarded by a French naval vessel in the South Pacific in June 1973 as McTaggart was protesting French nuclear testing.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Rioting prisoners do $3 million damage at St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary.
1958 Vancouver BC - Collapse of half-completed Second Narrows Bridge across Burrard Inlet; with weight of 30 ton train; 19 workmen killed, 20 injured, $23 million damage.
1946 Windsor Ontario - Tornado hits Windsor, killing 16 and injuring hundreds.
1936 Renfrew Ontario - Opening of Petawawa military airport; called the Silver Dart Aerodrome, to mark the flight of the Silver Dart there in 1909.
1928 Newfoundland - Amelia Earhart embarks on transatlantic flight to Wales as a passenger/copilot in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz; in 1932, she will be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo.
1925 Geneva Switzerland - Canada signs League of Nations protocol prohibiting the use of poisonous gases and bacteria in warfare.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942 jailed during Winnipeg General Strike; government agents arrest and jail six union ringleaders.
1903 NWT - Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 starts Arctic voyage on his ship Gjoa; first east to west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
1882 Selkirk Manitoba - Government completes CPR from Fort William to Selkirk.
1871 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick Assembly passes Common Schools Act establishing separate schools.
1868 London England - Anthony Musgrave, former governor of Newfoundland, appointed governor of British Columbia.
1864 Ottawa Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 meets with Macdonald, Galt and Cartier to discuss possibility of forming coalition government; with federation as part of the program.
1845 Toronto Ontario - Paul Kane 1810-1871 leaves on expedition to the west; spends summer sketching around Lakes Huron and Michigan.
1779 Castine Maine - Francis McLean c1717-1781 builds fort at Castine, Maine, with 650 men, to serve as a Halifax outpost, provide refuge for loyalists and to block any attacks from New England.
1777 St-Jean Quebec - John Burgoyne 1722-1792 leaves St. John with a force of 7,700 British and German regulars, plus Canadians and Indians; takes 138 artillery pieces.
1776 Quebec - End of the American invasion of Quebec as the last troops of the Army of the Continental Congress start leaving the province.
1755 Saint John New Brunswick - Robert Monckton 1726-1782 takes Fort Gaspereau without firing a shot; French abandon garrison at mouth of Saint John River; last French forts in Acadia gone.
1753 Lunenburg Nova Scotia - Lunenburg settled by Germans from Halifax.
1745 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - William Pepperell 1696-1759 and his 4,000 Colonial New England troops, with naval support from Commodore Peter Warren; with Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, capture Louisbourg from Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor 1713-c1775; most civilians sent to Rochefort, France; Louisbourg returned to France in 1748.
1687 Quebec Quebec - Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville 1637-1710 sets out on an expedition against the Iroquois with Pierre de Troyes.
1673 Indiana - French missionary explorers Marquette and Joliette reach the Mississippi River.
1616 London England - Promoter Sir William Vaughan acquires the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland's southeast corner from the London and Bristol Company; will start a Welsh colony at Renews and Trepassey Harbour.
1605 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves with de Monts to hunt for a better site for the colony; sails 650 km south to Cape Cod Massachusetts; draws first charts of New England coastline.

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June 18th 2013 - This Date in History.

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Events:C/P.


618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang Dynasty rule over China.
1053 – Battle of Civitate: 3,000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.
1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
1264 – The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1633 – Charles I, is crowned King of Scots at St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1799 РAction of 18 June 1799: a frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perr̩e is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.
1830 – French invasion of Algeria.
1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
1859 – First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1887 – The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
1940 – Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
1940 – "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
1945 – William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
1953 – The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
1953 – A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
1954 РPierre Mend̬s-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
1972 – Staines air disaster – 118 are killed when a plane crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her Bahá'í Faith.
1984 – A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike.
1994 – The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, killing six civilians and wounding five.
1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2006 – The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
2007 – The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina killing nine firefighters.
2009 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
2012 – Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud is appointed Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1812 US GOES TO WAR AGAINST CANADA
Washington DC - US President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on Britain due to seizure of American vessels in Napoleonic Wars, and British support of native resistance to US westward expansion; beginning of War of 1812; to Dec. 24, 1814; only major war, other than Indian wars, fought on Canadian soil.

1603
Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Quebec with Grave du Pont to go on an exploring trip up the 'River of Canada' - the St. Lawrence; finds that the Algonkians have taken over from the Iroquois as the dominant tribe since the arrival of Jacques Cartier 80 years earlier.
1993 Montreal Quebec -Expo's Dennis Martinez wins his 200th game; 92nd major league pitcher to reach that mark.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Gilles Loiselle's Public Service Reform Act simplifies hiring, firing and transfer of employees; greater discretion in contracting out work.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Michael Wilson suspends further exports of automatic arms to Middle East for six months; pending policy review by Commons committee.
1991 Maniwaki Quebec - Quebec gives Barriere Lake Algonquin band control of ancestral lands in La Verendrye reserve.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Robert de Cotret brings in legislation to make environmental-impact studies mandatory for federal projects or joint projects.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post President Donald Lander declares $149 million profit and $60 million dividend payment to the Government; says corporation not yet ready for privatization.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Nelson Mandela tells joint session of the Commons and Senate that Canadian support is crucial in ending Apartheid; Deputy President of the African National Congress was jailed for 27 years.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Bert Pearl dies Canadian musician the star of CBC Radio's Happy Gang from 1937 to 1959.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams his single Heaven stays at #1 on the Billboard charts for the second week.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Premier Frank Miller defeated on series of confidence votes by alliance of Liberals and NDP; resigns next day, ending 42 years of Conservative rule in Ontario; Liberal leader David Peterson and 23-member cabinet sworn into office June 26.
1984 New Brunswick - New Brunswick celebrates bicentennial of founding as a British colony.
1983 Space - NASA astronaut Sally Ride, first US woman in space, deploys Canada's Anik C2 communications satellite into Earth orbit from the Challenger space shuttle.
1980 New York City - Ottawa comic Dan Ackroyd premieres his movie The Blues Brothers, co-starring John Belushi.
1979 Newfoundland - Premier Brian Peckford wins his first election as provincial Conservative leader.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - National Gallery opens exhibition of 203 Group of Seven paintings; to commemorate 50th anniversary of Group's founding.
1962 Canada - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 wins minority in 25th federal general election 116 seats to 100; 30 Social Credit; 19 CCF; defeats Lester Pearson with 37.3% of popular vote.
1959 Torbay Newfoundland - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives with Prince Philip to start 45 day Canadian tour; earlier that day, CBC Montreal broadcast the first live telecast from England to Canada, showing the Queen and Prince Philip leaving London.
1940 Halifax Nova Scotia - French cruiser Emile Bertin arrives in Canada with $305 million in gold from the Bank of France; gold released after the war.
1940 England - RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron withdraws from France.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces compulsory military training for home defence.
1928 Wales - US aviator Amelia Earhart arrives on a flight from Newfoundland in about 21 hours; first woman to fly across the Atlantic; will later make the flight solo.
1915 Banks Island NWT - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 sights new uncharted land, and claims it for Canada.
1900 Victoria BC - Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Robert McInnes 1840-1904 forced to resign by resolution of BC Legislature.
1899 Lethbridge Alberta - Opening of CPR line through Crows Nest Pass to Kootenay Landing; subsidized by 1897 Crows Nest Pass Agreement, which also set fixed freight rates on Prairie grain traffic.
1882 Montreal Quebec - CPR buys Montreal-Ottawa line.
1855 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Opening of rebuilt Sault Ste. Marie Canal; original canal built by the North-West Company in 1797.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Denis-Benjamin Papineau 1789-1854 joins Draper to form the Draper-Papineau Ministry; after resignation of Viger on June 17.
1846 Toronto Ontario - First telegraph system was opened to Hamilton and Niagara Falls.
1822 London England - Boundary Commission draws up border along St. Lawrence River and through Great Lakes.
1820 Cumberland House Manitoba - John Franklin 1786-1847 leaves Cumberland House on expedition to the Coppermine River.
1816 Ontario - Celebration of first Thanksgiving Day in Upper Canada: deliverance from Americans in War of 1812.
1793 Fraser River BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Fraser River.
1784 London England - King George III partitions Nova Scotia to create the province of New Brunswick.
1776 St-Jean Quebec - US invaders under John Sullivan 1740-1795 retreat to St. John's.
1776 Montreal Quebec - John Johnson 1742-1830 arrives at Montreal with 200 followers from the Mohawk Valley; Loyalist from Albany, New York.

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June 19th 2013 - This Date in History.

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Events:C/P.


1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 – Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
1867 РMaximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Quer̩taro, Quer̩taro.
1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1913 – Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented.
1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others.
2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.


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1973 HOWE TO PLAY WITH HIS SONS IN WHA
Houston Texas - Retired Detroit Red Wings star Gordie Howe jumps to the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association to join his sons, Mark and Marty; gets a $1 million, four year contract; Houston will win the WHA title and Gordie his seventh MVP title.

1973
Moscow Russia - National Ballet of Canada stars Karen Kain 1951- and Frank Augustyn 1953- win first prize for duet ensemble at International Ballet Competition, attracting drew 75 contestants from 23 countries; perform the Bluebird Pas de Deux from Sleeping Beauty; Kain also wins women's silver medal.

1816
Fort Douglas Manitoba - Rupert's Land Governor Robert Semple 1777-1816 intercepts Cuthbert Grant and Metis party transporting pemmican; killed with 19 of his men in Seven Oaks Massacre on the Frog Plain near Fort Douglas; the Metis encouraged by Nor'Westers who wanted to drive out the Hudson's Bay Company.
1996 Montreal Quebec -Boston Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque named to the NHL's first all-star team for the 12th time, tying Gordie Howe's record for most career first-team selections. Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux wins Art Ross Trophy as League's leading scorer.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Boris Yeltsin visits Ottawa; signs $200 m wheat deal to tide Russia over until fall harvest; Russian President tells Canada's Parliament his country has let go of totalitarianism to embrace democracy.
1992 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta francophones win right to control own school boards and set curriculum; after 10 year battle; 1990 Supreme Court ruling 'where numbers warrant'.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian sprinter Brian Morison banned from competition for two years by Athletics Canada for steroid use.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Pelletier replaces Michel Fournier as Liberal Leader Jean Chretien's chief of staff; former Quebec City mayor.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Petro-Canada public issue of 39.5 million shares almost sold out in one day; Ottawa to distribute 19.5% of Petro-Canada.
1991 Kitimat BC - Ottawa required to conduct environmental review of Alcan's Kemano II hydro dam in northern BC; Ottawa to appeal ruling.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Super-committee on the Constitution set up; 20 MPs and 10 senators to travel across Canada; to present federal proposals to provinces, interest groups.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Opening of annual Group of Seven summit; leaders agree on tougher action to fight illegal drug trade, forgive some African debt and endorse Canada-US Free Trade Agreement.
1983 Vancouver BC - opening of BC Place, 60,000 seat domed stadium; cost $126 million to build.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans import and sale of cut-rate US editions of Canadian books; dumped products competing with higher priced Canadian editions.
1975 Mexico Mexico - Canadian delegation attends opening of World Conference on International Women's Year.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Nuclear Association to award named for Dr. W. Bennett; to recognize accomplishments of a Canadian in nuclear science and engineering.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Airline Pilots Association joins international 24-hour strike to protest against hijacking; 2,000 members demand better airport security.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up Prices and Incomes Commission to study causes and effects of inflation.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves Canada's participation in NORAD - the joint North American Air Defence Command.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Canada recognizes independence of former French North African colonies of Morocco and Tunisia.
1940 London England - Britain organizes to evacuate children to Canada.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and Britain plan steps to be taken if the Royal Navy is forced to withdraw to Canada.
1938 Vancouver BC Canada - RCMP and Vancouver police use tear gas and clubs to remove strikers from Art Gallery and Post Office; Vancouver's 'Bloody Sunday'.
1934 Saskatchewan Canada - James Garfield Gardiner 1883-1962 leads Liberals to victory in provincial election.
1934 Ontario - Mitchell Frederick 'Mitch' Hepburn 1896-1953 leads Liberals to victory in provincial election.
1930 Alberta - John Edward Brownlee 1884-1961 leads United Farmers of Alberta to victory in provincial election; UFA in power since 1924.
1924 Canada - Postal workers strike until June 29.
1918 France - Canadian air ace Billy Bishop shoots down five German planes in his last dogfight, bringing his total enemy kills to 72.
1917 France - Arthur William Currie 1875-1933 succeeds Englishman Julian Byng as commander of the Canadian Corps.
1915 Edmonton Alberta - Graduates of the McDougall Commercial High School start the Commercial Graduates Basketball Club, later the Edmonton Grads; they will win 502.in 522 games over 25 years including several world championships.
1914 Crows Nest Pass Alberta - Hillcrest coal mine explosion and fire kills 188 miners.
1903 Regina Saskatchewan - Barr colonists incorporate Regina as a city.
1874 Pembina Manitoba - 200 new NWMP recruits arrive at Fort Dufferin.
1866 Sherbrooke Quebec - Timothy O'Hea puts out fire in Grand Trunk train loaded with 95 barrels of gunpowder; saves passengers and troops; awarded first and only Victoria Cross for valor inside Canada.
1837 Toronto Ontario - Opening of second session of thirteenth Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until July 11.
1813 Ontario - Francis, Baron de Rottenburg 1757-1832 appointed to command of British forces in Upper Canada as Sheaffe is transferred to Montreal; also appointed President of Council and administrator of Upper Canada; serving until Dec. 13, 1813
1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes act prohibiting importation of slaves into the colony; first such law in British empire.
1791 Ontario/Quebec - British establish provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada out of Province of Quebec; under the Constitution Act.
1776 Chambly Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 gives Sir John Johnson a Royal Warrant to raise a regiment of American loyalists in Canada; called the 1st King's Royal Regiment of New York.
1758 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe 1727-1759 opens fire on Louisbourg's Island battery from Lighthouse Point on this night; takes until the 25th to silence the battery.
1721 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys 138 houses, about half the town of Montreal.
1687 Kingston Ontario - Jean Bochart de Champigny c1645-1720 seizes a group of Iroquois at Fort Frontenac; sends them to France as galley slaves.
1644 Quebec - Jesuit priest François-Joseph Bressani 1612-1672 tortured by Iroquois, then given to old woman to care for to replace a dead relative.
1625 Quebec Quebec - Jean de Brébeuf 1593-1649 arrives in New France with Charles Lalement, Enémond Masse, François Charton, Gilbert Burel; build habitation on the St. Charles River; first Jesuit missionaries in Canada.
1610 Sorel Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 again defeats the Iroquois in a battle near the mouth of the Richelieu River.

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451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1605 – After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia is assassinated.
1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.
1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1887 – Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
1919 – 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1943 – The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
1959 – A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
1963 – The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
1973 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
1982 – The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
2003 – The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
2009 – During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on video and spreads virally on the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".



Today's Canadian Headline....


1942 JAPAN ATTACKS CANADA
Estevan Point BC - Japanese submarine shells isolated Estevan Point on Vancouver Island, with little damage; only time Canadian land territory under fire in World War II, there were submarine attacks inside Canada's territorial waters, notably the sinking by a German U-Boat of HMCS Charlottetown Sept. 11, 1942, one km from Rinouski.

1996
Cape Canaveral Florida - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk blasts off on board Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-78, the longest to date at 15 days, 12 hours. The mission carries the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS).
1994 Toronto Ontario - Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones start rehearsing for their Voodoo Lounge tour outside Toronto.
1992 Halifax Nova Scotia - John Savage, mayor of Dartmouth, elected leader of the province's Liberal party; 7,000 Liberals cast ballots from their homes punching their personal ID numbers into telephones.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Mohamed Al-Mashat inquiry into his fast track immigration agrees on flawed and controversial processing of case; Iraqi diplomat and defector from Saddam Hussein.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Premier Robert Bourassa 1933- 1977 pushes through Bill 150 in closing session requiring a referendum on sovereignty by October 1992; recommended by Bélanger-Campeau Commission; also decreases payments to municipalities; puts wage freeze on public sector; also announces Aug. 12 Montmorency by-election; vacated by ex-revenue minister Yves Séguin; Séguin quit to protest combining the PST with the GST.
1991 Germany - Brian Mulroney 1939- attends Conference of Security and Co-operation in Europe; adopts Canadian proposal to monitor arms build-ups.
1991 Kitchener Ontario - Uniroyal Goodrich Tire keeps one of two plants; makes deal with United Rubber Workers Union; saving 1,000 of present 2,000 jobs.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper delays vote on Meech Lake accord beyond deadline to have it discussed in public hearings.
1988 Chicoutimi Quebec - Lucien Bouchard wins byelection for Mulroney's Conservatives in Lac St.-Jean; Bouchard will later quit the Party and found the Bloc Quebecois after the 1990 failure of the Meech Lake Accord.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Premier René Lévesque announces he will resign as leader of the Parti Quebecois; Pierre-Marc Johnson will succeed him Sept. 29 after a leadership convention; PQ down in the polls and constitutional hopes pinned on Mulroney in Ottawa.
1984 Sudbury Ontario - Cave-in in at Falconbridge Nickel mine kills 4 miners.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends 5-year exploration freeze, opens over 400 million hectares offshore; effective Aug. 1.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Start of nine-day 'gens de l'air' strike by Canadian air traffic controllers over use of French at Quebec airports; ends after agreement between Ottawa, pilots and controllers.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 opens the National Library and Archives Building on Wellington Street beside the Supreme Court.
1966 Moscow Russia - Canada sells Soviet Union $800 million worth of wheat and flour; the world's biggest wheat deal to date, at 336 million bushels.
1959 Escuminac New Brunswick - Severe storm in Northumberland Strait sinks 22 boats, drowns 35 fishermen.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Fred Rose sentenced to six years in prison for spying for the Soviet Union; charged after Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, defected and implicated Rose, Canada's only Communist Party (Labour-Progressive) MP.
1943 Ungava Bay Quebec - Chubb sights the New Quebec Crater; one of the world's largest, at 403 metres deep and nearly 11 km around.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes a conscription law providing for service in Canada if needed.
1897 London England - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 attends Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in London.
1882 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins Canada's fifth general election with 139 seats, to 72 for Edward's Blake's Liberals.
1877 Hamilton Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton.
1877 Saint John New Brunswick - Fire rages through Saint John, wiping out the entire business district and burning down 1,612 houses (over two-thirds of the housing stock), leaving 15,000 homeless; kills over 100 people, causes $27 million worth of damage.
1877 Winnipeg Manitoba - First classes meets at the University of Manitoba.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Public Archives of Canada, as part of the Department of Agriculture; today's National Archives of Canada, based in Gatineau, Quebec.
1871 Brooklyn New York - Charles Francis Hall 1821-1871 leaves Brooklyn on the Polaris in an attempt to reach the North Pole between Greenland and Ellesmere Island.
1857 Kingston Ontario - William Eyre 1805-1859 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until Nov. 2.
1849 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Institute, to provide lectures, and an arts and science library; now the Royal Canadian Institute.
1837 Windsor England - Queen Victoria ascends the British throne at age 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV; will reign for 63 years until her death in 1901.
1822 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
1704 Grand Pré Nova Scotia - Benjamin Church 1639-c1718 captures Les Mines in campaign of revenge against Acadia; also attacks Pigiguit and Cobequid (Truro).
1686 Moose Factory Ontario - Pierre de Troyes d1688 captures Fort Monsipi; renames it Fort St-Louis; seizes all HBC posts except Nelson.
1685 Fort Monsipi NWT - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 captures Fort Monsipi from the English, after an overland trek from New France.

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June 21st 2013 - This Date in History.

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217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.
1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
1582 – Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga is forced to commit suicide in Honnō-ji, Kyoto.
1621 – Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1734 РIn Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Ang̩lique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.
1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
1813 – Peninsular War: Battle of Victoria.
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 – Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1848 – In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell issue the Proclamation of Islaz and create a new republican government.
1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Ã…land Islands.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
1864 – New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.
1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1942 – World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ends when the organized resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapses in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island.
1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
1952 – The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U.S. law.
1977 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2006 – Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix & Hydra.
2009 – Greenland assumes self-rule.
2012 – A boat carrying more than 200 refugees capsized in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian island of Java and Christmas Island, killing 17 people and leaving 70 other missing.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1749 FOUNDING OF HALIFAX
Halifax Nova Scotia - Edward Cornwallis c1713-1753 arrives to found a settlement at Chebucto with two regiments and 2,576 settlers from England, Ireland and Germany; brings building supplies, a fire engine, hospital equipment and a midwife; with the help of New England builders, he starts laying out the town; later renamed in honour of Secretary of War George Dunk, the Earl of Halifax.

1813
Queenston Ontario - US Col. Charles Boerstler, moving to make a surprise attack on Lt. James Fitzgibbon's British outpost at Beaver Dams, halts at Queenston for the night; billets soldiers at the farm of Loyalist James Secord and his wife Laura Secord 1775-1868. The Secords overhear the American plans, so Laura steals away to warn the British; makes her way west through swamps, then climbs the heights at Twelve-Mile Creek to St. Davids; after passing three American sentries, she is captured by Iroquois, who lead her to Fitzgibbon [in the picture] after a 30 km trek.

1919
Winnipeg Manitoba - City police and 90 RCMP surround City Hall square as the Mayor of Winnipeg reads the Riot Act from the steps to disperse hundreds of unemployed war veterans illegally parading to support the Winnipeg General Strike; Police ordered to fire a volley into the crowd to disperse them, then charge when they do not disperse; two strikers killed, 30 injured; so-called Bloody Saturday leads Mayor to call in the army; end of strike 4 days later.
1996 Space -Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk starts study to determine effects of spaceflight on mental skills that are critical to performing tasks in space; on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Victor Goldbloom appointed to replace d'Iberville Fortier as Canada's official languages commissioner; Liberal cabinet minister when Quebec introduced language laws.
1990 St. John's Nfld. - Brian Mulroney flies to St. John's to address the Newfoundland Assembly, with the Meech Lake vote scheduled for the next day, but he does not extend the deadline.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Ross Munro dies at age 76; former journalist, war correspondent for Canadian Press, editor and publisher of the Edmonton Journal, Winnipeg Tribune and Montreal Gazette.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa makes public the expulsion of eight Soviet diplomats for industrial espionage.
1985 Hollywood California - London, Ont. native Hume Cronyn stars in Ron Howard's Cocoon, opening on this day; along with his wife Jessica Tandy, plus Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Brian Dennehy, Gwen Verdon, and Jack Gilford.
1985 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque resigns as Premier of Quebec; his Parti Quebecois is down in the polls and the province's constitutional hopes are now pinned more on Brian Mulroney.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill establishing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; CSIS to replace RCMP in dealing with foreign espionage, terrorism and subversion.
1977 Saint John New Brunswick - Flash fire kills 21 prisoners, injures 7 more, as well as 6 police officers and a fireman, in police lockup at City Hall; starts in detention area in a padded maximum security cell; surviving prisoner, John Kenney later convicted of arson and sentenced to five years in jail.
1974 Vancouver BC - Inaugural run of refurbished steam train the Royal Hudson.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Ontario lends $351,000 to Toronto publishers McClelland & Stewart; part of $961,000 loan to maintain Canadian ownership.
1966 Guelph Ontario - Renovated birthplace of John McCrae 1872-1918 designated a national historic site; author of the World War I poem In Flanders Fields; opens to public opened Sept. 8, 1968.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 sworn in as Canada's first Conservative Prime Minister in 22 years; until April 22, 1963; Leader of the Opposition 1956-1957, and 1963-1967.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Ellen Louks Fairclough 1905- sworn in as Secretary of State; Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister; Hamilton-born accountant moves to Immigration in 1958, and becomes Postmaster General in 1962.
1954 Sept-Iles Quebec - Opening of railway linking Sept-Iles with Quebec-Labrador iron ore deposits at Schefferville.
1952 Provo Utah - Canadian aviation pioneer Wilfrid 'Wop' May dies while on holiday in the US; born Carberry, Manitoba in 1896, joined the 202nd City of Edmonton Battalion in 1916; transferred to Royal Flying Corps; was being chased back to base in March, 1918, by German ace, Baron Manfred von Richthofen when the Red Baron was shot down by ground fire. In 1921, after a year with Imperial Oil, he went into the air freight business; in Jan.1929, flew a two-seater Avro Avian aircraft with an open cockpit in 40-below cold to deliver diphtheria antitoxin to northern communities hit by epidemic.
1946 St. John's Newfoundland - Gordon Macdonald 1894-1962 appointed Newfoundland's last Governor-General; serves until 1949.
1940 Vancouver BC - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 sets sail from Vancouver on RCMP patrol vessel St. Roch; to reach Halifax via Arctic; makes first successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage.
1924 Los Angeles California - Toronto-born actress and producer Mary Pickford marries her business partner in United Artists, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - William John Hanna 1862-1919 appointed Food Controller of Canada to control wartime supplies.
1912 Montreal Quebec - First edition of the weekly Financial Times.
1887 Windsor England - Queen Victoria celebrates her golden jubilee marking 50 years on the throne.
1856 Prescott Ontario - Montreal Telegraph Company installs submarine telegraph to Ogdensburg, N.Y.; link to New York.
1844 Saint-Boniface Manitoba - Four Sisters of Charity, Sisters Valade, Lagrave, Lafrance and Coutlée arrive at Red River, after 59 days of canoeing and portaging through wilderness from Lake Superior. Invited by Bishop Joseph-Norbert Provencher, the Grey Nuns are part of the first religious community to settle in the Canadian West; they start teaching in makeshift schools until their convent, the Provincial House, is completed in 1847. They also provide medical care for the settlers, and vaccinate over 3,000 people when smallpox breaks out in 1870; in 1871, they open the four-bed Saint-Boniface General Hospital; the first in the West.
1817 Fort Douglas Manitoba - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 arrives at Fort Douglas, followed by Coltman with order to restore goods seized in Governor Alexander Macdonell's dispute with North West Company; Nor'Westers refuse and flee to avoid arrest.
1792 Vancouver BC - Capt. George Vancouver 1757-1798 meets the Spanish trading ships Sutil and Mexicana off Vancouver.
1764 Quebec Quebec - William Brown c l737-1789 publishes city's first newspaper, the bilingual Quebec Gazette; set up first printing shop in Quebec with Thomas Gilmore (d. 1773); province's first periodical.
1734 Montreal Quebec - Marie-Joseph Angélique hanged for setting fire to her master's house; she was a black female slave protesting her condition.
1692 Wells Maine - Abenaki Indians raid English settlements in Maine and new Hampshire; Durham N.H. raided two days later; backed by Frontenac; King William's War.
1686 Churchill Manitoba - Pierre de Troyes d1688 renames Charles Fort (Fort Rupert) Fort St-Jacques and Fort Albany Fort Ste-Anne; returns to Quebec.
1665 Quebec Quebec - First of 24 companies of the Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières start arriving in New France; the first duty of the 1300 soldiers is to invade the Iroquois territories; 400 will stay to colonize New France after their three year service.

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