This Date In History

henric · Oct 19, 2013

October 20th 2013 - This Date in History.

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1548 – The city of Nuestra SeÃ±ora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.
1572 – Relief of Goes, CristÃ³bal de MondragÃ³n with 3000 soldiers of the Spanish Tercios, release the siege of the city.
1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
1781 – Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 – The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is defeated by British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1883 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of AncÃ³n, by which the TarapacÃ¡ province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
1904 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1935 – The Long March ends.
1939 – Pope Pius XII publishes his first major encyclical entitled Summi Pontificatus.
1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Suda Bay, Crete, and sunk. 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
1947 – United States of America and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time.
1951 – The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency in Kenya and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
1961 – The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf class submarine.
1962 – China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, beginning the Sino-Indian War.
1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
1970 – Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
1971 – The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
1977 – Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crash.
1981 – Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery in Rockland County, NY, carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.
1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.
1991 – A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
2011 – Libyan civil war: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1992 JAYS WIN FIRST WORLD SERIES GAME OUTSIDE THE US
Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays beat Atlanta Braves 3-2 in Game 3 of the World Series, taking a 2-1 lead in games; in the pre-game ceremony at SkyDome, the Marines Corps color guard presents the Canadian flag correctly, two days after another guard held the banner upside-down before Game 2 in Atlanta; first World Series game played outside the USA.

1671

Quebec Quebec - Jean Talon 1626-1694, the Intendant of New France, orders the colony's bachelors to marry the women brought over from France - the so-called Filles du Roy - or lose their fishing, hunting and fur-trading rights.

In Other Events....

1995 New York City - Nova Scotia born journalist Robert MacNeil co-hosts his last McNeil-Lehrer Newshour on PBS; Jim Lehrer continues the show solo.
1993 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Blue Jays beat Mitch Williams and the Phillies relief corps, scoring 6 runs in the 8th inning to overcome a 14-9 deficit; Toronto reliever Duane Ward retires all 4 batters he faces in Toronto's 15-14 win; highest scoring game in World Series and post season history, with most runs scored by both teams (29), the most bases by both teams (85), and the most runs scored in the first 4 games of series (65); also the longest ever game, at 4 hours, 14 minutes.
1976 Japan - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts six-day trip to Japan.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Toronto actor William Shatner, of Star Trek fame, marries Marcy Lafferty.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Funeral held for Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, slain by FLQ terrorists.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens' Jean BÃ©liveau scores his 500th NHL goal.
1967 Oakville Ontario - United Auto Workers end 44-day strike with Ford Motor Company.
1965 Peterborough Ontario - Ontario & Quebec Premiers John Robarts and Jean Lesage lay two cornerstones, one in English and other in French, for Champlain College, at Trent University.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Detroit Red Wings' Gordie Howe scored two goals to lead the NHL All-Stars in a 5-2 win over the Montreal Canadiens; breaks the All-Star Game record for goals with the 8th and 9th of his career.
1964 Minneapolis Minnesota - Montreal's Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne, to become National Wrestling Association (NWA) champion.
1961 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau announces that Montreal will have its own subway system, the Metro, in 1966.
1960 Kingston Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens Sir John A. Macdonald Hall, new law school of Queen' s University.
1956 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Alouettes crush Hamilton Tiger Cats 82-14 in a CFL football romp.
1956 Churchill Manitoba - Canada launches first rockets to examine weather and ionosphere.
1953 Sudbury Ontario - Canada's first privately-owned television station goes into operation in Sudbury.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces $87 million budget surplus; abolishes sales tax on heating oil.
1923 Dawson Yukon - Royal Canadian Corps of Signals exchanges northern Canada's first wireless messages from Dawson.
1920 BC - British Columbia voters say yea to government control and sale of liquor, rather than prohibition.
1919 Ontario - Ernest Charles Drury 1878-1968 leads United Farmers of Ontario in defeat of Conservative government in provincial election; forms coalition government with labour and independent members.
1903 Washington DC - Joint High Commission issues Canada/Alaska boundary award, the commissioners voting 4-2 to support the US claim for a boundary running behind the heads of the inlets, but agreeing to equal distribution of 4 islands at the mouth of Portland Canal; the British commissioner, Lord Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice of England, breaks the deadlock, but the two Canadian members, A.B. Aylesworth and Sir Louis JettÃ©, refuse to sign the lopsided award, and return to Ottawa; Alaska Boundary Crisis leads to a Canada's determination to protect its own interest through the creation of the Department of External Affairs.
1899 Washington DC - Britain and US agree on provisional boundary between Alaska and Canada after two years of talks; protests from Canadians follow, and issue referred to an international tribunal in 1903.
1887 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier HonorÃ© Mercier 1840-1894 hosts first Interprovincial Premiers Conference: the five premiers adopt 21 resolutions for free trade with the US; John A. Macdonald refuses to attend.
1884 Montreal Quebec - First issue of newspaper La Presse.
1865 Windsor England - Queen Victoria 1819-1901 issues a Royal Proclamation fixing the permanent seat of the government of Canada at Ottawa; on George-Etienne Cartier's recommendation.
1864 Montreal Quebec - Canadian government calls out militia on rumours of Fenian attacks.
1855 Toronto Ontario - Toronto new provincial capital of Canada; until Ottawa became capital in 1859.
1854 Quebec - Lewis Drummond 1813-1882 introduces bill to abolish seignorial tenure in Canada East; 160 seigneurs held land farmed by 72,000 habitants.
1839 Quebec Quebec - Charles Edward Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 sworn in as Governor General of British North America, replacing Lord Durham; will persuade Upper Canada to consent to a union with Lower Canada in a united province; drafted the Union Act; policy of anglicization won him hatred of French Canadians.
1818 London England - Treaty of London sets 49th Parallel as boundary from Lake of the Woods to Rockies; North American Fishing convention also restores US fishing and curing rights around the Gulf of St. Lawrence; US and Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
1758 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 promoted to Lieutenant-General and Commander-in-Chief of all French military forces in Canada.
1712 Nova Scotia - Francis Nicholson 1665-c1728 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia and Placentia (Newfoundland); serves to October 18, 1714.
1686 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys la maison des Ursulines (Grey Nuns) at Quebec.
1670 Quebec Quebec - Intendant Jean Talon 1626-1694 awards gift of 20 livres to women married at 16, men married at 20.
1659 Montreal Quebec - Arrival of the first Ursulines (Grey Nuns) at Montreal.
1634 Ontario - Jesuit priest Jean de BrÃ© makes his way to the Petun Indian nation in southwestern Ontario.
1629 London England - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 taken to London by the Kirke brothers after the capture of Quebec; left Tadoussac Sept. 14; petitions the English to return New France to the Company of 100 Associates; will be released and sent to Dieppe Nov. 30; Kirkes occupy Quebec until 1632.
1611 Gravesend England - Henry Hudson's mutineers on board the Discovery reach London in a half-starved condition; all the ringleaders including Juet had died; Bylot, Syms, Edward Wilson, Prickett, Matheus, Bond, Clements and Motter are questioned, and a recommendation made that they be hanged; the trial does not take place until 1618, and the Admiralty court finds the survivors not guilty.

End of C/P.

henric · Oct 20, 2013

October 21st 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1096 – People's Crusade: The Turkish army annihilates the People's Army of the West.
1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
1209 – Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
1392 – Nanboku-chō: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
1512 – Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
1520 – JoÃ£o Ãlvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
1600 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
1774 – First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 – In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signals almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century.
1816 – The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1824 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff – Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
1867 – Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
1892 – Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
1902 – In the United States, a five-month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1910 – HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1912 – During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces
1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
1921 – George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
1931 – The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'Ã©tat attempt.
1940 – The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
1944 – World War II: The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1945 – Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
1950 – Korean War: heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the North Korean 239th Regiment during the Battle of Yongju.
1956 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau Uprising, and essentially ending the British military campaign.
1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.
1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
1965 – Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
1966 – Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
1967 – Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
1969 – A coup d'Ã©tat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
1971 – A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland.
1973 – John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
1973 – Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
1977 – The European Patent Institute is founded.
1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1979 – Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
1983 – The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
1987 – Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
1994 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
1994 – In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
2003 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1926 MCGILL STUDENT GIVES HARRY HOUDINI A DEATH BLOW
Montreal Quebec - While performing in Montreal, famed magician and escape artist Harry Houdini invites a McGill student to punch him hard in the stomach. The young man complies before Houdini has a chance to brace himself, and the blow leads to his death ten days later from internal bleeding.

1880
Ottawa Ontario -
John A. Macdonald signs the final Canadian Pacific Railway contract with the George Stephen syndicate, providing a subsidy of $25 million dollars in cash and 25 million acres of land in return for completion of the line within 10 years and a guarantee that the Company would operate the railway 'efficiently' forever. Here he is a month earlier making a speech at Hochelaga depot in Montreal on his return from Europe after getting an imperial guarantee for CPR financing. Macdonald was feeling his age, and thought the line would not be completed in his lifetime. However, five years later, on Nov. 7, 1885, Donald Smith, his old enemy, drove home the Last Spike at Craigellachie, and a few years after that, Macdonald himself took his wife Agnes on a summer trip across Canada on the CPR.

In Other Events....

1995 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens officially name RÃ©jean Houle as General Manager of the NHL hockey team; Mario Tremblay head trainer, assisted by Yvan Cournoyer; all former players from the Stanley Cup winning glory days of the Habs.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jay pitcher Jimmy Key wins Game 4 of the World Series 2-1 over the Atlanta Braves; Toronto's third straight victory has them leading the series 3-1; relievers Duane Ward and Tom Henke snuff out late Atlanta rally.
1991 Saskatchewan - Roy Romanow wins Saskatchewan election for NDP with 55 of 66 seats to Grant Devine's 10; Liberals under Lynda Haverstock win 1.
1988 New York City - Canadian rock/folk musician Robbie Robertson's album, 'Robbie Robertson' certified Gold.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Queen Elizabeth II arrives at Dorval Airport; the following day she will make a speech praising the distinct character of Quebec.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- wins support of NDP for constitutional proposals; by agreeing to give provinces more control over natural resources.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Gilbert Templeton dies; Canada's 'grand old medicine man' peddled his patent medicines, T-R-C's and Raz-Mahs on the radio.
1976 Stockholm Sweden - Lachine Quebec born writer Saul Bellow 1915- wins the Nobel Prize for Literature; novels include Dangling Man (1944), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964), Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (won 1975 Pulitzer Prize), The Dean's December (1982), More Die of Heartbreak (1987) and The Bellarosa Connection (1989).
1975 Canada - 22,000 Canadian Union of Postal Workers (inside workers) start 43-day strike.
1974 Paris France - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts two-day visit to France to discuss trade relations.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Officials release report on the autopsy performed on the body of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, murdered by FLQ terrorists.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans use of artificial sweetener cyclamate; fear it is a carcinogen.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- dances with actress Louise Marleau after a gala, which sets tongues wagging. Here's a list of her NFB/ONF productions.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Protest groups demonstrate against war in Vietnam at US consulates in Toronto and other large Canadian cities.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and Britain agree to develop heavy water reactors using Canadian system of natural uranium.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and Hollywood starlet Shirley Temple kick off 9th Victory Loan campaign.
1944 Breskens Netherlands - Canadian troops occupy Breskens.
1942 Toronto Ontario - Gordon Daniel Conant 1885-1953 succeeds Mitchell Hepburn as Premier of Ontario.
1941 Victoria BC - John Hart 1879-1957 elected Premier of British Columbia; leads coalition Liberal-Conservative government.
1918 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Northern Railway opens the Mount Royal Tunnel for regular train traffic; today a commuter line operated by VIA Rail.
1918 Vladivostok Russia - Government appoints Canadian commercial commission for Siberia; based at Vladivostok.
1918 Quebec Quebec - Charles Fitzpatrick sworn in as Lieutenant Governor; former Mayor of Quebec.
1914 Quebec Quebec - Mobilization of the 23rd Battalion of Infantry of Quebec, for service in France.
1914 St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec - Mobilization of the 22nd Battalion of Infantry of St. Jean, for service in France.
1909 Fort McPherson, NWT - Anglican Bishop of the Yukon Isaac Stringer and a companion stumble into an Athabascan village after being lost in the wilderness for 51 days; left for Dawson in early Sept., and started a canoe trip down the Bell River, but when the river froze they abandoned their canoe and set off across the mountains back to Fort McPherson; got lost in fog and snow, ran out of ammunition, and by Oct. 17, they were reduced to eating the soles of the Bishop's sealskin boots.
1909 Mont-Laurier, Quebec - Mont-Laurier incorporated.
1902 Ottawa Ontario - Joseph-IsraÃ«l Tarte resigns his seat in Parliament.
1887 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier HonorÃ© Mercier 1840-1894 hosts a grand banquet to close the first Interprovincial Premiers Conference: the five premiers adopted 21 resolutions for free trade with the US; John A. Macdonald refused to attend.
1878 Paris France - John Labatt's India Pale Ale wins a gold medal at the International Exposition. Labatt devised the recipe for the light-colored ale at his brewery in London, Ontario.
1876 Sarnia Ontario - First shipment of western wheat to Eastern Canada arrives from Manitoba.
1874 Pelly Saskatchewan - NWMP force recrosses Prairies to Swan River barracks at Pelly; others continue to Winnipeg.
1864 Quebec Quebec - Bachelors Ball held at the Quebec Parliament for the delegates to the Quebec Conference.
1811 London England - George Prevost 1767-1816 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Canada; serves from July 15, 1812 to May 4, 1814.
1802 Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 explores west from mouth of Lesser Slave River and Lesser Slave Lake toward the forks of the Peace River.
1792 Oregon - William Broughton 1762-1821 navigates Columbia River upstream; claims area for Britain; in 'Chatham'.
1754 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Jonathan Belcher 1710-1776 appointed Nova Scotia's first Chief Justice.
1690 Beauport Quebec - William Phips 1651-1695 orders a retreat from Quebec after being turned back in a skirmish on the Beauport Flats; had attacked Quebec with 37 ships and 2,200 men, but Count Frontenac refused to surrender, and his shelling of the town had little effect.
1647 France - Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve returns to France; his colonizing company had built a settlement on the island of Montreal in 1641.
1637 Trois-RiviÃ¨res, Quebec - First French child born at Three Rivers.

End of C/P.

henric · Oct 21, 2013

October 22nd 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
451 – The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1633 – Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
1797 – One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, AndrÃ©-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13Â½ hours before burning out).
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
1895 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1923 – The royalist ********poulos–Gargalidis coup d'Ã©tat attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
1924 – Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.
1927 – Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity
1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy MÃ´quet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place.
1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1978 – Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
2007 – Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1992 STEVE MACLEAN BLASTS OFF
Cape Canaveral Florida - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Steve MacLean blasts off from Kennedy Space Center at 12:09 pm CDT, a mission specialist aboard Space Shuttle flight STS-52, with CANEX-II and responsibility for the first test of the CSA's Space Vision System (SVS), designed to help operators of the RMS Canadarm or Mobile Servicing System (MSS) of the future berth or deploy satellites. Maclean will also perform a series of seven Canadian experiments on material science, fluid physics, atmosphere characterization, and the human body's ability to adapt to space flight. On the first day, he activates the Queens University Experiment in Liquid Metal Diffusion (QUELD), a high temperature furnace that operates in the mid-deck of the Shuttle and examines the diffusion of bismuth and tin into each other.

1692
VerchÃ¨res QuÃ©bec - Madeleine Jarret de VerchÃ¨res 1678-1747 gathers about 20 local habitant farmers into her family's fortified home, Fort Dangerous, when some Iroquois appear; fires cannon to warn other families; with her father FranÃ§ois, a militia colonel, away in Montreal, the 14 year old will defend the fort against Iroquois siege for the next 8 days, with only 2 militia and her young brother; when help arrives, she says: 'I surrender my arms to you', then collapses; Jarret seigneury about 32 km east of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River opposite Repentigny.

In Other Events....

1996 Canada - End of General Motors strike at Oshawa and Boisbriand, as GM and the CAW settle three-week strike that idled over 46,000 workers across North America.
1995 New York City - Prime Minister Jean ChrÃ©tien joins 200 other world leaders in New York for three days of festivities marking the 50th anniversary of the United Nations organization.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Atlanta Braves beat Blue Jays, 7-2, in Game 5 of the World Series, as Lonnie Smith hits a grand slam; first American team to win a World Series game outside the US.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Senate passes Mulroney government bill overhauling the Unemployment Insurance Fund; employers and workers to shoulder the entire cost.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Zellers acquires 51 Towers-Bonimart discount stores in Eastern Canada for estimated $150 million; division of Hudson's Bay Company.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech in which she praises the distinct character of Quebec.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Dominion Textile announces it is withdrawing from South Africa in support of Canada's anti-apartheid policies.
1976 Toronto Ontario - English rock group the Who wrap up their tour with a concert in Maple Leaf Gardens; last show Keith Moon will play in North America.
1970 New Brunswick - Richard Bennett Hatfield 1931-1991 leads Progressive Conservatives to victory in NB election, defeating Liberals under Louis Robichaud.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972 named first chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre; former Prime Minister.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Edgar Benson brings down budget; proposes serious changes to tax savings plans and capital gains; Benson Budget.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Blanche Margaret Meagher 1911- appointed Canadian Ambassador to Israel, Halifax-born Meagher Canada's first woman ambassador; later serves as ambassador to Austria and Sweden.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government removes wartime price controls on meat.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - King Government brings in Canadian Citizenship Act to the House of Commons; becomes law in January, 1947; abolishes 'Canadian national' or 'British subject' as the legal terms for non-aliens in Canada..
1944 Savio River, Italy - Seaforth Highlanders Private Ernest Alva 'Smoky' Smith shows conspicuous heroism, holding the Savio River crossing against German counter-attacks and destroying at least two enemy tanks; awarded the Victoria Cross.
1936 Berlin Germany - Canada signed its first trade treaty with Germany.
1917 Alma Quebec - Alma incorporated.
1908 Montreal Quebec - Patriotic celebration takes place at the National Monument, to celebrate the mobilization of the 24th Battalion of Montreal Infantry for service in France.
1908 Montreal Quebec - Laying of the cornerstone of the Ã‰cole des Hautes Ã‰tudes Commerciales building.
1885 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules against the appeal of Louis Riel's sentence, and he will be hanged in Regina Nov. 16, 1885.
1881 Toronto Ontario - McGill and U of T play Canada's first college football game on the University of Toronto lawn; the two teams try to play annually after that; the first football games under the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (CIAU) will be played in 1898.
1867 Montreal Quebec - Failure of the Commercial Bank.
1854 London England - John Rae 1813-1893 arrives in England to claim the Â£10,000 British Admiralty prize for discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition; the Hudson's Bay Company explorer, fur trader and surgeon made four expeditions to the Arctic before meeting an Inuit man who told him of a group of white men who died of starvation four years earlier, and sold him some marked silverware and a medal which confirmed they were remains of the Franklin expedition. Rae will not be awarded the prize until July, 1856, since his report quotes Inuit statements that the last survivors had resorted to cannibalism, and many Britons, including Lady Franklin, insisted that sailors of the Royal Navy would never do such a thing; therefore Rae was not to be believed.
1846 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Toronto, Hamilton, Niagara, & St. Catharines Telegraph Company; first telegraph company in Canada.
1837 VerchÃ¨res Quebec - About a thousand young Patriotes, Les Fils de la LibertÃ© [Sons of Liberty], go on maneuvres in the outskirts of Montreal, in preparation for a great meeting the following day at St-Charles [Grande AssemblÃ©e des Six-ComtÃ©s Ã Saint-Charles-sur-le-Richelieu].
1670 Quebec Quebec - Shipbuilder Jean Langlois starts construction of another barquentine.
1642 Quebec Quebec - Father Charles Raimbault dies at Quebec; first Jesuit in New France.

End of C/P.

henric · Oct 22, 2013

October 23rd 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

42 BC – Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide.
425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman Emperor at the age of 6.
502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theodoric the Great, discharges Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius.
1086 – At the Battle of az-Zallaqah, the army of Yusuf ibn Tashfin defeats the forces of Castilian King Alfonso VI.
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris.
1641 – Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
1642 – Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War.
1694 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
1707 – The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
1812 – Claude FranÃ§ois de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.
1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Westport – Union forces under General Samuel R. Curtis defeat Confederate troops led by General Sterling Price at Westport, near Kansas City.
1867 – 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz concludes with a decisive Prussian victory.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
1911 – First use of aircraft in war: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
1915 – Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
1929 – The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1939 – The Japanese Mitsubishi G4M twin-engine airplane makes its maiden flight.
1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on October 26.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
1956 – Thousands of Hungarians protest against the government and Soviet occupation. (The Hungarian Revolution is crushed on November 4).
1958 – The Springhill Mine Bump – An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74.
1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute Ã six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine.
1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (United States) (Airmobile), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone (the Central Highlands).
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1972 – Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1973 – A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria.
1983 – Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops.
1989 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president MÃ¡tyÃ¡s SzűrÃ¶s, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
1989 – Bankruptcy of WÃ¤rtsilÃ¤ Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the nordic countries until then.
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in the Shankill area of Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. Ulster loyalists retaliate a week later with the Greysteel massacre.
1995 – Yolanda SaldÃvar is found guilty of first degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin artist Selena. Three days later, SaldÃvar was sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole in 2025
1998 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2007 – A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta Jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig.
2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
2011 – The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan civil war over.
2012 – After 38 years, the world's first teletext service (BBC's Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1993 JAYS REPEAT WORLD SERIES WIN
Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter hits a three-run homer in the bottom of the 9th inning to give Toronto an 8-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series; defending champions take the Series 4-2; first team to win the World Series on Canadian soil.

In Other Events....

1996 Montreal Quebec - Commission of Enquiry starts sitting to examine police practices in Montreal and Quebec.
1995 Quebec - Advance poll for the Parizeau Referendum sees 320,954 voters turn out.
1995 Canada - Referendum jitters send Canadian dollar and country's stock markets plunging.
1991 Calgary Alberta - Bob Blair announces $325 million sale of Nova's share of Husky Oil to Li Ka-shing and Hong Kong group; Li interest from 52 to 95% of Husky.
1990 Hollywood California - Canadian heavy metal group Rush release their 'Chronicles' video.
1988 Montreal Quebec - Expos sign Tim Raines to a three-year $6.3 million deal.
1987 New York City - New York Stock Exchange cuts trading day by two hours; restores order & rationality after crash; Toronto and Montreal exchanges follow for three weeks.
1986 Quebec - Strike continues at Quebec's CÃ‰GEPs and universities.
1985 Quebec Quebec - Pierre-Marc Johnson sworn in as 24th Premier of Quebec, replacing RenÃ© LÃ©vesque; calls election for Dec. 2; son of former Union Nationale Premier Daniel Johnson Sr.
1981 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pearl McGonigal 1930- takes office as first female Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba; second in Canada.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Anik-III used by Globe and Mail to send computerized microwave signals of pages; from Toronto to Montreal; later to Calgary and Vancouver; Canada's first newspaper to use satellite technology.
1978 Zuma Beach, California - Toronto rocker Neil Young's beach house burns to the ground in a forest fire.
1971 New York City - The Stampeders' 'Sweet City Woman' peaks at #8 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1975 Whitehorse Yukon - Paul Lucier 1923- Mayor of Whitehorse named first Senator from the Yukon.
1969 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Faulty bearing causes explosion in engine room of destroyer HMCS 'Kootenay', kills two sailors.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 2nd session of the 28th Parliament; until Oct. 7, 1970.
1969 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Government brings in Bill 63, to promote the teaching of the French language in Quebec; gives parents the choice of the language of instruction for their children, but requires some French language instruction for anglophones and immigrants.
1967 Fredericton, New Brunswick - Brenda Robertson first woman elected to New Brunswick legislature.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Lester Pearson says that Ottawa will pay 50% of the cost of higher education.
1965 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists break into the offices of the Parti National DÃ©mocratique de MontrÃ©al.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Birth of Michael Turner, son of politician and later Prime Minister John Turner.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Government shows plans for new National Museum in Ottawa.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Maritime Transportation Unions Trustee Act; puts unions under control of 3 trustee.
1961 Montreal Quebec - Opening of five-day Resources for Tomorrow Conference; discusses use of forest, water, fisheries.
1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Underground coal gas explosion and rock surge in the Number Two Cumberland mine traps 174 miners; rescue workers bring 81 men out the first day, 12 more found alive on Oct. 30, 7 more on Nov. 1; 74 die in the deepest coal mine in North America; last body recovered Nov. 6.
1952 Korea - Canadian troops fight in battle of 'Little Gibraltar Hill', their heaviest engagement of the Korean War.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Indian Prime Minister Jahwharlal Nehru starts visit to Canada.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends wartime control of meat prices.
1947 Montreal Quebec - End of strike at Canada Packers meat curing plant in Montreal.
1946 Santa Fe, New Mexico - Ernest Thompson Seton 1860-1946, author, naturalist, dies at age 86; born Ernest Seton Thompson at Shields, England, Aug 14, 1860, and grew up in Toronto; homesteaded in Manitoba and, in 1892, was appointed naturalist for the Manitoba government; in 1902, organized the Woodcraft Indians (later the Woodcraft League), and helped found the Boy Scouts of America; wrote and illustrated over 40 children's books on nature and woodcraft, including Wild Animals I Have Known (1898), and his autobiography, The Trail of an Artist-Naturalist (1940).
1945 Brooklyn, New York - Brooklyn Dodgers announce that Jackie Robinson will play for their farm club, the Montreal Royals; first black baseball player hired by a major league team..
1942 Preissac Quebec - Molybdenum discovery at Preissac; used in steel alloy.
1940 Atlantic - Canadian destroyer 'Margaree' sunk in collision.
1938 Canada - Canadian singers and orchestras produce 'A Musical Portrait of Canada'; first major Canadian broadcast heard round the world.
1935 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Avery Dunning 1885-1958 becomes Minister of Finance replacing Rhodes; until Sept 5, 1939; replaced by Ralston.
1935 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sworn in as Prime Minister succeeding Bennett ; until Nov. 15, 1948; Bennett PM since Aug. 7, 1930; appoints his chief Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe as Justice Minister.
1929 Canada - New York Stock Exchange crash spreads to Toronto and Montreal; Montreal Exchange trades record 400,000 shares.
1925 Montreal Quebec - Poet Emile Nelligan interned in l'HÃ´pital St-Jean-de-Dieu after a breakdown.
1924 Ontario - Ontarians vote, by a narrow margin, to maintain prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the province; law lasts from 1916 until 1927.
1918 Juneau Alaska - CPR steamer 'Princess Sophia' hits submerged rock; bound from Skagway, Alaska to Vancouver; sinks the following day with great loss of life.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Railway War Board holds its first meeting in the Canadian Pacific Boardroom in Windsor Station, Montreal; origin of the Railway Association of Canada, 1919.
1884 Moosomin Saskatchewan - Moosomin newspaper reports first shipment of four railroad cars of buffalo bones to the US; used as fertilizer, and burned to make carbon black; 20,000 tons of this prairie cash crop will be shipped out before 1897.
1874 Montreal Quebec - Harvard beats McGill in the first intercollegiate football game in Canada.
1874 Montreal Quebec - Oyster opening contest held in Montreal; winner shucks 300 in 30 minutes.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Second session of second Parliament opens; receives Report of the special Enquiry on the Pacific Scandal; meets until November 7.
1864 Montreal Quebec - Canadian militia and police arrest 14 escaped Confederate Civil War fugitives four days after they robbed three banks in St. Albans, Vermont, killed one person and got away with $200,000, before heading back to Montreal, where they had been hiding out; brought before a Montreal Police magistrate, they are released on a technicality; only $19,000 of the stolen money is ever recovered.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Opening of first telegraph service to New York via Albany.
1847 London Ontario - Construction of Great Western Railway begins in London.
1847 Grosse-ÃŽle, Quebec - 65 more immigrants die of cholera and typhus in one week; almost 10,000 during whole of 1847.
1839 Quebec Quebec - John Colborne, Baron Seaton 1778-1863 leaves Quebec after being replaced by Lord Sydenham as Governor.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Mgr. Lartigue asks the people of Lower Canada to obey the lawful authority.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Loyalist Assembly take place in Montreal; opposing the demands of the Patriotes.
1812 St. Regis, Quebec - American invaders win skirmish at St. Regis.
1786 Fredericton New Brunswick - Government of New Brunswick moves from Saint John to Anne's Point (Fredericton).
1735 Trois-RiviÃ¨res, Quebec - Founding of new company to operate the Forges de St-Maurice iron smelter.
1697 Trois-RiviÃ¨res, Quebec - Arrival of the first Ursulines (Soeurs grises) at Trois-RiviÃ¨res.
1672 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 sworn in as Governor of New France.
1672 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first States General of New France.

End of C/P.

henric · Oct 23, 2013

October 24th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
1260 – The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
1360 – The Treaty of BrÃ©tigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1590 – John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia,
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
1851 – William Lassell, discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England.
1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph, line across the United States, is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel.
1911 – Orville Wright, remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
1917 – Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
1930 – A bloodless coup d'Ã©tat in Brazil ousts Washington LuÃs Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. GetÃºlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United States of America.
1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Musashi are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1945 – Founding of the United Nations
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence)
1973 – Yom Kippur War ends
1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
1980 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s.
1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
2007 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1621 CANADA'S FIRST FRENCH CHILD
Quebec Quebec - Eustache Martin baptized; born to Marguerite Langlois, the wife of Abraham Martin, the farmer who gave his name to the Plains of Abraham; first French child born in North America.

1992
Atlanta Georgia - Dave Winfield whacks a two run double in the 11th inning to give Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 win over Atlanta Braves; Jays take baseball's World Series four games to two, and are the first team from outside the United States to take the title; game actually won on the 25th, as it went on after midnight.

In Other Events....

1995 New York City - Prime Minister Jean ChrÃ©tien and 200 other world leaders celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations organization, founded in San Francisco fifty years ago today; largest gathering of world leaders in history.
1995 Quebec - Cree people of Nouveau-QuÃ©bec hold their own referendum; decisively reject sovereignty option.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada rate rises 98 basis points, the largest jump in 3 years.
1995 Chicago Illinois - The Quebec government and its agencies buy up hundreds of millions of Canadian dollars in a move to stabilize markets ahead of the referendum. Meanwhile, the Bank of Canada rate rises 98 basis points, the largest jump in 3 years.
1992 Winnipeg Manitoba - Preston Manning says the Reform Party will phase out the GST and balance federal budget in 3 years if elected; 1,700 delegates meet at National Convention.
1992 Atlanta Georgia - Dave Winfield hits two run double in 11th inning to give Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 win over Atlanta Braves; Jays win World Series in six games.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Michael Porter says Canada must overhaul social programs and business climate to have long-term prosperity; $1.2 million study for Business Council on National Issues.
1991 New York City - CÃ©line Dion and Peabo Bryson release hit single, 'Beauty And The Beast'; theme song for Disney cartoon version of the fairy tale.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP Commissioner Norman Inkster says native officers in the force may wear braids on duty; 'without giving up their traditional spiritual needs'.
1988 New York City - Montrealer Michel 'Mike' Bossy retires due to back problems; NY Islanders' & NHL high scorer.
1987 Quebec Quebec - Parti Quebecois comes out against free trade with the United States.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa changes immigration policy to give precedence to those wanting to open businesses.
1981 CancÃºn Mexico - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- co-chairs conference of 22 world leaders at Cancun to find solutions to economic disparities between.
1979 Montreal Quebec - End of 8 month long strike at the Montreal Transport Commission/CTCUM.
1978 Toronto Ontario - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs score 28 points against the New York Islanders; set own team record.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones convicted of heroin possession, given a one-year suspended sentence and ordered to put on a future charity concert for the blind.
1975 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot releases new album, 'Gord's Gold'.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Commons votes to continue partial ban on capital punishment for another five years; except for murders of policeman or prison guards.
1971 Quebec Quebec - Union Nationale party votes to change its name to UnitÃ©-QuÃ©bec.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Montreal annexes Ville St-Michel.
1967 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau 1916- granted two-year deferral of payment to Ottawa; to turn Expo site into permanent exhibit; money owed to Ottawa for Expo '67.
1966 Mill Village Nova Scotia - SATCOM earth station starts operations near Mill Village; Canada's first satellite communications earth station.
1964 Tokyo Japan - Closing of 18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo; Canada takes 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 Japan - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 puts Canada's air defences on high alert in reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis that broke two days earlier, when the US ordered Soviet missiles out of Cuba. The alert should have gone out earlier, under treaties with the US, but Diefenbaker delayed, angering the Kennedy government.
1962 Peterborough Ontario - Thomas H. B. Symons 1929- appointed first President and Vice Chancellor of Trent University.
1961 Japan - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 leaves Ottawa for six-day official visit to Japan.
1961 Quebec - Start of construction of the Manic 2 power dam.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau 1916- and his Civic Party win Montreal municipal elections; sworn in as Mayor on Oct. 31.
1946 Paris France - Pauline Vanier awarded la Croix de Guerre de France for her wartime work for the Red Cross.
1928 Montreal Quebec - Camilien Houde elected Deputy in the National Assembly; later Mayor of Montreal.
1926 Montreal Quebec - First beam system of wireless transmission to England inaugurated at Montreal.
1928 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Post Office issues Canada's first bilingual stamp in the 2Â¢ denomination, with a bust of George V and the words 'Postes' and 'Postage'.
1921 Halifax, Nova Scotia- Nova Scotia fishing schooner Bluenose defeats the New England schooner Elsie by almost 5 km to win the International Schooner Championships.
1913 Montreal Quebec - Founding of Montreal child welfare agency, L'association du Bien-Ãªtre de la Jeunesse.
1903 Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie & Mann get charter for Grand Trunk Pacific Railway: from Moncton, New Brunswick to Prince Rupert BC; to be built by Dec. 1, 1911.
1903 Carlisle Saskatchewan- The coach of the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians football team has football-shaped patches sewn to the front of his players' sweaters to fool an opposing team.
1901 Ontario - Anna Edson Taylor, a 50 year old Michigan teacher, and a non-swimmer, is the first person known to go over 160 foot Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive; she hoped to make money from the feat, but will die in poverty.
1897 Dawson Yukon - R. J. Bowen conducts first service in St. Paul's Anglican Church.
1886 Fort Macleod Alberta - Utah Mormon leader Charles Ora Card, sent to Canada to find a place of 'peace and asylum', finds a site between the Belly and St. Mary Rivers and dedicates it to the Lord for future Mormon settlement; earlier travelled to BC, but found much of the best land already taken.
1865 Toronto Ontario - Mayor of Toronto lays cornerstone of the Industrial Farm along the Don River; fire will gut the partially completed building a few months later, and construction has to start over; later called the Don Jail, and now known as the Toronto Jail.
1852 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange opens for business; largest stock market in Canada.
1850 London England - British Treasury sends memorandum to Colonial Secretary Earl Grey criticizing Canadian Inspector-General Francis Hincks' proposed Currency Act of 1850; the Act, passed Aug. 10 and set to become law Jan. 01, pegs the $US at 5 Canadian shillings, and provides for Canadian silver coins matching US denominations; Grey informs Lord Elgin that the Act should be disallowed. It is not until July 01, 1858, that Britain permits Canada to have a decimal currency.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Mgr. Jean-Jacques Lartigue 1777-1840 condemns revolt against civil authority, and urges obedience; during the Patriote Assembly of the Six Counties at St-Charles; first Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal.
1808 Quebec Quebec - Presentation of two MoliÃ¨re plays at Quebec - 'L'Avare' and 'Le Mariage ForcÃ©'.
1676 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 grants Beaubassin a large tract of land at the Isthmus of Chignecto; later known as the Beaubassin seigneury.

End of C/P.

henric · Oct 24, 2013

October 25th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the Byzantine Empire.
1147 – The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
1147 – Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1154 – Henry II of England becomes King of England.
1415 – The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
1747 – British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
1828 – The St Katharine Docks opened in London.
1854 – The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1917 – Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
1920 – After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn FÃ©in Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
1924 – The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party's hopes of re-election.
1938 – The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". His warning is widely ignored.
1940 – Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
1944 – The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Nazi-Hungarian occupation.
1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of World War 2.
1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
1962 – Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
1962 – Uganda joins the United Nations.
1962 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
1971 – The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
1977 – Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'Ã©tat.
1991 – History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
2009 – The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1993 TORIES GO OVER THE CLIFF, CHRETIEN IN POWER
Canada - Kim Campbell's Progressive Conservatives lose 152 of their 154 Commons seats in the federal election, dropping to just 16% of the popular vote and 2 seats - Jean Charest in Sherbrooke and Elsie Wayne in Saint John, NB. Jean ChrÃ©tien's Liberals win a comfortable majority with 177 seats (41.32% of popular vote); the Bloc Quebecois form the Official Opposition with 54 seats (13.51%), the Reform Party have 52 seats (18.72%), mainly in Alberta and BC, and the NDP 9 (6.87%). The PCs lose their status as an official party, and Campbell is out after four months in power.

1923
Stockholm Sweden - Frederick Banting & J. J. R. Macleod of the University of Toronto jointly win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the hormone insulin, which was to save the lives of millions of diabetics. Banting, whose idea launched the research, shares the prize money with Charles Best. Macleod, who supervised the research, shares with J.B. Collip. They are the first Canadians to win a Nobel Prize.

In Other Events....

1996 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Federation of Labour organize 'Days of Action' to protest budget cuts by Mike Harris government; TTC shut down, many downtown businesses close when their employees can't make it to work; large rally the following day (Saturday) at Queen's Park.
1995 Hollywood California - Alanis Morissette's album 'Jagged Little Pill' certified Multi Platinum 3.00.
1993 Beauport Quebec - Sightseeing helicopter crashes at Montmorency Falls, killing 4.
1992 Atlanta Georgia - Toronto Blue Jays fly home to Toronto after Dave Winfield whacks a two run double in the 11th inning after midnight, giving them a 4-3 win over Atlanta Braves, and baseball's World Series four games to two; first team from outside the United States to take the title.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Senate passes legislation officially naming July 1 Canada Day.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Government and workers come to an agreement ending national postal strike.
1978 Red Bay Newfoundland - Selma Barkham and a team of Public Archives of Canada researchers find a Spanish galleon off the coast of Labrador; sunk in 1525.
1971 Quebec Quebec - The Union Nationale party votes to change its name to UnitÃ© QuÃ©bec.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau re-elected Mayor of Montreal.
1969 New York City - Winnipeg rock group The Guess Who awarded a Gold Record for their hit single, 'Laughing'.
1969 New York City - Blood, Sweat & Tears, led by Toronto rocker David-Clayton Thomas, see their single 'And When I Die' enter the Billboard Top 40 chart.
1968 Vancouver BC - Opening of new terminal at Vancouver International Airport.
1962 Bedford Nova Scotia - Opening of Bedford Institute of Oceanography, near Halifax.
1960 Windsor Ontario - Gas explosion in the Windsor downtown kills 11 people and injures more than 80.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Conference on unemployment held at Ottawa; leads to creation of National Productivity Council Dec. 20.
1954 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau elected Mayor of Montreal for the first time.
1953 Sudbury Ontario - Opening of CKSO-TV, Sudbury, Canada's first privately owned television station.
1951 Montreal Quebec - Montreal the first Canadian city to reach a population of more than one million people.
1945 Montreal Quebec - Negro League baseball star Jackie Robinson signs contract with the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn Dodgers farm team; first black in major league baseball.
1944 Iceland - HMCS 'Skeena' goes aground in Iceland gale; destroyer a total loss.
1943 Ste-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Quebec - Hector de St-Denys Garneau, poet, dies of a heart attack while canoeing alone near the family manor house near Quebec City; born at Montreal June 13, 1912. Garneau was great-grandson of historian FranÃ§ois-Xavier Garneau, grandson of poet Alfred Garneau, and cousin of poet and novelist Anne HÃ©bert; studied at Jesuit colleges Sainte-Marie, Loyola and Jean de BrÃ©beuf; 1934 helped start the magazine La RelÃ¨ve; 1954 his Journal posthumously published; 1962 his Journal translated into English by John Glassco.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Roosevelt and Churchill invite Canada to join Combined Food Board.
1941 Newfoundland - RCAF's Eastern Command makes first attack on submarine off Newfoundland.
1939 Quebec - Union Nationale Party leader Maurice Duplessis 1890-1959 defeated by Liberals in Quebec election called over Canada's role in the War; removes threat to King's war effort; Camilien Houde reelected for the UN.
1939 Quebec - Joseph-AdÃ©lard Godbout 1892-1956 leads Liberals to landslide win over Maurice Duplessis in Quebec provincial elections; sworn in as Premier Nov. 08; wins 67 seats to 16 for the Union nationale and 2 Independents.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that the Inuit are a federal responsibility.
1920 Levis Quebec - Steamer 'Le Tadoussac' launched at LÃ©vis.
1920 Canada - Referenda in Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia give large votes for the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
1918 Juneau Alaska - Snowstorm hits CPR steamship 'Princess Sophia', foundering on a reef she hit a day earlier, en route to Vancouver from Skagway, Alaska; ship sinks with loss of all 268 passengers and 75 crew; small fleet of rescue vessels had to seek shelter in the storm; about 10% of the Yukon's white population were aboard.
1916 France - Canadian Fourth Division attacks Germans at the Somme.
1910 Hawkesbury Ontario - Carillon and Grenville Railway abandoned; last remaining broad gauge (5'6") line in North America opened Oct. 25, 1854 as a portage railway around the Carillon rapids.
1880 Anticosti Island, Quebec - First submarine telegraph cable laid to Anticosti.
1854 Balaklova Russia - Lieutenant A.R. Dunn, of Toronto, part of an English brigade of 600 men who charge the Russian army at 11 am, during the Crimean War; unhorsed, he empties his revolver at the Russians, then uses his sword - too long by regulations - to save several of his fellow cavalrymen; his bravery during the Charge of the Light Brigade made him the first Canadian to win the Victoria Cross.
1804 Quebec Quebec - Two plays presented at Quebec - 'Le Mariage ForcÃ©' by MoliÃ¨re , and 'Les Plaideurs', by Racine.
1798 New Brunswick - Boundary commission makes the St. Croix River southern border between New Brunswick and Maine.
1784 Belleville Ontario - Frederick Haldimand 1718-1791 grants Iroquois tracts of land along Grand River and Bay of Quinte.
1674 Fox River Wisconsin - Jacques Marquette 1637-1675 sets out from Saint-FranÃ§ois-Xavier mission on Fox River to visit Illinois Indians.
1657 Quebec - Jean St-Pierre, notary, is killed by the Iroquois.

End of C/P.

henric · Oct 25, 2013

October 26th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

306 – Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally begins with the proclamation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor at Didymoteicho.
1597 – Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
1689 – General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1775 – King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1811 – The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
1813 – War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay.
1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
1859 – The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
1860 – Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
1861 – The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
1863 – The Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, is formed in London.
1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
1909 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean nationalist assassin Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommel captures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians.
1917 – World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
1918 – Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.
1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
1943 – World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
1947 – The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
1955 – NgÃ´ ĐÃ¬nh Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
1968 – Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops rash in Merca district, Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
1984 – "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
1985 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
1992 – The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
1992 – The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
1995 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
1999 – Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of CÃ´te d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert GuÃ©Ã¯.
2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1813
Chateauguay Quebec - Lieutenant-Colonel Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry 1778-1829, leading 1,600 French Canadian Voltigeurs (light militia), turns back Gen. Wade Hampton and 3,000 Americans after four hours of fighting at a ford over the ChÃ¢teauguay River, 56 km southwest of Montreal; 300 front line militia blow hunting horns in the woods, making the Americans think they are facing a larger force; de Salaberry set up a barricade after learning of Hampton's invasion Oct. 21.

In Other Events....

1997 Jerez Spain - Jacques Villeneuve finishes third at the 69-lap European Grand Prix at Jerez, clinching the Formula One title and becoming the first Canadian to win the World Championship of Drivers; driving for the Williams Renault team, the 26 year old native of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu holds off Michael Schumacher's smash-and-grab assault on lap 48.
1997 Winnipeg Manitoba - Wayne Gretzky of the New York Rangers assists on a goal by Niklas Sundstrom at 12:14 of the 2nd period to notch his 1,850th career assist, equalling Gordie Howe's record; at 32 seconds of the third period, he assists on a goal by Ulf Samuelsson for his NHL record 1,851st career assist; see also 1990.
1995 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Cree and Inuit First Nations hold a referendum and reject Quebec sovereignty.
1995 Montreal Quebec - CN reopen modernized electrified commuter line between Montreal Central station and Deux Montagnes.
1993 Toronto Ontario - Crash Test Dummies release album 'God Shuffled His Feet'.
1992 Alberta - Alberta electors vote 39.7% Yes, 68% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 BC - BC electors vote 31.7% Yes, 68% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 Manitoba - Manitoba electors vote 37.8% Yes, 61.6% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 New Brunswick - New Brunswick electors vote 61.3% Yes, 38% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 Newfoundland - Newfoundland electors vote 62.9% Yes, 36.5% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia electors vote 48.5% Yes, 51.1% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 NWT - North West Territories electors vote 60.6% Yes, 38.7% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 Ontario - Ontario electors vote 49.8% Yes, 49.6% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 PEI - Prince Edward Island electors vote 73.6% Yes, 25.9% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 Quebec - Quebec electors vote 42.4% Yes, 55.4% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan electors vote 44.5% Yes, 55.2% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1992 Yukon - Yukon electors vote 43.4% Yes, 56.1% No in referendum on Charlottetown Accord.
1990 Kingston Ontario - Michael Davies sells Kingston Whig-Standard to Southam Press; daily circulation of 37,000; founded 1834, daily since 1849.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings scores his 2,000 career NHL point with an assist against the Jets; see also 1997.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Metro (CTCUM) bans panhandlers and beggars.
1988 Quebec - Students at 23 Quebec CÃ‰GEPs start 3 day strike.
1987 Quebec - Robert Toupin resigns from NPD-QuÃ©bec, member of the Assembly for the provincial New Democratic Party.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa adopts the Meech Lake Accord.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Policewoman Jacinthe Fyfe, age 25, shot to death by robbers; Montreal Police (CUM) constable the first female police officer killed on duty in Canada.
1984 Saint John, New Brunswick - NB Premier Richard Hatfield charged with possession of 26.5 grams of marijuana. His Progressive Conservative Party will be wiped out in the following election.
1983 Manitoba - Plebiscites to expand bilingual services defeated in all 20 Manitoba communities where they are held.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament renames Dominion Day (July l) Canada Day.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, to be situated in St. Mary's, near Stratford; about 160 Canadians are known to have played major league baseball.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Anne Murray's single 'You Needed Me' certified Gold.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Gordon Lightfoot's 'Summertime Dream' album certified Gold.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Henry Moore Henry Moore Centre opens at Art Gallery of Ontario.
1969 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 former Prime Minister installed as Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan.
1968 Vancouver BC - Opening of Centennial Museum-MacMillan Planetarium in Vancouver.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Last congress of the RIN - Rassemblement pour l';indÃ©pendence nationale; most join the Parti quÃ©bÃ©cois.
1956 New York City - United Nations sets up International Atomic Energy Agency; Canada a member.
1950 Washington DC - Canada signs six-point agreement with US for joint defence production; free trade in arms and equipment.
1950 Alberta - La SociÃ©tÃ© Radio-Canada extends French programming as far west as Calgary and Edmonton.
1943 Lethbridge, Alberta - Two Jehovah's Witnesses children expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag during patriotic exercises; parents believed in paying homage only to God, not to material objects; children stood at attention during the salute but this was not enough.
1943 Atlantic - RCAF sinks fourth U-boat in seven weeks.
1942 Montreal Quebec - RAF ferry bomber crashes at Dorval Airport, killing 16.
1940 Atlantic - Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain is torpedoed and sunk, with child evacuees bound for Canada; the ship was bombed two days earlier.
1934 Ottawa Ontario - Henry Herbert Stevens 1878-1973 resigns from R. B. Bennett government to found Reconstruction Party; small business-oriented and conservative.
1917 Passchendaele Belgium - Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps starts its first action against well entrenched Germans, taking over where the Anzac troops left off, to capture the Belgian town of Passchendaele. The Flanders bloodbath lasts until Nov. 30. In total, 2,834 Canadian lives are lost and casualties reach 16,000, to win just five square km of muddy quagmire. Canadians win two Victoria Crosses the first day of the battle.
1908 York County, Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King 1874-1950 first elected to the House of Commons for the riding of York North.
1908 Portage La Prairies, Manitoba - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 first elected to the House of Commons; re-elected 1911, 1913, 1917, 1922, 1925; Canada's 9th PM; called to Manitoba Bar in 1902; practiced in Portage La Prairie.
1892 Quebec Quebec - HonorÃ© Mercier 1840-1894 trial begins; after four years as Quebec Premier, Mercier was dismissed on Dec. 17, 1891 by the Lieutenant Governor for alleged misuse of public funds in the Baie des Chaleurs Railway scandal; re-elected in 1892 provincial elections, but his party was soundly defeated; will be acquitted of all charges Nov. 04, 1892.
1887 Regina Saskatchewan - Peter Lamont opens Saskatchewan's first telephone exchange in a bookstore.
1884 Cairo Egypt - Canadian Nile Voyageurs begin their mission to rescue Kitchener of Khartoum.
1876 St-FranÃ§ois-Xavier, Manitoba - Metis songwriter Pierre Falcon dies at age 83; known as Pierriche or Pierre the Rhymer, born at Elbow Fort near Swan River June 4, 1793, son of a North West Company employee and a Cree woman; educated in Montreal, then worked as a clerk for the NWC and the Hudson's Bay Company; retired to Grantown, on the White Horse Plain, where he farmed and served as a magistrate; wrote rousing songs about his work, daily life and major Metis events; best known work is La Chanson de la GrenouillÃ¨re, about the battle of Seven Oaks.
1852 London England - Sir John Franklin promoted to Rear-Admiral more than five years after his death in the Arctic; fate of the expedition unknown until 1854; in 1859, Francis Leopold McClintock will find two notes confirming that he died June 11, 1847.
1850 NWT - Sir Robert McClure aboard HMS Investigator completes crossing of North West Passage via Prince of Wales Strait or around Banks Island; will return by ship in 1854 after travelling on foot over the ice to Beechey Island.
1848 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the College of Bytown; forerunner of Ottawa University.
1838 Bermuda - Eight Lower Canada Patriotes exiled to Bermuda in 1838 set free.
1830 Quebec - Augustin-Norbert Morin elected to the Assembly of Lower Canada; later co-Premier of the Union.
1830 Albany, New York - New York Governor De Witt Clinton opens the $7,602,000 Erie Canal joining the Hudson River with Lake Erie; 585 km route built in eight years; allows traffic to bypass British-controlled lower St. Lawrence, but also gives Upper Canada another outlet for produce and a longer shipping season.
1792 Quebec Quebec - Mgr. Hubert complains of undesirable books - 'des mauvais livres' - circulating in Quebec.
1775 Longueuil Quebec - American invaders under Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 defeat Sir Guy Carleton in a skirmish at Longueuil.
1774 New York City - The Continental Congress writes an open letter to the inhabitants of Canada and Nova Scotia, inviting them to join the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution.
1768 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 appointed Governor of Canada; serves to June 27, 1778.
1760 London England - George III crowned King.
1756 Montereau, France - Roland-Michel Barrin, Marquis de La GalissoniÃ¨re dies; Lieutenant General of French naval forces, Commandant General of New France, who advocated a line of garrisoned forts down the Ohio Valley to hold the back English colonies along the coast; wrote a report on the potential riches of Canada in MÃ©moires des commissaires du roi (1755-57).
1678 Quebec Quebec - 'Brandy Parliament' votes 15-5 to open up liquor trade to Indians; no restrictions placed on liquor trade in New France.
1670 Quebec Quebec - Louis Gaboury jailed for eating meat during Lent.

End of C/P.

henric · Oct 26, 2013

October 27th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
710 – Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
939 – Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena.
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1827 – Bellini's third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
1870 – Marshal FranÃ§ois Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
1907 –ČernovÃ¡ massacre: Fifteen people are killed in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. This would led to protests over the treatment of minorities in Austria-Hungary.
1914 – World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
1916 – Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1930 – ratifications exchanged in London, for the first London Naval Treaty signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions go into effect immediately; further limiting the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories.
1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1944 – World War II: German forces capture BanskÃ¡ Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
1948 – LÃ©opold SÃ©dar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
1953 – British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'Ã©tat by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1961 – Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1973 – The CaÃ±on City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
1988 – Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.
1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1995 PM ADDRESSES MONSTER REFERENDUM RALLY
Montreal Quebec - Jean ChrÃ©tien addresses over 40,000 people at Place du Canada in the biggest political rally in Canadian history 3 days before the Quebec Referendum; many from across Canada had arrived by bus, train, plane and car for the Unity Rally, to urge Quebec to stay in Canada. The Prime Minister had been criticized for doing nothing to stem the Oui tide after the entry of Lucien Bouchard into the fray; promises major changes to Canada.

1979
La Grande Quebec - Quebec Premier RenÃ© LÃ©vesque flips a switch to start LG-227, the first generator of the LG-2 (La Grande River) second dam, now called the Barrage Robert-Bourassa; the $15.1 billion James Bay power project is the world's second largest power producer.

In Other Events....

1995 Montreal Quebec - Jim Beattie named new General Manager of the Montreal Expos.
1995 Canada - Canadian banks all but shut down Canada's $30-billion-a-day foreign exchange market as business dries up ahead of the Quebec referendum.
1994 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Institute for Aerospace Studies; l'Ecole des MÃ©tiers de l'AÃ©rospatiale.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Chief of Defence Staff John de Chastelain says the Canadian Forces will comply with Federal Court of Canada ruling that banning gays from military contravenes Charter of Rights.
1987 New York City - Toronto rock singer/composer Robbie Robertson, former of The Band, releases his solo 'Robbie Robertson' album.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Expos' Buck Rodgers named baseball Manager of the year in the National League.
1985 Montreal Quebec - CÃ©line Dion wins five FELIX awards at the 7th ADISQ gala.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Celebrations mark the 25th anniversary of Jean Drapeau's Parti Civique de MontrÃ©al.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre-Elliott Trudeau leaves on a peace mission to other capitals.
1980 La Grande, Quebec - Second generator of the LG-2 (La Grande River) Barrage Robert-Bourassa goes into operation.
1977 Sherbrooke Quebec - Charles Marion released by kidnappers after payment of $50,000 ransom; credit union loans manager held captive for 82 days; Canada's longest kidnapping-for-ransom.
1972 Victoria BC - British Columbia to provide $200 per month to handicapped and old age pensioners.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Start of bitter strike at Montreal daily newspaper La Presse.
1968 Mexico City - Close of 19th Summer Olympic games in Mexico; Canadians take home 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).
1967 Montreal Quebec - Expo 67 world's fair closes its doors after playing host to 40,300,000 visitors.
1965 United Nations, New York - Canada increases grants to UN High Commission for Refugees to $350,000; Canada second largest contributor.
1960 Quebec Quebec - Quebec signs agreement with Ottawa to build Quebec section of the Trans-Canada Highway.
1957 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens Captain Maurice Richard 1921- scores his 500th career NHL goal, in his 863rd game; will reach a career high and NHL record 544 before being forced out of the game with a severed achilles tendon in 1960.
1952 Montreal Quebec - Bus service replaces streetcars on Boulevard St-Laurent.
1951 London, Ontario - Radiation treatment for cancer used in Canada for the first time; the so-called Cobalt Bomb.
1947 Quebec Quebec - Lucien Borne elected Mayor of Quebec for the 5th time.
1943 Italy - Canadian troops from Scotland raise Army in Italy to corps strength.
1941 Vancouver BC - Canadian Army sends two infantry battalions of 1,975 men to Hong Kong to reinforce garrison.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Third Victory Loan a success.
1918 Foret de Mormal, France - Royal Flying Corps Major William George 'Billy' Barker 1894-1930, from Dauphin, Manitoba, wins the Victoria Cross for shooting down a German Rumpler two-seater and three Fokker D VII fighters though wounded three times and while fainting twice from the pain; crash-lands his plane behind British lines in the Mormal forest.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Montreal bookseller/stationer J.-B. Rolland appointed to the Senate.
1874 Maitland Nova Scotia - Launching of `William D. Lawrence' at Maitland; largest wooden ship ever built in Atlantic Canada.
1878 Drummondville Quebec - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 loses his seat in the House of Commons by 29 votes; later elected in a by-election in Quebec East Nov. 28.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 moves vote of extreme censure against government over 'Pacific Scandal'; after Royal Commission reports.
1871 Montreal Quebec - Strongman David MacDonald wins a competition by lifting 1,600 lbs (725 kilos), but the exertion kills him.
1856 Toronto Ontario - First Grand Trunk Railway passenger train reaches Toronto from Montreal as final Brockville to Oshawa section complete.
1854 Baptiste Creek, Ontario - Great Western Railway express train hits a gravel train between Chatham and Windsor; 52 killed, 48 injured in Canada's first major rail accident.
1853 Sherbrooke Quebec - City of Sherbrooke donates a Canadian/American flag to be flown on the boundary; one side has the Stars and Stripes, the other the British Cross of St. George.
1851 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine 1807-1864 retires as Solicitor General of Canada East; appointed Chief Justice 1853.
1835 Quebec Quebec - Opening of second session of fifteenth Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until March 21 1836; legislates on gas lighting in Montreal; the founding of normal schools (teachers colleges).
1822 Quebec Quebec - Lower Canada doctors petition Governor to establish a school of medicine.
1812 Manitoba - Second party of Selkirk settlers arrives at Red River.
1689 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 returns to Quebec; his second mandate as Governor.
1678 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Parish of Montreal.
1667 Quebec - New France has 4,312 inhabitants.
1662 Tadoussac Quebec - Sieur des Monts and Pierre Boucher arrive at Tadoussac with 100 soldiers.
1642 Sillery Quebec - Jean Nicollet [Nicolet] de Belleborne c1598-1642, interpreter, explorer, drowns in the St. Lawrence opposite Sillery while returning to Trois-RiviÃ¨res to save an Iroquois prisoner the Algonkians wanted to torture. Nicollet was sent by Champlain to live with the Indians and learn their languages, and spent two years with the Algonquins on Allumette Island, and with the Nipissing on the Upper Ottawa and Lake Huron from 1620-1629; his search for the Western Sea for the Company of 100 Associates took him to Green Bay on Lake Michigan, and the Fox and Illinois rivers, where he made a treaty with the Winnebago people; first European to explore the American Northwest.
1629 Quebec Quebec - Jesuit and Recollet friars returned to France by the Kirke brothers, who occupy Quebec until 1632.

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henric · Oct 27, 2013

October 28th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

97 – Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
312 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor.
456 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (Portugal), churches are burnt to the ground.
969 – Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes seizes part of Antioch's fortifications. The capture of the city from the Arabs is completed three days later, when reinforcements under Peter Phokas arrive.
1061 – Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about the election of bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.
1344 – The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders.
1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming Dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, is completed.
1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
1531 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
1538 – The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo TomÃ¡s de Aquino, is established.
1628 – The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
1834 – The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and MatarÃ³ – is opened.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, PathÃ©tique, receives its premiÃ¨re performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
1904 – Panama and Uruguay establishes diplomatic links.
1915 – Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
1918 – A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
1922 – March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
1928 – Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II.
1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
1948 – Swiss chemist Paul MÃ¼ller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
1958 – John XXIII, is elected Pope.
1962 – End of Cuban missile crisis: Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
1965 – Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.
1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
1982 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
1990 – The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history.
1995 – 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
1998 – An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
2006 – A group of ferocious activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists.
2007 – Cristina FernÃ¡ndez de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1864 PROVINCES DRAFT BLUEPRINT FOR UNION
Quebec Quebec - Quebec Conference adjourns with a celebratory banquet after weeks of discussion and debate. The delegates from Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and PEI summarize proceedings in a blueprint for Confederation called Seventy-Two Resolutions (Quebec Resolutions), which are sent to the British Parliament and the provincial legislatures for approval; it will take two more years before the Confederation proposal is approved.

In Other Events....

1997 Nashville Tennessee - Shania Twain's single 'Love Gets Me Every Time' certified Gold.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports more children studying French; 2 million anglophones; plus 300,000 in immersion courses.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Tim Wallach of the Expos named National League Player of the Year.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- unveils the National Energy Program (NEP) in the new federal budget; intended to provide oil self-sufficiency and greater Canadian ownership; grants to encourage drilling in remote areas, new PIP, PGRT and export taxes, expanded role for Petro-Canada.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- confirms to the House of Commons that the RCMP entered a Montreal office in 1973 without a warrant to copy the membership lists of the Parti QuÃ©bÃ©cois.
1977 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young releases his 'Decade' album.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Luc PÃ©pin 1924- chairs first Anti-Inflation Board meeting in Ottawa.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Secretariat wins his final race by 6 1/2 lengths in the Canadian International Stakes at Toronto's Woodbine.
1971 Newfoundland - Frank Duff Moores 1933- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory in Newfoundland election; won 21 seats to 20 for Smallwood's Liberals; New Labrador Party wins 1.
1969 New York City - Winnipeg rock group Guess Who's single 'Laughing' certified Gold.
1968 Mexico City - Jim Day 1946-, Jim Elder 1934- and Tom Gayford 1928- of the Canadian Equestrian Team win Canada's only gold medal at the Olympic Games in Mexico City.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Start of federal-provincial Premiers' conference on fiscal matters.
1960 Toronto Ontario - Garfield Weston 1898-1978 donates $1 million to Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto; grocery magnate, head of Loblaws.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 starts tour of European and Commonwealth countries until December 19.
1957 Montreal Quebec - Sarto Fournier elected Mayor of Montreal.
1955 Lauzon Quebec - Fire destroys shipyards at Lauzon.
1954 Vancouver BC - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 arrives in Vancouver on the last voyage of the RCMP patrol vessel 'St. Roch'; the ship that circumnavigated North America will be put in a museum.
1953 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg Blue Bomber Bud Grant intercepts 5 passes for a CFL record.
1942 Kluane Lake Yukon - Canadian Health Minister Ian Mackenzie and Alaska Secretary E.L. Bartlett cut a ribbon to open the Alcan Military Highway, today known as the Alaska Highway. The 2575 km road, from Dawson Creek, BC to Fairbanks Alaska, was built to move supplies and munitions rapidly north in case of Japanese invasion.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Second Victory Loan for $300 million raises $660 million.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - The War Cabinet orders the registration of all 'alien enemies,' specifically Germans and Austrians; provides for establishment of 'concentration camps' to house internees and their families in exchange for work such as clearing bush and cutting lumber in the national parks.
1910 Hamilton Ontario - Bob Simpson of the Hamilton Tigers kicks a record 11 singles in a Canadian football game.
1900 Paris France - Paris Olympiad closes after 5 months of games; Canada did not send an official team, but George Orton, from Hamilton, Ontario, wins a Gold Medal in the Steeplechase.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that the Manitoba Separate Schools Act is unconstitutional; abolished separate schools.
1889 Vancouver BC - Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver; named after the Governor General.
1887 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier HonorÃ© Mercier 1840-1894 closes first Interprovincial Premiers Conference: the five premiers adopt 21 resolutions for free trade with the US and other reforms; John A. Macdonald refuses to attend.
1851 Kingston Ontario - Hincks-Morin Ministry takes office; Francis Hincks Inspector-General of Canada West (Ontario); Augustin-Norbert Morin Provincial Secretary of Canada East (Quebec).
1843 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the order of the Soeurs des SS Noms de JÃ©sus et Marie.
1824 Montreal Quebec - First classes begin at Montreal Medical Institute, Canada's first medical school.
1818 Toronto Ontario - Mississaugas cede 263,000 hectares in Wellington, Dufferin, Peel and Halton Counties; 650,000 acres.
1813 Charlottetown PEI - Sancho Byers hanged for stealing a loaf of bread and a pound of butter; poor Charlottetown black.
1790 Madrid Spain - Nootka Sound Convention signed in Madrid; Spain surrenders exclusive rights on Pacific coast.
1741 Quebec Quebec - Fish glue first made in Quebec.
1688 Montreal Quebec - Charon brothers receive land at Montreal for a hospital.
1666 Belleville Ontario - FranÃ§ois de Salignac de La Mothe-FÃ©nÃ©lon 1641-1679 founds mission for the Seneca and Cayuga at KentÃ© on the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario; with Father Claude TrouvÃ© 1644-1704.

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henric · Oct 28, 2013

October 29th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

312 – Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria.
1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic Church.
1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
1422 – Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France though he isn't officially crowned king until 1429.
1467 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats LiÃ¨ge.
1611 – Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1658 – Battle of the Sound.
1665 – Battle of Ambuila, in which Portuguese forces defeat the forces of the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitated king AntÃ³nio I of Kongo, also called Nvita a Nkanga.
1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1863 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1921 – Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in the United States of America.
1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1922 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1941 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
1942 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
1944 – The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
1945 – GetÃºlio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1948 – Safsaf massacre.
1953 – BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. Pianist William Kapell is among the 19 killed.
1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 – The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1957 – Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1961 – Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1967 – London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
1967 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1971 – In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
1972 – The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
1997 – Anton Lavey, founder of the Church of Satan, dies in San Francisco of pulmonary edema
1998 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of STS-95 space shuttle mission.
1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
1998 – The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
1999 – A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2004 – The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2005 – Bombings in Delhi kill more than 60.
2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1929 CANADIAN EXCHANGES FOLLOW WALL STREET SOUTH
Canada - Montreal and Toronto Stock Exchange share prices plummet in their worst drop ever, as the New York market crash spreads quickly around the Globe. The Calgary Stock Exchange closes for a few hours, but reopens when traders think the situation is only temporary. World governments quickly impose tariffs to protect their native industries from dumping, but this causes a collapse in world trade and leads to the Great Depression.

1925
Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 wins only 99 seats in the 15th Canadian federal general election, but stays in power with the support of 24 Progressives and 6 Labour MPs. Arthur Meighen's Conservatives, who won 116 seats, are left out in the cold, as the Progressives back King when he promises to cut tariffs and bring in old age pensions.

In Other Events....

1993 New York City - CÃ©line Dion's album, 'Colour Of My Love' released.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Maurice Strong gets job as Chairman of Ontario Hydro, replacing Marc Eliesen; Secretary-General of UN Earth Summit in Brazil, ex head of Petro-Canada.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - StatsCan reports Canada spends 9.2% of GNP on health care - US$1,837 per capita; the USA spends 12.4% - $2,566 per capita; Canadians healthier than Americans, and spend less on health care.
1988 Thunder Bay, Ontario - Isabelle Brasseur & Lloyd Eisler win the gold in Pairs at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Thunder Bay.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy suspended for 8 games for slashing.
1987 Quebec - Roland Morin elected leader of NPD-QuÃ©bec by provincial New Democrats.
1986 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta government cuts oil royalties by $1 billion: up to 12% on existing production.
1984 New York City - Kingston-born rocker Bryan Adams' album 'Reckless' released.
1983 New York City - Kingston-born rocker Bryan Adams' 'This Time' peaks at #24 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1980 Calgary Alberta - Anik III used to publish Globe & Mail edition in Calgary.
1975 Vancouver BC - Vancouver has one of its greatest one day October rainfalls, as 60.7 mm falls.
1973 Quebec - Robert Bourassa reelected Premier of Quebec, with 102 seats for his Quebec Liberal Party, 6 for the Parti quÃ©bÃ©cois, and 2 CrÃ©dit social; no Union nationale members are elected. Lise Bacon wins a seat for the PQ
1971 Montreal Quebec - Riot erupts during protest against lockout and strike at Montreal newspaper La Presse; leaves 160 people injured.
1971 Quebec Quebec - English-language Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph decides to publish weekly instead of daily.
1970 Quebec Quebec - Jean Cournoyer replaces Pierre Laporte as Quebec Labour Minister after Laporte's murder by the FLQ.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Dr. Gaston Tremblay quits the Union nationale to sit as an independent member of the Quebec National Assembly.
1967 Montreal Quebec - Expo '67 closes in Montreal, after hosting 50,306,648 visitors over six months; opened April 27.
1965 Montreal Quebec - The Rolling Stones open their third North American tour with a concert in Montreal.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Canadian Mutual Funds Association; open-end Canadian funds eligible; now 98% of the industry.
1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Rescue workers in Springhill find 12 more coal miners alive after underground coal gas explosion and rock surge in the Number Two Cumberland mine; 7 more will be brought out on Nov. 1, but 74 die in the deepest coal mine in North America; last body recovered Nov. 6 from the 3,960 metre depth.
1955 Montreal Quebec - HMCS 'St. Laurent' commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy; first of series of 14 new destroyer escorts.
1952 Washington DC - International Joint Commission approves joint Canada-United States application for permission to develop 2.2-million horsepower of electric energy in the international rapids of St. Lawrence River.
1945 Montreal Quebec - Les Fusiliers du Mont-Royal return home from service in Europe during World War II.
1942 Kluane Lake Yukon - First traffic rolls over the 2,575 km Alcan Military Highway from Dawson Creek, BC to Fairbanks Alaska, built to move supplies and munitions rapidly north in case of Japanese invasion.
1936 Regina Saskatchewan - John Diefenbaker 1895-1979 chosen leader of the Saskatchewan Conservative Party; Dief's party will go seatless in the 1938 election; later Canada's 13th Prime Minister.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of Dominion Drama Festival of amateur and semi-professional theatre groups; first competition takes place in April, 1933.
1930 Toronto Ontario - Oshawa plays Toronto Balmy Beach in first football game in eastern Canada played under floodlights.
1928 Newfoundland - Richard Anderson Squires 1880-1940 leads Liberals to victory in provincial election.
1925 Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 loses his own seat in York North; a safe seat will be found at Prince Albert.
1925 Canada - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 wins 116 seats in election; but King holds onto power with Progressive and Labour support; re-elected in his own seat.
1925 Canada - Henri Bourassa reelected, but as an Independent, not a Liberal.
1925 Alliston Ontario - Earl Rowe 1894-1984 elected for the Conservatives; MP for Dufferin-Simcoe for 37 years, 30 days; Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 1963-1968.
1923 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Bluenose defeats the American schooner Columbia in an international boat race.
1923 Nelson BC - Peter 'The Lordly' Verigin killed by a bomb planted in the railroad coach in which he was traveling; leader of Doukhobors settling in western Canada.
1923 Calgary Alberta - United Farmers of Alberta open the head office of the Alberta Wheat Pool; the first grain pool in North America; the Pool starts operations as an agricultural cooperative to try and stabilize prices, which had dropped severely in the past few years; has 16 elevator lines, 25,719 members and over 1 million hectares under contract.
1914 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Cavalry School holds first exercises as a civil guard.
1910 Hamilton Ontario - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks a record 11 singles in a rugby football game.
1898 St-Jean-de-Dieu, Quebec - St-Jean-de-Dieu incorporated.
1864 Quebec Quebec - Delegates at Quebec Conference leave after passage of 72 Resolutions; many travel to Ottawa for a reception.
1808 Quebec Quebec - Performance of MoliÃ¨re's play 'L'Avare' at Quebec.
1764 Quebec Quebec - Meeting of 94 merchants of Quebec to draft a petition to Britain complaining that certain Britons want to impose on the colony a system of government that is not acceptable to the inhabitants.
1634 Ontario - Jesuit missionary Jean de BrÃ©beuf travels to the PÃ©tun nation; baptizes a 40 year old Native man.
1629 Gravesend England - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 freed from the fortress at Gravesend where he had been brought by the Kirkes; urged return of New France to France, without success.

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henric · Oct 29, 2013

October 30th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.
1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
1226 – Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forces Ly Hue Tong, the last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of RÃo Salado.
1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.
1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.
1657 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.
1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
1863 – Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 – Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.
1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".
1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.
1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.
1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.
1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.
1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
1961 – Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1965 – Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.
1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
1991 – The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
1993 – The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary, carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are murdered and thirteen wounded.
2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1995 QUEBEC SAYS NO AGAIN
Quebec Quebec - Premier Jacques Parizeau narrowly loses Quebec Referendum on sovereignty, even with the aid of Lucien Bouchard. In a televised address, he denounces money and the "ethnic vote" as reasons for his defeat. The tally: Non 2,361,521 (50.6%), Oui 2,308,028 (49.4%); 93.2% of eligible voters go to the polls; about 60% of francophones vote Yes, about 90% of anglophones and allophones vote No.

1972
Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- wins federal election 109 seats to 107 for the PCs under Robert Stanfield; 31 NDP; 15 Social Credit; 2 Independent; gets 45.5% of popular vote. Among the new Members are Jeanne SauvÃ© (Montreal), later Speaker and Governor General; Trevor Morgan (St. Catharines), Canada's first blind MP; and, Sean O'Sullivan, age 20 (Hamilton-Wentworth), Canada's youngest Member of Parliament ever; he resigned in 1977 to become a Priest.

In Other Events....

1997 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules 7-2 that nothing in Canadian law permits the courts to force a woman to take drug treatment to save the fetus she is carrying; after Winnipeg Social Services tried to detain a woman in a detox centre; lawyer Martha Jackman states that the law cannot be changed without infringing on the womens' rights.
1996 New York City - Shania Twain's album 'Shania Twain' certified Gold.
1996 Smith Falls, Ontario - Ottawa Valley RaiLink takes over former CP line between Smiths Falls to Cartier, Ontario; also Mattawa to Temiskaming branch in Quebec.
1995 Toronto Ontario - K Mart Corp. says its K Mart Canada Ltd. unit will be sold within 30 days; A month later, K mart says talks have failed; it will keep its 127 Canadian stores.
1992 Iqaluit NWT - Tom Siddon signs Accord with Inuit; Ottawa to finance 2.2 m sq km Eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut; Inuit to get clear title to 350,000 sq km, $1.15 b grants over 14 years.
1991 Ellesmere Island, NWT - Canadian Forces Hercules C-130 crashes on Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic while on a routine supply mission; 5 of the 13 passengers die from injuries or hypothermia before rescuers can reach them over 33 hours later.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Judith Maxwell reports that Quebec sovereignty will cost province between 1.4 and 3.5% of lost output; head of the Economic Council of Canada.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Earle McLaughlin dies at age 76; former Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada, Chancellor of Concordia University.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Craig Russell dies of AIDS at age 42; female impersonator, star of movie 'Outrageous'.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Canadair wins Canadian Forces F-18 fighter maintenance contract; over Winnipeg.
1984 New York City - Ottawa's Dan Ackroyd, with John Belushi, aka The Blues Brothers, hit the $2 million sales mark with their album 'Briefcase Full of Blues'.
1981 Quebec - Quebec Ministry of Education to modify language charter; children of families in Quebec for less than 3 years can choose school.
1978 New York City - Anne Murray's 'You Needed Me' reaches #1 on the Billboard singles chart.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Heather Ann Phyllis resigns from RCMP to get married; first woman ever sworn in by the Mounted Police.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- attends special one-day conference on inflation in Ottawa with the ten provincial Premiers.
1971 Toronto Ontario - John Bassett 1915- closes 95-year old 'Toronto Telegram' because of mounting losses; Canada's fourth largest newspaper first published April 18, 1876 as the Evening Telegram; many employees go on to start the Toronto Sun tabloid.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Montreal police and firemen sign new contract with City of Montreal.
1968 Los Angeles, California - Franks Sinatra records single 'My Way', with lyrics by Ottawa native Paul Anka; music from French song, 'Comme d'Habitude'.
1958 Springhill Nova Scotia - Springhill coal mine rescue workers bring 12 more men out.
1957 Alberta - Albertans vote for greater variety of liquor outlets.
1956 Nova Scotia - Robert Lorne Stanfield 1914- wins Nova Scotia election for Conservatives.
1952 Korea - 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia' s Canadian Light Infantry arrives in Korea; to replace 1st Battalion.
1945 Brooklyn, New York - Dodger Manager Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson to a contract with Montreal Royals of the International League for 1946; black pitcher John Wright also signs.
1943 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs rookie Gus Bodnar scores 15 seconds into his first NHL game as the Leafs beat the New York Rangers 5-2; will win Calder Trophy as rookie of the year.
1942 North Atlantic - RCAF planes of Eastern Air Command destroy two German U-Boats in one day.
1937 Ste-Catherine Quebec - Ste-Catherine incorporated.
1935 Quebec Quebec - Creation of the Quebec Power Commission/ Commission d'ElectricitÃ© du QuÃ©bec.
1929 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia ends prohibition in favour of government control of liquor.
1922 Toronto Ontario - First interprovincial conference of ministers of education.
1920 Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto medical researcher Frederick Banting scribbles the research note that leads to his team's discovery of insulin: 'Tie pancreas ducts of dogs. Wait six or eight weeks. Remove and extract.'
1918 Europe - Cease fire in World War I; armistice follows on November 11.
1917 Canada - Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges adopt minimum pricing system to drive out penny stocks to the curb exchanges.
1915 Bexley Heath, England - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 dies at Bexley Heath, Kent; born Amherst, Nova Scotia July 02, 1821; MD University of Edinburgh 1843; President, Canadian Medical Association 1867-1870; Premier of Nova Scotia 1864-1867; Participant at Charlottetown 1864, Quebec 1864, and London 1866 conferences; Father of Confederation 1867; High Commissioner to the United Kingdom 1884-1887, 1888-1896; Leader of the Opposition 1896-1901; Canada's 6th Prime Minister, May 1 to July 8, 1896.
1905 Montreal Quebec - Ã‰ienne Desmarteau 1873-1905 policeman, strongman, dies of typhoid fever; born at Boucherville, Quebec, Feb. 04, 1873. Desmarteau competed annually in tug-of-war and hammer throw at police games in Montreal, Toronto, New York and Boston; 1902 won world heavy-weight and junior world hammer-throwing championships; 1904, sponsored by the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, competed in the 1904 Olympic Games at St. Louis and brought home the gold medal in the 56 pound throw.
1899 Quebec Quebec - William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 sails from Quebec with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, with 57 officers and 1,224 men, to South Africa; first Canadian Contingent to join British forces in the Boer War.
1894 Montreal Quebec - HonorÃ© Mercier 1840-1894 dies in Montreal; founder of the Parti national 1871; MP 1872-1874; leader of the Liberal party of Quebec 1883; Premier of Quebec 1887-1891; dismissed by lieutenant governor for alleged misuse of public funds but acquitted.
1893 Montreal Quebec - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 dies at age 72; Dean of Law, McGill 1855-1880; Mayor of Montreal 1887-1888; Senator and Leader of the Government in the Senate 1887-1893; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister 1891-92; first to lead the country from the Senate.
1869 Montreal Quebec - Georges-Ã‰douard Desbarats 1838-1893 publishes first issue of the Canadian Illustrated News in Montreal; makes the world's first use of half-tone photo reproduction technique in a newspaper.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - First federal-provincial agreement on immigration.
1869 Pembina Manitoba - William McDougall refused entry into Red River by Metis; his aide, D. R. Cameron, gets to St. Norbert but turned back; Canada's Governor designate.
1866 Montreal Quebec - Large banquet held in Montreal to honour George-Etienne Cartier.
1846 Hamilton Ontario - Great Western Railway authorized to extend a line from Hamilton into Toronto.
1816 Montreal Quebec - William Coltman & John Fletcher open commission of enquiry to mediate between Lord Selkirk, the Hudson's Bay Company and the Norwesters.
1811 Quebec Quebec - One Mathieu receives 39 lashes of a whip for stealing.
1759 Montreal Quebec - First Spanish trading ship arrives at Montreal.
1727 Quebec - First timber business starts in New France; export of wood to France follows.
1692 Quebec Quebec - Founding of the HÃ´pital GÃ©nÃ©ral de QuÃ©bec.
1688 Montreal Quebec - First lottery held at Montreal.
1603 Paris France - Pierre Du Gua de Monts named Viceroy of Acadia.

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henric · Oct 30, 2013

October 31st 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.
1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
1587 – Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
1822 – Emperor AgustÃn de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Mexican Empire.
1861 – American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.
1863 – The Maori Wars resumes as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.
1864 – Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
1876 – A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States.
1913 – The Indianapolis Street Car Strike and subsequent riot begins.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Beersheba – "last successful cavalry charge in history".
1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Australia.
1924 – World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Britain ends – the United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion.
1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
1943 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft.
1944 – Dr. jur. Erich GÃ¶stl, a member of the Waffen SS, is awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1961 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
1963 – An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The explosion also injures 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand is blamed.
1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
1973 – Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard.
1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and nearly 10,000 Sikhs are killed.
1998 – Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
1999 – Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 217 people on board.
2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.
2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.
2003 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.
2011 – The global population of humans reached seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1908 CANUCKS WIN LAST GOLD MEDAL IN LACROSSE
London England - The 4th modern Olympiad ends in London. Canada's first true national Olympic team of 84 athletes attended. Canada's Gold Medals were in Lacrosse (a game that has not been recognized since), the 200 Metre Race (Robert Kerr) and Shooting (Walter Ewing).

1869
Montreal Quebec - Georges-Ã‰douard Desbarats 1838-1893 publishes the premiere issue of his 'Canadian Illustrated News'; world's first periodical to use the half-tone technique to reproduce a photograph.

In Other Events....

1995 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau announces his resignation as Quebec Premier, leader of the Parti quÃ©bÃ©cois and MNA for L'Assomption after his Yes side narrowly loses the Quebec referendum; his influence had been eclipsed by the entry of Lucien Bouchard into the sovereigntist ranks.
1995 Canada - Canada's dollar and stock exchanges soar while interest rates fall after the No side narrowly wins the Quebec referendum.
1982 Vatican City - Pope John Paul II canonizes Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700, founder of the CongrÃ©gation de Notre-Dame de MontrÃ©al as Canada's first woman Saint; cites her heroism and concern for family life; arrived in Quebec 1653 and opened her first school for girls in a Montreal stable in 1658.
1977 Montreal Quebec - James Bay Land Claims Agreement signed into law; agreement with New Quebec Cree and Inuit transfers aboriginal rights and lands in return for $225 million, hunting and fishing rights and greater self-government; paves way for construction of James Bay Hydroelectric Project, which will flood ancestral land; Canada's first modern First Nations treaty.
1972 Toronto Ontario - Bill Durnan 1915-1972 dies; goaltender, born at Toronto Jan 22, 1915; Durnan joined the Montreal Canadiens in 1943 at age 29, after years in the minors; won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goalie 6 times out of his 7 years, led the Canadiens to 2 Stanley Cups; recorded 4 consecutive shutouts during the 1948-1949 season; played 309 minutes and 21 consecutive seconds (over 5 games) without allowing a goal; quit during the 1950 playoffs suffering from nausea and insomnia; career goals against average 2.36.
1970 New York City - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Our House' peaks at #30 on the Billboard pop singles chart..
1969 Quebec Quebec - Le Front commun du QuÃ©bec franÃ§ais holds a demonstration outside the Quebec parliament buildings; clash with police.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Canadian National and Canadian Pacific terminate their passenger pool train arrangement.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Canadian National introduces Rapido passenger service to Toronto; extended to Quebec in 1966.
1962 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - Opening of new bridge across St. Mary's River to Michigan.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Founding of a secret revolutionary group in Montreal called the Front de libÃ©ration de QuÃ©bec (FLQ).
1960 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau sworn in as Mayor of Montreal after election Oct. 24.
1950 Thunder Bay, Ontario - Completion of 1,770 km oil pipeline from Edmonton to Lake Superior.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Inauguration of the faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
1930 Ahuntsic Quebec - Inauguration of the Ahuntsic Bridge.
1926 Detroit Michigan - Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini dies at age 52 of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix; on Oct. 21, at the Princess Theatre in Montreal, he had invited a McGill student to punch him hard in the stomach. The young man complied before Houdini has a chance to brace himself, and the blow led to his death.
1920 Levis Quebec - Alphonse Desjardins 1854-1920, dies; journalist, founder of the Caisse populaire, was born at LÃ©vis Nov. 05, 1854. After studying European co-op models, Desjardins founded the first Caisse populaire, or people's bank, in LÃ©vis Dec. 06, 1900, as a way of improving the financial lot of the Quebec worker, and slow the exodus to the US; with support from the Roman Catholic Church, he expanded the concept through Quebec and Canada, founding 205 branches before he was forced to retire due to ill health in 1916; in 1913, the institutions were renamed 'les Caisses populaires Desjardins'. Today's Caisse is an economic powerhouse in Quebec..
1919 Fredericton, New Brunswick - Werner Horn 1888-1931 sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to blow up St. Croix River bridge in 1915; organized by German spy ring in US.
1918 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta government prohibits all public meetings of seven persons or more, as influenza (Spanish Flu) epidemic sweeps the province; churches, schools and theatres close.
1902 Vancouver BC - Stanford Fleming sends first message to open Pacific Cable from Vancouver to Brisbane, Australia; 44 years after translatlantic cable.
1893 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Redpath Library at McGill University.
1888 Regina Saskatchewan - First Legislative Assembly of NWT meets at Regina.
1879 Quebec Quebec - J.-Adolphe Chapleau (Conservative) replaces Joly de LotbiniÃ¨re as Premier of Quebec.
1874 Quebec Quebec - First group of Mennonites from Russia arrive in Quebec on the way to settle in Manitoba.
1873 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Opening of new International Bridge over Niagara River.
1869 Pembina Manitoba - Canada's Governor designate William McDougall receives letter signed by the members of the National Committee of the Metis of Red River, ordering him not to enter the territory without the permission of the Committee; Metis attempt to force Canada to negotiate entry into Confederation.
1832 Toronto Ontario - Opening of third session of eleventh Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until Feb. 13, 1833; Mackenzie expelled for a third time.
1809 Montreal Quebec - John Molson 1764-1836 sends steamboat 'Accomodation' on maiden voyage; first steamboat in Canada makes seven day round trip to Quebec and back.
1780 Lake Ontario - 34 men of 34th Regiment, plus crew of 16 gun schooner Ontario lost in storm.
1765 Quebec Quebec - La Gazette de QuÃ©bec newspaper stops publication.
1763 Detroit Michigan - Pontiac capitulates after British defeat Indians at Bushy Run, and after the deaths of several chiefs and a string of other losses.
1760 Quebec Quebec - James Murray establishes military courts in Quebec.
1610 James Bay, Quebec - Henry Hudson on the Discovery orders Prickett and Staffe ashore to find a suitable place for winter at the south-east corner of James Bay; the following day the crew haul the ship aground and start building winter quarters.
1534 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier authorized to provision and arm 2 ships to return to North America in the spring; he will eventually raise Â£3,000, and equip 3 ships with 110 men for the return trip May 19, 1535.

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henric · Oct 31, 2013

November 1st 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England.
1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
1214 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
1683 – The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
1755 – Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1800 – US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.
1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1861 – American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.
1896 – A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1897 – The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris StÃ¼rmer government.
1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1918 – Banat Republic is founded.
1920 – American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.
1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1942 – Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 4 with an American victory.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
1945 – Australia joins the United Nations.
1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68–66.
1946 – Karol Wojtyla-the future Pope John Paul II-is ordained to the priesthood by Adam Sapieha.
1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
1950 – Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
1951 – Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
1953 – Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.
1954 – The Front de LibÃ©ration Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
1956 – In India, Kanyakumari district was joined to Tamilnadu state from Kerala.
1956 – Springhill Mining Disaster, Springhill, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
1959 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
1961 – 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1963 – The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins
1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
1973 – Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1993 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
2000 – Serbia joins the United Nations.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1939 TCA STARTS CROSS-CANADA FLIGHTS
Montreal Quebec - Trans-Canada Air Lines starts daily coast-to-coast flights between Montreal and Vancouver.

1952
Montreal Quebec - Foster Hewitt calls the play-by play on CBLT-TV, Toronto as the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 in an NHL game; this is Canada's' first English-language hockey telecast. Here is Hewitt before a radio mike in the late 1930s.

In Other Events...

1995 Vancouver BC - CP Rail starts commuter service between Vancouver and Mission, BC.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Boulevard St-Cyrille renamed Boulevard RenÃ©-LÃ©vesque.
1992 Montreal Quebec - McGill University named best in Canada by Maclean's Magazine.
1992 Cape Canaveral Florida - Steve Maclean 1953- lands safely at Kennedy Space Center on board Shuttle Columbia after 10 day STS-52 mission; laser physicist from Ottawa tested Canadarm and space station construction jobs, plus Canada's Advanced Space Vision System.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces $6 million, 2 year study for high speed train corridor between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec City; estimated cost $7 billion shared by Ottawa, Ontario, Quebec.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- appointed Chairman of the Commission on Canada's Future; to interview Canadians, report by July 1
1987 Montreal Quebec- RenÃ© LÃ©vesque 1922-1987 dies in Montreal; leader of the separatist Parti QuÃ©bÃ©cois and former Premier of Quebec (1976-1985); started in journalism as war correspondent with US forces during World War II; joined Radio-Canada in 1946 as radio and TV reporter; hosted popular show, Point de Mire; 1960 won seat in Quebec National Assembly as Liberal; held several portfolios in Lesage government; 1967 left Liberal party and united several separatist groups to form Parti Quebecois; 1976 led PQ to power; 1980 lost referendum on sovereignty; 1985 gave up leadership of PQ.
1983 BC - BC Government Employees Union workers start 13-day strike to protest pay and job restraint.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to reduce immigration by about 25% in 1983, to 105,000-110,000 immigrants.
1979 Toronto Ontario - 'Treasures of King Tutankhamen' exhibition opens at Art Gallery of Ontario, until Dec. 31; 750,000 people attend
1979 Quebec - Quebec tables White Paper 'Quebec-Canada: A New Deal,' proposing a less radical 'sovereignty-association' option; Quebec to be politically independent while keeping benefits of economic union
1971 Toronto Ontario - Douglas Creighton starts publishing daily tabloid 'The Toronto Sun' with other unemployed Telegram staffers; first issue has 48 pages
1970 Quebec - Quebec brings in universal health insurance plan.
1966 Thompson Manitoba - International Nickel to spend $100 million to double production of nickel at Thompson.
1958 Springhill Nova Scotia - Coal mine rescue workers bring 7 more men out; in all, 74 miners die underground in the Number Two Cumberland mine, the deepest coal workings in North America; last body recovered Nov. 6 from the 3,960 metre depth.
1957 Picton Ontario - Bob Hayward pilots Miss Supertest III to a world record of 184.54 miles per hour.
1952 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Mayor Lamport debates with opponent Nathan Phillips in the first political debate on Canadian TV.
1955 India - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 opens Canada Dam in India, built with Canadian aid.
1941 Niagara Falls Ontario - Opening of the Rainbow Bridge to Niagara Falls, New York.
1927 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park shelves Regulation #17; banned French in Ontario schools past Grade 1
1924 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League awards a hockey franchise to the Boston Bruins; the NHL's first US team.
1884 Harbour Grace, Newfoundland - Prince George, later George V, drives the last spike of the Harbour Grace Railway, opening traffic on Newfoundland's first railway between St. Johns and Harbour Grace; Prince visiting the province as a midshipman aboard H.M.S. Cumberland.
1849 Quebec Quebec - Quebec streets first lit by coal gas.
1847 Toronto Ontario - Normal School (teachers college) opens at Toronto.
1838 Quebec Quebec - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 sails for England to report on the state of the Canadas; John Colborne, Baron Seaton 1778-1863 appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves until Jan. 17, 1839.
1833 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the City Bank of Montreal.
1813 Sackets Harbor, New York - American invasion of Lower Canada begins, as James Wilkinson sets out with 8,000 men from Sackets Harbor to attack Canada down the St. Lawrence; Wade Hampton gathers 4,200 at Lake Champlain to attack Montreal from the south.
1809 Montreal Quebec - John Molson's Accommodation departs on its first voyage to Quebec City; from Montreal in less than three days; North America's first regular steamship service.
1787 Windsor Nova Scotia - Charles Inglis 1734-1816 directs opening of academy at Windsor; beginning of the University of King's College; by Loyalists refugees who split from what is now Columbia University in New York; eventually moved to Halifax; now part of Dalhousie University.
1739 Trois RiviÃ¨res, Quebec - Upper furnace of the Forges de St-Maurice starts smelting operations.
1733 Trois RiviÃ¨res, Quebec - Les Forges de St-Maurice start smelting iron from bog deposits.
1696 Ferryland Newfoundland - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 marches across Avalon Peninsula to capture and burn Ferryland.
1610 James Bay, Quebec - Henry Hudson realizes it is too late to leave for England; orders Prickett and Staffe and his crew to haul the Discovery aground at the bottom of James Bay near the mouth of the Nottaway River and prepare winter quarters; they are not able to leave until June 18, 1611.

End of C/P.

henric · Nov 1, 2013

November 2nd 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khanate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
1410 – The Peace of BicÃªtre.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882.
1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.
1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1899 – The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
1920 – Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress.
1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1963 – South Vietnamese President NgÃ´ ÃÃ¬nh Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1977 – South Ockendon Windmill, a smock mill at South Ockendon, Essex, England collapsed.
1982 – Channel 4 is launched in the United Kingdom.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.
2007 – 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1971 HERZBERG WINS NOBEL PRIZE
Stockholm, Sweden - National Research Council scientist Gerhard Herzberg wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in molecular spectroscopy.

1959
New York City - Montreal Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante the first NHL goalie to wear a mask on a permanent basis; after getting hit by shot from Rangers' Andy Bathgate.

In Other Events...

1995 Mississippi USA - Jury hits Loewen Group Inc. with extraordinary US$500 million in damages in nuisance civil dispute; Burnaby, B.C., funeral services giant depicted as The Ugly Canadian.
1992 Toronto Ontario - CBC-TV scraps flagship newscast The National and The Journal, starts new 9 pm newscast, Prime Time News; after ratings lag, show moves back to 10 pm time slot in Autumn, 1994.
1992 St-Isidore, Quebec - Nanny goat in St-Isidore has six kids, makes it into the Guinness Book of Records.
1991 New York City - Canadian rock group Crash Test Dummies' 'Superman's Song' peaks at #56 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1985 New York City - Vancouver rocker Corey Hart's 'Boy In The Box' peaks at #26 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1982 Alberta - Peter Lougheed 1928- wins increased majority in provincial election; Conservatives take 75 of 79 seats.
1982 Schefferville Quebec - Iron Ore company of Canada forced to close its mine at Schefferville; due to cheaper open pit deposits elsewhere in the world.
1977 Montreal Quebec - VIA Rail orders 22 locomotives and 50 coaches of Canadian-designed LRC for from Bombardier-MLW Ltd.
1973 United Nations, New York - Canada agrees to share support role with Poland on UN Middle East peacekeeping force.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa mothballs experimental hydrofoil antisubmarine vessel 'Bras d'Or' for at least five years; due to high costs.
1970 Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec offer rewards of $75,000 for information leading to arrest of FLQ kidnappers.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces further bans on sale of weapons to South Africa.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - 23 nations attend four-day conference at Ottawa to review UN peace-keeping operations.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Tom Patterson 1920- founds National Theatre School in Montreal; Canada's first.
1957 Whitehorse Yukon Quebec - Martha Black 1866-1957 dies at age 91; born Martha Louise Munger at Chicago, Illinois Feb. 24, 1866; Black (then Martha Purdy, pregnant with her third child and abandoned by her husband) crossed the Chilkoot Pass in 1898; settled in Dawson with her brother and mined several claims; 1904 married lawyer George Black, later member of the Yukon Council, Commissioner of the Yukon Territory (1912-1918) and Conservative MP for the Yukon; to England during World War I; awarded OBE for aid to Yukon servicemen; elected fellow of Royal Geographical Society for work on Yukon flora; 1935 ran for Parliament at age 70 when husband too ill to run, becoming the second woman to sit in the House of Commons; served for five years until George recovered.
1952 Korea - Chinese launch two-day offensive against Royal Canadian Regiment in Korea.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government drops price controls on sugar and molasses, ending over five years of wartime food rationing; items rationed included butter, meat, tea, coffee, preserves, nylon and gasoline.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - James Layton J. L. Ralston 1881-1948 resigns as Minister of National Defence over issue of conscription for overseas service; McNaughton takes over with promise to get enough volunteer reinforcements.
1944 Knokke Netherlands - Canadian troops occupy Knokke.
1936 Ottawa Ontario - New Canadian Broadcasting Act creates the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; CBC replaces Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission.
1936 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Transport established.
1935 Ottawa Ontario - John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, sworn in as Governor General of Canada; will hold the post until his death in Montreal in 1940.
1933 BC - Thomas Dufferin Pattullo 1873-1956 leads Liberal Party to victory in British Columbia election; CCF form Opposition.
1925 Montreal Quebec - CPR sends first automated railcar to Winnipeg.
1916 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules Regulation #17 valid; bans French in Ontario schools past Grade 1.
1899 Ottawa Ontario - 1,281 more volunteers organized into two battalions of Mounted Rifles and artillery brigade to South Africa; second Canadian Contingent to Boer War depart in January from Halifax.
1889 Winnipeg Manitoba - Commissioner of Indian Affairs Hayter Reed announces policy of 'peasant farming' for Indian reserves in Manitoba and the North West Territories; with individual land holdings small enough for one person to farm without mechanized equipment; communal reserve farming forbidden; disastrous policy abandoned and Reed fired in 1896.
1887 Battleford Saskatchewan - First long distance telephone call made on the Prairies, from Battleford to Edmonton, 500 km away.
1885 Montreal Quebec - First CPR transcontinental passenger train leaves Montreal on the 4,653 km trip west toward Winnipeg and Port Moody, BC.
1869 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 takes over Hudson's Bay Company headquarters in Fort Garry with a force of 120 armed men; three days after the National Committee of the Metis of Red River prevented Lieutenant Governor designate William McDougall from entering the territory.
1867 Toronto Ontario - John Strachan dies; first Anglican bishop of Toronto; founder of Trinity College.
1861 London England - Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck 1819-1894 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from Nov. 28, 1861 to June 30, 1867.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Assembly of the Permanent Committee of Quebec declares solidarity with the Confederation of the Six Counties; prelude to rebellion.
1775 St-Jean, Quebec - American invaders capture Fort St. John on the Richelieu River.
1748 Quebec Quebec - Iroquois sign first Treaty of Neutrality at Quebec.
1671 Quebec Quebec - Jean Talon opens the King's Brewery, Quebec City's first brewery.

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henric · Nov 2, 2013

November 3rd 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
1333 – The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
1468 – LiÃ¨ge is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.
1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
1867 – Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
1868 – John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.
1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1918 – Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
1918 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.
1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
1930 – GetÃºlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possible fixed, plebiscite.
1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals JÃ¡n Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.
1956 – The Khan Yunis killings are perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces in Israeli-occupied Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 275 male Arabs.
1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
1978 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
1982 – The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1986 – The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
1996 – Death of Abdullah Ã‡atlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1995 RAPTORS AND GRIZZLIES MAUL OPPONENTS
Toronto/Vancouver - Toronto Raptors basketball team beats the New Jersey Nets 94-79, and Vancouver Grizzlies thump the Portland Trail Blazers 92-80 on opening night; first games for Canada's new NBA expansion teams.

1873

Selkirk Manitoba -
First 150 North West Mounted Police (NWMP) recruits sworn in at Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba after arduous overland journey from the east; training begins for their march westward in 1874; recruited by the militia from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

In Other Events...

1996 Montreal Quebec - Quebec pop diva CÃ©line Dion wins 7 FÃ©lix awards at the 18th Gala de L'ADISQ.
1996 Ottawa Ontario - Government accepts resignation of Quebec's Lieutenant Governor Jean-Louis Roux, after revelations he wore a swastika while a student.
1995 Markham Ontario - Frank Stronach takes home annual pay packet of $47.3 million (Canadian) from auto parts maker Magna International Inc., by far a Canadian record.
1991 Fredericton , New Brunswick - Allan Legere convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in the beating deaths of three women and a Catholic priest during a reign of terror in the Miramachi region after his 1989 jail break; will file a hand-written appeal few days later.
1991 San Francisco, California - Toronto rocker Neil Young reunites with Crosby, Stills & Nash before 300,000 people in a free concert in Golden Gate Park in memory of rock promoter Bill Graham; others include Grateful Dead; Joan Baez; Santana; and Journey.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - RenÃ© LÃ©vesque and seven anglophone provinces try to get a compromise agreement to permit the federal government to act with unanimity in the patriation of the BNA Act.
1981 Inuvik NWT - Dome Petroleum Ltd. finds huge new oil deposits in Beaufort Sea; about 109 km north of Mackenzie delta.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Ontario government invokes closure to end debate in Legislature, to get access to tax funds; first time since 1874.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces program to make more low and medium-cost housing available through CMHC.
1974 New York City - Canadian rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) have a #1 Billboard hit with 'You AinÃ•t Seen Nothing Yet'.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Department of External Affairs closes 3 Canadian missions in Latin America, and in Cambodia, Laos, Cyprus, and West Berlin; cost-cutting measure.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister Paul Theodore Hellyer 1923- announces disbanding of almost 60 militia units.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of second federal-provincial constitutional conference on amendment of BNA Act.
1959 Montreal Quebec - Jean-Paul Desbiens 1927- publishes the first of his FrÃ¨re Untel (Brother Anonymous) letters in Quebec newspapers, member of the Marist order of brothers and a teacher, Desbiens later published his writing in a book, Les Insolences du FrÃ¨re Untel, describing the failure of the Quebec school system; helped influence Quebec's Quiet Revolution.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Tremblay appointed Canada's Ambassador to Chile.
1957 Deep River, Ontario - National Research Unit reactor starts operation at Chalk River; one of world's most advanced nuclear reactors
1952 Chester, New York - Baker Clarence Birdseye markets his first frozen peas; learned the technique of flash freezing from Labrador Inuit.
1951 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens star Maurice Richard gets his 300th goal in his 481st NHL game.
1948 Chicago Illinois - NHL All-Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 in the second NHL All-Star Game.
1943 Halifax, Nova Scotia - US freighter 'Volunteer', carrying explosives, catches fire in Halifax harbour; courage of navy men saves city from disaster.
1941 Washington DC - US Lend-Lease Act becomes law; cash and carry provisions of Neutrality Act of 1939 changed to permit direct transfer of munitions to Allies, especially Canada and Britain.
1937 Montreal Quebec - NHL All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens 6-5 in the Howie Morenz Memorial Game, the first League All-Star game.
1930 Windsor Ontario - Opening of the auto tunnel to Detroit, the world's first vehicular tunnel from one country to another.
1918 Vienna Austria - Austria signs an armistice with the Allies, a prelude to the German surrender Nov. 11.
1908 Vatican City - Roman Catholic Church declares that it will no longer consider Canada as a country for missionary activities.
1904 Canada - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 wins landslide in Tenth Canadian federal election; re-elected with a majority of 64 seats; 138 seats to 75 for the Conservatives; Henri Bourassa one of the new MPs elected for the Liberals.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald defends himself against the Pacific Scandal charges in a 5 hour speech to parliament; he resigns two days later.
1869 Hamilton Ontario - Founding of the Hamilton Foot Ball Club; later the Hamilton Tigers; today's Tiger Cats.
1843 Montreal Quebec - Montreal chosen as the capital of the Province of Canada, and the seat of Parliament.
1838 Quebec - Hunters Lodges (Fr&eggrave;res Chasseurs) mobilize in towns around Montreal such as Beauharnois, Ste-Martine, St-Mathias and St-Constant (where they disarmed a body of Loyalists); the Hunters were republican rebels backed by American sympathizers, who wanted to keep the revolution alive.
1817 Montreal Quebec - The Bank of Montreal opens its first branch and trades its first shares; incorporated three years later, on Dec. 20, 1820, by English and French merchants.
1815 Selkirk Manitoba - Robert Semple 1777-1816 leaves Colin Robertson in charge of Red River colony.
1775 St-Jean Quebec - Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 captures Fort St. John after two day siege; continues up Richelieu River from Lake Champlain toward Montreal.
1662 Quebec Quebec - Sieur des Monts returns to France after leaving a garrison of 100 soldiers at Quebec.
1657 Quebec Quebec - Genevieve-Agnes Skanudharoua dies at Quebec a few hours after taking holy vows; daughter of Huron chief the first Native woman to enter religious life
1655 England - England and France sign Treaty of Westminster; Acadia restored to French.
1653 Quebec Quebec - Most Iroquois make peace with French; some Mohawks, Oneidas and Onondagas continue to fight in spite of treaty of Neutrality.
1644 Quebec Quebec - Martin PrÃ©vost marries Manitouabewich; first religious marriage between French-Canadian and an Indian woman; newly married couples given a cow, bull, hog.
1634 Quebec Quebec - Father Lalemant baptizes Matchonon, a 25 year old Huron.

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henric · Nov 3, 2013

November 4th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1429 – Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-MoÃ»tier.
1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
1576 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
1780 – Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui aka Tupac Amaru starts his Rebellion on Peru against Spain-
1783 – W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1798 – Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu.
1839 – Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as "brownshirts", physically assault Adolf Hitler's opposition after his speech in Munich.
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1921 – The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1944 – World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1956 – Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union, that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
1962 – In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: a mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1993 – A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1920 CANADA BOASTS WORLD'S FIRST COMMERCIAL RADIO
Montreal Quebec - Canadian Marconi's radio station XWA licensed as CFCF Montreal; broadcasts first commercial radio show; station started in December 1919; reputedly the oldest in the world.

1956
United Nations New York - Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 proposes a UN police force for Suez, to separate Egypt from the invading French, British, and Israelis. The United Nations implements his international emergency force scheme, and it becomes the model for all later UN peacekeeping actions.

In Other Events...

1996 Quebec - Thirty out of 45 Quebec CÃ‰GEPs go on strike
1995 Cape Canaveral, Florida - RADARSAT earth observation satellite launched aboard a Delta-II; Canada's first non-communication satellite launched since 1971.
1993 Ottawa Ontario - Jean ChrÃ©tien sworn in as Canada's 20th Prime Minister at Rideau Hall; among his new Cabinet are six women, Sheila Copps, Sheila Finestone, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Diane Marleau, Christine Stewart and Anne McLellan.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - George Klein dies at age 88; prolific inventor worked for National Research Council for 40 years; led team that designed first nuclear reactor, gear design of Canadarm.
1992 Montreal: Quebec - Trois-RiviÃ¨res goaltender Manon RhÃ©aume the first woman to sign a professional hockey contract.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall bans Canadian trade with Haiti to protest Sept 30 overthrow of government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1991 New York City - Kingston, Ontario-born Bryan Adams' 'Can't Stop This Thing We Started' peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Jean DorÃ© re-elected Mayor of Montreal
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offers apology to Canadians of Italian origin forced to live in internment camps during World War II; earlier apology to Japanese Canadians.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Red Cross starts testing donated blood for HIV, the syndrome linked to the AIDS virus; some tainted blood already in the system, so thousands of Canadians will contract HIV and Hepatitis.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Atomic Energy of Canada sells Turkey a Candu nuclear reactor worth over $1 billion.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Supreme Court orders extradition of Canadian citizen Albert Helmut Rauca to West Germany; charged in connection with murder of over 11,000 Lithuanian Jews in World War II; first extradition of a Canadian accused of war crimes.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau and RenÃ© LÃ©vesque discuss holding a referendum on the BNA Act amending formula and Charter of Rights within two years; LÃ©vesque later backs down, claiming a gang-up by the anglophone provinces.
1978 New York City - Springhill, Nova Scotia-born Anne Murray's 'You Needed Me' peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1977 New York City - Canadian country rock group The Band's documentary film 'The Last Waltz' is released.
1972 New York City - Canadian country rock group The Band's 'Don't Do It' peaks at #34 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Transport Commission outlines plans to merge CN and CP passenger service by 1973; origin of VIA Rail Canada.
1970 Ste-Foy, Quebec - New St. Lawrence River bridge upstream from Quebec renamed the Pont Pierre-Laporte, to honour the former lawyer, Quebec Labour Minister and Le Devoir correspondent Pierre Laporte 1921-1970, kidnapped and killed by FLQ terrorists.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Opening of first conference of the Users of the Great Lakes at Toronto; to discuss pollution.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Task Force on Government Information Services recommends forming of Information Canada; to coordinate all government information services
1966 Montreal Quebec - Start of direct air service to Moscow by TCA and Aeroflot.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Davie Fulton 1916- announces 15-year rehabilitation program for prisoners in federal penitentiaries.
1959 Moscow Russia - National Research Council signs agreement with Soviet Academy of Science for exchange of scientists.
1959 New York City - Ottawa pop star Paul Anka has a number one hit single with Put Your Head on My Shoulder.
1956 Montreal Quebec - Journalist RenÃ© LÃ©vesque debuts in new SociÃ©tÃ© Radio-Canada public affairs show, 'Point de Mire'.
1953 Montreal Quebec - SociÃ©tÃ© Radio-Canada starts broadcasting La Famille Plouffe; the series is Quebec's first tÃ©lÃ©roman.
1952 Korea - Chinese launch offensive against Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Korea.
1943 New York City - Toronto actor Walter Huston stars in Samuel Goldwyn's film The North Star, with Dana Andrews and Ann Baxter.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Tory House Leader R B. Hanson criticizes government for not introducing a price freeze by Act of Parliament.
1936 Montreal Quebec - Creation of the SociÃ©tÃ© Radio-Canada, the french counterpart of the CBC.
1915 Quebec Quebec - Opening of tuberculosis sanitarium/hospital in Quebec.
1914 Montreal Quebec - Mobilization 21st Battery of Artillery of Montreal, for service in France.
1892 Quebec Quebec - HonorÃ© Mercier 1840-1894 acquitted in Baie des Chaleurs Railway bribery scandal, after being removed from office for bribery by Lieutenant Governor Auguste-RÃ©al Angers; former Premier of Quebec will be reelected in Bonaventure, and serves until his death Oct. 30, 1894.
1879 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that only the Queen or Governor-General can appoint Queen's Counsels.
1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ambroise-Dydime LÃ©pine l834-1923 sentenced to death for role in execution of Thomas Scott; sentence commuted and he serves two years in jail.
1864 Montreal Quebec - Antoine-AimÃ© Dorion and the Rouge party start an anti-Confederation campaign, in a letter to the electors, Dorion calls the agreement 'poison' and 'a calamity'.
1838 Caughnawaga Quebec - Cyrille CÃ´tÃ© and a hundred Patriotes from ChÃ¢teauguay under the command of Cardinal et Duquet attack Caughnawaga looking for arms while the Mohawks attend church; Iroquois counterattack and beat back rebels, taking Cardinal and Duquet prisoner.
1838 Montreal Quebec - Governor Colborne declares martial law as Wolfred Nelson and Cyrille CÃ´tÃ© lead second rebellion in Lower Canada; joined by several hundred Habitants, Nelson is declared President of the newly proclaimed Canadian Republic.
1838 Napierville Quebec - Robert Nelson again proclaims the independence of Lower Canada before a crowd of 700 Patriotes.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Les Fils de la LibertÃ© (Sons of Liberty) hold a massive Patriote rally in Montreal on the Place d'Armes; a riot breaks out when members of the English Doric Club, determined to 'crush rebellion in the bud', throw a hail of stones at the rebels, who fight back; Chevalier de Lorimier and Thomas Storrow Brown are seriously injured in the street fighting; under the eye of the militia, the English youths roam the streets and demonstrate in front of the house of Louis-Joseph Papineau.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Government issues proclamation banning military drill in Quebec and Montreal.
1834 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 publishes last issue of 'The Colonial Advocate'.
1830 Montreal Quebec - Rebellion of the students of the CollÃ¨ge de MontrÃ©al, including a young firebrand from the Richelieu Valley, George-Etienne Cartier.
1809 Quebec Quebec - Arrival of John Molson's steamboat Accommodation at Quebec after two and a half day trip from Montreal.
1804 Montreal Quebec - XY Company merges with North West Company on a l00-share basis.
1797 Quebec - Robert Shore Milnes Bouchette 1746-1837 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada; also administrator of Lower Canada from July 30, 1799; until Nov. 29, 1808.
1776 Ticonderoga, New York - Loyalist groups join the British fleet at Crown Point on Lake Champlain.
1673 Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec - Blessing of the Chapel of the Hurons at l'Ancienne-Lorette.

End of C/P.

henric · Nov 4, 2013

November 5th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1138 – LÃ½ Anh TÃ´ng is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in TrÃ©guier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1530 – The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1811 – Salvadoran priest JosÃ© MatÃas Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement
1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1838 – The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
1854 – Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.
1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
1914 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1916 – The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1937 – Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
1943 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
1945 – Colombia joins the United Nations.
1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.
1970 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
1995 – AndrÃ© Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean ChrÃ©tien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
2003 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.
2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 29 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a US military installation.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1939 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LONG DASH .................
Ottawa Ontario - The National Research Council in Ottawa first broadcasts its official time signal at EXACTLY 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.

1956
United Nations New York - Canadian Major-General ELM Burns 1897- accepts position as Commander of the first United Nations Emergency Force, as the Pearson peace plan is adopted by the UN General Assembly.

In Other Events...

1996 Quebec Quebec - Senator Jean-Louis Roux resigns from the post of Lieutenant Governor du Quebec after magazine L'ActualitÃ© revealed he indulged in antisemitism while a medical student at l'UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Jean ChrÃ©tien's wife Aline stops a knife wielding intruder outside their bedroom at 24 Sussex Dr.; she locks the door and calls security; points up lax RCMP security.
1995 Montreal Quebec - Montrealer David Boys becomes World Scrabble Champion.
1992 Canada - Canadian Hemophilia Society says 800 hemophiliacs, 200 given transfusions got HIV (AIDS) virus; before heat treatment began in Nov, 1985
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Department says March UV ozone levels 10% lower than pre-1980 average; in Toronto and Edmonton; 4% lower on average overall
1992 Palm Beach Florida - Brian Mulroney 1939- offers US President-elect Bill Clinton a standing invitation to visit Canada; calls Governor's Mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas, from his Florida retreat
1992 Winnipeg Manitoba - Sharon Carstairs 1942- announces plans to step down as Liberal leader; helped revive Party in Manitoba, fought Charlottetown Accord; appointed to the Senate in the fall of 1994..
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Donald S. Macdonald 1909- appointed by Pierre Trudeau to head the Royal Commission into Canada's Economic Prospects; former finance minister has a mandate to examine Canada's economic future.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- signs constitutional accord for the patriation of the constitution with nine premiers, after late night 'Kitchen Cabinet Meeting' involving Justice Minister Jean ChrÃ©tien, Ontario Attorney-General Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan Justice Minister Roy Romanow; RenÃ© LÃ©vesque abstains because the Constitution Act does not guarantee Quebec's French-only language policy
1980 Toronto Ontario - Opening of World's Biggest Bookstore in Toronto 1.5 million books on 27.3 km of shelves; 6,500 m2 in size; now part of Chapters chain.
1977 Houston Texas - Guy Lombardo dies at age 75; bandleader, born June 19, 1902, in London, Ontario. Lombardo, his brother Carmen and his band the Royal Canadians were known for playing 'the sweetest music this side of heaven'; his Auld Lang Syne is a New year's Eve staple; sold over 100 million records; started speedboat racing in 1946, winning the International Gold Cup, a sweepstakes race for unlimited hydroplanes in his Tempo boats; US national champion 1946-49;1948 set a speed record of 119.7 mph; won Canadian titles in 1955 and 1956.
1976 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's single, 'The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald' hits #1 on the Billboard pop charts
1963 Montreal Quebec - Hal C. Banks charged with conspiring to cause bodily harm in assault on ship's captain H.F. Walsh in 1957; Seafarers' International Union leader
1962 United Nations New York - UN Political Committee approves Canadian formula for halting above-ground nuclear bomb tests.
1955 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens Jean Beliveau scores a hat trick in 44 seconds; second fastest on record.
1944 Florence Italy - Lieut.-General H.D.G. Crerar, General Guy Simonds and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division arrive in Italy. Lieut.-General Charles Foulkes succeeds Lieut.-General E. L. M. Burns as commander of the 1st Canadian Corps, and leaves for Holland to exchange appointments with Major-General H.W. Foster. General McNaughton had objected to the division of the Canadian army, and retires soon afterwards.
1944 Dinteloord Netherlands - Canadian and British troops liberate Dinteloord.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Roughriders score on a 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the first paved highway to Montreal.
1923 Alberta - Alberta votes for government control of liquor; after seven years of prohibition.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet bans use of grain to manufacture liquor for the rest of the war.
1913 Cardston Alberta - Alberta Mormons hold ground breaking ceremony for the new temple at Cardston; excavation for the foundation begins Nov. 16.
1887 Montreal Quebec - Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats the Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion rugby football championship.
1884 Golden City BC - British Columbia portion of the Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Golden City.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 resigns after revelations of campaign financing by Sir Hugh Allan in return for CPR contract.
1838 Lacolle Quebec - Colborne's troops skirmish with Cyrille CÃ´tÃ©'s 300 Chasseurs for a half hour at Lacolle, leaving 8 rebels dead.
1838 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Baptiste Toussaint Pothier 1771-1845 chairs the Special Council of Lower Canada.
1824 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 first publishes 'The Colonial Advocate' in York; radical politics wins him popular support in Upper Canada
1818 Toronto Ontario - Chippewas cede 768,000 hectares in Northumberland, Durham, Ontario, Haliburton, Hastings, Muskoka; 1,900,000 acres
1814 Fort Erie Ontario - British drive Americans from Fort Erie after two months of skirmishing; Americans blow up fortifications before they leave.
1803 Toronto Ontario - Founding of weekly public market at York.
1666 Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 brings his army back to Quebec after a summer battling the Iroquois.

End of C/P.

henric · Nov 5, 2013

November 6th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

355 – Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Ãlvar NÃºÃ±ez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1632 – Thirty years war: Battle of LÃ¼tzen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1844 – The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels.
1869 – In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1935 – First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
1935 – Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
1939 – World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
1941 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1948 – Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launched a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign, the largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.
1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1963 – Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1975 – Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in BogotÃ¡, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1991 – The last burning Kuwaiti oil field is extinguished.
1995 – The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts.
1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2004 – An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 7 and injuring 150.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1879 CANADA'S FIRST OFFICIAL THANKSGIVING DAY
Ottawa Ontario - The Canadian Thanksgiving Day is officially observed for the first time on this day. The holiday is moved to the week of Armistice Day after World War I, then fixed as the second Monday in October in 1957.

1769
Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 sets out from Fort Prince of Wales to explore the interior barrens west of Hudson Bay; he is away for five weeks on this, his first trip. Click here to explore Arctic Dawn: The Journeys of Samuel Hearne.

In Other Events...

1998 Ottawa Ontario - Romeo Leblanc awards 1998 Governor-General's Performing Arts Awards at Rideau Hall. Winners are the CBC comedy team Royal Canadian Air Farce, singer Bruce Cockburn, tenor Jon Vickers, film producer Rock Demers, a co-founder of the Montreal Film Festival, Arnold Spohr, a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Paul Buissonneau, an actor, stage director and founder of La Compagnie de ThÃ©Ã¢tre de Quat'Sous in Montreal.
1995 New York City - Mark Messier scores his 500th NHL goal as Rangers beat Calgary Flames 4-2; 21st player to reach that mark.
1994 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Bourque elected Mayor of Montreal with 46.4% of the vote.
1991 Burgan Kuwait - Canadian team puts out last of 751 oil well fires started by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's troops at close of Gulf War.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Treasurer Floyd Laughren brings in law to encourage workers to buy shares and invest in venture capital funds; Ontario tax credit of 20% on first $3,500 invested.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933- urges the Belanger-Campeau Commission to find a clear consensus about what Quebeckers want to change; at opening session.
1988 Regina Saskatchewan - Regina beats up the Ottawa Rough Riders 45-11. The Ottawa Riders ends the football season with 2-16 win-loss and 618 points-against records, the worst in CFL history.
1984 Regina Saskatchewan - Former Saskatchewan cabinet minister Colin Thatcher found guilty of murdering his ex-wife Joanne; sentenced to life in prison; angry that he had to pay her $820,000 in a divorce settlement, he tried to hire a killer, but when that failed, smuggled a gun into Canada and shot her.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Parliamentary committee starts hearings on constitutional proposals; televised over 3-month period; rights for women, natives, handicapped, Acadians and those accused of crime.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Ontario limits rent increases to 8%, and moves to establish rent review boards.
1974 Rome Italy - Allan Joseph MacEachen 1921- pledges $785 million in Canadian food aid over three-year period at World Food Conference in Rome; Canadian External Affairs Minister.
1973 England - Canadian film producer Harry Saltzman starts filming the James Bond flick, The Man With The Golden Gun.
1970 Montreal Quebec - FLQ member Bernard Lortie arrested for the kidnapping of Quebec labour Minister Pierre Laporte.
1970 Ste-Foy, Quebec - Inauguration of the Pont Pierre-Laporte.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $50 million program to promote language training across Canada.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Toronto surgeons perform first plastic cornea implant in a human eye.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific Locomotive A-l-e no. 29, 4-4-0, built in 1887, pulls a special excursion train to St. Lin, in CP's last steam locomotive trip.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts new program to produce $1 billion in uranium, extending to 1966.
1958 Springhill Nova Scotia - Royal Canadian Humane Association awards Gold Medal to the citizens of Springhill for bravery in life-saving, after disaster of Oct. 23rd that kills 75 miners; 99 survive, trapped for two weeks in the deepest mine in North America.
1917 Passchendaele Belgium - General Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps finally take the town of Passchendaele, in the third battle of Ypres; Canadians and Anzac troops suffer 240,000 casualties in four months to gain 8 km of muddy territory; offensive began July 31, and the Canadians took over from the battered Australians.
1906 Regina Saskatchewan - First long distance line reaches Regina from Winnipeg.
1884 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Foot Ball Club, QFRU, defeats Toronto Argonauts, ORFU, 30-0 in first CRFU Championship game; forerunner of Grey Cup.
1867 Ottawa Ontario - First sitting of the Parliament of Canada; adopts resolution for entry of Rupert's Land and NWT into Canada; old Hudson's Bay Company territory.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Thomas Storrow Brown 1803-1888 leads the Sons of Liberty (Fils de la LibertÃ©) in a street fight with members of the Doric Club, a group of young anglophone Tories, after Doric mob wrecks the offices of his newspaper 'The Vindicator', and stones the houses of Louis-Joseph Papineau and AndrÃ© Ouimet.
1776 Cumberland Nova Scotia - rebels from Machias, Maine, repulsed in attack on Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia.
1769 Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 sets out from Fort Prince of Wales to explore interior; away for five weeks.

End of C/P.

henric · Nov 6, 2013

November 7th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1619 – Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway was symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
1893 – Women's Suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1907 – JesÃºs GarcÃa saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers () away before it can explode.
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1944 – A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1973 – The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
1987 – Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations.
1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
1989 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City.
1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady.
2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2001 – SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.
2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 – War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
2012 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1873 MACKENZIE CANADA'S SECOND PRIME MINISTER
Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 succeeds John A. Macdonald as Canada's 2nd Prime Minister; Macdonald PM since July 1, 1867; Mackenzie in power to Oct. 8, 1878.

1885

Craigellachie BC -
Donald A. Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 drives in the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, in the Eagle Pass. CPR President W. C. Van Horne makes a fifteen-word speech: 'All I can say is that the work has been well done in every way'. Smith's first spike bent and was replaced; it was rescued and is now in the Glenbow-Alberta Institute in Calgary. The following day, the CPR special transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody at Pacific Tidewater, 4,800 km away from Montreal.

In Other Events...

1994 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Jean DorÃ© announces he is retiring from civic politics.
1994 Charlebois Quebec - Tornado roars through Charlebois region, killing an estimated 1 million trees.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Angus Reid/Southam poll says majority of Canadians want unity; only 38% in Quebec want separation; most want 5 year moratorium on talks; poll taken week after referendum.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn inaugurates the National Arts Centre Award to honour an outstanding contribution to Canadian culture by any individual performer or group in the previous year; first winner is filmmaker Norman Jewison.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Kim Campbell passes gun control law 189-14; bans import of military assault guns; age of ownership from 16 to 18; also waiting period; storage regulations; smaller clips.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Hugh MacLennan 1907-1990 dies at age 83; the Nova Scotia native, author of such novels as Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes and The Watch That Ends The Night, won the Governor General's Award five times.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Sun Publishing acquires The Ottawa Herald and relaunches it as the daily Ottawa Sun.
1982 Regina, Saskatchewan - Edmonton Eskimos Warren Moon passes for 341 yards against Regina to become first pro quarterback to complete 5,000 passing yards in a season; exceeded 5,000 in 1983.
1981 PEI - James Matthew Lee 1937- chosen Progressive Conservative Premier of Prince Edward Island, succeeding Angus MacLean.
1978 New York City - Anne Murray's 'You Needed Me' hits #1 on the Billboard singles chart.
1976 Montreal Quebec - AndrÃ© Fortin elected Leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Yugoslav President Josip Tito makes first state visit to Canada.
1969 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba sets up lottery in conjunction with Manitoba Derby, to be run on July 15, 1970.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Edgar Benson tables tax reform legislation; Finance Minister; has tax on capital gains and incentives to hold Canadian shares
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that offshore mineral rights on the west coast belong to Ottawa and not BC.
1962 Chicago Illinois - Black Hawks goalie Glenn Hall forced to leave a game against the Boston Bruins with a back injury in the first period, during his 503rd consecutive complete game; an NHL record; streak began at the start of the 1955-56 season. Hall played in parts or all of 18 seasons (1952-53, 1954-1971) in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues.
1961 Saskatchewan - Woodrow Stanley Lloyd 1913-1972 succeeds T.C. Douglas as Premier of Saskatchewan; until 1964. Lloyd inherited the NDP's universal government health plan, and after a bitter fight, and the withdrawal of doctors' services on July 01, 1962, Lloyd negotiated a settlement on July 23.
1950 Pusan Korea - Arrival of first contingent of Canadian troops to join the United Nations force in Korea.
1948 Manitoba - Douglas L. Campbell 1882-1970 elected Premier of Manitoba for the Liberals.
1935 Toronto Ontario - Winnipeg Winnipegs beat Hamilton Tigers, 18-12 in the 23rd CFL Grey Cup.
1918 London England - Government establishes Canadian Trade Mission in London.
1914 Charlesbourg Quebec - Charlesbourg incorporated.
1910 Esquimalt BC - Former Royal Navy light cruiser Rainbow arrives at Esquimalt to serve as a training and fisheries patrol vessel for the new Royal Canadian Navy; July 1914 persuaded the Komagata Maru, with its load of illegal immigrants, to leave Vancouver harbour; Aug 1914 went on defensive patrols when German cruisers appeared in the North Pacific; 1920 sold for scrap.
1907 Ottawa Ontario - Test tokens struck for first issue of Canadian coins at the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint.
1900 Canada - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 wins general election 133 seats to 80; with a majority of the popular vote.
1900 Leliefontain, South Africa - Troop of Canadian cavalrymen, 90 officers and men of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, supported by two guns of the Royal Canadian Field Artillery, cover retreat of British infantry column under attack by several hundred Boer horsemen near Leliefontein farm, East Transvaal; 3 dragoons killed, 11 wounded, 3 win Victoria Crosses, including Lt. Richard Turner, wounded in the neck and arm; later Lieut-General Sir Richard Turner; Battle of Leliefontein, South African War.
1898 Washington DC - Opening of second Alaska Boundary Conference, after meeting at Quebec failed to come to a decision; will last until Feb. 21, 1899.
1886 Calgary Alberta - Fire starts at 6 am behind a feed store on Atlantic Avenue in Calgary (today's 9th Avenue); quickly spreads out of control, burning four hotels, three warehouses and four stores; town council later recommends building civic and religious buildings out of sandstone instead of wood.
1867 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Lord Monck reads the Speech from the Throne in the first session held in the new Parliament Buildings in Ottawa .
1850 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada School of Medicine affiliates with University of Toronto.
1838 Lacolle Quebec - Dr. Cyrille CÃ´tÃ© and his 600 FrÃ¨res Chasseurs (Hunters Lodges) attacked by Lower Canada militia, and disperse, leaving eight rebels dead.
1810 Quebec Quebec - Antoine Romaine put in a pillory for running a bawdy house.
1760 Cleveland Ohio - Robert Rogers 1731-1795 camps on Lake Erie to meet Pontiac, who agrees to submit to British rule.
1678 Quebec Quebec - Parish priests in New France required to keep careful parish records.

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November 8th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

960 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla
1519 – HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s enters TenochtitlÃ¡n and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
1576 – Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing Dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair" – The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm RÃ¶ntgen discovers the X-ray.
1898 – The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of an attempted coup d'etat in American history.
1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
1917 – The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1933 – Great Depression: New Deal – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
1940 – Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
1942 – World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
1942 – World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: the United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.
1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.
1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.
1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1917 HAPPY BIRTHDAY CP
Toronto Ontario - Canada's daily newspapers found a co-operative cross-Canada news gathering service called the Canadian Press - CP - with offices in the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec and BC.

1944
Scheldt Holland - The First Canadian Army is victorious in the Scheldt campaign; British and Canadian troops overcome Germans in Beveland and Walcheren.

In Other Events...

1995 Whistler, British Columbia - Country Dick Montana, lead singer of the Beat Farmers, collapses and dies on stage during a concert at Whistler.
1993 Montreal Quebec - CÃ©line Dion announces her engagement to RenÃ© AngÃ©lil, who had managed her career since January, 1981; he was formerly the manager of RenÃ© Simard and Ginette Reno.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. acquires Torstar's 22.5% stake in Southam Inc. for $259 million; chain's losses this year total $186 million; Southam owns 19 dailies, with sales of 1.5 million copies; also Coles bookstores (part of today's Chapters).
1991 Rome Italy - Brian Mulroney 1939- says Canada will join European Community in imposing economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war; attending NATO summit meeting; confirms alliance still needed; wife Mila Mulroney born in Croatia.
1991 New York City - Bryan Adams's single 'Can't Stop This Thing We Started' certified Gold.
1983 Europe - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- meets leaders of France, Holland, Belgium, West Germany, Britain, and Pope John Paul II; on 3 day European peace mission.
1979 Montreal Quebec - Jacques LanctÃ´t sentenced to 36 months in jail for FLQ activities in the 1960s and 1970s, including over 200 bombings; leader of the Liberation cell, based in Montreal, while the south shore gang (later the Chenier cell) was led by Paul Rose.
1976 Oakville Ontario - US-Canadian syndicate pays $235,000 for 'Hanover Hill Barb'; highest price ever paid to date for a cow
1974 Toronto Ontario - Ontario report states that fish containing over one part per million of mercury may be health hazard.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Metropolitan Montreal has a population of 2,720,413.
1971 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League approves franchises in Long Island and Atlanta; Islanders and Flames begin play in the 1972-73 season.
1969 New York City - Blood Sweat and Tears 'And When I Die' breaks into the Top 10 on the Billboard charts.
1969 Halifax, Nova Scotia - US oil tanker 'Manhattan' stops at Halifax on return voyage through North West Passage.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Paul-Emile LÃ©ger resigns his post as Cardinal.
1965 Canada - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 wins federal election 131 seats to 97; 21 CCF; 9 CrÃ©ditistes, 5 Social Credit, 2 others; returned to power with minority government.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau first wins seat in House of Commons, as Liberal MP for Mount Royal; one of the 'Three Wise Men' (les trois colombes) from Quebec, with labour leader Jean Marchand and journalist GÃ©rard Pelletier. He will hold the seat until 1984. Another Montreal area Liberal first elected is Warren Allmand MP for Notre-Dame-de-GrÃ¢ce, who will hold the seat until Feb. 24, 1997
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Government orders Royal Canadian Mint to change the nickel back to a round shape.
1961 Ontario - John Parmenter Robarts 1917-1982 succeeds Leslie Frost as Conservative Premier of Ontario.
1955 Pointe-au-PÃ¨re, Quebec - RCMP seize 16 kg of pure heroin on a freighter at Pointe-au-PÃ¨re.
1952 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens' Maurice Richard gets his 325th career goal in a 6-4 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks; becomes the NHL's all-time goal scorer in his 517th game played.
1952 Chibougamau Quebec - Chibougamau incorporated as a mining and forestry centre between Abitibi and Lac St-Jean.
1952 Toronto Ontario - Harold Innis 1894-1952 dies; political economist, communications theorist born in Otterville, Ontario Nov. 05 1894; major works are The Fur Trade in Canada (1930), The Cod Fisheries (1940), Empire and Communications (1950).
1945 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons debates creating a new Canadian flag to replace the Red Ensign.
1943 Shawinigan Quebec - Metal workers end strike at Aluminium Company in Shawinigan.
1942 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens' Maurice Richard scores his first goal in his 3rd NHL game.
1942 Algeria - Canadian warships help back Allied landings in Algeria and French Morocco; first major invasion by Allies
1939 Quebec Quebec - AdÃ©lard Godbout sworn in as Liberal Premier of Quebec, replacing Maurice Duplessis.
1936 Toronto Ontario - The Globe and the Mail and Empire join to become Canada's largest daily newspaper, The Globe and Mail.
1935 Quebec Quebec - Maurice Duplessis and Paul Gouin found the Union Nationale Party before the 1935 provincial election; in 1934 Gouin had established the Action Liberale Nationale, composed of Liberal reformers and nationalists; Duplessis had been leader of the provincial Conservatives since 1932; Gouin soon grows disenchanted with Duplessis, and leaves the coalition before the 1936 elections, which the UN wins, since most of Gouin's followers stay with Duplessis.
1932 Quebec Quebec - Maurice Duplessis 1890-1959 becomes leader of the provincial Conservative Party, replacing Camillien Houde.
1926 Vancouver BC - Inaugural performance in the new Orpheum Theatre.
1919 Versailles France - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 leaves Ottawa with delegation to attend Paris Peace Conference; Canada signs Treaty of Versailles
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Ontario rules Regulation #17 valid; bans French in Ontario schools past Grade 1
1913 Ontario/USA - Worst storm in history sinks 32 ships in 10 metre waves on the Great Lakes; 200 killed over a four day period.
1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg incorporated as a city; originally known as (Upper) Fort Garry.
1861 Bahamas - Captain Charles Wilkes 1798-1877 of the USS San Jacinto stops British mail steamer Trent in the Bahamas Channel, removing two Confederate diplomats en route to Europe, James M. Mason, former senator from Virginia and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and John Slidell, a former Louisiana senator; Wilkes also under orders to seize the vessel as a prize of war; beginning of the Trent Crisis as England demands the release of the ship and passengers, threatening war, and causing British North America to prepare for conflict. Britain had declared neutrality in May 1861 and recognized the Northern and Southern states as formal belligerents, which opened British ports to both Confederate and Northern shipping, and led British munitions and supplies be transported by Union or Rebel vessels to North American ports. Lord John Russell wrote to Palmerston that 'we may now expect 40 or 50,000' Federal troops to invade Canada; there were only 4,300 British regulars in Canada, with 2,100 of those stationed in Nova Scotia; eighteen British transport ships loaded with men, arms and supplies were ordered to Canada, and sixteen batteries of Royal Artillery were earmarked, with four companies of Royal Engineers and 11 battalions of infantry, for a total of over 11,000 men. The War Office promised 100,000 rifles for the defense of Canada, but only 50,000 were sent, with 2 1/4 million rounds of ammunition. US President Abraham Lincoln will eventually order their release of Mason and Slidell on Christmas Day, declaring 'One war at a time'.
1844 Toronto Ontario - Presbyterian Church opens Knox College in Toronto.
1838 Montreal Quebec - George-Etienne Cartier and seven other exiled Patriotes return from Vermont on the promise of good behaviour.
1838 Lacolle Quebec - Cyrille CÃ´tÃ© marches toward Odelltown with 600 Fr&eagrave;res Chasseurs (Hunters Lodges), as martial law is declared in the province; traitors in the ranks try to capture Robert Nelson at Lacolle, but fail.
1819 Ontario/Quebec - Huge forest fires in northern Ontario and Quebec blacken midday skies between Quebec City and Kingston.
1634 Quebec Quebec - Robert Giffard baptizes an Indian child of 6 months.
1622 Paris France - Henri, Duc de Montmorency founds 'Compagnie de Montmorency pour la Nouvelle France'; unites Rouen and de Caen companies in New France.
1620 Quebec Quebec - Henri, Duc de Montmorency acquires Prince de Conde's commercial interests; discusses new company with Guillaume de Caen.
1603 Paris France - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 gets royal commission to colonize Acadia as Governor, or Lieutenant General of New France after death of de Chaste; gets ten year monopoly of fur trade.

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