This Date In History

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January 9th 2014 - This Date in History.


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475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
1127 – Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty.
1150 – Prince Hailing of Jin and other court officials murder Emperor Xizong of Jin. Hailing succeeds him as emperor.
1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
1431 – Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
1822 РThe Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King Jọo VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process.
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake strikes California, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1861 – American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War".
1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas.
1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow.
1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
1941 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
1945 – World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
1947 – Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
1960 – President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
1964 – Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
1965 – The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
1992 – The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia.
1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
2004 – An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula while on the way to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28.
2005 – Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
2005 – The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War.
2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
2011 – Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
2013 – A SeaStreak ferry travelling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.







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1899 MANITOBA RECORDS RECORD LOW
Manitoba - Manitobans suffer under a record low temperature of minus 52.8 Celsius (minus 63 Fahrenheit).

1949
Brantford Ontario - Tom Longboat 1888-1949 dies at age 61 on the Ohsweken Mohawk reserve. Longboat won the 1907 Boston Marathon, pursued a pro running career, then served with the Canadian Army in World War I


In Other Events...

1997 Seoul Korea - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien starts visit to South Korea.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Judge acquits NDP MP Lorne Nystrom of shoplifting; Nystrom explained he put some contact lens cleaning discs in his pocket while distracted.
1988 Leith Scotland - Sylvana Tomaselli, from Toronto, marries the Earl of St. Andrews in a private ceremony; first Canadian to marry into the British Royal Family.
1982 New Brunswick - Three moderate earthquakes measuring 5.5 to 4.9 on the Richter scale shake New Brunswick; no serious damage or injuries; last similar quake was in 1855.
1981 New York New York - Sault native Phil Esposito plays his final pro hockey game, helping the New York Rangers skate to a 3-3 tie with the Buffalo Sabres. Espo goes on to become General Manager and Coach of the Rangers. In 1969 and 1974, playing for the Boston Bruins, he won the Hart Memorial Trophy for Most Valuable Player in the NHL, and helped lead the Bruins to two Stanley Cup Championships in 1970 and 1972.
1971 Biafra Nigeria - Ottawa gives $2,250,000 in relief to both sides in Nigerian civil war.
1967 Victoria BC - Centennial Train leaves Victoria; travelling museum will stop in 83 communities across Canada; until December 4
1965 Hope BC - Mountain avalanche kills 4 drivers on highway near Hope.
1954 Montreal Quebec - Bert Olmstead, Montreal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game.
1950 Colombo Sri Lanka - Canada attends Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs in Colombo, Ceylon; five-day meeting leads to the Columbo Plan.
1927 Montreal Quebec - Fire kills 77 children in a Montreal movie theatre.
1889 Queenston Ontario - Niagara Suspension Bridge collapses during a winter storm.
1888 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Opening of railway bridge across the St. Mary's River to US.
1885 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Opening of the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Charles Mair 1838-1927 escapes from Fort Garry with Thomas Scott.
1862 Halifax Nova Scotia - Grenadier Guards land at Halifax to garrison the Citadel.
1838 Amherstburg Ontario - Canadian militia capture US sloop 'Anne' used by republican rebels - the Hunters Lodges.
1666 Quebec - New France Governor Daniel de Remy de Courcelle 1626-1698 leads a 500-man military campaign against the Mohawks.

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January 10th 2014 - This Date in History.


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49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
9 – The Western Han Dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin Dynasty.
69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1791 – The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1806 – Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1810 РNapoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Jos̩phine.
1861 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1916 – World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dáil Éireann.
1923 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium.
1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
1984 – The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
2007 РA general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Cont̩ to resign.
2011 – 2010–2011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.






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1920 CANADA JOINS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Geneva Switzerland - Canada becomes a founding member of the League of Nations on the day the Treaty of Versailles, ending the First World War, takes effect; Canada and the other Dominions now speak for themselves on international affairs.

1811

Alberta - Norwester David Thompson 1770-1857 crosses the height of land of the Rocky Mountains on the Athabasca Pass; he will ascend the Columbia River to its source, then descend it to Astoria, becoming the first person to explore and map the whole length of the river.


In Other Events...

1993 Oakville Manitoba - 400 Oakville residents return home after three week exile in shelters and motels; as risk from toxic chemicals released in a train derailment.
1990 Paris France - Roger Lemelin receives France's Légion d'honneur medal; Montreal author (Les Plouffes); publisher of La Presse
1980 Quebec - Claude Ryan 1925- Quebec Liberal leader suggests more power to the provinces; in policy paper on constitutional reform
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Canada expels four Cubans, including two diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - First meeting of National Indian Advisory Board in Ottawa.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and provinces meet to discuss constitutional amendment issues and Trans-Canada Highway; federal-provincial conference until January 12
1946 London England - Canadian diplomats attend first General Assembly of the United Nations; until February 15; Canada to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission, the Economic and Social Council, and the International Court of Justice
1942 Montreal Quebec - Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion admitted to the Quebec Bar - Quebec's first female lawyers.
1931 Montreal Quebec - Philadelphia Quakers ended the Montreal Maroons 15-game winning streak, the longest in NHL history to date.
1920 Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Canadiens clobber the Toronto St. Patricks 14-7, in the highest point total NHL Hockey game; Chicago and Edmonton equalled the total goals in 1985.
1910 Montreal Quebec - Henri Bourassa 1868-1952 publishes first issue of 'Le Devoir'; opposes reciprocity with the US; claiming it will lead to American interference in Canadian affairs.
1850 Plymouth England - Robert McClure & Richard Collinson set sail in the Enterprise and Investigator to search for Franklin expedition; McClure sails into the Beaufort Sea via Bering Strait, to Banks Island.
1842 - Charles Bagot 1781-1843 arrives to take post as Governor General of British North America.
1823 Quebec - opening of third session of eleventh Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until March 22; licences to regulate public houses and sale of liquor and wine
1817 Fort Douglas Manitoba - Miles Macdonnell recaptures Fort Douglas from Metis; occupies the Fort for Lord Selkirk
1815 London England - British Government bans Americans from settling in Canada.

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January 11th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1055 – Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1158 – Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia.
1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
1693 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post – General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1912 – Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
1919 – Romania reincorporates Transylvania.
1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
1943 – World War II: The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
1943 – Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York.
1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.
1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
1962 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
1994 РThe Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn F̩in.
1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
1998 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
2002 – The first twenty captives arrive at Camp X-Ray.
2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
2013 – One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.







Today's Canadian Headline...


1922 CANADIAN BOY THE FIRST TO BEAT DIABETES
Toronto Ontario - Leonard Thompson, a 14 year old Canadian, is the first person to have his diabetes successfully treated, with Banting and Best's new discovery, insulin.


In Other Events...


1996 Quebec Quebec - Bloc Quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard appointed Premier designate of Quebec by the Parti Quebecois.
1994 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa retires as Premier of Quebec; succeeded by Daniel Johnson, Quebec's 30th Premier.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Dylex Ltd., Canada's largest clothing retailer seeks court protection from its creditors and says it will shut 200 stores, eliminating 1,800 jobs.
1995 North America - NHL players and owners come to an agreement; 103-day National Hockey League lockout ends.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Henry Birks and Sons jewelry chain files for bankruptcy protection; closes 34 stores, then sells remaining 39 stores to Italian group.
1982 Toronto Ontario - CBC moves national news to 10 pm and introduces a new public affairs program The Journal, hosted by Barbara Frum, which will last for a decade.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Thomson Newspapers Ltd. of Toronto acquires control of FP Publications Ltd., owner of 8 papers; including Toronto Globe & Mail
1974 Toronto Ontario - Celia Franca 1921- retires after 23 years as Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada; succeeded on July 1 by David Haber
1967 Montreal Quebec - CP Hotels opens 38-story Chateau Champlain in Montreal; Canada's tallest hotel
1957 Port Said Egypt - Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent arrives in Egypt with men and supplies for the UN emergency force; Canadian strength in Egypt now about 1,000 men.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Winston Spencer Churchill British Prime Minister starts four-day visit to Ottawa.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government lifts some price controls, but food, clothing, fuel and rent still stay under the control of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
1914 Herald Island NWT Arctic - Captain Robert Abram Bartlett 1875-1946 sees Karluk crushed by ice near Herald Island, north of Siberia; one of three ships of Stefansson expedition.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - Protesting western farmers occupy the House of Commons; one sits in Laurier's seat and demands free trade with the US.
1909 Washington DC - The US and Canada (with the British in attendance) set up the International Joint Commission under the Boundary Waters Treaty; agree to submit major fishery and boundary disputes to World Court; also agree to work to prevent pollution of the Great Lakes.
1865 Halifax Nova Scotia - Joseph Howe 1804-1873 publishes the first of his Botheration Letters in the Halifax Morning Chronicle; his series attacking Confederation continues until March 2
1864 New Westminster BC - Frederick Seymour 1820-1869 appointed first Governor of the united province of British Columbia and Vancouver Island; from May 21, 1864 to June 10, 1869
1747 Minas Nova Scotia - Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers 1708-1750 leads 240 Canadians and 60 Indians from Chebucto against on the Chignecto; 2nd-in-command of French forces under Ramezay.

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January 12th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1528 – Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
1539 – Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
1773 – The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
1808 – The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1848 – The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1895 – The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
1898 – Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.
1899 – 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when the former flounders off the coast of Devon.
1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1911 – The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress.
1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1918 – Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
1926 – Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928.
1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1959 – The Caves of Nerja are rediscovered in Spain.
1962 – Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1971 – All in the Family The famous situation comedy premieres on CBS
1976 – The United Nations Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.
1991 – Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2004 – The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2005 – Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
2006 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
2006 – The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
2007 – Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
2010 – The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.







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1977 KAIN AND AUGUSTINE WOW MOSCOW
Moscow Russia - Karen Kain 1951- and Frank Augustyn 1953- perform with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow; the National Ballet of Canada stars are the first Canadian dancers so honored.

1819
St. Boniface Manitoba - Founding of the Collège St-Boniface in Red River.


In Other Events...

1981 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Jean Chretien 1934- rewrites the Charter of Rights in proposed constitutional package, giving the provinces more power.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Air Canada suspends regular flights to Moscow, Prague, and Brussels, cuts domestic schedule; to offset 1976 operating losses
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court of Canada upholds restriction on use of French in Canadian airspace.
1951 Vatican City - Archbishop Paul-Emile Léger of Montreal appointed to the College of Cardinals.
1918 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals as his team beats Ottawa 9-4.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet Order in Council raises Canadian troop strength in World War I to 500,000.
1907 Toronto Ontario - First issue of the Financial Post published.
1842 Charlottetown PEI - John Ings publishes the first issue of The Islander newspaper.
1759 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe 1727-1759 appointed Major-General and Commander-in-Chief of land forces in expedition against Quebec.
1743 South Dakota - Francois de Varennes de La Verendrye sights Big Horn Range of Rocky Mountains with brother Louis-Joseph.
1598 Paris France - Troilus de Mesgouez, Marquis de La Roche c1540-1606 awarded further ownership and trade monopoly of New France from Henri IV; appointed Lieutenant General of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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January 13th 2014 - This Date in History.


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532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.
888 – Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1666 – French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running ashore, resulting in the death of over 900.
1815 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
1830 – The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
1832 – President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
1913 – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
1934 – The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
1953 – Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
1953 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
1958 – The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
1964 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland.
1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison
1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
1974 – Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
1978 – U.S. Food & Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000.
1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 31 confirmed deaths with one still missing, Russel Rebello, amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.







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1947 SUPREME COURT RULES
London England - Britain's Privy Council rules that Canada is within its rights in passing legislation making the Supreme Court of Canada the final court of appeal; marks the end of legal recourse to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, except in federal-provincial matters.

1943
Mediterranean, off Italy - Royal Canadian Navy Corvette Ville de Québec sinks a U-boat in the Mediterranean; RCN's first U-boat kill.


In Other Events...

1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ann Cools appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; first black Canadian to serve in the Upper Chamber.
1976 Ontario - Ontario signs agreement with Ottawa; 400,000 public sector employees put under the Anti-Inflation Board.
1966 Sri Lanka - Canada gives $1 million long-term loan to Ceylon, for purchase of industrial raw materials.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts skills program for unemployed; announced at federal-provincial conference on manpower training
1965 Ocean Falls BC - Avalanche kills 7 people at Ocean Falls.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - The third federal-provincial conference on the Constitution reaches a general agreement on the need to amend the BNA Act.
1949 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island bans sale and manufacture of margarine, to protect dairy industry.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - W. Clifford Clark d1952 suggests new Family Allowance scheme; estimates cost at $200 million.
1908 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
1849 Vancouver Island BC - Hudson's Bay Company signs lease with the British government for monopoly of trade on Vancouver Island for ten more years; for a fee of seven shillings per year.
1838 Buffalo New York USA - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 evacuates Navy Island and goes to Buffalo.
1837 Saint John New Brunswick - Fire devastates business district of Saint John.

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January 14th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1343 – Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.
1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.
1639 – The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
1724 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas.
1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
1814 – Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1933 – The controversial "Bodyline" cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine's England peak when Australian captain Bill Woodfull is hit in the heart.
1938 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1943 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
1953 – Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
1957 – Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
1975 – Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".
1999 – Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city.
2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2004 – The national flag of The Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.
2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
2011 – The former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled his country to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for freedom, rights and democracy, considered as the anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring.







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1968 ICE STORM DOWNS MUIR'S MAPLE
Toronto Ontario - Ice storm fatally damages the silver maple at 62 Laing Street that inspired Alexander Muir to write The Maple Leaf Forever.

1902
Halifax Nova Scotia - Canadian Mounted Rifles sail out of Halifax bound for Boer War in South Africa.


In Other Events...


1990 California USA - Laurence J. Peter dies at age 70; author of The Peter Principle, where employees rise to their level of incompetence.
1982 Vancouver BC - Clifford Robert Olson, from Coquitlam, is sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder of 11 children, 3 boys and 8 girls, aged nine to 18, from Nov 1980 to Aug 1981; RCMP agreed to give Olson's family $100,000 if he told them where he had buried the bodies.
1979 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Jean-Pierre Charette returns to Canada after 10 years in Cuba; sentenced to a jail term in March on charges of planting three bombs in 1978.
1977 Terrace BC - Northern Thunderbird Airlines aircraft crashes at Terrace, killing 12 people.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Police set up special ethnic squad to deal with Asian community problems; after racial attacks
1976 Toronto Ontario - The T. Eaton Company winds up its catalogue sales operation after over 10 years of heavy losses; stops publishing catalogue, issued since 1884
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Egg Marketing Agency notes 40 million egg surplus, increasing about 15 million a week.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Leger sworn in as Canada's 21st Governor General.
1971 Singapore - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- attends week-long Commonwealth Heads of Government conference in Singapore; suggests study of arms embargo of South Africa
1967 Montreal Quebec - Catholic elementary and secondary teachers strike, closing schools in Montreal and Trois-Rivieres; ends Feb. 17 when Quebec passes Bill 25.
1963 Seoul Korea - Canada and South Korea establish diplomatic relations.
1952 Stellarton, Nova Scotia - Underground gas explosion at McGregor coal mine kills 19 men.
1949 Halifax Nova Scotia - First non-stop trans-Canada flight arrives from Vancouver.
1944 France - Guy Bieler captured by the Gestapo in France; Canadian secret agent.
1943 Montreal Quebec - Alex Smart scores three goals in his first NHL game to lead the Canadiens to a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks; first NHLer to score hat trick in his first game.
1942 BC - Canada orders Japanese Canadians out of British Columbia coastal region; now defined as a 'protected area'.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of Dominion-Provincial Conference in the Parliament Buildings.
1930 Ontario - Canada signs agreement with Germany settling German property seized in Canada during First World War.
1875 Halifax Nova Scotia - First issue of the Halifax Herald newspaper published.
1875 Caraquet New Brunswick - Start of 2-week riot in Caraquet over Act for non-sectarian public schools in New Brunswick; militia called in to restore order
1830 Sarnia Ontario - 'The Rapids' settlement on St. Clair River given the name of Sarnia.

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January 15th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
1541 РKing Francis I of France gives Jean-Fran̤ois Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
1582 – Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1759 – The British Museum opens.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
1844 – University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).
1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
1919 – Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
1933 – A twelve-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.
1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
1943 – World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (The "Black Dahlia") is found in Los Angeles' Leimert Park.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
1951 – Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
1962 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
1966 РThe Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'̩tat.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 – Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
1970 – Moammar Gadhafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 – Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
1975 – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
1976 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1981 – John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Walesa.
1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
1992 – The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1993 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as "The Beast", is arrested in Sicily, Italy after three decades as a fugitive.
2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.







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1878 TORIES ADOPT NATIONAL POLICY
Toronto Ontario - John A Macdonald's Liberal Conservative Party adopts a high-tariff National Policy platform, due to frustration in restoring freer trade with the US; the Party opts for protective tariffs, while keeping the door open to reciprocity where possible.

1541
Alberta - French King François I appoints Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval c1500-1560 first Viceroy of Canada, Newfoundland, and Labrador.


In Other Events...

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces massive VIA Rail cutbacks, due to $1 billion annual loss; will cut over 2,500 jobs and at least 14 of the company's 38 routes.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang starts 7-day state visit to Canada.
1982 Quebec Quebec - Quebec National Assembly forces 2,200 striking Montreal transit workers back to work.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Legislature votes to end two-month strike by 8,800 Toronto secondary teachers.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - George Maltby, Police Chief of St. James-Assiniboia, appointed first Ombudsman of Manitoba.
1964 Paris France - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 arrives in Paris; first official visit of a Canadian Prime Minister to France.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - The Board of Broadcast Governors (today's CRTC) records its hearings for the first time; distributed to radio and TV stations by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP Musical Ride placed on permanent, full-time basis.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley warns that Ottawa might have to invade provincial tax turf; in a tough speech to the Dominion-Provincial Conference.
1915 Basque BC - Canadian Northern Railroad completes line between Quebec City and Vancouver, British Columbia.
1892 Springfield Massachusetts - James Naismith, from Almonte, Ontario, first publishes his 'Rules of Basketball' in the YMCA's Triangle magazine.
1836 - Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford 1776-1849 bans private army groups, such as the British Rifle Corps.
1835 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada bans the sale of liquor to Indians; effective January 5, 1836
1808 Nova Scotia - George Prevost 1767-1816 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia; from May 13, 1808 to Aug. 25,1811
1636 Quebec Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 appointed first titular Governor of New France before de Champlain's death was known in France; soldier and Knight of Malta
1635 Saint John New Brunswick - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 granted land at mouth of Saint John River; builds Fort La Tour (Fort Jemseg).
1634 Beauport Quebec - Robert de Moncel Giffard 1587-1668 granted one of the first royal seigneuries by the Company of New France; he is a master surgeon.

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January 16th 2014 - This Date in History.


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27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1362 – A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
1547 – Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1761 РThe British capture Pondich̩ry, India from the French.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
1809 РPeninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coru̱a.
1847 РJohn C. Fr̩mont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1862 – Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1924 – Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
1939 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1956 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
1964 – Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
1973 – Anna Christian Waters disappears from her backyard. She is never found.
1973 – Bonanza Final episode airs on NBC.
1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
1986 – First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
2001 РCongolese President Laurent-D̩sir̩ Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
2013 РAn estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Am̩nas, Algeria.







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1905 OTTAWA WINS LOPSIDED STANLEY CUP
Ottawa Ontario - Frank McGee scores 14 goals as the Ottawa Silver 7 beat Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for the Stanley Cup. This is the most lopsided playoff game in Stanley Cup history. The Yukon team had walked from Dawson to railhead to be able to play in the tournament.

1939

New York City - Joe Schuster from Toronto publishes his first Superman comic strip.


In Other Events...

1970 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet accepts federal policy paper recommendations;.appoints Commission to oversee conversion from Imperial to International (Metric) System of Units.
1965 Winnipeg Manitoba - Chad Allen and the Expressions re-release their hit single Shakin' All Over under their new name - The Guess Who; it is the band's first record under that name.
1965 Washington DC - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 signs Canada-US Automotive Agreement, or Auto Pact with President Lyndon Johnson; free trade on new cars and car parts manufactured in either country
1961 India - Opening of Canada-India nuclear plant, gift to India under Colombo Plan.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 chosen as party leader on first ballot by Liberal Party, replacing Louis St. Laurent; 1074 votes, to Paul Martin (305)
1908 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba government takes over provincial telephone service.
1906 Halifax Nova Scotia - Last British soldiers leave Canada, as Britain turns over control of its naval bases and garrisons to Canada; Esquimault BC left earlier.
1847 Hamilton Ontario - Colin Campbell Ferrie elected first Mayor of Hamilton.
1821 Brockville Ontario - Chauncey Beach founds The Brockville Recorder newspaper.
1814 Madrid New York - British troops start week-long raid on the towns of Madrid, Salmon River, Malone and Four Corners; retaliation for US raids in Canada; War of 1812 .
1813 Halifax Nova Scotia - Anthony Henry Holland edits and publishes the first issue of The Acadian Recorder.
1800 Fredericton New Brunswick - John Murray Bliss 1771-1834 fights the first duel in New Brunswick against Samuel D. Stuart.
1637 Quebec Quebec - The Company of New France receives a grant to establish a nunnery and Jesuit church and seminary at Quebec.

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January 17th 2014 - This Date in History.


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38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
395 – Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother (aged 10).
1287 – King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
1377 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
1562 – France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.
1595 – Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1608 – Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1893 – The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1913 РRaymond Poincar̩ is elected President of France.
1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1929 – Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days.
1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 – The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1966 – Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1982 – "Cold Sunday": in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
1989 – Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1994 – 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 – A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
2001 – U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes Meriwether Lewis from Lieutenant to Captain.
2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
2010 – Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.







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1974 THE GOVERNOR IS A LADY
Toronto Ontario - Pauline McGibbon 1910- takes office as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the first women to hold a vice-regal post in Canada.


In Other Events...


1997 Geneva Switzerland - The World Trade Organization (WTO) rules against Canadian protectionist policies such as taxing Canadian editions of US magazines, preferential postal rates and tariff restrictions to protect its magazine industry from U.S. competition. Canada to look for other means to help industry.
1996 Detroit Michigan - Ottawa native Steve Yzerman scores his 500th goal, to help his Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2; 22nd player in NHL history to score 500 goals.
1995 Canada - Canadian dollar skids to a nine-year low of US 70.49 cents.
1976 Cape Canaveral Florida - NASA launches Canada's $60 million Communications Technology Satellite from Cape Canaveral; world's most powerful; will provide TV and phone services to Northern communities.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Armed Forces set up separate Air Command.
1972 Canada - Canadian air traffic controllers start 12-day strike, grounding most commercial flights.
1964 Winnipeg Manitoba - Opening of Winnipeg International Airport terminal.
1961 Washington DC - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 signs Columbia River Treaty with President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Canada gets half of power from dams on Canadian section; three dams in Canada
1961 Warsaw Poland - Canadian officials return Polish national treasures stored in Canadian vaults for safekeeping during World War II.
1933 Newfoundland - Newfoundland asks Britain to solve financial difficulties; wants Royal Commission
1861 Montreal Quebec - Mass meeting at Montreal protests forced return of escaped slaves to US.
1854 Hamilton Ontario - Celebration marks completion of Great Western Railway between Niagara Falls, Hamilton and Windsor; later part of Grand Trunk and CNR.
1850 Wolford Lodge England - Elizabeth Simcoe dies; buried beside husband John Graves Simcoe.
1840 Quebec Quebec - French complain that Lower Canadians not consulted about union of Upper and Lower Canada.
1839 Ontario - John Colborne, Baron Seaton 1778-1863 appointed Governor of British North America.
1838 Niagara Falls Ontario - Francis Bond Head 1793-1875 inspects Navy Island.
1651 Paris France - Jean de Lauzon c1584-1666 appointed Governor of New France; from October 14 to September 12, 1657

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January 18th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

350 – Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He died ten months later.
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
1535 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.
1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1701 РFrederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in K̦nigsberg.
1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
1866 – Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
1884 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886 – Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith.
1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.[citation needed]
1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 – A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1944 – Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
1945 – Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
1945 – Liberation of Krakow, Poland by the Red Army.
1955 – Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
1977 – SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1978 – The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
1994 – The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1997 – In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 – Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
2000 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
2002 – Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
2003 – A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
2009 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
2012 – A series of coordinated actions (including a blackout of Wikipedia) take place in protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).







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1967 YELLOWKNIFE NAMED NWT CAPITAL
Yellowknife NWT - Yellowknife becomes capital of the North West Territories; administration transferred from Ottawa September 15.

1940

Toronto Ontario - Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn 1896-1953 condemns Mackenzie King's conduct of the war as inadequate; gives PM excuse to dissolve Parliament and call election.


In Other Events...

1996 Ottawa Ontario - Lucien Bouchard resigns as Leader of the Bloc Quebecois (BQ); to become head of the Parti Quebecois and Premier of Quebec.
1982 London England - British parliamentary committee concludes that it would be proper for Parliament to adopt legislation revising the Canadian Constitution.
1977 Toronto Ontario - McClelland and Stewart start Seal Books in a joint venture with Bantam Books of Canada Ltd.; to publish paperback books by Canadian authors
1972 St. John's Newfoundland - Frank Duff Moores 1933- takes office as first Progressive Conservative premier of Newfoundland.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans use of aircraft and large ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence seal hunt.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Senate Special Committee on Science Policy issues Part Two of Report; recommends increased R & D; recommends founding Canadian Industrial Laboratories Corporation
1971 Quebec Quebec - Quebec requires English-language schools in the province to teach French as a second language.
1966 United Nations New York USA - Agriculture Minister John Joseph Greene 1905- appointed chairman of pledging committee of World Food Program; Canada contributes $27,500,000.
1963 Sheridan Park Ontario - Opening of Ontario Research Community, group of R&D laboratories at Sheridan Park near Toronto.
1958 Boston Massachusetts - Bill O'Ree starts playing for the Boston Bruins; first black person in the NHL.
1919 Versailles France - Canadian delegation attends opening of World War I Peace Congress.
1839 Montreal Quebec - Several rebels are hanged following the rebellion in Lower Canada.
1834 Toronto Ontario - Chief Justice William Campbell dies at York.
1813 Frenchtown Michigan USA - Brig. Gen. James Winchester captures Frenchtown, 40 km south of Detroit; defended by handful of Canadian militia and Iroquois; after earlier defeat

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January 19th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
639 – Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy gets crowned.
649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.
1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ŁÃ³dź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
1953 – 71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
1977 – Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
2013 – A failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television is foiled by security guards.







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1996 WINNIPEG MOURNS AS JETS FLY SOUTH
Miami Florida - NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announces that the League has approved the sale of the Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix, Arizona investors.

1870
Winnipeg Manitoba - Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 meets Metis and Scottish settlers at two day meeting at Fort Garry to give them Canada's position. Here he is speaking to the inhabitants from a balcony at the fort.

1943
Ottawa Ontario - Princess Margriet born to Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in a room in the Ottawa Civic hospital declared to be Dutch territory. The Dutch royal family live in Ottawa as exiles during World War II; Juliana will become Queen of the Netherlands in 1948.


In Other Events...

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard delivers maiden speech as Commons Opposition leader.
1989 Calgary Alberta - Canadian Airlines International acquires Wardair, Canada's third largest carrier, for $250 million.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Erik Nielsen resigns as MP for the Yukon after 30 years in politics; former Deputy Prime Minister in Clark Government; brother of actor Leslie Nielsen.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada announces 1981 inflation rate of 12.5%; a 33-year high.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Public Archives releases minutes and documents of Canadian Cabinet War Committee of World War II.
1960 Whiteshell Manitoba - AECL to build Canada's second Nuclear Research Establishment at Whiteshell on the Winnipeg River, 100 km from Winnipeg.
1960 India - Canada meets India's request for $25 million in aid under Colombo Plan.
1958 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Football Council renamed the Canadian Football League (CFL).
1950 Downsview Ontario - Maiden flight of the Avro Canada CF-100 military jet.
1942 Halifax Nova Scotia - German submarine torpedoes Canadian ship Lady Hawkins, as U-boats ravage unprotected shipping along the Atlantic coast.
1901 Quebec Quebec - Government of Canada purchases the Plains of Abraham battlefield; to be maintained as a national park.
1857 Grand Manan New Brunswick - Vessel Lord Ashburton wrecked on Grand Manan Island en route from France to Saint John; loss of 21 lives
1843 Sackville New Brunswick - Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy opens at Sackville, New Brunswick; now Mount Allison University
1824 Toronto Ontario - William Hamilton Merritt gets Act of Incorporation for Welland Canal Company; President Samuel Keefer
1685 Matagorda Bay Texas - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 misses Mississippi, lands in Texas.
1649 Quebec Quebec - The first executioner in Canada, a pardoned criminal, performs his first assignment at Quebec on a 16 year old girl found guilty of theft.

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January 20th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

250 – Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred.
649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
1265 – In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known colloquially as the "Houses of Parliament".
1320 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
1356 – Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1567 – Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
1576 – The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
1649 – Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".
1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
1785 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
1788 – The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.
1839 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
1885 – L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1921 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
1934 – Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
1941 – A German officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
1945 – World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
1959 – The first flight of the Vickers Vanguard.
1960 – Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
1969 – East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
1990 – On Black Saturday, the Red Army kills Azerbaijani civilians in Baku.
1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1992 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board. A design flaw in the computer mode selection system resulted in the crew selecting the wrong rate of descent.
1999 РThe China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet caf̩s.
2001 – Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.
2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.





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1995 REASONABLY WELL PAID RINK RATS GO BACK TO WORK
North America - 1994-95 NHL Season starts after a lengthy pro hockey strike.

1936
London England - Edward VIII 1894-1972 starts reign on the death of his father George V. He will abdicate eleven months later, on December 11, 1936, to marry 'the woman I love,' Wallis Simpson. The stamp shows him four years earlier when he was Prince of Wales, and first visited Canada.

1899
Halifax Nova Scotia - Advance group of about 2,000 Russian Doukhobors lands in Halifax en route to the west; 5,400 follow shortly after. These first members of this mystical Christian sect (the name means 'spirit wrestlers,') are sponsored by Count Leo Tolstoy, the novelist and author of War and Peace.


In Other Events...

1995 Yellowknife NWT - Roger Warren convicted of second-degree murder for killing 9 men during the 1992 strike-related bombing of the Giant gold mine.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Telesat Canada's Anik E-1 communications satellite spins out of control; newspapers, radio and TV broadcasters scramble to get news feed.
1994 Henley-on-Thames England - Beatrice Lillie, Lady Peel 1894-1989 dies at age 94; born Constance Sylvia Gladys Munston in Toronto on May 29, 1894. Lillie was a comic movie/stage actor that Noel Coward billed as the funniest woman in the world. She appeared in such films as Auntie Mame (1958), Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967).
1971 Tuktoyaktuk NWT - Radio Tuktoyaktuk starts broadcasting in English and Inuktutuk.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Yvon Dupuis resigns on 1964 charges of accepting $10,000 bribe in 1961; Minister Without Portfolio.
1953 Toronto Ontario - CBS Television production of Studio One transmitted to CBLT-TV and rebroadcast in Canada; first transmission of a TV show from the United States to Canada.
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Government Railways becomes the CNR; takes over the Intercolonial, National Transcontinental & Hudson Bay lines.
1910 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for the Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910).
1904 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government disallows British Columbia Act to restrict Chinese immigration.
1892 Springfield Massachusetts - Almonte, Ontario native James Naismith hosts his first organized basketball game, the world's first, at the Springfield YMCA college.
1715 Nova Scotia - Samuel Vetch appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; to August 17, 1717.

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January 21st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


763 – The Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ends in a decisive Abbasid victory.
1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris
1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1749 – The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1840 РJules Dumont d'Urville discovers Ad̩lie Land, Antarctica.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 – The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars.
1887 – 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile.
1908 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 – Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.
1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1941 – Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
1948 – The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
1950 – American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1958 – The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
1960 – Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca.
1961 – 435 workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapses.
1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1968 – A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
1971 – The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 – President of the United States Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1981 – Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2000 – Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
2003 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
2004 – NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 – In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.







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1907 KENORA WINS STANLEY CUP
Montreal Quebec - Kenora Thistles ice hockey team sweep the Montreal Wanderers in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.

1807

Trois-Rivières Quebec - Ezekiel Hart d1843 elected to the Lower Canada Assembly for Three Rivers; re-elected in 1808 but again barred from sitting because of his religion; first Jew elected to a Canadian legislature.



In Other Events...

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court starts review of David Milgaard murder conviction in the death of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller; he will be freed April 16th, after 22 years in jail, when the Court finds a miscarriage of justice.
1989 St John's Newfoundland - Tory Brian Peckford resigns after 10 years as Newfoundland Premier; replaced by Clyde Wells after election.
1985 Uniondale New York - Ottawa native Dennis Potvin of the New York Islanders ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals.
1983 Regina Saskatchewan - Joanne Wilson found murdered in her garage; ex-wife of politician Colin Thatcher, son of ex-Premier Ross Thatcher, who will be found guilty of first-degree murder.
1936 London England - Edward, Prince of Wales, proclaimed King Edward VIII, one day after the death of his father, George V; will abdicate Dec 11th to marry divorced American Wallis Simpson.
1911 Washington DC - Canada and US agree to comprehensive reciprocity bill; ratified by Senate in July, but fails to pass in Canadian Parliament.
1900 Halifax Nova Scotia - Second Contingent of Canadian troops sails from Halifax for South Africa; more troop ships leave January 27 and February 21
1891 Boston Massachusetts - Calixa Lavallée dies at age 48; composer of O Canada.
1880 Victoria BC - Jeffree & Pendray install Victoria's first business telephones; W. J. Jeffree's Clothing store, W. I. Pendray's Soap Factory
1864 Parry Sound Ontario - William Beatty granted 2,000 acres on site of Parry Sound.
1850 Scarborough Ontario - Incorporation of the Town of Scarborough; council meets at Dowsell's Tavern on the Markham Road
1839 Wolfville Nova Scotia - Acadia College opens in Wolfville; now Acadia University
1796 Quebec - Robert Prescott 1725-1816 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada; serves from June 21 to Dec. 15, 1796
1757 Ticonderoga New York USA - Robert Rogers 1731-1795 defeated with his Rogers Rangers by French near Ticonderoga.

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January 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


565 – Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
613 – Constantine (8-month-old) is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1517 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
1555 – The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma.
1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
1824 – The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
1863 – The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
1877 – Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops defeat British troops.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an onslaught by three to four thousand Zulu warriors.
1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1905 – Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1915 – Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
1944 – World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
1946 – In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president and Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
1957 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
1957 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1959 – Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
1962 – The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
1963 РThe Elys̩e treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
1969 – A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1971 – The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.
1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
1987 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13.
1990 – Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
1991 – Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
1992 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1995 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1874 MACKENZIE THRASHES SIR JOHN A.
Canada - Liberal Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 defeats John A. Macdonald in the second Canadian general election, 138 seats to 67; of a total 206 seats. Macdonald suffered from the Pacific Scandal revelations.

1992

Cape Canaveral Florida -
Roberta Bondar, a Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, blasts into Space from the Kennedy Space Center on an eight-day flight aboard the shuttle Discovery with six other astronauts.


In Other Events...


1992 Toronto Ontario - Boeing sells 51% of financially-troubled de Havilland Aircraft to Montreal-based Bombardier, with Ontario acquiring the remaining shares; after 8 years of ownership of the former Crown corporation.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons votes 217-47 to endorse UN resolution on military action against Iraq. Most NDP members vote against the bill.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Northrop Frye 1913-1991 dies at age 78. Former Master of Victoria College, literary scholar Frye wrote over 20 books, including The Great Code, and Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (Governor General's Award 1986).
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Richard Schreyer 1935- takes office as Governor General of Canada; the former Manitoba Premier's term ended in 1984.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- declares International Women's Year.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and Premiers start two-day National Energy Conference in Ottawa; agree to subsidize Eastern prices and stabilize those in rest of country
1973 Toronto Ontario - Istvan Meszaros granted landed immigrant status; refused twice before as security risk; Marxist scholar and former Hungarian Culture Minister
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to discuss exchange of ambassadors with People's Republic of China.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Guy Favreau defers Fulton-Favreau formula of 1964 for repatriating constitution, because of Quebec opposition; President of Privy Council.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 raises federal grants to universities by 33%.
1951 Korea - Canadian destroyer HMCS Huron put under United Nations command.
1944 Anzio Italy - Allies establish Anzio beachhead south of Rome; Canadians man static front on Adriatic coast
1931 Montreal Quebec - Tyrone Guthrie 1900-1971 broadcasts the first episode of The Romance of Canada; first series of radio dramas produced in Canada.
1906 Pacific - US steamer Valencia sinks off Vancouver Island; 126 drown.
1901 Windsor England - Queen Victoria 1819-1901 dies at age 82, ending her 64-year reign - the longest in British history.
1878 London England Britain - Canada wins right to decide whether or not to be included in British trade treaties.
1867 Peel Ontario - First meeting of the Peel County Council, after split from York County.
1864 Sapperton BC - First session of the Legislative Council of British Columbia opens at Sapperton.
1813 Frenchtown Michigan - Major General Henry Proctor leads 500 soldiers and militia, with Tecumseh's 800 Indians from Amherstburg, in a counterattack across the frozen Detroit River after his defeat 4 days earlier. He recaptures the River Raison post, defeats 900 US troops led by Brig. Gen. James Winchester, and captures Winchester and 500 Americans.
1806 Ontario - Francis Gore 1769-1852 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves from Aug. 25,1806 to Jan 1, 1818
1699 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Saint-Vallier 1653-1727 founds the first elementary school in New France; opens following year
1690 Onondaga New York - Iroquois sign treaty of peace with British and Great Lakes tribes.

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January 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year old son Honorius co-emperor.
971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1546 РHaving published nothing for eleven years, Fran̤ois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
1793 – Second Partition of Poland
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic.
1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
1900 – The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War ends in a British defeat.
1904 – Ã…lesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ã…lesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.
1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
1945 РWorld War II: Karl D̦nitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
1958 РAfter a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos P̩rez Jim̩nez leaves Venezuela.
1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1967 РDiplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and C̫te d'Ivoire are established.
1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying.
1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
1997 – Greek Serial Killer Antonis Daglis is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others
2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered .
2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1995 MILITARY GET BLACK EYE
Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister David Collenette disbands the Canadian Airborne Regiment; after some of its soldiers were found to be involved in the death of a Somali boy during a UN mission, and revelations of illegal hazing rituals.

1836

Toronto Ontario - Francis Bond Head 1793-1875 arrives in Toronto to replace Colborne as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; he appoints Reformers Baldwin, Rolph and Dunn to the Executive Council in an effort to quell potential rebellion. Colborne moves to Montreal to take command of the military in the Canadas.


In Other Events...


1995 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court of Appeal acquits Guy-Paul Morin of 1984 sex-slaying of his nine-year-old neighbor, Christine Jessop of Queensville, Ontario; ruling on basis of new DNA evidence.
1995 Victoria BC - British Columbia blocks Alcan's $1.3-billion (Canadian) Kemano power dam development, citing the threat to its salmon fishery.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that the federal government can conduct environmental reviews on any projects under its jurisdiction.
1984 Brantford Ontario - Stuart & Lillian Kelly of Brantford collect $13,890,588.80 for winning ticket in Lotto 6-49; largest to date.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa ends tax breaks to Canadian companies advertising in Canadian editions of foreign magazines.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Terrorists throw four firebombs at the Soviet consulate in Montreal, doing slight damage.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Walter Lockhart Gordon 1906-1988 heads ministerial committee to look at foreign ownership in the Canadian economy.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs take their undefeated streak in 18 games, the longest in their history.
1949 Regina Saskatchewan - Fire destroys the Regina transit barns, torching most of its 38 buses and streetcars.
1941 Prescott Ontario - German prisoner of war Franz von Werra escapes from a train and makes it back to Germany, only to die in action a year later; the only German POW to make a successful escape in Canada.
1935 Iroquois Falls Ontario - Thermometer hits -60C, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ontario.
1902 Toronto Ontario - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 games to win the Stanley Cup.
1901 London England - Edward VII 1814-1910 starts reign; to 1910; most public events in country cancelled on death of Queen Victoria.
1895 New York New York - Romaine Callender demonstrates his automatic telephone in New York; inventor from Brantford, Ontario
1888 Kingsville Ontario - Natural gas discovered in Kingsville by well drillers.
1883 Montreal Quebec - Montrealers celebrate winter with the city's first ice palace carnival.
1863 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange introduces first regular daily trading sessions.
1834 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys the old Chateau Saint-Louis, originally built by Samuel de Champlain, and home to the Governors of New France.

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January 24th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor
1438 – The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
1458 – Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
1624 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
1679 – King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1758 РDuring the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of K̦nigsberg submit to Elizabeth I of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763)
1817 – Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the Action of Picheuta.
1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
1857 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in south Asia.
1859 – Political and state union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as Domnitor in both Principalities.
1862 – Bucharest is proclaimed capital of Romania.
1878 – The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
1900 – Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
1908 – The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
1911 – Japanese anarchist Shūsui Kōtoku is hanged for treason in a case now considered a miscarriage of justice.
1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
1918 – The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS)
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
1939 – The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán.
1942 – World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
1947 – Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1960 – Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
1961 – 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1977 – Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 – Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus.
1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1996 – Polish Prime Minister Józef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2009 – The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
2011 – At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1978 SOVIET SATELLITE FIREBALL OVER NWT
NWT - Nuclear-powered USSR satellite Cosmos 954 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates over the Northwest Territories, scattering radiation; Canadian Armed Forces launches large operation to recover debris.

1984
Calgary Alberta - ABC network agrees to pay $386 million for US TV rights to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; a record sum to that date.

1952
Ottawa Ontario - Charles Vincent Massey 1887-1967 appointed Governor General; first Canadian-born; serves from February 28, 1952 to September 15, 1959.


In Other Events...

1988 New York City - Ben Johnson named the Associated Press (AP) athlete of the year, the first Canadian track athlete so honoured. On Sept. 26, at the Seoul Summer Olympics, Johnson will test positive for steroid use, and will be stripped of the Gold Medal he won in the 100 Metre Sprint two days earlier.
1981 Uniondale New York - Montreal native Mike Bossy, of the NHL Islanders, is the second player in league history, after Maurice Richard, to score 50 goals in the first 50 games of the season, as his team scores 5 power play goals against the Quebec Nordiques. On this day in 1986, Bossy will score his 1,000th NHL point.
1973 Vietnam - Canada joins the International Commission for Control and Supervision in Vietnam for 60-day period; ICCS a truce-observance commission; with Hungary, Poland, Indonesia.
1971 NWT - Panarctic Oils caps a natural gas well on King Christian Island that had burned out of control for 3 months.
1955 Des Joachims Ontario - Start of first Canadian nuclear power plant at Des Joachims.
1946 London England - Canada is appointed to the UN Atomic Energy Commission.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Wartime Prices and Trade Board rations sugar to 3/4 lb per person per week; cut to 1/2 lb on May 19; coupon rationing July 1
1923 Nova Scotia - George Henry Murray 1861-1929 resigns as Premier of Nova Scotia after 27 years; replaced by Ernest Howard Armstrong 1874-1946.
1903 USA - Britain and US refer Alaskan boundary dispute to commission which sits from September 3 to October 2; the result of the Anglo-American Convention will be largely in favor of American interests, enraging the Canadian public.
1885 Vancouver BC - The CPR telegraph reaches the Pacific from Halifax; now operating from coast to coast.
1848 Quebec/Ontario - Reformers led by Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine sweep elections in both Canada East and Canada West.
1688 Quebec Quebec - Francois de Laval 1623-1688 resigns as Bishop due to growing ill health.

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January 25th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1554 РFounding of Ṣo Paulo city, Brazil.
1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
1704 – The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
1787 – Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding recessional.
1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a cathode ray tubeamusement device
1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
1955 – The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany.
1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him 10 machine guns and 63 rifles.
1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
2003 – 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
2005 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1932 GG MAKES FIRST TRANS CANADA PHONE CALLS
Ottawa Ontario - Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough speaks to the Lieutenant Governor of each province, to inaugurate the Trans-Canada telephone system.

1870

Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel leads two week convention to consider the Canadian proposals put forward by Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914.


In Other Events...

1996 Red Deer Alberta - Leilani Muir awarded $750,000 by Alberta judge; she was wrongly diagnosed as mentally disabled and sterilized by the province's Eugenics Board in 1959.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture.
1977 New York New York - Rene Levesque 1922-1987 tells Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that 'separation is inevitable'.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Stuart Smith elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, succeeding Robert Nixon (b1928).
1973 BC - Freighter Irish Stardust grounds north of Vancouver Island., spilling 378,000 litres of fuel oil; spill spreads 320 km south.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa issues injunction, on behalf of her husband and the unborn child, to prevent a woman having an abortion.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Archbishop Maurice Roy of Quebec appointed a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
1963 Newfoundland - Wilson Kettle dies at age 102; has 582 living descendants.
1962 St. John's Newfoundland - Bank of Montreal acquires Newfoundland Savings Bank.
1953 Liverpool England - Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada destroyed in a dockside fire; used as a troop ship during World War II.
1948 Winnipeg Manitoba - Investors Syndicate of Canada incorporates Investors Mutual of Canada Ltd.; Canada's first public mutual fund will be first sold to the public in 1950.
1924 Chamonix France - Canadian team attends the opening of the Winter Olympic games.
1905 Toronto Ontario - George William Ross 1841-1914 Liberal government defeated by Conservatives under James Whitney.
1791 London England - British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1627 Quebec Quebec - Louis Hebert c1575- 1627 dies of a fall, after ten years in Quebec; body later reinterred in church attached to the Quebec General Hospital; Canada's first doctor, settler.

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January 26th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1340 – King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
1564 – The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
1589 – Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.
1699 – Treaty of Karlowitz is signed.
1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
1855 – Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
1856 – First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
1861 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
1863 – American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
1885 – Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
1905 – The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
1911 – Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1924 – Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 – German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1939 – Spanish Civil War – Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
1945 – World War II: Audie Murphy in action that will later win him the Medal of Honor.
1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
1950 – The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1960 – Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds the appointment of Physician to the President.
1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US until October 2010, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1986 – The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 – President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
2009 – Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.






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1993 TOBIN WINS THE ROCK
St. John's Newfoundland - Brian Tobin sworn in as Premier of Newfoundland; calls election for Feb. 22; the former federal Cabinet Minister was chosen by the provincial Liberals to replace outgoing Premier Clyde Wells.

1961
And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

Wayne Gretzky 1961-
hockey player, born on this day at Brantford, Ontario in 1961. Gretzky, also known as The Great One, began his pro career with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association in 1978 and was then acquired by the NHL Edmonton Oilers. He became the youngest player to score 50 or more goals and 100 or more points in a season, with 212 points in 1982. He led the Oilers to four Stanley Cup championships (1984, 85, 87, 88), and during the 1988-89 season became the highest scorer in the history of the NHL. On Aug. 9, 1988 Edmonton owner Peter Pocklington traded him to the Los Angeles Kings. Gretzky won the Art Ross Trophy for leading the NHL in scoring nine times (1981-87, 1990-91), and the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player nine times (1979-87, 1989). Gretzky is the all-time points leader (goals and assists combined) in the NHL for both the regular season and the playoffs. On Mar. 23, 1994 he surpassed his hero Gordie Howe by setting a new record for the most career goals in the NHL - 802. He was traded to the St. Louis Blues in 1996, and is currently with the New York Rangers.


In Other Events...

1993 Montreal Quebec - Jeanne Sauvé 1922-1993 dies in hospital at age 70; born in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan April 26, 1922, Sauvé served as Canada's first woman Governor General, also the first female Speaker of the House of Commons.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Marshall Jr. exonerated in Marshall Enquiry Report nearly 19 years after he was falsely convicted, and wrongly served 11 yrs for stabbing death of Sandy Seale in Sydney, NS; report says Marshall a victim of ineptitude and unfairness, as well as racism, because he was a Micmac Indian.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Space Agency signs $146 million contract with Spar Aerospace for first phase of Radarsat, to be launched in 1994 to send back high-resolution images of Arctic ice, oil spills, etc.
1988 Toronto Ontario - CIBC buys 65% of Wood Gundy for $190 million, mostly in shares; will also provide $100 million in subordinated loans
1985 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky 1961- scores his 50th goal in the 49th game of season, to beat the Maurice Richard/Mike Bossy record.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government announces land claims settlement with Yukon first nations, who receive $620 million and title to 20,000 sq km.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Joe Clark warns USSR that Canada will boycott Summer Olympics in Moscow if Soviet troops do not leave Afghanistan by Feb. 20th. Canada does not attend the Games.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Gerald LeDain issues part one of his Commission on the Non-medical Use of Drugs Report; recommends legal heroin for pain treatment; later rejected by government.
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy - Canadian team attends opening of seventh Winter Olympic games at Cortina.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves the Red Ensign as Canada's official flag for government buildings at home and abroad; until the Maple Leaf is adopted.
1887 Nova Scotia - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins majority of votes in Nova Scotia; dampens repeal movement. Charles Tupper 1821-1915 had resigned from the Canadian High Commission in London to return and run in the election; he is re-elected.
1836 Montreal Quebec - John Colborne, Baron Seaton 1778-1863 assumes his new post as Commander-in-Chief of British forces in British North America.
1776 Quebec - Eustache Chartier de Lotbinire 1716-c1785, a Canadian priest, is appointed chaplain to serve Canadians who joined the American invading force; US Congress ratifies appointment Aug. 12; US Army's first chaplain is a French Canadian.
1666 Europe Canada - War between England and France until July 31, 1667.
1612 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Gilbert du Thet c1575-1613 arrives at Port-Royal with a relief ship; lay Jesuit sent to administer missions
1611 Dieppe France - Madame de Poutrincourt leaves Dieppe with Jesuits Pierre Biard and Enémond Masse (1575-1646) and her son, Charles Biencourt; first titled lady, first Jesuits in Canada

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January 27th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
661 – The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali.
1142 – Song Dynasty General Yue Fei is executed.
1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
1593 – The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy ****es and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
1869 – Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1870 – The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1927 – Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1943 – World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhemshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war.
1944 – World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
1961 – Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1967 – The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1974 – The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century.
1980 – Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
1983 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
1993 – American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna.
1996 – In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
1996 – Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
2010 – The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
2013 – 241 people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.






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1984 WAYNE'S WORLD
Edmonton Alberta - The Los Angeles Kings beat the Edmonton Oilers, 4-2, ending Wayne Gretzky's NHL record for consecutive point getting at 51 games. Gretzky collected a total of 153 points - 61 goals and 92 assists - during the scoring streak, which started Oct 5, 1983.

1859

Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 proclaims Ottawa the capital of the Canadas. As co-Premier, he had strenuously lobbied for Ottawa as the Queen's choice, against Montreal, Kingston and Toronto, as a place where French Canadians could feel at home.


In Other Events...

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Toronto area MP Jag Bhaduria quits the Liberal caucus to sit as an independent, after it was revealed he had falsified his academic background.
1982 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal rules that forced retirement at 65 contravenes province's Human Rights Act.
1967 United Nations New York - Canada joins other nations in signing UN Outer Space Treaty pledged to peaceful exploration and use..
1966 Portland Island BC - Princess Margaret returns Portland Island to province for use as provincial park; British Columbia's gift to Princess Margaret in 1958
1961 Montreal Quebec - Montreal starts to build subway, at estimated cost of $300 million; Quebec agrees to help with financing
1938 Niagara Falls Ontario - Ice dam crushes foundations of Honeymoon Bridge across Niagara River; causes bridge to collapse.
1916 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba the first province to grant women the vote and full political equality; two years before Ottawa.
1903 Toronto Ontario - Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919 offers city of Toronto $350,000 for a central public library and two branch libraries; offer by US steel magnate accepted February 23.
1855 Toronto Ontario - Alan MacNab and Etienne-Paschal Taché take office as co-Premiers of the Union of the Canadas.
1854 London Ontario - Great Western Railroad opens from London to Windsor.
1826 Kingston Ontario - Catholic Church makes Upper Canada a separate diocese; Kingston the bishop's seat
1806 Quebec Quebec - Joseph-Octave Plessis 1763-1825 appointed Bishop of Quebec; serves until 1825.
1721 Quebec Quebec - First regular mail coach service starts between Quebec and Montreal.

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January 28th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
1821 – Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1908 РMembers of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'̩tat against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister Jọo Franco.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1917 – Municipally-owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast.
1960 – The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
1964 – An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, that dumped 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected.
1979 – CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico.
1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
1988 – In R. v. Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all 9 months of pregnancy.
2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hanged.





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1980 TAYLOR PULLS OFF THE CANADIAN CAPER
Teheran Iran - Kenneth Taylor 1934- Canada's Ambassador to Iran engineers the escape of 6 US diplomats, housed with Canadian Embassy staff since Nov. 22, 1979, when the US Embassy was overrun during the Iranian revolution, and 66 hostages taken. The Americans leave with Canadian passports; Taylor himself leaves a few hours later.

1885
Khartoum Sudan - Frederick Charles Denison 1846-1896 reaches Khartoum with his Canadian Nile Voyageurs too late to rescue General Charles Gordon, who had been killed; 16 Canadians lost their lives in this, Canada's first overseas military expedition.


In Other Events...

1988 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules 5-2 that Canada's anti-abortion law violates pregnant women's right to 'security of the person' under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
1983 Winnipeg Manitoba - Progressive Conservative delegates vote 66.9% against a leadership review, but Joe Clark says the mandate is not clear enough, calls leadership convention. He will lose to Brian Mulroney.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau declares he will quit politics if Quebec votes for separation in a referendum.
1976 Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan authorizes provincial takeover of potash mines.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Alan Beddoe 1938- sees Parliament pass an Act adopting his Maple Leaf design for the new National Flag of Canada; over 2,000 designs were submitted.
1918 Guelph Ontario - Dr. John McCrae dies; author of the World War I poem, In Flanders Fields.
1916 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Legislature passes the Temperance Act; allows use of liquor at home but prohibits public bars.
1914 Regina Saskatchewan - Nellie Letitia McClung 1873-1951 her Political Equality League stages mock Parliament in the Walker Theatre; actors debate whether to give equality to men.
1853 Lennoxville Quebec - Charter granted to the University of Bishop's College in Lennoxville.
1850 Brockville Ontario - Founding of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.
1693 New York USA - Nicholas d'Ailleboust de Manthet 1663-1709 attacks Mohawk villages in New York with Caughnawaga Indians; takes 300 Iroquois prisoners; under Frontenac's orders.

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