This Date In History

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November 9th 2013 - This Date in History.


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694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 – At the Battle of Posada, the Wallachian Voivode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1494 – The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
1799 РNapoleon Bonaparte leads the coup d'̩tat of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba.
1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1880 – A large earthquake strikes Zagreb and causes many casualties. One of them is the Zagreb Cathedral.
1883 – The Royal Winnipeg Rifles of the Canadian Forces (known then as the "90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles") is founded.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly is murdered in London, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1965 – The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.
1993 – Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.



Today's Canadian Headline...


1965 NIAGARA BLOWS A FUSE
Niagara Falls Ontario - At 5:16 pm at Ontario Hydro Queenston, a relay switch fails, causing a power outage in western New York State which reaches New York City by 5:27 pm, plunging the city into darkness at the height of rush hour. A series of major electric power blackouts lasts for up to 13 1/2 hours in over 200,000 sq km of Ontario, Quebec and the Northeastern US. It is the largest power failure in North American history, and over 30 million people in Ontario, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire lose power for most of the night.

1967
Montreal Quebec - Cardinal Paul-Emile Leger 1904- resigns post to work as missionary with lepers in Africa.


In Other Events...

1989 Ottawa Ontario - Conference of first ministers fails to resolve opposition to Meech Lake raised by Manitoba and Newfoundland, where former Trudeau adviser Clyde Wells has led the Liberals back to power, threatens to rescind his province's ratification unless the accord is altered to protect Newfoundland's ability to get transfer payments.
1986 New York City - Jean Doré elected Mayor of Montreal with 68% of the votes counted.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams' 'One Night Love Affair' peaks at #13 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1984 Space - Shuttle Discovery flight STS-51A deploys Canada's Anik-D2 comsat into geosynchronous orbit (mass 1,100 kg).
1982 New York City - Yves Langlois returns to Quebec from exile; former FLQ leader.
1974 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's 'Carefree Highway' peaks at #10 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1974 New York City - Winnipeg group Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1972 Cape Canaveral, Florida - Canada's Anik I domestic communications satellite launched by Delta rocket; world's first geostationery comsat (mass 557 kg); designed, built and operated by Telesat Canada to improve telephone and radio service; Anik an Inuit word for brother.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific withdraws liner Empress of Canada from transatlantic route; end of regular passenger service due to cheaper airline flights.
1965 Vandenberg AFB, California - Canadian satellite Alouette II launched by NASA.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 announces Canadian Museum of History; to be completed by July 1, 1967
1956 St Louis, Missouri - Lou Thesz beats Toronto's Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ.
1953 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens' Maurice Richard scoring his 325th career goal, setting set a National Hockey League record; sends puck to Queen Elizabeth.
1943 Washington DC - Canada signs United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agreement; (UNRRA).
1942 Oran Algeria - Capt. Frederick Peters 1889-1943 a Canadian serving with the Royal Navy, leads the Walney into Oran Harbour under heavy fire during Operation Torch, the Allied landings on the North African Coast; both Walney and her sister ship the Hartland sunk by enemy shells; the only man on the bridge to survive, Peters will be awarded the Victoria Cross.
1942 New Carlisle, Quebec - German secret agent Werner Janowski dropped ashore at Gaspé town of New Carlisle by submarine U-518; arrested a day later by RCMP; becomes double agent.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Canada cuts all diplomatic ties with Nazi puppet state of Vichy France.
1937 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Police undertake first action to uphold Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis' Padlock Law (Act Respecting Communistic Propaganda) against subversive organizations, locking the doors of the Communist newspaper 'Clarté'. Statute let attorney general close any building used for propagating 'communism or bolshevism'; Act will be declared unconstitutional, as an invasion of the federal field of criminal law, by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1957.
1928 London England - Privy Council rules that gold and silver on Hudson's Bay company lands belongs to Crown; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
1907 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club plays its first game, losing to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Exhibition Grounds.
1905 Alberta - Alexander Rutherford elected as Alberta's first Premier, winning 22 of 25 seats for the Liberal Party; campaign bitterly fought on issues such as religious schools and control over the province's natural resources.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Medical commission, created to examine Riel's mental condition, submits its report to the Prime Minister. The Commission is divided on question of Riel's sanity. Cabinet decides to proceed with death penalty; carried out on the 16th.
1883 Winnipeg Manitoba - Royal Winnipeg Rifles 90th Battalion organized.
1877 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell's Bell Telephone Company leases first phones to Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie; but backdates lease to September 21.
1872 Halifax, Nova Scotia - First Intercolonial Railway train reaches Halifax from Saint John, New Brunswick; remainder of line completed in 1876, connecting Truro, Nova Scotia, with Rivière du Loup, giving Quebec access to ice-free Atlantic ports; became part of the Canadian National Railway in 1923.
1872 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the Manitoba Free Press (later the Winnipeg Free Press).
1861 Toronto Ontario - First documented Canadian football game played, at the University of Toronto.
1860 Brantford Ontario - John A. Macdonald starts speaking tour in western Ontario; a first in Canadian politics.
1849 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Government Telegraph completed.
1838 Odelltown Quebec - Robert Nelson 1794-1873 mounts another raid on Lacolle from Vermont with Cyrille Côté; the Republican Hunters Lodges (Frères Chasseurs) are again dispersed at Odelltown after a two hour battle when British troops led by Charles Taylor arrive, and Nelson and his rebels flee to the US.
1789 Quebec - Order-in-Council gives every son of a loyalist 200 acres, every daughter 200 acres when married; descendants of loyalists can put letters U.E. (United Empire) after names
1775 Levis Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 arrives at Point-Lévis across from Quebec; leading American invasion army.

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November 10th 2013 - This Date in History.


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1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of the Catholic city of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
1293 – Raden Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
1520 – Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
1580 – After a three-day siege, the English Army beheads over 600 Papal soldiers and civilians at Dún an Óir, Ireland.
1619 РRen̩ Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh. This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya
1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
1702 – English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War.
1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.
1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario, and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
1942 РWorld War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral Fran̤ois Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1970 – The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
1984 – The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
1989 – The longtime leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
1989 – German citizens begin to bring the Berlin wall down
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and enviroemental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush and announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.
2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
2007 – 10,000–40,000 people march toward the royal palace of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to hand over a memorandum to the King demanding electoral reform.
2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.


Today's Canadian Headline...


1979 TANKER CARS DERAIL FORCING 240,000 TO EVACUATE
Mississauga Ontario - Canadian Pacific freight #54 suffers a hot axle box and derails en route from Windsor to Agincourt; 19 of 24 CP Rail tanker cars contain dangerous propane, soda and chlorine, and after an explosion and fire the following day, they start leaking chlorine gas; Mississauga's mayor orders an official evacuation of the city; 240,000 residents leave, some for six days. The Grange Commission report on the accident is published Dec. 1980.

1852
Montreal Quebec - Hugh Allan 1810-1882 founds Montreal Ocean Steamship Company (Allan Line) with brother Andrew; gets weekly postal contract from government.


In Other Events...

1997 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays' right-hander Roger Clemens wins the American League Cy Young Award for an unprecedented fourth time; first season with the Jays.
1995 Hollywood California - Newmarket, Ontario, comedian Jim Carrey premieres his film Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; best non-summer opening in Hollywood history, collecting $37.8 million in its debut weekend, the sixth largest ever.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP Commissioner Norman Inkster elected to a four year term as President of Interpol, the international police organization; he continues his RCMP duties.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Robert McClure dies at age 90; raised in China by missionary parents; MD 1922; practiced in Third World; first lay moderator of the United Church of Canada in 1968.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- convenes first ministers conference; fails to resolve constitutional differences; the Meech Lake Accord results.
1987 Quebec Quebec Ontario - Pierre-Marc Johnson quits politics; successor to René Lévesque as PQ Premier the son of Daniel Johnson Sr. and brother of Daniel Johnson Jr..
1986 Toronto Ontario - Francis 'King' Clancy dies; born in Ottawa Feb. 25, 1903; NHL coach and manager for over 60 years. In 1921, 18 year old Clancy was signed by the Ottawa Senators; 1930 acquired by the Toronto Maple Leafs for the then unheard of sum of $35,000 plus two players; led Leafs to first ever Stanley Cup victory in 1932; also served as an NHL referee, was Coach of the Leafs from 1953-56, and VP of Maple Leaf Gardens 1956 until retirement.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Amway Canada and US parent Amway Corporation fined $25 million for defrauding government of over $28 million in import duties; largest fine in Canadian history.
1975 Near Whitefish Bay, Ontario - Great Lakes ship Edmund Fitzgerald, a 222 m long iron ore carrier, breaks in two and sinks west of Sault Ste. Marie, after battling 7.5 m waves and record 125 km/h winds during a November gale on Lake Superior; 29 crew members drown; disaster commemorated in 1976 hit song by Gord Lightfoot.
1974 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens shut out NHL Washington Capitals 11-0.
1974 New York City - Winnipeg's Bachman-Turner Overdrive have a #1 Billboard pop hit with their single, 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.'.
1974 Montreal Quebec - Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau 1916- elected to a 6th term of office.
1972 British Columbia - Dave Barrett's New Democratic Party take 38 of 55 seats in the provincial election; upset 20 years of Social Credit rule in BC.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Senate Committee on Poverty recommends guaranteed annual income of $3,500 for Canadian family of 4.
1969 Dawson City Yukon - Ottawa to restore historic properties in Yukon Territory.
1963 Detroit Michigan - Red Wings' Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces contribution of $1 million to United Nations fund for the Congo.
1953 Soest Germany - Canada opens military base in Soest, West Germany.
1942 New Carlisle Quebec - Werner Janowski, German secret agent, captured by RCMP.
1940 Goose Bay Newfoundland - Canada and Britain start Trans-Atlantic Ferry Service to move planes, men and supplies; to Britain from Goose Bay and Gander.
1932 Toronto Ontario - Foster Hewitt calls the play by play as the Maple Leafs play to a 1-1 tie against Boston; his first hockey night in Canada broadcast.
1931 Hollywood California - Cobourg actress Marie Dressler wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Min and Bill; Best Actor: Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul; Best Director: Norman Taurog, Skippy; Best Picture: Cimarron.
1931 Fort Macleod, Alberta - Henrietta Edwards 1849-1931 dies; women's rights activist; born Henrietta Louise Muir at Montreal Dec. 18, 1849. Edwards founded the Working Girls' Association in Montreal in 1875, to provide vocational training; edited a journal, Women's Work in Canada; 1893 helped Lady Aberdeen found the National Council of Women; also the Victorian Order of Nurses; 1920 was one of Alberta's Famous Five in the Persons Case; 1921 wrote The Legal Status of Women in Alberta.
1926 Washington DC - Vincent Massey takes up his position as Canada's first Ambassador to the United States.
1917 Passchendaele Belgium - End of Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele) during the First World War; started July 31.
1912 St-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec - Louis Cyr 1863-1912 dies of Bright's disease; born Oct. 10, 1863 at St-Cyprien-de-Napierville; the Montreal policeman turned Barnum weightlifter was billed as The World's Strongest Man; in 1895 in Boston he lifted a stage holding 18 men weighing 1967 kg with his back - considered the heaviest weight ever lifted by a man; on retirement he opened a tavern in Montreal.
1868 New Brunswick - failure of Commercial Bank of New Brunswick.
1856 Newfoundland - Cyrus Field 1819-1892 opens telegraph line from New York to Newfoundland.
1853 Niagara Falls Ontario - Great Western Railway reaches Niagara from Hamilton.
1852 Toronto Ontario - Grand Trunk Railway Company gets charter; with consent to amalgamate with other lines; St. Lawrence & Atlantic, Toronto & Guelph, Quebec & Richmond.
1852 Lennoxville Quebec - Bishop's College in Lennoxville chartered as a university.
1852 Toronto Ontario - Co-Premier Francis Hincks creates Municipal Loan Fund, Canada West, to let municipalities borrow on Upper Canada's credit to invest in works such as railways; the fund itself to be created by municipal repayments; by 1855, 47 municipalities had borrowed heavily, and could not repay, and the deficits had to be merged with the Canadian public debt.
1838 Napierville Quebec - Colborne arrives at Napierville with 8,000 soldiers to meet the rebellion of the Frères chasseurs (Hunters Lodges).
1837 St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec - Patriotes fire on a troop of militia led by Commander Malo, and harass the soldiers with pikes; asks for reinforcements to be sent from Montreal.
1824 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Montreal Medical Institute; Canada's first medical school.
1812 Kingston Ontario - US Navy Capt. Isaac Chauncey chases the Royal George into Kingston Harbour, bombards the town and exchanges gunfire with Fort Henry before leaving at dusk.
1812 Odelltown Quebec - Charles de Salaberry 1778-1829, with Canadian Voltigeurs, defeats 2,000 Americans under Gen. Henry Dearborn at Odelltown, driving them back to Lake Champlain.
1808 Maidenhead England - Guy Carleton, First Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 dies; army officer, administrator; born Sept 03, 1724 at Strabane Ireland. Carleton was a Colonel in Wolfe's army at Quebec in 1759; 1766 appointed Lieutenant Governor; 1768 succeeded James Murray as Governor, to 1778; repelled American invasion of 1775-76; British commander in chief at New York, 1782-83, in charge of evacuating loyalists to Nova Scotia and Quebec; also Governor of Quebec 1785-95.
1727 Paris France - France orders all foreign commerce excluded from New France and other French colonies.
1678 Quebec Quebec - Cavelier de La Salle leaves for Fort Frontenac; the following spring he will build a ship, the Griffon, to take the fur trade to the upper lakes.

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November 11th 2013 - This Date in History.


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308 – At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.
1100 – Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland
1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
1500 – Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
1673 – Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
1750 – Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
1778 – Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1865 – Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1869 – The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
1918 РWorld War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compi̬gne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919.
1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
1919 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
1919 – Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.
1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
1944 РDr. jur. Erich G̦stl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
1968 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
1975 – Independence of Angola.
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
2000 – Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
2008 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.


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1918 LEST WE FORGET
Compiègne France - French Field Marshal Foch and the members of the German Armistice Commission sign a formal surrender to end World War I at 5 am in Marshal Foch's railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, to take effect at 11 am, as Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian troops chase the last Germans out of Mons, Belgium. Over 750,000 Canadians served in the four years of the Great War; 424,589 went overseas; 60,661 were killed. In all, over 10 million people died in the war, including 6 million civilians. In 1931, November 11 was renamed Remembrance Day and declared a legal holiday.

1813

Morrisburg Ontario -
British Col. Joseph Morrison and Royal Navy Captain William Mulcaster defeat an American invasion force of over 7,000 led by General James Wilkinson at the Battle of Crysler's Farm. Wilkinson's flotilla left Sackett's Harbor in late October and landed on the Canadian side of the Long Sault rapids. With only 800 British regulars of the 49th and 89th Regiments, plus some Canadian militia and Indians, Morrison moves to attack 1,800 Americans of the 25th Infantry Regiment under Brown at Crysler's Farm 30 km west of Cornwall; at the same time, Captain William Mulcaster's gunboats fire shrapnel and grapeshot on General John Park Boyd's flotilla of 4,000 American troops trying to descend the rapids toward Montreal, which helps Morrison land his troops at Crysler's Farm. In the first skirmish, the Americans take 400 casualties to the British 200. Wilkinson could have pressed on against Morrison, but when he gets a message that General Wade Hampton and his army of 4,200 were defeated at Châteauguay Oct. 26, he calls off the invasion, since Hampton was supposed to meet him downstream for the attack on Montreal. Hampton later resigned when Wilkinson blamed him for the failure of the campaign; Wilkinson was then relieved of his command.

In Other Events...


1997 Montreal Quebec - Expo Pedro Martinez wins National League Cy Young Award over Greg Maddux and Denny Neagle.
1997 Hull Quebec - Quebec Gatineau Railway takes over operation of former CP Lachute subdivision between Outremont and Hull; moves traffic to Smiths Falls for the last time; end of Canadian Pacific presence in Ottawa; first line to enter Bytown in 1854.
1987 Quebec Quebec - Guy Chevrette becomes interim leader of the Parti Québécois on resignation of Pierre-Marc Johnson.
1982 Rome Italy - Pope John Paul II announces visit to Canada in fall of 1984; first papal visit to Canada.
1982 Cape Canaveral, Florida - US space shuttle Columbia blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying Canada's Anik C comsat into orbit; the first commercial flight of the Shuttle.
1980 Toronto Ontario - A. Y. Jackson's painting Algoma Lake sells for $210,000, a new record for a Canadian work of art; Group of Seven member.
1975 Montreal Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec sign James Bay convention with New Quebec Cree.
1974 New York City - Winnipeg's Bachman-Turner Overdrive have a Billboard #1 hit with 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin'.'
1967 St. John's, Newfoundland - Clinton Shaw arrives from Victoria BC, setting the world's distance record for roller skating, a trip of 7,885 km, started April 1.
1963 Detroit Michigan - Red Wing Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 NHL goal record.
1962 Stratford Ontario - Liberal leader Jean Lesage and UN leader Daniel Johnson Sr. hold a provincial election debate televised on Radio-Canada.
1951 Stratford Ontario - Tom Patterson 1920- approaches city council to start summer Shakespearean Festival; with Tyrone Guthrie 1900-1971.
1950 London Ontario - Hank Snow's single 'I'm Moving On' hits #1 on the country music charts; born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and a star on CBC, Snow moved to Nashville five years earlier to sing at the Grand Ole Opry.
1946 London Ontario - Western wins the Yates Cup with a 6-0 record, following a 47-8 win over Queen's.
1945 Kingston Ontario - Western wins its first Yates Cup football championship under John Metras, beating Queen's 17-2 at Kingston.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Third Victory Loan campaign launched.
1939 Kingston Ontario - Western finishes the football season 6-0, the only undefeated Ontario university team, beating Queen's 13-8 and scoring 12 points in the final 15 minutes of the game; on returning from Kingston, 3,000 people greet the Mustangs at the train station.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Sam Hughes 1853-1921 asked to resign as Minister of Militia and Defense because he alienated Catholics and French Canada; an Irish Protestant Orangeman; Albert Kemp 1858-1929 succeeds Sam Hughes.
1914 France - Arrival of first Canadian Stationary Hospital, Unit #2 in France.
1903 Edmonton Alberta - John Macpherson, John W. Cunningham and Arthur Moore, all from Portage La Prairie, produce the first issue of the Edmonton Evening Journal, 1000 copies done on a hand-fed press; 1908 J.P. McConnell, publisher of Vancouver Sunset and founding editor of The Vancouver Sun, acquires option on the Journal; 1909 sells Journal to J.H. Woods, owner of The Lethbridge News, who hires Milton Robbins Jennings as manager/editor; 1912 William Southam and Sons acquire a controlling interest.
1871 Quebec Quebec - Royal Canadian Rifles depart Quebec for Britain; last British troops in Canada, except for small naval garrison at Halifax; some RCRs stay to train Canadian militia.
1871 Quebec Quebec - Founding of the institution of Tribune de la presse du Parlement de Québec; possibly the oldest press ombudsman in the world.
1840 Quebec Quebec - Governor Colborne forms a Special Council of eleven members.
1839 Montreal Quebec - Governor Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham, calls the Special Council to meet at Montreal.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Authorities start arresting Patriotes; Louis-Joseph Papineau goes into hiding, escapes from Montreal on the 13th; prelude to outbreak of rebellion.
1778 Cherry Valley, New York - Walter Butler raids Cherry Valley, New York, with Rangers and Indians; John Butler's son.
1775 Montreal Quebec - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 evacuates Montreal for Quebec as the American invaders land at ÃŽle St-Paul, then the following day at Pointe St-Charles, capturing the city on the 13th.

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November 13th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1002 РEnglish king ̠thelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal, Quebec.
1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
1864 – The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
1914 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1965 – The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
1970 – Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster.
1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 – Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
1986 – The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
1989 – Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
1994 – In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
1995 – A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2001 – War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
2007 – Russia officially withdraws from the Soviet-era Batumi military base, Georgia.


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1991 CARDINAL LEGER DIES
Montreal Quebec - Paul-Emile Léger 1904-1991 dies in hospital at age 87; 1950 Archbishop of Montreal; 1952 Cardinal; 1967 missionary in Cameroons; 1979 returned to Montreal and set up a relief agency; brother of former Governor General Jules Léger.

1637
St. John's Newfoundland - David Kirke, the first Governor of Newfoundland; brings out the first 100 colonists from England. He builds forts at Ferryland and St. John's to control the Grand Banks fishery. He is co-proprietor of the Colony with the Marquis of Hamilton and Earls Pembroke & Holland.


In Other Events...

1997 Denver Colorado - Maple Ridge, BC, baseball outfielder Larry Walker chosen as most valuable player in the National League, with 22 of 28 first-place votes by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America; Colorado Rockies star the first Canadian to win MVP (no Canadian has won the award in the American League); led the NL with 49 home runs in 1997, placed third in RBIs with 130 and second to Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres in batting race with a .366 average; led the major leagues with a .720 slugging percentage and had 409 total bases, more than anyone in baseball since Stan Musial had 429 in 1948. Walker broke into the majors with the Montreal Expos; according to Felipe Alou, Walker's winning means the book is now almost closed on the 1994 Expos team that was in first place at the time of the players strike before being dismantled in a spring-training fire sale.
1995 Vancouver BC - Izzy Asper's Can West Global Communications Corp. launches $636-million takeover bid for WlC Western International Communications Ltd.; attempt to form Canada's third national television network.
1992 Hollywood California - Winnipeg's Keanu Reeves stars in Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola; with Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Benoit Bouchard announces $2.5 m funding for 5 university research centres to study family violence and child abuse; at site of University of Montreal massacre in 1989.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Jack Major appointed to Supreme Court of Canada replacing fellow Albertan William Stevenson; 61 year old ex partner of Premier Lougheed; from Alberta Court of Appeal.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Montreal invests $15 million to save the Expos baseball team.
1988 Quebec - CEGEP students end strike in Quebec community colleges.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - National Research Council develops world's first microwave oven for thawing plasma; in collaboration with the Red Cross.
1985 Burbank California - André-Philippe Gagnon appears on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, doing his imitations.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau receives the $50,000 Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1981 Space - Canadarm remote manipulator performs flawlessly in four hours of tests on board the space shuttle Columbia STS-2; Canada's $100 million robot arm made by Spar Aerospace in Toronto; tests include manual and automatic modes of operation, ease of control, operation of joints and positioning accuracy; its wrist-mounted camera also put through its paces.
1979 Yellowknife NWT - Radio station CJCD goes on the air in Yellowknife; first private radio station in the North West Territories.
1976 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald' peaks at #1 on the Billboard hit singles chart.
1976 Edmonton Alberta - The Citadel opens the first phase of its new theatre complex, with its Shoctor, Rice and Zeidler theatres; founded in 1965 by Joseph Shoctor in the old Salvation Army Citadel; in 1984, Citadel Phase II will open, with the Maclab, a 700-seat thrust theatre, the Tucker, a 150-seat open-air amphitheatre, and 3 other theatres linked by an indoor tropical garden and waterfall.
1974 Montreal Quebec - Mario Tremblay plays his first NHL game in a Canadiens uniform.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park cancels contract with West German Kraus-Maffei firm for $25 million urban transit system.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler 1923- acquitted in Montreal of having performed an illegal abortion; despite admitting carrying out 6,000 other abortions.
1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ bomb explodes at Domtar factory.
1965 Grand Rapids Manitoba - Manitoba Hydro opens generating station at Grand Rapids.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Canada ratifies International Labour Organization Convention against job discrimination; on grounds of colour, race, religion, sex, politics, nationality.
1950 Grenoble, France - Canadian Curtiss-Reid DC 4 crashes, killing all 58 passengers.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - William C. Ives chairs Royal Commission on Taxation of Annuities and Family Corporations; reports March 29, 1945.
1939 London England - Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 sets up Canadian Military HQ in London; to coordinate move of First Canadian Division to Britain.
1871 Victoria BC - John Foster McCreight sworn in as first Premier of the Province of British Columbia; replaced by Amor de Cosmos Dec. 23, 1872.
1838 Boucherville Quebec - Boucherville rebels disperse on the arrival of the militia.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Louis-Joseph Papineau flees Montreal in disguise after a warrant is issued for his arrest.
1775 Montreal Quebec - American Revolutionary General Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 enters Montreal through the Recollets Gates.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 arrives before QuŽbec with only 700 of his original troop of 1100 men, after a hard trip from New England via the Kennebec and Chaudière Rivers; crosses St. Lawrence to Plains of Abraham; repulsed at St Louis Gate; waits for Richard Montgomery to join him.
1760 St-Malo, France - Some Montreal militia delivered in transport ships to St-Malo after the fall of New France.
1757 New Brunswick/Nova Scotia - Some Acadians go into exile in Quebec.
1673 Quebec Quebec - First suggestion of the beaver as an emblem of Canada.
1613 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Samuel Argall c1572-c1641 leaves Port-Royal after putting French settlements in Acadia to the torch.
1612 Paris France - Henri de Bourbon, prince de Condé, named Viceroy of New France.

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November 14th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Empire.
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme ends.
1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
1921 – The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
1922 – The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: In England, Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.
1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
1970 – Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
1971 – Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III as Pope of Alexandria.
1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.
1973 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
1975 – Spain abandons Western Sahara.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
1984 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
1990 – After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
1991 – American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
2010 – Germany's Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula One's Drivers Championship to become the sport's youngest champion.
2012 – Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.


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1849 TORONTO THE CAPITAL OF CANADA
Toronto Ontario - Toronto, Upper Canada becomes the new seat of the Union government; after a Tory mob had burned the Montreal Parliament buildings.

1606
Port Royal, Nova Scotia -
Marc Lescarbot c1570-1642 writes and produces North America's first European drama, Neptune's Theatre, staged in canoes outside the fort, complete with verses in French, Gascon and Micmac. The play is a 'jovial spectacle' where King Neptune arrives in a floating chariot drawn by six tritons, to the sound of trumpets and cannons, to greet Samuel de Champlain, as he returns to Port-Royal with Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, the lieutenant-governor of Acadia.


In Other Events...


1994 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Bourque elected the 39th Mayor of Montreal.
1992 Strathroy Ontario - Greg Curnoe 1936-1992 dies after cycling collision with pickup truck near London, while riding his Mariposa bicycle with the London Centennial Wheelers cycling club; artist known for bicycle paintings, and mixed-media and print collage works; helped found the Nihilist Spasm noise band in 1965, and the Forest City artist-run gallery in 1973; 1981 had a major retrospective at the National Gallery; major works include Kamekaze (1967), View of Victoria Hospital (1969-1971), Mariposa T.T. (1978-79) and Organic Pigments (1987).
1991 Toronto Ontario - Ontario sells SkyDome to consortium of 8 companies for $280 million in cash and tax breaks.
1989 Montreal Quebec - CP Rail starts cabooseless train operations; CN Rail follows on Feb. 1, 1990.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Commons ends 86-year-old Crowsnest Pass grain freight rates; new rates raise costs for farmers but put $3.7 billion into rail upgrade.
1982 Vancouver BC - Workers raise the inflatable roof of Vancouver's BC Place, completing Canada's first domed stadium. The stadium opens the following June.
1982 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau Mayor of Montreal for the 8th time.
1981 Montreal Quebec - VIA rail announces cuts to nearly 20% of its services.
1975 Montreal Quebec - Quebec government creates the Régie Olympique; takes full control of finance and construction of main stadium for 1976 Summer Olympics; the Big O.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canada begins production of Olympic coins to help pay for the 1976 Summer Olympics awarded to Montreal.
1972 Lahr Germany - Canadian Armed Forces installs SAMSON (Strategic Automatic Message Switching Operation Network), for computer-controlled message handling to bases in Europe.
1971 Toronto Ontario- University of Western Ontario Mustangs, under new coach Frank Cosentino, a former quarterback, win the first of four Canadian university titles in the 1970s, in a 15-14 squeaker over Alberta that saw quarterback Joe Fabiani's 97-yard bomb to Terry Harvey; Western coach Johnny Metras retired after 30-year reign.
1969 Sudbury Ontario - 16,000 Inco employees end 128-day strike.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Organizers cancel annual Santa Claus parade in Montreal due to increased violence in city, and a civic law against demonstrations.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Ontario announces plans to consolidate 1,500 school boards into 100 county-size boards, by Jan 1,1969.
1966 Montreal Quebec - 5,200 Air Canada machinists and auxiliary workers start two-week strike; first in 29-year history.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings set a National Hockey League record as he scored his 627th career goal in a game against Montreal.
1962 Quebec - Jean Lesage re-elected Liberal Premier of Quebec; under the slogan 'Maîtres chez nous' - 'Masters in our Own House', coined by Natural Resources Minister René Lévesque.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - National Research Council announces formation of Medical Research Council.
1959 Toronto Ontario - University of Western Ontario Mustangs beat British Columbia 34-7 in the East-West championship before 2,500 people at Varsity Stadium; Western outrushes British Columbia 461 yards to 202, to take their first Canadian university football title.
1955 Toronto Ontario - 2,000 De Havilland Aircraft workers in Toronto end four-month strike.
1953 Ottawa Ontario - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the Senate and House of Commons.
1950 Toronto Ontario - Junior farmer Ricky Sharpe wins the world wheat championship at the Royal Winter Fair; 13 year old from Munson, Alberta, a member of the Drumheller Junior Grain Club; his 18 lb sample of Marquis wheat was judged the finest.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Future Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent urges keeping the Red Ensign in a flag debate.
1922 Calgary Alberta - Robert Chambers 'Bob' Edwards dies; editor and publisher of the Calgary Eye Opener born at Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept. 12, 1864. Edwards went into the newspaper business in the south of France, publishing an English-language newspaper on the Riviera; 1894 emigrated to Canada; 1897 started the weekly Free Lance in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, the first newspaper between Edmonton and Calgary; 1902 moved to High River and started the Eye Opener, which he soon moved to Calgary, where he was known for his wit and his ability to skewer the famous and pompous; 1909 moved to Toronto, Montreal, Port Arthur, and Winnipeg, returning to Calgary in 1911; 1916 a recovered alcoholic, supported prohibition in the referendum; 1921 elected to the Alberta legislature as an Independent.
1914 Hamilton Ontario - Billy Mallett of the Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in an Ontario Rugby Football Union game.
1914 New York City - Cobourg actress Marie Dressler stars in a film version of her stage show, Tillie's Punctured Romance, with Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand; six-reel silent film is Canadian Mack Sennett's first feature-length picture. On the same day, Chaplin left Sennett's Keystone company to sign with the Essanay company at $1,250 a week.
1909 Atlantic Ocean - Joshua Slocum 1844-1909 dies at sea on or after this date; ship's captain, explorer, author, first man to sail solo around the world, born at Wilmot Township, Nova Scotia Feb. 20, 1844; brought up at Westport, Brier Island. Slocum went to sea at 16, and served in merchant ships to Europe and the Far East; wrote Voyage of the Liberdade (1890), Voyage of the Destroyer (1894) and Sailing Alone Around the World (1900), about his epic 75,000 km voyage around the globe in a 13 ton oyster sloop, the Spray, from 1895 to 1898.
1879 Montreal Quebec - Formation of the sixth Cavalry Regiment, later the 15th Armored Regiment, Duke of Connaught's Hussars, in Montreal.
1858 Montreal Quebec - Monument set up in Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery to commemorate the Patriotes of 1837-38.
1838 Prescott Ontario - Col Henry Dundas arrives with four companies of the 83rd Regiment, two eighteen-pounders and a howitzer, to attack Republican Colonel Nils von Schoultz and his 200 Canadian exiles and US sympathizers holed up in a 6-storey stone windmill; the rebels surrender on the 16th.
1835 Saint John, New Brunswick - Opening of insane asylum at Saint John; Canada's first insane asylum.
1778 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - George Washington writes Henry Laurens, president of the Continental Congress, that his French ally, the Marquis de Lafayette, wants to undertake a campaign against the British in Canada, to regain New France.
1736 Anticosti Island, Quebec - Father Emmanuel Crespel shipwrecked on Anticosti Island.


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November 15th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 – Battle of Morgarten: the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1688 – The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.
1705 – Battle of Zsibó - Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians)
1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1791 – The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1922 – Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
1935 – Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.
1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1942 – World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 – Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 РRen̩ L̩vesque and the Parti Qu̩b̩cois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago, Illinois to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey.
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
1990 – The People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
2000 – Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new 9-members Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroys parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new 7-members Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.



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1960 LADY CHATTERLEY NOT OBSCENE
Toronto Ontario - Ontario panel of experts, appointed by Attorney General Kelso Roberts, finds that D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover is not obscene according to the Criminal Code.

1976
Quebec - Rene Levesque 1922-1987 leads Parti Quebecois to victory in Quebec election, defeating Liberals under Robert Bourassa; wins 69 of 110 seats in the National Assembly


In Other Events...

1996 New York City - Céline Dion's album 'Falling Into You' is certified Multi Platinum 6.00.
1993 Canada/USA - NHL referees go on strike.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Rob McCall 1958-1991, figure skater, dies of AIDS-related cancer at age 33. He and ice dancing partner Tracy Wilson won seven Canadian championships in a row from 1982-1988, and they took the Bronze medal at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; native of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
1990 Washington DC - George Bush passes Clean Air Act; commits US to cut Sulphur Dioxide emissions from power plants by over 50% by year 2000. Act took 16 months to get through Congress; intended to reduce acid rain damage in New England, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Liberal Senator Hazen Argue charged by the RCMP with misuse of Senate funds; first Canadian Senator to face criminal charges; dies in 1991 before case goes to trial.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts 19-day peace initiative to Japan, Bangladesh, China and Commonwealth conference in India.
1981 Hamilton Ontario - Ottawa Rough Riders beat first place Hamilton Tiger Cats 17-3, becoming the first CFL team to advance to the Grey Cup after regular season losing record (5-11).
1974 Montreal Quebec - Ottawa signs James Bay Agreement with Cree and Inuit; $150 million grant for land lost to power dams.
1974 Hollywood California - Genevieve Bujold stars in film 'Earthquake', with Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner; features 'Sensurround', with low-frequency noises supposed to suggest a quake
1973 Montreal Quebec - 'Charbonneau et le chef' premieres; about Maurice Duplessis and Quebec's Archbishop.
1972 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta passes provincial Bill of Rights.
1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ bomb explodes on Rue d'Iberville.
1968 Nigeria - Canadian aid to Biafra ends after 11 air relief trips; Canadian families and institutions allowed to return.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Secretary of State Judy LaMarsh 1924-1980 opens new Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa; part of the National Museums of Canada.
1963 Rana Pratrap Sagar, India - Canada to help India build CANDU-type nuclear power station.
1962 New York City - Nova Scotia born singer Hank Snow has a #1 country hit single with 'I've Been Everywhere'.
1954 NWT - SAS makes its first regularly scheduled commercial flight between Los Angeles and Europe; first commercial flight over the Canadian Arctic and the North Pole.
1951 Hanover Germany - First units of 27th Canadian Brigade arrive in Germany for NATO service.
1944 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings score five goals in the span of one minute, 39 seconds in an NHL game.
1935 Washington DC - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 signs reciprocal trade deal with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt; first treaty with US since 1866; substantial concessions on 88 items and new quota system to ease depression caused by high tariffs.
1933 Victoria BC - Thomas Dufferin Patullo 1873-1956 sworn in as British Columbia Premier, replacing Simon Fraser Tolmie, Premier since Aug. 21, 1928.
1920 Geneva Switzerland - George Eulas Foster 1847-1931 attends first meeting of League of Nations held at Geneva; with C. J. Doherty and N. W. Rowell; until December 18.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - First session of 12th Parliament meets, until April 1,1912; adds Ungava Peninsula to Quebec territory, and remaining area of NWT.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan - Father André, Louis Riel's priest, visits his charge in his jail cell and tells him he is to be hanged the next day; according to the priest, Riel takes the news calmly, and says he has made his peace with God, and is fully prepared.
1881 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada founded at Pittsburgh; becomes the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886.
1880 London, England - Ned Hanlan 1855-1908 defeats Australian Edward Trickett to win world single sculls rowing championship; Trickett was roughly 6'6" compared to Hanlan's 5'10". Hanlan will hold the world title for four years, until 1884, when he will be defeated in Australia by William Beach.
1877 Regina Saskatchewan - North-West Territorial Council passes ordinance 'For the Protection of the Buffalo' in a failed attempt to slow the wanton destruction of the herds; provides for closed season on cows from Nov. 15 to Aug. 14; as many as 60 million buffalo once roamed the North American plains; by the late 1880s they are almost extinct.
1855 Brockville Ontario - First Grand Trunk train reaches Brockville from Montreal.
1849 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Government Telegraph carries first European cable despatches to and from the US and Newfoundland, as the Pony Express era comes to an end.
1831 Quebec - Opening of second session of fourteenth Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until Feb. 15, 1832; passes first copyright law, and sets up Boards of Health; Robert Christie again expelled from the Chamber.
1815 Quebec Quebec - John Wilson appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves from May 21, 1816 to July 12,1816.
1804 Quebec Quebec - Presentation of two Moliere plays, 'Le Médecin malgré lui' and 'Les Fourberies de Scapin'.
1777 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Continental Congress of the 13 colonies approves the articles of confederation; provision made for the future admission of Quebec and the other British colonies.
1765 Quebec Quebec - Governor James Murray admits French speaking jurors to Quebec courts and allows lawyers to plead in French.
1765 Quebec Quebec - Rev. George Henry establishes the first Presbyterian Church in Canada.
1761 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - Louis-Joseph Gaultier de la Vérendrye 1717-1761 drowns when his ship, en route from Quebec to France, is smashed on the shores of Cape Breton during a gale; member of the family of fur traders and explorers of the Canadian and American west.
1701 Quebec Quebec - Fire badly damages the Séminaire de Québec.
1690 Quebec Quebec - Three supply ships evade Phips' squadron and relieve Quebec.
1644 Quebec - François-Joseph Bressani 1612-1672 survives Iroquois torture, sold to Dutch, who pay ransom to free him and return him to France.
1613 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 founds la Compagnie du Canada.
1603 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 publishes 'Des Sauvages': his account of New France.

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November 16th 2013 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

534 – A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.
1491 – An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1776 – American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
1793 – French Revolution: Ninety anti-republican Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
1805 РNapoleonic Wars: Battle of Sch̦ngrabern РRussian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat.
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1828 – Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.
1849 – A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
1857 – Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee – Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
1885 РCanadian rebel leader of the M̩tis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1940 – World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1940 – Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1940 – New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1943 – World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1944 – World War II: Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur, is launched.
1944 – World War II: Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
1945 – UNESCO is founded.
1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1989 – A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
1997 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.


Today's Canadian Headline...


1983 MARGARET CALLS IT QUITS
Ottawa Ontario - Margaret Trudeau 1947- files for divorce from Prime Minister Trudeau; granted April 2, 1984.

1885
Regina Saskatchewan -
Louis Riel 1844-1885 hanged in Mounted Police barracks in Regina; before dying, he gives exclusive interview to journalist Nicholas Flood Davin, who entered prison disguised as a priest. Just after eight in the morning, the hangman appears in the doorway of his cell; Riel asks, 'Mr. Gibson, you want me? I am ready'; after receiving absolution from the priest, he ascends the scaffold; as he and the priest are reciting the words of the Lord's Prayer, the trap door drops. Riel's body is sent to St-Boniface and interred in the cemetery in front of the Cathedral.


In Other Events...


1997 Vancouver BC - Toronto Argonauts beat Saskatchawan Rough Riders 47-23 in CFL Grey Cup.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet puts Canadian National Railways on the block for $2.2-billion; the biggest initial public offering in Canadian history.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules fetus has no right to life under common law, the Quebec Civil Code or the Quebec Charter; following injunctions brought under Barbara Dodd and Chantal Daigle cases.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Lou Applebaum & Jacques Hébert release Applebaum-Hébert report on federal cultural policy; recommend more arts funding and Canadian content; severe changes to CBC, such as elimination of television commercials and dropping of private affiliates
1979 Mississauga Ontario - Mississauga residents start to return after work crews drain liquid chlorine from rail tankers; no one killed or injured in largest single movement of people in Canada
1972 Toronto Ontario - Unity National Bank chartered; head offices in Toronto; Canada's 11th bank
1970 Botswana - Canada arranges $20 million development loan for Botswana.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Maxwell Weir Mackenzie 1907- appointed to chair Royal Commission into Canada's national security.
1960 BC - BC fishermen end 12-month labour dispute that shut down province's herring fishery.
1959 Toronto Ontario - Leslie Miscampbell Frost 1895-1975 Ontario Premier turns first sod for extension of Toronto's Yonge Street Subway.
1928 Ottawa Ontario - Georges-Jean Knight first French Ambassador to Canada presents credentials to Governor-General.
1869 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 invites settlers and Metis to meet at Fort Garry to form a provisional government; most reject his proposals
1857 Lucknow India - William Hall wins Victoria Cross at Relief of Lucknow; first Canadian Sailor, First Black Canadian; first Nova Scotian to be awarded the VC.
1838 Chippewa Ontario - Edgeworth Ussher militia captain murdered by rebels at Chippewa.
1838 Pakenham Ontario - Republican rebels battle with militiamen at Pakenham.
1838 Prescott Ontario - Republican Colonel Nils Von Schoultz surrenders with 137 of his Hunters Lodge rebels after the four day battle of the Windmill; Hunters' losses estimated at 80, and British and Canadian losses were 16 dead and 60 wounded; Von Schoultz and 10 other men are later hanged at Kingston
1837 Quebec - Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford 1776-1849 issues warrants for the arrest of 26 Patriote leaders on charges of high treason, after the Rebellion of 1837's first skirmish at Longueuil; Wolfred Nelson among those named.
1784 Montreal Quebec - Henry Hamilton c1734-1796 appointed Lieutenant-Governor and administrator of Canada during Haldimand's absence; until Nov. 2, 1785

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November 17th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of 10 months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
794 – Japanese Emperor Kammu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto.
1183 – The Battle of Mizushima.
1292 – John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1511 – Spain and England ally against France.
1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1659 – The Treaty of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
1777 – Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C..
1810 – Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
1811 РJos̩ Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.
1839 – Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.
1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1858 – Modified Julian Day zero.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins – Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee, under siege.
1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
1878 – First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante. Armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
1896 – The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
1903 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
1911 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
1919 – King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested by Edward George Honey.
1922 – Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union.
1939 – Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. In addition, all Czech universities are shut down and over 1200 Czech students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos.
1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
1979 – Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
1982 – Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
1993 – United States House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement after greater authority in trade negotiations was granted to President George Bush in 1991.
1993 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
2000 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.



Today's Canadian Headline...


1987 BELL RINGS MVP TITLE
Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays slugger George Bell named the American League's Most Valuable Player (MVP); first Blue Jay to win the honour, as well as the first player from a Canadian-based baseball team and the first native of the Dominican Republic.

1840
Norway House Manitoba - James Evans 1801-1846 invents a nine-character syllabic alphabet for the Cree and Inuit people, still in use today; he later prints birch-bark hymn books in Cree; Evans is General Superintendent of the Northwest Indian Missions.


In Other Events...

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister David Collenette announces public inquiry into the alleged DND coverup of brutality by Canadian peacekeepers in Somalia.
Ottawa Ontario -
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Kim Campbell says Ottawa to pay up to 80 victims of brainwashing $100,000 each on compassionate grounds; experiments by Dr. Ewen Cameron at McGill in early 1960s funded by Canada, CIA.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - CP Rail asks National Transportation Agency to abandon all lines east of Sherbrooke, Quebec, mostly in New Brunswick and Maine; lost $52 million in past 3 years
1987 St. John's, Newfoundland - Figure skater Barbara Ann Scott-King and speed-walker Fred Hayward, both former Olympians, carry the Olympic Torch down Signal Hill and hand it off to Maurice Sheppard, the first of 6,620 Canadians who will carry the flame on an 18,000 km trek to Calgary. The Torch arrives 87 days later, on Feb. 13, 1988, to open the Winter Olympics.
1981 Manitoba - Howard Russell Pawley 1934- leads NDP to victory in Manitoba election, defeating Progressive Conservatives under Sterling Lyon.
1968 Rome Italy - Al Balding (b1924) & George Knudson (b1937) win World Cup golf tournament in Rome; first victory for Canadian team since Canada donated Cup; they defeat 41 other national teams
1938 Washington D.C. - US, Canada and UK sign a trilateral trade agreement; make further tariff concessions to ease Depression.
1913 Quebec - Completion of Quebec division of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad; at the Ontario boundary
1874 Esquimalt BC - Colonial Secretary Lord Carnarvon negotiates the building of the Esquimalt to Nanaimo section of the CPR, plus $2 million a year in surveys on the main BC line.
1856 Stratford Ontario - Grand Trunk Railway reaches Stratford from Guelph.
1831 Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 attends the opening of the second session of the 11th Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until Jan. 28, 1832; he will be expelled twice for criticism in his newspaper, 'The Colonial Advocate'.
1800 Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 visits the Piegan (Blackfoot) Indians; to Dec. 3.
1775 Charlottetown PEI - American privateers raid Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
1623 Quebec Quebec - Canada's first highway is built, connecting the Lower and Upper Towns of Quebec.

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November 18th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
1105 – Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV.
1180 – Phillip II becomes king of France.
1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV
1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
1307 – William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1421 – A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as Sint-Elisabethsvloed.
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1494 – French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy
1601 – Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.
1626 – St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1686 – Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
1730 – Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.
1803 РThe Battle of Verti̬res, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
1809 – In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoi ends in French defeat, but Marshal of France Michel Ney's leadership leads to him becoming known as "the bravest of the brave".
1863 – King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.
1865 – Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1909 РTwo United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of Jos̩ Santos Zelaya.
1916 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme – in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
1918 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize".
1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
1929 – 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
1930 – Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
1943 – World War II– Battle of Berlin: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
1944 – The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba
1947 – The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
1949 – The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.
1970 – U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
1987 – Iran-Contra Affair: the U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
1987 – King's Cross fire: in London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
1991 – After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
1993 – In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified by the House of Representatives.
1993 – In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
1999 – In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59-foot-tall (18 m) Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am.
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4 to 3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.


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1936 BIRTH OF THE GLOBE & MAIL
Toronto Ontario - George McCullagh's Globe newspaper purchases The Mail & Empire and amalgamates the two papers to form The Globe and Mail; Thomson Newspapers will acquire the daily in 1980.

1883
Ottawa Ontario - Sanford Fleming's Standard Time scheme begins at midnight Atlantic Time in Nova Scotia and the eastern Seaboard of the US. Canada and the US agreed to divide the continent into four time zones, primarily to manage the nightmare of local times clasing with rail.way timetables. Other world nations will endorse the Canadian engineer's idea at a 1884 Washington conference.


In Other Events...


1994 Quebec government officially shelves Hydro Quebec's $13.3-billion Great Whale powerdam project after lobbying by Quebec Crees and a softening of the US power market.
1992 Casey Quebec - RCMP seize record 4,323 kilos of cocaine with a street value of $2.7 billion. The Canadian military, with the help of the US DEA, track the plane from South America, then chase it with jet fighters and military helicopters over New Brunswick, forcing it to land at a remote Quebec airstrip; on Nov. 20 they close a processing lab in Laval and arrest 4 Quebeckers, 3 Columbian nationals.
1984 Edmonton Alberta - Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger Cats 47-17 to win the Grey Cup.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company announces closure of its 65 Ontario catalogue stores.
1980 Caledon Ontario - Conn Smythe dies; builder of Maple Leaf Gardens and founder of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes law to lower the speed limit on highways and to make the wearing of seat belts mandatory.
1964 Pine Point NWT - Cominco ships first lead-zinc ore rail from Pine Point to smelters in Trail and Kimberley, BC; over recently completed Great Slave Lake Railway
1963 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia government closes last segregated school for blacks in the province.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa awards National Fitness Grant of $25,000 to Canada's 1964 Olympic hockey team; first grant to Canadian hockey team travelling abroad
1961 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan legislature passes law giving citizens of that province Canada's first prepaid medical care plan.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Board of Broadcast Governors rules Canada's TV stations must have 45% Canadian content from April 1, 1961; 55% Canadian content after April 1, 1962
1942 France - Guy Bieler parachutes inside France to act as secret agent; first Canadian Army secret agent inside France
1931 Cape Hopes Advance Quebec - gales force winds reach 125 mph (200 kph), the highest wind speed ever recorded in Canada.
1929 Burin Newfoundland - Cape Breton earthquake sends huge 15.2 metre tidal wave to Newfoundland; kills 27 people on Burin Peninsula, does $2 million damage.
1926 London England - Imperial Conference adopts the Balfour Report; sees a new role for Britain and the self-governing Dominions, as 'autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status.'
1916 France/Belgium - Canadian Fourth Division again attacks the Germans on the Somme; other three Canadian divisions transferred to Artois mid-October
1912 Montreal Quebec - H.R.H. Duke of Connaught 1850-1942 dedicates floating steel dry dock in Montreal.
1883 Ottawa Ontario - Sanford Fleming's Standard Time scheme adopted in Canada; other nations endorse idea at 1884 conference
1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 decides on a coup d'etat for December 7; to create a republican government in Canada that would petition for union with the United States.

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November 19th 2013 - This Date in History.


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461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sassanian Empire at the Battle of Qadisiya in Iraq.
1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1954 РT̩l̩ Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1969 РAssociation football player Pel̩ scores his 1,000th goal.
1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
1984 – San Juanico Disaster: A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.



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1869 CANADA SHOPS THE BAY
London England - The Hudson's Bay Company owners approve the deed of surrender of their Rupert's Land territory to Canada. The terms are £300,000 cash, land around HBC posts and 1/20th of the Prairie fertile belt (some 2.8 million hectares of farmland); to come into effect December 1.

1858
Langley BC - James Douglas arrives at HBC Fort Langley, 40 km up the Fraser River from the coast, on the SS Beaver. He reads a proclamation creating the Crown Colony of British Columbia, and is sworn in by Judge Matthew Begbie as first Governor. To take up the new post, he resigned as Hudson's Bay Company Governor of Vancouver Island. Britain conferred colonial status on BC to hold off US annexationists, and to bring the law to the gold miners swarming into the territory, formerly controlled by the HBC.


In Other Events...


1995 Toronto Ontario - CFL Baltimore Stallions beat Calgary Stampeders, 37-20 in 83rd Grey Cup game.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Canadian National Railway shares begin to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
1994 St-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Quebec - Journée nationale des Patriotes held at St-Denis to honour the 1837 rebels.
1991 Geneva Switzerland - Canada signs UN sponsored agreement to cut emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds - solvents that kill plants, combine with nitrous oxides to form ozone.
1983 Montreal Quebec - Bruce Hood officiates in his 1,000th National Hockey League game; first NHL referee to reach that mark.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - 3,000 Indians march on Parliament Hill, and more in other sites across Canada, to protest exclusion of aboriginal rights from constitution.
1973 Canso Nova Scotia - Shaheen Natural Resources and SNAW Progretti of Italy to build oil refinery on Canso Strait; capacity of 340 million Litres (200,000 barrels) a day
1969 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Canadian scientific vessel 'Hudson' leaves for 11-month voyage of Atlantic, Antarctic, Pacific; to study ocean currents and resource potential
1967 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque founds the Mouvement 'Souveraineté-Association'; will later be folded into the Parti québécois.
1966 Omaha Nebraska - Quebec's Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ.
1963 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe scores record-breaking 545th goal against Charlie Hodge of the Montreal Canadiens, breaking Maurice Richard's mark. Olympia crowd give him 20 minute standing ovation
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian dollar devalued by l0%.
1948 PEI - opening of the Prince Edward Island to mainland microwave; world's first microwave for commercial and voice transmission.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Donald Gordon appointed new Chairman of Wartime Prices and Trade Board on Hector McKinnon's resignation; was head of Foreign Exchange Control Board
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet passes order to amalgamate all government-owned railroads; origin of CNR.
1867 London England - British government rejects request to allow British Columbia to join Confederation immediately.
1866 New Westminster, BC - Vancouver Island, which had been a separate colony, becomes part of British Columbia; due to financial crisis.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Crowd of 1000 gathers at the Marché St-Paul to support those Patriotes put in jail; after rioting breaks out with loyalists, military authorities lock the gates of the city at 8 pm.
1804 Montreal Quebec - Mr. Ormsby, a Scottish actor, opens Canada's first English language theatre with two plays, The Busy Body and Sultan.
1794 Washington, DC - John Jay negotiates Jay Treaty 'to promote friendship and good neighbourhood' between the US and British North America; New York fur trader John Jacob Astor benefits when the export of furs to England is allowed, and the British agree to evacuate Ohio Valley forts.
1775 Point-aux-Trembles, Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 retreats up river from Quebec to await arrival of Richard Montgomery coming down river from Montreal.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 reaches Quebec.
1686 Europe - England and France sign Neutrality Pact to settle Hudson Bay dispute and decide on boundary.
1663 Paris France - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 appointed Lieutenant General of French territories in North America.
1578 Plymouth England - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 leaves Plymouth with ten ships; commissioned by Queen to find new lands and start colony; three ships desert to piracy; rest forced to return to England.

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November 20th 2013 - This Date in History.

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284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor.
762 – During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels.
1194 – Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
1407 РA truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orl̩ans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orl̩ans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).
1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
1861 – American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1901- Mine fire in Telluride, Colo., kills 28 miners, prompts union call for safer work conditions
1910 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1917 – Ukraine is declared a republic.
1923 – Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark.
1936 РJos̩ Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
1940 – World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins – United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
1945 – Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1952 – Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
1962 – Cuban missile crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1968 - A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company’s No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia
1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1979 – Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
1980 – Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet down to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
1982 – The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers (UGTE) is founded.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1991 – An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.
1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
1994 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumes the next year).
1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
2001 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
2003 – After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.



Today's Canadian Headline...


1995 MULRONEY SUES RCMP, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Montreal Quebec - Brian Mulroney files $50-million lawsuit against the federal Department of Justice and the RCMP. Claims reputation hurt by letter sent by investigating police to Swiss banking authorities alleging a kickback in the sale of 34 Airbus jets to Air Canada in 1988.

1942
Dawson Creek BC - Opening of 2,450 km (1,523 mile) long Alcan Military Highway, or Alaska Highway; from Dawson Creek, BC to Fairbanks, Alaska; road built to supply Pacific North West and Alaska in case of Japanese invasion.


In Other Events...


1996 Quebec Quebec - Bouchard government to reduce the expenses relating to the office of Lieutenant Governor, including sale of the official residence (1010, chemin St-Louis); passes a motion that Ottawa nominate persons approved by the deputies of the National Assembly.
1995 Montreal Quebec - CP Rail says it will move Head Office to Calgary from Montreal, cutting 1,450 management and support jobs, moving 730 positions to Calgary; to be closer to bulk of business.
1993 New York City - Kingston Ontario's Bryan Adams' single 'Please Forgive Me' peaks at #7 on the Billboard pop charts.
1992 Toronto Ontario - John Piper resigns as advisor to Premier Bob Rae; Toronto Sun says he offered them criminal record of a woman; allegations force Energy Minister Will Ferguson to resign in February.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes bill creating a College of Midwives in Ontario; first province to regulate and recognize the profession of midwifery.
1991 New York City - Kingston Ontario's Bryan Adams has a #1 single on the Billboard pop charts with 'Can't Stop This Thing We Started'.
1990 Bromont Quebec - Korean auto company Hyundai opens car body plant at Bromont in the Eastern Townships.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Bertha Wilson retires from the Supreme Court of Canada; spent 9 years as the first woman on the Court.
1989 Montreal Quebec - Fabric roof of the Olympic Stadium tears during a wind storm.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- announces he will resign as Liberal leader after leadership convention in March selects his successor.
1978 Yukon - Progressive Conservatives win 11 of 16 seats in first Yukon election contested by political parties.
1976 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald' peaks at #2 on the Billboard pop single chart.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Joseph Drybones' conviction for being intoxicated off the reserve overturned by Supreme Court, who rule he was denied his rights; Drybones Case affects Treaty rights and off-reserve law.
1969 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists set off bomb in Montreal's Loyola College.
1964 Yukon - Mt. Kennedy named in memory of late U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; unnamed mountain on Alaska-Yukon border
1962 New York City - United Nations approves Canadian proposal for monitoring atomic radiation.
1946 Leduc Alberta - Imperial Oil starts drilling Leduc #1, southeast of Edmonton; starts producing Feb. 14, 1947; by late 1947, there are 30 oil wells operating at the Leduc field, pumping over 3,500 barrels a day.
1945 Nuremberg Germany - Canadian lawyers attend war crimes trial of 20 top-ranking Nazi leaders at Nuremberg.
1942 Dawson Creek, BC - Through trucks start rolling toward Fairbanks, Alaska, along the 2,450 km Alcan Military Highway, or Alaska Highway; built to supply the Pacific North West and Alaska in case of Japanese invasion.
1942 Montreal Quebec - NHL abolishes regular season OT until World War II is over.
1934 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is the first NHLer to score 4 goals in one period.
1928 Boston Massachusetts - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0, in the first NHL game played in the Boston Gardens.
1920 Montreal Quebec - McGill University raises $4 million from alumni and Montreal citizens; added to $1 million grants from Quebec and Rockefeller Foundation
1915 Montreal Quebec - Mayor lays of cornerstone of Montreal Free Municipal Library.
1915 Toronto Ontario - Hamilton Tigers beat Toronto Rowing Club 13-7, in 7th Grey Cup game, before 2,828 fans.
1903 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan - Moose Jaw incorporated.
1893 Washington DC - US Supreme Court rules that the Great Lakes and their connecting waters constitute 'high seas.' The US and Canada will sign a 1909 treaty giving both countries free and open access to all waters on equal terms.
1877 Edmonton Alberta - Opening of first telegraph service to Edmonton via Calgary.
1871 Winnipeg Manitoba - First telegraph lines link Winnipeg and eastern Canada via Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota.
1871 Alberta - John and David McDougall arrive in the North West Territory to farm; Alberta's first farmers.
1871 Arthabaska Quebec - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 first elected to Quebec Assembly; later MP for Quebec East and Canada's 7th Prime Minister.
1775 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Trois-Rivières falls to Montgomery's American invaders the day after Guy Carleton reaches Quebec.
1613 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 gives position of Lieutenant-General of New France to Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé; after sudden death of Soissons; Samuel de Champlain appointed to govern the Royal Colony.

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November 21st 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


164 BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
235 – Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope. During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.
1386 – Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive.
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.).
1783 РIn Paris, Jean-Fran̤ois Pil̢tre de Rozier and Fran̤ois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
1861 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1894 – Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops are accused of the massacre of the remaining inhabitants of the city. Reports conflict on this subject.
1902 – The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39-0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
1910 РSailors onboard Brazil's most powerful military units, including the brand-new warships Minas Geraes, Ṣo Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
1916 – World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.
1918 – Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
1918 – A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
1920 – Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday". This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.
1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1927 – Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
1945 – The United Auto Workers Union strikes 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise. An estimated 200,000 workers are out.
1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.
1962 – The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge).
1964 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
1972 – Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic.
1974 – The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
1977 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen" and the poem "God Defend New Zealand", written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.
1979 – The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.
1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1989 – Flight attendants celebrate the signing into law a smoking ban on all U.S. domestic flights.
1995 – The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
1996 – Humberto Vidal Explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop explodes.
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2004 – The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
2004 – The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed.
2004 – The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
2006 – Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
2009 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, kills 108.



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1784 BIRTH OF NEW BRUNSWICK
Fredericton, New Brunswick - - Thomas Carleton, younger brother of Sir Guy Carleton, and defender of Quebec against the Americans in 1775-76, arrives at Parrtown as first Governor to proclaim the new Province of New Brunswick.

1921
London England - King George V proclaims Canada's Coat of Arms, designates white and red as the official Canadian colours.


In Other Events...


1995 Montreal Quebec - Lucien Bouchard announces he will resign as leader of the Bloc Quebecois to seek the leadership of the provincial Parti Quebecois; he wins by acclamation Jan 20th, 1996, replacing Jacques Parizeau as Quebec Premier.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Mel Hurtig chosen leader of new nationalist party by 40 delegates at founding convention; most members active in the Council of Canadians
1990 Paris France - Brian Mulroney 1939- signs Charter of Paris for Canada. The treaty and non-aggression declaration among 16 NATO and 6 Warsaw Pact nations effectively ends the Cold War, and reinforces human rights and freedoms in Europe.
1989 Moscow Russia - Brian Mulroney 1939- makes an official state visit to the USSR.
1988 Canada - Brian Mulroney 1939- wins federal election with 169 seats to 83 Liberal; 43 NDP; 0 other; ran on a platform of Free Trade with the US.
1985 Bromont Quebec - Quebec government lends Korean auto company Hyundai $260 million to build car body plant at Bromont in the Eastern Townships.
1982 Malibu California - Joni Mitchell marries her bass player, Larry Klein, at the Malibu home of her manager, Elliot Roberts.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- announces his resignation as Liberal leader after leadership convention in March selects his successor; after defeat by Clark's PCs. He would return, however, after the Clark government is defeated on a Non-confidence motion, and loses the 1980 election.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Orillia's Gordon Lightfoot has a #1 Billboard single with 'The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald'.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Edward Cyril 'Newsy' Lalonde 1887-1970 dies at age 88; hockey and lacrosse player, coach; born at Cornwall, Ontario, Oct. 31, 1887. Lalonde got his nickname as a reporter and printer for the Cornwall Freeholder; 1904 started playing lacrosse at age 16, and spent his summers playing lacrosse for various clubs until 1928 (Vancouver paid him $6,500 for one season); 1910 played pro hockey as one of the original Montreal Canadiens; 1910-11 played for the Renfrew Millionaires; 1913 rejoined the Canadiens; led the league in scoring 4 times, and got 124 goals in 98 games over the next 5 years; on 2 Stanley Cup winning teams; 1926 retired; later coached the New York Americans, Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators; voted as Canada's Lacrosse Player of the Half Century in the 1950 Canadian Press poll.
1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists explode bomb on Boulevard St-Laurent in Montreal.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Quebec votes to abolish the Upper house or provincial Senate, and change the name of the Legislative Assembly to the National Assembly.
1954 Halifax, Nova Scotia - HMCS Labrador arrives in Halifax via the Northwest Passage and around North America via the Panama Canal; a 29,000 km voyage.
1952 Toronto Ontario - Johnny Metras' University of Western Ontario Mustangs capture the Yates Cup with a 12-8 win over Toronto Varsity Blues on a 52-yard touchdown pass from Don Getty to Murray Henderson with 45 seconds left in the game.
1950 Canoe River, BC - Canadian military troop train collides with CNR passenger train at Canoe River, after failing to get off on a siding; 21 killed (including 4 engine crew), 53 injured. The soldiers were all members of the 2nd Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, bound from Camp Shilo, Manitoba, to Fort Lewis, Washington, for winter training prior to going to Korea. None of the east-bound passengers on the other train were injured but their baggage and express cars were derailed. The wreck was the result of a mistake on the part of a CNR dispatcher, who wired the troop train to pull into Blue River instead of Canoe River; charges were dismissed because of the courtroom skill of the dispatcher's lawyer, John Diefenbaker.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian commander H.D.G. Crerar promoted to full General after leading the First Canadian Army in the invasion of France; commanded the field army throughout the north Europe campaign; retired Oct. 1946.
1930 Los Angeles, California - Cobourg, Ontario's Marie Dressler opens in the film 'Min and Bill', co-starring Wallace Beery; she will win the Academy Award for her performance.
1902 Ottawa Ontario - Henri-Elzear Taschereau 1836-1911 appointed Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
1902 Victoria BC - Edward Prior sworn in as Premier of British Columbia, replacing James Dunsmuir; serves to June 1, 1903.
1899 Montreal Quebec - First automobile appears on the streets of Montreal; a 'Crestomobile'.
1856 Sarnia Ontario - Grand Trunk Railway completes last stretch from St. Mary's to Sarnia, adding 1,789 km of track to its 3,200 km of lines already in Canada.
1838 Washington DC - US government says that Americans entering Canada in violation of US neutrality law will not be given protection; this effectively ends the activities of the Hunters Lodges and other Republican factions.
1829 Toronto Ontario - Egerton Ryerson 1803-1882 publishes first issue of the 'Christian Guardian', organ of Methodist Church; now United Church Observer.
1825 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Theatre Royal in Montreal.
1817 St John's, Newfoundland - St John's suffers second disastrous fire in three weeks, after previous conflagration of Nov. 07, and another Feb. 12, 1816; 2,600 of a total population of 10,000 homeless. Other fires will level the city on June 09, 1846, and July 8, 1892, before proper water mains and pumps are installed.
1763 Quebec Quebec - James Murray officially appointed Governor-in-Chief of Quebec; serves from Aug. 13, 1764 to May 12, 1768; was former military Governor. Murray clashed with the British and Yankee merchants who swarmed into Quebec, because he would not violate his promises to the French. Recalled to England in 1766 to face charges of partiality, he saw the charges dismissed, but never went back to Canada.
1737 Montreal Quebec - Marguerite d'Youville 1701-1771 welcomes her first protégé to the Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns); ten years later they took over the Hôpital Général de Montréal .
1694 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Montreal.
1648 Quebec Quebec - First Quebec born Ursuline nun takes her vows; order came to Canada in 1639 with Marie de l'Incarnation.
1642 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first home for girls in Quebec.

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November 22nd 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1812 – War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
1858 – Denver, Colorado is founded.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
1928 РThe premier performance of Ravel's Bol̩ro takes place in Paris.
1935 – The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald is shot two days later by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
1989 РIn West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Ren̩ Moawad, killing him.
1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2003 – 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident, shortly after takeoff the left wing is hit by a surface-to-air missile and is forced to land.
2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.



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1986 GRETZKY HITS 500
Edmonton Alberta - Oilers' Wayne Gretzky scores his 500th career goal in 5-2 victory over Vancouver Canucks; reaches mark in record-setting 575 games, becomes the 13th NHLer to score 500 goals.

1943
And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

Yvan Cournoyer 1943-
hockey right winger, born on this day at Drummondville Quebec in 1943. Cournoyer joined the Montreal Canadiens in 1963-64 as a power play specialist, and toiled with them for 15 years, 5 years as their captain, until he was forced to retire from a back injury in 1979. Cournoyer made up for his size - he was just 5'7" and 178 pounds - with exciting speed and deft puck handling, and he quickly gained the nickname The Roadrunner. He was also a clean player, and was only penalized a grand total of 255 minutes over 15 seasons. Cournoyer was a 4 time NHL All Star, and played on 10 Stanley Cup championship teams, all with the Montreal Canadiens. He also scored a great goal in the final Canada-USSR series game on Sept 28, 1972. On a pass from Phil Esposito and Brad Park, Cournoyer tied the score at 5-5, then proceeded to set up Paul Henderson's winner. In regular season play, Cournoyer notched 863 points (428 goals) in 968 games. In the playoffs, he scored 127 points (64 goals) in 147 games, and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP in 1973.


In Other Events...


1995 Ottawa Ontario - Roméo Leblanc named Canada's 25th Governor General, replacing Ray Hnatyshyn; first Acadian to hold the post; sworn in Jan. 29, 1990.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - CBC/SRC announces it is cutting 2,000 jobs to deal with a budget cut of $227 million.
1995 Quebec Quebec - Marcel Masse named Quebec's délégué général / agent general in Paris.
1993 Toronto Ontario - Justice Horace Krever starts his public hearings into Canada's blood supply, and the AIDS tainted blood and blood products given to Canadians in the 1980's, before the Canadian Red Cross began testing for HIV.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Genie Awards: David Cronenberg wins Best Picture, Director, 6 other Genies for Naked Lunch, based on William Burroughs novel; Jean-Claude Lauzon wins Genie Award as Best Original Screenplay for film Leolo; Leolo wins total of 3 awards; Tony Nardi wins Genie Award as Best Actor for role in film La Sarrasine; Peter Suschitzky wins Genie Award as Best Cinematographer for film Naked Lunch; Janet Wright wins Genie Award as Best Actress for role in film Bordertown Cafe.
1986 North Bay, Ontario - Elzire Dionne dies; mother of the Dionne quintuplets, the first quints on record to survive.
1984 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau resigns as Minister of Finance and leaves the Parti québécois after the PQ decides to drop separatism from its formal platform.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports that Canada's population will reach 25,000,000 on this day or the next.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Edmonton Eskimos beat Ottawa Rough Riders 26-23 in the 69th Grey Cup, becoming the first CFL team to win 4 consecutive Grey Cups; go on to defeat Toronto Argos in 1982 for 5 in a row record.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Léger 1913-1980 dies; former Governor General born at St-Anicet, Quebec Apr. 04, 1913. Léger was the brother of brother of Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger; he was a career diplomat, joining the Department of External Affairs in 1940, and serving as Lester Pearson's Undersecretary of State 1968-72; sworn in as Governor General Jan. 14, 1974; suffered a stroke that June which impaired his speech; his wife, Gabrielle helped him read the Speech from the Throne, in 1976 and 1978; served until Jan. 1979.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa cuts crude oil exports to the US to help increase Canadian self-sufficiency in oil; to begin 1975; imports expected to end by 1982
1971 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Bernard Lortie sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis, 1970.
1963 Toronto Ontario - John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination leads to closing of Toronto Stock Exchange in mid session for first time.
1962 Perth Australia - Opening of British Commonwealth Games in Perth; until December 1; Canada places fourth; Harry Mann 1943- wins gold medal in boxing; Richard Pound 1942- in swimming; Mary Stewart 1945- in swimming; Bruce Kidd 1943- in track.
1961 Quebec Quebec - Founding of the Quebec Arts Council / Conseil des Arts du Québec.
1961 Hollywood California - Film producer Cubby Broccoli and his New Brunswick-born colleague Harry Saltzman start a publicity campaign to make a star out of Sean Connery, their choice for James Bond.
1957 Cornwall Ontario - First ship passes through Iroquois Lock, first lock of new St. Lawrence Seaway.
1956 Melbourne Australia - Canadian team attends opening of the XVI Olympiad. Canada will win two gold medals: coxless fours rowing: Donald Arnold, Ignace d'Hondt, Lorne Loomer, Archie MacKinnon; and smallbore rifle shooting, prone: Gerald Ouellette. Also one silver medal, in rowing eights: David Helliwell, Phillip Kueber, Richard McClure, Douglas McDonald, William McKerlich, Carleton Ogawa, Donald Pretty, Lawrence West, Robert Wilson. Also three bronze medals, in women's three metre diving: Irene MacDonald; in the equestrian three-day event, team: Jim Elder, Brian Herbinson, John Rumble; and in smallbore rifle shooting, prone: Gilmour Boa.
1951 Samichon River, Korea - Royal 22e Régiment occupies a 7 km front extending north-east from the Samichon River; D Company meets heavy shelling, but holds the position over the next few days.
1944 London England - Canadian General A.G.L. McNaughton 1887-1966 told by Army Council that only conscription will provide enough reinforcements; members threaten to resign if he doesn't agree. Eventually 13,000 conscript 'zombies' will be sent overseas.
1943 England - RAF and RCAF crews start air bombing of Berlin.
1926 Montreal Quebec - Inauguration of the new Palais de Justice, designed by Ernest Cormier.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - The first Canadian War Loan of $50 million issued; raised to $100 million on November 30.
1885 Montreal Quebec - Crowd of 50,000 pro-Riel demonstrators gather in Montreal to protest his hanging in Regina.
1852 Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick - Frederick N. Gisborne 1824-1892 completes laying North America's first submarine telegraph cable from Cape Tormentine to Carleton Head, PEI.
1842 Mount St Helen, Washington - Toronto painter Paul Kane watches and sketches the eruption of Mount St Helens.
1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 calls for rebellion in message 'to the people of Upper Canada' published in his paper 'The Constitution'.
1837 St-Charles, Quebec - Louis-Joseph Papineau presides over a meeting of Patriote leaders at St-Charles.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Charles Gore 1793-1869 leaves Montreal for Sorel on the steamboat Saint George with 500 men; his plan is to meet up with Wetherall at St-Charles, and move with a combined force of 2,000 Waterloo veterans against the Patriotes in the Richelieu Valley.
1812 Toronto Ontario - John Strachan urges the citizens of York, in a sermon, to help repel the American invaders.
1806 Quebec Quebec - Nationalist newspaper 'Le Canadien' begins publication under the direction of Pierre Bédard and the Parti canadien; to counter the attacks of the Quebec Mercury and agitate for greater power and control of political patronage by French Canadians; Canada's first newspaper written wholly in French.
1726 Quebec Quebec - New France brings in first tax and control of alcoholic beverages.
1612 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain named Lieutenant of the Prince de Condé, proprietor of New France.
1599 St-Malo France - François Gravé du Pont c1554-1629 buys La Roche's fur trading monopoly, sets up company with Honfleur merchant Pierre Chauvin de Tonnetuit; both veteran St. Lawrence River fur traders; Chauvin a Huguenot
1594 London England - Martin Frobisher dies; Arctic explorer, discoverer of Frobisher Bay for England.

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November 23rd 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
1248 – Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
1510 – First campaign of Ottoman Empire against Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack its capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
1531 – The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela
1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins – Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.
1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1924 – Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper.
1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
1946 – French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians.
1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
1959 – General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, "from the Atlantic to the Urals."
1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching N-1 Rocket.
1974 – 60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.
1981 – Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
1990 – The first all woman expedition to the South Pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians) sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
1992 – The first Smartphone IBM Simon was introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
2003 – Rose Revolution: the Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
2006 – A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines
2010 – The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.



Today's Canadian Headline...


1815 CANADA'S FIRST STREET LIGHTS
Montreal Quebec - Montreal installs first street lamps, fueled by whale oil; first streetlights in Canada.

1837
St-Denis, Quebec - Patriote leader Wolfred Nelson 1791-1863 leads his followers in defeating Col. Charles Gore 1793-1869 and his 2,000 British troops at the battle of St-Denis. Gore's Waterloo veterans, 6 companies of infantry and a detachment of artillery, have no success against the deadly fire of the rebels, holed up in Nelson's distillery and behind the thick stone walls of the Maison Saint-Germain; British suffer 6 dead and 11 wounded, Nelson's Patriotes lose 12 men and seven wounded; a British prisoner, Lt. George Weir, is also killed trying to escape; Nelson later jailed in Montreal; Louis-Joseph Papineau, Thomas Storrow Brown and a young George-Etienne Cartier flee to St-Hyacinthe, then the US.

1952
Korea - Red Chinese forces launch three-day offensive against Le Royal 22e Régiment (the Van Doos) in Korea.



In Other Events...


1995 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chretien unveils federal unity plan; Prime Minister suggests distinct society thrust
1988 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th career NHL goal.
1981 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government states that it does not agree to restore native and women's rights in proposed Constitution, in opposition to Ottawa and the other provinces.
1980 Toronto Ontario - CFL Edmonton Eskimos wallop Hamilton Tiger Cats 48-10 in 68th Grey Cup game.
1975 Calgary Alberta - CFL Edmonton Eskimos squeak by Montreal Alouettes 9-8 in 63rd Grey Cup game.
1972 Ontario - Ontario law allows people access to credit agency information banks.
1963 Cuba - R. D. Lippert & W. D. Milne tried for smuggling explosives and endangering Cuban security; Milne freed, Lippert gets 30 years; arrested in Cuba in October.
1962 Nashville Tennessee - Nova Scotia's Hank Snow has a #1 country music hit single with 'I've Been Everywhere'.
1946 Toronto Ontario - CFL Toronto Argonauts beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 28-6 in 34th Grey Cup game.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 switches his conscription policy, announces that 16,000 home defence conscripts will be sent to England as reinforcements; riots follow in Montreal and Quebec.
1916 Victoria BC - Harlan Brewster sworn in as BC Premier, replacing William Bowser; serves to March 1, 1918.
1904 St Louis, Missouri - Third Olympic games close. Canada did not send an official team, but Canadians bring back four golds, in golf (George Lyon), lacrosse (Winnipeg Shamrocks), soccer and the 56 lb. weight throw (Etienne Desmarteau).
1900 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Mining and Industrial Exchange and Standard Mining Exchange of Toronto amalgamate; Toronto Mining Exchange will finance a new gold and silver boom.
1877 Halifax Nova Scotia - Halifax Fisheries Commission awards Canada $5.5 million from US, for San Juan Island, fishing rights, and free navigation of the St. Lawrence River in perpetuity.
1852 New Brunswick - Frederick N. Gisborne 1824-1892 finishes laying North America's first cable from Cape Tormentine to Carleton Head, PEI.
1837 St-Benoît, Quebec - Patriote leader Amury Girod sets up a rebel camp at St-Benoît, north of Montreal, intending to attack the city.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Montreal shops first lit by coal gas; replacing whale oil.
1812 Salmon River Ontario - British win Salmon River skirmish in War of 1812.
1809 Halifax Nova Scotia - Edward Jordan hanged, and his tarred and chained corpse is hung on a gibbet at the entrance to Halifax Harbour; convicted in Canada's first piracy trial; seized a vessel that was previously his property.
1760 Verchères Quebec - Anne Carr baptized; first Protestant baptism in Quebec.
1725 Paris France - Claude-Thomas Dupuy 1678-1738 appointed Intendant of New France; serves from August 28, 1726 to August 30, 1728.
1617 Quebec Quebec - Anne Hébert marries Étienne Jonquet; first marriage on record in the colony.

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November 24th 2013 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
1227 – Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
1248 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.
1429 РJoan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charit̩.
1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called "Evolution Day"
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1906 – A 13-6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
1922 – Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers and eight others are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1940 – World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1944 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
1950 – The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, takes shape on this date before paralyzing the northeastern United States and the Appalachians the next day, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 353 people would die as a result of the storm.
1962 – The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1962 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the convicted assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting happens to be broadcast live on television.
1963 – Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
1965 РJoseph D̩sir̩ Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
1976 – The 1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.
2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.


Today's Canadian Headline...



1905 RAILWAY REACHES EDMONTON
Edmonton Alberta - - William Mackenzie 1849-1923 & Donald Mann 1853-1934 complete the Canadian Northern Railway to Edmonton, as Lieutenant Governor G.H.V. Bulyea drives home a silver spike. Mackenzie & Mann's northern transcontinental will eventually run from Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton to Vancouver, but the effort bankrupts the pair, and in 1917 the line becomes a part of the Canadian National Railways.

1892

Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 resigns due to ill health; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister after John A. Macdonald's death; took the post turned down by Langevin, Tupper and Thompson; served from June 16, 1891; replaced by John Sparrow David Thompson 1844-1894, Canada's fourth Prime Minister until his sudden death on Dec 12, 1894, after being sworn in as a member of the Imperial Privy Council by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.

1807
Burlington Ontario - Joseph Brant 1742-1807 dies at Wellington Square; Six Nations Mohawk Chief who fought on the British side in the War of American Independence, and led his people to settle in the Grand River Valley after the war; gave his name to the city of Brantford; translated some scriptures and part of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer into Iroquois.



In Other Events...


1996 Hamilton Ontario - Doug Flutie passes for 302 yards and runs for 98 and a touchdown as Don Matthews' Toronto Argonauts beat the Edmonton Eskimos 43-37 in the 84th CFL Grey Cup.
1995 Pembroke Ontario - CN runs last train over the Beachburg subdivision from Pembroke (mile 89.20) to Nipissing (mile 215.36) through Algonquin Provincial Park; will abandon line the following year.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Royal Bank announces it is cutting 3,000 positions; Royal Trust Royal says it is cutting 1,100..
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes new Immigration Act; limits right of appeal to adverse rulings; overhaul of 1976 version; some must move where skills are needed.
1991 Winnipeg Manitoba - Raghib Rocket Ismail leads Adam Rita's CFL Toronto Argonauts to 36-21 win over Calgary Stampeders in 79th Grey Cup game; makes record 87 yard kickoff return in 4th quarter.
1986 Buffalo, NY - Sabres' center Gilbert Perreault announces his retirement after 17 seasons in the NHL.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Don Matthews' CFL British Columbia Lions defeat Hamilton Tiger Cats 37-24 in 73rd Grey Cup game.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Metric Commission orders scales in 35,000 stores altered from Imperial units to metric by Dec. 1983; advertising allowed only in metric after Dec. 31, 1983
1976 Poland - Canadian Wheat Board sells Poland up to 1.2 million metric tons of wheat, barley, oats over 3 years.
1974 Vancouver BC - Marv Levy's CFL Montreal Alouettes beat Edmonton Eskimos, 20-7 in 62nd CFL Grey Cup game.
1972 Quebec - Quebec creates 13 electoral districts in northern Quebec for 1,500 Inuit and 3,500 Indians; a few non-aboriginals only
1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists let off two bombs in the Eaton store in downtown Montreal.
1956 Egypt - First 20 Canadian peace-keeping troops arrive in Egypt as part of UN multinational force created by Lester Pearson.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Pop Ivy's CFL Edmonton Eskimos beat Montreal Alouettes 50-27 in 44th Grey Cup game.
1951 Toronto Ontario - CFL Ottawa Rough Riders beat Saskatchewan Roughriders 21-14 in 39th Grey Cup game.
1944 Quebec - Anti-conscription riots in Montreal and Quebec City, after Mackenzie King's announcement that 16,000 conscripts would be sent to England
1944 Newfoundland - Canadian corvette HMCS 'Shawinigan' lost in Cabot Strait.
1940 Britain - First Canadian graduates of Commonwealth Air Training Plan reach Britain.
1937 Ontario - Bertram Brooker 1888-1955 wins first Governor General's Literary Award for novel; Award established by Canadian Authors Association; given annually to best Canadian books in several categories.
1934 Toronto Ontario - Sarnia beats Regina 20-12 in Grey Cup game.
1922 Edmonton Alberta - City Council approves by-law outlawing swearing in public; after complaints from golfers on public courses.
1899 Montreal Quebec - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 founds Royal Trust, with an office in the Bank of Montreal Savings Dept; only one full time staff, Albert E. Holt, and a borrowed desk.
1897 Kingston Ontario - Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union organized in Kingston.
1890 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - Opening of the Cape Breton Railway; part of Intercolonial Railway.
1869 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel calls a meeting of the inhabitants of Red River in Fort Garry and proposes the creation of provisional government to replace the Council of Assiniboia; the English Metis ask for time to study the idea; the cession of the territory is to take place Dec. 01.
1859 Montreal Quebec - First train crosses the new Victoria Bridge to the south shore.
1852 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Toronto Normal School (teachers college).
1845 Quebec - Assembly appoints commission to inquire into losses sustained in Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837-38.
1843 Montreal Quebec - Robert Baldwin & Louis-H La Fontaine, fighting for Responsible Government, demand that Governor-General Metcalfe make no government appointments without consulting them; he refuses; all the Ministry resigns except Dominick Daly
1837 Chambly Quebec - George Wetherall marches from Fort Chambly toward St-Charles; with British regular troops, many battle-hardened from Waterloo
1837 St-Benoît, Quebec - Patriote leader Amury Girod wants to march on Montreal, but after a council of war, the rebels decide to go on the defensive.
1830 Quebec Quebec - Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, Lord Aylmer 1775-1850 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada; serves from Feb. 4, 1831 to Aug. 24, 1835
1817 Passamaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick - Commission awards Britain all islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, except Moose, Dudley, and Frederick; commission established under Treaty of Ghent
1815 Quebec Quebec - Moliè's play 'L'Amour Médecin' presented in Montreal.
1807 Quebec Quebec - Newly arrived Governor James Craig grants a royal pardon to Pierre Bédard and the rebels in the Assembly.
1758 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - John Forbes 1707-1759 captures Fort Duquesne, after French blow it up.
1648 Montreal Quebec - Barbe Meusnier first white child born in Montreal.
1648 Quebec - 1000 Mohawks and Senecas go on warpath against Hurons.

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November 25th 2013 - This Date in History.


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571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
1177 РBaldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Ch̢tillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
1343 – A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1755 РKing Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compa̱ia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into modern Pittsburgh.
1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2 rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1917 – German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
1940 – World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the "Storm of the Century", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City. This storm also brings blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and Ohio Valley, becoming one of the worst storms of all time. 353 people die in the event.
1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.
1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends as American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine. Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.
1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
1999 – The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic.
2000 – The 2000 Baku earthquake takes place, Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaving 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan and becoming the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
2008 – Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in 9 decades.
2009 – Devastating floods, known as the 2009 Saudi Arabian Floods, following freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. 3,000 cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.




Today's Canadian Headline...


1885 BANFF PARK OPENS TO TOURISTS
Banff Alberta - - Canadian government establishes Rocky Mountains Park at "Siding 29" on the CPR, 3 km from present-day Banff, which was relocated 3 years later to be near the local hot springs. Now the main town in Banff National Park, it was named by financier Donald A. Smith, later Lord Strathcona, for his home county in Scotland.

1837

St-Charles Quebec - Col. George Wetherall and 350 British troops charge 100 Patriote rebels holed up in the Manoir Debartzch, south of the village of St. Charles, two days after the rebels declare a republic known as the Confederation of the Six Counties, and after Francis Gore's defeat at St. Denis. The British storm the manor house, then burn the village before leaving; they lose 7 dead and 23 wounded; the Patriotes lose about 30 wounded and 28 dead.



In Other Events...


1995 Toronto Ontario - Venard (Len) Gaudet sentenced to 8 years in jail for his role in the costliest brokerage failure in Bay Street history; former Osler Inc. Chairman
1992 Ottawa Ontario - General John de Chastelain says Canada should specialize in sending peacekeepers to areas of conflict for shorter periods; Canada now providing 10% of UN force.
1990 Vancouver BC - Mike Riley's CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers wallop Edmonton Eskimos 50-11 in the 78th Grey Cup; game attracts 46,968 fans, lowest since 1975; the win is Winnipeg's second Grey Cup in three years.
1989 Chicoutimi Quebec - Earthquake centered near Chicoutimi hits eastern Canada; measures almost 6.0 on the Richter Scale.
1988 Nelson, New Brunswick - Allan Legere captured by police after six month killing spree; convicted murderer had escaped from jail in Moncton May 3 and was the subject of a huge manhunt.
1987 Sutton Quebec - Jehane Benoît 1904-1987 dies; cooking consultant, author and broadcaster, born Jehane Patenaude at Montreal Mar. 21, 1904. Madame Benoît studied at the Cordon Bleu in Paris; 1925 started a cooking school in Montreal called Fumet de la Vieille France; 1935-40 started The Salad Bar, concentrating on vegetarian cuisine; appeared on CBC's Take 30; wrote over 30 books, including Madame Benoît's Microwave Cook Book (1975).
1979 Montreal Quebec - Hugh Campbell's CFL Edmonton Eskimos defeat Montreal Alouettes 17-9 in the 67th Grey Cup game.
1976 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque sworn in as Premier of Quebec, replacing Robert Bourassa, in power since May 12, 1970; Bourassa will return to power Dec. 12, 1985.
1976 San Francisco, California - The Band bid farewell to the world in a concert at the Winterland Ballroom; backing guests Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters and others; event is filmed and made into a movie by Martin Scorsese.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Jack Gotta's CFL Ottawa Rough Riders beat Edmonton Eskimos 22-18 in the 61st Grey Cup game.
1971 Toronto Ontario - CRTC grants a broadcasting licence to Toronto's Channel 79 (CITY-TV); Canada's first commercial UHF television station.
1968 Burnaby BC - Police charge 104 student radicals with trespassing after three-day occupation of Simon Fraser University's administration building.
1959 London England - Donald Grant Creighton 1902-1978 named to Britain's Monckton Commission, to examine constitution of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; University of Toronto history professor
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Blessing of the new Grand Séminaire d'Ottawa; Oblate seminary.
1950 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Argonauts beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers 13-0 in the 38th Grey Cup game.
1950 Seattle Washington - Lt-Col J.R. Stone, commandant of the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, embarks with 927 soldiers for United Nations service in Korea; the PPCLI will be rushed into battle when Chinese armies cross the Yalu River; will suffer first battle casualties in the Korean hills on February 22, 1951.
1948 Quebec Quebec - Jean Béliveau 1931- gets his first junior hockey goal for the Quebec Aces in the Colisée de Québec; the Victoriaville native will play two more years with the Aces before joining the Canadiens in 1953, signing the NHL's most lucrative contract to that date.
1944 Hamilton Ontario - Montreal HMCS beat Hamilton Flying Wildcats 7-6 in the 32nd Grey Cup game.
1943 Italy - Canadian Eighth Army smashes across Sangro River.
1935 Quebec - Quebec Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau 1867-1952 wins re-election for the Liberals; Premier since July 1920; will stay in power for only 6 months, as the Depression deepens, and young rebels in his party join Maurice Duplessis.
1923 Montreal Quebec - Montreal hit with early 30 cm snowstorm.
1915 Montreal Quebec - New York Central Railroad signs 21 year lease for Ottawa and New York Railway; renewed for 99 years in 1936.
1911 Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto beats Toronto Argonauts 14-7 in the 3rd Grey Cup game.
1904 Quebec - Quebec Premier Simon-Napoléon Parent 1855-1920 wins re-election for the Liberals; driven from office by young nationalists in 1905.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later 9th duke of Argyll 1845-1914, sworn in as Governor General of Canada; the 33 year old Lorne will serve until 1883; his wife is Queen Victoria's fourth daughter Princess Louise.
1851 Montreal Quebec - George Williams founds a branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in St Helen's Baptist Church; first YMCA in North America.
1837 St-Denis Quebec - Funeral of the Patriotes killed at St-Denis.
1795 Montreal Quebec - Beaumarchais' play 'le Barbier de Séville' and Regnard's 'le Retour Imprévu' performed in Montreal.
1791 Nova Scotia - Richard Berkeley 1717-1800 appointed administrator of Nova Scotia on death of Governor Parr.
1770 Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 arrives back at Fort Prince of Wales from his travels on the Barrens.
1758 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - John Forbes 1707-1759 renames Fort Duquesne Fort Pitt, which later becomes Pittsburgh; end of French rule in Ohio Valley
1743 Quebec Quebec - Religious communities forbidden to acquire land without royal permission.
1657 Montreal Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 starts teaching in Montreal; the following year she will open Montreal's first school in a converted stable; later organizes a boarding school for girls in Montreal, and a school for Native girls on the Sulpician reserve of La Montagne.
1654 Quebec Quebec - First Quebec-born Ursuline nun takes her vows.

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783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1476 – Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).
1865 – Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy Schooner is defeated by a Chilean Corvette north of Valparaiso, Chile.
1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1922 – Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between is the first film to do so but it is not widely distributed).
1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
1942 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.
1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
1949 – The Indian Constituent Assembly adopts India's constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board.
1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
1977 – An unidentified hijacker named 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 pm.
1983 – Brink's-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
1991 – National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
2000 – George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
2004 – The last Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2008 – 2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistan-sponsored Lashkar-e-Taiba.
2011 – 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.



Today's Canadian Headline...


1917 FOUNDING OF THE NHL
Ottawa Ontario - Frank Calder 1877-1943 is elected President of the new National Hockey League, founded on this day. The new League replaces the National Hockey Association, and consists of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs. Quebec did not to operate that first season. Seven years later, the Boston Bruins became the first US club to get a franchise.

1926

Washington DC - Charles Vincent Massey 1887-1967 takes up duties as first Canadian Ambassador to Washington; Canada's first official diplomatic posting to a foreign country after Balfour Report and Dominion independence.

1991

Trois-Rivières Quebec - Goalie Manon Rhéaume 1972- plays one game for the QMJHL Trois-Rivières Draveurs; the first woman to play on a major junior A hockey team; later goaltender for the Women's Canadian National Team at the 1992 and 1994 Women's World Championships, winning a gold medal both times; 1992 signed as free agent by the Tampa Bay Lightning and played in an exhibition game (Tampa Bay Lightning vs. St. Louis Blues) on Sept. 23, 1992, making her the first woman to play in a professional hockey game; 1998 goalie for the Canadian Olympic Silver medal women's team.


In Other Events...

1991 Toronto Ontario - Bruce Beresford wins Best Director Award at 1991 Genie Awards for 'Black Robe'; plus Best Picture, screenplay, cinematography, art direction; Remy Girard wins Best Actor Award for performance in 'Amoureux fou' (Love Crazy); Pascale Montpetit wins Best Actress Award for performance in 'H', a film about heroin addicts.
1991 Toronto Ontario - William James dies at age 96; consulting geologist; named to Canadian Mining Hall of Fame 1989; father of Bill James, President of Denison Mines.
1989 Toronto Ontario - John Gregory's CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat Hamilton Tiger Cats 43-40 before a record crowd of more than 54,000 at SkyDome to win 77th Grey Cup; one of the highest scoring Grey Cup games.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Guy Lafleur announces he will retire from hockey; after 518 goals and 14 years of service with the Montreal Canadiens.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Bank Act sets up new operating rules for chartered banks; lets foreign banks open branches; replacing the 1967 Bank Act
1978 Toronto Ontario - Hugh Campbell's CFL Edmonton Eskimos defeat Montreal Alouettes 20-13 to win 66th Grey Cup game.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - The Canadian Radio-Television Commission orders Canadian TV cable companies to black out identical US programs available on Canadian television at the same time; CRTC rules ensure that Canadian advertisers are not subsidizing US Stations.
1973 Tokyo Japan - Denison Mines Ltd. sells $800 million worth of uranium oxide to Tokyo Electric Power Company; delivery from 1984 to 1993
1971 Moncton, New Brunswick - Viola Léger puts on her first performance of Antonine Maillet's 'La Sagouine', a series of 16 dramatic monologues by an illiterate but philosophic Acadian cleaning woman, for a Moncton radio station; first staged by Moncton's Les Feux-Chalins, a troupe founded by Father Jean-Guy Gagnon and others in 1969; will be performed at the Théâtre du rideau vert in Montreal, and in 1974 on Radio Canada; 1979 in english on CBC.
1969 New York City - Canadian rock group The Band receive a gold record for their album, The Band.
1967 Toronto Ontario - John Parmenter Robarts 1917-1982 opens 4-day Confederation of Tomorrow Conference; premiers agree on need to alter constitution.
1966 Vancouver BC - Eagle Keys' CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders beat Ottawa Rough Riders 29-14 to win 54th Grey Cup game.
1960 Vancouver BC - Frank Clair's CFL Ottawa Rough Riders beat Edmonton Eskimos 16-6 to win 48th Grey Cup game.
1958 New York City - Montreal Canadiens star Maurice Richard scores his 600th NHL career goal against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
1955 Vancouver BC - Pop Ivy's CFL Edmonton Eskimos beat Montreal Alouettes 34-19 to win 43rd Grey Cup game.
1949 Toronto Ontario - Montreal Alouettes beat Calgary Stampeders 28-15 to win 37th Grey Cup game.
1941 Montreal Quebec - Ernest Lapointe dies in hospital; Justice Minister and WLM King's Quebec Lieutenant.
1937 Ottawa Ontario - Gustave Lanctôt named Dominion Archivist.
1927 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Balmy Beach beats Hamilton Tigers 9-6 to win 15th Grey Cup game.
1915 Montreal Quebec - Mobilization of the 148th and 150th Montreal Infantry Battalions for service in World War I.
1910 Hamilton Ontario - University of Toronto beats Hamilton Tigers 16-7 to win 2nd Grey Cup game.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - Abigail Becker 1830-1905 single-handedly rescues the captain and seven crew members of the overloaded schooner Conductor, foundered on a sandbar off Long Point on Lake Erie. The 'Heroine of Long Point' later rescued 6 other mariners from another wreck.
1870 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first railway connection with the Saguenay region.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 refuses to take over Rupert's Land December 1 as agreed, due to the Metis occupation of Fort Garry and the Red River Insurrection. He orders Sir John Rose, Canadian representative in London, not to pay the £300,000 owing until the HBC can guarantee peaceful possession.
1845 Montreal Quebec - Charles Murray, Lord Cathcart 1783-1859 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until May 24, 1846; also commander of British forces in North America; Governor General Apr. 24, 1846 to Jan. 30, 1847
1810 Montreal Quebec - Opening of first regular steam boat service to Quebec
1807 Quebec Quebec - Le Canadien publisher Pierre Bédard given a seat in the Assembly after a royal pardon issued by new Governor James Craig.
1691 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Joseph Robinau de Villebon 1655-1700 arrives at Port-Royal, taking possession of Acadia next day; goes to Fort Jemseg to establish rule; government put under Sgt. Charles La Tourasse of the French garrison.

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November 27th 2013 - This Date in History.

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25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
511 – King Clovis I dies at Paris (Lutetia) and is buried in the Abbey of St. Genevieve. The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.
602 – Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies are thrown into the sea and their heads are exhibited in Constantinople.
1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1295 – The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament".
1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin is laid.
1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
1830 – St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Wa****a River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for "Effi Briest", a classic work of German literature.
1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
1940 – In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King Carol II of Romania's aides, including former minister Nicolae Iorga.
1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1944 – World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.
1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, in an ABA game Kentucky Colonels vs. Los Angeles Stars.
1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).
1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
1978 – The Kurdish party PKK is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
1983 – Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
1984 – Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
1989 – Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.
1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
1999 – The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2006 РThe Canadian House of Commons approves a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Qu̩b̩cois as a nation within Canada.
2009 – A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.


Today's Canadian Headline...


1977 SWEET CONNECTS FOR SIX IN GREY CUP
Montreal Quebec - - Don Sweet kicks Cup record six field goals and scores Cup record 23 points as Marv Levy's CFL Montreal Alouettes beat the Edmonton Eskimos 41-6 in the 65th Grey Cup game.

1829
Port Robinson, Ontario - William Hamilton Merritt opens Welland Canal from Port Dalhousie to Port Robinson; engineered by Samuel Keefer; to Port Colborne in 1833; deepened in 1841; enlarged in 1850; replaced by the new Welland Canal, with a depth of nine metres, in 1932.


In Other Events...

1994 Vancouver BC - David Richie's British Columbia Lions beat Baltimore Stallions 26-23 to win 82nd CFL Grey Cup game; first Grey Cup game with a US expansion team.
1989 St. John's Newfoundland - Congregation of Christian Brothers close their Mount Cashel Orphanage for Boys in St. John's after 90 years. Nine current and former Christian Brothers of the Roman Catholic lay teaching order are charged with child abuse, and a judicial inquiry is under way.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Mike Riley's underdog Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeat British Columbia Lions 22-21 to win 76th Grey Cup game; first to feature two Western CFL teams.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Iona Campagnolo 1932- retires after 4 years as President of the Liberal Party of Canada.
1983 Vancouver BC - Bob O'Billovich's Toronto Argonauts beat British Columbia Lions 18-17 to win 71st CFL Grey Cup game. This is the first indoor Grey Cup game, under the BC Place dome, and the first Argo victory in 31 years.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - National Defence to buy fleet of new long-range patrol aircraft for almost $1 billion; plus modern tanks for European land forces.
1967 Manitoba - Walter C. Weir 1929- succeeds Duff Roblin as Progressive Conservative Premier of Manitoba.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Ralph Sazio's CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers 22-16 in 53rd Grey Cup game.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Arturo Frondizi President of Argentina starts four-day visit to Ottawa.
1961 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe becomes the first hockey pro to play in 1,000 NHL games.
1960 Toronto Ontario - Gordie Howe scores his 1,000th point with an assist as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1956 Melbourne Australia - Donald Arnold, Ignace d'Hondt, Lorne Loomer and Archie MacKinnon win a rowing Gold medal for Canada in Coxless Fours (four-oared shell without coxswain) at the Melbourne Olympic Games.
1954 Toronto Ontario - Pop Ivy's CFL Edmonton Eskimos beat Montreal Alouettes 26-25 to win the 42nd Grey Cup match; game famous for Hunsinger fumble.
1952 London England - Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 attends two-week long Commonwealth Conference in London.
1948 Toronto Ontario - Calgary Stampeders beat Ottawa Roughriders 12-7 in 36th Grey Cup game. Hundreds of Calgary fans made the three-day train trip to Toronto, breaking into a spontaneous square-dance as they arrived, bringing a real chuckwagon and team of horses.
1947 Montreal Quebec - Camilien Houde re-elected Mayor of Montreal by acclamation; had spent some of the war years interned at Camp Petawawa.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Air Minister C.G. 'Chubby' Power quits King cabinet in protest against conscription.
1943 Toronto Ontario - Hamilton Flying Wildcats beat Winnipeg Bombers 23-14 in 31st Grey Cup game.
1898 Yarmouth Nova Scotia - East Coast gale sinks S.S. Portland, drowning 91; 400 other Maritimers killed by the same storm.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Clifford Sifton 1861-1929 put in charge of immigration; MP for Brandon and Minister of the Interior to 1905; starts hard sell promotion to lure settlers from US and Europe.
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - Wandering Spirit hanged outside Fort Battleford with 7 other Crees; for the murders at Frog Lake on April 1; last public execution in Canada; in his statement, Wandering Spirit blamed the CPR as the main cause of his peoples' sufferings because the railway brought many settlers to the region.
1861 Montreal Quebec - First streetcars in Montreal make their debut.
1860 Montreal Quebec - Christ Church Anglican Cathedral completed.
1860 Montreal Quebec - Christ Church Anglican Cathedral completed.
1837 St-Charles, Quebec - Funeral for 24 Patriotes killed at St-Charles in battle with British troops.
1645 Quebec Quebec - First violin played in New France.

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November 28th 2013 - This Date in History.

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587 – Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
936 – Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
1095 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1443 – Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1520 – After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
1627 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
1666 – At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1821 – Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1843 – Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1895 – The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
1905 РIrish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn F̩in as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1912 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1917 – The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
1918 – Bukovina votes for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 – Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush - The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
1958 – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1964 – Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1966 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
1971 – Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1972 – Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
1980 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy's Day.
1981 – Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.


Today's Canadian Headline...


1812 BRITISH AND CANADIANS BEAT BACK AMERICANS
Fort Erie Ontario - - British and Canadian militia drive back a second American attempt to cross Niagara River at Fort Erie; War of 1812.

1956

Ottawa Ontario - Canada grants $1 million and free passage to Canada to refugees from Hungarian Revolution against Communist rule. Here is a Hungarian refugee family arriving on a liner in Montreal.


In Other Events...

1996 Montreal Quebec - Synchro swimmer Sylvie Fréchette joins the Cirque du Soleil as an artist-trainer; Barcelona gold medal winner; only athlete to receive seven perfect 10's in solo at the 1991 World Aquatic Championships.
1993 Calgary Alberta - Ron Lancaster's CFL Edmonton Eskimos beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers 33-23 to win 81st Grey Cup game.
1992 New York New York - CBC wins International Documentary of the Year Emmy Award for Fifth Estate show, To Sell A War; plus International Emmy Award in Performing Arts category for dance special Pictures on the Edge; co-produced with Rhombus Media of Toronto.
1988 Quebec Quebec - NHL Quebec Nordiques sold to local interests.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court of Appeal rules Cabinet decision to allow US cruise missile testing in Canada did not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
1983 Beijing China - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- visits Beijing for 2 day meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang and Chairman Deng Xiaoping.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Hugh Campbell's CFL Edmonton Eskimos beat Toronto Argonauts 32-16 to win 70th Grey Cup game.
1979 Uniondale, NY - New York Islanders' Billy Smith the first NHL goaltender to score; his team 4-3 lost to Colorado.
1978 Quebec - Bill 101 declared Ultra Vires.
1976 Toronto Ontario - George Brancato's CFL Ottawa Roughriders beat Saskatchewan Rough Riders 23-20 to win 64th Grey Cup game.
1975 Montreal Quebec - Ottawa acquires assets of aircraft manufacturer Canadair Ltd. of Montreal.
1974 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Ottawa to fund $3 million feasibility study of harnessing Bay of Fundy tides for electric power.
1971 Vancouver BC - Jim Duncan's CFL Calgary Stampeders defeat Toronto Argonauts 14-11 to win 59th Grey Cup game.
1970 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists Jacques Cossette, Jacques Lanctôt, Marc Charbonneau and Pierre Séguin allowed to leave for Cuba after they hand over British trade commissioner James Cross.
1970 Toronto Ontario - Sam Etcheverry's CFL Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders 23-10 to win 58th Grey Cup game.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Dave Skrien's CFL British Columbia Lions beat Hamilton Tiger Cats 34-24 to win 52nd Grey Cup game.
1959 Toronto Ontario - Bud Grant's CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger Cats 21-7 to win 47th Grey Cup game.
1953 Toronto Ontario - CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers 12-6 to win 41st Grey Cup game.
1950 Columbo Sri Lanka - Canada to join other Commonwealth nations in Columbo Plan; to aid newly-independent India, Pakistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1948 Asbestos Quebec - 2,000 workers at Johns-Manville plant in Asbestos start strike that will last two years, to 1950; joined by 2,500 workers from Thetford Mines.
1945 Manitoulin Island, Ontario - Manitoulin Island gets permanent highway bridge linking it with the rest of Ontario; end of ferry service except from Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula.
1944 Antwerp Netherlands - First Canadian convoy reaches newly opened port of Antwerp after the channel is cleared of mines, and after capture of the island of Walcheren at the mouth; Canadians first attacked the causeway on October 31.
1939 Lawrence, Kansas - Dr. James Naismith dies at age 78; born at Almonte, Ont. Nov. 6, 1861; invented basketball in 1891, while working at the YMCA International Training School at Springfield, Mass.
1935 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens and Detroit Red Wings skate to a 0-0 tie.
1934 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Symphony Orchestra gives first performance.
1925 Montreal Quebec - NHL goalie Georges Vézina collapses in a game; dies of tuberculosis 4 months later; tended goal for the Canadiens 1910-25 without missing a game; Canadiens donated the Vézina Trophy to the NHL in his honour.
1916 London England - George Halsey Perley 1857-1938 appointed Minister of Overseas Military Forces for Canada; High Commissioner in London
1907 Sydney Nova Scotia - Dial telephones first used at Sydney Mines; possibly first dial telephones in Canada
1906 Los Angeles California - Canadian pugilist Tommy Burns fights to a grueling 20 round draw against Jack O'Brien in a heavyweight boxing match.
1888 Port Edward BC - North Pacific Canning Company gets charter; builds salmon cannery in Port Edward, 740 km north of Vancouver, at the mouth of the Skeena River; closed in 1981; today a museum.
1902 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Symphony Orchestra gives its first performance, in Tara Hall; under the baton of Joseph Vézina.
1887 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Bell Telephone sells majority holdings in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Nova Scotia Telephone Co.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet orders creation of Banff Hot Springs Reserve (today, Banff National Park); consisting of 10 square miles on the northern slopes of Sulphur Mountain surrounding three hot springs.
1877 Quebec Quebec - Wilfrid Laurier first elected to the House of Commons as MP for the riding of Quebec East.
1871 Winnipeg Manitoba - Opening of telegraph service from Winnipeg to the border to Pembina, and the outside world.
1857 Kingston Ontario - Dissolution of the 5th Parliament of United Canada.
1852 Montreal Quebec - Ludger Duvernay dies; founder of the St Jean Baptiste Society.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the 1st session of the 2nd Parliament of United Canada.
1838 Kingston Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 acts as legal counsel to Nils von Schoultz and other republican rebel prisoners taken at Prescott after the Battle of the Windmill.
1838 Montreal Quebec - Court martial established at Montreal to try Patriote rebels and the Frères Chasseurs.
1837 St-Mathias, Quebec - Edouard-Élizée Malhiot leads Patriote rebels in skirmish against Wetherall's British troops; two killed at Pointe-Olivier; most have fled on hearing of the defeat at St-Charles.
1822 Ontario - Mississaugas cede 1,112,100 hectares in Hastings, Addington, Frontenac, Lanark, Carleton and Renfrew counties; 2,748,000 acres
1797 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - North West Company starts to build Sault Ste. Marie Canal; completed in 1801; destroyed by Americans in 1812
1795 Quebec Quebec - Presentation of Molière's 'Le Festin de Pierre' at Quebec.
1795 Montreal Quebec - Presentation of Molière's 'Le Médecin malgré lui' at Montreal.

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November 29th 2013 - This Date in History.


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561 – King Chlothar I dies at Compiègne. The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom.
800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
1394 – The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon Dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.
1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.
1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.
1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
1777 РSan Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San Jos̩ de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
1830 – November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1847 – The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 – Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
1864 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill – A Confederate advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the Battle of Franklin.
1872 – American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1885 – End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11-0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with a national professional football league.
1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1943 – The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
1944 – The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1944 – Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
1946 – The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.
1947 – The Partition Plan: the United Nations General Assembly recommends the partition of Palestine.
1947 – My Trach Massacre: First Indochina War.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1972 – Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
1975 – Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with three other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog.
1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.



Today's Canadian Headline...


1963 CANADA'S WORST AIR DISASTER
Ste-Thérèse de Blainville Quebec - - Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew crashes in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport; there are no survivors; no satisfactory explanation to Canada's worst air disaster.

1995

Toronto Ontario - Premier Mike Harris vows to slash $6.2 billion in spending over 3 years and balance the budget by 2000, as part of his Common Sense Revolution; head of Ontario's new Progressive Conservative government.


In Other Events...

1992 Toronto Ontario - Doug Flutie leads Wally Buono's CFL Calgary Stampeders to win over Winnipeg Blue Bombers 24-10 in 80th Grey Cup; 3rd title to Calgary. Pundits say this may be last all-Canadian event if CFL expands to US.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Environment Minister Jean Charest announces $34.9 million program to protect Canadian wildlife; set up national wildlife habitat network; plus $17.7 million for ecology research
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament backs UN resolution allowing the use of military force to end the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. Saddam Hussein will ignore UN deadline of Jan. 15 to withdraw, and Canadian units, including fighters, field hospitals and ships are sent to the Persian Gulf.
1987 Vancouver BC - Joe Faragalli's CFL Edmonton Eskimos defeat Toronto Argonauts 38-36 in 75th Grey Cup game.
1983 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Kanchan Stott, age 37, reaches Halifax 207 days after leaving Victoria, BC; first cross-Canada run by a woman; longest recorded run (6688 km) by a woman .
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa suspends enforcement of metric measurement after adverse court ruling; need to rewrite and clarify law.
1982 Vancouver BC - Percy Williams 1908-1982 dies; runner, born at Vancouver May 19, 1908; 1928 won gold medals in the 100 and 200 m sprints at the Amsterdam Olympics.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Quebec establishes provincially-owned National Asbestos Corporation.
1976 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald stays at #1 on the charts for another week.
1974 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Naim Djemal hijacks an aircraft over Saskatchewan, assaults a stewardess and orders the pilot to fly to Cyprus; on landing for fuel, he hands a knife to the captain, and is arrested as he walks off the aircraft.
1973 Toronto Ontario - 7,800 Toronto secondary teachers end work-to-rule campaign, sign contract with Metro school board.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa approves $74 million plan to computerize air traffic control; will improve safety and ease airport congestion
1965 Vandenberg AFB California - Thor Agena B launches Canadian communications satellite, Alouette II (mass 145 kg); to continue ionospheric research.
1964 Los Angeles, California - Canadian actor Lorne Greene, Pa Cartwright on the NBC TV show Bonanza, has a # 1 Billboard pop hit with 'Ringo'; second Canadian to have a #1 pop hit in the United States, after Paul Anka.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Severe lakefront fog halts Grey Cup game between Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers with 9:22 left; Bud Grant's Winnipeg team wins Fog Bowl next day by a score of 28-27.
1958 Vancouver BC - Bud Grant's CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger Cats 35-28 in 46th Grey Cup game.
1956 Egypt - Canadians join main body of United Nations Expeditionary Force in Egypt; with Colombians, and troops from four Scandinavian countries
1952 Toronto Ontario - CFL Toronto Argonauts beat Edmonton Eskimos 21-11 in 40th Grey Cup game.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Proclamation removes ET IND IMP from the obverse legend of Canadian coins; means 'and Empress of India'.
1947 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Argonauts beat Calgary Stampeders 10-9 in 35th Grey Cup game.
1941 Toronto Ontario - Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ottawa Rough Riders 18-16 in 29th Grey Cup game.
1924 Toronto Ontario - Queen's University beats Toronto Balmy Beach 11-3 in the 12th Grey Cup game; before 5,978 fans.
1924 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto 7-1 in the first hockey game played in the new (old) Montreal Forum.
1918 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian Council of Agriculture calls for lower tariffs, free trade with Britain and the US; Farmers' Platform
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the National Research Council of Canada; to further scientific planning and development.
1913 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton Tigers beat Toronto Parkdale 44-2 in the 5th Grey Cup game; before 2,100 fans.
1899 Cape Town South Africa - William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 arrives in Cape Town with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, to fight in the Boer War.
1855 Brockville Ontario - Grand Trunk Railroad completed west from Montreal to Brockville.
1808 Quebec - Francis Burton 1766-1832 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada; serves until Jan. 27, 1832
1798 Charlottetown PEI - Legislature of Island of St. John votes to change name to Prince Edward Island; takes place June 3, 1799
1784 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly 1710-1788 appointed Bishop of Quebec; first Canadian-born bishop
1760 Detroit Michigan - Major Robert Rogers 1731-1795 gets surrender of French at Fort Detroit; when the British refuse to lower prices on trade goods and furnish them with ammunition, the Native Americans grow restive, stirred up by the Delaware prophet and his disciple Pontiac c1720-69, chief of the Ottawa.
1745 Saratoga, New York - French burn Saratoga and later Albany, to retaliate for the efforts of Mohawk Valley Indian trader William Johnson to get the Iroquois on the warpath; part of King George's War (War of the Austrian Succession) 1744-1748.
1698 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Hector de Callières 1648-1703 appointed administrator of New France after Frontenac's death; serves until September 13, 1699

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