This Date In History

henric · Sep 9, 2013

September 10th 2013 - This Date in History.

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506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived AjacÃ¡n Mission.
1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823 – SimÃ³n BolÃvar is named President of Peru.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
1963 – 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
1990 – The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, CÃ´te d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
2001 – Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1939 CANADA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
Ottawa Ontario - W.L. Mackenzie King announces that Canada is now at war with Germany. Canada makes her own declaration of war for the first time. King notes that there are currently 4,500 soldiers in the Canadian Army (+60,000 reserves); 4,500 in the RCAF; 1,800 in the RCN.

1621
Edinburgh Scotland - King James I grants all of Canada and Acadia to his secretary Sir William Alexander, who promises to set up the colony of Nova Scotia, or New Scotland. Here is an engraving of King James.

In Other Events....
1995 Iberville Quebec - Jacques Villeneuve of Iberville wins the Indy Car racing title.
1994 New York City - Vancouver produced cartoon Reboot debuts on ABC; created with advanced computer animation.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes Referendum Bill to decide the fate of the Charlottetown Accord; question is, 'Do you agree that the Constitution of Canada should be renewed...; on the basis of the agreement reached on Aug. 28, 1992'.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court Judge Paul Rouleau orders environmental assessment of $12.6 billion Great Whale hydro project; legal victory for Crees.
1988 Toronto Ontario - CTV Network switches from ground microwave to satellite transmission.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Serge Savard inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame; Canadiens defensive star.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet issues Order in Council detailing waters in Arctic archipelago Canada considers to be internal waters; Canada will take steps to strengthen sovereignty in the Arctic, including more military surveillance flights.
1984 Quebec Quebec - Pope John Paul II visits le Mus7eacute;e de QuÃ©bec; in the afternoon celebrates mass at Cap-de-la-Madeleine.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Jean ChrÃ©tien becomes federal Minister of Energy and Mines.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Expo Bill Gullickson fans 18 batters, beating the Chicago White Sox 4-2; sets a major-league strikeout record for a rookie pitcher in a single game.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Argonaut coach Leo Cahill sacked after a loss to Montreal; the first CFL head coach to be fired twice by the same club.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Roy Howell hits two home runs, two doubles, and a single, and drove in nine runs for Toronto Blue Jays as they beat the New York Yankees, 19-3 with 20 hits.
1971 Fort St. John, BC - BC Railway (Pacific Great Eastern) opens extension to Fort Nelson.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons appoints 15-member committee to study and recommend new Canadian flag.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada cuts prime rate from 6% to 5 1/2%.
1961 Detroit Michigan - Robert Hayward killed in a race on the Detroit River during a Silver Cup race; started speedboating career as a mechanic for the Miss Supertest hydroplane crew in 1957; 1959 won the Harmsworth Trophy at 107.5 mph, breaking a thirty year domination by US boats and crews; defended Trophy in 1960 and 1961.
1960 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - Opening of Halifax International Airport.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Fondation de l'Action Sociale pour L'IndÃ©pendance (RIN).
1959 Quebec - Joseph-Mignault-Paul SauvÃ© 1907-1960 succeeds Maurice Duplessis as Premier of Quebec; after Duplessis' death on September 7; Duplessis' funeral takes place on this day at Trois-RiviÃ¨res.
1957 Shawinigan Quebec - Jean ChrÃ©tien marries Aline ChaÃ®nÃ©.
1952 Montreal Quebec - Radio-Canada broadcasts first TV shows, with Jean Cocteau's play Oedipe-Roi.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada signs technical assistance pact with Pakistan; Canada to give $10 million aid for first year.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson appointed Minister of External Affairs; former career diplomat.
1943 Catanzaro Italy - Canadians move 120 km inland from Reggio Calabria in spite of rain, poor mountain roads and German rearguard actions, after crossing the Aspromonte Mountains and moving along the Gulf of Taranto to Catanzaro. To assist American troops in the breakout from the Salerno bridgehead, a Canadian brigade is diverted from the main line of advance to seize Potenza, an important road centre east of Salerno.
1943 Rome Italy - Germans seize Rome; Italian navy turns fleet over to Allies.
1941 Atlantic - Canadian corvettes sink first German U-Boat.
1941 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta government orders all schools closed due to the epidemics of infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis) and encephalitis; lessons published in the newspapers.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - W.L. Mackenzie King announces that Canada is now at war with Germany; makes her own declaration of war for the first time, after remaining neutral for a week after Britain declared war; King notes that there are currently 4,500 soldiers in the Canadian Army (+60,000 reserves); 4,500 in the RCAF; 1,800 in the RCN.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Creation of the Department of Supply, later Munitions and Supply; war budget fixed at $100 million.
1937 Canada - Over 1,500 cases of infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis) reported in Canada, with 56 deaths.
1929 The Pas, Manitoba - Hudson Bay Railway opens to the saltwater port of Churchill; operated under direction of Canadian National Railway; line promised by Laurier in 1908 federal election campaign to compete with CPR and force cheaper rates for grain transport.
1925 Arvida Quebec - Arthur Vining Davis starts construction of the Arvida aluminum plant.
1915 Montreal Quebec - Mobilisation of the 87th Bataillon of Infantry for servies in France.
1898 New Westminster, BC - Fire destroys the town of New Westminster.
1895 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - Opening of a new Sault Ste. Marie canal, capable of carrying wide steamships and some ocean going vessels.
1890 Boucherville Quebec - Charles Berger discovers gold at Boucherville.
1874 Calgary Alberta - North West Mounted Police Inspector Ephrem Brisebois and his troop reach junction of Bow and South Saskatchewan River; set up camp along the Elbow River the Centre Street bridge; within days, they start building a log structure that will become the NWMP's Fort Calgary.
1851 Fort Confidence NWT - Dr. John Rae 1813-1893 returns to Fort Confidence after exploring 1,125 km of previously unknown coastline; he survived by living like the native Inuit.
1824 Prince Regent Inlet NWT - William Parry 1790-1855 enters Lancaster Sound and winters in Prince Regent Inlet; forced back by ice following year.
1823 New York - Champlain Canal opens in New York state, linking the Hudson with Lake Champlain, and allowing water passage to the St Lawrence and Montreal.
1814 Machias Maine - John Sherbrooke 1764-1830 captures Machias, Maine, with a force from Halifax; Eastern Maine to the Penobscot River now in British hands, and is annexed to the colony of New Brunswick.
1813 Put-in-Bay, Ohio - US Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry 1785-1819 captures smaller British naval fleet under Lt. Robert Barclay 1785-1837 on Lake Erie; takes the Detroit, the Queen Charlotte, the Lady Prevost and three armed schooners; victory gives the Americans command of the lake for the rest of the War of 1812. Perry reports to Washington: 'We have met the enemy, and they are ours.'
1784 London England - The Privy Council approves the seal of the province of New Brunswick.
1746 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Jean-Baptiste-Louis-FrÃ©dÃ©ric de La Rochefoucauld 1709-1746 sees his French fleet of 54 ships, destined for Louisbourg and Annapolis, wiped out by a hurricane; the remainder reach Chebucto, where d'Anville dies of a heart attack.
1616 Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives in Honfleur from Tadoussac with fathers Jamet et Le Caron.
1611 La Rochelle, France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives in La Rochelle from Tadoussac.

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henric · Sep 10, 2013

September 11th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1185 – Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.
1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
1390 – Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
1541 – Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco.
1565 – Ottoman forces retreat from Malta, End of the Great Siege of Malta.
1609 – Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1649 – Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
1697 – Battle of Zenta.
1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle of Poltava, and the Swedish Empire ceases to be a major power.
1709 – Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
1714 – Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1758 – Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
1775 – Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 – British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolutionary War.
1777 – American Revolution: Battle of Brandywine – The British celebrate a major victory in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
1786 – The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.
1802 – France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1803 – Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia's army under General Louis Bourquin.
1813 – War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C..
1814 – War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
1826 – Capt. William Morgan arrested in Batavia, New York for debt. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.
1829 – Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico. This was the final consummation of Mexican independence.
1830 – Anti-Masonic Party convention; one of the first American political party conventions.
1847 – Stephen Foster's well-known song, "Oh! Susanna", is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh.
1852 – The State of Buenos Aires secedes from the Argentine Federal government, rejoining on 17 September 17, 1861. Several places are named Once de Septiembre after this event.
1857 – The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1893 – Parliament of the World's Religions opened in Chicago, where Swami Vivekananda delivers his famous speech on fanaticism, tolerance and the truth inherent in all religions.
1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1903 – The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1914 – Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
1916 – The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
1921 – Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
1922 – The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 – One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1931 – Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1932 – Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed when their RWD 6 airplane crashes during a storm.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of war
1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 – Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
1943 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
1943 – World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
1944 – World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1945 – World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
1961 – Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
1968 – The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) was found.
1970 – The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1971 – The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 – The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service.
1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1976 – A group of Croatian nationalists planted a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal. After stating political demands, they revealed the location and provided instructions for disarming the bomb. The disarming operation was not executed properly, killing one NYPD bomb squad specialist.
1978 – Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.
1980 – Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of president Pinochet.
1982 – The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit
1988 – The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1989 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
1992 – Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
1997 – 14 Estonian soldiers die in the Kurkse tragedy, drowning in the Baltic Sea
1998 – Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
2000 – Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also took place.
2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by members of Al Qaeda. Altogether, 2,996 people are killed.
2003 – Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh assassinated
2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
2012 – A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
2012 – The first day of a series of protests and attacks; in which the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths, including J. Christopher Stevens, the United States Ambassador to Libya.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1888 LORD STANLEY'S VOICE PRESERVED
Toronto Ontario - Governor-General Lord Stanley records an address to the President of the United States onto an Edison phonograph cylinder. This is the world's oldest known sound preserved on a record.

1944
Quebec Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 hosts US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill at the second Quebec Conference held in the Chateau Frontenac; to Sept. 16.

In Other Events....
1995 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau announces when the next referendum will be held: the day before Halloween - a year less a day after being elected.
1995 New Brunswick - Frank McKenna wins second term in provincial election for the Liberals; takes 47 of 54 seats.
1995 Chicago Illinois - Canadian dollar plunges as polls show the Yes side in the lead in Quebec's referendum campaign on sovereignty.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Equality Party joins with Unity Party to fight for English rights in Quebec.
1990 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Telecommunications Minister Fred Stewart announces $951 million sale of 60% of Telus Corp (formerly AGT) a success; 140,000 Albertans own shares.
1990 Manitoba - Gary Filmon 1945- wins majority in provincial election: 30 seats, 42% of vote; NDP Doer gets 20 seats, 29% of vote"; Liberal Carstairs gets 7 seats and 28% of vote.
1989 St. John's, Newfoundland - Start of judicial inquiry into alleged sexual abuse at Mount Cashel orphanage.
1987 Ontario - David Peterson 1943- leads Ontario Liberals to landslide victory over Frank Miller's Conservatives, after two years of minority governing with NDP support.
1987 Santa Monica, California - 1915-1987 dies at age 72. Born in Toronto Feb. 12, 1915, actor Greene was best known for his role as Pa Ben Cartwright in the American TV series Bonanza. Greene started his rise to fame as a CBC radio newscaster (he was known as the Voice of Doom for his wartime broadcasts). After his move to Hollywood, he starred in Sailor of Fortune, Roots (John), Battlestar Galactica (Commander Adama) and as narrator of the Last of the Wild.
1986 Canada - Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver Exchanges experience massive sell-off as Wall Street dives to worst one-day stock market decline since Oct. 28th, 1929; Black Thursday.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Pope John Paul II arrives in Montreal; visits St-Joseph Oratory, beatifies Marie-LÃ©onie Paradis; celebrates mass at Olympic Stadium before 65,000 people, then in the evening at Jarry Park.
1977 Manitoba - Sterling Lyon 1927- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory over NDP under Ed Schreyer in the provincial election.
1975 Quebec - Nicole Juteau the first woman constable in the Quebec provincial police - SQ.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- resigns as Finance Minister from Trudeau Cabinet in protest over policies.
1974 Cyprus - Canadian contingent of UN peacekeeping force arrives in Cyprus; to stay until December.
1973 Edmonton Alberta - Helen Hunley appointed Alberta's first woman Solicitor-General.
1972 Munich Germany - Munich Summer Olympics end; Canada takes home two silver medals in Swimming: 100-metre butterfly: Bruce Robertson and 400-metre individual medley: Leslie Cliff; plus three bronzes, two in swimming: 200-metre backstroke: Donna-Marie Gurr and 4x100-metre medley relay: Erik Fish, Robert Kasting, William Mahoney, Bruce Robertson; one in Yachting - Soling: Paul Cote, John Ekels, David Miller.
1969 Highwater Quebec - Opening of Space Research Institute on Canada-US border, at Highwater and North Troy, Vermont; college for advanced aerospace studies.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Charles Lavern Beasley gives himself up at refueling stop at Dorval Airport after ordering an Air Canada Moncton to Toronto flight to fly to Cuba; Texan commits first air hijacking in Canada.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Supreme Court orders Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to pay $1,375,000 to Brilund Mines; Brilund defrauded by three New Yorkers.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Opening of 42-story Royal Bank of Canada Building; Place Ville-Marie; built by New York developer Charles Zeckendorf.
1960 Rome Italy - 17th Olympic games close in Rome; Canada takes home only one medal, a silver in Rowing Eights: Donald Arnold, Walter d'Hondt, Nelson Kuhn, John Lecky, Lorne Loomer, William McKerlich, Archie MacKinnon, Glen Mervyn, Sohen Biln.
1959 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Paul SauvÃ© sworn in as Premier of Quebec.
1958 Montreal Quebec - Camilien Houde dies; former mayor of Montreal.
1958 Lancieux France - Robert Service 1874-1958 dies. The Bard of the Klondike came to Canada at age 20, 'for I was not satisfied with a humdrum existence.' After working with the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Victoria, he was transferred to the Whitehorse branch in 1905, and then to Dawson City where wrote his famous poems, The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. Service worked as an ambulance driver and newspaper correspondent during World War I.
1956 Palm Beach, Florida - Canadian war ace Billy Bishop dies at age 62; top scoring Canadian and Imperial flying ace of World War I, credited with 72 kills; first Canadian airman to win the Victoria Cross, for a lone 1917 attack on a German airfield; honorary air marshal during World War II; wrote books Winged Warfare and Winged Peace.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Government orders all Canadian women, single and married, born between 1918 and 1922, to register with the Unemployment Insurance Commission; due to critical shortage of labour in wartime; many volunteer to help with the harvest.
1942 Rimouski Quebec - Canadian corvette HMCS Charlottetown lost in Gulf of St. Lawrence, one kilometre off the coast of Rimouski; less than a week after loss of patrol vessel Raccoon.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - W. Clifford Clark d1952 recommends rent control through Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
1929 Ottawa Ontario - Aird Commission tables a report that will lead to the creation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
1928 La Malbaie, Quebec - Le Manoir Richelieu at Murray Bay destroyed by fire.
1916 Ste-Foy Quebec - Centre span of the second Quebec Bridge collapses, killing 13 workers; had been rebuilt in 1907.
1914 Cape Kellett NWT - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 draws maps of Norway and Bernard Islands and Wilkins River; before preparing for winter at Cape Kellett.
1905 Thunder Bay Ontario - William Mackenzie 1849-1923 & Donald Mann 1853-1934 start construction of Lake Superior branch of Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad at Fort William.
1905 Brooks, Alberta - John Ware dies after being thrown from his horse; Alberta's first black rancher came north in 1882 as a cowboy on a cattle drive for the North-West Cattle Company (later the Bar U); bought his own land in 1891 on the north fork of Sheep Creek and later ranched near Brooks.
1898 New Westminster BC - Fire destroys New Westminster, BC.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan - Mistahimaskw found guilty on the charge of treason-felony for his part in the North West Rebellion; sentenced to three years in jail.
1861 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Toronto Street Railway line; first horse-drawn streetcars in Canada; Montreal follows in November.
1861 Montreal Quebec - Prince NapolÃ©on arrives in Montreal for a visit.
1854 Kingston Ontario - Alan MacNab & A-N Morin Ministry takes office at the beginning of the 1st session of the 5th Parliament of the province of Canada; MacNab Minister of Agriculture CW; Morin Commissioner of Crown Lands.
1847 Newfoundland - Hurricane hits coast of Newfoundland, killing 300 people.
1839 Toronto Ontario - First track and field meet in Canada held near Toronto; at Caer Howell grounds.
1833 Gravesend England - Quebec-built steamship 'Royal William' reaches England safely; the wooden paddle wheeler is the first ship to cross Atlantic entirely under steam power; engineers had to stop every few days to clean salt from the boilers.
1831 London England - Royal William arrives in England; first Atlantic crossing partially under steam.
1814 Plattsburgh New York - Thomas Macdonough 1783-1825 defeats British fleet under Sir George Prevost on Lake Champlain, while Alexander Macomb beats back British landing force from Plattsburgh; leads to retreat of main British force back to Canada.
1805 Toronto Ontario - Alexander Grant 1734-1813 appointed administrator of Upper Canada, serves until Aug. 25, 1806; President of the Council.
1784 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Walter Patterson c1735-1798 annexes PEI to Nova Scotia; Lieutenant-Governor until July 26, 1786.
1586 NWT - John Davis c1543-1605 sails for England; contrary winds stop him from exploring Hamilton Inlet.
1754 Alberta - HBC Fur trader Anthony Henday the first white man to enter what is now Alberta.
1738 Kenora Ontario - Pierre La VÃ©rendrye leaves Lake of the Woods to explore the West; will found Portage La Prairie.
1543 La Rochelle France - Jean-FranÃ§ois de La Roque, Sieur de Roberval returns from his failed expedition in search of the mineral wealth of the Saguenay, and sells his ships to pay his bills.

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henric · Sep 11, 2013

September 12th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin Xiaowudi, age 10, succeeds his father Jin Jianwendi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
1213 – Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
1229 – The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa PonÃ§a, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
1309 – The First Siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.
1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
1683 – Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
1847 – Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
1874 – The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
1885 – Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.
1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
1897 – Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
1919 – Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
1930 – In cricket Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
1933 – LeÃ³ SzilÃ¡rd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1940 – An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
1942 – World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
1944 – World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death.
1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
1953 – U.S. Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
1961 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
1964 – Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
1970 – Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1974 – Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
1979 – Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
1980 – Military coup in Turkey.
1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
1983 – The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's YucatÃ¡n Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
1990 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
1992 – Abimael GuzmÃ¡n, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
1999 – Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2003 – In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
2007 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
2008 – The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
2011 – The 9/11 Memorial Museum opens to the public.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1994 PQ BACK IN POWER
Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau wins Quebec election for Parti Quebecois, defeating Daniel Johnson's Liberals; wins 77 of the 125 seats, up from 33; Liberals drop from 78 to 47 seats.

1846
King William Island NWT - John Franklin 1786-1847 finds his ships 'Erebus' and 'Terror' are locked into the ice. He fails to enter the North-West Passage because of an error on his chart.

In Other Events....
1996 Vancouver BC - Rocky Mountain Railtours runs the longest passenger train in Canadian history, hauling 34 cars to Kamloops using three GP40 locomotives.
1994 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau wins Quebec election for Parti Quebecois, defeating Daniel Johnson's Liberals with only a slightly higher margin of the popular vote than the Liberals; takes 77 of the 125 seats, up from 33; Liberals drop from 78 to 47 seats; new premier promises to hold a referendum on sovereignty within a year.
1993 Hollywood California - BC born actor Raymond Burr 1917-1993 dies at age 76; known for his roles as star of Perry Mason, and Ironside's Robert Ironside; also in Centennial, 79 Park Avenue, Unsolved Mysteries.
1991 Victoria BC - Bill Vander Zalm changed with breach of trust in connection with sale of theme park Fantasy Gardens.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Michel Cogger charged with accepting illegal benefits from industrialist Guy Montpetit and Japanese investors; Montpetit charged Sept 17 with giving $212,000 payment.
1990 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board allows $565 million project in Cohasset & Panukle fields south of Sable Island to go ahead; est. 6 million barrels.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - John Buchanan resigns as Premier of Nova Scotia on being appointed to Senate post; under investigation by RCMP for corruption; replaced by Minister of Housing and Deputy Premier Roger Bacon as interim Premier.
1987 California - Lorne Greene dies at age 72; first became known in Canada as the 'voice of doom' for his radio reports during the Second World War; best known for the role of Ben Cartwright on TV's Bonanza.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Canada expels 2 Soviet diplomats for trying to obtain prohibited high technology equipment.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Egg Marketing Agency orders 28 million eggs destroyed; rotted due to improper storage.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa helps establish Heritage Canada as a national trust, to preserve historic buildings, scenic landscapes and natural areas.
1968 Thunder Bay Ontario - Lake Superior grain handlers end 8-week strike.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of the 28th Parliament; until Oct. 22,1969.
1959 Hollywood California - Toronto actor Lorne Greene stars as Pa Cartwright in new NBC-TV western drama Bonanza; with Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, and Pernell Roberts; first Western broadcast in colour, will last fourteen seasons.
1957 Colorado - Canada and US form North American Air Defence Command - NORAD - to coordinate air defence of the Continent.
1944 France - Canadians help clear Channel ports of Dieppe, Calais and Dover.
1932 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Boulevard Taschereau.
1921 Quebec Quebec - City of Quebec votes against prohibition.
1920 Antwerp Belgium - Seventh Olympiad closes in Antwerp. Canada takes home three gold medals, in Ice Hockey: The Winnipeg Falcons, in Boxing - 66.68-kg: Albert Schneider and in Track and Field - 110m hurdles: Earl Thomson; three silver medals, in Boxing - 53.53 kg: Chris Graham, in Boxing - 72.57 kg: Georges Prud'homme, and in Swimming - 1,500 freestyle: George Vernot; and three bronze medals, in Boxing - 72.57 kg: Moe Herscovitch, in Boxing - 61.24 kg: Chris Newton, and in Swimming - 400m freestyle: George Vernot.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament ratifies Canada's signing of the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Government sets up Department of Public Instruction to give the public war information.
1915 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the BibliothÃ¨que St-Sulpice.
1904 Calgary Alberta - Boston banker Charles Glidden drives his dark-green Napier car into Calgary on the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, using flanged steel wheels; will continue on to Vancouver.
1864 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Confederation conference reconvenes at Province House in Halifax; delegates agree to meet at Quebec Oct. 10 to work out final details.
1858 Tangier, Nova Scotia - Captain Lestrange finds gold at Tangier.
1856 Victoria BC - British Columbia legislature meets for the first time.
1850 Montreal Quebec - First hot air balloon flight over Montreal.
1846 King William Island, NWT - John Franklin 1786-1847 finds his ships Erebus and Terror are locked into the ice; fails to enter the North-West Passage because of an error on his chart.
1840 Montreal Quebec - John Sexton appointed first city clerk of Montreal.
1791 London England - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Canada; serves from Dec. 26 to Dec. 15,1796.
1789 Fort Chipewyan NWT - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 arrives back at Fort Chipewyan from his trip to the Arctic Ocean.
1775 ChaudiÃ¨re River, Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 starts move down the ChaudiÃ¨re River toward Quebec.
1733 Quebec Quebec - Pierre-Herman Dosquet 1691-1777 appointed Bishop of Quebec; serves until 1739.
1696 Placentia Newfoundland - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 arrives at Plaisance with Bonaventure to begin campaign to drive English out of Newfoundland.
1696 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 tries to stop free trade in furs by shutting down western posts, banning travel outside New France, stopping western trading licenses.
1672 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 convenes a meeting of the Sovereign Council of New France.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Governor de Courcelles arrives at Quebec with Intendant Jean Talon.
1657 Nova Scotia/New Brunswick - Thomas Temple c1614-1674 agrees to divide Acadia with William Crowne 1617-1682; takes area from Lunenburg to St. George River, Maine.
1646 Montreal Quebec - Huron traders arrive in new France with 32,000 lbs of beaver pelts.
1621 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 issues the first ordinances in New France.

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henric · Sep 12, 2013

September 13th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
335 – Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
533 – Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
1213 – End of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
1229 – Ã–gedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von DÃ¶beln beat the Russians, making von DÃ¶beln a Swedish war hero.
1812 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
1843 – The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Six teenage military cadets known as NiÃ±os HÃ©roes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican–American War.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot (0.91 m)-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1850 – First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1862 – American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 – The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1923 – Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1935 – Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario).
1942 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1943 – The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1948 – Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
1968 – Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 – State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
1971 – People's Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1987 – GoiÃ¢nia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in GoiÃ¢nia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2006 – Kimveer Gill kills one student and injures 19 more in the Dawson College shooting.
2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1981 FIRST TERRY FOX RUN
Canada - Eight hundred Canadian communities participate in the first Terry Fox 10k Run to raise money for cancer research. One year earlier, the 23 year old Fox was forced to end his Marathon of Hope in Thunder Bay, when the cancer that took his leg spread to his lungs.

1759
Quebec Quebec -
James Wolfe 1727-1759 drifts downstream on the ebb tide at 2 am with Captain William Delaune, commander of The Forlorn Hope, riding in a lead whaleboat with muffled oars; after keeping his plans secret from even his trusted lieutenants, he orders a first team of 24 soldiers to land at l'Anse au Foulon, a cove 3 km west of Quebec; the men quickly climb an overgrown path up the cliff face, with muskets strapped to their backs and surprise a company of Canadian militia under Captain Duchambon de Vergor; most of his men have been sent home to gather in the crops; down below, the Highlanders and light infantry secure the beachhead, helping the remaining transports land with a first wave of troops, artillery, and supplies; a second wave comes across from LÃ©vis, while British frigates from Quebec to Beauport start firing with every gun to direct all French attention to the city. At 5 am, Wolfe reaches the top of the cliff with the remaining light infantry; before him stretches the Plains of Abraham, named for the habitant, Abraham Martin, who had first cleared the land, a broad, flat field leading to the walls of Quebec. At 6:30, Montcalm is told that patrols have spotted the English on the Plains of Abraham; he orders the regular troops to form up outside the walls, militia on the wings, regiments of the line in the center, the Royal Roussillon near the river, then those of Guyenne, BÃ©arn, Languedoc and La Sarre. At 9:30, Wolfe walks along the ranks, talking to his 4,500 troops, and giving his final orders. Canadian and Indian sharpshooters start firing from the woods to the north, and a musket ball shatters Wolfe's wrist. As the French start to advance he is hit by a shell fragment in the abdomen, but still keeps his feet. The French hold their fire until they are within 25 m of the British lines. At 12 m, Wolfe gives the order to fire, and one great volley rips through the French ranks, mortally wounding the commanders of the La Sarre and Guyenne regiments. The last volleys are fired with the two armies only feet apart, then Wolfe gives the order to charge with bayonet, and the French turn to flee. Wolfe is leading the grenadiers when a bullet hits him in the chest, puncturing both lungs. Someone yells "see how they run". Wolfe opens his eyes an asked "who runs?", a soldier replies, " The French run sir". With this it is said, Wolfe replies, "Now God be praised, I die in peace", and closed his eyes forever. Montcalm is then wounded outside the walls, with a fatal bullet in the groin, and one in the thigh. He asks two soldiers to hold him up in the saddle as he goes in the St. Louis Gate, so as not to cause more panic. When the surgeon tells him he has only a few hours to live, Montcalm replies, 'So much the better, I shall not see the surrender of Quebec'.. He dies early the next morning.

In Other Events....
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sells most of its stake in Petro-Canada through a share offering that brings in $1.8-billion.
1991 Montreal Quebec - 35 tonne beam falls from Olympic Stadium when 16 reinforcing rods break; stadium closed for study; falls on public walkway but no one injured.
1986 Winnipeg Manitoba - CKND-TV starts first national telecast of the Canadian Country Music Awards.
1981 Montreal Quebec - The Soviet Union wins its first Canada Cup hockey tournament by defeating Team Canada 8-1 in the final game. They are later caught trying to smuggle the Cup out of the country.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Provincial Premiers start conference in Toronto.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in crude oil export tax of 40Â¢ per barrel.
1971 Ontario - Ontario brings in aid program to help prevent foreign ownership of Ontario-based Canadian publishers.
1971 Ontario - Ontario to give free hospital and medical care for low-income earners and those 65 and over.
1969 Toronto Ontario - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's band the Plastic Ono Band perform for their album "Live Peace In Toronto". New cuts include Give Peace A Chance, Cold Turkey, Yer Blues and a 12 minute Yoko piece, plus the oldies Blue Suede Shoes, Money and Dizzy Miss Lizzy.
1967 Nova Scotia - George Isaac Ike Smith 1909- succeeds Robert Stanfield as Conservative Premier of Nova Scotia.
1944 Rimini Italy - Canadians capture Coriano Ridge in fierce fighting south of Rimini.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Government orders two home-defence divisions disbanded.
1942 Atlantic - German U-Boat torpedoes destroyer 'Ottawa'; Battle of the Atlantic growing in intensity.
1940 Liverpool England - Luxury liner S.S. City of Benares leaves port with British children being evacuated to Canada to escape World War II. The ship is torpedoed by U-boat during the night about 600 miles out to sea; only 13 of the over 90 children survive.
1915 France - Arthur Currie, then a Brigadier, is appointed General commanding the 1st Division of the new Canadian Corps. It is the first completely Canadian fighting unit in France, and eventually consists of 4 infantry divisions.
1886 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific Telegraph starts operation across Canada.
1882 Ottawa Ontario - John R. Booth opens his own railway, the Canada-Atlantic, running from Coteau Junction into Ottawa; Ottawa Valley timber baron uses line to export lumber to the CPR main line.
1839 Chippewa Ontario - Republican rebels burn Anglican church in Chippewa.
1779 Quebec Quebec - Frederick Haldimand 1718-1791 asks dramatist Richard Cumberland to select books for public library at Quebec.
1762 Torbay Newfoundland - William Colville, Lord Amherst lands at Torbay, north of St. John's, drives French back into Fort William Henry two days later; with 1,500 troops from Louisbourg.
1759 Quebec Quebec - James Wolfe 1727-1759 shot three times, dies on the battlefield.
1657 Quebec Quebec - Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge et d'Argentenay c1612-1660 appointed administrator of New France; "until July 10, 1658.

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henric · Sep 13, 2013

September 14th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

81 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
629 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire.
786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun.
1180 – Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
1763 – Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
1791 – The Papal States lose Avignon to the French Empire.
1808 – Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande ArmÃ©e enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
1814 – The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1829 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1846 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
1901 – President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
1917 – Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1939 – World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1960 – Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
1969 – The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
1985 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
1987 – The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
1995 – Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME.
2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
2007 – Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
2008 – All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1986 JAYS BATS HOT
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays hit 10 home runs against the Baltimore Orioles to set a major league baseball record for most homers in a 9 inning game. The 11 home runs by both teams also set a record.

1535
Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 reaches the Iroquois village of Stadacona [Quebec] on his second voyage; meets Donnacona again; greeted with Iroquois word 'Kanata' or 'Cantha;' meaning 'settlement of huts'; first recorded use of name.

1926
Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 defeats Arthur Meighen in the general election, winning 128 seats to the Conservatives' 91, with 46.1% of the popular vote. The Progressives win 20 seats; 6 other.

In Other Events....

1992 Victoria BC - Bruce Hutchison d1992 dies at age 91; journalist for 74 years; wrote 16 books, won 3 Governor General's Awards.
1992 Windsor Ontario - Paul Martin Sr dies at age 89; first elected 1935; Liberal MP 33 years; Senator, High Commissioner in London"; last surviving cabinet minister from Mackenzie King era.
1991 Regina Saskatchewan - Grant Devine 1934- grants $431m to Saskatchewan Indian bands for land entitled under treaty but never handed over; signs deal with Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Jake Epp approves $5.2 billion Hibernia offshore oil project; led by Mobil Oil; 6,000 construction jobs"; Energy Minister.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- sends squadron of F-18 fighter jets, with 450 pilots and flight crew, to Persian Gulf"; raises to $74 million Canadian aid to Kuwaiti refugees.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Spar Aerospace buys defense contracts of bankrupt Leigh Instruments Ltd. of Ottawa for $10 million.
1979 China - Canada sells China 2 million tonnes of wheat, worth $400 million.
1977 Halifax Nova Scotia - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts 5-day trip to Canada for Silver Jubilee ceremonies.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - First Ministers start 2-day Conference; discuss amendment of BNA Act and state of economy.
1960 Quebec - Antonio Barrette 1899-1968 resigns as leader of Union Nationale party.
1936 Vanier Ontario - Dorothea Palmer arrested for distributing birth control information; a nurse; acquitted at subsequent trial which made distribution legal.
1933 Stratford Ontario - furniture workers and meat-packers go on strike in Stratford; troops and armoured cars move in Sept; strike settled peacefully November 4.
1926 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 resigns as Conservative leader on defeat in the general election; calls leadership convention; PM since July 7.
1890 Athabasca Alberta - petroleum deposits discovered along Athabasca River.
1890 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa lumber mill workers go on strike.
1868 Yale BC - Amor de Cosmos calls meeting of Confederation League at Yale; votes for immediate admission into Canada; founder of Victoria's 'British Colonist'.
1853 New Brunswick - construction started on European & North American Railroad; crossing New Brunswick from Maine to Nova Scotia.
1814 Baltimore Maryland - British troops end three day attack on Baltimore and Fort McHenry to retaliate for American burning of York (Toronto) and Newark (Niagara); Francis Scott Key writes the Star Spangled Banner during bombardment.
1811 Quebec - George Prevost 1767-1816 administrator of Lower Canada; "until July 15, 1812.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 dies of wounds after battle of the Plains of Abraham.
1758 Fort Duquesne Pennsylvania - James Grant defeated by French at Grant's Hill near Fort Duquesne, with 800 men.
1699 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Hector de Callieres 1648-1703 becomes Governor of New France on Frontenac's death; "until May 26, 1703.
1666 Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 sets out with 1,500 men from Quebec to mount another attack against Mohawks"; with Courcelles.

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henric · Sep 14, 2013

September 15th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 – At Tetin Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law.
994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1556 – Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1762 – Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 – The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the "Department of Foreign Affairs").
1812 – The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1816 – HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
1820 – Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the GalÃ¡pagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1935 – India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
1945 – A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1947 – RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
1952 – United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to MalmÃ¶-Bulltofta Airport.
1974 – Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 – The French dÃ©partement of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
1983 – Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1987 – United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
1993 – Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
2004 – National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1884 CANADIANS ON THE NILE
Quebec Quebec - Frederick Charles Denison 1846-1896 sails for Egypt with 386 Canadian Voyageurs to help Lord Kitchener ascend the Nile, mount a resistance to Sudan revolutionary leader Mahdi, and rescue General Gordon, besieged in Khartoum. The boatmen were organized by Garnet Wolseley, who had commanded the Red River Expedition in 1870; many were recruited from the ranks of the Hudson's Bay Company. Sixteen died; they were Canada's first official participants in an overseas war.

1885
St. Thomas Ontario - P.T. Barnum's famous circus elephant Jumbo charges and is killed by a Grand Trunk train in the St, Thomas railway yard; weighed over 3,900 lbs. and was probably the largest pachyderm ever in captivity.

In Other Events....

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Lise Bacon appointed to the Senate.
1994 Hollywood California - Hamilton-born SCTV veteran Martin Short 1950- premieres his comedy variety program, The Martin Short Show, on NBC.
1993 Canada - Other provinces follow lead of Nova Scotia and Quebec, announcing compensation plan for people who contracted HIV through tainted blood products before officials started screening blood for the AIDS virus; Ottawa to hold inquiry on reform of the blood system.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports on language preferences from 1991 Census: 17.1 million Canadians (60.5%) identify English as their mother tongue; down from 60.6% in 1986. 6.8 million (23.8%) identify French; down from 24.3% in 1986. 4.1 million (13%) identify another language, especially Chinese, Spanish or Punjabi; up from 11.3% in 1986.
1992 Somalia - Canadian planes deliver 10 loads of 150 tonnes of relief supplies to famine-ravaged Somalia; three C-130 cargo planes and 71 personnel supporting Red Cross and UN.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Warner Troyer dies at age 59; CBC broadcaster, veteran of This Hour Has Seven Days, Public Eye, The Fifth Estate; co-host of CTV's W5; author of seven books.
1991 Space - Astronauts on board NASA Space Shuttle flight STS-48 deploy Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, containing the Canadian Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII).
1988 Montreal Quebec - Mother Theresa gives a speech in Montreal.
1987 Hamilton Ontario - Team Canada beats the USSR to win the Canada Cup, two games to one. All three games decided by 6-5 scores.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Trial starts for 17 Hell's Angels in Montreal.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Pope John Paul celebrates Mass before 500,000 of the faithful at Downsview Airport; later consecrates the Slovak Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Unionville, built by Denison Mines magnate Steve Roman.
1979 Vancouver BC - Swedish supergroup Abba open their first North American tour in Vancouver.
1979 Paris France - Quebec singer Robert Charlebois performs at the Palais des CongrÃ¨s de Paris.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - School patroller Jean-Luc LafreniÃ¨re, age 11, is killed by a car; he is the first Canadian patroller to die in the line of duty.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Darryl Sittler 1950- scores Team Canada's winning goal in overtime to beat Czechoslovakia 5-4; Canada wins inaugural Canada Cup tournament 2 games to nothing.
1975 Montreal Quebec - Yvan Cournoyer named captain of the NHL Canadiens.
1972 Toronto Ontario - DeHavilland Aircraft workers end eight-month strike.
1971 North Pacific - Twelve members of the Vancouver-based Don't Make a Wave Committee found the Greenpeace environmental organization on board a chartered 24 metre halibut seiner, the Phyllis Cormack, sailing to Amchitka Island, Alaska, to witness/protest the US underground detonation of 5.2 megaton bomb along the Mid-Ocean Ridge. Among the crew are Robert Hunter of the Vancouver Sun, Ben Metcalfe of the CBC and Bob Cummings, from the Georgia Strait; seas too rough, and the group find a 47 metre converted mine sweeper, the Edgewater Fortune.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba lowers its voting age to 18.
1969 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Hydro decides not to divert Churchill River, flood Southern Indian Lake; would displace 700 people.
1969 Sachs Harbour NWT - Reinforced oil tanker 'Manhattan' reaches Sachs Harbour, NWT, on trip through North West Passage.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens Sir Alexander Campbell Building, new Post Office Headquarters.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens star Maurice 'Rocket' Richard 1921- retires from NHL hockey with a record 544 goals, plus 82 playoff tallies.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Major-General Georges-PhilÃ©as Vanier 1888-1967 is installed as Canada's first French Canadian and 19th Governor General; soldier-diplomat serves until 1967.
1958 Montreal Quebec - CÃ©cile Langlois gives birth to a son; first Dionne quintuplet to become a mother.
1958 Montreal Quebec - Commonwealth Economic Conference held at Montreal.
1957 London England - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 appointed member of Imperial Privy Council by Elizabeth II.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa singer Paul Anka's hit single 'Diana' stays at #1 on the pop music charts.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Council of North Atlantic Treaty Organization meets in Ottawa; until September 20.
1950 Inchon, South Korea - UN forces make amphibious landing at Seoul's port city of Inchon to cut off North Korean forces in the south; start drive toward Seoul.
1949 Hollywood California - Canadian Mohawk actor Jay Silverheels stars as Tonto, with Clayton Moore as the masked hero, in first episode of ABC-TV's The Lone Ranger.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 1st session of 21st Parliament; until December 10.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Donald Gordon runs new Foreign Exchange Control Board, organized by Walter Gordon; also administers 10% War Exchange Tax on non-Empire imports.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Donald Gordon appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada for seven year term; on resignation of J.A.C. Osborne.
1927 Geneva Switzerland - Canada elected to one of non-permanent seats on the Council of the League of Nations.
1917 Quebec Quebec - Dominion Bridge finishes construction of centre span of Quebec Bridge; will open for traffic Dec. 3.
1916 Flers-Courcelette France - 22nd (Quebec) 25th (Nova Scotia) and 26th (New Brunswick) battalions take Courcelette; as British launch new Somme offensive; tanks used for the first time in modern warfare.
1881 New Brunswick - First Acadian festival takes place.
1874 Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan - Cree, Saulteaux, Assiniboine and others sign Treaty #4 in Southern Saskatchewan and Alberta; 120,054 sq km; $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction; acreage.
1870 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Central Railway opens from ChaudiÃ¨re (Broad Street) Station to Carleton Place.
1860 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Edward, Prince of Wales, starts touring British North America and the Colonies; first official Royal visit to Canada.
1842 Montreal Quebec - William Draper resigns from Executive Council and Assembly to let more French Canadians into government.
1841 Washington DC - John Tyler US President issues proclamation to suppress secret societies; directed at Canadian republicans.
1823 Montreal Quebec - A whale is sighted in Montreal harbour.
1777 Montreal Quebec - John Butler receives Royal Warrant to raise Butler's Rangers, a regiment of loyalists.
1773 Pictou, Nova Scotia - Ship 'Hector' arrives in Pictou with 200 Scottish immigrants, mostly tenant farmers fleeing high rents in Loch Broom in Sutherland.
1763 Quebec Quebec - AbbÃ© Montgolfier elected Bishop of Quebec in secret.
1749 Montreal Quebec - First domestic grapes harvested in New France.
1697 York Factory NWT - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 recaptures York Factory.
1688 Fort Niagara New York - Jacques-RenÃ© de Brisay de Denonville 1637-1710 abandons and demolishes Fort Niagara at demand of Iroquois.
1664 Quebec Quebec - Creation of first New France parish: Notre-Dame de QuÃ©bec.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Mgr. de Laval arrives in Quebec with the colony's first church organ.
1587 England - John Davis c1543-1605 arrives back in England with important charts of Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador.
1535 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 decides to winter in country, lays up his ships in Ste-Croix River (now St-Charles); Donnacona tries to stop him from going upriver.

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henric · Sep 15, 2013

September 16th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

307 – Emperor Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.
1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1620 – The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America
1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.
1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
1812 – The Fire of Moscow (1812) begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.
1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured.
1940 – World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
1941 – World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno.
1945 – World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong. The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan PerÃ³n of Argentina is launched at midnight on this date.
1955 – A Soviet Navy Zulu class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile.
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
1971 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
1975 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
1975 – The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
1975 – The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
1978 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
1980 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
1982 – Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
1990 – The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan becomes complete at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
1991 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
1992 – Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn FÃ©in and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples, Italy.
2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
2007 – Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide allegedly shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad; all criminal charges against them are later dismissed, sparking outrage in the Arab world.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1914 CANADA GETS AN AIR FORCE
Ottawa Ontario - Sir Sam Hughes sets up the first Canadian military air service, the Canadian Aviation Corps; forerunner of the RCAF.

1939
Halifax Nova Scotia - The first escorted ship convoy leaves Halifax for Britain; in formation to protect against German U-Boat attacks.

In Other Events....

2000 Sydney, Australia - Opening of 27th Olympic games scheduled at Sydney, televised by NBC
1996 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leafs defenceman Borje Salming, Boston Bruins right winger Bobby Bauer, CBC announcer Bob Cole and New York Islanders coach Al Arbour, winner of four consecutive Stanley Cup titles, inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame.
1993 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces inquiry to recommend how to reform the blood system to make it more efficient and safer; day after provinces announce compensation plan for people who contracted HIV through tainted blood products before officials started screening blood for the AIDS virus.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Brian Perry of the Canadian Tax Foundation says taxes increasing; OECD report says Canada's tax revenues up to 39.4% of GNP in 1991; up from 37.1% in 1990 and 34.5% in 1989; versus US rate of under 30%.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes bill passed ending Family Allowance baby bonus system; replaced by more support for working poor, and an earned income supplement for those working; benefit shrinks as income rises.
1992 Quebec Quebec - Quebec bureaucrat Diane Wilhelmy sees her taped telephone call released criticizing Premier Robert Bourassa for 'caving in' during talks leading to the Charlottetown Accord.
1991 Hollywood California - Jenny Jones debuts her TV talk show 'The Jenny Jones Show' in syndication; born in London, Ontario, Jones started her career touring Canada and the US as a drummer in a rock band; she then worked as a backup singer/arranger with Wayne Newton in Las Vegas, formed her own band, 'Jenny Jones and Company', worked on the game show and standup comedy circuit, then, after a one-year tour with Englebert Humperdinck, developed a popular comedy show for women called Girls' Night Out, which led to a contract with Warner Brothers, who developed her show.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Montreal conference sponsored by the UN Environmental Program; 24 countries and the European Community sign Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to protect Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to control and reduce use of cholorfluorocarbons or CFCs by the year 2000; 49 other countries express their approval but for various reasons do not sign the protocol.
1988 Seoul, South Korea - Canadian team attends opening ceremonies of the 24th Olympiad in Seoul; events start the next day.
1984 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pope John Paul II spends the morning in Winnipeg, then flies to Edmonton that evening; first papal visit to Canada.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Federal-provincial conference on the constitution ends in quibbling.
1974 Regina Saskatchewan - Canada's first female RCMP recruits sworn into the force as constables.
1974 Montreal Quebec - Gary Carter plays his first game as a Montreal Expo; in Jarry Park.
1973 Hollywood California - Vancouver-born actor Raymond Burr stars in The New Perry Mason, a CBS revival of his TV crime drama.
1969 Taiwan - Atomic Energy of Canada sells $35 million nuclear research reactor to Taiwan Atomic Energy Council.
1964 Blaine Washington - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 signs Columbia River Treaty with President Lyndon Johnson; after being ratified by both countries.
1963 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canada sells Soviet Union $500 million worth of wheat.
1962 Sudbury Ontario - International Nickel Company grants $2.5 million to Laurentian University in Sudbury.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - J. Grant Glassco chairs Royal Commission to examine role and programs of federal government.
1960 New York City - Canadian diplomat Yves PrÃ©vost becomes President of the United Nations General Assembly.
1957 Canada - Canada hit by epidemic of Asian flu.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament publishes a White Paper on the defense of Canada.
1957 Arvida Quebec - 6,500 Aluminum Company of Canada employees at Arvida end four-month strike.
1946 Temiskaming Quebec - RÃ©al Caouette elected MP for the riding of Pontiac; later CrÃ©ditiste leader.
1945 Hong Kong, China - British accept formal surrender of Hong Kong from the Japanese.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Canada recognizes provisional government of French Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle.
1943 Salerno Italy - Germans fail to wipe out Salerno beachhead.
1939 Halifax Nova Scotia - First escorted convoy leaves Halifax for Britain.
1918 Vancouver BC - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 returns to Vancouver from his Canadian Arctic Expedition, begun in 1913.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Cardinal BÃ©gin asks Quebeckers to vote for prohibition; they do not.
1916 Courcelette France - John Chipman Kerr 1887-1963 of the 49th Canadian Infantry Battalion, born in Fox River, Nova Scotia, earns a Victoria Cross for his actions at Courcelette during the Somme offensive; during a bombing attack he runs along the parados under heavy fire until he is in close contact with the enemy, and opens fire at point blank range; thinking they are surrounded, 62 Germans surrender; giving up 250 yards of trench; although Private Kerr's fingers have been blown off by a bomb, he escorts the prisoners back under fire with two other men before having his wound dressed.
1916 Ontario - Prohibition goes into effect in Ontario, after a night when liquor stores and saloons sell out all their stocks.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Sir Sam Hughes forms the Canadian Aviation Corps; first Canadian military air service.
1901 Canada - Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visit Canada until October 21; later King George V 1865-1936 and Queen Mary.
1893 Calgary Alberta - Calgary incorporated as Alberta's first city; population has grown to almost 4,000 people in the decade following the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway; only community between Winnipeg and the Pacific with a water works and sewer system.
1891 Edmonton Alberta - First train-load of Austro-Hungarian settlers from the provinces of Galicia and Bukovyna arrive in Alberta; forced to leave because of over-population and crop failures, and attracted to western Canada by the Homestead Act which provided 160 acres for $10.00.
1876 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the railway from Montreal north to St-Jerome.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Alfred Boyd the first Premier of Manitoba as the first Executive Council of the province is organized.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Lord Elgin sworn in as Governor of the province of Canada.
1839 Coppermine NWT - Thomas Simpson reaches Coppermine River with Dease after completing longest voyage by boat on Arctic Ocean.
1825 Quebec Quebec - Governor Dalhousie arrives at Quebec.
1812 Presqu'Ile, Ontario - British victory in a skirmish at Presqu'Ile in the War of 1812.
1791 London England - King George III demands that all French coats of arms be removed from Quebec.
1773 Pictou, Nova Scotia - Ship Hector drops anchor at Brown's Point, and starts landing 182 Scottish Highlanders, mostly tenant farmers fleeing high rents in Loch Broom in Sutherland.
1759 Quebec Quebec - English census shows many French remaining inside the blasted out town of Quebec after its capture, including 2,600 women and children, as well as 1,200 wounded or sick.
1669 Ile d'Orleans, Quebec - FranÃ§ois Jarret de VerchÃ¨res (1641-1700) marries 14 year old Marie Perrot; their daughter is the heroine Madeleine Jarret de VerchÃ¨res 1678-1747.
1638 Paris France - Prince Louis born in the Palais du Louvre; becomes Louis XIV, King of France, at age 5, and will rule for 72 years; Canada his personal property.

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henric · Sep 16, 2013

September 17th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

456 – Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged with a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.
1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro FrÃ³ilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego GelmÃrez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
1462 – The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
1577 – The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1631 – Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
1716 – Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine Regiment at the age of 17, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
1809 – Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.
1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
1894 – The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German LuftstreitkrÃ¤fte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1924 – The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
1924 – The Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian is formed.
1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
1939 – World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
1939 – Taisto MÃ¤ki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
1940 – World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.
1941 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued.
1943 – World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans.
1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
1948 – The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
1957 – Malaysia joins the United Nations.
1961 – The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.
1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
1980 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
1980 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in AsunciÃ³n, Paraguay.
1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
1987 – Pope John Paul II embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting San Francisco.
1991 – Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
2006 – An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc GyurcsÃ¡ny is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
2007 – AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York City
2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1984 MULRONEY TAKES OFFICE
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- takes office, sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister at age 45; with 40 Cabinet members, the biggest cabinet in Canadian history; including ex PM Joe Clark 1939- as Minister of External Affairs.

1792
Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Governor John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 convenes the first meeting of the legislature of Upper Canada at Newark [Niagara]. Here he is inspecting the troops outside Navy Hall, with the US Fort Niagara in the right background, across the Niagara River..

1970
Ottawa Ontario - Jack McClelland and Claude Ryan launch the Committee for an Independent Canada, to protest high levels of foreign investment in Canada, and the tax breaks enjoyed by US magazines such as Time and Readers Digest. The nationalist group, which originated with Walter Gordon, Abe Rotstein and Peter C. Newman, will present a 170,000 name petition in June 1971 to PM Trudeau demanding limits on foreign investment. The CIC, whose policies will help justify such institutions as FIRA and Petro-Canada, disbands in 1981.

In Other Events....

1996 Toronto Ontario - Vancouver actor Michael J. Fox debuts in situation comedy 'Spin City' on ABC-TV.
1995 Gustafsen Lake, BC - End of armed standoff between police and natives occupying a private ranch after medicine man allowed into the native camp; 17 people charged by RCMP.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports record Canadian trade levels; exports rise to $13.1 billion; imports to $12.5 billion in July; merchandise trade surplus of $623 million; projected federal deficit $30 billion.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister Marcel Masse cites end of Cold War as Canada to cut military in Europe from 6,600 to 1,100 over 15 years saving $11 billion; Baden-Solingen base to close in 1994 and Lahr in 1995.
1991 Brooklyn, NY - Only 4,355 turn out to see the Expos play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium.
1988 Seoul, South Korea - Games of the 24th Olympiad begin in Seoul, with the Canadian team joining 14,000 athletes from 160 countries.
1987 Hollywood California - Montreal actor William Shatner stars in last episode of TV crime drama T.J. Hooker on CBS.
1978 Hollywood California - Toronto actor Lorne Greene stars in new TV sci-fi adventure, Battlestar Galactica, on ABC.
1975 Winnipeg Manitoba - Guess Who Day is declared in Winnipeg to honour the local supergroup.
1974 Regina Saskatchewan - First female RCMP recruits start training at Regina.
1975 Houston Texas - Gordie Howe appointed President of the Houston Aeros hockey team; Floral, Saskatchewan, native the first playing president in major league sports.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Renaude Lapointe elected Speaker of the Senate.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Opening of Cartier-BrÃ©beuf National Historic Park in Quebec City; in honour of Jacques Cartier and Jean de BrÃ©beuf.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Guy Lafleur plays his first NHL game with the Canadiens.
1963 United Nations, New York - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 addresses UN General Assembly, outlining proposals to strengthen peace-keeping forces.
1953 Quebec Quebec - Jean Lesage appointed Quebec Minister of Natural Resources; later Premier.
1952 North York Ontario - Edwin Alonzo Boyd 1914- captured in barn near Toronto, with William Russell Jackson, and Leonard Jackson; after biggest manhunt in Canadian history.
1951 NWT - First elections held for North West Territories Council, to sit in Yellowknife.
1949 Washington DC - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 represents Canada at first NATO meeting.
1949 Toronto Ontario - Early morning fire consumes the Canada Steamship Lines cruise liner SS Noronic moored at its dock in Toronto harbour, killing 130 of 522 passengers, mostly American tourists. The Canada Steamship Lines vessel, built at Port Arthur in 1913, was the largest Canadian and most luxurious passenger steamer ever placed in service on the Great Lakes.
1945 Montreal Quebec - Trans Canada Airlines' first Constellation passenger plane arrives at Dorval airport.
1944 Boulogne France - Canadians besiege Germans in French port of Boulogne.
1944 Arnhem Holland - Bernard Montgomery launches unsuccessful airborne offensive at Arnhem to capture five bridges across the Rhine; Canadians participate in Operation Market-Garden.
1942 Rimouski Quebec - Canadian warship attacks German U-Boat in the St. Lawrence before the submarine flees.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Strikes declared illegal for the remainder of the war.
1917 Ste-Foy, Quebec - Dominion Bridge cranes start to lift the central span of the 2nd Quebec Bridge slowly into position; succeed on the 20th; finally opens to traffic Dec. 3.
1908 Ottawa Ontario - Dissolution of the 10th federal Parliament.
1908 Montreal Quebec - Octave-Henri Julien 1852-1908 dies; painter, caricaturist, born at Quebec City May 14, 1852; Julien began his career with the Desbarats printing firm in 1868; 1874 traveled with the NWMP expeditionary force sent to suppress the liquor traffic on the Prairies for the Canadian Illustrated News; 1888 art director and cartoonist for the Montreal Star.
1904 Quebec Quebec - Captain Joseph Bernier 1852-1934 departs from Quebec on the Canadian government steamship Arctic; given the command because of his interest in the Polar regions (he had devised a plan to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait); will make 12 expeditions into polar seas in the next 20 years; he will spend the winter in Hudson Bay collecting Canadian customs duties from whalers and traders.
1878 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 defeats Alexander Mackenzie in Canada's 4th general election 142 seats to 64 ; PM to June 6, 1891; secret ballot and simultaneous voting first used; HonorÃ© Mercier loses his seat by only 6 votes.
1870 St. Norbert, Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 makes secret visit to St. Norbert; urges Metis not to support Fenians; given support by Cartier and Macdonald through Donald Smith and the HBC.
1868 Barkerville, BC - Barkerville burns to the ground after a miner tries to kiss a dance hall girl; in their struggle, they dislodge a stovepipe and set the canvas ceiling of the saloon on fire; residents forced to take refuge from the heat and the sparks in Williams Creek; the gold mining town will be rebuilt, but will eventually become a ghost town.
1859 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Victoria Railway Bridge; takes Grand Trunk trains from Montreal Island to the south shore.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Montreal Municipal Library, with 2,000 volumes.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Montreal Municipal Library, with 2,000 volumes.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841, diagnosed with tetanus, caused by a fall from his horse; will die two days later.
1835 Quebec Quebec - Governor Lord Aylmer leaves Quebec for England.
1792 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Antoine Panet 1751-1815 elected first Speaker of the Lower Canada Assembly by a vote of 28-18; favours French language.
1764 Quebec Quebec - Court system set up in Quebec; legal cases arising prior to Oct. 1 allowed to be tried in common courts in French; Walter Murray appointed Receiver General.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Claude Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, lieutenant du roi at Quebec, signs the French capitulation of Quebec; the following day hands over the town to General George Townshend, Wolfe's successor.
1747 Quebec Quebec - Roland-Michel Barrin, Marquis de la GalissoniÃ¨re 1693-1756 arrives at Quebec to serve as commandant general of New France; serves to Oct. 21 1749; advocates building a string of garrisoned posts down the Ohio Valley to hold the English colonies along the east coast, and distract the English militarily.
1672 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade, Count Frontenac presides over his first meeting of the Sovereign Council of New France; announces the war now existing between France and Holland, and therefore with the Dutch colony to the south.

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henric · Sep 17, 2013

September 18th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

14 – Tiberius is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1454 – In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final voyage.
1635 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1714 – George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming king on August 1st.
1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1759 – Seven Years War: the British capture Quebec City.
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 – First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872 – King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1873 – Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1889 – Hull House, the United States' most influential settlement house, opens in Chicago.
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
1895 – Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
1898 – Fashoda Incident – Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1910 – In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1911 – Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1922 – Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1934 – The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at SobibÃ³r.
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 – Operation Polo is terminated after Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army.
1948 – Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag HammarskjÃ¶ld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964 – Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
1964 – North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981 – AssemblÃ©e Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1987 – Jerzy Kukuczka becomes the second mountaineer to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
1992 – An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
1998 – ICANN is formed.
2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1989 OPP ARREST BOB RAE
Temagami Ontario - Ontario NDP Leader Bob Rae arrested with 15 others in Temagami Wilderness Society anti-logging blockade near a stand of old-growth white pines. An Ontario Supreme Court ruling Sept. 14 had rejected a provincial injunction against the demonstrators; by Sept. 30, 90 arrests were made, with 49 charged for mischief.

1867
Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins first Dominion election, defeating George Brown with 51.1% of the popular vote; gets 108 seats to Liberal 72; balloting took place from Aug 9 to Sept 18. Here he is speaking to a Toronto crowd during the campaign.

In Other Events....

1994 Winnipeg Manitoba - National Party of Canada collapses due to party infighting; nationalist group founded in 1992 by Edmonton publisher Mel Hurtig to promote Canadian unity.
1992 Yellowknife NWT - Toronto comedy production, The Kids In The Hall, debuts on CBS; after run on HBO.
1992 Yellowknife NWT - Explosion rocks Giant Gold mine, killing 9 miners, during labour dispute; miner later charged with first-degree murder.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Trade Minister Michael Wilson says South Korea buying 2 CANDU reactors for $1 billion; will restore prosperity to Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - PSAC President Daryl Bean calls Public Service Alliance of Canada strikers back to work to negotiate new contract.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Toronto loses bid to host 1996 Olympic Games; IOC chooses Atlanta over Athens, then Toronto; will be 100th Anniversary of modern games.
1984 Edmonton Alberta - Team Canada defeats Team Sweden 6-5 in second of 3-game playoff to win Canada Cup.
1984 Fort Simpson, NWT - Pope John Paul II prevented by heavy fog from visiting thousands of Chipewyan First Nations people gathered in Fort Simpson; he promises to return, and flies to Vancouver; will make good his promise Sept. 20, 1987.
1978 PEI - Bennett Campbell 1943- takes office as Liberal Premier of Prince Edward Island succeeding Alex Campbell.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- opens 3rd session of the 30th Parliament; reads Throne Speech for the first time since 1957; session meets until Oct. 10, 1978.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler 1923- again acquitted of performing illegal abortion.
1975 Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- leads PCs to minority win in Ontario election, taking 5l of 125 seats; NDP official opposition; first minority government in 30 years.
1973 Fort McMurray, Alberta - Syncrude Canada Ltd. to build synthetic crude plant that will produce 21,250,000 Litres a day.
1971 Toronto Ontario - John Bassett 1915- publisher of the Toronto Telegram announces that the newspaper will close Oct. 30.
1971 VerchÃ¨res Quebec - VerchÃ¨res incorporated.
1965 Chambly Quebec - Chambly incorporated.
1956 Quebec - AdÃ©lard Godbout dies; former Premier of Quebec.
1954 Toronto Ontario - Gallup Poll says a family of four can live comfortably on $50 a week, more than $10 less than the estimate of $60.56 in 1951; half of this amount spent on food.
1947 Quebec Quebec - Laval University starts construction of its CitÃ© Universitaire de QuÃ©bec.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/ Radio Canada authorized to start a national radio service.
1936 St-Telesphore, Quebec - CPR tests new lightweight streamlined passenger train; 4-4-4 locomotive #3003 hits officially recorded speed of 112.5 mph on the Canadian Pacific Winchester Subdivision line.
1899 Toronto Ontario - Mayor John Shaw formally opens the new Toronto City Hall; built at a cost of $2.5 million, the building still sits at the head of Bay Street.
1885 Montreal Quebec - Riots break out in Montreal to protest compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1875 Ottawa Ontario - William Buell Richards 1815-1889 appointed first Chief Justice of the new Supreme Court of Canada, founded on this day; will hold its first session in 1876.
1873 New York City - Panic caused by failure of the brokerage firm of Jay Cooke and Co. results in a five-year depression in North America; Cooke was trying to compete with the CPR, and meddled in Canadian politics.
1867 Halifax Nova Scotia - Joseph Howe 1804-1873 defeats Charles Tupper in double federal and provincial election; gets mandate to go to Ottawa to fight for better terms.
1867 Amherst Nova Scotia - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 first elected to the House of Commons; re-elected 1870, 1872, 1874, 1878, 1882; Canada's 6th Prime Minister.
1867 Belleville Ontario - Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 wins riding of Hastings; re-elected 1872, 1874, 1878, 1887 and 1891; later Canada's 5th Prime Minister.
1867 Montreal Quebec - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 first elected to the House of Commons; re-elected 1872, 1874; Dean of the Faculty of Law, McGill University; later Canada's 3rd Prime Minister.
1865 Ottawa Ontario - End of the 4th Session of the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada.
1841 Montreal Quebec - Solicitor-General Charles Day 1806-1884 passes Public Schools Act; $80,000 annually for elementary schools in Canada West, $120,000 for Canada East; creation of the post of Superintendent of Public Schools; teachers to be paid $68 a year.
1841 Montreal Quebec - End of the 1st session of the 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada; Assembly passes first Canadian Copyright Act.
1841 PEI - Census shows population of Prince Edward Island to be about 50,000.
1840 Montreal Quebec - Montreal adopts its official city seal.
1813 Detroit Michigan - US General William Henry Harrison 1773-1841 forces Proctor to evacuate Detroit and withdraw up Thames River toward Lake Ontario; catches Proctor at Moraviantown Oct. 5.
1787 Montreal Quebec - Prince William, later King William IV, visits Montreal.
1777 Quebec Quebec - Frederick Haldimand 1718-1791 appointed Governor of Quebec; following Carleton's resignation on June 26.
1762 St. John's Newfoundland - William Colville, Lord Amherst retakes Fort William Henry from Joseph d'Haussonville; last French-English battle in North America.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Roch de Ramezay 1708-1777 surrenders Quebec garrison to Townshend after LÃ©vis withdraws to Montreal; Brigadier General James Murray takes over as Governor, and sets about repairing the defenses; his garrison of 7,000 troops has meagre rations and rapidly falls victim to illness, particularly scurvy; by April, only about 3,000 troops will be fit to fight.
1679 Green Bay Wisconsin - RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 reaches Green Bay in Lake Michigan; continues south along Wisconsin shore; orders his ship the Griffin back to Niagara with a load of valuable furs; it is never seen again.
1663 Quebec Quebec - First meeting of the Conseil Souverain (Sovereign Council) of New France; consists of Governor, bishop, 5 councillors.
1608 Quebec Quebec - PontgravÃ© leaves Quebec to return to France.

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henric · Sep 18, 2013

September 19th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

335 – Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I.
634 – Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
1356 – Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
1846 – Two French shepherd children, MÃ©lanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Iuka – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
1893 – Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr..
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1944 – Battle of HÃ¼rtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
1945 – Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
1971 – Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
1976 – Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons

and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the TÃ¹nÃ¹rÃ¹ Desert, Niger, killing 171.
1991 – Ã–tzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
2011 – Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1985 TUNAGATE SCANDAL HITS MULRONEY MINISTER
Ottawa Ontario - Fisheries Minister John Fraser reverses himself, and orders a recall of 1,000,000 cans of rancid tuna after media reports that some cans contained rotting fish. Fraser resigns Sept. 23 because his Ministry at first refused to recall the Star-Kist product. He is later elected Speaker of the House of Commons.

1980
Ottawa Ontario - Terry Fox 1958-1981 invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada. The one-legged cancer victim whose marathon run across Canada raised millions of dollars for cancer research is the youngest so honoured.

In Other Events....

1996 Ottawa Ontario - CBC/Radio Canada President Perrin Beatty announces 2,500 job cuts must be made in the coming months.
1993 Quebec - Quebec labour group FTQ (FÃ©dÃ©ration des travailleurs quÃ©bÃ©cois) announces it will support the Bloc Quebecois in the federal election.
1991 Vancouver BC - Kim Campbell announces $236 million support toward building $700 million KAON particle accelerator in Vancouver.
1988 Washington DC - US Senate ratifies Canada-U-S Free Trade Agreement by a vote of 83-9. The vote marked the last step in the American legislative approval process. The agreement, aimed at eliminating trade barriers, began taking effect the following January.
1984 Ottawa Ontario -Pope John Paul II arrives in Ottawa/Hull; holds a mass on LeBreton Flats; meets with the Canadian bishops, and returns to Rome Sept. 20.
1980 Hollywood California - Canadian actor Donald Sutherland stars in 'Ordinary People', with Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton, opening in movie houses on this day.
1978 Nova Scotia - John MacLellan Buchanan 1931- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory in provincial election; defeating Liberals under Gerald Regan.
1977 Tyuratam, Kazakhstan - USSR launches 4,500 kg Cosmos 954 satellite; will re-enter the atmosphere 4 months later and crash over North West Territories, spreading radioactive debris.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - King Beaudoin of Belgium starts official visit to Canada.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Legislature recognizes Northern Ontario Heritage Party as Ontario's newest political party.
1970 New York City - Saskatchewan singer Buffy St. Marie appears on Rolling Stones new 'Performance' soundtrack LP, with Ry Cooder and Randy Newman.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to reorganize Canadian Armed Forces; 50% cut in NATO manpower; retirement of aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Leopold Senghor, President of Senegal, arrives in Canada for 10-day visit.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Government starts redeveloping Confederation Square and Union Station area of Ottawa; at cost of $100 million; station becomes the Government Conference Centre.
1962 London England - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opposes entry of Britain into European Economic Community; at Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference.
1960 Calgary Alberta - University of Alberta opens new 130 hectare campus on western outskirts of Calgary; Arts & Education and Science & Engineering buildings the first to open; University becomes fully autonomous in 1966.
1956 Des Joachims, Ontario - Ontario Premier Leslie Miscampbell Frost 1895-1975 turns first sod for Canada's first nuclear power station at Des Joachims.
1954 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Canadian Actors Equity, the association of professional stage, radio and TV performers.
1953 New York City - Winnipeg's Gisele MacKenzie takes over as host on NBC-TVÃ•s Your Hit Parade; her biggest hit song during this stint (1953-57) is 'Hard to Get' in June of 1955.
1950 Flushing Meadows, New York - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 chairs Canadian delegation at fifth regular session of United Nations General Assembly; until December 15.
1941 Atlantic - German U-Boat sinks Canadian corvette HMCS Levis.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Norman McLarty becomes Minister of Labour, responsible for Wartime Prices and Trade Board; moved from Postmaster General.
1932 Quebec Quebec - Camilien Houde resigns after four years as leader of the Quebec Conservative Party; succeeded by Maurice Duplessis; MLA for Ste-Marie 1923-27; Mayor of Montreal 1928, but went back to the Assembly in a by-election; lost his seat when his party was defeated in the 1931 general election.
1918 London England - Canadian YMCA sets up the Khaki University of Canada to give vocational training to Canadian troops stationed in Britain and on the continent.
1916 Montreal Quebec - 6th Field battery of Montreal embarks for service in France.
1911 Montreal Quebec - Henri Bourassa hosts a large 'autonomiste' meeting in Montreal; to promote Canadian self-reliance in manufacturing.
1907 Paris France - Canada signs commercial treaty with France; near reciprocity on farm, forestry, leather products; ratified February 1, 1910.
1903 Montreal Quebec - Henri Bourassa proposes a free trade treaty with the United States.
1891 Sarnia Ontario - Grand Trunk Railway opens the single track St. Clair Tunnel under the St. Clair River to Port Huron, connecting the Grand Trunk Railroad to lines in Michigan; construction began in 1888.
1889 Quebec Quebec - Rock slide into Quebec City's lower town kills 45 people.
1876 Ottawa Ontario - Talks begin to set up the Ottawa Football Club; in 1898, it will re-organizes itself as the Ottawa Rough Riders.
1856 Montreal Quebec - AbbÃ© Chiniquy suspended from the priesthood for his liberal ideas.
1842 Kingston Ontario - Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine 1807-1864 appointed Attorney-General for Canada East.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841, dies of tetanus, caused by a fall from his horse two days earlier.
1839 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia - Official opening of the Albion Mines Railway to the Albion Coal Mines; operations began in Dec. 1838 using the Timothy Hackwork steam locomotives Samson, Hercules and John Buddle imported from England.
1838 Montreal Quebec - Lord Durham learns that he is being recalled to London.
1772 New Brunswick - Mathurin Bourg the first Acadian to be ordained a priest.
1770 London England - Walter Patterson c1735-1798 appointed first Governor of St. John Island (PEI); serves to May, 1784.
1747 Quebec Quebec - Roland-Michel Barrin de La GalissoniÃ¨re 1693-1756 appointed temporary Governor after JonquiÃ¨re's capture; serves to August 14, 1749.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Germain Morin the first priest to be ordained in Quebec.
1655 Quebec Quebec - Fathers Chaumonot & Dablon leave Quebec to establish mission in Onondaga territory.
1654 Trois-RiviÃ¨res, Quebec - First Canadian marriage on record, when 11 year old Marguerite SÃ©dilot marries Jean Aubuchon.
1648 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Boisdon opens Quebec's first licensed tavern; forbidden to open when church services being held.
1542 Quebec Quebec - Ausillion de Sauveterre pardoned by Roberval; the pardon is New France and Canada's oldest official document extant.
1535 Lac St-Pierre, Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves Quebec and sails upriver in L'Emerillon; reaches lake he calls Lac AngoulÃ¨me on the 28th, then village of Hochelaga (Montreal) Oct. 2

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henric · Sep 19, 2013

September 20th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

480 BC – Greeks defeat Persians in the Battle of Salamis
1058 – Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
1066 – Battle of Fulford, Viking Harold Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin (both died in the battle)
1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1260 – the Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1498 – The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from SanlÃºcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1697 – The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).
1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 kmÂ²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1792 – French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy.
1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
1920 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1962 – James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
1970 – Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1979 – A coup d'Ã©tat in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
1985 – Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government.
1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
2000 – The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
2002 – The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
2003 – Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in MalÃ©.
2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
2011 – The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1984 POPE HOLDS FINAL MASS IN CANADA
Ottawa Ontario - Pope John Paul II holds huge outdoor mass on LeBreton flats in Ottawa before returning to Vatican; on 12 day papal visit to Canada.

In Other Events....

1995 Toronto Ontario - MCI Communications Corp, offers $1-billion (U.S.) for SHL Systemhouse Inc, Canada's fifth-largest technology company.
1992 Saskatchewan - Royal Bank reports per capita debt in Sask. $14,000; highest in Canada; 75% higher than Quebec"; total provincial debt almost $14 billion.
1991 London England - Fredrick Eaton appointed Canadian High Commissioner to Britain, replacing Donald Macdonald; department store tycoon and major Tory contributor.
1991 Portage La Prairie, Manitoba - Ottawa will spend $165 million over five years to train pilots at military base; to compensate for shutdown of Base Portage.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Bob Rae 1949- proposes social charter in Constitution; medical care, unemployment insurance, education.
1987 Fort Simpson, NWT - Pope John Paul II arrives to hold a mass for the people of Fort Simpson, fulfilling a promise he made Sept. 18, 1984, when fog prevented him from making a planned visit.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pope John Paul II holds huge outdoor mass on LeBreton flats in Ottawa before returning to Vatican; on papal visit to Canada.
1983 Alberta - Alberta, Ottawa and Esso Resources Canada agree to scaled-down Cold Lake oil sands project.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts 3-year program to protect textile and clothing industry from imports.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and US sign agreement for construction of natural gas pipeline across Yukon; for shipment of Alaska natural gas.
1977 Sudbury Ontario - Inco announces layoffs of 3,500 workers in Canada by mid-1978.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces removal of wage and price controls, effective April 14, 1978.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises average US export price of natural gas by 66%; BC then raises price of its natural gas exported to the US by 50%.
1972 Ottawa/Montreal - RCMP bomb squad defuses a letter bomb in a park after removing it from the Israeli Consulate. At the Israeli Embassy in Ottawa, the RCMP find explosives in one of six envelopes arriving from Amsterdam. Arab terrorist group Black September believed responsible; Israeli official in London, England, killed a day earlier after opening a letter.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa cancels development of $150 million intense neutron generator (ING).
1966 New Brunswick - Ottawa and New Brunswick agree to spend $114 million to fight rural poverty over next 10 years.
1966 United Nations New York - Paul Martin Sr. 1903- chairs 21st session of UN General Assembly; External Affairs Minister.
1965 Tanzania - Canada and Britain agree to share cost of survey for Zambia-Tanzania railway.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Mohammad Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan arrives, in Canada for five-day state visit.
1962 Esterhazy Saskatchewan - Opening of potash mine at world's largest known reserves at Esterhazy.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 resigns as leader of Progressive Conservative Party.
1944 San Fortunato Italy - Canadians take San Fortunato Ridge; Germans fight desperately to hold them back from Po Valley.
1943 Atlantic - German U-boats sink Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Croix using new acoustic torpedo.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 presents Military Voters Act, giving the vote to soldiers and sailors under 21, and serving women; female relatives of servicemen also get the vote.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes new tax on income as a 'temporary measure' to help pay for the war effort and post war recovery.
1854 London England - Edmund Walker Head 1805-1868 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from Dec. 19, 1854 to Oct. 25, 1861.
1819 Quebec Quebec - James Monk 1745-1826 appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves until March 17, 1820.
1816 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Opening of first stagecoach line from York to Niagara.
1745 Three Rivers PEI - New England force destroys French settlement at Three Rivers, Prince Edward Island.
1697 Rijswijk Netherlands - France and England sign Treaty of Ryswick, under which England, Spain, Holland and the Holy Roman Emperor make peace with France at the end of the War of the Grand Alliance (King William's War); all places taken during the war to be mutually restored; France returns York Factory to the Hudson's Bay Company and Newfoundland to the British in exchange for Acadia.
1656 London England - Thomas Temple c1614-1674 and William Crowne 1617-1682 acquire Charles de La Tour's rights to Acadia, in return for 5% of products.
1641 Quebec Quebec - Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve 1612-1676 arrives in New France to serve as Governor of Montreal.
1603 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to France to report on his findings; learns of death of de Chaste that May l3; presents Henri IV with map of St. Lawrence [map not found].
1603 Sable Island Nova Scotia - Thomas Chefdostel rescues eleven starving survivors of la Roche colony; convicts presented to Henri IV and pardoned; Norman captain.
1503 Newfoundland - First use of name 'Newfoundland,' in Daybooks of King's Payments; Canada's oldest place name of European origin.

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henric · Sep 20, 2013

September 21st 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in Battle of Matthew's Day.
1435 – An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years' War.
1745 – Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
1843 – John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government.
1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
1897 – The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.
1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
1933 – Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha Libre
1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate KonstantynÃ³w and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including JanÃ³w Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 – The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1953 – LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
1961 – Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 – Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1965 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law.
1976 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.
1977 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.
1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations.
1991 – Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
1999 – Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the September 11 attack victims.
2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1896 OPENING OF THE NEW OTTAWA EX
Ottawa Ontario - Official opening of the Central Exposition in the new Aberdeen Pavilion in Lansdowne Park grounds; known formerly as the Dominion Industrial Exhibition, now the Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa's fall fair started in 1879.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - The new Ottawa Senators hockey team play their first home exhibition game in the Civic Centre; lose 4-3 in overtime to the Washington Capitals. Ottawa is finally back in the NHL after 58 years; the old Stanley Cup winning Senators moved to St. Louis in 1934.

In Other Events....

1995 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada strikes down 7-year-old federal ban on tobacco advertising.
1995 Winnipeg Manitoba - Royal Canadian Mint issues first Canadian $2 pieces.
1992 Capilano BC - Brian Mulroney 1939- joins Premier Harcourt & First Nations in deal to set up BC Treaty Commission to broker land claims; to 'fast track' negotiations.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- publishes essay in L'ActualitÃ© and Macleans calling Quebec nationalists 'master blackmailers'; urges 'courage' to resist Quebec's demands, suggests No vote is best.
1990 Sarnia Ontario - Nova Corporation sells Polysar division to Bayer AG of Germany for $1.28 billion; Bayer agrees to protect 1,800 jobs at Sarnia.
1971 Canada - Canadian cigarette manufacturers to end broadcast advertising, effective Jan. 1, 1972.
1967 Waterloo Ontario - Peter van Ginkel appointed 'affiliate artist' at Waterloo Lutheran University (Wilfrid Laurier University); first such appointment in Canada.
1964 Geneva Switzerland - Blanche Margaret Meagher 1911- elected chairman of Board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency; Canadian Ambassador to Austria.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Place des Arts, despite demonstrations by separatists; new concert hall.
1960 Pakistan - Canada to grant $22,100,000 over 10 years to international fund to develop Indus River in Pakistan.
1957 Hollywood California - Raymond Burr stars in Perry Mason, premiering on CBS-TV; Vancouver-born actor
1944 Rimini Italy - Greeks and First Canadian Corps take Rimini; overall, the Canadians in Italy are bogged down in slow, vicious fighting from one Italian river to another.
1931 London England - Britain goes off the gold standard that Churchill had put them on in 1926; $Canadian hurt; down 25% in New York; TSE & Standard stock exchanges peg share prices.
1929 Calgary Alberta - Gerry Seiberling throws first legal forward pass in Canadian football to Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers in a game against Edmonton.
1928 Ontario - Post office introduces airmail stamps.
1911 Canada -Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 wins Canada's 12th federal general election 134 seats to 87, upsetting Laurier with 50.9% of popular vote; on issues of reciprocity and Canadian Navy.
1902 Oil City Alberta - Rocky Mountain Development Company strikes oil at 1,020 feet in the Waterton Lakes; the first oil find in Alberta.
1871 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange members regroup & agree on new rules, regulations & meeting room; cost of seat rises to $250; 34 issues listed.
1854 London Ontario - London gets city charter.
1826 Point Franklin Alaska - Frederick Beechey 1796-1856 explores Arctic coast in the Blossom; sails east of Bering Strait, from Icy Cape to Point Franklin.
1826 Return Reef Alaska - John Franklin 1786-1847 cuts short trek at Return Reef, without meeting Beechey and the Blossom; returns to Fort Franklin.
1826 Hull Quebec - John By 1781-1836 starts to build Rideau Canal; with Thomas MacKay contracting; until 1832.
1815 Ontario - Francis Gore 1769-1852 resumes office as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada until Jan. 6, 1818.
1814 Fort Erie Ontario - Gordon Drummond 1771-1854 calls off British attack on Fort Erie, retreats to Chippewa.
1812 Gananoque Ontario - Benjamin Forsyth leads American riflemen in raid on Gananoque.

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henric · Sep 21, 2013

September 22nd 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

66 – Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang Dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499 – Treaty of Basel
1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 – The last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies takes place.
1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 – Primidi VendÃ©miaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1823 – Joseph Smith, Jr. states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1866 – Battle of Curupaity in the Paraguayan War.
1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1914 – German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: PeÃ±a Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1957 – In Haiti, FranÃ§ois Duvalier is elected president.
1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1988 CANADA SAYS SORRY
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- apologizes in the name of the Government of Canada for the World War II internment of Japanese-Canadians, and announces a $300 million compensation package.

1877
Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta -
Chief Crowfoot (Isapo-Muxica) 1936-1890 leads the Blackfoot-speaking peoples - the Siksika (Blackfoot), Piikani (Peigan) and the Kainai (Blood), along with their allies the Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee) and their old adversaries the Nakoda (Stoney) - in a meeting with Commissioner David Laird and Lt-Col James MacLeod of the NWMP to make Treaty #7, at So-yo-pow-ahx-ko (Ridge Under Water), today's Blackfoot Crossing. Canada's last major first nations treaty is signed the following day; sets aside reserves of 69,039 sq km in the land south of Red Deer River and beside the Rocky Mountains; provides $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction, social benefits.

In Other Events....

1996 Lisbon Portugal - Jacques Villeneuve wins the Formula One Grand Prix of Portugal.
1995 Montreal Quebec - Opening of first Montreal Chamber Music Festival.
1995 Anchorage Alaska - AWACS plane with US and Canadian military personnel crashes on takeoff from Elmendorf Air Force Base, killing all 24 people aboard.
1994 Hollywood California - Ottawa actor Matthew Perry appears in premiere of TV Comedy Friends on NBC-TV.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - World Wildlife Fund says Canada losing 1 sq km of wilderness every hour, due to city sprawl, farming, roads, mining, hydro development; urges setting aside more parkland.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Provincial Round Table on Environment shows true hidden pollution costs of tap water, energy; wants ban on release of persistent toxic chemicals by year 2000.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Committee formed to support Charlottetown Accord; led by Yves Fortier, June Callwood, Marc Garneau, Robert Stanfield; Ed Broadbent, Bill Davis, Peter Lougheed, Iona Campagnolo.
1992 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Brian Mulroney 1939- signs land claim deal with Premier Romanow and Federation of Saskatchewan Indians; bands to acquire up to 670,000 hectares in lands entitled under treaties.
1991 Britain - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams' hit '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' stays at the #1 spot on the UK pop singles chart for the 12th straight week.
1988 Winnipeg Manitoba - Royal Canadian Mint starts production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin.
1987 Orleans Ontario - Quintuplets born to Kim and Lauren Forgie; Canada's first quints since the Dionnes of 1934.
1985 Champaign Illinois - Canadian performers Neil Young and Joni Mitchell join Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, John Fogerty and John Mellencamp in the first Farm Aid concert; help raise $10 million for midwest farmers.
1982 Los Angeles, California - Vancouver actor Michael J. Fox debuts in the NBC comedy, Family Ties.
1982 Nepal - Canadian Mount Everest Expedition establishes Camp 2; will make their final climb Oct. 5.
1976 Calgary Alberta - Premier Peter Lougheed opened the new Glenbow Centre, housing the Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery, Library, and Archives; $9 million facility opens with exhibit of western Canadian contemporary art, displays of First Nations cultures, pioneer artifacts, and military history.
1972 Moscow Russia - USSR beats Team Canada 5-4 in Game 5 of the super series before 15,000 fans, including 3,500 noisy Canadians; 13 days since game 4 in Vancouver; Phil Esposito slips on the ice, gets up and bows to the crowd with a big smile on his face during the player introductions; Paul Henderson suffers a mild concussion, but scores on his next shift; leading 3-0 after two periods, Team Canada gives up 5 third period goals on 11 shots, giving the Soviets a 3-1-1 lead in the series.
1970 Quebec - Creation of the Parc de la Mauricie.
1969 Ellesmere Island NWT - Canadian anthropologist Charles Marius Barbeau honoured by naming highest mountain in the Canadian Arctic Mt. Barbeau.
1968 St-Jovite, Quebec - Running of the first Player's Grand Prix at Mont Tremblant.
1967 Montreal Quebec - Expo 67 breaks attendance record of 42,973,561 set at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Cuban nationalists hit Cuban Embassy in Ottawa with bazooka.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO).
1959 Moscow Russia - Wilder Penfield 1891-1976 made member of Soviet Academy of Sciences; director of Montreal Neurological Institute; with Edgar Steacie 1900-1962, chairman of National Research Council.
1952 New Brunswick - Hugh John Flemming 1899- leads Conservatives to win in provincial election.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Government sets up censorship bureau under War Measures Act; to examine all political speeches.
1930 Ottawa Ontario - Bennett government passes Unemployment Relief Act at end of special parliamentary session; agrees to increase public works with emergency $20 million grant.
1929 Ste-Foy, Quebec - First vehicle traffic across the new Quebec Bridge.
1914 Montreal Quebec - Assembly of 32,000 volunteers to fight in France.
1906 Fernie BC - Coal miners at Fernie and Michel go on strike; until November 13.
1902 Ottawa Ontario - Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway becomes part of the Ottawa, Northern and Western Railway.
1892 Thetford-Mines, Quebec - Thetford Mines incorporated.
1883 Toronto Ontario - Grand Trunk Railway acquires the 452 mile Midland Railway to Collingwood and points north.
1874 Saskatchewan - Northwest Mounted Police estimate the Plains buffalo herd at one million animals; the last great herd moving south into the United States to be annihilated.
1874 Quebec Quebec - Charles-E. Boucher de Boucherville sworn in as Conservative Premier of Quebec.
1866 Charlottetown PEI - New Brunswick and Nova Scotia offer Prince Edward Island $800,000 support to join Confederation, but are unsuccessful.
1851 Quebec Quebec - Province of Canada capital moves in rotation to Quebec City from Toronto.
1836 Quebec Quebec - Opening of 3rd session of 15th Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until Oct. 4.1836.
1760 Montreal Quebec - William Colville, Lord Amherst divides Canada into the military districts of Quebec, Montreal and three Rivers; Thomas Gage c1719-1787 named military governor of Montreal.
1731 Crown Point, NY - Governor Marquis de Beauharnois starts building Fort St-FrÃ©dÃ©ric at Pointe la Chevelure (Crown Point) at the foot of Lake Champlain; small stockade for a garrison of only 30 men; replaced in 1736 by a limestone fort for 120 men; by 1742 the largest French fortress outside Quebec, and a centre for the Indian trade with the Abenakis of the St. Francis, the Arundacks of the Ottawa, and the Wyandots of the west.
1653 Quebec Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 lands at Quebec with de Maisonneuve and 100 soldiers to defend Montreal against the Iroquois; Bourgeoys intends to start a school in Montreal, but finds not enough children of school age because of heavy infant mortality.
1583 England - Golden Hind lands in England with sole survivors of Gilbert expedition to Newfoundland; Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 drowned in a storm off the Azores when his 10-ton frigate Squirrel went down with all hands.
1538 Paris France - Jacques Cartier receives 50 Ã©cus d'or for the instruction of the Indians.

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henric · Sep 22, 2013

September 23rd 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun.
1409 – Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming China by the Mongols since 1368.
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1568 – Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de UlÃºa near Veracruz.
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.
1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
1780 – American Revolution: British Major John AndrÃ© is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1899 – American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le FantÃ´me de l'OpÃ©ra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean(from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1936 – First ascent of Siniolchu by a German team.
1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
1941 – World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
1943 – World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 the first US friendly-fire incident on British Military personnel since World War II occurred.
1952 – Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
1959 – Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
1959 – The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
1973 – Juan PerÃ³n returns to power in Argentina.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
1983 – Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1988 – JosÃ© Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40–40 club.
1992 – A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.
1999 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
2004 – Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1973 CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS WIN PAY PARITY
Windsor Ontario - United Auto Workers and Chrysler sign a contract giving Canadian auto workers wage parity with the US for the first time.

1787

Toronto Ontario - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester purchases the site of Toronto from three Mississauga Indian chiefs in a meeting near the site of the old French Fort RouillÃ©. The Toronto Purchase costs the British Crown Â£1,700 in cash and trade goods; the land is surveyed a year later, but not settled for another six years.

1912

New York New York -
Richmond, Quebec-born Mack Sennett releases his first Keystone Comedy movie, financed by two of his bookie friends. He is already a silent screen veteran, acting with fellow Canadians Marie Dressler and Mary Pickford. In 1914, he directed 35 comedies featuring his new star Charles Chaplin. In 1935, after directing a Buster Keaton movie, he went bust, and returned to Canada a pauper. Here he is with Chaplin at D. W. Griffith's funeral in Hollywood in 1948.

In Other Events....

1992 Tampa Florida - Quebec hockey player Manon RhÃ©aume plays in goal for Tampa Bay Lightning, giving up 2 goals on 9 shots in 1 period; first woman to play in a NHL exhibition game, and on one of the 4 major professional sports teams.
1992 Vancouver BC - Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions football team from the CFL.
1991 Fredericton, New Brunswick - Frank McKenna wins New Brunswick election with 46 seats, down from 58 seat sweep; anti-bilingual Confederation of Regions Party forms official opposition; CoR wins 8 seats; 3 PC, 1 NDP.
1991 Toronto Ontario - NY Islanders Mike Bossy & Denis Potvin inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- appoints five new senators: James Kelleher, Trevor Eyton, Claude Castonguay, John Lynch-Staunton, Mabel DeWare; brings Senate up to strength.
1988 Seoul, South Korea - Canadian Ben Johnson sets world record in the 100 metre sprint at the Summer Olympic Games in 9.79 seconds against arch-rival, American Carl Lewis; later stripped of gold medal after testing positive for banned anabolic steroids.
1986 Canada - Gordie Drillon 1913-1986 dies; born Oct. 23 1913. Drillon was called up from the Syracuse Stars to the Toronto Maple Leafs to replace ailing Charlie Conacher; he played with Toronto until 1942, and was the last Leaf to win the NHL scoring title (1938).
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Fisheries Minister John Fraser resigned over the 'tuna affair'; in 1986 he will be elected Speaker of the House of Commons.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Guy Lafleur dismissed from public relations post with Montreal Canadiens.
1971 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Bernard Lortie found guilty of the 1970 kidnapping of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Holyoake Prime Minister of New Zealand starts visit to Canada.
1961 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968, pÃ¨re, elected leader of the Union Nationale Party.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Connie-Gail Feller dethroned after less than 6 weeks as Miss Canada because she returned home for a religious holiday without permission from officials; Feller, the first Ottawan to wear the crown, replaced by runner-up Miss Victoria.
1957 United Nations, New York - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 addresses UN General Assembly for first time.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the first Portuguese-Canada Club.
1925 Quebec Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King addresses the Liberal party conference in Quebec.
1915 France - Quebecker Joseph Tremblay the first Canadian soldier to dies at the front in World War I.
1908 Edmonton Alberta - Forty-five students attend first classes of the University of Alberta held on the top floor of an elementary school in Strathcona.
1907 Ottawa Ontario - Proclamation sets the fineness and weight of the silver and bronze coins of Canada.
1904 Fullerton NWT - Royal North West Mounted Police found post at Fullerton on Hudson Bay near Chesterfield Inlet.
1893 Eganville Ontario - Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens extension to Madawaska; will reach Depot Harbour at Parry Sound on Georgian Bay on Dec. 1, 1896.
1877 Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta - Crowfoot (Sahpo-Muxica) 1936-1890 signs Treaty #7 with other Blackfoot, Blood, Piegan, Sarcee and Stony chiefs, and Commissioner David Laird and Lt-Col James MacLeod of the NWMP. Gets 69,039 sq km; $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction; acreage; Canada's last major first nations treaty.
1874 Toronto Ontario - Toronto's Grand Opera House opens with a performance of Sheridan's Restoration comedy The School of Scandal.
1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ambroise-Dydime LÃ©pine l834-1923 arrested for treason; president of the court-martial which condemned Thomas Scott in 1870.
1873 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Canadian Labour Union as central organization representing 31 unions; first convention of organized labour; membership fees at five cents every three months; disbanded in 1878 after failing to become a national federation.
1871 Montebello Quebec - Louis-Joseph Papineau dies at his seigneury of Montebello.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe 1785-1846 dissolves Parliament and forces an election.
1675 Kingston Ontario - RenÃ© Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle 1643-1687 becomes the proprietor of Fort Frontenac, after being given letters of nobility and the seigneury of Cataraqui; will settle the site and use the fort as a base for western exploration.
1644 Quebec Quebec - Governor Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 lays the cornerstone of the church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix; with Father Lalemont.
1578 Bristol England - Humphrey Gilbert c1539-1583 sets sail on his first trip to North America for Queen Elizabeth; will be turned back at Cape Verde by the Spaniards.
1577 Gravesend England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 returns to England from his second voyage to the Arctic with 200 tons of ore as ballast; his three kidnapped Inuit, a man, woman and child, die a month later of influenza.

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henric · Sep 23, 2013

September 24th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

768 – Charlemagne is crowned the first King of the Franks.
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles
1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1674 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John AndrÃ© exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1830 – Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1853 – Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
1932 – Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.
1957 – Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1960 – USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
1968 – Swaziland joins the United Nations.
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
1990 – Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
1996 – Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
2007 – Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
2009 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1927 BIRTH OF THE LEAFS
Toronto Ontario - Conn Smythe changes the name of the NHL's Toronto St Patricks hockey team to the Maple Leafs.

1988
Seoul, Korea - Canada's Ben Johnson breaks his own world record to win the 100 meter gold medal in 9.79 seconds at the 24th Olympiad in Seoul. Johnson is forced by the lOC to return the medal and is disqualified from the Games after a positive steroid drug test two days later.

In Other Events....

1992 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays' Dave Winfield became the first 40 year old and the oldest major league player to knock in 100 RBIs. Winfield drove in four runs with a homer and a two-run double in and 8-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles.
1992 United Nations, New York - External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall says Canada will cut UN peacekeeping grant if others don't pay share; may pull out of Cyprus; 4,300 Canadian soldiers currently committed.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- presents 59 page 'Shaping Canada's Future Together'; blueprint for distinct society; elected Senate; will be taken across Canada by 30 member committee.
1990 BeausÃ©jour, New Brunswick - Jean Chretien 1934- to run in federal by-election in BeausÃ©jour, vacated by retiring MP Fernand Robichaud; represented St-Maurice 1963-1986.
1988 Seoul, South Korea - Canadian Ben Johnson sets world record in the 100 metre sprint at the Summer Olympic Games in 9.79 seconds against arch-rival, American Carl Lewis; later stripped of gold medal after testing positive for banned anabolic steroids.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Expo Andre Dawson get 6 RBIs in one inning (5th); ninth major leaguer to reach this mark.
1984 Moncton, New Brunswick - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts two-week Canadian tour with Prince Philip; visits New Brunswick, Ontario and Manitoba; tour delayed by the election.
1977 Vancouver BC - Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian dollar drops to 89.88Â¢; Bank of Canada arranges US $1.5 billion standby credit; for first time since 1939.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canada officially recognizes new Pinochet military government in Chile.
1972 Moscow Russia - Canadian NHL All Stars defeat Soviet team 3-2 in second game in the USSR; USSR still leads series 3-2 with one tie.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Ontario bans use of pesticide DDT, effective January 1, 1970.
1967 St-Tite, Quebec - Opening of the first Festival western de St-Tite.
1965 Chatham England - Royal Canadian Navy commissions HMCS Ojibwa, first of three Oberon class submarines.
1965 United Nations, New York - Bruce F. Macdonald 1917- appointed to command United Nations India-Pakistan Observation Mission.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens Garden of the Provinces in Ottawa.
1959 Regina Saskatchewan - Ross Thatcher elected leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, four years after quitting the NDP; later becomes Premier.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Defense Minister George Pearkes decides to cancel the Canadian fire control and missile systems of the Avro Arrow program; a major step in the road to final cancellation Feb. 20, 1959.
1957 Montreal Quebec - Molson family acquires Montreal Canadiens hockey club.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - External Affairs requests withdrawal of G.F. Popov, second secretary of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, for attempting to bribe an RCAF civilian employee.
1956 Washington DC - Canada signs atomic energy agreement with Britain and the United States in Washington.
1952 Toronto Ontario - Thieves make off with six boxes of gold bullion worth $300,000 from an unguarded building at Malton Airport. The gold, awaiting shipment to Montreal, is never found; likely flown to New York in a private plane and smuggled to Hong Kong.
1950 Toronto Ontario - Canadian military mission arrives in Tokyo; first Canadian unit dispatched to Korean conflict.
1945 Toronto Ontario - Edward Plunkett 'E. P.' Taylor 1901-1989 incorporates Canada's largest holding company, Argus Corporation; a private investment company to handle his Canadian Breweries and other holdings.
1942 Contact Creek, Yukon - Alaska Highway opened at Contact Creek, 305 miles north of Fort Nelson, BC.
1941 London England - Canada joins eight other allied governments in pledging allegiance to the Atlantic Charter, an eight-point declaration issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1939 Quebec Quebec - Maurice Duplessis 1890-1959 calls Quebec election for Oct. 25, asks for 'a vote for autonomy against conscription'.
1935 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Social Credit Premier William Aberhart announces an issue of 10 year $25 Prosperity Bonds to be sold to Albertans; to help province clear its $150 million debt.
1905 Toronto Ontario - Henry Fleming the first to band a bird in Canada.
1901 Whitehorse Yukon - Telegraph connection completed between Yukon and southern Canada.
1897 Queenston Ontario - Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company and the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company open new double track steel arch bridge; upper floor leased to the Grand Trunk Railway.
1875 Lake Winnipeg Manitoba - Saulteaux, Swampy Cree and others sign Treaty #5 in Northern Manitoba; also adherents in 1908-10, total 160,930 sq km.
1859 Ottawa Ontario - Capital of the Province of Canada moves from Quebec City to Ottawa; previously in rotation at Toronto, Kingston and Montreal.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Start of first international cricket match; Canada defeats the US the following day.
1841 Montreal Quebec - Richard Jackson 1777-1845 appointed administrator of Province of Canada, serves until Jan. 12, 1842 as Commander-in-Chief of British North America.
1827 BC - HBC arms Talkotin Indians to help them drive off stronger Chilkotins.
1788 Nootka BC - First shipment of Canadian furs sent to China.
1766 London England - Guy Carleton named Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
1761 London England - Henry Ellis d1806 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; until Nov. 21, 1763; never comes to province to assume office.
1688 Mackinaw Michigan - Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahonton 1666-c1716 sets out from Michilimackinac to explore west; will reach Mississippi River via Wisconsin River.
1685 Quebec - Playing cards used as money in New France when payship fails to arrive.
1683 Paris France - Jews expelled from all French possessions in America, including New France.
1669 Mackinaw Michigan - RenÃ© Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle 1643-1687 meets Louis Jolliet and Father Marquette at St. Ignace.
1647 Quebec Quebec - Building of Notre-Dame church in Quebec.
1646 Chambly Quebec - Isaac Jogues 1607-1646 taken prisoner by Iroquois, who blame them for smallpox and famine outbreak; abandoned by Huron guard at Fort Richelieu.

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henric · Sep 24, 2013

September 25th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

275 – In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco NÃºÃ±ez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City.
1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1790 – Peking opera is born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1890 – The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, ******** Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston
1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship LibertÃ© detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
1942 – World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah as-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair.
1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
1972 – In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
1974 – The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John.
1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
2009 – U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1956 FIRST DIRECT DIALING TO EUROPE
Clarenville, Newfoundland - Canadian Overseas Telephone Company (COTC), the British Post Office and American Telephone & Telegraph open the first direct dial transatlantic calling service with an exchange of greetings between London, Ottawa and New York. The new $42 million cable from Oban, Scotland, jointly owned by the three firms, consists of two lines laid 30 km apart on the ocean floor.

1871
Montebello Quebec - Louis Joseph Papineau dies at his seigneury at Montebello; first elected to Lower Canada Assembly in 1809; became leader of French-Canadian Patriotes and sparkplug of Rebellion of 1837; later became too radical for mainstream populace of Quebec, and died in obscurity.

In Other Events....
1996 New York City - Quebec diva CÃ©line Dion reaches #1 on the Billboard Top 200 for record sales.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Royal Bank CEO Allan Taylor releases study showing costs of breakup of Canada, says a No vote would be disastrous for the economy; 15% drop in living standards by 2000; each Canadian $4,000 poorer, 720,000 jobless, 1.25 million to emigrate to US. Three days later, the Canadian dollar shows its biggest drop in value since the Depression.
1991 Calgary Alberta - Stan Waters dies at age 71 of brain cancer; commanded Canadian Army 1973-75; pursued business career after retirement; one of the founding members of the Reform Party; campaigned for a 'Triple-E Senate' - elected, efficient and providing equal representation of the provinces, and won an 1989 provincial vote held in Alberta to recommend who would fill the province's vacant seat in the Canadian Senate; not a legal election, and Ottawa refused to confirm the appointment, but it was accepted in June of 1990 by Prime Minister Mulroney.
1989 Quebec - Robert Bourassa re-elected Premier of Quebec; provincial Liberals take 50% of the popular vote and 92 out of 125 seats; PQ 40.2%, Equality Party 4.6%; Jacques Parizeau elected, and becomes Leader of the Opposition.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Marcel Masse resigns from the Mulroney Cabinet.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrives in Canada for 3-day state visit.
1979 Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Star newspaper stops publishing after 110 years.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expos baseball team play their last game at Montreal's Jarry Park; move into Olympic Stadium - the Big O.
1975 Pickering Ontario - Ottawa halts construction of new Toronto International Airport at Pickering.
1973 Stratford Ontario - Robin Phillips 1938- appointed Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival, succeeding Jean Gascon 1920-.
1971 Toronto Ontario - International Typographical Union ends seven-year strike against Star, Telegram and Globe & Mail; three major Toronto newspapers.
1968 Manicouagan Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 (pÃ¨re) flips a switch to start electricity generation at Hydro Quebec's Manic 5 power dam.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Anglo-Dutch giant Shell Oil pays $55 a share for Canadian Oil Companies and 'White Rose' brand name; $130 million sale scandal points up need for laws to govern inside trading.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau founds his Montreal Civic Action Party/ le parti de l'Action Civique de MontrÃ©al.
1950 Quebec Quebec - Start of three-day federal-provincial conference at Quebec City; to devise amending formula for BNA Act.
1944 Arnhem Holland - British General Bernard Montgomery defeated in week-long Battle of Arnhem; in Operation Market Garden, British airborne troops were dropped to capture bridges over Dutch rivers, outflanking the German defensive line. Canadian engineers help ferry out the survivors.
1942 Pacific - Squadron Leader K. A. Boomer downs Japanese fighter off Alaska; RCAF's only air combat in North America.
1942 Montreal Quebec - Montreal holds civic welcome for 17 Canadian soldiers wounded in the Dieppe raid.
1940 Pacific - Canadian armed merchantman 'Prince Robert' captures German ship 'Weser' off Mexican coast.
1926 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sworn in as Prime Minister; until Aug. 7, 1930; replacing Arthur Meighen, PM since June 29.
1926 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League grants NHL franchises to Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings.
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - Kapapamahchakwew (Wandering Spirit) tried for treason and sentenced to hang for involvement in North West Rebellion.
1872 Toronto Ontario - David Lewis Macpherson 1818-1896 organizes Interoceanic Railway Company to bid for transcontinental railway contract.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Canada defeats US in first international cricket match.
1839 Montreal Quebec - Lower Canada government deports 58 patriotes to exile in Australia.
1815 Winnipeg Manitoba - Metis leader Cuthbert Grant c1796-1854 attacks fort at Red River settlement; remaining settlers leave two days later.
1810 Kingston Ontario - First issue of The Kingston Gazette; now the Whig-Standard.
1775 Montreal Quebec - Vermont revolutionary Ethan Allen captured by British troops as he rashly leads an attack toward Montreal before the Army of the Continental Congress arrives; the leader of the Green Mountain Boys a prisoner in an English jail for three years.
1763 London England - Montague Wilmot d1766 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; takes office in May, 1764.
1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia fixes wage of laborers at 18 pence a day, with a rum and beer provision; first recorded government wage fixing in Canada.
1726 Nova Scotia - Some Acadians sign a British oath of allegiance on condition they do not have to fight the French.

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henric · Sep 25, 2013

September 26th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of CompiÃ¨gne.
1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
1371 – Serbian–Turkish wars: The forces of the Ottoman sultan Murad I's lieutenant Lala ŞÃ¢hin Paşa and the Serbian army under the command of Vukašin Mrnjavčević and Jovan Uglješa clash at the Battle of Maritsa.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera
1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1786 – Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays' Rebellion.
1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 – Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1910 – Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled.
1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations.
1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don’t shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
1933 – Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger
1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1942 – The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS concentration camp administration department, issues a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated".
1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km2).
1971 – The Freetown Christiania was founded.
1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1976 SWEET KICKS FOR WORLD RECORD IN BIG O
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Alouette kicker Don Sweet notches his 17th and 18th consecutive field goals, setting a world record before 68,500 fans in the first football game played in Olympic Stadium; Sweet will run the string to 21 before missing.

1904
London England - Albert Henry George, Earl Grey 1851-1917 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from December 10, 1904 to October 12, 1911. An MP and former administrator of Rhodesia, Grey was a strong believer in the Empire and promoted imperial loyalty in his speeches. In 1909, he donated the Grey Cup to the championship of Canadian football.

In Other Events....

1995 Toronto Ontario - AT&T Canada and three Canadian banks pay $250. million to become new owners of long-distance carrier Unitel Communications Inc; two biggest shareholders, Canadian Pacific Ltd. and Rogers Communications Inc., drop out of deal.
1994 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau sworn in as Quebec's 26th Premier; after defeating Daniel Johnson in election.
1993 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Dave Munday takes his second plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel; 53-year-old diesel mechanic from Caistor Centre, Ontario, the first person to make two trips over the Falls; previous trip in 1985.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Angus Reid/Southam News release poll saying Yes forces rapidly losing ground in referendum battle.
1991 Guiane - European Space Agency rocket launches Canada's Anik-E1 (mass 2,977 kg) comsat from Kourou, French Guyana, aboard an Ariane 44P rocket.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Danek Mozdzenski's statue of Lester B. Pearson unveiled on Parliament Hill.
1990 Oka Quebec - Army officials take 34 men, 16 women and six children into custody from their stronghold in a drug treatment centre; most taken to military base at Farnham, Quebec; 78-day standoff ends.
1988 Seoul Korea - Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100 Metre Olympic Gold Medal and world record following a positive drug test; forced by the lOC to return the medal and disqualified from the games.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park extends $500,000 line of credit to ailing publisher McClelland & Stewart.
1984 California - Walter Pidgeon 1897-1984 dies at age 87; born Sept. 23, 1897 in Saint John, NB; TV/movie actor, singer; a major star for MGM, his movie career lasted from 1925 to 1978, best known for his performances in Madame Curie, Forbidden Planet, Mrs. Miniver.
1981 Moscow Russia - Canada signs five-year agricultural agreement with USSR; scientific cooperation, crop data exchange; Canada-Soviet Commission on agricultural issues founded.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post opens the National Postal Museum.
1972 Moscow Russia - Canadian NHL All Stars fight back to tie series, defeating the Soviet team 4-3 in the third game in the USSR; series now tied 3-3 with one tie.
1970 New York City - Anne Murray's hit song Snowbird peaks at #8 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1969 Manicouagan Quebec - Hydro-Quebec names Manic 5 power dam the Daniel Johnson Dam in honour of late Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson 1915-1968.
1969 Manicouagan Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 (pÃ¨re) dies after visit to open Hydro Quebec's Manic 5 power dam; succeeded by Jean-Jacques Bertrand as Union Nationale Premier.
1966 New York City - Two FLQ members go on hunger strike in New York.
1963 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists hold up a branch of the Royal Bank in Montreal.
1960 United Nations, New York - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 asks Soviet Union to resume disarmament negotiations; offers proposals for world peace; in address to UN General Assembly.
1958 Yukon - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 the first prime minister to visit the Yukon while in office.
1950 England - Sun turns blur over parts of the United Kingdom due to airborne sulphur particles from forest fires in Northern Alberta and BC.
1939 London England - Britain asks Canada to train Commonwealth airmen.
1918 France/Belgium - General Sir Arthur Currie's Canadians lead final offensive against the Germans on the Western Front.
1896 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange lists first mining stocks.
1884 Montreal Quebec - St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway leased to the Canadian Pacific Railway for 999 years.
1851 Kingston Ontario - Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine 1807-1864 resigns as co-Premier of the Province of Canada; will be appointed Chief Justice of Lower Canada.
1842 Montreal Quebec - Robert Baldwin & Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine asked by Lord Elgin to form the Province of Canada's first liberal Executive Council; victory for Reformers, responsible government and French rights.
1826 Ottawa Ontario - Incorporation of Bytown; becomes City of Ottawa in 1855.
1819 Melville Island, NWT - Edward Parry anchors off Melville Island; first explorer to winter in the Arctic by choice.
1813 Amherstburg Ontario - William Henry Harrison's 4,500 US troops land near Fort Malden to move against Proctor up the Thames; beginning of American military rule in western Ontario for the remainder of the War of 1812.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Government passes regulations licensing the sale of alcohol.
1751 Halifax, Nova Scotia - 1,000 immigrants from Wurtemburg, Germany arrive.
1634 Quebec - Father Jean de BrÃ©beuf baptizes the mother of an Indian chief.
1613 France - Samuel de Champlain tries to get support for colonization and exploration in France.

End of C/P.

henric · Sep 26, 2013

September 27th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
1331 – The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1422 – After the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
1822 – Jean-FranÃ§ois Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1875 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool; the United States Congress subsequently awards 27 gold Lifesaving Medals to the lifeboat men who went to rescue her crew.
1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mcÂ².
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1916 – Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
1928 – The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
1959 – Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
1977 – a United States Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes into a residential neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, killing two children on the ground and injuring seven other people.
1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
1996 – The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
2001 – Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.
2005 – After 162 episodes, Tom and Jerry aired it's final episode titled, The Karate Guard.
2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe.
2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1918 CANADIANS BREAK LAST GERMAN LINE
Canal du Nord France - Arthur William Currie 1875-1933 leads Canadian troops in a three day offensive against the Canal du Nord, outflanking the last section of the Germans' defensive Hindenburg Line. Canadians capture over 7,000 prisoners and 205 heavy guns. Germans abandon the line and continue retreating east, finally signing the Armistice Nov. 11.

1972
Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles 'Mike' Pearson 1897-1972 dies in Ottawa at the age of 75; buried at Wakefield, Quebec; Canada's 14th Prime Minister 1963-68.

In Other Events....
1994 Argentia, Newfoundland - US Navy closes Argentia submarine detection base; last US military base in Canada.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Robert Bourassa undergoes an operation to remove a malignant melanoma from his back; the skin cancer will eventually take his life.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- increases the size of the Senate to 112, appointing 8 new senators: Keon, Meighen, Forrestal, Grimard, Lavoie-Roux, Ross, Johnson, Berntson; now 54 PCs, 52 Liberals; to stop Senate from blocking GST.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Minister of State for Finance Gilles Loiselle revises Trust and Loan Companies Act; lets banks own insurance and trust companies; no shareholder over 10%..
1990 Toronto Ontario - Dalai Lama arrives in Canada for four-day visit; spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Canada Packers (60%) and John Labatt (40%) merge into Maple Leaf-Ogilvie; operate Country Style Doughnuts and Buns Master franchises.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Singer Elton John apologizes to 35,000 people for poor sound quality at a concert in SkyDome.
1989 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Jeff Petkovich and Peter DeBernardi survive a barrel drop over Horseshoe Falls; the first two-man team to succeed.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson returns to Canada in disgrace after being stripped of his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics for using steroids.
1988 New York City - Guy Lafleur signs a one year contract with the NHL New York Rangers.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Jacqueline Gareau wins the Montreal Marathon; AndrÃ© Viger comes second.
1983 Montreal Quebec - Expo slugger Tim Raines hits a three-run homer against St. Louis to become the first player in National League history to knock in at least 70 runs and steal 70 bases in one season.
1982 Moncton, New Brunswick - L'Evangeline stops publishing; this voice of Acadia was the only French language newspaper east of Quebec.
1982 London Ontario - General Motors of Canada wins $625 million contract to build armoured cars for US Army and Marines.
1977 Milan Italy - Gilles Villeneuve signs a 2 year contract to drive Formula One with Ferrari.
1977 Quebec - Quebec credit union manager Charles Marion released on payment of $50,000 ransom; held for 83 days in Canada's longest kidnapping.
1973 Quebec - Marcel PÃ©pin elected President of La ConfÃ©dÃ©ration mondial du Travail.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans sale of firecrackers.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Postmaster-General Eric William Kierans 1914- ends Saturday mail and post office service, effective Feb. 1,1969.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate from 4 1/2% to 5%.
1963 Toronto Ontario - Founding of C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation; financial aid to young people with promise of leadership.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 25th Parliament; until February 5, 1963.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - Shigeru Yoshida Prime Minister of Japan, starts two-day visit to Canada.
1954 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Wheat Board takes over from optional Wheat Board; price of wheat increased from 90Â¢ a bushel to $1.25.
1934 Montreal Quebec - Official opening of the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University.
1922 Montreal Quebec - Radio station CKAC starts broadcasting at Montreal.
1919 Montreal Quebec - The 'Seagull' the first seaplane to land at Montreal.
1916 Montreal Quebec - 148th and 150th Battalions of Montreal Infantry, and the 189th Battalion of Infantry of Fraserville embark for service in France.
1896 Montreal Quebec - CPR telegraph operators and despatchers strike for shorter hours and higher wages; until October 7.
1879 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the Dominion Industrial Exhibition at Ottawa; Ottawa's fall fair became the Central Exposition in 1896; now called the Central Canada Exhibition.
1858 Stratford Ontario - Grand Trunk Railway completed to Stratford from London.
1853 Montreal Quebec - First provincial agricultural exhibition held in Montreal.
1839 Quebec Quebec - Group of 58 convicted rebels leave Quebec for exile in Australia.
1806 Kingston Ontario - Isaac Brock 1769-1812 appointed to command British forces in Upper Canada.
1759 Quebec Quebec - First Protestant religious service on record in Quebec.
1612 Paris France - Comte de Soissons awarded a 12 year monopoly of the fur trade in New France.
1610 Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain returns to France; stops writing in his journal for a time.

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henric · Sep 27, 2013

September 28th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
995 – Members of SlavnÃk's dynasty – SpytimÃr, Pobraslav, Pořej and ČÃ¡slav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066 – William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1106 – The Battle of Tinchebray – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of MÃ¼hldorf.
1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
1542 – Navigator Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
1791 – France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland.
1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
1924 – First round-the-world flight completed.
1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1962 – The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
1963 - Whaam!, now considered Roy Lichtenstein's most important work, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery that lasted until at October 24.
1971 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'Ã©tat in Chile.
1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
1996 – Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed, and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1981 SUPREME COURT SAYS YES, BUT...
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules 7-2 that Prime Minister Trudeau's unilateral constitutional plan is strictly legal; Parliament can act alone to patriate the BNA Act; but a 'convention' requires substantial provincial consent, in that the plan does not follow normal constitutional procedures; suggests unilateral action might breach the spirit of federalism, and it is the duty of Ottawa to try and forge provincial consent. The new constitution, brought home without provincial consent, will be signed by the Queen on July 1st, 1982.

1972
Twenty Five Years Ago Today...

Moscow Russia - Paul Henderson scores on Vladislav Tretiak with 34 seconds remaining in regulation time, giving Team Canada a 6-5 victory over the USSR hockey all-stars, and a 4-3-1 victory in the eight game Summit Series. The Soviets led 5-3 at the end of the Second Period, and Russian officiating threatened to turn the game into a brawl, but Phil Esposito and Yvan Cornoyer tied the game in the third. As Foster Hewitt called it, "Here's a shot. Henderson makes a wild stab for it and falls. Here's another shot. Right in front. They Score!! Henderson scores for Canada!" This famous photo was taken by the Toronto Star's Frank Lennon.

In Other Events....

1996 Quebec Quebec - Lucien Bouchard rejects hard-liners in the Parti Quebecois who want a unilingual Quebec..
1995 Montreal Quebec - Alcan Aluminium Ltd. takes after-tax charge of $280 million; writes down investment in scrapped Kemano hydroelectric project in British Columbia; company to seek compensation from BC.
1995 Quebec - Quebec Southern Railway starts operating former CP short lines from Lennoxville to St-Jean, Brookport to Wells River, Vt., Farnham to Ste-Rosalie Jct. and Stanbridge.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Bell Canada announces 5,000 job cuts.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Expo Dennis Martinez beats the Marlins, becoming the 7th pitcher in history to win 100 games in both the American and National Leagues.
1992 Montreal Quebec - CROP poll released today says No vote in Quebec is 49%; Yes vote 37%; Undecided 14%.
1992 Pittsburg Pennsylvania - Mario Lemieux signs a contract with the NHL Penguins worth $42 million over 7 years.
1982 Moncton, New Brunswick - L'Evangeline of Moncton shuts its doors; only French-language newspaper east of Quebec.
1982 PEI - James Matthew Lee 1937- leads Progressive Conservatives to reelection victory in Prince Edward Island, wins 22 of 32 seats.
1978 Banff Alberta - World Energy Conference opens in Banff.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Margaret Birch appointed a minister without portfolio; first woman named to an Ontario cabinet.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada issued.
1969 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist bomb explodes at the home of Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau.
1968 Hudson Hope, BC - BC Premier W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 opens Dr. Gordon M. Shrum Powerhouse at $485 million Peace River hydro-electric project.
1962 Vandenberg AFB, California - Canada launches its first orbiting satellite, Alouette 1, on a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base; weighs 320 lbs, cost $2.9 million; to study ionosphere from 1000 km in space; joint project of Defence Research Board and Canadian electronics industry.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Last regularly scheduled CPR steam train leaves Ottawa's Union Station.
1945 Calgary Alberta - Calgary Bronks football team changes its name to the Calgary Stampeders.
1942 Kiska Alaska - Canadian war planes make first attacks on Japanese forces on Kiska Island in the Aleutians.
1930 Montreal Quebec - Monument to Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine unveiled in Parc LaFontaine.
1929 Edmonton Alberta - Joe Hess of the University of Alberta makes the first interception return for a touchdown in Canadian football.
1929 Churchill Manitoba - Hudson Bay Railway reaches its northern terminus at Churchill; originally operated by Canadian National on behalf of the Government; became part of the CN system in 1951, then privately run.
1960 Prescott Ontario - Opening of new 'Seaway Skyway' bridge from Prescott to Ogdensburg, New York.
1899 Dawson Yukon - Opening of telegraph service to Dawson from BC.
1892 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick abolishes Legislative Assembly; upper house.
1885 Montreal Quebec - Rioting breaks out in Montreal against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1872 Quebec Quebec - George-Etienne Cartier departs for London to get treatment for Bright's Disease; he will die there.
1869 Quebec Quebec - Quebec sculptor Louis-Philippe HÃ©bert sails for Italy to continue his studies.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier makes a speech supporting the British connection against Canadian independence.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - William McDougall appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Rupert's Land and NWT; will be stopped by the Metis at the border.
1857 Cambridge Ontario - Great Western Railroad opens from Galt to Guelph.
1867 Toronto Ontario - Toronto officially becomes the capital of Ontario.
1854 London England - Edward Belcher 1799-1877 arrives in England; all captains court martialled and honourably discharged or acquitted.
1843 Montreal Quebec - Opening of third session of first Parliament of United Canada; meets until Dec. 9; 60 of 84 members; new duty on American horses, cattle & grain, to match US tariff.
1813 Toronto Ontario - British defeated in York Bay naval battle.
1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Upper Canada legislature passes decree that all slave children born in Upper Canada after this date were to become free at age 25.
1737 Montreal Quebec - Marguerite d'Youville leases the 'Le Verrier' house in Montreal.
1685 Quebec - Smallpox epidemic breaks out in New France.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council forbids selling or giving liquor and firearms to the Indians.
1535 Lac St-Pierre, Quebec - Jacques Cartier crosses Lac St-Pierre on his way to Montreal.

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henric · Sep 28, 2013

September 29th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

522 BCE – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper GaumÃ¢ta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
480 BCE – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
61 BCE – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1364 – Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1848 – Battle of PÃ¡kozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at PÃ¡kozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
1850 – The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of BoquerÃ³n between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
1963 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1971 – Oman joins the Arab League.
1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
1982 – The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991 – Military coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'Ã©tat).
1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
2006 – Gol Transportes AÃ©reos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1962 CANADA LAUNCHES FIRST SPACE BIRD
Vandenburg AFB, California - Canada launches its first orbiting satellite, Alouette 1, on a Thor-Agena B rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base; mass: 145 kg; cost $2.9 million; to study ionosphere from 1000 km in space; joint project of Defence Research Board and Canadian electronics industry.

1988
Seoul Korea - Carolyn Waldo wins a gold medal in synchronized swimming at the 24th Olympiad in Seoul. Two days later she will wins another gold in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian female to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition.

In Other Events....

1996 Houston, Texas - Ottawa's Alanis Morissette finishes her first U.S. tour.
1995 Montreal Quebec - Large pro-sovereignty rally held in Montreal Forum.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Falconbridge Ltd. and Luxembourg-based Minorco SA announce plans to proceed with $1.75-billion development of Collahuasi copper deposit in northern Chile.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says 500 full time jobs a day disappeared during recession of past three years; 11 businesses, 73 people a day go broke.
1989 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter DeBernardi the first to go over Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of Niagara and live to tell the tale.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - NDP leader Ed Broadbent announces his retirement from politics.
1988 Tadoussac Quebec - International forum on the beluga whale held at Tadoussac; species endangered by pollution in the St. Lawrence and Saguenay.
1985 Quebec Quebec - Pierre-Marc Johnson elected leader of the Parti Quebecois; decides to keep sovereignty on the back burner and calls an election to get a new mandate.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bails out debt-laden Dome Petroleum.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces program to put first Canadian in space within 2 years.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau 1916- bomb explodes at home of Montreal Mayor; no injuries.
1966 Montreal Quebec - Montreal police arrest eight people, seize $3 million worth of heroin.
1948 Detroit Michigan - London Majors score five runs in the top of the ninth to defeat Fort Wayne (Indiana) General Electrics 5-0 in the deciding game of the best-of-seven international sandlot series.
1944 Montreal Quebec - Defence Minister James Layton Ralston 1881-1948 flies to Europe to check reports of Canadian infantry shortages.
1930 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton Tigers play the University of British Columbia in the first Canadian football game played under lights.
1930 Prince Edward Island - Final section of PEI's 3'6" gauge railway converted to standard gauge; work started in 1919.
1922 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 declares Canada not automatically at war when Britain is; during Chanak Crisis in Dardanelles; officials leaked British request for troops, to force Canada's hand.
1921 Ottawa Ontario - Georges-P Vanier marries Pauline Archer; future Governor General.
1914 France - Arthur Currie 1875-1933 appointed to command the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade; a militia commander from Victoria, BC, known for his artillery skills.
1905 Guelph Ontario - Opening of Carnegie Library at Guelph.
1902 Dawson City, Yukon - Banks in Dawson City announce that they will no longer accept gold dust as legal tender; concern that miners lost money on transactions as gold dust particles were lost in handling.
1898 Canada - Canada holds national referendum on the prohibition of alcoholic beverages; 278,380 for, 264,693 against; government takes no action in view of close vote.
1852 New Brunswick - New Brunswick issues contracts for railroad from Nova Scotia to boundary of Maine.
1710 Boston Massachusetts - Francis Nicholson 1665-c1728 sails from Boston with 2,000-man force to attack the French at Port Royal.
1668 Charles Fort NWT - Zachariah Gillam 1636-1682 reaches Rupert River on the 'Nonsuch' with Medart des Groseilliers; they proceed to build Charles Fort, make a treaty with the local chief and spend the winter trading. The success of this venture leads to the creation of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Germain Morin 1642-1702 ordained at Quebec; first Canadian born priest.
1661 Quebec - Jacques LemaÃ®tre, sculptor, massacred by the Iroquois.
1658 Montreal Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 departs for France with Jeanne Mance to recruit young girls to be teachers.
1642 Quebec - Father RenÃ© Goupil 1608-1642 killed by Iroquois.
1498 London England - Jean Cabot receives a reward of Â£200 from King Henry VII for his discoveries in North America.

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