This Date In History

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September 30th 2013 - This Date in History.


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489 – Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theodoric the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
737 – Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 РThe National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and J̩r̫me P̩tion as "incorruptible patriots".
1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 – The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
1907 – McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1965 – The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 – BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting the first show.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1993 – An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
1996 – United States Congress passes an Amendment that bars the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level.
1999 – Japan's second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 – The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.



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1989 JAYS TAKE A.L. EAST
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 4-3, to win the American League East baseball title.

1907
Baddeck Nova Scotia - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 founds the Aerial Experimental Association at Baddeck; with two young Canadian engineers, Casey Baldwin and John A.D. McCurdy, as well as US Army Lt. Thomas Selfridge and engine maker Glenn Curtiss. The first experiments are with kites, and a year later 4 biplanes are built at Curtiss' plant, including the Silver Dart.


In Other Events....


1996 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chrétien's government asks the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the legality of a unilateral declaration of independence on the part of the Province of Quebec.
1996 Whitehorse Yukon - NDP defeats Yukon Party 10 seats to 7 in territorial election; each party wins 44% of the popular vote.
1994 North America - NHL postpones start of hockey season for at least 2 weeks to deal with labour strife.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules a man accused of sexual assault can use the defence that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.
1993 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports drunk driving charges dropped 45% between 1981 and 1991; tougher laws, more policing, education, lower alcohol sales (down 10%).
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada votes 5-4 to deny bid of Sue Rodriguez, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, for doctor-assisted suicide; rules Criminal Code sanctions against assisting in a suicide do not infringe on her rights; Victoria woman will commit suicide four months later, aided by a sympathetic doctor.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - 52 Charlottetown Referendum Yes committees now registered; including Business Council on National Issues; also Status of Women, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Francophones; 17 for the No side, including the National Citizens Coalition; also CUPW, BC Liberals, Quebec arm of Canadian Auto Workers.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Bernard Ostry resigns as Chairman of TV Ontario after audit shows excessive spending on dinners and travel.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Jean Beetz dies at age 64; retired Supreme Court justice, helped Trudeau draft constitutional policy.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Bank of Nova Scotia buys Macleod Young Weir for $483 million; price later cut by $64 million.
1986 Kingston Ontario - Lake Ontario's water outflow reaches 844 billion litres per day, the greatest outflow since the start of record keeping in 1860; over 25% above normal.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government liquidates the insolvent Northland Bank.
1984 Caniapiscau River, Quebec - High water levels fatal to 10,000 caribou, who drown while their herd is crossing the Caniapiscau to move to winter pasture.
1981 Calgary Alberta - International Olympic Committee votes to give Calgary the 1988 Winter Olympic Games.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court upholds provincial ruling that two or more breath analyses necessary to convict person.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to phase out language training and bilingualism pay bonuses for the public service by 1983.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP riot squad officers stop 200 Indians from entering Parliament Buildings during the official opening of first session; a bloody scuffle erupts; 30th Parliament the longest in Canadian history; sitting until July 30, 1976; PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919-.
1973 Cape Dorset, NWT - Peter Pitseolak 1902-1973 dies at Cape Dorset; Inuit photographer, artist and writer; recorded Inuit legends and traditions, illustrating them with his own drawings; acquired first camera from Oblate missionary, and documented the igloos and dog teams of the Inuit hunters as the old era ended.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Telesat Canada signs $31 million deal with Hughes Aircraft of California to build Anik, Canada's first domestic communications satellite.
1967 Fort McMurray, Alberta - $235 million Great Canadian Oil Sands plant starts to extract oil from Athabasca tar sands.
1966 London England - Toronto-born Roy Thomson, later Lord Thomson of Fleet, acquires control of The Times of London.
1960 Churchill Manitoba - Black Brant, the first all Canadian sounding rocket, launched from Churchill.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 leaves Canada on official tour of 12 countries, including Soviet Union, Singapore, India, Far East.
1955 NWT - Completion of Operation Franklin, geological survey of Canada's Arctic Archipelago.
1954 Nova Scotia - Henry Davies Hicks 1915- elected Liberal Premier of Nova Scotia.
1953 Montreal Quebec - McGill University scientists develop radar system for early warning against air attacks.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Cabinet decides to free exchange rate of Canadian dollar, putting it on the open market.
1947 United Nations, New York - Canada elected to United Nations Security Council for two-year term.
1944 Calais France - Canadian troops capture the French Channel port of Calais.
1929 Toronto/Montreal - Canadian stock index hits 322.6; peak of bull market.
1886 Montreal - Chief Crowfoot arrives in Montreal with delegation of western chiefs; given lifetime CPR pass.
1875 Ottawa Ontario - First sittings of the Supreme Court of Canada.
1865 Ottawa Ontario - John Michel 1804-1886 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until Feb. 12, 1866.
1850 Victoria Island NWT - Robert McClure caught by ice in Prince of Wales Strait between Banks and Victoria Island; last gap in NW Passage; spends two winters in Mercy Bay on north coast of Banks Island.
1760 Toronto Ontario - Robert Rogers 1731-1795 visits site of Toronto on his way to Detroit; finds French have departed from Fort Niagara.
1746 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière 1685-1752 leads remnants of 65-ship French armada, ravaged by storms and typhus, back to France; 2,400 men eventually die, none in action; no shots fired in d'Anville's failed attempt to recapture Louisbourg and Acadia.
1738 Montreal Quebec - Grey Nuns found nunnery at Montreal; les Soeurs Grises.
1731 Terrebonne Quebec - Building of first warship in New France, at Terrebonne.
1682 Montreal Quebec - Governor Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre arrives in New France with his Intendant, Jacques de Meulles.
1585 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 returns to England from his Arctic explorations.

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October 1st 2013 - This Date in History.

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331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
959 – Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 РThe first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orl̩ans, Louisiana.
1814 РOpening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napol̩on the previous spring.
1827 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1832 – Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1880 – John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 – In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1905 – František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia" capture Damascus.
1920 – Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 – USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1942 – First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 – Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
1946 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1959 – The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is celebrated with pomp across the country.
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 – General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 – The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 – The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 – EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 – The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis.
1987 – The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
1991 – The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992 – Cartoon Network begins broadcasting.
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012 – A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1988 LEWIS AND WALDO WIN GOLDS (HER SECOND)
Seoul Korea - At the 24th Olympiad, Canadian super-heavyweight Lennox Lewis defeats Riddick Bowe to win Canada's first Olympic Boxing gold medal in 56 years. In the pool, Carolyn Waldo wins her second gold medal in synchronized swimming, in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian woman to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition.

1848
Toronto Ontario - Paul Kane 1810-1871 returns from his wanderings on the prairies and Pacific coast of North America with over 700 sketches of life in the west; he starts to paint canvases of his subjects during this winter.

1919
London Ontario - Canadian Army vaudeville troupe the Dumbells, who first performed at Vimy Ridge in 1917, premiere their musical review in London. They follow up with rave reviews at the Grand Theatre in Toronto, and opened a new variety show at the Ambassador Theatre in New York two years later, becoming the first Canadian musical on Broadway. The Dumbells disbanded in 1929.


In Other Events....

1992 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- comes out strongly against Charlottetown Accord; will weaken Ottawa and create hierarchy of rights; Quebeckers at the top, individuals Canadians at the bottom.
1992 Indian Brook Nova Scotia - Reg Maloney Micmac chief gets right to try some native court cases on 1,200 member reserve; minor criminal cases.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says first-time bride aged 26 in 1990, 22.6 in 1971; groom 27.9, 24.9; first marriages 77%, 90% in 1971; 7.1/1000 people; 7.9 in 1921.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Raymond Protti named head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, replacing Reed Morden; former Deputy Minister of Labour.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to privatize Petro-Canada; 3,300 outlets, $6.8b assets; limits foreign ownership to 25%; no one investor to own more than 10% of the company.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Hon. John Fraser was elected speaker of the House of Commons; had resigned as a Minister after tainted tuna scandal.
1981 Vancouver BC - Anik satellite used to extend national edition of Globe and Mail to Vancouver.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Provincial Premiers meet in Toronto; again fail to reach agreement on amending formula for BNA Act.
1970 BC - Soviet vessels banned from fishing in Big Bank region off the west coast of Vancouver Island; after collisions between Soviet and Canadian ships.
1966 Montreal Quebec - CBC starts first colour television broadcasting.
1961 Paris France - Donald Methuen Fleming 1905- elected Chairman of new Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Canadian Finance Minister.
1960 Toronto Ontario - Opening of O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts (now the Hummingbird Centre), with the premiere of Lerner and Loewe's musical Camelot, with Canada's Robert Goulet in the role of Sir Lancelot.
1959 PEI - Federal-provincial hospital plan goes into effect in PEI.
1958 New York New York - Sidney Earle Smith 1897-1959 Canadian External Affairs Minister opens Canada House in New York City; with Mayor Robert Wagner.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Charlotte Whitton becomes Mayor of Ottawa on death of incumbent. She is Canada's first woman mayor.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Governor-General becomes independent; given authority to exercise all Royal powers and executive authority of the Crown in relation to Canada.
1944 Calais France - Canadians take Calais, overrun flying bomb sites; end campaign to clear Channel ports.
1944 Antwerp Netherlands - Second Canadian Division crosses Antwerp Canal to begin freeing of Scheldt estuary.
1943 Naples Italy - Allies capture Naples.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Agricultural Supplies Board given power to fix prices.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Robert B. Bryce begins work in Department of Finance; a disciple of Keynes.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators readmitted to NHL, which drops Pittsburgh; financially troubled team unable to make a profit during Depression, and goes out of business.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Second Canadian War Loan of $100 million oversubscribed.
1899 Quebec Quebec - Diomede Falconio 1842- arrives in Quebec as first permanent Apostolic Delegate to Canada.
1898 Dawson Yukon - T. D. Evans Dawson detachment of Yukon Field Force reaches Klondike gold fields.
1876 Ontario - first western Canadian wheat shipped to Ontario.
1853 Toronto Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 first issues his 'Globe' newspaper as a daily.
1846 London England - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from Jan. 30,1847 to Dec. 19, 1854.
1674 Quebec Quebec - François de Laval 1623-1688 appointed first Bishop of Quebec by Pope Clement X.
1674 Rome Italy - Pope Clement X creates bishopric of Quebec; appoints Laval first Bishop of Quebec.
1669 Hamilton Ontario - François Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 reaches Tinaouataoua with La Salle and fellow Sulpician Galinée; winter on north shore of Lake Erie; La Salle leaves them to continue exploration.
1665 Lake Superior - Claude Allouez 1622-1689 founds mission in birch-bark chapel at Pointe du Saint Esprit; begins missionary work into Illinois; Jesuit priest.
1578 London England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 and his ships all return to England safely; worthless pyrites used to pave London streets; giving rise to the saying that the streets of London were paved with gold.

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October 2nd 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1470 – A rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal, Quebec is located.
1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1780 РJohn Andr̩, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1814 – Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
1937 – Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1942 РWorld War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Cura̤ao, off the coast of Ireland.
1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1979 – Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War
1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
1992 РThe Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in Ṣo Paulo, Brazil.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 РAeroper̼ Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1758 CANADA'S FIRST ELECTED PARLIAMENT MEETS
Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence convenes the first meeting of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the Halifax Court House; this is the first elected Parliament in Canadian history.

1604

Dochet Island Maine - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives back at Ste-Croix with Jean Ralluau after exploring the coast of Maine; they have a hard winter with de Monts and 77 others, and the following Spring move across the Bay of Fundy to found Port Royal on the Annapolis Basin.

1535
Lachine Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 arrives at the Iroquois village of Hochelaga; names Mont Royal [Mont Réal]; visits rapids at the head of navigation and calls them La Chine [China]; local natives tell him of rapids and rivers to the west, and of mines of gold and copper; a priest blesses the Indian sick.


In Other Events....

1995 New York City - Alanis Morissette's debut album 'Jagged Little Pill' reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its 15th week; first chart topper for Maverick label, founded by Madonna.
1995 London England - Paul Reichmann leads investment group in regaining ownership of Canary Wharf, office complex that brought down his Olympia & York Developments Ltd. real estate empire 3 years earlier; Canadian developer.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays clinch American League East title and become first team in sports history to draw four million fans in one season.
1991 Regina Saskatchewan - Hazen Argue dies at age 70; Senator; first elected 1945 at age 24 for the CCF; jumped to Liberals in 1961; Canada's longest serving parliamentarian.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Gilles Loiselle legislates Public Service Alliance of Canada strikers back to work, after talks break down Sept 27; Treasury Board President.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- says he will unilaterally patriate constitution, and amend it by adding Charter of Rights; debate starts in House of Commons Oct. 6.
1973 Red Deer, Alberta - Gas main ruptures near Red Deer Lake, forcing evacuation of 500 people from three Alberta towns.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Andrei Gromyko Soviet Foreign Minister starts two-day visit; first Foreign Minister of USSR to visit Canada.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Jacques Bertrand 1916-1973 appointed Premier of Quebec after death of Union Nationale leader Daniel Johnson.
1952 Vancouver BC - Riot broke out at the Oakalla Prison Farm in Vancouver.
1948 Winnipeg Manitoba - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 chosen as party leader on first ballot by Progressive Conservative Party, replacing John Bracken; 827 votes, to J.G. Diefenbaker (311), Donald Fleming (104).
1944 Antwerp Netherlands - First Canadian Army drives to clear Scheldt estuary and open port of Antwerp to shipping.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 appointed Borden's Solicitor General; drafts Conscription Bill and Wartime Elections Act.
1914 Toronto Ontario - William Howard Hearst sworn in as Premier of Ontario.
1895 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up northern districts of Yukon, Ungava, Mackenzie, and Franklin, under the administrative control of the north West Territories government at Regina; enlarges Athabasca District eastward; Yukon becomes a territory in 1897; others divided into the districts of Mackenzie, Keewatin and Franklin in 1918.
1887 Vancouver BC - Fraser River fisherman nets a 12 foot sturgeon, weighing 822 pounds.
1883 Kingston Ontario - Dr. Jennie Trout opens a women's medical college at Queen's University in Kingston.
1871 PEI - Start of construction of Prince Edward Island Railroad.
1861 London England - Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck 1819-1894 appointed administrator of Canada; serves from Oct. 25 to Nov. 28, 1861.
1847 Quebec Quebec - Montreal Telegraph Company opens line into Quebec; three years after Samuel Morse invents telegraph.
1754 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Opening session of first Supreme Court in English-speaking Canada held at Halifax.
1744 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 ends siege of Annapolis Royal, when he gets order to withdraw to winter quarters at Minas.

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October 3rd 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

2333 BC – The kingdom of Gojoseon is founded on what is now known as the Korean Peninsula.
52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
42 BC – First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
382 – Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first nobleman executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
1683 – The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736–1739.
1778 – British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
1789 – George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
1835 – The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
1872 – Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.
1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
1949 – WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
1950 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
1951 – The "Shot Heard 'Round the World", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
1957 – Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
1961 – The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States.
1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
1963 – Violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends period of reform, begins two decades of military rule.
1964 – First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
1981 – The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).
1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
1990 – Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
1993 – Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2003 – Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.
2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
2009 – Presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1927 KING MAKES FIRST TRANSATLANTIC PHONE CALL
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian PM William Lyon Mackenzie King inaugurates the first transatlantic telephone service to the UK by chatting with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. For the time being, all calls are operator-assisted until 1956, when direct dialing comes in.

1738
Portage La Prairie Manitoba - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Verendrye 1685-1749 rides up the Assiniboine Valley with sons Louis-Joseph and François to build Fort La Reine; on the site of Portage La Prairie.



In Other Events....


1995 Chicago Illinois - Canadian dollar climbs to highest level in 19 months on the commodity exchanges, US$75.27.
1992 Ste-Agathe Quebec - Bodies of two cult members of the Order of the Solar Temple found in a burned-out condominium north of Montreal; the following day 48 members are found dead in Switzerland, and three more bodies will be found in the ruins at Ste-Agathe Oct 5.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays beat Detroit Tigers to win American League East pennant.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Cross-border shopping up 57.4%, to $617m for first half of 1991, over $392 million in same period 1992; Statistics Canada reports.
1991 San Lorenzo Spain - Canada signs Antarctic Treaty accord with 26 other nations; bans mining and oil exploration for next 50 years.
1987 Washington DC - Simon Riesman and other negotiators sign the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, to take effect Jan. 1, 1989; all tariffs between the two countries to be phased out before 1999; creation of common energy market in petroleum, gas, uranium and electricity; creation of dispute settlement mechanism; deal reached just before US fast-track deadline for completing negotiations.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Ground-breaking ceremonies held for SkyDome, Toronto's 56,000 seat stadium built on vacant railway land on Front Street.
1981 New York City - Montreal Expos defeat the NY Mets 5-4 to win their first NL pennant; go on to beat Philadelphia in playoff series but lose to Los Angeles Dodgers in bid to reach World Series when Rick Monday hits winning home run off Expo pitcher Steve Rogers; end of split season disrupted by long players strike.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Winnipeg Blue Bomber Dieter Brock sets CFL passing record by completing 41 of 47 passes in 44-24 win over Ottawa Rough Riders.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts inquiry into government-approved international cartel to market uranium; possible violations of combines law.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Start of three-day federal-provincial conference on fiscal issues.
1946 Stephenville Newfoundland - American Overseas Airlines plane crashes near Stephenville, killing all 39 on board; worst civil aviation disaster in US history to date.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley puts price freeze proposals to Cabinet; King sceptical at first.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Stores grocery chain incorporated.
1914 Gaspé Quebec - First Canadian Division sails for England with 33,000 volunteers, 7,000 horses and 144 pieces of artillery, travelling in a 32 ship convoy escorted by 10 British warships; largest armed convoy ever to cross the Atlantic by that date; arrive in England Oct. 14.
1882 Paris France - Hector Fabre 1834-1910 appointed agent for Canadian government in France.
1874 Aurora Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 makes famous Aurora Speech, urging development of a Canadian spirit.
1873 North West Angle, Ontario - Saulteaux and Chippewa (Ojibway) sign Treaty #3 in southern Manitoba and north-western Ontario; 88,511 sq km; $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction; acreage.
1535 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves Hochelaga in the the Émerillon to return to Stadacona [Quebec] for the winter.

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October 4th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

23 – Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
610 – Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1597 – The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1725 – Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1777 – Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 – Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands.
1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
1917 – The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007.
1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1940 – Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
1943 – World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
1963 – Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1965 – Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
1976 – Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
1985 – Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
1988 – U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
1992 – El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2001 – NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1982 CANADIAN REACHES PEAK OF CLIMBING CAREER
Nepal - Laurie Skreslet 1950- reaches the top of 8,848 m (29,002 ft) Mt. Everest; Calgary native the first Canadian to achieve this goal.

1873

Gimli Manitoba - Sigtryggur Jonasson leads first Icelander group to found a new settlement on Lake Winnipeg; they name it 'Gimli,' which means 'Paradise,' or 'The Great Hall of Heaven' in Icelandic. The settlers arrive in 1875; here they are unloading their flat bottomed boats at Willow Point.


In Other Events....

1996 New York City- Céline Dion's album 'Falling Into You' is certified Multi Platinum 5.00; her single, 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' is also certified Gold and Platinum.
1995 New York City - Ottawa rock singer Alanis Morissette appears on the covers of both Rolling Stone and Spin magazines.
1994 Switzerland - Bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple found in a burned-out farmhouse and three chalets in Switzerland; following discovery of two bodies of cult members at a burned-out condominium north of Montreal.
1993 Clayoquot Sound, BC - Clayoquot Sound environmental activists close down their anti-logging protest camp on Vancouver Island for the winter; over 700 arrested during 3 months of demonstrations.
1991 New York City - NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier.
1988 Washington DC - Nine Canadians victimized by CIA brainwashing experiments at McGill University in the 1950s reach out-of-court settlement, sharing $750,000 award.
1987 Detroit Michigan - Frank Tanana outduels Jimmy Key as Detroit Tigers beat second-place Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 at Tiger Stadium on Larry Herndon's second-inning home run, to win the AL East title; were one game behind the Jays entering their 3-game season-ending showdown, and won each game by a single run (4-3, 3-2, and 1-0); Blue Jays lost their final 7 games allowing Tigers to beat them in the division.
1987 Winnipeg Manitoba - Blue Bomber James Jefferson scores 2 touchdowns on interception returns without making an interception - by scoring on laterals.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays clinch first eastern division baseball pennant.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Canadian pianist Glenn Gould 1932-1982 dies of a stroke at age 50; possibly complicated by addiction to medication.
1975 Quebec Quebec - 750 Americans in colonial costumes re-enact 1775 American attack on Quebec City; part of the US Bicentennial celebrations.
1973 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta raises royalties on gas and oil production, based on wellhead prices.
1971 Sable Island Nova Scotia - Oil and natural gas discovered under Sable Island, 280 km south of Halifax.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Court fines Hilton of Canada for discriminating against black job applicant at Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Patrick Watson and Laurier LaPierre host first broadcast of CBC TV public affairs program 'This Hour Has Seven Days'; controversial show discontinued May 8, 1966.
1963 Montreal Quebec - 3,800 longshoremen strike at three St. Lawrence ports; delays shipment of wheat to Soviet Union.
1957 Toronto Ontario - First Avro Arrow rolls out at A.V. Roe's Malton plant; built by head designer James C. Floyd with a team of aeronautical scientists, some of whom would later play a key role in the Apollo project to put a man on the moon; the plane will be test flown on March 25, 1958.
1950 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Premier Ernest Manning officially opens the Edmonton-Regina section of the Trans Canada Pipeline, Canada's first major oil pipeline; will be built into Ontario.
1936 Quebec Quebec - Historian Abbé Lionel Groulx proposes the creation of a separate French state in North America.
1927 Winnipeg Manitoba - Western Canada Airways starts Canada's first official Royal Mail airmail service to northern mining communities.
1922 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates Canadian National Railway Company as a corporate entity (Order in council P.C. 2094); government consolidates separate CNR lines into one system; appoints board of directors.
1922 Haileybury Ontario - Great Haileybury fire kills 41 people; leaves 10,000 homeless.
1920 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - Wing Commander Robert Leckie takes off from Dartmouth to begin the first flight across Canada; he arrives in Winnipeg Oct. 11. From Winnipeg Air Commodore A.K. Tylee and three other pilots fly to Vancouver, arriving Oct. 17. The Total elapsed time is 45 hours and 20 minutes for a flight of 5,488 km.
1917 Quebec - Quebeckers vote for prohibition of alcoholic beverages by a close 43,000 vote margin; decision too narrow to proceed.
1909 Red Deer, Alberta - End of disastrous prairie fire around Red Deer; 5 million acres burned, several people killed, homes and livestock destroyed.
1909 Regina Saskatchewan - Cornerstone of the Saskatchewan Legislature laid.
1909 Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier lays the first stone of École Technique in Montreal.
1907 Calgary Alberta - English author Rudyard Kipling takes brief tour of Calgary, after a CPR stop in Medicine Hat.
1873 Ontario/Quebec - Grand Trunk Railway finishes converting its tracks between Stratford and Montreal from 5' 6" to the 4' 8 1/2" standard gauge; work of 421 miles plus 60 miles of sidings completed in 24 hours; only 16 hours interruption on the main line.
1864 Montreal Quebec - Joe Montferrand dies in Montreal, where he owned a tavern and restaurant; once billed by PT Barnum as the Strongest Man in the World; grew up in the Ottawa Valley where he was known for taking on 20 English troublemakers at once; he is commemorated in the folk song, Mufferaw Joe.
1860 Montreal Quebec - First indoor lacrosse match held in Montreal's Lacrosse Ground.
1851 PEI - Freak gale off coast of Prince Edward Island sinks 100 American fishing vessels and kills at least 130 fishermen.
1813 Moraviantown Ontario - Indian leader Tecumseh tells his fellow warriors, 'We are about to enter an engagement from which I shall not return;' he will be killed by an American bullet Oct. 5 at the Battle of the Thames; end of Indian resistance south of the lakes.
1812 Ogdensburg, New York - Americans repel British attack on Ogdensburg.
1773 London England - Unveiling of a monument to General James Wolfe at Westminster.
1666 Ticonderoga, New York - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, military governor of New France (1663-67), arrives at south end of Lake Champlain with army of 1000 French regulars, 600 New France militia and 100 Hurons and Algonkians; in 300 boats and canoes; after a rain-soaked march of several days, they will burn Iroquois corn crops and the deserted Mohawk village of Andarague [Oct. 16], as well as three other settlements; expedition ordered by Jean Talon left Quebec Sept. 14 after peace talks failed; Iroquois turn to English for help.
1535 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 starts downstream from Hochelaga on board the Émérillon toward Stadacona where he will spend the winter.

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October 5th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

456 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga (Gallaecia).
610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 – King Alfonso VII of León recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
1550 – Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1813 – Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British.
1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded.
1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
1911 – The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930 – British Airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1938 – In Nazi Germany Jews’ passports were invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes were given one marked with the letter J (Jude – Jew).
1943 – 98 American POW's executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
1944 – Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1955 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.
1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970 – Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
1975 – Operation Primicia: terrorist attack against a Military Regiment at Formosa, Argentina.
1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
1988 – The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
1988 – The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by Constituent Assembly.
1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 – Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
2011 – In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 FLQ TERRORISTS KIDNAP BRITISH TRADE ENVOY
Montreal Quebec - British Trade Commissioner James R. Cross kidnapped at gunpoint from his Westmount home at 8:45 am by masked Front de Libération du Québec terrorists; FLQ group consists of Jacques Lanctot, Marc Carbonneau, Louise and Jacques Cossette-Trudel and Yves Langlois; at 1:00 pm they deliver a communique to a site in Parc LaFontaine demanding a $500,000 ransom, and the release of 23 'political' prisoners; at 4;00 pm Justice Minister Jérôme Choquette holds a press conference making the FLQ conditions public; at 5:00 pm the Bourassa and Trudeau cabinets both hold emergency meetings; Cross will be released unharmed in December.

1984
Cape Canaveral Florida - Marc Garneau 1949- becomes first Canadian in space on board Space Shuttle Challenger Flight STS-41G; during the eight day mission he will travel a total of 3.4 million miles around the Earth in 133 orbits; the crew will deploy the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, conduct scientific observations of the earth with the OSTA-3 pallet and Large Format Camera (LFC), and demonstrate potential satellite refueling with an EVA and associated hydrazine transfer. Mission duration is 197 hours 23 minutes.

In Other Events....

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces new social assistance reform program.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - George Weber first Canadian to head 152 country International Red Cross Society; world's largest aid group; Secretary-General of Canadian Red Cross.
1992 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia - 4 Westray officials charged with violating mine safety rules; failed to clear explosive dust; mine disaster killed 26.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Senate ends filibuster on GST; Liberal Senator Sid Buckwold, chairman of the banking committee, moves a report recommending that the 7% Goods and Services Tax proposed by the Mulroney government be killed.
1987 Montreal Quebec - New York Islander star Mike Bossy announces he will be taking a year off from the NHL to rehabilitate his injured back.
1987 Washington DC - Canada and US sign Free Trade Agreement.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays clinch their first American League Eastern Division baseball pennant.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expo Ron Leflore steals bases 96 and 97 against Philadelphia, becoming the first player in baseball history to win the stolen bases title in both major leagues. Leflore won the American League title In 1978, stealing 68 bases with Detroit.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that death penalty not cruel and unusual penalty; within meaning of Canadian Bill of Rights.
1975 Ste. Therese, Quebec - Official opening of Mirabel Airport.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Leger 1913-1980 takes duties as Governor General after recovering from a stroke; serving from Jan. 14, 1974 to Jan. 22,1979.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sells China up to 7,800 million L (220 million bushels) of Canadian wheat over three years.
1973 San Francisco, California - Toronto rocker Neil Young joins Graham Nash and David Crosby, as they do a 50 minute set with Stephen Stills and Manassas at San Francisco's Winterland ballroom; first performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in two years.
1961 Paris France - Inauguration of la Maison du Québec in Paris.
1959 New York City - Ottawa singer Paul Anka's 'Put Your Head On My Shoulder' peaks at #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1959 Canada - Roman Catholics celebrate the 300th anniversary of the hierarchy in Canada.
1957 Murdochville Quebec - End of bitter 6 month strike at the Murdochville mine.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces plans to build power plant in Pakistan under Colombo Plan.
1954 Montreal Quebec - Maurice Duplessis meets Louis St-Laurent to discuss taxation.
1951 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Centre for Physical Sciences at McGill University.
1949 New York City - Canadian mission attends opening ceremony, as the United Nations flag is raised over its new New York headquarters.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces it has issued a Canadian citizenship certificate to Igor Gouzenko; defected from Soviet embassy with files that showed Communist spy rings operating in Canada; put under protective custody.
1944 France - Five RCAF pilots destroy first German jet fighter.
1940 England - Second World War Battle of Britain ends, with RAF airmen, many of whom were Canadian, driving Hermann Goring's Luftwaffe from the skies over southern England.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Andrew George Latta McNaughton 1887-1966 named to head First Canadian Division.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Finance sets up War Supply Board for government purchasing; transferred to new Department of Munitions and Supply in 1940.
1912 Hamilton Ontario - Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 single points in one Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) game.
1907 Montreal Quebec - Montreal defeats Toronto 17-8 in first game of the new Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU).
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - Itka and Man Without Blood tried, found guilty and sentenced to hang for killing farm instructor Payne on the Mosquito reserve on March 29.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - John Douglas Sutherland, Marquis Lorne 1845-1914 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from Nov. 25,1878 to Oct. 21,1883; wife Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria.
1871 St. Norbert, Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 secretly returns to Manitoba to help government put down Fenian Raid; publicly thanked by Lieutenant-Governor Adams Archibald.
1871 Pembina Manitoba - William B. O'Donoghue 1843-1878 leads Fenian raiding party across Manitoba border at Pembina; seizes HBC post; followed and arrested by US troops.
1871 Charlottetown PEI - Sod turned for Prince Edward Island's first railway.
1869 Saint John, New Brunswick - Hurricane comes up the Bay of Fundy, sinking or driving ashore over 120 ships.
1835 Montreal Quebec - Railway promoters put forward a plan to build a line from Quebec to New Brunswick.
1813 Moraviantown Ontario - Shawnee chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 killed in the Battle of the Thames, as William Henry Harrison defeats an outnumbered Henry Proctor.
1813 Lake Ontario - Commodore Isaac Chauncey captures six British schooners carrying reinforcements and sick and wounded from York to Kingston.
1795 Edmonton Alberta - Hudson Bay Company starts building a fur trade post on a sheltered curve of the North Saskatchewan River, near the present day Alberta Legislature.
1793 Nootka, BC - Captain George Vancouver arrives at Nootka Sound.
1786 Halifax Nova Scotia - Prince William becomes the first member of the Royal Family to visit Halifax; the 21 year old is known as 'Coconut Head' to his fellow Navy officers; he has a reputation for 'wenching'.
1755 Kingston Ontario - Captain Pierre Pouchot and the Guienne regiment sail from Fort Frontenac with orders to rebuild the fortifications at Niagara; new colonial war beginning; starts line of fortifications from Lake Ontario to the bank of the Niagara River, with a wall flanked by two projecting bastions, in the manner of Vauban's great European fortresses.
1710 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Francis Nicholson 1665-c1728 attacks Port-Royal. De Subercase, with less than 300 men, resists for eight days before surrendering.
1658 Paris France - Cavelier de La Salle enters the noviciat des Jésuites in Paris.

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October 6th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
69 BC – Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
68 BC – Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
23 – Rebels kill and decapitate the Xin Dynasty emperor Wang Mang two days after the capital Chang'an is sacked during a peasant rebellion.
404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after.
1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 РJacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its premi̬re performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 17.
1762 – Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1854 – England: The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 – Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis.
1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Polesia army after the Battle of Kock
1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are killed.
1976 – New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1976 – Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
1977 – In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
1977 – The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 – Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
2000 – Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 CANADA SAYS NO DEAL FOR CROSS
Ottawa Ontario - External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp says the government of Canada refuses to meet conditions of FLQ given in a communiqué broadcast at 1:30 over CKAC for the release of British Trade Commissioner James Cross - publication of the FLQ Manifesto in newspapers, release of FLQ militants from jail, and rehiring of 400 ex-employees of the Lapalme transport company by the Post Office.


In Other Events....

1997 Quebec Quebec - Quebec lawyer Guy Bertrand asks the Quebec Superior Court to recommend creation of a fund to hold tax revenues payable to the Quebec government in the event of a unilateral declaration of independence.
1996 Boisbriand Quebec - General Motors' 15,000 workers at Boisbriand walk off the job.
1995 Quebec - Most Quebec CÉGEP students walk out to protest tuition fee hikes.
1993 Oka Quebec - Non-natives erect barricade at Oka to protest actions of Kanesatake Mohawks.
1992 China - Canadian built Ultra Violet Auroral Imager and Cold Plasma Analyzer instruments carried on board Swedish-German Freja satellite launched on a Chinese Long March IIC rocket.
1992 Windsor Ontario - Ontario Consumer & Commercial Relations Minister Marilyn Churley announces the province has chosen Windsor as site of pilot casino; will supply badly needed revenue to border city, help control organized crime.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports killings by handguns doubled to 136 in 1991 from 68 in 1990 and 45 in 1989; used in half of shooting homicides, up from 30% in 1991. 1991 homicides rose to a record 753, up 14.8% from 1990; BC and Manitoba highest; PEI lowest; 270 killed by firearms, up almost 40% since 1990.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Ray Hnatyshyn appointed new Governor General, to replace Jeanne Sauvé; Saskatchewan native a former Conservative Justice Minister.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Explosion damages Petro Canada refinery in east end Montreal.
1984 Fort McMurray Alberta - Syncrude goes ahead with $600 million tar sands expansion.
1983 Victoria BC - NDP Leader Dave Barrett ejected from the Legislature for defying a ruling by Speaker Walter Davidson over fiscal restraint bills; first leader of a Canadian political party to be forcefully ejected.
1981 Frankfurt Germany - Canadian government sells Telidon two-way television system to Siemens AG of West Germany for $10 million; user can retrieve graphical information from electronic libraries.
1981 Los Angeles, California - First Canadian gas reaches Los Angeles through Foothills Pipeline; 'prebuilt' western section of Alaska gas pipeline.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Strike at Montreal dailies La Presse and Montréal-Matin.
1974 Moscow Russia - WHA Team Canada comprised of World Hockey Association players wins 1 game, ties 3 out of 8 with USSR.
1976 Barbados - Cuban jet leased from Air Canada crashes near Barbados, killing 78.
1973 St-Mathias-de-Chambly, Quebec - UFO sighted by 2 two people at St-Mathias.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens defensive stalwart John Ferguson announces his retirement from hockey.
1967 Ucluelet BC - 19.26 in of rain falls in 24 hours for a Canadian record.
1967 Fredericton, New Brunswick - W.T. Ross Flemington 1916- former president of Mount Allison University appointed New Brunswick's first ombudsman.
1966 Churchill Falls, Labrador - Hydro-Quebec and British Newfoundland Corporation sign 40-year power deal; letting Quebec buy power from Churchill Falls at what will turn out to be bargain rates.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Vincent Bladen issues Bladen Commission report; recommends higher university grants and aid to students; also federal minister of higher education.
1964 BC - Mount St. Laurent in Rocky Mountains named to honour former Prime Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Committee for Control of Radiation Hazards presents 141,000-name petition to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
1959 Japan - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 announces $20,000 grant to Japanese Red Cross for relief of typhoon victims.
1954 New York City - Nova Scotia country singer Hank Snow 1914- has a #1 hit with his RCA single, 'I Don't Hurt Anymore'.
1950 Los Angeles, California - Saskatchewan born entertainer Art Linkletter premieres his 'Life With Linkletter' TV Variety show on ABC.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - Newfoundland delegates meet in the Senate chamber with their Canadian counterparts to discuss final arrangements for entry into Confederation; to October 27.
1942 Vancouver BC - Last group of Japanese internees detained at Hastings Park internment camp leave for camps in the BC Interior.
1942 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ella Cora Hind 1861-1942 dies; journalist, born at Toronto Sept. 18, 1861; moved to Winnipeg, worked as a public stenographer when denied a job at the Free Press; set up a marketing service for the province's dairy industries; in 1901 became agricultural editor of the paper and an expert on the western Canadian wheat crop yield; elected President of the Canadian Women's Press Club in 1904; participated in Winnipeg's famous Mock Parliament in 1914, which defeated a motion to give the vote to men; retired in 1935; author of Seeing for Myself (1937), about her round the world trip to observe farming methods.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of fourth session of 17th Parliament; meets until May 27,1933.
1927 New York City - Canadian born film producers, the Warner Brothers, premiere the world's first talking film, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson; not a true talkie, with only 291 spoken words, but the first to integrate sound and dialogue into a story through the Vitaphone disk process.
1925 Aklavik NWT - RCCS Aklavik radio station opens; part of North West Territories and Yukon Radio System.
1923 Quebec City - Earthquake rattles windows and causes mud slides in Quebec region.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Departure of 258th Montreal Battalion of Infantry for service in France.
1915 France - Major Adolphe Roy the second Canadian to die at the front in World War I.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 resigns as Prime Minister following political upset by Borden; Liberal Party leader since 1887; MP Quebec East since 1877; Leader of the Opposition until his death in 1919.
1890 Washington DC - US President William McKinley brings in punitive McKinley Tariff; Canada applies counter-tariffs soon after, leading to recession on both sides of the border.
1862 Manitouwaning Ontario - Indian Commissioner William Macdougall 1822-1905 negotiates Manitoulin Island treaty with Ottawa and Chippewa; Crown awards land grants and interest for land.
1825 Miramachi New Brunswick - Beginning of great Miramachi fire that kills over 500 people.
1818 Astoria Oregon - Fort Astoria on the Columbia River returned to the United States under War of 1812 peace treaty; sold to the North West Company by starving Americans in 1813, then formally captured by a British warship; Canada loses territories of the Pacific Northwest first explored by the Norwesters.
1604 Dochet Island, Maine - First snow of winter falls on Ste-Croix Island as Champlain, de Monts and the settlers dig in for winter.
1586 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 arrives back in England from his Arctic explorations.

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October 7th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763 – George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828 – Morea Expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia
1864 – American Civil War: Bahia Incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War – Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
1949 – The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
1960 – Nigeria joins the United Nations.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1971 – Oman joins the United Nations.
1976 – Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China.
1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
1987 – Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India.
1991 – Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.
1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 – A historic recall election takes place in the U.S. State of California in which the sitting Governor Gray Davis a Democrat is overwhelmingly voted out of office. Actor/bodybuilder and Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected to be the 38th Governor of California over fellow Republican Tom McClintock and Democrat Cruz Bustamante who at the time was the sitting Lt. Governor of California. This is the first recall election in the history of the State of California in which a sitting Governor has been successfully recalled from office.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 OCTOBER CRISIS CONTINUES
Montreal Quebec - FLQ Manifesto read over radio station CKAC; the demands of the terrorists have expired without action from the federal or provincial governments. Chronology of the day: at 9:00 am, the taxi used for the kidnapping is James Cross is discovered; at noon, Windsor Station is ransacked; in the afternoon, the FLQ issue two more communiqués, and at 6:00 pm, their lawyer Robert Lemieux holds a press conference to discuss the government's offer to negotiate.

1737
Trois-Rivieres Quebec - Iron ore is smelted in Canada for the first time on the banks of the St Maurice River upstream from Trois-Rivières. Here is a picture of the works in the early 19th Century. Parks Canada presently operate the Forges de St.-Maurice as a national historic site.

In Other Events....

1997 Montreal Quebec - RCMP ordered to make reparations of $2 million to former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for defamatory accusations released during the Airbus enquiry.
1996 Montreal Quebec - Funeral held for former Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, who died of cancer.
1995 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens hold a ceremony to retire the #1 sweater of goaltender Jacques Plante.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - CBC unveils new 9:00 pm news program Prime Time News; with Peter Mansbridge and Pamela Wallin; to replace The National and The Journal.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Forces planning special peacekeeping force for UN duties; reaching limit of what it can do with conventional troops.
1992 San Antonio Texas - Michael Wilson initials NAFTA- North American Free Trade Agreement- with Mexico and USA; symbolic ceremony attended by Mulroney, Bush and Salinas.
1990 Qatar, United Arab Emirates - Canadian Forces CF-18 fighter jets start arriving at Camp Canada Dry on the Persian Gulf to join a multinational force blocking Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1983 Ste-Therese Quebec - Bell Helicopter Textron starts construction of Canada's first helicopter factory at Mirabel airport; investment of $766 million subsidized by Ottawa and Quebec.
1982 Nepal - Patrick Morrow 1953- reaches peak of Everest; one Canadian and 3 Nepalese killed in the ascent; native of Kimberley, BC.
1975 Victoria BC - British Columbia Legislature passes emergency measures legislation to force striking forest, railway, propane, and food industry workers to work.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Montreal's 3,700 police and firefighters stage 16-hour wildcat strike, resulting in violence, looting and arson, as well as the death of one policeman and one civilian; both unions legislated back to work Oct. 8; during the strike, FLQ terrorists broke into an armory and stole weapons.
1969 Gabon - Canada resumes diplomatic relations with Gabon; suspended on Feb. 19, 1968.
1968 Ste-Therese Quebec - Students occupy Lionel Groulx College, demand job programs and new French-language courses; other provincial colleges strike, but all CÉGEPs re-open by Oct. 28.
1968 Chomedey Quebec - FLQ terrorists steal dynamite store at Chomedey.
1966 Saskatchewan - South Saskatchewan Dam named Gardiner Dam to honour James Garfield Gardiner 1897-1972, former Premier of Saskatchewan and federal Minister of Agriculture.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Justice Kelly chairs Commission on Windfall Mines; wants Ontario Securities Commission set up as independent body.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology in Ottawa.
1963 Quebec - FLQ leader Georges Schoeters given 2 five-year terms for terrorist activities; Gabriel Hudon and Raymond Villeneuve get 12 years for death of Sgt. O'Neill.
1960 Europe - Fifteen Canadian industrialists leave on three-week trade mission to Europe.
1944 Dortmund Germany - RCAF's No. 6 Group strikes at Dortmund; loses only two out of record 293 bombers.
1936 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Paul Sauvé opens the Quebec National Assembly as Premier.
1918 Montreal Quebec - Epidemic of Spanish Influenza claims its first victim in Montreal; brought by returning veterans.
1918 Montreal Quebec - Epidemic of Spanish Influenza claims its first victim in Montreal; brought by returning veterans.
1913 Okotoks Alberta - William Stewart Herron discovers oil on the Dingman site near Calgary, sparking Alberta's first oil boom. Herron, a local horse wrangler, first noticed gas bubbling out of an old mine shaft in 1911, collected samples, and formed a company to drill on the site.
1904 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the first St Joseph's chapel in Montreal.
1885 Montmorency Quebec - Opening of the Montmorency Falls hydro-electric generating station.
1876 Saskatchewan - David Laird 1833-1914 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the North West Territory.
1869 Klukwan BC - Kohklux, chief of the Chilkat Indian village of Klukwan, draws US scientist George Davidson a highly detailed and accurate map of the Yukon/Alaska interior; impressed with Davidson's prediction of a total solar eclipse.
1841 London England - Charles Bagot 1781-1843 appointed Governor-General of the Province of Canada; serves from Jan. 12, 1842 to March 30, 1843.
1825 Newcastle New Brunswick - - Great Miramachi Fire destroys Newcastle and Douglastown, NB, leaving 160 dead; the fire will kill over 500 people before it burns out.
1798 Uxbridge Ontario - De Puisaye group of 44 refugees of the French Revolution given land in Upper Canada; Uxbridge, Gwillimbury, and Whitchurch Townships.
1777 Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania - Robert Rogers' First American regiment beats back George Washington and his rebel forces at Chadds Ford; regiment later known as the Queen's York Regiment organized before the Revolution by Robert Rogers; later moved to Toronto by Lt-Col John Graves Simcoe.
1774 London England - Quebec Act given Royal Assent; province to be ruled by a governor and from 17 to 23 councillors; freedom of religion given to Roman Catholics, and permission for Catholics to hold public office; guaranteed use of the French language; establishment of the French Civil Code and the English Criminal Code; maintenance of the seigneurial system; all to promote loyalty in the event of an American revolution.
1773 Montreal Quebec - Bust of King George III unveiled in the Place d'Armes.
1763 London England - King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763; constitutes the new British Province of Quebec; provides terms of government for the territories Britain acquired from France under the Treaty of Paris; recognizes Indian rights in British North America, effectively closing lands north and west of the Alleghenies to settlement; sets the western boundary where the 45th parallel crosses St. Lawrence NW to Lake Nipissing; the Appalachian watershed becomes the eastern boundary of Quebec.
1763 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton annexed to Nova Scotia.
1763 Quebec Quebec - Government appoints 10 english speaking Justices of the Peace.
1758 Halifax, Nova Scotia - First meeting of the Nova Scotia legislature.
1663 Montreal Quebec - First municipal council meets at Montreal.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny elected first Mayor of Quebec.
1661 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Uvil shot for selling alcohol to the Indians.
1535 Trois-Rivieres, Quebec - Jacques Cartier plants a cross at the mouth of the St. Maurice River and claims the land for France; calls the river the Fouez.

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October 8th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

314 – Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories.
451 – At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1).
1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
1200 РIsabella of Angoul̻me is crowned Queen consort of England.
1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, defeated in the battle of Bliska, is arrested by the Parliament.
1480 – Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde.
1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years War.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 – San Marino adopts its written constitution.
1645 РJeanne Mance opened the H̫tel-Dieu de Montr̩al, the first lay hospital in North America.
1806 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.
1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bayern and Austria.
1821 – The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
1829 – Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Perryville – Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.
1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
1879 – War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
1895 – Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.
1904 – Edmonton, Alberta is incorporated as a city.
1904 – Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is incorporated as a city.
1912 – First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132.
1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
1928 – Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
1932 – The Indian Air Force is established.
1939 – World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
1941 – World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
1956 – New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 21 perfect games in MLB history.
1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuvre called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason.
1962 – Algeria joins the United Nations.
1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a manoeuvre to deceive world opinion".
1973 – Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
1973 – Greek military junta of 1967–1974: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1990 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
1991 – Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, making the country fully independent
2001 – A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118 people.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2005 – 2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1898 CENTENNIAL OF CANADIAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Montreal Quebec - McGill University beats Queen's University, 3-2, in the first Canadian Intercollegiate football game, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY.

1951
Montreal Quebec - Princess Elizabeth 1926- arrives at Dorval Airport to start cross-country tour with her husband Prince Philip, later Duke of Edinburgh; her first Royal Tour lasts until November 12; she will be crowned Queen the following year.

In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Expansion Ottawa Senators beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 in the Civic Centre; Doug Smail scores a pair of goals, first regular season NHL game for a Senators team in 58 years.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn unveils new $2.8 million peacekeeping monument on traffic island in Ottawa; called Reconciliation; to honour 90,000 Canadians who served, 80 who died on duty since 1947.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays lose American League title to Oakland A's with 4-3 loss in Game 5.
1984 Nashville Tennessee - Springhill, Nova Scotia's Anne Murray wins the Country Music Association's Album of the Year Award for 'A Little Good News'; sold over 12-million copies; first woman and first Canadian to win the award.
1984 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- announces he will retire early in 1985; Conservative Premier of the province since 1971.
1979 New Brunswick - New Brunswick Acadians announce desire for new political slatus for Acadia as Canada's 11th province.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Gilles Villeneuve wins his first Formula 1 race at the Montreal Grand Prix.
1975 Montreal Quebec - Canadien Guy Lafleur scores his first NHL goal.
1974 London England - Paul Martin Sr appointed Canadian High Commissioner to Britain.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules Indian woman cannot be deprived of Indian status because of marriage to non-Indian; under the Bill of Rights.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Henri Richard elected captain of the NHL Canadiens hockey team.
1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues; the FLQ Manifesto is broadcast on Radio-Canada at 10:30 pm.
1970 Quebec - Quebec medical specialists go on 10-day strike over Medicare issues.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - opening of 3rd session of the 28th Parliament; until Feb. 16,1972.
1969 Montreal Quebec - National Assembly legislates Montreal police and firemen back to work; state of emergency declared,; emergency meeting.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Federal-provincial conference of Attorneys-General meets to discuss amendments to BNA Act.
1945 Washington DC - President Harry Truman says that the secret of the atomic bomb will only be shared with Britain and Canada
1943 Italy - Italian government surrenders to Allied forces; Germans and Fascist supporters keep fighting on.
1928 Washington D.C. - US Supreme Court decides that Canadians working in the US not liable for immigration fee when crossing.
1916 London England - James Richardson awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for inspiring men of 16th Canadian Battalion to capture a German position at the Somme. Richardson fearlessly marched in front of the enemy playing his bagpipes, and was killed.
1904 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton incorporated as a city.
1904 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - Prince Albert incorporated as a city.
1804 Lake Ontario Ontario - Government schooner 'Speedy' lost with all hands in a storm on Lake Ontario; dead include Judge Cochrane; Solicitor-General Gray; Surveyer Stegman.
1783 Adolphustown Ontario - Loyalists from New York travel through Quebec and settle at Adolphustown.
1643 Montreal Quebec - Jeanne Mance 1606-1673 opens the Hôtel Dieu, Montreal's first hospital and the first lay hospital in North America; she will treat the French and Indian populations for over 30 years.
1613 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 decides to continue Quebec venture; names nephew, Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons, Lt Governor; after collapse of de Monts' partnership.

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October 9th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1238 – James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1264 – The Kingdom of Castile conquers the city of Jerez that was under Muslim occupation since 711.
1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 – Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
1558 РM̩rida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1594 – The Portuguese Empire army is annihilated by the Kingdom of Kandy on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture.
1595 – The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1740 – Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1799 – Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 – Prussia declares war on France.
1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1845 – The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 – Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island – Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook – Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1873 – A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1907 – Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
1911 – An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
1914 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 – Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1942 – The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1945 – Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
1950 – Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre started.
1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1963 – In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1966 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai massacre
1966 – Vietnam War: Dien Nien-Phuoc Binh massacre
1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1980 – Pope John Paul II shakes hands with the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
1980 – Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1983 – Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1991 – Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1995 – An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1999 – The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2003 – Mission: SPACE opens to the public in the Epcot park at Walt Disney World. The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.
2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
2012 – Members of the Pakistani Taliban made a Failed attempt to assassinate Malala Yousafzai on her way home from school.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 OCTOBER CRISIS CONTINUES...
Montreal Quebec - Chronology of the day: at 6 am the FLQ terrorists issue a new communiqué at 2:45 pm they release a letter from James Cross to his wife; at 4:30 pm, police arrest and detain several suspects for questioning; at 6:00 pm the FLQ announce a further delay.

1874
Fort Macleod Alberta - James Farquharson Macleod 1836-1894 arrives at Fort Whoop-Up with the first North West Mounted Police troop, guided by Metis scout Jerry Potts. They find the whisky trading post empty, but build a fort on an island in the Oldman River. The first arrest comes with the capture of five whiskey traders with two wagon loads of fire water (a concoction of brandy and pepper), buffalo robes and rifles.

In Other Events....

1997 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada declares unconstitutional the section of Quebec's referendum law dealing with the financing of third parties, saying that the ceiling on expenses retrains the free expression of certain individuals and groups; regarding the section of the law forcing groups to join either a YES or NO committee, the Court suggests these restrictions are a clear restraint on freedom of expression,
1997 Montreal Quebec - Cascades and Domtar pulp and paper companies announce a merger.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Casino de Montréal opens in the former French Pavilion on the Expo 67 site.
1992 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland Energy Minister Rex Gibbons announces Hibernia oil drilling project will resume; put in mothballs Feb. 14 after Gulf Canada Resources withdrew.
1991 Winnipeg Manitoba - Crowd of 5,000 demonstrate at the Manitoba Legislature demanding aid to grain farmers suffering from a global subsidy war; Mulroney government pledges $800 million the following day.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Air Canada announces layoff of 2,900 employees; blames recession and rising oil prices.
1990 Qatar - Canadian CF-18 fighter jets start patrolling the Persian Gulf as part of multinational force.
1986 Buffalo, New York - Sabre Gilbert Perreault the 12th NHLer to score 500 goals.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Peter Greyson sentenced to 89 days in jail for pouring red ink on an original copy of the 1982 Constitution Act; Toronto art student was protesting the former Liberal government's decision to test cruise missiles in Canada.
1982 Brisbane Australia - Canada wins 26 gold, 23 silver and 33 bronze medals, finishing 3rd at Commonwealth Games, Brisbane.
1982 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his 200th NHL goal.
1980 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg Sun first published; morning tabloid to replace Winnipeg Tribune; first published thrice-weekly.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate from 12.25% to 13%.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of the thirty-first Parliament; until Dec. 14, 1979.
1974 Yonkers NY - Hervé Filion wins his 5,000th harness race, the first North American driver, and first Canadian, to do so.
1968 Wolfville Nova Scotia - Acadia University sets up Canada-Commonwealth Caribbean Centre; to study of matters of interest to Canada and Commonwealth Caribbean.
1961 St. John's Newfoundland - Eleanor Roosevelt officiates at opening of Memorial University at St. John's.
1953 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of first Canadian Division, army's first in peacetime.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 5th session of 21st Parliament; until December 29.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Charles de Gaulle gets Canada to recognize his Provisional Government of the French Republic.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Government establishes departments of reconstruction, veterans' affairs, health and welfare.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - J. A. MacKinnon succeeds WD Euler as Minister of Trade and Commerce.
1940 Vermont - Medical missionary Sir Wilfred Grenfell dies at age 75; came to Canada with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen; started the first medical mission in the Labrador outports and founded a hospital in St. Anthony, on the northern tip of Newfoundland; later run by the International Grenfell Association.
1938 Point Edward, Ontario - Official opening of St. Clair River Bridge to Port Huron, Michigan.
1918 Cambrai France - General Sir Arthur Currie 1875-1933 leads Canadian Corps and some British divisions in the capture of Cambrai, the hub of the German defensive system on the British front.
1899 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Soulanges Canal, replacing the old Beauharnois Canal on the south shore.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald sworn in as Prime Minister with his ministry; back in power after win over Alexander Mackenzie.
1877 St. Boniface, Manitoba - Locomotive 'Countess of Dufferin' arrives in Winnipeg on a barge towed by the steamer Selkirk; brought in by contractor Joseph Whitehead to help build the Selkirk-Emerson line; first locomotive in Manitoba and on the Prairies.
1877 Quebec - First rain leaves Montreal for St-Jérôme.
1867 Spotted Island Labrador - William Jackman 1837-1877, captain of a Bowrings sealing steamer, swims through the surf to rescue 11 men from a wooden fishing vessel, the Sea Clipper, wrecked on a rocky reef. Then with the help of others and a rope, he swims out to the reef 16 more times to save the remaining men and women.
1838 Quebec - Lord Durham publishes his resignation in the Montreal and Quebec newspapers; he will leave for England Nov. 01.
1820 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Governor issues proclamation rejoining Cape Breton to Nova Scotia; originally part of the colony of Nova Scotia in 1763, it became a separate colony for Loyalist refugees in 1784.
1812 Fort Erie, Ontario - US Lieutenant Jesse Elliot leads two boats of American soldiers and sailors up the Niagara River, and at 3:00 am, completely surprises the crews of the British ships 'Detroit' and 'Caledonia' at anchor under the protection of the guns of Fort Erie, freeing 40 American sailors who were prisoners aboard the two brigs, and capturing 70 British and Canadian sailors; in ten minutes sails them away; Caledonia makes it to the American naval base at Black Rock, but Detroit runs aground.
1811 Toronto Ontario - Isaac Brock 1769-1812 appointed administrator of Upper Canada; serves until his death Oct. 13, 1812.
1744 Louisbourg, Nova Scotia - Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor 1713-c1775 appointed administrator of Cape Breton Island on death of Duquesnel; serves until June 17, 1745.
1668 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first Franco-Huron college at Quebec.
1710 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - First Anglican service in southern Canada; a thanksgiving service at the garrison of Annapolis Royal.
1615 Syracuse, New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 and his party of 500 Huron warriors capture 11 Iroquois; intending to attack Onondaga and Seneca strongholds.
1576 Baffin Island, NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sets sail for England.
1002 Labrador/NWT - Leif Erikson lands in what is now North America on about this date.

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October 10th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P

19 AD – Roman general Germanicus suddenly dies in Antioch under mysterious circumstances. Roman historian Tactius records that Germanicus was poisoned by Syrian Governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Roman emperor Tiberius.
680 – Battle of Karbala: Hussain bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
1575 – Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1631 – An Electorate of Saxony army takes over Prague.
1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
1868 РCarlos C̩spedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence
1871 – The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10.
1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1920 – The Carinthian Plebiscite determines that the larger part of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
1928 – Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1933 – United Airlines Chesterton Crash: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 РA coup d'̩tat by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.
1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
1943 – Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore
1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double-Ten Agreement.
1953 – Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington D.C.
1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
1970 – In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1980 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3,500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
1998 РA Lignes A̩riennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
2008 – The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.


Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 FLQ TERRORISTS KIDNAP PIERRE LAPORTE
Montreal Quebec - October Crisis comes to a head. Chronology of this day: 5:30 pm - Quebec government refuses to free Front de Libération du Québec prisoners; 5:45 pm - Government rejects other FLQ conditions; 6:00 pm - Justice Minister Jérôme Choquette opens a news conference to announce that the government refuses to negotiate with FLQ terrorists; 6:18 pm - Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte 1921-1970 kidnapped by FLQ cell while playing football with his son outside his suburban home in St-Hubert; 7:10 pm - intense police activity begins around Montreal as the search begins for Laporte.

In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa releases legal text of Charlottetown Accord; some changes to Senate and native rights; not yet signed or legally binding.
1992 New York City - k. d. laing's 'Constant Craving' peaks at #38 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Mafia boss Frank Cotroni arrested in Montreal.
1979 Quebec Quebec - Nordiques' Réal Cloutier scores three goals in his first NHL game; first game hat trick sets NHL record; Nordiques lose 5-3 to Atlanta Flames.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Female pages hired for the House of Commons for the first time.
1975 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian Wheat Board sells the Soviet Union up to $100 million of grain.
1973 Come By Chance, Newfoundland - $200 million oil refinery at Come By Chance starts production; capacity of 100,000 barrels a day.
1973 China - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts six-day visit to China, where he meets with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung; first visit by a Canadian Prime Minister.
1972 Charlottetown PEI - Premier Alex Campbell appoints Jean Canfield minister responsible for the PEI Housing Authority; first woman cabinet member in Prince Edward Island history. .
1971 Quebec - Réal Caouette re-elected Leader of the Crédit Social.
1969 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba cuts voting age in provincial elections from 21 to 18.
1964 Quebec Quebec - Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Quebec marred by demonstrations; police wield nightsticks to break up crowds; called 'le Samedi de la Matraque'.
1964 Tokyo Japan - Canadian team joins 92 other nations at the opening of the 18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo; total of 5,140 athletes compete until Oct. 24. Canada will tale home one gold medal (Coxless pairs: George Hungerford, Roger Jackson); two silver (Judo - Plus 80 kilograms: Doug Rogers; and Track and Field - 800 m: Bill Crothers); and one bronze (Track and Field - 100 m: Harry Jerome).
1962 Bagotville Quebec - Collision between TCA Viscount and RCAF fighter kills 2, injures 5 over Bagotville.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Urho Kekkonen President of Finland starts six-day visit to Canada.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Rough Rider Ron Stewart rushes for 287 yards against Montreal Alouettes, to set a single game CFL record.
1959 St-Jovite, Quebec - Inauguration of the Autoroute des Laurentides.
1927 Winnipeg Manitoba - Opening of Conservative Party Convention; R. B. Bennett will be chosen to succeed Arthur Meighen as Tory leader.
1921 New Brunswick - New Brunswick votes against importing liquor for personal use.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 sworn in as Prime Minister succeeding Wilfrid Laurier; was Leader of the Opposition 1901-1911; serves to July 10, 1920.
1903 Walkerville Ontario - Henry Ford starts production at Walkerville; makes 117 cars in first year.
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - Start of trial of five Indians in involvement in massacre at Frog Lake, found guilty and sentenced to hang.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie resigns with his Liberal government after election defeat by John A. Macdonald.
1851 PEI - Great American Gale destroys 80 fishing vessels, killing 130 men; one of Prince Edward Island's worst natural disasters.
1849 Montreal Quebec - Over 325 prominent Montreal citizens sign Annexation Manifesto, advocating union of Canada and US; including John Abbott, a future prime minister; later published in Montreal Gazette.
1848 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba's first public library founded at Fort Garry.
1814 Kingston Ontario - Kingston Navy Dockyard launches big three-deck warship 'St. Lawrence,' but too late for action; largest wooden ship ever built on fresh water.
1806 Niagara Ontario - William Weekes killed in a duel with William Dickson 1769-1846, member of the Legislative Council; representative of Durham, Simcoe and East York in Upper Canada Assembly.
1725 Quebec Quebec - Philippe Rigaud de Vaudreuil dies at Quebec.
1710 Halifax, Nova Scotia - First Anglican church service in southern Canada held at Chebucto.
1682 Quebec Quebec - Meeting at Quebec to discuss how to deal with the Iroquois problem.
1663 Paris France - The King approves the 'dîme' law, whereby the Habitants of New France are obliged to pay one-thirteenth of their harvest to the seigneur.
1663 Quebec Quebec - First Immigration Act in New France.
1615 Syracuse, New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 and his party of 500 Huron warriors move to attack Onondaga and Seneca strongholds.
1613 Trinity Bay, Newfoundland - John Guy dc1629 explores Trinity Bay with 18 men, to establish contact with Beothuk Indians.

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Events:C/P.

1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
1142 – A peace treaty between the Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court.
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634 – The Burchardi flood – "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
1833 – A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil is established as a city.
1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1890 – In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
1918 – San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico.
1929 – JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance – On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
1944 – Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1957 – Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit.
1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
1996 РPala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in J̵geva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 – A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.


Today's Canadian Headline....



1869 METIS START RED RIVER REBELLION
St-Vital Manitoba - Canadian surveyor Adam Clark Webb and his crew try to mark off a long farm field belonging to Metis André Nault, a cousin of Louis Riel; when Nault asks them to leave and they refuse, a group of 16 unarmed Metis led by Riel arrive; Riel places his foot on the surveyor's chain, and tells the crew 'You go no further'. This incident marks the beginning of the Red River Insurrection; Metis and others object to transfer of Rupert's Land to Canadian sovereignty without being consulted, and fear a flood of eastern settlers will destroy their way of life.

1942
Halifax Nova Scotia - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 sails the RCMP patrol vessel 'St. Roch' into Halifax harbour after making the first west-to-east crossing of the Northwest Passage; one of his eight-man crew had died of a heart attack in the Arctic as the wooden sailing schooner with an auxiliary engine spent the winter in the ice less than 80 km from the North Magnetic Pole. The St. Roch was built in North Vancouver in 1928. A wooden schooner with sail and auxiliary engine, she left Vancouver in the summer of 1940, took the southerly route through the Arctic islands, and spent two winters trapped in the ice; she was the second ship to sail the Passage, after Amundsen's Gjoa in 1908. She returned to Vancouver July-Oct. 1944 by the northerly Lancaster Sound route, and today you can see her berthed in Vancouver's Maritime Museum.

1615
Perryville New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635, with a war party of Hurons, is ambushed by the Onondagas. The Hurons get the worst of the fighting after a three hour battle, even though Champlain uses his blunderbuss against the Iroquois. He is wounded and the party withdraw back across Lake Ontario.


In Other Events....

1994 Quebec - Gérald Godin dies, politician and Parti Quebecois Culture Minister, poet, Les Cantouques (1966).
1992 Oakland California - Toronto Blue Jay Roberto Alomar hits 2-run homer against Oakland A's pitcher Dennis Eckersley to send Game 4 of the American League Championship Series into extra innings; Toronto down 6-1 in seventh, goes on to beat the Athletics 7-6 in the 11th; Jays take 3-1 series edge in ALCS playoff; Eckersley saved 51 games for Oakland during the regular season.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays lose third game of American League Championship Series as Kansas City Royals take a 6-5 comeback victory, led by George Brett, who has four hits, including two homers.
1984 Boston Massachusetts - Penguin rookie Mario Lemieux scores on his first shift of his first NHL game, putting his first shot behind Bruins goaltender Pete Peeters.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Expo pitcher Steve Rogers leads his team to a 3-0 victory over Philadelphia in Game 5 of the National League East Divisional playoff; throws a 6-hit shutout and knocking in 2 Expo runs.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 4th session of the 30th Parliament; until March 26, 1979.
1977 Manitoba - Sterling Lyon leads the Progressive Conservatives to victory in provincial election; ousts NDP Premier Ed Schreyer after eight years in office.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Les Nordiques play their first NHL game in the Colisée arena.
1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues; Chronology of the day: 2:15 am - police search the homes of several suspects; 9:03 am - discovery of communiqué from the Chénier FLQ cell; FLQ extend deadline; 10:30 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman arrested; 12:00 am - Robert Bourassa meets his Cabinet in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; 1:00 pm - discovery of a further communiqué from the Chénier FLQ cell; 5:00 pm - another communiqué from the Chénier cell; 9:45 pm - Bourrassa offers to negotiate to free the hostages; 10:00 pm FLQ deadline expires.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 4th session of the 30th Parliament; until March 26, 1979.
1968 Washington DC - US pays Canada $52.1 million for BC flood control benefits from Columbia River project.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Opening of a congress of independantists to found the Parti Quebecois; Rene Levesque will be elected President the following day.
1967 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Justice Minister Frederic Dorion orders 6,000 Montreal Transportation Commission employees back to work, after 80-day strike.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Committee on the Study of Election Expenses recommends full disclosure of election spending by parties and candidates.
1962 Zweibrucken Germany - First of 200 Canadian-built CF-104 Starflghters leave for West Germany; to join strike-reconnaissance squadron.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the National Defence Medical Centre; to serve veterans, members of the three services and Parliamentarians.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in program to help low-income families find rental housing.
1952 Montreal Quebec - CBFT Television in Montreal carries the first hockey telecast in Canada, Montreal Canadiens vs. Detroit Red Wings, in French; origin of Radio-Canada's 'la Soirée du Hockey'.
1944 Romagna Italy - 1st Canadian Infantry Division returned to the line and the 5th Division goes into corps reserve; for three weeks, the Canadians will fight in the watery Romagna area south of the Po Valley.
1934 Montreal Quebec - Pro-Fascist demonstration takes place at the Monument National in Montreal.
1927 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs first concert.
1926 Toronto Ontario - Hugh Guthrie chosen as interim party leader by Conservative Party, replacing Arthur Meighen; serves to Oct. 12, 1927.
1920 Winnipeg Manitoba - Wing Commander Robert Leckie arrives from Dartmouth Nova Scotia in the first flight across Canada; Air Commodore A.K. Tylee and three other pilots take over the plane for the flight to Vancouver, arriving Oct. 17; total elapsed time 45 hours and 20 minutes for a flight of 5,488 km.
1918 Cambrai France - Lt. Wallace Lloyd Algie of the 20th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, killed in a battle north east of Cambrai, after taking two machine gun nests, and capturing a German officer and 10 men. He is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously Jan. 21, 1919.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Union government brings in new regulations for wartime labour; bans strikes and lockouts.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Borden Cabinet bans strikes and walkouts for duration of war.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 succeeds Wilfrid Laurier as Prime Minister; to Oct. 12, 1917, then head of Unionist Government to July 10; ninth Dominion Ministry.
1910 Kitchener Ontario - Adam Beck's Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario inaugurates first electrical service, sending Niagara power by a new transmission line to Berlin, now Kitchener; into Toronto by 1911.
1884 Quebec Quebec - Two dynamite explosions rock new Quebec parliament Buildings.
1875 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Party of almost 300 Icelanders land on the steamer International en route to their colony of New Iceland on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg; harsh winters and an epidemic that killed over 200,000 of their sheep caused them to look for a new home.
1853 Barrie Ontario - Northern Railroad reaches Barrie from Toronto.
1850 Richmond Quebec - Opening of St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad from Longueuil to Richmond.
1849 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Gazette publishes the Annexation Manifesto, asking for union with U.S. if commercial difficulties with Britain cannot be resolved.
1776 Ticonderoga, New York - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 inflicts heavy losses on General Benedict Arnold's American fleet at Valcour Island off Crown Point; first naval battle of Lake Champlain a British victory, but it stalls Carleton's plans to invade the rebel colonies from Canada.
1754 Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday meets a party of Blackfoot Indians; he tries to convince them to travel to Hudson Bay to trade, but they decline; first European/Blackfoot contact.
1676 Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 sets up public markets at Quebec, Three Rivers and Montreal.
1615 Perryville New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 ambushed by Onondagas and Senecas near present-day Syracuse; Hurons get worst of fighting after three hour battle; Champlain wounded by an arrow; party withdraw back across Lake Ontario; French use guns against the Iroquois for the first time.
1535 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier returns to Stadacona from his trip upriver to Montreal [Hochelaga]; he and his crew settle in for the winter.

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October 12th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P

539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1113 – The first documented mention under the Latin name Varadinum ("vár" means fortress in Hungarian) and the celebration day of the city Oradea while its bishopric was founded during the 11th century by King Ladislaus I of Hungary
1216 – King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.
1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon.
1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached India.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
1748 – British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1773 – America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York CIty.
1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
1799 РJeanne Genevi̬ve Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1822 – Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil.
1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
1871 – Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
1933 – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
1942 – World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
1944 – World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders.
1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1953 – "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York City
1959 – At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
1960 – Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast.
1962 – Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
1967 – Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China
1988 – Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.
1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1988 – Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India
1991 – Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
1992 – 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1994 – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).
1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 TRUDEAU SENDS IN THE TROOPS
Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues: Chronology of the day: 1:45 am - new FLQ communiqué; 2:45 am -James Cross writes a letter to CKLM; 8:00 am - Canadian Army troops leave Camp Petawawa and mobilize in Ottawa to meet terrorist threats, guard government buildings and officials, and protect the diplomatic community; 4:00 pm - FLQ Chénier cell issues another communiqué; 10:55 pm - new FLQ communiqué.

1957

Stockholm Sweden - Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972 awarded Nobel Peace Prize for his establishment of a United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt to solve the Suez Crisis and halt the Israeli-British-French invasion..


In Other Events....

1994 Stockholm Sweden - Bertram N. Brockhouse wins the Nobel Prize for Physics with American Clifford G. Shull; retired professor at McMaster University in Hamilton pioneered the use of beams of neutrons to study matter in its smallest detail.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Robert Bourassa debates the Charlottetown Accord with Jacques Parizeau on Radio-Canada.
1992 Windsor Ontario - Paragon Petroleum strikes oil on farm east of Windsor; pumping 500 barrels a day, versus 60 for the average Alberta well.
1990 New York City - United Nations endorses joint Canadian and British resolution condemning Israel for the Oct. 8 shooting of Palestinians at the Temple Mount.
1989 Stockholm Sweden - Sydney Altman wins Nobel Prize for chemistry with colleague Thomas Cech; Canadian scientist working in US.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Olympic Stadium roof raised for the first time.
1987 Quebec - Students from 20 CÉGEPs [community colleges] now on strike.
1986 Vancouver BC - Expo '86 closes; over 20 million visited the world's fair, based on the theme of transportation and communication.
1982 New Brunswick - Richard Bennett Hatfield 1931-1991 leads Progressive Conservatives to re-election victory in New Brunswick, winning 39 of 58 seats.
1980 Edmonton Alberta - Peter Lougheed 1928- announces Alberta will curtail oil production by 25% beginning March 1, 1981.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 2nd session of the 30th Parliament; until Oct. 17, 1977.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post workers go on strike.
1970 Pembroke Ontario - Troops leave Camp Petawawa for Ottawa to meet FLQ terrorist threats.
1968 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque elected President of the new Parti Québécois at the founding convention.
1968 Mexico City - Canadian athletes join 111 other nations at the opening of the 19th Summer Olympic games in Mexico; first Olympiad ever held in Latin America attracts 5,530 competitors; Canada will win one gold medal (Equestrian - Team Jumping: Jim Day, Jim Elder, Tom Gayford), three silver medals (Elaine Tanner in 100 and 200m Backstroke and Ralph Hutton in 400m Freestyle), and one bronze medal (4x100m Freestyle: Angela Coughlan, Marilyn Corson, Marion Lay, Elaine Tanner).
1968 Val d'Or, Quebec - Val d'Or incorporated.
1964 Osoyoos BC - Ottawa announces plans to build Queen Elizabeth II Observatory at Mt. Kobau, BC.
1960 Regina Saskatchewan - Opening of new airport terminal at Regina.
1960 Massey Sound, NWT - Massey Sound between Axel Heiberg Island and Amund Ringnes Island in Arctic named after former Governor General Charles Vincent Massey 1887-1967.
1956 New York City - Canadian Sunset by the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra & Eddie Heywood peaks at # 2 on the pop singles chart. [This piece of music has no redeeming Canadian content.]
1953 Montreal Quebec - Statue of Wilfrid Laurier unveiled in Dominion Square.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley makes budget speech, forecasting deficit of $2.242 billion; and unemployment rate of 4% for 1946 (in fact rate was 3.6%).
1937 Toronto Ontario - Public schools open six-weeks late after polio epidemic eases; disease claimed 150 lives that summer.
1927 Winnipeg Manitoba - Richard Bedford R. B. Bennett 1870-1947 chosen as party leader by Conservative convention, replacing interim leader Hugh Guthrie; serves to July 7, 1938.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 forms Unionist Government, with 10 Liberals and 13 Conservatives in Cabinet; many English Speaking Liberals abandon Laurier over conscription issue.
1916 Montreal Quebec - Royal Bank of Canada absorbs the Bank of Quebec.
1916 Montreal Quebec - First publication of the newspaper 'La Bataille'.
1912 Garneau Ontario - French-speaking students at Garneau walk out of class to protest English-speaking teacher.
1907 Vancouver BC - Canadian government agrees to cover costs of mob riots in Japanese and Chinese sections of Vancouver.
1899 Ottawa Ontario - Canadians split over Britain's decision to go to war against the Boers in South Africa; most English Canadians want to support the Mother Country, but many French Canadians identify with the Boers, or like Henri Bourassa reject getting involved in an imperial war. Wilfrid Laurier's solution is to decline joining the Boer War officially by sending the Canadian Army (a decision given to Joseph Chamberlain in 1897), but to place 8,300 volunteers at the disposal of Britain and supply up to $3 million in funding.
1872 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 defeats Alexander Mackenzie with 49.1% of popular vote, versus Mackenzie's 49.9%; 104 seats to Liberal 96; balloting from July 20 to Oct. 12.
1872 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Foot Ball Club plays Quebec City to a 0-0 tie, in its first game.
1868 London England - Minister of Militia George-Etienne Cartier arrives in London to get loan guarantees for railways and fortifications.
1864 Quebec Quebec - Journalists ask to attend sessions of the Quebec Conference; declined.
1859 Quebec Quebec - William Williams 1800-1883 administrator of Canada; serves until Feb. 22, 1861.
1856 Quebec Quebec - First street lighting by coal gas in Quebec.
1818 Ontario - Opening of third session of seventh Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until Nov. 27; bans meetings held for 'seditious purposes'.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Mgr. Pontbriand tells the people of Quebec to accept the English conquerors.
1675 Kingston Ontario - Cavelier de La Salle appointed Governor of Fort Frontenac.
1615 Syracuse, New York - A wounded Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 and his Huron war party withdraw back toward Lake Ontario after defeat by Senecas and Onondagas.
1535 Quebec Quebec - Iroquois show Jacques Cartier and his crew the use of tobacco.

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October 13th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P

54 – Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him to the Roman throne.
409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy.
1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1644 – A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danes and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1812 – War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights – As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1884 – Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
1911 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor-General of Canada of royal descent.
1914 – In Major League Baseball's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 3 to 1, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history.
1915 – The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
1917 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
1918 – Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1943 – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1958 – Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, makes his debut.
1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
1970 – Fiji joins the United Nations.
1972 – An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 174.
1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1992 – An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered CCCP-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
2010 – The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 OCTOBER CRISIS STANDOFF
Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues, as 15 soldiers from the 22nd Regiment arrive in Montreal to assist civil authorities; other units take up positions in Quebec City; police have Jacques Lanctôt under suspicion; Paul Rose picked up by surveillance but lost. Chronology of the day: 10:00 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux set free; 2:00 pm - Robert Lemieux meets Quebec Government lawyer/negotiator Robert Demers; 5:20 pm: Robert Lemieux makes a speech critical of the Government; 5:30 pm: Government refuses to negotiate further.

1812
Queenston Ontario - Isaac Brock 1769-1812 dies in battle while storming the Queenston Heights to dislodge Stephen Van Rensselaer and his invading army of 1,200 US troops and militia; Roger Sheaffe 1763-1851 takes command after Brock's death. Americans lose 90 dead, 100 wounded, over 850 prisoners. Ironically, Brock was awarded a knighthood in England three days before his death.


In Other Events....


1997 Les Eboulements, Quebec - Bus carrying elderly daytrippers crashes into ravine, killing 44
1993 Stockholm Sweden - British-born Canadian citizen Michael Smith awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry; jointly with US chemist Kary Mullis for work on DNA molecules of genetic material.
1993 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson announces his candidature for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party; son of former Quebec Premier; brother of PQ cabinet minister.
1993 New York City - Woolworth announces closure of 900 stores in Canada and the US.
1992 London England - Michael Ondaatje 1943- named joint winner of $45,000 Booker Prize with British author Barry Unsworth; for novel The English Patient; Toronto poet, novelist came to Canada from Sri Lanka in 1962; first Canadian to win the prize, awarded for Commonwealth literature.
1992 Charlottetown PEI - Brian Mulroney 1939- says Canada will not break up if No side wins; but warns of uncertainty until Quebec election; PQ if elected will hold another sovereignty referendum.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General's Performing Arts Awards announced: William Hutt Stratford actor; Gwenneth Lloyd ballet choreographer; Dominique Michel actress, comedienne; Gilles Maheu (Carbone 14 Dance Ensemble); Norman Jewison (work with Canadian Film Centre); Leopold Simoneau tenor; Oscar Peterson jazz pianist; Mercedes Palomino theatre director; to be awarded by Ray Hnatyshyn at Nov. 7 gala.
1992 Tracy Quebec - Ottawa charges Tioxide Canada Inc. for polluting St. Lawrence River; a federal offence; dumps 127 tonnes of sulphuric acid, 100 kilos heavy metals a day.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Minnesota Twins beat Blue Jays 8-5 at the SkyDome to win the American League pennant; Cito Gaston first manager ejected in a playoff game.
1987 New Brunswick - Frank McKenna leads his provincial Liberals to total sweep of Richard Hatfield's PCs, winning all 58 seats in the legislature.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Mad Dog Vachon retires from pro wrestling; gets farewell gala at Paul-Sauvé Arena.
1984 Cape Canaveral, Florida - Marc Garneau 1949- on board the Space Shuttle Challenger Flight STS-41G touches down on Runway 33 of the Kennedy Space Center after successful eight-day mission; total of 3.4 million miles around the Earth in 133 orbits; mission duration 197 hours 23 minutes; Garneau first Canadian in space.
1982 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- announces Ontario purchasing 13 million shares of Suncor for $325 million.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- imposes wage and price controls for 36 months; rejected a month earlier in the election campaign; federal Anti-Inflation Act sets up a three-year control system on wages and prices - the so-called the '6-and-5' program.
1972 Beijing China - Canada and China sign civil air agreement; direct flights between nations to start in 1973.
1970 Nova Scotia - Gerald Augustine Regan 1929- leads Liberal Party to victory in Nova Scotia election, defeating Conservatives under Ike Smith.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canada opens diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China; ends official ties with Taiwan.
1968 Quebec - Rene Levesque 1922-1987 leads Mouvement Souveraineté-Association at 3-day convention in Quebec City; to hammer out independence policy plank.
1966 Montreal Quebec - Robbers get away with $1 million mail theft at Montreal International Airport.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government founds Canadian Film Development Agency as Crown corporation to help private film-makers.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip end their visit to Canada; trip marred by protests of Quebec separatists.
1961 Montreal Quebec - Jean Béliveau named Captain of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Department of National Defence allows 16 year olds to enter the Canadian Army.
1952 Montreal Quebec -Gratien Gélinas premieres a film version of his 'Ti-Coq' stage character.
1947 Toronto Ontario - NHL All Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - MPs get $2,000 salary raise; Government cuts federal tax by 16%.
1917 Canada - Recruiting officers call first class of conscripts to register for military service; bachelors from age 20-34 required to take medical exam; first call-up under Military Service Act.
1914 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - Opening of the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway to Hearst; construction started in 1899; name shortened to Algoma Central in 1965.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - End of the first federal-provincial conference in Ottawa.
1905 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Provincial Police established by Order-in-Council.
1899 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian contingent organized to serve with British in South African War; war declared October 12.
1892 Montreal Quebec - Ville-Marie incorporated.
1884 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the daily newspaper, 'La Presse'; today the largest French daily in Canada.
1866 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys 2,500 buildings in Quebec City.
1864 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Conference delegates feted at three simultaneous banquets in Quebec City.
1830 Quebec Quebec - Lord Aylmer arrives in Quebec to serve as Governor.
1812 Queenston Ontario - Roger Sheaffe 1763-1851 becomes Commander-in-Chief of British forces and Administrator of Upper Canada on Brock's death; serves from Oct. 20 to June 19, 1813.
1812 Queenston Ontario - James Secord, of the 1st. Lincoln Militia, badly wounded in the Battle of Queenston Heights. The following May, Queenston is again invaded by the Americans, this time successfully; all men over 18 made prisoners of war, but due to his wounds, Secord allowed to stay in his home with his wife, Laura Ingersoll Secord, and three US officers billeted in the house. In June, 1813, the couple overhear the Americans planning a surprise attack on Lt. FitzGibbon and his Mohawk warriors at Beaverdams. Laura walks 32 km to the Decew house where FitzGibbon is staying; her warning and a decisive American defeat leads to the salvation of Upper Canada.
1812 Queenston Ontario - Stephen Van Rensselaer leads invading army of 1,200 Americans across from Lewiston, and gains heights at Queenston; on hearing the news, Isaac Brock 1769-1812, 11 km away at Fort George, hurries to engage the Americans.
1776 Crown Point Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 corners American rebel fleet at Crown Point.
1710 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Francis Nicholson 1665-c1728 captures Port Royal; renames it Annapolis Royal in honour of Queen Anne; end of French rule throughout Nova Scotia.
1761 Montreal Quebec - Montreal divided into 5 judicial districts.
1761 Paris France - François Bigot 1703-1777 jailed in the Bastille; the last Intendant of New France. Bigot looted the colony for years; he was charged with embezzlement, ordered to make restitution of £1.5 million, and sentenced to perpetual banishment; he died under an assumed name in Switzerland.
1705 Montreal Quebec - Agathe de St-Père opens a cloth mill in Montreal.
1694 Churchill, Manitoba - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 attacks York Fort, the stronghold of the Hudson's Bay Company; captures it two days later.
1651 Montreal Quebec - Jean Lauzon, père, named Governor of Montreal.
1609 Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives back in France; left Tadoussac Sept. 05.

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October 14th 2013 - This Date in History.


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1465 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk.
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1773 – Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
1806 – Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia.
1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1812 – Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
1843 – The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station – Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of Virginia.
1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
1884 – The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
1915 – World War I: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
1939 – The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940 – Balham subway station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
1943 – The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
1943 РJos̩ P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic).
1944 – Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
1958 – The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
1966 – The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
1967 – The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 – Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
1968 – The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A.
1968 – An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall[disambiguation needed] of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1983 РMaurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'̩tat led by Bernard Coard.
1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins. This has become known as the Steve Bartman incident.
2006 – The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
2012 – Felix Baumgartner jumps from the stratosphere to try to break the record of the highest freefall jump, at an altitude of 39,068 meters (128,018 ft)



Today's Canadian Headline....


1935 KING BEATS BENNETT IN DEPRESSION LANDSLIDE
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 defeats R. B. Bennett in the 18th federal general election; wins 171 of the 245 Commons seats, to 40 Conservatives, 17 Social Credit; 7 CCF, 1 Independent; takes 44.8% of the popular vote for the largest majority since Confederation. King will remain prime minister until 1948. Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 becomes Senate Opposition leader on King's victory; only person to lead government and opposition in both houses. In other results, Henri Bourassa loses his Labelle seat.

1641
Montreal Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 takes formal possession of Montreal Island for Sieur de Maisonneuve's colonizing company.

1944
Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 becomes Minister of Reconstruction as well as Munitions and Supply; lures away Mackintosh and a brain trust of economists from Finance to assist him. Here he is at the wheel of the 500,000th military vehicle produced by war plants in Canada


In Other Events....


1996 Montreal Quebec- First World Conservation Congress held in Montreal.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Alexa McDonough wins the federal NDP leadership race, succeeding Audrey McLaughlin; former social worker headed the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party 1980-94; frontrunner Svend Robinson drops out after leading on the first ballot.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Juan Guzman pitches Toronto Blue Jays to 9-2 win in 6th game against Oakland Athletics; Joe Carter and Candy Maldonado hit homers; first American League pennant after attempts in 1985, 1989, 1991; first Canadian baseball team to reach the World Series.
1992 Stockholm Sweden - Rudolph Marcus wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to theory of electron transfer reactions; 69 year old Montreal-born scientist researching at Caltech.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Car-bomb explosion damages Litton Systems plant in Toronto; injures 7, including 3 police officers; plant produces guidance system for US cruise missiles.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Provincial Premiers start constitutional conference; only Ontario and New Brunswick support Ottawa; rest to challenge Trudeau's patriation proposals in court.
1979 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his first NHL goal; will eventually become the League's greatest scorer.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Darryl Stiller of the Maple Leafs notches seven assists in a 10-7 victory over the New York Islanders.
1978 Fiji - Cathy Sherk wins women's world amateur golf championship in Fiji; native of Fonthill, Ontario.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts her Silver Jubilee visit to Canada; will open a session of Parliament; see 1957.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Over 1 million Canadian Labour Congress members participate in 'Day of Protest' on Parliament Hill against federal wage and price controls.
1975 Asbestos Quebec - 3,500 asbestos workers end strike.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Luc Pepin 1924- chairs new Anti-lnflation Board to administer wage and price controls; assisted by Beryl Plumptre 1927-, the former Mayor of Rockcliffe.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa cuts personal income taxes 3%, and corporate taxes 7%, retroactive from July 1 to Dec. 31; unemployment now at highest level in a decade.
1969 Ontario/Quebec - 14,500 Stelco workers end 75-day walkout.
1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues. Chronology of the day: 5:30 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux issues a statement on the breakdown of talks to free Laporte and Cross; 8:00 pm - Robert Bourassa replies to Lemieux; it is later revealed that the FLQ has 22 cells and 130 hard core members.
1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists explode two bombs in Montreal.
1968 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque elected leader of the Parti Quebecois by 2,000 separatist supporters; Jacques Parizeau a key strategist; Quebec's withdrawal from Confederation seen as the primary goal.
1965 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque announces he is resigning from the Quebec Liberal Party.
1969 Moncton New Brunswick - Ottawa and New Brunswick agree to establish Kouchibouguac National Park; new national park north of Moncton.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Air Canada presents CF-TCA No. 1112 to National Aviation Museum; first aircraft owned by Trans-Canada Air Lines in 1937.
1966 Montreal Quebec - Montreal's new Metro subway goes into operation; 26 stations operated by la Société de Transport de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal (STCUM).
1965 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque appointed first Minister of Family and Social Services (Ministère de la Famille et du Bien-Etre Social).
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Start of federal-provincial constitutional conference; some agreement on amending formula.
1961 North America - Canada and US test North American air defence in a NORAD simulated nuclear attack.
1960 Havana Cuba - Fidel Castro's government nationalizes all foreign banks except Bank of Nova Scotia and Royal Bank of Canada.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- opens first session of 23rd Parliament; first time opened by reigning monarch; meets until February 1, 1958.
1952 United Nations New York - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 elected President at opening of 7th session of United Nations General Assembly.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister James L. Ralston 1881-1948 returns from Europe; makes speech urging conscription for service overseas.
1944 Duisburg Germany - RCAF's No. 6 Group attacks Duisburg twice in 16 hours; total of 501 bombers.
1943 - King George VI 1895-1952 approves Canada Medal on recommendation of Canadian Cabinet; first distinctly Canadian decoration; medal never awarded.
1943 Campobasso Italy - First Canadian Brigade push north to Potenza; occupy Campobasso, turning it into a 'Canada Town' recreation centre.
1942 Port-au-Basques, Newfoundland - German U-boat torpedoes Newfoundland Railway Fleet steamship 'Caribou' in the Cabot Strait on the North Sydney-Port-au-Basques route; 137 lives lost. In spite of this the Battle of St. Lawrence is rapidly ending after taking 700 lives, 23 ships.
1942 Valetta Malta - RCAF ace George 'Buzz' Beurling 1921-1948 wounded and shot down over Malta.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet decides on complete freeze of wages and prices as of December 1; under Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
1914 Plymouth England - First Canadian Contingent arrives at Plymouth with 33,000 men, 7,000 horses and 144 pieces of artillery travelling in 32 ships; convoy escorted by 10 British warships was the largest armed force ever to cross the Atlantic by that date; troops soon move to camps on Salisbury Plain before seeing action in World War I.
1909 Quebec Quebec - Empress of Ireland liner punctures her hull after hitting submerged object on the St. Lawrence River; able to reach port safely. On May 29, 1914, the ship will collide with a Norwegian freighter off Ste-Luce-Sur-Mer, and sink with the loss of 1,014 lives
1886 Quebec - Quebec provincial vote sees the election of 31 Liberals, 27 Conservatives and 6 Nationalists.
1885 Alberta - First Mormon settlers drive their wagon trains into Southern Alberta.
1874 Fort Macleod, Alberta - North West Mounted Police start building a post on the Old Man River named after Assistant NWMP Commissioner James F. Macleod; first police post in Alberta made of cottonwood logs plastered with clay; with barracks, stables, a hospital and a smithy.
1873 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the first YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) building in Montreal.
1866 St-Roch Quebec - Fire in St-Roch and St-Sauveur suburbs of Quebec destroys over 2,000 homes.
1866 Quebec Quebec - Grand ball held to fete the delegates at the Quebec Conference; 800 persons attend.
1844 Kingston Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 elected to Upper Canada Assembly to represent Kingston; re-elected in 1848, 1851, 1854, 1857, 1861, 1863.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Royal charter awarded to Queen's College at Kingston as a Presbyterian institution; today's Queen's University.
1815 Montreal Quebec - First presentation of a Moliere play, 'Les Fourberies de Scapin' in Montreal.
1754 Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday shares a pipe and a meal with a Blackfoot chief; fails to persuade him to send his young men to York Factory on Hudson Bay to trade for guns, blankets and beads directly instead of through Cree middlemen; the chief says his young men cannot leave their horses, and have no experience with boats and paddles; besides, the Blackfoot get all they need from the buffalo.
1752 Quebec Quebec - Pierre Reverd hanged at Quebec for counterfeiting.
1698 Quebec Quebec - New France census shows the following tallies: 32,524 arpents under cultivation, with 994 sheep, 5,147 pigs, 684 horses, 10,209 cattle; 2,310 houses (211 in Trois-Rivières, 1,460 in Québec, 639 in Montréal); population includes 7,391 males, 6,424 females; settlements include Batiscan with 422 inhabitants, Beauport with 444, Château-Richer with 373, L'Ancienne-Lorette with 68, L'Ile d'Orléans with 1,472, Longueuil with 223, Montréal with 1,185, Québec with 1,988, Rivière-du-Loup with 22, Sorel with 59, Ste-Anne de Beaupré with 222.
1690 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 reaches Quebec with 3,000 men two days before arrival of English.
1654 Quebec Quebec - Start of construction of a new hospital in Quebec.
1652 Montreal Quebec - Major Lambert Closse mobilizes inhabitants of Montreal, alerted by barking dogs, against a force of invading Iroquois; will beat back the Iroquois in a two day battle near Montreal.
1598 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Trois-Rivières numbers 358 inhabitants.

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October 15th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P

1066 РEdgar the ̠theling proclaimed King of England, but never crowned. Reigned until 10 December 1066.
1211 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Lascaris.
1529 – The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1783 РThe Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-Fran̤ois Pil̢tre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
1793 – Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
1815 – Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1863 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1880 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
1888 – The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 – Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
1940 – The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
1944 – The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
1945 – World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
1951 – The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
1954 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far north as North Carolina.
1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
1966 – Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1969 – Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capital.
1970 – Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
1970 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
1971 – The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
1979 – Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1997 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.
1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
2001 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
2003 – The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
2005 – A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.
2011 – Global protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 OCTOBER CRISIS CONTINUES
Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau sends the Canadian Army into Montreal at the request of the Quebec government. Chronology of the day: 9:00 pm - Premier Robert Bourassa rejects conditions imposed by the FLQ for freeing hostages James Cross and Pierre Laporte; 10:00 pm: FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux declares that his mandate is over; 4:00 am following - Trudeau proclaims the War Measures Act, giving police sweeping powers to arrest and detain without warrant anyone suspected of involvement with the FLQ.

1912
Port Alberni BC - Thomas Wilby & Jack Haney reach Alberni after first cross-Canada motor trip; 52 day trip to establish the All Red Route; they spent 41 days of driving in their Reo.

1954
Ontario - Hurricane Hazel drives across the Appalachians and hits South-Central Ontario; 124 km/h winds, 10.1 cm (4 in.) of rain falls in 12 hours, the heaviest rains in southern Ontario history; on Raymore Drive in Etobicoke, 17 homes are swept into the Humber River, and 36 are killed when debris blocks a bridge and more homes are washed away; storm does $25 million damage, kills total of 83 people.


In Other Events....

1996 Quebec - Jean Grimaldi dies at age 98; father of the Quebec music hall.
1993 Canada - Federal election campaign heats up as Kim Campbell's Conservative campaign committee release series of TV ads attacking Jean Chrétien; critics charge the ads make fun of the Liberal leader's face, disfigured by a childhood disease; ads later withdrawn.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Eric Hoskins wins 1992 Pearson Peace Medal, awarded by United Nations Association in Canada; 31 year old doctor gave humanitarian aid to postwar Iraq.
1992 New Delhi, India - Talwinder Singh Palmar d1992 killed in gun battle with Indian police; prime suspect in 1985 bombing of Air India jet; Sikh militant arrested in 1985 but later released.
1989 Edmonton Alberta - Los Angeles Kings star Wayne Gretzky gets two goals and one assist against his former Oiler teammates to pass Gordie Howe as the National Hockey League's all time scoring leader, with 1,851 career points. His first goal ties the game in the third period, his second wins it 5-4 in overtime. Gretzky does it in his 780th NHL game; Howe's record came in 1,767 games.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet issues White Paper on the reform of Canada's financial institutions.
1986 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque publishes his book, 'Attendez que je me Souvienne' [Wait Until I Remember].
1986 Stockholm Sweden - University of Toronto professor John Polanyi named joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Jean Chrétien publishes his book, 'Dans la Fosse aux Lions' [In the Lions' Den].
1983 Montreal Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933- regains leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party at Montreal convention; after Claude Ryan retires.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks players score five goals in 1:24; sets NHL record for the fastest five goals by two teams.
1983 Montreal Quebec - Expo Tim Raines hits a three-run homer against the St. Louis Cardinals to become the first National League player to knock in at least 70 runs and steal at least 70 bases in one season.
1981 Collingwood Ontario - RCMP seize $200 million shipment methaqualone at Collingwood airport; largest drug seizure in Canadian history to date.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - National Archives releases previously secret testimony from 1946 Taschereau-Kellock Royal Commission on Soviet espionage.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Department of National Defence to buy 128 West German-made Leopard tanks for $184 million; delivery to start July 1978.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Foreign Investment Review Act screening comes into effect; Ottawa starts monitoring new investments.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Herbert Gray appointed Minister without Portfolio by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; MP for Windsor West becomes Canada's first cabinet minister of Jewish background.
1969 Vatican City - Canada and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations, as Canada opens an Embassy in the Vatican.
1968 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque 1922-1987 chosen President of new Parti Québécois; after 3-day convention in Quebec City merges the Mouvement Souveraineté-Association and the Ralliement National.
1968 France - Atomic Energy of Canada signs 5-year agreement with the French Atomic Energy Commission.
1967 Quebec - René Lévesque 1922-1987 resigns from Quebec Liberal Party after they reject idea of Quebec separation.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of Macdonald-Cartier Bridge across Ottawa River, and the Gatineau Autoroute to Old Chelsea.
1963 United Nations New York - Canada doubles contribution to UN Special Fund to $5 million.
1962 Hamilton Ontario - Tiger Cats quarterback Joe Zuger throws a CFL record eight touchdown passes in a 67-21 romp over Regina Roughriders.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Golda Meir Israeli Foreign Minister visits Ottawa.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II sets off a dynamite charge to signal the start of construction of the Queensway expressway in Ottawa; the $31-million, 24 km long road bisects the city along the old CPR right-of-way.
1953 Vancouver BC - Completion of Trans Mountain oil pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Charlotte Whitton elected Mayor of Ottawa after serving in an acting capacity after death of incumbent; she is the first female mayor of a Canadian city.
1945 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Institute of Medicine of the University of Montreal.
1943 Vinchiaturo Italy - Second Canadian Brigade takes Vinchiaturo; Canadian tanks support British units attacking Termoli.
1942 Metis Quebec - German U-Boat torpedoes cargo ship off Metis.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Government prohibits the private use of glycerine; needed for explosives.
1936 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Mary Teresa Sullivan 1902-1973 sworn in as member of Halifax City Council; first woman alderman in Canada.
1924 Toronto Ontario - Prince George 1895-1952 visits Toronto; later King George VI.
1920 Winnipeg Manitoba - Civil Avro 504K takes off on one of the first commercial passenger flights into the Canadian bush; a two day trip to The Pas; carried two passengers in an enlarged front cockpit. [A former Air Force 504 will make the first winter flight to James Bay in 1922.]
1912 Alberni BC - Thomas Wilby & Jack Haney reach Alberni after first cross-Canada motor trip; British journalist and mechanic make 52 day trip to establish the All Red Route; they spent 41 days of driving in their Reo.
1884 Montreal Quebec - First issue of newspaper 'La Presse' published.
1874 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 charged with a warrant of outlawry by a Manitoba court.
1872 Montreal Quebec - Hugh Allan 1810-1882 appointed President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; has 13 directors from all provinces.
1863 Toronto Ontario - End of the 1st Session of the 8th parliament of United Canada; session adopts George-Etienne Cartier's Militia Act.
1851 Toronto Ontario - Lady Elgin, wife of the Governor General, turns the first sod for the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Union (later the Northern) Railway.
1792 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes law providing for a fine of £20 for selling liquor in prisons; the province's first law restricting the sale of alcohol.
1785 Saint John, New Brunswick - Governor issues writs for the election of the first representative assembly in New Brunswick.
1754 Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday sights the Rocky Mountains, near present day Red Deer; Hudson Bay Company employee is trying to get the Blackfoot to travel to Hudson Bay, avoiding the Cree middlemen.
1694 York Fort NWT - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 recaptures York Fort, the stronghold of the Hudson's Bay Company; renames it Fort Bourbon.
1672 La Malbaie, Quebec - First wood exported to France from La Malbaie [Murray Bay]..
1666 New York - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 puts Mohawk villages to the torch after making peace with Senecas and Oneidas; claims Iroquois territory for Louis XIV.
1663 Quebec Quebec - New France expels undesirables from the colony.
1641 Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve arrives on the island that will become Montreal; his colonizing company starts to build a settlement.
1612 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 made Lieutenant General of New France; first Governor of New France until 1629.
1582 France - Gregorian calendar introduced in Catholic countries, cutting 10 prior days (October 5 becomes October 15).

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October 16th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1906 РThe Captain of K̦penick fools the city hall of K̦penick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1944 – Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon.
1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1949 – Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1962 – The Cuban missile crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba.
1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
1991 – Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1993 – Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
1996 – 84 people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2006 – Hawaii earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
2012 – The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1970 TRUDEAU INVOKES WAR MEASURES ACT
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- declares 'a state of apprehended insurrection' and imposes the War Measures Act before dawn, after Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was found murdered. Canadian troops are ordered to protect public figures, and police round up and interview 497 possible suspects, arresting 250, including Michel Chartrand, and searching 170 homes, in an attempt to break the FLQ cell structure and find British diplomat James Cross, also kidnapped by the terrorists. The Act lets Cabinet overrule civil rights and authority. It is the first time emergency powers have been used in peacetime, and the only use of the 1914 statute during a domestic crisis; it could be invoked when the Cabinet perceived the existence of 'war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended'. Chronology of the day: 04:00 am - Proclamation of the War Measures Act; 11:00 am - government issues special emergency regulations; 5:00 pm - Premier Robert Bourassa approves the proclamation of an emergency; 8:00 pm - Mayor Jean Drapeau approves the government's action; 10:15 pm - Pierre Trudeau addresses the nation.

1690
Quebec Quebec - William Phips 1651-1695 arrives at Quebec with 37 ships and 2,200 men, and asks for surrender; Count Frontenac, with garrison of 3,000 refuses; the English start bombarding the city on the 18th, but have little effect; after a defeat at Beauport on the 21st, they retreat. Quebec's annual fete de Notre Dame de la Victoire is held on this day.


In Other Events....


1993 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-5, in Game 1 of the World Series.
1992 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young joins George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and others in a salute to Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden. .
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court Justice Barry Strayer rejects appeal by Native Women's Association of Canada to halt referendum; says right to be included in talks expired March 12.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports youth violence offenses up to 855 per 100,000 in 1991, up from 415 in 1986; assault charges total 632 per 100,000, up from 300 in 1986.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Roberta Jamieson is appointed Ontario's new ombudsman; the 37-year-old Mohawk is the first aboriginal Canadian to hold the post.
1989 Detroit Michigan - Montrealer Luc Gingras wins the Detroit Marathon.
1987 Hollywood California - Canadian actor Matt Frewer stars in the last episode of his TV sci-fi adventure 'Max Headroom'.
1987 Loma Linda, California - Baby Paul Holc of South Surrey, British Columbia, receives a donor heart at the Loma Linda University Medical Centre from an Ontario-born baby girl when he is only 3 hours old; world's youngest heart transplant born by caesarean section with a potentially fatal heart malformation.
1987 Toronto Ontario - TD's Green Line Investors Service buys 100% of Gardiner Group.
1985 Montreal Quebec - National and Mercantile Banks merged into the National, Bank of Canada.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of Canada Post Corporation/Société canadienne des postes, to replace the Post Office; Crown Corporation takes over Jan. 1, 1982.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds.
1969 Saint John New Brunswick - New Brunswick to build $4 million container shipping terminal in Saint John.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Maple Lead Jim Dorey gets nine penalties in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins; spends total of 48 minutes in the penalty box (44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period); NHL record for most penalties in a single hockey game.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Government increases old age security pensions to $75 per month.
1961 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canada sells $20 million worth of wheat to Poland.
1953 Toronto Ontario - Roman Catholic Church in Canada issues a report discouraging teenagers from forming steady romantic attachments.
1951 Toronto Ontario - TTC Ferry Thomas Rennie christened; operated by the Toronto Transit Commission between the city and the Toronto Islands.
1946 Detroit Michigan - Floral, Saskatchewan's Gordie Howe 1928- plays in his first NHL game, and scores his first goal as a Detroit Red Wing; against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1945 Quebec Quebec - Start of first United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization conference of 29 countries, including Canada; FAO meets until Nov 1.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 promoted to the rank of General; first Canadian to hold that rank in the field.
1940 Vatican - The Pope names eight Jesuit martyrs as the first North American Saints, the Patron Saints of Canada.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Government orders the First Canadian Division to Britain.
1911 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg receives first electric power.
1911 Quebec City - Unveiling of a monument to the Marquis de Montcalm.
1909 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pittsburgh Pirates catcher George Gibson, from London, Ontario, helps his team defeat the Detroit Tigers 8-0 to clinch the World Series; holds Pirates record for most games played by a catcher (1,203).
1901 Montreal Quebec - Inauguration of the Victoria Bridge.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie ends his only elected term of office; Canada's first Liberal prime minister.
1875 Montreal Quebec - Ontario wins first Quebec vs. Ontario rugby football game.
1869 Manitoba - Louis Riel elected Secretary of the new Comité National des Métis (National Council of the Metis), formed to discuss their rights with Ottawa; he was well known throughout the Red River Settlement because of his confrontation with the Canadian survey party.
1857 London England - British Treasury approves weight of the new Canadian 20¢ piece - 71.73 grains of 0.925 fine silver.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Queens University in Kingston is chartered.
1820 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island officially rejoins Nova Scotia.
1813 Astoria Oregon - John Jacob Astor with his Pacific Fur Company partners, sells Fort Astoria to the North West Company; proclaimed British territory.
1792 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Assembly renames Upper Canada's judicial districts: Hesse-Western District, Nassau-Home District, Mecklenburg-Midland District, Lunenburg-Eastern District.
1785 Canada - Forest fires cause black rain in Eastern Canada, as soot from the fires mixes with precipitation.
1736 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Cugnet and Company take over the iron smelting operations of the Forges de St-Maurice.
1731 Crown Point, new York - French engineers build Fort St-Frédéric at the southern end of Lake Champlain.
1710 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Col. Francis Nicholson and Sir Charles Hobby capture the French settlement of Port Royal after two previous failures in 1704 and 1707; Queen Anne's War or the War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1713.
1689 Oka, Quebec - Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth c1639-1710 defeats Iroquois on Lake of Two Mountains outside Montreal.
1679 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council of Quebec rules that liquor may not be taken to Indian villages.
1666 New York State - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, military governor of New France (1663-67), with army of 1000 French regulars, 600 New France militia and 100 Hurons and Algonkians; in 300 boats and canoes; arrives at deserted Mohawk village of Andarague after rain-soaked march of several days; destroys settlement and Iroquois corn crops. as well as three other settlements; expedition ordered by Jean Talon left Quebec Sept. 14 after peace talks failed; Iroquois turn to English for help.
1652 Montreal Quebec - Major Lambert Closse drives off Iroquois after two day battle near Montreal; town saved by barking dogs.

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October 17th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

539 BC – Cyrus the Great marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile. Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Yehud Medinata and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
456 – Battle of Placentia: Ricimer, supported by Majorian (comes domesticorum), defeats the Roman usurper Avitus near Piacenza (Northern Italy) .
1091 – London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
1346 – Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
1448 – Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
1456 – The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia).
1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1604 – Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
1660 – Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
1800 РBritain takes control of the Dutch colony of Cura̤ao.
1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
1861 – 19 people are killed in the Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, the deadliest massacre of Europeans by aborigines in Australian history.
1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1905 – The October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
1907 – Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
1931 – Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1941 – For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
1941 – German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
1943 – Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
1943 – The Holocaust: Sobibor extermination camp is closed.
1945 – A massive number of people, headed by CGT, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. It calls "el día de la lealtad peronista" (peronista loyalty day)
1945 – Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens becomes Prime Minister of Greece between the pull-out of the German occupation force in 1944 and the return of King Georgios II to Greece.
1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
1956 – Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize.
1961 – Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
1964 – Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies opens the artificial Lake Burley Griffin in the middle of the capital Canberra.
1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
1966 – A fire at a building in New York City kills 12 firefighters, the fire department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1966 – Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
1970 – Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1973 – OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.
1979 – Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
1980 – As part of the Holy See – United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican
1989 – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
1992 – Having gone to the wrong house for a Halloween party, Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori is shot and killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
2000 – Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 56 metres (184 ft) and become the world's tallest highrise.



Today's Canadian Headline....



1970 FLQ TERRORISTS STRANGLE LAPORTE
Quebec - October Crisis continues. Chronology of the day: 6:18 pm - Front de libération du Québec Chénier cell strangle Pierre Laporte 1921-1970; 7:30 pm - FLQ announce the 'execution' of Laporte; 10:00 pm - Quebec government issue communiqué deploring the action; 10:30 pm - St-Hubert Airport security reports suspicious Chevrolet sedan parked beside a hangar; 11:15 pm - police arrive at St-Hubert Airport and start checking the car for signs of a bomb; 12;15 am - police open the trunk and discover a body, apparently Laporte's, strangled with the chain of a religious medal; 2:45 am - Pierre Laporte's body positively identified; Quebec Labour Minister was kidnapped by the FLQ Oct. 10.

1920

Vancouver BC - Air Commodore A.K. Tylee and three other pilots arrive in Vancouver from Winnipeg after two-stage flight of 5,488 km across Canada in a total elapsed time of 45 hours, 20 minutes; Wing Commander Robert Leckie took the initial flight from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Oct. 04, arriving in Winnipeg Oct. 11.


In Other Events....

1995 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadien fire General Manager Serge Savard and Head Coach Jacques Demers after poor opening season results.
1992 Atlanta Georgia - Atlanta Braves beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-to-1 in game 1 of the World Series.
1992 Los Angeles, California - Jari Kurri scores his 500th NHL goal, playing with his old linemate Wayne Gretzky; only one of 13 to reach that total.
1991 British Columbia - Michael Harcourt and the NDP win BC election with 51 of 75 seats, to Gordon Wilson of the Liberals, who take 17 seats, becoming the new official opposition; Rita Johnston's Socreds win 7; former Mayor of Vancouver.
1990 Stockholm Sweden - Richard Taylor wins Nobel Prize for Physics with Friedman and Kendall; for work on quarks; born Medicine Hat; Professor Stanford University.
1987 Canada - Striking Canada Post employees return to work.
1986 Winnipeg Manitoba - CKND-TV the first television station in Manitoba to broadcast in stereo.
1986 La Malbaie, Quebec - Huge labour demonstration held at the Manoir Richelieu hotel.
1983 Houston Texas - Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation acquires Houston Post for $100 million; 17th largest US newspaper.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament begins regular live TV coverage of the debates and Question Period in the House of Commons.
1974 St. John's, Newfoundland - Mark Kent, age 17, arrives in St. John's, the first person to run the 6,529 km [4,057 miles] across Canada; started in Victoria, BC 102 days earlier.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Alexei Kosygin Soviet Premier starts nine-day visit; first head of USSR to visit Canada.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1919- introduces the Official Languages Act in Parliament.; legislation will require all federal departments, commissions and agencies to use both English and French in dealings with the public.
1967 New York City - Montreal composer Galt MacDermot opens his rock musical 'Hair' to rave reviews at the Anspacher Theater on Broadway; runs for 1,758 performances, and is adapted for film. MacDermot will go on to write the Tony Award-winning score for Two Gentlemen of Verona, and another musical, The Human Comedy; also ballet scores (La Novela, Salome); film scores (Cotton Comes To Harlem, Fortune and Men's Eyes, Mistress); chamber music (Wind Quintet); an Anglican Liturgy (The Mass in F); poetry (The Thomas Hardy Songs), drama accompaniments (The Sun Always Shines For The Cool, The Shooting of Dan McGrew), and band, jazz and rap repertory.
1967 Montreal Quebec - James and Margaret Renwick the first husband-wife team elected to the Ontario Legislature; NDP Members.
1966 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Montreal subway, le Metro.
1966 Scarborough Ontario - Opening of Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology in Scarborough; Ontario's first community college.
1964 Peterborough Ontario - Opening of Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Government cuts 5% surcharge on most imported industrial machinery; other steps to strengthen economy and protect dollar.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces founding of 24 Canadian trade missions abroad over next year.
1954 Sherbrooke Quebec - Official opening of new Université de Sherbrooke.
1953 New York City - Conductor Leopold Stokowski hosts the first concert of contemporary Canadian music presented in the US, at Carnegie Hall.
1949 Montreal Quebec - Raymond Dupuis acquires la Librairie Beauchemin.
1946 Montreal Quebec - Old well dating back to the earliest days of Montreal found on the Place d'Armes.
1917 Canada - National Conscription Act comes into effect.
1917 Quebec Quebec - First National Transcontinental Railway [CNR] train crosses the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence; cantilever bridge collapsed twice during construction.
1912 Victoria BC - English journalist Thomas Wilby 1867-1923 and Indiana mechanic Jack Haney 1889-1935 reach Victoria after first cross-Canada motor trip; take 52 days to establish an All Red Route; spent 41 days of driving in their Reo. Wilby had previously crossed 14,400 km of US roads in 105 days; later wrote 'A Motor Tour Through Canada'. He went on to work at the Christian Science Monitor in Boston; Haney opened his own garage in St. Catharines, Ontario, and later helped develop the Niagara Falls airport.
1910 Halifax, Nova Scotia - H.M.S. 'Niobe' arrives in Halifax to become the first cruiser of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1907 Toronto Ontario - Transatlantic wireless service opens to Britain; Toronto Stock Exchange quotations among the first cabled to London and published regularly.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada for the second time (formerly July 1, 1867 to Nov. 05, 1873); holds office to June 6, 1891.
1877 Fort Walsh, Saskatchewan - Major James Walsh of the North West Mounted Police hosts a meeting between General A.H. Terry, commander of US troops on the western plains, and Lakota Sioux leader Sitting Bull, who had crossed into Canada 11 months earlier after defeating George Custer and his US Seventh Cavalry at Little Big Horn June 26, 1876; the Sioux joined their Assiniboine cousins at Wood Mountain, and Walsh met them in December to warn them about raiding into the US; because the Sioux were US treaty Indians, they were not eligible for Canadian provisions and reserves; Sitting Bull led them back to Dakota after several hard winters, surrendering to the US government at Fort Buford on July 19, 1881.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Commission on Canadian Pacific Railway reports to Parliament.
1854 Kingston Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 introduces bill to secularize clergy reserves; proceeds of sale divided among cities and counties in proportion to population.
1850 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the first Montreal Industrial Exhibition.
1840 Edmonton Alberta - Reverend Robert Rundle arrives at Edmonton House to serve as the local Methodist missionary; for the next 8 years, he sets up missions in Hudson's Bay Company posts north to Lesser Slave Lake, east to Fort Carlton and Fort Pitt in Saskatchewan, south to the lands of the Blackfoot, and west to the Rockies; in 1848 he is forced to return to England to seek medical care for an injured arm.
1839 Quebec Quebec - Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham, arrives at Quebec and is sworn in as Governor General of British North America; dies in Kingston, Ontario at age 42 in 1841.
1818 Toronto Ontario - Ojibways (Chippewas) cede 600,000 hectares in Simcoe, Grey and Dufferin counties to the Crown, in return for reserves and support.
1813 Detroit Michigan - William Henry Harrison 1773-1841 issues proclamation allowing civil servants in the Western District of upper Canada to remain in office if they take an oath of allegiance to the United States; after victory over Proctor at Moraviantown Oct. 5.
1777 Saratoga New York - British General John Burgoyne 1722-1792 is surrounded and trapped, surrendering to American General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga; the battle marks the reversal of British fortunes in the war.
1771 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Benjamin Green 1713-1772 appointed administrator of Nova Scotia; serves until June 1, 1772.
1754 Innisfail, Alberta - Anthony Henday sights Rocky Mountains near present day Red Deer; first European; winters with Archithinue; makes round trip of 3200 km from York Fort; first account of Blackfoot.
1541 Paris France - Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval 1500-1560 given seigneurial ownership of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador; Cartier appointed a subordinate.
1540 Paris France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 gets commission for third voyage from King François I; named Captain General.

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October 18th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
614 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defend the rights of the Frankish nobles while it exclude Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
629 – King Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1016 – The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Assandun.
1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1386 – Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
1599 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish the Continental Navy.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1898 – United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
1912 – First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as Serbia joins the war.
1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1944 – Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón.
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1968 – The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
1977 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
2003 – Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
2007 – Karachi bombings: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is not injured.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1929 COURT RULES WOMEN ARE INDEED PERSONS
London England - The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, reversing an April 1928 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, rules that the word 'person' in Section 24 of the British North America Act refers to both male and female persons, and that Canadian women are eligible to be summoned to and serve as members of the Senate of Canada. Five Alberta women - Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy and Irene Parlby - had appealed the decision to Canada's highest court of appeal at the time. The fight began in 1918 when a lawyer appeared before Judge Emily Murphy and said her judgments were illegal because she was not a 'person' under British legal custom. See: Law Reports, Appeal Cases, 1930, 124.

1877
Hamilton Ontario - Hugh C. Baker, Charles D. Cory, T. C. Mewburn and Mrs. I. R. Thompson get the world's first telephone service, installed by the Bell Company.


In Other Events....

1994 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young (and Crazy Horse) get a gold record for their album 'Sleeps With Angels'.
1992 Atlanta Georgia - Visiting Toronto Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves 5-to-4, in Game 2 of the World Series, to tie the series at one game apiece; pre-game ceremony marred by a US Marine Corps color guard that entered the stadium mistakenly carrying the Canadian flag upside down. Jays first non-American team to win a World Series game.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Varity Corporation announces it is moving to Buffalo, New York; in spite of a previous $200 million bailout, the farm equipment manufacturer - the remnants of Massey-Ferguson Corporation - can no longer compete.
1988 Montreal Quebec - Permit granted to demolish Queen's Hotel in Montreal.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Former Ontario Premier John P. Robarts 1917-1982 dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his shower; he had been under treatment for a stroke.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Expos-Dodgers National League playoff game postponed because of rain, for the first time in League history. The following day, Montreal loses to Los Angeles 2-1 and is eliminated three games to two.
1980 Toronto Ontario - First African elephant born at Metro Toronto Zoo; first in Canada.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919-issues conflict of interest guidelines for his ministers.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Start of strike at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM).
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Martin Sr. appointed Canadian High Commissioner in London.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Radio-Television Commission lets CBC start 6 new FM radio stations, plus French FM network.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Start of trial of Dr. Henry Morgentaler on charges of performing illegal abortions.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin not injured when assaulted by Hungarian immigrant Geza Matrai; Matrai jailed for three months on Jan. 7, 1972.
1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues. Chronology of the day: 12:15 am - police open the trunk of a suspicious Chevrolet sedan parked beside a hangar at St-Hubert Airport; discover a body, apparently strangled with the chain of a religious medal; 2:45 am - body positively identified as that of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, kidnapped by FLQ terrorists Oct. 10; 12:00 noon - new communiqué from the FLQ claiming responsibility; warrants issued for the arrest of Marc Charbonneau and Paul Rose; FLQ captive James Cross writes a letter to authorities.
1965 Yellowknife NWT - Abraham Allen Okpik appointed first Inuit representative on NWT Council.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Government brings in austerity measures; cuts $228 million in spending for next fiscal year.
1957 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Herald stops publication after 146 years; Montreal's oldest daily newspaper.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada agrees to maintain 12,000 army and air force in Europe as part of NATO commitment.
1950 Montreal Quebec - First appearance of the Dionne quintuplets in public since they were put on display in Callander, Ontario in the 1930s.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King 1874-1950 announces wage and price controls to combat inflation; on national radio broadcast; says 40% of national income spent on war (vs. 10% in W.W.I).
1918 Toronto Ontario - Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn buys the NHL's Quebec Bulldogs hockey team.
1915 Quebec Quebec - Embarkation of the 41st Battalion of Infantry of Quebec for service in France.
1914 Montreal Quebec - Mobilization of the 3rd Veterinary Service of Montreal for war service; many horses still being used at the front.
1901 Winnipeg Manitoba - Nicholas Flood Davin commits suicide, shooting himself in a Winnipeg hotel room; founder of the Regina Leader newspaper, Davin was elected as the first MP for Assiniboia West in 1887 and served as an MP for 13 years; known as the voice of the Northwest in Parliament.
1899 Montreal Quebec - Henri Bourassa 1868-1952 resigns seat in Parliament to protest Canadian involvement in South African War.
1861 Toronto Ontario - Herbert Mortimer elected first President of Toronto Stock Exchange Association by 24 brokers meeting in Masonic Hall; 13 companies listed.
1854 Canada - Reciprocity Treaty with the US comes into effect.
1807 Quebec Quebec - James Craig arrives at Quebec to serve as Governor.
1781 Yorktown Virginia - Charles Cornwallis surrenders British Army at Yorktown; British begin peace negotiations, although they still control the north.
1775 Chambly Quebec - Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 and the Army of the Continental Congress capture Fort Chambly en route to Quebec.
1748 Aix-la-Chapelle, France - Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession. PEI, Cape Breton & Louisbourg are returned to France; in exchange for Madras, India.
1690 Quebec Quebec - William Phips 1651-1695 starts bombarding Quebec with 37 ships and 2,200 men, after Count Frontenac refused to surrender; shelling has little effect, and after a defeat at Beauport on the 21st, the English retreat.
1646 New York State - Jesuit Fathers Isaac Jogues & Jean de La Lande killed by Mohawks while on a peace mission. The 'black robes' are blamed for a smallpox epidemic among the Iroquois, since Jogues had left a chest of gifts for them the previous year, just before the outbreak of the disease; he is dispatched with a hatchet blow to the head.
1633 Quebec - Jesuit Father Paul LeJeune leaves on a mission to Indian country.
1624 Edinburgh Scotland - William Alexander, Earl Stirling 1577-1640 founds Knights Baronets of Nova Scotia, an order limited to 150 members; 1000 acres cost £150; discontinued in 1707 with Act of Union.

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202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
1386 – The Universität Heidelberg held its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1466 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1649 – New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
1812 – Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
1864 – St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
1866 – Venice - Annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy - At Hotel Europa, Austria hands over Veneto to France, which hands it immediately over to Italy.
1900 – Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck's law).
1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1917 – The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
1922 – British Conservative MPs meeting at the Carlton Club vote to break off the Coalition Government with David Lloyd George of the Liberal Party.
1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
1950 – The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Qamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river to fight United Nations forces.
1950 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
1954 – First ascent of Cho Oyu.
1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
1969 – The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
1976 – Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
1988 РThe British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn F̩in and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
2001 – SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2004 – Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
2007 – Philippines: A bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.



Today's Canadian Headline....


1987 BLACK MONDAY MARKET MELTDOWN
Toronto Ontario - The Toronto Stock Exchange follows New York down, as a crashing stock market leads to global financial panic. The TSE 300 Index drops 407 points, and the Dow Jones plunges 508.32 points, or 22.62 per cent, wiping out $500 billion in share values.

1957

Montreal Quebec - Maurice 'Rocket' Richard scores his 500th career goal, leading the Canadiens to a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks; first NHL player to reach that mark; does so in 863 games.


In Other Events....


1995 Toronto Ontario - Richard Li takes control of Gordon Capital Corp., ending 16-month internal management struggle at Toronto securities firm.; Hong Kong financier.
1993 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Blue Jay Paul Molitor comes within a double of hitting for the cycle, and Roberto Alomar adds 4 hits to back winner Pat Hentgen in a 10-3 romp over the Phillies, as Toronto takes a 2-1 World Series lead.
1992 Whitehorse Yukon - John Ostashek leads Yukon Party to close win in territory vote; 7 seats to NDP incumbent Tony Penikett's 6; Yukon Party coalition of ex-PCs.
1992 Toronto Ontario - CD Howe Institute says business services and high tech big winners in Canada-US free trade; losers labour-intensive industries like furniture, clothing, food.
1989 Paris France - Josée Chouinard wins second gold medal in artistic skating at the World figure Skating Championships.
1984 High Prairie, Alberta - Grant Notley killed in an plane crash near High Prairie; Alberta NDP leader first elected to the Legislature in 1971; served as a one-man caucus for 11 years; 1982 became Leader of the Opposition. when a second NDP member was elected.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves introduction of the War Measures Act, 190 votes to 16.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Police discover the FLQ hideout where Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was hidden, and then murdered.
1970 Quebec Quebec - The body of the Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte lies in state in the Palais de Justice.
1966 USA - Elizabeth Arden 1884-1966 dies at age 81; founder of the cosmetics manufacturing giant was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Toronto Dec 31, 1884.
1967 Montreal Quebec - Cunard Steamship Lines ends Canadian passenger service to Montreal; faced with growing competition from airlines, the company moves its ships into the cruise business.
1966 London England - Canada signs 10-year deal with Britain for delivery of Canadian uranium oxide.
1964 St. Catharines Ontario - Opening of Brock University in St. Catharines.
1960 Washington DC - Canada and the US sign agreement to build joint Columbia River project for hydro power and flood control.
1959 New York City - Ottawa-born pop singer Paul Anka has a #1 Billboard hit with his single, 'Put Your Head on My Shoulder'.
1956 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis rejects an offer from Ottawa of grants to universities; cites provincial control of education under the BNA Act.
1950 Pyongyang, North Korea - Victorious United Nations forces enter Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
1948 Toronto Ontario - Thomas Laird Kennedy 1878-1959 succeeds George Drew as Conservative Premier of Ontario.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament unanimously ratifies Canada's signing of United Nations charter and establishment under UN auspices of an International Court of Justice at The Hague..
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Government investigates expropriating airline services of Canadian Pacific.
1944 Aardensburg Netherlands - Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg.
1929 Valcourt Quebec - Valcourt incorporated.
1929 St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec - Le Collège de St-Jean destroyed by fire.
1926 London England - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 attends Imperial Conference in London to November 23; discussing Balfour Report.
1916 Etretat France - Corporal Leo Clarke, 2nd Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, killed in action after single handedly fighting off 22 Germans attacking his trench near Poziès; awarded Victoria Cross posthumously Oct. 26.
1907 Quebec Quebec - Captain Eléar Bernier returns to Quebec on the Canadian Government steamship 'Arctic'.
1869 St. Norbert Manitoba - John Bruce elected President of new Metis National Committee; Riel Secretary.
1864 St. Albans, Vermont - Confederate States of America Lt. Bennett Young leads 25 Confederate Civil War fugitives hiding in Montreal to St. Albans, where they rob three banks of $200,000, and kill one person, before escaping back across the border to St-Jean; thirteen are arrested a few days later, and held for extradition, but are released on a technicality by a Montreal police magistrate; northernmost engagement of the US Civil War.
1863 Ste-Foy, Quebec - Monument unveiled to commemorate those who died in the Battle of Ste-Foy in 1759, after the fall of Quebec.
1844 Toronto Ontario - Gale force winds force water from Lakes Ontario and Erie onto the streets of Toronto and Buffalo; as many as 200 persons drown on the lakes.
1760 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Jonathan Belcher 1710-1776 appointed administrator of Nova Scotia; serves until Sept. 25, 1763.
1753 Ohio - Paul Marin de La Malgue 1692-1753 dies at French fur trading post Fort de la Rivière au Boeuf; succeeded by Legardeur.

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