This Date In History

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January 29th 2014 - This Date in History.


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757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.
904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 – "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 – Bear River Massacre.
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1967 – The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is convicted of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1990 HNATYSHYN TO RIDEAU HALL
Ottawa Ontario - Ray Hnatyshyn sworn in as Canada's 24th Governor General; was MP Saskatoon West 1974-88 and Minister of Justice; wife Gerda; son of John, Canada's first Ukrainian-born Senator, and Helen, President of the National Council of Women.

1946

Haiti - Racing schooner Bluenose sinks after striking a reef off Haiti; built by Smith and Rhulandat at Lunenburg, and launched March 26th, 1921, the ship was invincible in races. She was sold as a Caribbean cargo ship in 1938.



In Other Events...

1996 Quebec Quebec - Lucien Bouchard sworn in as Premier of Quebec; former Bloc Quebecois Leader replaces Jacques Parizeau.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Jean Allaire calls for Quebec control of energy, environment, industry and regional development; Allaire Report proposes sovereignty referendum by Fall of 1992.
1990 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- deplores motion by Sault Ste. Marie Town Council declaring English official language of the municipality.
1985 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield found not guilty of possession of marijuana; drug discovered in his bag during Royal Visit security search Sept 25th; he claimed it was planted.
1982 London England - British House of Lords refuses to hear case of Canadian Indians for entrenchment of rights.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Union of Postal Workers president Jean-Claude Parrot starts serving 3 month prison term for defying a back to work law making a strike illegal.
1973 Saigon Vietnam - Canadian Ambassador to South Vietnam Michel Gauvin 1919- leads first 130 members of projected Canadian complement of 230 in ICCS on arrival at Saigon.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Canadian and West Indian students occupy computer centre of Sir George Williams University.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Terrorists bomb Yugoslav Embassy in Ottawa and Consulate in Toronto.
1964 Innsbruck, Austria - Canadian team attends the opening of the ninth Winter Olympic games in Innsbruck.
1856 London England - Alexander Dunn 1833-1868 awarded Victoria Cross for gallantry at the charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea in 1854; first Canadian; awarded by Queen Victoria, the VC is Britain's highest military honour
1853 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Bytown Mechanics Institute and Athenaeum; forerunner of Ottawa Public Library.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Opening of McGill University in Montreal; built with legacy from fur trader James McGill.
1796 Toronto Ontario - Yonge Street officially opened, as a portage road running from the town of York up to Lake Simcoe.

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January 30th 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

1018 – The Peace of Bautzen is signed between Poland and Germany.
1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1667 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
1858 РThe first Hall̩ concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hall̩ orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
1908 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to 2 months in jail earlier in the month.
1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
1913 – The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
1943 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
1944 – World War II: American troops land on Majuro.
1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,500 people.
1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1956 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
1972 – Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1979 – A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.
1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1920 JOE MALONE SCORES RECORD SEVEN GOALS
Quebec City - Quebec Bulldogs' Joe 'The Phantom' Malone 1890-1969 sets NHL record of 7 goals in one game against Toronto. He had previously scored nine goals in a Stanley Cup game against Sydney in 1913, and eight against the NHA Montreal Wanderers in 1917. In his first NHL season he scored 44 goals in only 20 games, and had 146 goals in only 125 games.

1948

St Moritz Switzerland - Canadian team attend opening of the fifth Winter Olympic games in St Moritz. Among those attending is Barbara Ann Scott, who will win the Gold in Figure Skating, and the RCAF Flyers ice hockey team, who will also take home the gold.

1856

Guelph Ontario - First Grand Trunk train arrives in Guelph from Toronto. On this day 67 years later the Grand Trunk is absorbed into Canadian National Railways.


In Other Events...

1991 Toronto Ontario - The Hudson's Bay Company announces it is selling its fur business due to declining sales; the HBC was originally founded as a fur trading company in 1670.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - CBC President Gerard Veilleux announces 500 jobs to be cut at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over the next year.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Michael Wilson gets 7% Goods and Services Tax bill through first reading in the Commons; to start January, 1991.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government states that metric measurement will continue to be mandatory, but retailers can use the imperial system at the same time.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Parliamentary Committee accepts proposed native rights amendments to the Constitution.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Ontario starts Wintario lottery to raise money for recreation and cultural activities and facilities.
1973 Japan - Winnipeg-based Investors Growth Fund of Canada first foreign mutual fund to sell units in Japan; through Nikko Securities; after liberalization of investment controls.
1969 Vandenberg AFB California - Canadian ISIS 1 satellite launched, to continue ionospheric research from the Alouette series; mass of 241 kg.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces that over 100,000 Canadians aged 69 are now eligible for $75 Old Age Security pensions.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Terrorists raid armoury in Montreal for weapons and ammunition; group calling itself Comité révolutionnaire du Québec.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Byrne Hope Sanders appointed first head of Consumer Branch of Wartime Prices and Trade Board; ex-editor of Chatelaine Magazine.
1930 Toronto Ontario - Police arrest 9 members of the Standard Exchange for fraud; including members of the 5 biggest mining companies; later 27 sent to jail.
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian National Railways Company takes over the Grand Trunk Railway, starting the amalgamation of other lines to create what is now CN Rail.
1897 Washington DC - UK-US convention establishes BC-Yukon boundary.
1868 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia legislature opens first session after Confederation.
1839 London England Britain - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 completes his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America'; two months after resigning; handed over the following day.
1815 Toronto Ontario - John Strachan 1778-1867 writes letter to ex-President Thomas Jefferson protesting actions of US forces in the War of 1812.
1654 St. Peters Nova Scotia - Nicolas Denys 1598-1688 Governor of Gulf Islands, Canso to Gaspe, makes headquarters at St. Pierre; has royal concession to mine Cape Breton gold, silver and copper.
1646 Trois- Rivières Quebec - Father de Nouë, a Jesuit priest, freezes to death in a blizzard on the way to Fort Richelieu.

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January 31st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy ****es is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 РJohn C. Fr̩mont is Court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1943 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
2011 – A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
2011 – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last two /8 IPv4 address blocks to the Regional Internet Registries(RIRs).
2013 – An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.







Today's Canadian Headline...


1958 GLADSTONE FIRST ABORIGINAL SENATOR
Ottawa Ontario - James Gladstone takes his seat as Canada's first native Senator; Alberta Blood Indian is appointed by Diefenbaker.

1839

London England - John 'Radical Jack' Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 hands his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' to British Prime Minister. The former Governor of the colony blames the power of the Family Compact and Chateau Clique for the 1837 rebellions, and recommends uniting the Canadas under one responsible government, with English the only official language, so as to assimilate the French Canadians.


In Other Events...

1990 Moscow Russia - George Cohon opens first McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Pushkin Square, the world's biggest McDonald's; head of Canadian franchise subsidiary.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- urges end to Polish martial law on the 'Let Poland be Poland' TV broadcast; supporting the Polish Solidarity movement
1980 Toronto Ontario - Ontario to rebate up to $700 in sales tax for purchasers of 1979 model cars; effort to help slumping car sales.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that Nishga Indians have no aboriginal rights over land in the Nass River Valley, BC; Nishga case.
1966 Quebec - Quebec Court of Appeals reverses Jacques Hebert's contempt of court conviction; found guilty in 1965 for statements in book on Coffin murder.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Government makes Thanksgiving Day a statutory holiday; second Monday in October
1955 Oakville Ontario - Start of l09-day strike of Ford workers at Windsor, Oakville and Etobicoke.
1951 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Duplessis Bridge over the St. Maurice River collapses, killing four people.
1907 Toronto Ontario - Timothy Eaton, founder of the T. Eaton Company of Canada, dies; an innovative retailer, he maintained fixed prices and cash sales, with satisfaction guaranteed.
1901 Montreal Quebec - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
1863 Toronto Ontario - John Beverley Robinson dies at Beverley House; former Chief Justice.
1851 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton Gas Light Company installs first lamps.
1825 Montreal Quebec - James Reid appointed Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench.
1747 Grand Pre Nova Scotia - Arthur Noble d1747 British commander at Grand Pre surprised by Villiers; loses 500 men.

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481 – Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1329 – King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders
1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1790 – In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1814 – Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1876 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1897 – Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
1942 – World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1946 – The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1953 – North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch, Watersnoodramp, literally "flood disaster") was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.
1957 – Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War.
1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form the ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
1974 – A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
1979 – The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1982 – Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
1989 – The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
1990 – Humanitas publishing house is founded in Bucharest, shortly after the Romanian Revolution, by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu.
1991 – A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.
1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
1993 – Gary Bettman becomes the NHL's first commissioner
1994 – Punk rock band Green Day releases their album Dookie, which would eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide.
1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2001 – Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative city, is declared a Federal Territory.
2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2004 – 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
2005 РKing Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'̩tat to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
2013 – The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1963 NEIL YOUNG'S FIRST GIG
Winnipeg Manitoba - 17 year old Neil Young performs his first professional date at a Winnipeg country club 35 years ago today.

1920

Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, comprising the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP), formed in the 1870's to administer the NWT, and the Dominion Police, that had guarded government buildings and enforced federal statutes since 1868; headquarters moved to Ottawa while training stays in Regina; size of force set at 2,500.



In Other Events...

1983 Canada - New channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel.
1982 Fort McMurray Alberta - Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa agrees to give the 3 maritime provinces 100% of the royalties from future offshore mineral finds inside the 5 km limit; 75% of royalties beyond.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Gerald Keith Bouey 1920- succeeds Louis Rasminsky as Governor of the Bank of Canada.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Press Council founded out of 4 news organizations representing more than 700 reporters; first of its kind in Canada or US
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and China open diplomatic relations; exchange diplomats in both countries, and officially recognize each other.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Post Office starts 'assured mail program;' next-day delivery of letters posted before 11 am; in most major Canadian cities.
1965 Churchill River Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Spencer Churchill.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Gordon Graydon calls for creation of a Ministry of Food to control Wartime Prices and Trade Board; Leader of Opposition
1912 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton and Strathcona amalgamate to become the city of Edmonton.
1904 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of Dominion Railway Commission; power to fix rates, regulate operations and settle dispute.
1893 Prince Albert Saskatchewan - Coldest day on record in the province: -56.7 degrees Celsius.
1890 Ottawa Ontario - James Wilson Robertson 1857-1930 appointed first Dominion Dairy Commissioner; also Central Experimental Farm's agriculturalist
1878 Quebec Quebec - Cyrille Duquet patents a version of the telephone; from Quebec City.
1870 Quebec Quebec - Founding of the Quebec Provincial Police force.
1858 New Westminster BC - Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; requires miners to obtain licences to search for gold in the Fraser Valley.
1856 New Brunswick - New Brunswick Electric Telegraph leased by American Telegraph Company.
1854 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec.
1849 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 returns to Toronto from the US on the same day the Amnesty Act grants full immunity to 1837 rebels who fled; some rebels now back from Van Diemen's land, some remain, others have died
1799 Charlottetown PEI - Royal Assent given to change the name of Ile St. Jean to Prince Edward Island.
1796 Toronto Ontario - Capital of Upper Canada transferred from Newark (Niagara) to York.
1754 Cape Breton Nova Scotia - Augustin Boschenry de Drucour 1703-1762 appointed Governor of Cape Breton Island; last French Governor; from August 15 to August 15, 1758
1663 Quebec Quebec - The town of Quebec is rocked by an evening earthquake.

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February 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
865 – The Battle of the Morcuera took place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle took place at Hoz de la Morcuera near Miranda de Ebro. The battle pitted the Christian forces of Castile and Asturias under Rodrigo of Castile against the forces of the Emirate of Cordoba under Muhammad I of Córdoba resulting in a decisive Cordoban victory.
962 – Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
1207 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established.
1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England.
1536 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1542 – Portuguese forces under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1848 – Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco.
1868 – Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1899 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
1901 – Funeral of Queen Victoria.
1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
1920 – The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1920 – France occupies Memel.
1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1933 – Working as maids, the sisters Christine and Lea Papin murder their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France. The case is the subject of a number of French films and plays.
1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces.
1957 – Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
1971 – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
1972 – The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
1974 – The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
1976 – The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
1980 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1982 – February 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
1988 – Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
1990 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2007 – The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.





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1897 LADY ABERDEEN FOUNDS THE VON
Ottawa Ontario - Countess Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General, starts organizing the Victorian Order of Nurses - the VON.

1942

Vancouver BC - Ottawa proclaims western British Columbia a 'protected area' under wartime regulations, and orders Japanese nationals moved inland for security reasons; within weeks, the government includes second and third generation Canadians of Japanese origin under the edict; they are treated as aliens and deprived of their property.


In Other Events...


1977 Toronto, Ontario - Maple Leafs' Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals in a game against Detroit Red Wings, setting a record for an NHL defenceman
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa signs agreements with Newfoundland and PEI to put public employees under the federal AIB - Anti-Inflation Board.
1974 Christchurch New Zealand - Canada finishes in 3rd place at 10th Commonwealth Games at Christchurch, New Zealand; 25 gold medals, 19 silver, 18 bronze.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, effective Jan. l, 1969; cities of Ottawa & Eastview, County of Carleton, Township of Cumberland.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - David Croll issues report of his Senate Committee on the Elderly; recommends guaranteed annual income at age 65; and programs to help seniors stay productive.
1963 Charlottetown PEI - Construction begins on the Fathers of Confederation Memorial Building in Charlottetown.
1955 Sisson Dam NB - New Brunswick experiences the coldest day in recorded history in the Province: -47.2 degrees Celsius.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 loses by-election; resigns as Leader of the Conservatives and retires to practice law in Toronto; former Prime Minister was pro-conscription.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Delegation of 400 Saskatchewan farmers and businessmen visit Ottawa to demand 'Dollar Wheat.'
1926 Ottawa Ontario - Henry Herbert Stevens 1878-1973 releases damaging information about Customs officials accepting bribes; customs scandals lead to Mackenzie King's resignation June 28.
1899 Paris France - Joseph-Israel Tarte 1848-1907 appointed head of the Paris Exposition Commission for Canada; organizes Canadian display at World's Fair in Paris
1848 Halifax Nova Scotia - James B. Uniacke d1858 appointed Attorney-General in first Liberal government in Nova Scotia; Joseph Howe 1804-1873 Provincial Secretary.
1807 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Legislature passes bill setting up provincial grammar schools in all districts.

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February 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1112 – Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1377 – More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
1509 – The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
1534 – The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
1787 – Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
1809 – The Illinois Territory is created.
1813 – José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
1830 – The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 – Wake Forest University is established.
1852 РJusto Jos̩ de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
1900 – Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
1917 – World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1943 – The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
1944 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
1947 – The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1959 – Death of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
1967 – Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1969 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1989 – After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1989 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1998 – Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.







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1947 BBRRRRR!!!
Snag Yukon - Thermometers in Snag register -64C (-83F), the lowest temperature recorded in Canada; likely the lowest temperature on record in North America.

1916
Ottawa Ontario - Fire destroys the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, killing seven. The gothic Parliamentary Library is saved by a quick thinking clerk, who closes the iron doors. The tragedy is widely blamed on German wartime saboteurs. The building, containing the Commons and Senate, will be rebuilt in the Gothic revival style, and completed in 1920.


In Other Events...

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court of Canada upholds human rights tribunal ruling on mandatory retirement in the Canadian Forces; recommends developing fitness standard instead of relying on an arbitrary age rule.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Petro-Canada offers to acquire control of Petrofina Canada Ltd. from foreign owners, at $120 a share.
1981 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal rules as legal Ottawa's constitutional proposals and amendments.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa makes first allocations of $200 million Canada Works program to cut unemployment.
1975 Winnipeg Manitoba - New Syncrude agreement saves tar sands project: Alberta in for 10%, Ontario 5%, Ottawa 15%.
1972 Sapporo Japan - Canadian team attends opening of Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, the first held in Asia; with total 35 nations and 1,231 competitors; to Feb. 13.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 bans all imports of Rhodesian goods, and all exports of Canadian goods to Rhodesia; with limited exceptions.
1961 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Bank of Commerce merges with Imperial Bank of Canada; to form Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $25 million to help subsidize the Commonwealth Transpacific Cable.
1959 Toronto Ontario - Gold bullion is traded on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange for the first time; today the TSE provides a market for gold futures.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Imperial Bank of Canada permitted to merge with Barclays Bank (Canada).
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Government extends compulsory military training from one month to four.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 appointed to the Senate by Bennett; made Government Leader in the Senate.
1927 Washington DC - William Phillips appointed first United States Ambassador to Canada.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - French-speaking teachers protest pay freeze, imposed after they refuse language restrictions; strike by 122 teachers closes 17 bilingual schools in Ontario.
1901 Sydney Nova Scotia - Dominion Iron and Steel Company starts up first of four new blast furnaces at Sydney.
1865 Quebec Quebec - Canadian legislature resolves in an Address to the Queen to ask for Union of the Provinces of British North America.
1831 Montreal Quebec - Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, Lord Aylmer 1775-1850 appointed Governor-General of British North America.

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February 4th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
634 – Battle of Dathin: Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat the Christian Arabs around Gaza (Palestine).
960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1169 – A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
1454 – In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1810 – The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
1820 – The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
1899 – The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1945 – World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority
1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
1992 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at -26 °F (-32.2 °C)
1997 – En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
2003 – The Bengali Hindus declares the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
2006 – A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1924 CANADA'S FIRST WINTER OLYMPIC GOLD
Chamonix France - First Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix. The Toronto Granite Club hockey team brings home the Gold Medal for Canada in ice hockey.


In Other Events...


1992 St. John's Newfoundland - Gulf Canada pulls out of the Hibernia oil project; Gulf's 25% stake acquired by Ottawa, the remaining Hibernia partners and Murphy Oil.
1982 United Nations New York - With 20 other nations, Canada signs a UN declaration against 'torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.'
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Official Languages Commissioner Keith Spicer recommends use of French as the language of work for Quebec employees of Air Canada and CN Rail.
1976 Innsbruck Austria - Canadian team attends opening of the 12th Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck; with total 37 nations and 1128 competitors; to Feb. 15.
1976 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Supreme Court rules that province does not have right to censor motion pictures.
1975 Alberta - Ottawa, Alberta and Ontario invest $600 million in Syncrude Canada, to develop the Athabasca tar sands.
1970 Chedabucto Bay Nova Scotia - Liberian-registered tanker Arrow goes aground, splitting in two and spilling 15,500 metric tons of bunker C crude oil; inquiry will blame improper navigation.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - George Scott Harkness 1903- Defence Minister resigns over Canada's refusal to accept US nuclear warheads for Bomarc missiles.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Kellock issues report of the Kellock Royal Commission; rules fireman unnecessary on CPR diesel railway engines.
1945 France - First Canadian Corps ordered to rejoin First Canadian Army on western front.
1932 Lake Placid New York - Canadian team attends ceremonies, as New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt opens the 3rd Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid; with total 17 nations and 306 competitors; to Feb. 15.
1903 Montreal Quebec - Montreal AAAs beat Winnipeg Victorias 2 games to 1, with 1 tie to win the Stanley Cup.
1901 Quebec Quebec - Quebec City revives its Winter Carnival; now a permanent annual event
1880 Lucan Ontario - James Donnelly, his wife Johannah, niece Bridget and sons Thomas and John are slain by night riders in Biddulph Township, north of London; six men will be acquitted in the 'Black Donnelly' murder case, after two trials. Members of the 'White Boys' faction likely carried out the crime, carrying into Canada an old religious feud originating in County Tipperary, Ireland.
1876 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba abolishes its Legislative Council or upper house.
1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg gets charter; becomes a city.
1858 Langley BC - Gold is discovered along British Columbia's Fraser River; leads to gold rush.
1839 London England - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 submits his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' to British Colonial Office; 'Radical Jack' recommends the anglicization of French Canadians to make them a minority.
1667 Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 hosts first ball held in New France, to celebrate his victories over the Mohawks.
1629 London England - David & Lewis Kirke found Company of Adventurers to Canada with Sir William Alexander; to capture St. Lawrence and remove French.
1623 Quebec Quebec - Louis Hebert c1575- 1627 granted seigneury of Sault-au-Matelot by Henri, Duc de Montmorency; first seigneury of 150 founded during the French regime; beginning of feudal system to 1854.
In World Events...
1945 Yalta Russia - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss post-war plans and the defeat of the Axis powers.
1904 Lushun China - Japan starts siege of Port Arthur, starting the Russo-Japanese War.
1789 Philadelphia PA - George Washington chosen as the first President of the United States by the presidential electors.
1783 London England - England declares formal cessation of hostilities with the United States, ending the American Revolutionary War.

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February 5th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca.
1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 – University of Wisconsin-Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1852 – The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal.
1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
1958 – Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 – During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.







Today's Canadian Headline...


1980 THE MAN CALLED INTREPID IS HONORED
Hamilton Bermuda - Sir William Stephenson is awarded the Order of Canada; the ailing Winnipeg-born engineer pioneered digital wireless photo transmission. He worked for British intelligence during World War II under the code name Intrepid, and was the personal contact man between Churchill and Roosevelt.

1963
Ottawa Ontario - John Diefenbaker's minority government is defeated 142-111 in House of Commons in two non-confidence motions over nuclear weapons policy, and Defence Minister Harkness' resignation; Dief resigns, and will be beaten by Lester Pearson in the federal general election.

1667
Trois-Rivières Quebec - Mining of bog iron nuggets begins at Three Rivers; later smelting at Les Forges de St-Maurice. This is the first large scale iron mining in Canadian history.


In Other Events...

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Quebec and Ottawa sign immigration accord giving Quebec exclusive responsibility for selecting immigrants who wish to live in the province.
1989 Vail Colorado - Karen Percy wins silver medal in Women's World Alpine Ski Championship; native of Banff, Alberta.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau inducts Joni Mitchell into Canada's Juno Hall of Fame.
1980 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe plays in his 23rd and final NHL all-star game at age 51; Howe, from Floral, Saskatchewan, will retire from the Hartford Whalers at the end of the season.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Start of construction on CN Tower, a communications transmission mast and observation post; to be the world's tallest freestanding structure
1972 Quebec - Quebec prison guards and game wardens start five-week strike; disrupts courts and forces closure of 22 of 35 jails.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Start of 3-day federal-provincial conference in Ottawa; provinces officially recognize French language rights.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government agrees to provide new funding for fine art work by Canadian artists, and creates the Art Bank; formula = l% amount of construction contracts for federal buildings.
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy - Close of seventh Winter Olympic games at Cortina d'Ampezzo. Canada failed to win a Gold Medal, and the USSR team took away Canada's crown in Ice Hockey.
1954 Queen Elizabeth Islands NWT - Most northerly group of Canada's Arctic islands, discovered by William Baffin in 1616, and not seen again until 1818, are named after Queen Elizabeth.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Government starts three-year, $5 million rearmament program for Canadian armed forces.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Justice J.C. McRuer appointed to head new Royal Commission to examine allegations of Soviet spy ring operating in Canada; due to revelations of USSR Embassy defector Igor Gouzenko 1919-1982.
1934 Toronto Ontario - The Standard Exchange refuses to comply with a new provincial Act forcing them to amalgamate with the Toronto Stock Exchange; the two remain in separate buildings until the new TSE Ticker Palace opens in 1937.
1923 Doucet Quebec - Temperature dips to -54.4 degrees Celsius in Doucet; coldest day recorded in Quebec.
1920 Windsor Nova Scotia - Fire guts King's College at Windsor; governors agree to affiliate with Dalhousie University in Halifax.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns as Leader of the Opposition and retires to England.
1889 Ottawa Ontario - The Catholic Oblate College of Ottawa becomes Ottawa University.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Hugh Allan 1810-1882 awarded charter for the Canadian Pacific Railway; to be financed with a $30 million subsidy and grant of 20 million hectares of land (50 million acres).
1857 London England - British House of Commons appoints a committee to investigate the business affairs and governing powers of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1790 Montreal Quebec - Chief Justice W. T. Smith writes to Lord Dorchester advising a federation of the provinces of British North America.

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February 6th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1806 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 – Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
1899 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1914 РThe Bondet̴get, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, takes place in Sweden
1918 – British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
1919 – The five-day Seattle General Strike begins.
1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1934 – Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1975 – A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
1988 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1996 – Willamette Valley Flood of 1996: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1837 FIRST PLAY ON PARLIAMENT HILL
Ottawa Ontario - Actors in the British garrison on Barrack Hill, the site of Canada's Parliament Buildings, produce Bytown's first play, 'The Village Lawyer.'

1952

London England - King George VI dies in his sleep; born Dec. 14, 1895; his eldest daughter Princess Elizabeth accedes to the Throne as Queen Elizabeth II. The stamp was issued to commemorate her wedding to Prince Philip a year earlier.


In Other Events...

1990 Chicago Illinois - Brett Hull becomes the first son of an NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50 goals himself.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Federal competition tribunal approves $5 billion Imperial Oil takeover of Texaco Canada.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Premier Rene Levesque drives over a man lying in a Montreal street; coroner rules no criminal responsibility; Levesque fined $25 for not wearing his glasses at the time of the accident.
1975 Edmonton Alberta - Peter Lougheed's government cuts personal income tax by 28%, making Albertans lowest-taxed Canadians.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian airport radar and communications technicians strike, halting all but military air traffic until March 2.
1968 Grenoble France - Canadian team attends opening of the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble; with total 37 nations and 1293 competitors; to Feb. 18.
1967 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba brings in 5% sales tax to finance education and social services; to take effect June 1.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - National Advisory Council on Fitness and Amateur Sports gives first grants; first to Canadian Wheelmen's Association (cycling) and the Canadian Amateur Ski Association.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Mines and Technical Surveys opens new Surveys and Mapping Building; Ottawa's largest government building to date
1943 Mediterranean - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian corvette Louisbourg in the Mediterranean.
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany - Canadian team attends opening of the 4th Winter Olympic Games in Garmisch; with total 28 nations and 755 competitors; to Feb. 16.
1932 Lake Placid New York - Canadian and American teams present Dog Sled Racing as a demonstration sport at the 3rd Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 chosen as Conservative Party leader, replacing Sir Charles Tupper; to July 10, 1920; becomes Leader of the Opposition at the same time.
1894 Ontario - Residents of Ontario vote for the prohibition of alcohol in a provincial plebiscite.
1893 Paris France - Canada signs reciprocity treaty with France, to come into effect October 14, 1895; French wines given low rates of duty.
1865 Ottawa Ontario - Confederation debates begin.
1813 Brockville Ontario - US Capt. Benjamin Forsyth crosses frozen St. Lawrence with 52 riflemen and attacks Brockville the next day; takes 52 hostages in War of 1812 skirmish.
1722 Quebec Quebec - The Council of New France makes abandoning children a death penalty offence; parish Priests are asked to publicize the law every few months.


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February 7th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1074 – Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1807 РNapoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau РNapol̩on's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
1813 РAction of 7 February 1813: stalemate two evenly matched frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy, Ar̩thuse and HMS Amelia.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
1842 – Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
1863 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1897 – Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
1898 – Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1904 – A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
1940 – The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1944 – World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
1948 – Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
1951 – Korean War: Sancheong-Hamyang massacre
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 – The Beatles first arrive in the United States. Their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.
1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1976 – Darryl Sittler sets an NHL record for scoring 10 points in a single game.
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1991 – Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
2012 – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
2013 – At least 53 people are killed when a bus and truck collide near Chibombo, Zambia.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1867 PARLIAMENT PONDERS BNA ACT
London England - Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, introduces a draft bill into the House of Lords to unite the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. It is called the British North America Act.

1976
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Darryl Sittler, centering a line with Lanny McDonald and Errol Thompson, scores 6 goals on Boston Bruins goalie Dave Reece. He adds 4 assists, in the 11-4 victory, for a record 10 points in one game, a feat unequaled in NHL history (even by Wayne Gretzky). Sittler wound up the season with 100 points, the first player in Leaf history to reach that plateau.


In Other Events...

1998 Nagano, Japan - Canadian team competes in the opening events of the 18th Winter Olympic games at Nagano.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Marshall Jr. wins apology from Nova Scotia for suffering due to 11 years false imprisonment for a murder committed in 1971; after a royal commission exonerates him; he eventually receives $270,000 in cash damages from Province.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Vancouver-Quadra MP John Napier Turner 1929- resigns as Leader of the federal Liberal party; replaced by Herb Gray as interim leader.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Bob Rae 1949- elected Ontario NDP leader.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Justice L. P. Pigeon retires from the Supreme Court of Canada; TV cameras are allowed into the Court for the first time to film the proceedings.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canada officially recognizes North Vietnam.
1972 Montreal Quebec - La Presse employees end four-month strike; began Oct. 27, 1971
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ten provincial premiers agree to draft new constitution giving the French language equal status with English throughout Canada.
1926 Red Bank Ontario - Start of gold rush at Red Bank.
1922 New York New York - Lila Acheson Wallace 1889-1984 and her husband Dewitt Wallace sell the first 5,000 copies of their new magazine, the Reader's Digest, the most-read periodical in history, with a current circulation of 15 million. Lila was born in 1889 at Virden, Manitoba.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet sets up War Purchasing Board; authority to make all purchases for government.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - Richard Scott brings in Canada Temperance Act (Scott Act); gives provinces and local governments the option in licensing.
1874 Victoria BC - Crowd of several hundred people marches into BC legislature to demand resignation of Premier Amor de Cosmos for delaying building of the CPR.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 invites at least two Metis to go to Ottawa to present list of rights to government.
1792 Niagara Ontario - John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 advertises Upper Canada Crown Lands for sale; with fee scales; how to apply; US citizens wishing to settle can get free land grants.
1758 Halifax Nova Scotia - Governor Charles Lawrence proclaims a resolution passed by the Nova Scotia Council to organize the first Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia; it will be the first popularly elected parliament in Canada.

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February 8th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
1575 – Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1726 – The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 – Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Bennigsen.
1817 – Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 – Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 – D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1945 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1948 – The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1955 – The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 – Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1963 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 – The First full Color Television program in the World, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena.
1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1969 – Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 – South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.
1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1993 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 – The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
2010 – A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
2013 – A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1984 CANADIANS IN SARAJEVO
Sarajevo Bosnia - Canadian team attends ceremony of lighting the Olympic flame to open the 14th Olympic Winter Games in Kosevo Stadium, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; with 1,579 athletes representing 49 other countries. The Olympic facilities were virtually all destroyed during the civil war in Bosnia.

1879

Toronto Ontario - Sanford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time, by dividing the world into 24 equal time zones, with standard time within each zone; in lecture at the Canadian Institute in Toronto. Idea adopted by North American railways four years later.

1948
St Moritz, Switzerland - Fifth Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz. The RCAF Flyers win the Ice Hockey Gold, and Ottawa's Barbara Ann Scott takes home the Gold Medal in Figure Skating.



In Other Events...


1995 Ottawa Ontario - Romeo LeBlanc appointed Governor General; Acadian native; former teacher, journalist, federal Cabinet Minister.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa slashes tobacco taxes to reduce rampant cigarette smuggling; Quebec, Ontario and the Maritime provinces follow; failure to control smuggling.
1992 Albertville, France - Canadian team attends opening of the 16th Winter Olympic Games in Albertville.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chretien 1934- announces he will run for the Leadership of the federal Liberal party; on resignation of John Turner
1986 Hinton Alberta - Nine-car VIA Rail passenger train collides head-on with a CN freight, killing 29, injuring 93.
1983 Uniondale New York - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scores all-star record four goals, all in the third period, as the Campbell Conference beats the Wales 9-3 at Nassau Coliseum.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Former NHL president Clarence Campbell found guilty of conspiring to give Senator Louis Giguère a benefit in connection with a contract for airport duty-free shops; the Sky Shop affair.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games).
1960 Montreal Quebec - Federal-provincial conference on the Centennial backs Montreal bid for 1967 World's Fair.
1945 Reichswald Germany - First Canadian Army attacks German positions in the Reichswald; part of Allied offensive into Germany; west of Rhine, north of Ruhr Valley.
1936 Toronto Ontario - Charlie Conacher notches the first successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, against the New York Rangers.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - George Eulas Foster 1847-1931 chairs new War Trade Board.
1905 Toronto Ontario - James Pliny Whitney 1834-1914 takes office as Premier of Ontario; first Conservative government in Ontario since 1872
1853 Ottawa Ontario - J. B. Turgeon, the Mayor of Bytown, petitions town Council to change name of Bytown to Ottawa.
1839 Aroostook New Brunswick - American and Canadian loggers clash in Aroostook lumber war over undefined boundary with Maine; truce struck on March 25.
1690 Schenectady New York - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 organizes attack by Mohawk natives and French troops against Schenectady; 60 people killed, 30 captured.
1631 London England - Charles I grants Cape Breton Island to Robert Gordon of Lochinvar and son Robert.
1631 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 names Charles de La Tour Governor and Lieutenant-General of New France and Acadia; commission partly restored after peace treaty in 1632; La Tour builds Fort Ste-Marie at mouth of Saint John River, rich fur region.
1604 Paris France - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 forms de Monts Trading Company with Champlain and Gravé du Pont; Canada's first chartered company; with capital from Rouen, St. Malo and La Rochelle merchants.

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February 9th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1849 – New Roman Republic established
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 – President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 – World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
1950 – Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1951 – Korean War: Geochang massacre
1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
1965 – Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
1971 – The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
1973 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Odisha, India.
1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1964 CANUCKS TAKE SLED GOLD
Innsbruck Austria - Ninth Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck. Brothers Vic and John Emery, with Douglas Anakin and Peter Kirby, take home Canada's only Gold Medal, in Bobsledding. The quartet set a world record in their first run, and repeat their victory at the 1965 World Championship.

1996
Reno Nevada - Canada's Donovan Bailey sets world record for the 50-meter dash with a time of 5.56 seconds at the Reno Air Games; old record of 5.61 set by Manfred Kokot of East Germany in 1973 and American James Sanford in 1981.


In Other Events...

1991 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Cameron chosen as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and new Premier of Nova Scotia, replacing John Buchanan, who resigned Sept 1990 to take a Senate seat
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Erik Neilsen 1924- chosen as interim party leader by Progressive Conservative Party; to June 11, 1983; replacing Joe Clark.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa orders 11 Soviet embassy officials deported for allegedly trying to infiltrate the RCMP Security Service.
1974 USA - Gordon Sinclair's recording of his radio commentary, The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion) peaks at #24 on the pop singles chart.
1966 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League announces it is doubling in size with a new West Division and six new teams - the California Seals, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues. The original teams - Toronto, Montreal, New York, Detroit, Chicago and Boston - will make up the NHL East Division.
1883 Guelph Ontario - Ontario's first free public library opens at Guelph.
1879 Quebec Quebec - North Shore Railroad opens from Montreal to Quebec.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Metis establish a provisional government at Red River; Louis Riel 1844-1885 elected President.
1760 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Captain John Byron 1723-1786 starts tearing down the fortifications of Louisbourg on orders from British PM William Pitt.

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February 10th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
1930 – Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina
1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaff dies 4 days later.
1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2009 – The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
2013 – 36 people are killed and 39 injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.






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1763 FRANCE GIVES UP CANADA
Paris France - France signs Peace of Paris ending the Seven Years War. France gives up Canada, keeping only St. Pierre and Miquelon and part of Louisiana; Spain cedes claims in the northwest, gets California.


In Other Events...

1991 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Cameron chosen as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and new Premier of Nova Scotia.
1983 Washington DC - Canada signs agreement allowing US testing of military equipment in Canada, including cruise missiles.
1982 Bromont, Quebec - Group of 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands; to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $18 million for underwater electrical cable from New Brunswick to PEI.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa limits seal catch in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Newfoundland and Labrador.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 3-day constitutional conference; Premiers agree to more study of constitutional reform.
1965 Vancouver BC - Lumber magnate H. R. MacMillan donates $8.2 million to the University of British Columbia for postgraduate education.
1956 Quebec Quebec - Wilbert Coffin hanged for murder of three American hunters, killed in the Gaspé in 1953; many insist the Gaspé prospector was innocent.
1947 Paris France - Canada signs mop-up peace treaties with former Axis powers Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland.
1942 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian corvette Spikenard.
1922 London England - Peter Charles Larkin 1856-1930 appointed High Commissioner for Canada in Britain; wealthy tea merchant and benefactor of Mackenzie King
1906 Prince Rupert BC - Prince Rupert chosen as the name of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's terminus. Fifteen thousand people entered the $250 contest to choose a name - Eleanor Macdonald of Winnipeg was the winner.
1906 London England - Canadian Tommy Burns knocks out Jack Palmer in the fourth round to defend his world heavyweight title.
1892 Washington DC - Canadian and US negotiators fail to reach decision on reciprocity after five days of talk.
1876 St. Catharines Ontario - St. Catharines incorporated as a city.
1876 Toronto Ontario - Crooks Act takes power to grant tavern licences away from Ontario municipalities; now under provincial board.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 organizes second Provisional Government of Red River.
1841 Kingston Ontario - The Act of Union comes into effect; uniting Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with Kingston as its capital; Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 appointed first Governor-General of United Canada; until his death on Sept. 19, 1841.
1838 Quebec Quebec - Constitution of Lower Canada suspended as of March 27; Special Council proclaimed March 29.
1829 Fredericton New Brunswick - College of New Brunswick gets Royal Charter as King's College, Fredericton; today the University of New Brunswick.
1802 London England - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being first to cross the North American continent by land.
1638 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 grants Charles La Tour the rest of Nova Scotia, plus Cap de Sable and Fort La Tour on the Saint John River; Charles d'Aulnay, cousin of Razilly, is appointed Lieutenant-General of Acadia; hostility arises between La Tour and d'Aulnay.


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February 11th 2014 - This Date in History.


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660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
244 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
1177 – John de Courcy's army defeats the native Dunleavey Clan in Ulster. The English establish themselves in Ulster.
1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1626 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Roman Catholicism the state religion of Ethiopia.
1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
1794 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry "gerrymanders" for the first time.
1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
1826 – Swaminarayan writes the Shikshapatri, an important text within Swaminarayan Hinduism.
1840 РGaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du r̩giment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1873 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first National Diet convenes in 1890.
1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
1916 – Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
1929 – Fascist Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers.
1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
1939 – A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
1943 – World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
1968 – Israeli–Jordanian border clashes rage.
1968 – The Memphis Sanitation Strike begins.
1971 – 87 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
1979 – The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1981 – 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
2008 РRebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President Jos̩ Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.







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1869 WHELAN HANGED IN OTTAWA
Ottawa Ontario - Patrick James Whelan c1840-1869 hanged in a snowstorm before a crowd of 5,000 people for the murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee; denies he did it; second last public execution in Canada.

1922
Toronto Ontario - Frederick Grant Banting 1891-1941 announces the discovery of insulin, used to treat diabetes, at the University of Toronto; with colleagues C.H. Best (1899-1978), J.B. Collip (1892-1965) and J.J.R. Macleod (1876-1935).


In Other Events...

1984 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record of 11 goals.
1978 Cranbrook BC - Pacific Western Airlines aircraft crashes at Cranbrook, killing 43 people; snowplow on runway during PWA jet's landing.
1977 Nova Scotia - Fisherman catches 20.2-kg lobster off Nova Scotia; the world's heaviest known crustacean.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa unveils $1.7 million aid package to bolster the Canadian book publishing industry.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadien captain John Beliveau scores his 500th NHL goal.
1971 Washington DC - Canada with 62 other countries signs treaty banning nuclear weapons from the ocean floor.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Student demonstrators destroy $1.4 million computer and set fire to data centre at Sir George Williams University; 97 persons charged with conspiracy to commit mischief and arson.
1967 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first Canada Winter Games; held for a week in Quebec City
1964 Port-au-Prince Haiti - Haiti expels eighteen Canadian Jesuits on grounds their activities are subversive.
1963 Kapuskasing Ontario - Shoot-out between loggers and independents sees three Kapuskasing loggers killed and nine wounded.
1957 New York City - Founding of the NHL Players Association, with Detroit Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected President of the NHLPA.
1940 Montreal Quebec - John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield 1875-1940 Governor-General dies in Montreal.
1928 St Moritz, Switzerland - Canadian team attends opening of the second Winter Olympic games in St Moritz.
1920 London England - Canada attends opening meetings of the Council of the League of Nations, forerunner of the United Nations.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Government sets up Food Board, replacing the Food Controller; controlled by Ministry of Agriculture
1907 Edmonton Alberta - Founding of the Supreme Court of Alberta.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 deplores employment of children under age 12; in the first Annual Report of the Bureau of Labour.
1897 Ottawa Ontario - Fire destroys part of the West wing of the Parliament Buildings.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 introduces the Manitoba Remedial School Bill, to force Manitoba to restore separate schools; withdrawn on April 16 after no decision.
1887 Vancouver BC - CPR opens Pacific steamship service to the Orient.
1839 London England - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 submits his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' to Parliament; recommends Union of the Canadas and the provinces of British North America
1834 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie forcibly ejected from the Upper Canada legislature.

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February 12th 2014 - This Date in History.


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881 – Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Holy Roman Emperor
1429 РEnglish forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orl̩ans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1541 – Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
1817 – An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
1818 – Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1832 – Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
1855 – Michigan State University is established.
1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, France, killing one and wounding 20.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1909 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
1912 – The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.
1934 РIn Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Espa̱ola.
1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1947 – Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
1961 – Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
1968 – Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1992 – The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
2002 – An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.





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1989 MORE GRETZKY RECORDS
Los Angeles California - Wayne Gretzky sets two more NHL records, his 45th hat trick and his tenth 40+ goal season.

1917

London England - Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 arrives in London to sit as a member of the British [Imperial] War Cabinet.


In Other Events...

1994 Victoria BC - Sue Rodriguez takes her own life at age 43 with the help of an anonymous doctor, after a long fight with Lou Gehrig's Disease.
1994 Lillehammer, Norway - Canadian team attends opening ceremonies of the 17th Olympic Winter games in Lillehammer.
1994 Toronto Ontario - Rev. Victoria Matthews consecrated the first female Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada.
1990 Chambly Quebec - Phil Edmonston wins riding of Chambly for NDP in federal by-election; first NDP/NPD seat in Quebec; consumer advocate Edmonston author of the Lemon Aid series.
1990 Hagersville, Ontario - Tire dump fire set by teenage boys forces hundreds of families from their homes, causes massive air pollution.
1976 Toronto Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- resigns his Vancouver Quadra seat in the House of Commons and joins Toronto law firm; until 1984, when he returns to politics, winning the Liberal leadership and becoming Prime Minister.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Three-month-old baby receives Canada's first successful liver transplant at Montreal's Notre-Dame Hospital.
1966 Banff Alberta - Nancy Greene 1943- wins women's slalom title at Canadian International Ski Championships; from Rossland, BC; first FIS World Cup race held in Canada.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.
1949 Europe - Canadian ice hockey team beats Denmark 47-0.
1942 Brest France - German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau escape from Brest after allied air bombings; nine Canadian squadrons lose seven planes in the attack.
1894 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Legislature votes to hold plebiscite on prohibition of alcohol.
1816 St. John's Newfoundland - St. John's almost completely destroyed by a fire.
1800 Fredericton New Brunswick - College of New Brunswick founded at Fredericton; today the UNB.

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February 13th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th-13th.
1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1503 – Disfida di Barletta – tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1542 – Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1572 – Elizabeth I of England issues a proclamation which revokes all commissions on account of the frauds which they had fostered.
1575 – Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims and marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government begins to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles had refused. As his son and successor on the throne, Charles XI, is only four years old, a regency rules Sweden until 1672.
1668 – Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
1689 – William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1849 – The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Şaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
1861 – In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.
1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Zenne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1934 – The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
1955 – Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 – A 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by ******** da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1971 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
1978 – Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1982 – The Río Negro massacre takes place in Guatemala.
1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
2000 – The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.





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1937 CANADIAN PRINCE VALIANT
New York City - Halifax native Harold Foster 1892-1982 publishes his first Prince Valiant comic strip, calling his original creation 'an illustrated historical novel.' Famed for its superb medieval detail, the strip was Foster's masterpiece, and he would write and illustrate it for the next 42 years; he had already drawn the Tarzan strip from 1929-1937.

1988

Calgary Alberta - Calgary plays host to over 1,800 athletes from 57 countries as the 15th Winter Olympics opening ceremonies take place in Olympic Plaza.

1833

Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton incorporated as a city; oldest in Ontario.

In Other Events...

1995 Montreal Quebec - Lucienne Robillard elected for the Liberals as the Party wins 3 bye-elections, keeping two seats in Ottawa and Montreal, winning one from the Bloc Quebecois. The new standings: Liberal 177, BQ 53, Reform 52, NDP 9, PC 2, Ind 2.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $75-100,000 in compensation for each victim of the drug thalidomide born between 1959 and 1961.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Bombardier proposes $5.3 billion high speed rail link between Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto; based on French TGF (Très Grande Vitesse) train
1985 Montreal Quebec - Denis Lortie found guilty of first-degree murder of 3 Quebec National Assembly workers in his machine gun attack of May, 1984; the Canadian Armed Forces corporal sprayed the chamber with bullets before being calmed.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Parliamentary committee recommends 65 amendments to original constitutional package.
1974 Quebec - Quebec Court of Appeals denies Indian-Inuit coalition permanent injunction against James Bay power; courts awaiting the outcome of earlier appeal
1973 Quebec Quebec - Gendron Royal Commission on the French Language recommends making French official language of Quebec; Gendron Report
1972 Sapporo, Japan - The 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo; Canada fails to take home a Gold Medal.
1971 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- chosen Ontario Progressive Conservative leader, succeeding John Robarts.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Terrorist bomb explodes at Montreal and Canadian Stock Exchanges, injuring 27.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Liquor Board Employees end 70-day strike.
1963 St. Catharines Ontario - John Parmenter Robarts 1917-1982 charters Brock University in St. Catharines; scheduled to open in 1964
1954 Toronto Ontario - Agnes Macphail dies at age 63. A former country school teacher in Grey County, she became Canada's first woman MP in the 1921 federal election, and held her seat until she was defeated in 1940, and became an Ontario MPP. She was a champion of the rights of farmers, women and prisoners was Canada's first woman delegate to the League of Nations.
1947 Leduc Alberta - Vern 'Dry Hole' Hunter strikes oil near Leduc, sparking a new Alberta oil boom; Toronto Stock Exchange lists 40 new Western Canadian oil and gas companies
1907 Portage la Prairie Manitoba - Portage la Prairie incorporated as a city.
1900 Fredericton New Brunswick - Founding of first chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE); women's patriotic and philanthropic organization.
1900 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick provincial legislature opens first under Confederation.
1841 Kingston Ontario - William Draper & Charles Odgen form Draper-Ogden Ministry until Sept. 1842; two Attorneys General; Robert Baldwin accepts seat on Executive Council.
1833 Toronto Ontario - British American Assurance Company incorporated at York; first insurance company in Ontario
1759 Halifax Nova Scotia - First use of secret ballot in Canada in Nova Scotia Assembly; first legislature in British territory to permit secret voting.
1641 New York USA - Iroquois Confederacy of the Long House formally declares war against New France; still resent Champlain's treaty with the Hurons and Algonquins.
1641 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 ordered to return to France due to pressure from d'Aulnay; his commission revoked ten days later; he disobeys and stays in Acadia.

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February 14th 2014 - This Date in History.


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842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
1014 – Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1076 – Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population is forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
1400 – Richard II dies, most likely from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke.
1556 – Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1804 – Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 – Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children (The National Children's Hospital in Dublin was founded over 30 years previously in 1821), is founded in London.
1855 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
1918 – The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
1919 – The Polish–Soviet War begins.
1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1929 – Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1942 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1943 – World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1943 – World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1944 – World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
1945 – World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
1945 – World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.
1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1949 – The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1950 – Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.
1956 – The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1966 – Australian currency is decimalised.
1979 – In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1981 – Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
1990 – 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
1998 РAn oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaound̩, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which kills 120.
2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2002 – The Budapest Open Access Initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Open access movement, was released to the public.
2004 – In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2005 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
2005 – Youtube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
2011 – As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.






Today's Canadian Headline...

1927 THE BIRTH OF THE LEAFS
Toronto Ontario - Conn Smythe takes over the Toronto St. Patricks team and renames them the Maple Leafs. For the next 4 years the team plays out of the old Mutual Street Arena, until Smythe's ice palace on Carlton Street, Maple Leaf Gardens, is finished in 1931.

1826
Hull Quebec - Lt. Colonel John By 1781-1836 of the Royal Engineers arrives in Hull to plan construction of the Rideau Canal from Ottawa River to Lake Ontario.


In Other Events...

1984 Moscow Russia - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- attends funeral of Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov; has discussions with Soviet leaders on peace.
1979 North York Ontario - North York officially becomes a city; part of Metropolitan Toronto.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Unity Bank of Canada and Provincial Bank of Canada merge; number of chartered banks reduced from 12 to 11
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces $50 million project to extend CBC radio and television service to northern regions.
1973 Yukon - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- agrees to set up committee to negotiate Native land claims in the Yukon.
1964 Halifax Nova Scotia - Oceanographic research vessel Hudson commissioned at Halifax.
1956 Oshawa Ontario - 17,000 General Motors employees end 148-day strike.
1952 Oslo Norway - Canadian team attends opening of the sixth Olympic winter games at Oslo.
1920 Montreal Quebec - Incorporation of the University of Montreal.
1918 Montreal Quebec - Fire at Grey Nuns Orphanage kills 64 children.
1915 France - First Canadian Division arrives in France from England, and moves into Flanders.
1896 Montreal Quebec - Winnipeg Victorias beat the Montreal Victorias 2-0 for the Stanley Cup.
1890 Toronto Ontario - Fire partly destroys main building of the University of Toronto; $500,000 in damage
1761 Mackinac Michigan - British troops occupy Fort Michilimackinac.
1663 Paris France - Canada becomes a Royal Province of France.

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February 15th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
1113 – Pope Paschal II issues a bill sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers.
1493 РWhile on board the Ni̱a, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1690 – Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
1798 – The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier
1804 – The Serbian revolution begins.
1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1879 – Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
1901 – The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
1909 – The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
1921 – Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
1923 – Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
1925 – the serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, ending the 1925 serum run to Nome, with Balto being the lead dog of the last team.
1933 – In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
1942 – World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins.
1944 – World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
1945 – World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1952 – King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
1953 – Parliamentary elections held in Liechtenstein.
1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
1961 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family members.
1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1971 – The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1972 – José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
1976: David Pearson survived a last lap chaos with Richard Petty and limped his car to victory lane to win his only Daytona 500 victory in one of NASCAR's amazing endings.
1976 – The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.
1979 – Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
1982 – The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
1991 – The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
1999 – Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is arrested in Kenya.
2000 – Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
2001 – First draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.





Today's Canadian Headline...

1946 KING REVEALS GOUZENKO SPY PROBE
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 tells Parliament about Soviet spy ring activities in Canada; explains measures needed to investigate, detain suspects; based on revelations from Igor Gouzenko, a former clerk at the USSR Embassy in Ottawa; charges are later laid against 21 people, and 11 are convicted.

1968
Grenoble France - Nancy Greene 1943- wins Gold Medal in Women's Giant Slalom at the Tenth Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Here she is on the podium after her win.

1965
Ottawa Ontario - Canada's new Maple Leaf flag is unfurled in ceremonies on Parliament Hill; adopted after two-year debate and Royal Proclamation Jan. 28; replaces the Red Ensign.

In Other Events...


1996 Victoria British Columbia - Ottawa settles claim with the Nisg'a Indians of BC; grants $190 million and full title to 1,930 sq km
1996 Hull Quebec - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien scuffles with a protestor disrupting Flag Day ceremonies.
1991 Washington DC - Canada joins Mexico and US in talks on a continental free-trade pact.
1982 Newfoundland - Oil drilling rig Ocean Ranger capsizes and sinks during a fierce storm on the Grand Banks 315 km east of St. John's; all 84 crewmen, mostly Newfoundlanders, drown in worst marine disaster in Canada since World War II.
1980 United Nations New York - Iran officially complains to the UN that Canada had abused diplomatic privilege by smuggling six Americans out of Iran using diplomatic passports.
1980 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky ties NHL record with 7 assists.
1979 Hollywood California - Anne Murray wins Grammy Award for top female vocalist. pianist Oscar Peterson, wins the jazz instrumental soloist Grammy.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Royal Bank transfers three head office departments from Montreal to Toronto.
1976 Innsbruck Austria - 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck. Kathy Kreiner takes home the Gold Medal in Womens Giant Slalom.
1973 Victoria BC - Pearson College of the Pacific to be built near Victoria; modeled after United World College of the Atlantic in Wales; named after Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa restricts oil exports to US, due to possible shortages.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Government lifts the last wartime price controls on goods; brought in during World War II.
1932 Lake Placid New York - Third Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid; Winnipeg Hockey Club team takes home Gold Medal in Ice Hockey for Canada.
1930 Ottawa Ontario - Cairine Wilson appointed Canada's first woman Senator.
1926 Prince Albert Saskatchewan - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 wins by-election in Prince Albert after losing North York riding Oct 29, 1925.
1910 Berlin Germany - Canada signs reciprocity agreements with Germany; mutual tariff reductions.
1888 USA - Joseph Chamberlain signs Chamberlain-Bayard Treaty giving US fishermen rights in inshore Canadian waters; later rejected by British Parliament, but US fishermen allowed to take out Canadian licenses.
1881 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Pacific Railway contract receives Royal Assent.
1880 Little Egypt Nova Scotia - Canada's first quintuplets born in Little Egypt, near Pictou; three live one day, the other two survive two days.
1872 Victoria BC - BC Legislature meets for the first time as a Province of Canada.
1781 Coteau du Lac Quebec - William Twiss finishes building North America's first lock canal at Coteau du Lac, on the St Lawrence River.
1764 St. Louis Missouri - Pierre Laclède founds a fur trade post at St. Louis.
1625 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain appointed representative of the viceroy of Canada and instructed to find a route to China.

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February 16th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

116 – Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
1874 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
1881 – the Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
1943 – World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
1943 – World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
1957 – The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
1961 – The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
1991 РNicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Berm̼dez is assassinated in Managua.
1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
1999 – Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.
2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan, kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.






Today's Canadian Headline...

1971 FUDDLE DUDDLE DAY
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau, under opposition attack in the Commons, utters an apparently unparliamentary expression that he later describes as 'fuddle-duddle.'

1984
Sarajevo Bosnia - Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games; fourth medal of his career.


In Other Events...

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Pierre Kingsley appointed Chief Electoral Officer, replacing Jean-Marc Hamel; Elections Canada
1985 Toronto Ontario - Novelist Marian Engel dies of cancer at age 51; author of Bear.
1984 Sarajevo Bosnia - Canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male; again wins Silver in 1988 Calgary Olympics.
1973 Havana Cuba - Canada signs anti-hijacking agreement with Cuba; each country to prosecute hijackers in the other's country, or return them to the country where the hijacking took place.
1970 Europe - Ottawa's Betsy Clifford wins the Gold Medal in Giant Slalom at the FIS World Alpine Ski Championship.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Premiers meet for two-day federal-provincial conference; agree on anti-inflation measures; agree on banning phosphates in laundry detergents.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Anne Francis (Florence Bird) chairs new Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada; 'to ensure for women equal opportunities with men'; first Canadian commission headed by a woman later made 167 recommendations, including paid maternity leave.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act by a vote of 140-47. Newfoundland officially joins Canada March 31, 1949.
1940 Halifax Nova Scotia - RCAF's No. 110 Army Cooperation Squadron sails for Britain; first of 48 squadrons to go overseas.
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - Fourth Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch; Canada takes home Gold Medal in Ice Hockey.
1934 Newfoundland - David Murray Anderson 1874-1936 presides over ruling Newfoundland Commission; three Newfoundlanders and three non-Newfoundlanders; appointed by Britain.
1900 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias 2 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1881 Montreal Quebec - George Stephen signs charter and incorporates Canadian Pacific Railway; President until 1888; with partners R. B. Angus, Duncan Mclntyre, Donald A. Smith, J. J. Hill, and J. S. Kennedy.
1872 Victoria BC - - First session of the British Columbia legislature opens.
1857 Ontario - Early thaw and floods in Canada West destroy mill dams and bridges.
1838 London England - British Parliament passes an act suspending the constitution in Lower Canada.
1835 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Legislature votes to erase records of William Lyon Mackenzie's many expulsions from that body.
1825 London England - John Franklin 1786-1847 leaves England on second expedition, with George Back, John Richardson, and surveyor Edward Kendall, to explore from the Mackenzie Delta; they travel overland via New York.
1597 Paris France - Troilus de Mesgouez, Marquis de La Roche c1540-1606 gets grant from Henry IV for expedition to New France.

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February 17th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

364 – Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back to Constantinople in suspicious circumstances.
1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
1411 – Following successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
1500 – Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome.
1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.
1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormans.
1819 – The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
1838 – Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
1854 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
1863 – A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
1864 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
1865 – American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1904 РMadama Butterfly receives its premi̬re at La Scala in Milan.
1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
1944 – World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
1949 – Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1964 – In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1964 – Gabonese president Leon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
1972 – Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T.
1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
1978 – The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1980 – Mount Everest, 1st Winter Ascent by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijani troops massacre 70–90 Armenian civilians in the village of Qaradağlı
1995 – The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
1996 – NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
2003 – The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
2006 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
2008 – Kosovo declares independence.
2011 – Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1932 MOUNTIES GET THEIR MAN
Rat River Yukon - Albert Johnson, 'the Mad Trapper of Rat River,' killed by RCMP in shoot-out after 48-day 240 km manhunt in 40 below weather; charged with killing one Mountie, Constable Edgar Millen and wounding two others. The Mounties enlisted World War I air ace/bush pilot Wop May to help them track Johnson.

1919
Ottawa Ontario - Sir Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 dies of a stroke at age 77; Canada's first Prime Minister of French ancestry; spent 45 uninterrupted years in the House of Commons; Canada's 7th PM 1896 to 1911, longest unbroken tenure in Canadian history.


In Other Events...

1996 Ottawa Ontario - Michel Gauthier appointed interim Leader of the Bloc Québecois; replacing BQ founder Lucien Bouchard, who moves to provincial and PQ politics.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa temporarily blocks import of Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses; the Ayatollahs of Iran considers the novel to be blasphemous to the Koran, and demand that Rushdie be assassinated.
1986 Versailles France- Canadian and Quebec delegations attend the first Francophone Summit - la francophonie.
1983 St John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland Supreme Court rules the province owns offshore resources as far as the territorial limit, but not to the edge of the continental shelf.
1982 London England - British Parliament gives approval in principle to proposed Canadian Constitution.
1982 Alberta - Gordon Kessler 1942- wins Alberta provincial by-election for separatist Western Canada Concept party.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Start of final round of constitutional debates in the House of Commons.
1973 Newfoundland - Temperatures on the island hit record low of -51 degrees Celsius.
1970 London England - Joni Mitchell plays her final concert, in the Royal Albert Hall.
1968 Springfield Massachusetts - Opening of the James Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, to honour the Almonte, Ontario, born inventor of the game.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament founds Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation; supporting all federally incorporated trust & loan companies; pays out $4 billion from 1967-1988, with the collapse of 20 institutions.
1967 Quebec Quebec - Quebec passes Bill 25, ordering teachers to return to classrooms within 48 hours; right to strike suspended until May 30, 1968
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 reduces age at which Old Age Pensions will be paid to 65 instead of 70; change to be phased in over five years.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens new National Gallery of Canada.
1937 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland sets up a commission to examine future; Dominion on the verge of financial collapse.
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senator Cy Dennehy becomes the NHL's all time leading scorer to date with 143 goals.
1869 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; today's Humane Society
1764 Quebec - William Gregory appointed first Chief Justice of Quebec.

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