This Date In History

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February 18th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1268 – The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
1332 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1637 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
1745 – The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta.
1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
1865 – American Civil War: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
1885 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
1906 – Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1932 – The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
1938 – During the Nanking Massacre tha Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee" and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
1943 – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 – Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
1965 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1969 – Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1978 – The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu and is won by Gordon Haller.
1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
1983 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
1991 – The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.
2001 – Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Indonesia, that will ultimately result in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
2004 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
2007 – Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.





Today's Canadian Headline...

1968 END OF GRENOBLE GAMES
Grenoble, France - 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble; Canada's Nancy Greene takes home Gold Medal in Giant Slalom

1980
Lake Placid New York - Canada wins 2 medals at Winter Olympics in Lake Placid; Steve Podborski 1957- takes Bronze Medal in Downhill Skiing (Ken Read's ski comes off in the starting gate); Gaetan Boucher 1959- wins Silver Medal in Speedskating.

1980
Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- defeats Joe Clark in the general election 146 seats to 103, with 32 for the NDP; wins majority government after nine months out of office; there are now no Liberal MPs west of Winnipeg. Only a few weeks earlier, Trudeau had announced he was retiring as Liberal Party leader.


In Other Events...

1981 Edmonton Alberta - NHL Oilers Wayne Gretzky scores five goals and two assists (four goals in the third period), to lead Edmonton to a 9-2 win over the St. Louis Blues.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Four Saskatchewan NDP MPs say they will oppose Ottawa's constitutional package.
1980 Victoria BC - 2,200 BC railway workers vote to end 5-week strike against provincial railway.
1972 Kitimat BC - Record 44.2 inches of snow fall on Kitimat.
1966 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Legislature passes non-compulsory medical care plan; to take effect July 1.
1965 Stewart BC - Avalanche on Grandue Mountain kills 18 copper miners, 8 others at Oranduc Mines camp 48 km north of Stewart.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Carleton University in founds graduate School of International Affairs.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Commission on Health Services outlines workings of new pre-paid medical care plan; second report
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Leonard Walter Brockington, Claude Champagne and Arthur Lismer awarded Canada Council medals.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Council gets anonymous $4,250,000 for advanced studies in medicine, science, engineering.
1960 Lake Tahoe California - Canadian team attends ceremonies as Vice President Richard M. Nixon opens the Eighth Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley; with 29 other nations and 665 competitors.
1936 Montreal Quebec - New York Americans (with 28) and Montreal Maroons (with 24) score NHL record 32 points in one game.
1932 Montreal Quebec - Sonja Henie wins her sixth straight World Women's Figure Skating Championship; following her win, she retires to Hollywood to become an actress.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Cy Dennehy of the Ottawa Senators scores his 52nd goal in a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs; becomes the all-time NHL scorer to date.
1905 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks Goaltender Fred Broy, in the American Hockey Association, scores a goal against Quebec; scores again on March 7, 1906, against the Montreal Victorias.
1900 Paardeburg South Africa - Canadian troops play major role in nine-day Battle of Paardeburg; take over 130 casualties.
1899 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks sweep Winnipeg Victorias in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
1899 White Pass Yukon - Michael J. Heney completes White Pass & Yukon Railway to summit of White Pass; 177 km from Whitehorse; completes road in 1900.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Charles Arkoll Boulton 1841-1899 captured outside Fort Garry with Thomas Scott and group of Canadians trying to overthrow Louis Riel's government.
1814 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada MP Joseph Wilcocks expelled posthumously from the Assembly at York for being a traitor; led American raids into Canada.

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February 19th 2014 - This Date in History.


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197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1649 – The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
1861 – Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
1876 – Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1937 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1942 – World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima – about 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1948 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417
1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2011 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang Dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1973 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIGITAL DATA SYSTEM
Montreal Quebec - Trans Canada Telephone System introduces Dataroute, the world's first national digital data system.

1984
Sarajevo Bosnia - Gaetan Boucher 1959- wins 2 Gold (1000m & 1500m) and a Bronze medal in Speedskating at Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo.


In Other Events...

1996 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint unveils new $2 coin design; a bimetallic Polar Bear.
1996 Ottawa Ontario - Denver Colorado - Patrick Roy reaches 300 victories as the NHL Avalanche beat Edmonton Oilers 7-5; second youngest goaltender and 12th overall to reach the mark.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Vaclav Havel visits Canada; asks for aid in rebuilding country; President of Czechoslovakia.
1984 Sarajevo Bosnia - Brian Orser 1962- wins silver medal in figure skating at Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- resigns as Progressive Conservative leader, but vows to fight for leadership at upcoming convention.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canada claims jurisdiction over waters of Northwest Passage, and between islands of Arctic archipelago.
1969 Quebec - Rene Lippe Montreal judge appointed mediator to end 18-months of rotating strikes of 70,000 Quebec teachers.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson's minority government loses a tax bill vote in the Commons, but win a vote of confidence Feb. 28th, after the Opposition demands that the government resign.
1955 Montreal Quebec - Bernie Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens scores 5 goals in a 10-2 rout of the New York Rangers.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada agrees to provide $25 million for first year of six-year Colombo plan aid scheme.
1930 Quebec Quebec - Quebec legislature rejects bill to admit women to the practice of law.
1928 St Moritz Switzerland - Second Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz; the University of Toronto Grads take home Canada's third consecutive Gold Medal in Ice Hockey.
1920 Montreal Quebec - Shareholders of the Grand Trunk Railway ratify sale to federal government, to become part of the Canadian National Railway system.
1908 New York City - Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940 sets out for North Pole in steamer `John R. Bradley'; US explorer
1889 Ottawa Ontario - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 pardoned by Crown for role in 1885 Rebellion; Saskatchewan Metis leader
1860 Cape Sable Nova Scotia - Steamship 'Hungarian' wrecked off Cape Sable; 205 lives lost
1814 Toronto Ontario - Joseph Willcocks posthumously ejected as a member of the Parliament of Upper Canada because he turned traitor and led American raids against the Province.
1732 Quebec Quebec - Religious houses in New France forbidden to shelter fugitives from justice.
1631 Quebec Quebec - First Lutheran baptism in Canada.

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February 20th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1685 РRen̩-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1810 – Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed.
1813 – Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
1816 – Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
1835 – Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake.
1846 – Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs – the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
1865 – End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
1873 – The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
1877 РTchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premi̬re performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1921 – The Young Communist League of Czechoslovakia is founded.
1931 – The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943 – The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
1944 – World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1956 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy
1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
1978 – The last Order of Victory is bestowed upon Leonid Brezhnev.
1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years.
1987 – Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
1988 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1989 – An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
2003 – During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
2005 – Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2006 – United Liberal Democrats, the three top political parties was merged into Grand National Party
2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
2013 – The smallest Extrasolar planet, Kepler-37b is discovered.





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1988 ORSER WINS SILVER, LOSES BATTLE OF BRIANS
Calgary Alberta - Brian Orser wins his second Silver Medal in Men's Figure Skating at the Calgary Olympic games; he repeated his result in Sarajevo in 1984; narrowly loses the 'Battle of the Brians' against US figure skater Brian Boitano, who takes the Gold.


In Other Events...

1993 Ottawa Ontario - Constitutional Affairs Minister Joe Clark announces he will not seek re-election; led Tories for 7 years, Prime Minister June 1979 to March 1980; MP for High River for 21 years.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Painter A. J. Casson dies at age 93; last surviving member of the Group of Seven; specialized in watercolours of Ontario towns.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Michael Wilson brings in deficit trimming federal budget; no new taxes; cuts $2.5 billion in transfer payments, squeezing the provinces; cancels Polar 8 Icebreaker; freezes CBC budget.
1985 Primrose Alberta - First successful US cruise missile test in Canadian airspace; released from a B-52 bomber over Beaufort Sea, the missile successfully makes its way to the target in Alberta.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Immigration Department to relax Canadian refugee policy, allowing more to remain in Canada.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - John Munro 1931- announces formation of Hockey Canada, federal corporation to develop a national hockey team; Canadian Health Minister
1964 Shawinigan Quebec - Terrorists raid armoury in Shawinigan.
1961 Washington DC - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 holds talks with President Kennedy in Washington.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Start of 12-year federal-provincial program of aeromagnetic surveys to pinpoint Canada's mineral wealth.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister George Pearkes announces the Diefenbaker Cabinet decision to cancel AVRO CF-105 Arrow interceptor project because of costs; Bomarc-B missiles to be installed; A. V. Roe President Crawford Gordon immediately fires 5,000 of 10,000 employees; 14,000 in the industry eventually lose their jobs. Recent comments by former Minister Pierre Sevigny bring into question who ordered the seven existing aircraft scrapped
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Secretary of State Ellen Fairclough is Acting Prime Minister during absence of John Diefenbaker, campaigning in Newfoundland.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Government issues Canada's first Family Allowance cheques.
1930 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa transfers control of BC natural resources to the province of British Columbia; under the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement
1915 NWT - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 maps coast of Banks Island to Alfred Point.
1894 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules Manitoba Catholics have no grounds for appeal of Manitoba School Act of 1890; decision appealed to Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
1865 Quebec Quebec - Legislative Council of Canada votes 45-15 for Confederation.
1808 Toronto Ontario - Joseph Willcocks d1814 jailed for making 'false, slanderous, and highly derogatory' statements about members of the Assembly; Leader of the Opposition in Upper Canada.
1796 Holland Landing Ontario - Queen's Rangers cut out Yonge St. 55 km to Pine Fort Landing on Lake Simcoe; to Georgian Bay by Feb. 27
1666 Montreal Quebec - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 arrives in New France and settles at Montreal.

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February 21st 2014 - This Date in History.


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362 – Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1543 – Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
1918 – The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup
1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1945 – World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1958 – The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1970 – Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.
1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 – President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.
1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1986 – The Legend of Zelda, the first game of The Legend of Zelda series, was released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System.
1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
2013 – Two bomb blasts in Hyderabad, India, kill at least 17 people and injure more than 100 others.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1980 CLARK CALLS IT QUITS
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Joe Clark submits resignation to Governor General, three days after his Tory government was defeated by Pierre Trudeau's Liberals.

1935

London England - John Buchan 1875-1940 appointed Governor-General of Canada as Baron Tweedsmuir; Buchan was also a biographer and novelist, who wrote one of the first modern thrillers, The Thirty-Nine Steps.


In Other Events...


1995 Leader Saskatchewan - Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett touches down at Leader, becoming the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Canada lets International Atomic Energy Agency verify Canada's peaceful use of nuclear power.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Réjane Laberge-Colas 1923- appointed to Quebec Superior Court for the district of Montreal; Montreal lawyer the first woman named to the bench of a Superior Court in Canada.
1961 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Royal Commission endorses water fluoridation to cut tooth decay.
1945 Goch Germany - Canadian Army breaks through the Seigfried Line, reaches Goch.
1941 Newfoundland - Canadian co-discoverer of insulin Frederick Banting 1891-1941 killed at age 49 in Newfoundland air crash en route to England on a wartime medical mission; Nobel Prize winner.
1921 Quebec Quebec - Quebec the first province to establish government control of liquor; for a period of time Quebec is the only jurisdiction in North America with no prohibition of alcohol.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - James Alexander Lougheed 1854-1925 appointed Minister of Soldiers Civil Re-establishment; relocation, hospital care, pensions for returning soldiers and war workers
1891 Springhill Nova Scotia - Coal gas explosion in Springhill kills 129 miners.
1881 Winnipeg Manitoba - Horace McDougall sells Winnipeg telephone system to Bell; first Winnipeg telephone directory has 42 subscribers.
1849 Halifax Nova Scotia - Pony Express carries first despatches from to Digby for relay to Saint John, New Brunswick telegraph.
1824 Saint John NB - 18-year old Saint John boy hanged for stealing 25 cents.
1731 Quebec Quebec - Gilles Hocquart 1694-1783 appointed Intendant of New France; serves from August 20 to Sept. 2, 1748
1642 Nova Scotia - Charles Menou d'Aulnay 1604-1650 ordered to arrest Charles de La Tour for insubordination.

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February 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.


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705 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang Dynasty.
1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 – Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1651 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods Germany coast, drowning 15.000 people.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars].
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
1847 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1848 – The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania(as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.
1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1889 – United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 – World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1921 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people.
2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.





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1813 RED GEORGE INVADES THE USA
Ogdensburg New York - Lt. Col. 'Red George' Macdonnell c1779-1871 leads 400 Prescott regular militia and Glengarry Light Infantry in a pre-dawn raid on US Fort Ogdensburg across the frozen St. Lawrence; to retaliate for Feb. 6 attack on Brockville; War of 1812.

1976
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- narrowly elected PC Party leader on 4th ballot; replaces Robert Stanfield; gets 1187 votes, to Claude Wagner's 1112; Brian Mulroney, whose campaign was judged too slick, finishes third.


In Other Events...


1998 Nagano, Japan - Canadians take home record medal haul as 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano.
1996 St. John's Newfoundland - Brian Tobin wins Newfoundland Election; gains 37 out of 48 seats in the Newfoundland Legislature.
1996 Victoria British Columbia - Glen Clark sworn in as Premier of BC replacing Mike Harcourt; former provincial Cabinet Minister.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard returns to the House of Commons where MPs give him a standing ovation; he had lost part of his leg to the so-called flesh-eating disease in late 1993.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Lucienne Robillard appointed federal Minister of Labour; newly elected Liberal for Montreal riding.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Martin tables his first Budget as Finance Minister; wants to cut deficit from $45 to 39 billion; cuts tobacco taxes to curb smuggling; announces four military bases to close, including Royal Roads in BC and Collège Militaire St-Jean in Quebec.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Health Canada project finds traces of cigarette smoke compounds in fetal hair; first biochemical proof that even offspring of non-smoking mothers are affected by passive smoke.
1990 Los Angeles California - k.d. laing wins Grammy Award as top female country singer in the USA; Alberta native.
1990 Vancouver BC - Grain carrier collides with Polish fishing vessel in Vancouver Harbour; spilling 40,000 litres of diesel fuel.
1984 Quebec Quebec - Czech brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 points each in a game for the NHL Quebec Nordiques.
1977 Washington DC - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- tells US Congress that Canada will remain united despite concerns about Quebec separation; first speech given by Canadian Prime Minister to US Congress
1969 Montreal Quebec - Bomb explodes at Liberal Party social club, injuring two people.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 announces creation of Radio-Québec, a provincially owned radio and television network.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Montreal police seize millions of dollars worth of smuggled heroin.
1945 Atlantic - German U-Boat torpedoes Royal Canadian Navy corvette Trentonian.
1943 Gibraltar Mediterranean - Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Weyburn strikes mine and sinks near Gibraltar.
1893 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Legislature declares beer of not over 4% alcohol a 'temperance drink'.
1887 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins federal election 126 seats to 89 for Edward Blake of the Liberals; majority cut to 37 seats in a House of 215.
1851 Ottawa Ontario - The Bytown Packet newspaper changes its name to the Ottawa Citizen.
1851 Kingston Ontario - James Morris 1798-1865 appointed the Province of Canada's first Postmaster-General.
1838 Kingston Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 abandons plan to attack Kingston from Hickory Island in the Thousand Islands.
1825 London England - Britain and Russia set inland boundaries of Alaska/BC at first mountain range and 141st meridian.

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February 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
1554 РMapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihue̱u in Chile.
1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
1821 – Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia, modern-day Romania.
1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1854 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
1870 – In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
1885 – Sino-French War: French Army captures Dong Dang.
1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
1905 – Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
1918 – Last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1934 – Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
1943 – Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
1944 – The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
1945 РWorld War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Ba̱os internment camp.
1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
1966 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1980 – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1981 РIn Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'̩tat by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1983 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
1991 РIn Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'̩tat, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1998 – In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
2007 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.






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1988 CALGARY HOSTS THE WORLD
Calgary Alberta - Games of the XV Winter Olympiad open in Calgary.

1909
Baddeck, Nova Scotia - J. A. D. McCurdy flies the Bell designed Silver Dart at an altitude of about 10 metres for nearly one kilometre across Baddeck Bay; first airplane flight in Canada by a Canadian; first powered flight in British Empire.


In Other Events...

1992 Albertville France - The XVI Winter Olympic Games end in Albertville; Canada takes home two Golds - Kerrin-Lee Gartner for Downhill Skiing and the Womens Relay Short Track team for Speed Skating.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Rookie Vancouver MP Kim Campbell becomes Canada's first female Justice Minister in Mulroney Cabinet shuffle, replacing Doug Lewis; Benoît Bouchard becomes Minister of Industry, Science and Technology.
1982 Montreal Quebec - Claude Charron 1947- resigns as PQ House Leader and from the Parti Quebecois cabinet after admitting stealing a sports jacket from an Eaton store.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa places sanctions on USSR and Poland to protest Polish martial law; not including food exports to those countries.
1979 Kelowna BC - W.A.C. Bennett dies at age 78; Premier of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972.
1970 Toronto Ontario - First presentation of Juno Awards to honour the best Canadian recording artists; the award is named after CRTC Chairman and later CBC/SRC President Pierre Juneau.
1969 Vancouver BC - Start of hovercraft service between Vancouver and Nanaimo; first scheduled hovercraft service in Canada.
1965 Quebec - Jacques Hébert gets 30 days in jail, $3,000 fine for contempt of court; for statements in book on Wilbert Coffin murder; 'J'Accuse les assassins de Coffin.'
1965 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Medical Services Insurance Committee recommends health insurance plan similar to Alberta's.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government approves collective bargaining and arbitration in the Civil Service.
1951 Korea - Canadian troops with 27th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade make first contact with enemy.
1914 British Columbia - Fraser River rockslide nearly wipes out the area's salmon fishing industry.
1906 San Francisco California - Tommy Burns of Hanover, Ontario, at just 5'7" and 175 lb., defeats title holder Marvin Hart in a grueling 20 rounds to claim the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules Manitoba prohibition law of 1900 null and void.
1894 Toronto Ontario - Ottawa's hockey club refuses to go to Toronto to play in the second annual Stanley Cup game, so the Cup is awarded to the Montreal AAA (Amateur Athletic Association) for the second time.
1893 Montreal Quebec - Former Governor General Frederick Arthur, Baron Stanley of Preston awards the first Stanley Cup to the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) hockey team; says his sons enjoyed playing hockey when they lived in Ottawa.
1875 Hull Quebec - Hull incorporated as a city; formerly Wrightville.
1855 Kingston Ontario - Parliament grants £900,000 loan guarantee to Grand Trunk Railroad; flushes the Canadian economy with cash.
1838 Wallaceburg Ontario - American republican sympathizers occupy Fighting Island in the Detroit River to back Canadian rebels.
1782 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 named Commander in Chief of British North America.
1770 Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 sets out on second expedition over Barrens with Chipewyan chief Matonnabe; to find headwaters of Coppermine River.

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February 24th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


303 – Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.
484 – King Huneric removes the Christian bishops from their offices and banished some to Corsica. A few are martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants. They are killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians.
1303 – Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence.
1387 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1525 – Spanish-Imperial army defeat French army at Battle of Pavia.
1538 – Treaty of Nagyvarad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1607 РL'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its premi̬re performance.
1711 РThe London premi̬re of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1822 – The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1826 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1875 – The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1881 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1918 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25, 1942.
1942 – An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
1944 – Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1968 РVietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hu̩.
1971 – The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
1976 – Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
1980 – The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.
1981 – An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1983 – A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
1984 – Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
1989 – United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, blowing 9 passengers out of the business-class section.
1996 – The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
1999 – The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2011 – Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
2013 – Patriarch Neofit of Bulgaria is elected and enthroned as a Patriarch of Bulgaria and all Bulgarians.





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1905 WHAT A WAY TO TREAT LORD STANLEY'S MUG
Ottawa Ontario - Members of the Ottawa Silver Seven, winners of the Stanley Cup, celebrate their victory by booting the cup onto the frozen Rideau Canal; Captain Harry Smith retrieves it unharmed the following day.

1982

Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his 77th goal of the season to break Phil Esposito's single-season NHL scoring record; adds goals 78 and 79 before the game ends; en route to his awe-inspiring 92 goal season.

1956

Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth authorizes the Coats-of-Arms of the Yukon and North West Territories.


In Other Events...

1993 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney announces he is stepping down as Prime Minister and Progressive Conservative Party leader; says his biggest disappointment was the failure of the Meech Lake Accord; Justice Minister Kim Campbell will win the June Tory leadership convention.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Tommy Douglas dies; former Saskatchewan CCF Premier and national NDP leader was the first in North America to bring in government Medicare health plan.
1982 Alberta - Dome Petroleum and Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands project.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Canada proposes cutting sulphur dioxide emissions by 50% by 1990; with equal US pledge, to reduce acid rain; no US response.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government tables new criminal legislation, including abolition of hanging, increased minimum sentences for murder, stricter gun control and greater wire-tapping power for police.
1972 Ellesmere Island NWT - Panarctic Oils makes first oil discovery in the Arctic, on Ellesmere Island.
1963 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick proclaims its official flag.
1925 Washington DC - Canada and US sign boundary treaty; create International Lake of the Woods Control Board.
1915 Armentières France - Canadian Corps takes over 6.5 km section of trench line near Armentières.
1887 Montreal Quebec - T.C Keefer 1821-1915 presides at the first meeting as founding President of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.
1887 Vancouver BC - Vancouver loses city charter after failing to control rioting against Chinese immigrants.
1875 Provencher Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 re-elected for Provencher and again expelled and declared an outlaw.
1843 London England - Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe 1785-1846 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from March 30, 1843 to Nov. 26, 1845
1797 Saint John New Brunswick - Political rivals John Coffin and James Genie fight a duel; neither is killed, as the combatants fire into the air, and honour is restored.
1663 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 cancels charter and takes over assets of the Company of One Hundred Associates (or Company of New France) which was given exclusive rights over fur trading in the New World in exchange for promises to colonize; also takes over other private trading and colonizing charters; New France made a royal colony of New France; law courts come into existence.
1662 Quebec Quebec - Bishop François de Laval announces that those selling liquor to the Indians will be excommunicated from the Church.

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February 25th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

138 – The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
493 – Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great.
628 – Khosrau II is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
1336 – 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit a mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1631 РFran̤ois de Bassompierre, a French courtier, arrested by Richelieu's orders.
1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had "the support of a great power" (i.e. Russia).
1831 – Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1843 – Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
1848 – Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' right.
1856 – A Peace conference opened in Paris after Crimean War.
1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1875 – Guangxu Emperor of China began his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 – World War I: the Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1919 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 – World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 – The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 – The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 – In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1964 – U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre.
1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo
1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1987 – Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the Death Penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1992 – Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 – Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
2009 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.





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1940 HOCKEY NIGHT HITS THE TUBE
New York City - Montreal Canadiens lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers in Madison Square Gardens in the world's first televised hockey game; on Westinghouse station W2XBS-TV.


In Other Events...
1991 Toronto Ontario - Silver speculator Bruce McNall, hockey star Wayne Gretzky and entertainer John Candy jointly buy CFL Toronto Argonauts; Gretzky and Candy are later financially embarrassed by the bankruptcy of McNall.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 sets up provincial study group to examine Meech Lake Accord; says Quebec will not return to constitutional negotiations if Meech Lake fails.
1989 Whistler BC - Rob Boyd wins a World Cup downhill race in home town of Whistler; first Canadian to win a FIS World Cup Ski race in Canada.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Osler Inc investment dealers 'deemed to be insolvent as of the opening of business' today.
1982 St. John's Newfoundland - Ottawa and Newfoundland governments start joint inquiry into Ocean Ranger disaster.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons starts inquiry into bank profits, in wake of record interest rates.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Flames score 11 goals against New York Islanders.
1972 Pickering Ontario - Ontario Hydro opens $75 million Pickering nuclear power plant; has been the largest single producer of electricity in the world.
1971 Vancouver BC - Boston Bruins left-winger Johnny Bucyk, center Ed Westfall and defenseman Ted Green scored 3 goals in 20 seconds against the Vancouver Canucks; an NHL record.
1971 Vancouver BC - Chapin Scott Paterson, an American citizen, hijacks a US Boeing 747 en route to Vancouver; turned over to FBI same day.
1966 Toronto Ontario - Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 cuts a ribbon opening the 13 km long $200 million east-west Toronto subway.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Commons receives preliminary report of Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
1952 Oslo, Norway - Closing of the VI Winter Olympic games at Oslo; the Edmonton Mercurys take home Canada's only Gold Medal, in Ice Hockey.
1951 Buenos Aires Argentina - Canadian team attends opening of the first Pan American Games, in Buenos Aires.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - Official opening of CBC's international short wave service, Radio Canada International.
1918 New York City - Carnegie Corporation donates $1 million to McGill University; to recognize the university's wartime services.
1908 St. Boniface Manitoba - St. Boniface incorporated as a city.
1904 Toronto Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games for hockey's Stanley Cup.
1880 Fredericton New Brunswick - Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Fredericton.
1838 Amherstburg Ontario - Canadian militia routs American republican sympathizers on Fighting Island, in the Detroit River.
1832 Montreal Quebec - The Company of Proprietors of the Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad get a charter; first railway incorporation in Canada; work not begun until 1835; first train July 21, 1836.
1651 Paris France - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 commissioned as Governor of Acadia after d'Aulnay's drowning.
1620 Paris France - Henri, Duc de Montmorency appointed Viceroy of New France; with Champlain as Lieutenant.
1610 Dieppe France - Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 sets sail from Dieppe to recolonize Port Royal; with son Charles de Biencourt and Claude de La Tour.

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February 26th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

747 BC – Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
364 – Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1233 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, after besieging it for months.
1266 – Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1794 – The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1876 – Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.
1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park.
1920 РThe first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, receives its premi̬re in Berlin.
1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1946 – Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1960 – A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
1966 – Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1966 – Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
1971 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1972 – The Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in West Virginia.
1980 – Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
1987 – Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1991 – Gulf War: United States Army forces capture the town of Al Busayyah.
1992 – Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
1995 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
1995 – Selena gives her last televised concert in front of over 66,746 people, for a record breaking 3rd time at the Houston Astrodome, nearly a month before she is shot to death by Yolanda Saldívar, the former president of her fan club.
2012 – A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
2013 – A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.





Today's Canadian Headline...

1857 CANADA ASKS THE QUEEN TO CHOOSE
Toronto Ontario - The Assembly of the Province of Canada formally requests Queen Victoria to choose a new permanent capital, after deadlock between supporters of Quebec, Montreal, Kingston and Toronto; originally in Montreal, the capital was moved to Kingston after Tory riots in 1849, then Quebec, then Toronto.

1960
Lake Tahoe California - Anne Heggtveit wins the Gold Medal in Slalom at the 8th Winter Olympic games in Squaw Valley; from Chelsea, Quebec, Heggtveit is the first Canadian to win Gold in skiing; she also takes the FIS World Slalom and Alpine Combined titles this year.

1986
Geneva Switzerland - Goaltending great Jacques Plante 1929-1986 dies at his home near Geneva at age 57; born Jan 17, 1929 at Mount Carmel Quebec; a six time Vezina trophy winner (five in a row with the Montreal Canadiens 1955-60); Plante introduced the protective goalie mask to hockey after being hit in the face in New York Nov 1, 1959.


In Other Events...

1979 Manitoba/Saskatchewan - Total solar eclipse crosses western Canada, casting a moving shadow 250 km wide.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Marchand 1918- resigns as Quebec leader of the federal Liberal Party; stays on as Minister of Transport
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts program to raise Francophone numbers in the Canadian Armed Forces to at least 28%.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Mitchell William Sharp 1911- Finance Minister 'repatriates' US $426 million currency and gold deposited with the International Monetary Fund; to drive up the value of the Canadian dollar.
1960 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government allows Quebec universities to accept $41 million in federal grants held in trust.
1954 Ottawa - Dag Hammarskjold United Nations Secretary-General starts two-day visit to Ottawa.
1945 Rhine Germany - Canadian Army Sergeant Aubrey Cosens wins VC for bravery in Rhine fighting.
1942 Vancouver BC - Government starts evacuating 21,000 Japanese Canadians from coastal regions of British Columbia to interior work camps; under War Measures Act.
1920 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Parliament opens in newly rebuilt Centre Block; sessions were held in the Museum of Nature after the disastrous Feb. 13 1916 fire.
1851 Toronto Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 helps found Toronto Anti-Slavery Society.
1838 Pelee Island Ontario - Rensselaer Van Rensselaer invades Pelee Island in Lake Erie with 500 American sympathizers of the Canadian rebels; until March 3
1826 Montreal Quebec - George Simpson c1787-1860 given authority over both Northern and Southern departments of the Hudson's Bay Company; William Williams recalled after opposition from North West Co. partners
1820 London England - George Simpson c1787-1860 appointed Associate Governor of Rupert's Land for the Hudson's Bay Company.
1798 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 sets off up Red River to explore headwaters of Mississippi.

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February 27th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China.
1560 – The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: the House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1812 – Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1829 – Battle of Tarqui took place.
1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
1881 – Battle of Majuba Hill, The last major battle of the First Boer War.
1898 – George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
1902 – Second Boer War: Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.
1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
1939 – United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1955 – Soviet Union regional elections, 1955.
1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1964 – The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
1973 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1988 – Sumgait Pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan was in the target of a violent pogrom.
1989 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 – Godhra train burning: a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.
2007 – The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.





Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 MANLEY TAKES SILVER AT CALGARY
Calgary Alberta - Elizabeth Manley of Ottawa wins Silver Medal in Women's Figure Skating at the Calgary Winter Olympics; East Germany's Katarina Witt wins Gold, Debi Thomas of the US gets the Bronze. Witt is the first woman figure skater since Sonja Henie to win gold medals in two consecutive Winter Olympic Games.


In Other Events...

1996 St. Louis Missouri - Former Oiler Wayne Gretzky leaves the Los Angeles Kings NHL team and joins the St. Louis Blues; he will later jump to the NY Rangers.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Martin tables his second Budget as Finance Minister; wants to cut federal spending 8.8% and bring the deficit down to 3% of GDP.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upholds Canada's anti-pornography law; rules sexually explicit material is obscene and not protected by the freedom of expression guarantee in the Charter of Rights.
1991 Iraq - Coalition under US General Norman Schwarzkopf proclaims victory over Iraq in the six-week Gulf War; Canadian troops start to return home after combat operations cease; Canada sent a total of 2,400 troops, 26 fighter planes, 3 warships and a field hospital.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa withdraws from $4.1 billion OSLO oil sands project.
1982 New Brunswick - Doug Young 1946- elected leader of New Brunswick Liberal Party.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones rock group is arrested by the RCMP and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic and possession of cocaine; police seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine and narcotics paraphernalia; Richards is released on $25,000 bail; later found guilty, but released on condition the Stones play two benefit concerts for the blind.
1976 Beijing China - Canadian Wheat Board sells China 963,989 tonnes of wheat.
1974 New York City - Joni Mitchell's album Court and Spark turns gold; her highest charting singles are Help Me and Free Man in Paris.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 2nd session of the 29th Parliament; until May 8,1974
1957 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian group buys shares of Investors Syndicate of Canada from Murchison and Allegeny interests; Dominion Securities, Webb & Knapp and ISC officers including Clarence Peterson.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada posts army officer to staff of Supreme Allied Commander; first step in providing Canadian ground troops in Europe for NATO
1917 Toronto Ontario - Women in Ontario win right to vote in provincial elections.
1909 Toronto Ontario - Ontario adds Crest, Supporters and Motto to provincial Coat-of-Arms.
1900 Victoria BC - Charles Augustus Semlin 1836-1927 dismissed as BC Premier by Lt-Governor T. R. McInnes.
1842 Shanty Bay Ontario - Opening of St. Thomas' Church, Shanty Bay, built of 'rammed earth'.
1839 Toronto Ontario - Opening of fourth session of thirteenth Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until May 11; adopts resolutions favouring a union of Upper and Lower Canada.
1751 Quebec - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière 1685-1752 sends Pierre-Marie Raimbeau de Simblin to build a fur trade fort at Lac de la Carpe to curb British influence south of Hudson Bay.

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February 28th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

202 BC – coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China.
628 – Khosrau II is executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II.
870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
1246 РThe Siege of Ja̩n ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen.
1525 – The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed by Hernán Cortés's forces.
1638 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
1700 – Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
1710 – In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
1784 – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
1811 – Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence
1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
1844 – A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
1867 – Seventy years of Holy See-United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
1870 – The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
1874 – One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
1883 – The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston
1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
1893 – The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
1914 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
1922 – The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
1928 – C.V. Raman discovers the Raman effect.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
1935 – DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
1939 – The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
1942 – The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men.
1947 – 228 massacre: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit.
1972 РSino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqu̩.
1975 – In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
1980 – Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1991 – The first Gulf War ends.
1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
1995 – Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993.
1997 – An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
1997 – The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators.
1997 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
1998 – First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
1998 – Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
2001 – The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
2001 – Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
2002 – During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
2004 – Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
2005 – A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1988 CANADA SHUT OUT OF GOLD AT CALGARY
Calgary Alberta - Closing of the 15th Winter Olympic Games. Canada won two Silver Medals, in Singles Figure Skating (Feb 20 - Brian Orser and Feb 27 - Elizabeth Manley), as well as Bronze in Ice Dancing (Feb 23 - Tracy Wilson & Rob McCall), Womens Downhill (Feb 19 - Karen Percy) and Womens Super G (Feb 22 - Karen Percy again).

1996
New York City - Ottawa native Alanis Morissette wins four Grammy awards including best female vocal for You Oughta Know and album of the year for Jagged Little Pill; at the 38th annual Grammy Awards.


In Other Events...


1995 Fredericton New Brunswick - Judicial report on sexual abuse of boys at Kingsclear Training Centre released; critical of bureaucratic indifference that allowed abuse to continue for almost 30 years.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Publisher Ernst Zundel convicted for distributing hate literature in a book that said the mass extermination of Jews in Germany in World War II never occurred.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- goes for a walk in an Ottawa blizzard and decides to resign; announces decision the following day; Canada's 15th Prime Minister.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports Canadian Gross National Product fell 4.8% in 1982; sharpest decline since 1933
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament creates VIA Rail Canada Inc.; Crown corporation to operate passenger rail service.
1975 Europe - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts 16-day European tour for closer ties with the European Economic Community.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes law giving the North West Territories a second NWT MP.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 survives non-confidence motion by 138 votes to 119.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Toronto International Airport terminal building.
1960 Lake Tahoe California - Closing of the VIII Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley; Canada takes home two Gold Medals - Anne Heggtveit for Slalom and Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul for Pairs Figure Skating, as well as a Silver in Hockey (Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen) and a Bronze in Men's Figure Skating (Donald Jackson).
1956 Chatham Ontario - Chatham restaurant fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Vincent Massey 1887-1967 sworn in as first Canadian-born Governor General 1952-59; former President of the Massey-Harris Company 1921-25; Canada's first ambassador to the US 1926-30; Canadian High Commissioner in London 1935-46.
1931 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass in football.
1925 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leafs extend win streak to 9 games; longest in Leaf history to date.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 beat Queen's University Kingston to win the Stanley Cup.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Third session of 14th Parliament meets until July 19; census made basis of Commons representation; income tax exemption per child
1877 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the University of Manitoba by provincial statute.
1876 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the gothic Parliamentary Library in Ottawa.
1860 Woodstock Ontario - Opening of Woodstock College.
1860 Canada - Opening of third session of sixth Parliament of Canada; meets until May 19; defeats two George Brown measures declaring Union of Canada a failure.
1838 Quebec - Robert Nelson 1794-1873 raids Lower Canada from Vermont with Cyrille Côté; proclaims republic; stopped by militia.

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March 1st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul, celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
86 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus ending the Siege of Athens and Piraeus.
293 – Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World").
317 – Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
350 – Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar.
1457 – The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
1476 – Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.
1562 – 23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1593 – The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
1628 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1700 – Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
1803 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
1811 – Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
1845 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1847 – The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
1852 – Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1854 – German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1868 – The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
1870 – Marshal F.S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1896 – Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1901 – The Australian Army is formed.
1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
1912 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
1917 – The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
1936 – A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
1939 – A Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
1941 – W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..
1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 – Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1956 – Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee
1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
1961 – American President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961 – Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
1964 РVillarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Co̱aripe.
1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
1966 – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
1971 – A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1971 – President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
1972 – The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
1989 – The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 – Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
1995 – Yahoo! is incorporated.
1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2000 – The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
2000 Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 mi) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (8.5 tons).
2002 – The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2004 – Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
2005 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in "national standards,".
2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
2007 – "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
2008 – The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008, as a result 10 people are killed.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1988 GRETZKY ALL-TIME ASSIST LEADER
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky picks up assist No. 1,050 in a game against the Los Angeles Kings, becoming the NHL's all-time assist leader; he breaks the 26-year mark of Gordie Howe in only 681 games, vs Howe's 1,767 games.

1939
Montreal Quebec - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 opens first Trans Canada Air Lines transcontinental passenger service from Montreal to Vancouver; Minister of Industry, Trade aned Commerce.


In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - Real estate developer Bramalea Inc. seeks court protection from its creditors; for the second time in the 1990s.
1991 Hamilton Ontario - Maclean-Hunter sells CHCH-TV to WIC Western International Communications for $46 million.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Track coach Charlie Francis tells Dubin Inquiry that his pupil Ben Johnson and other athletes knowingly took banned steroids; testifies Johnson started using steroids in 1981; Johnson also admits guilt in testimony that June.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government drops rule requiring licences for private ownership of satellite TV dishes.
1981 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta cuts oil production to protest Ottawa's energy policy; Ottawa replies by compensation charge as Energy Minister Marc Lalonde matches Alberta cutbacks by a 'Lougheed Levy' to subsidize imports.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament revises Canada Elections Act, ending political party status for seven groups; twelve parties stay officially registered.
1976 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Government founds Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund with windfall oil royalties.
1974 Victoria BC - BC Court of Appeals rules Indian child can be adopted by non-Indian parents without losing status.
1971 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- takes office as Premier of Ontario.
1965 Kejimkujik Nova Scotia - Parks Canada announces $6 million to develop Kejimkujik National Park in southwestern Nova Scotia.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa unveils design for $18 million Centre for Performing Arts in National Capital; with 2,300-seat opera, 900 seat theatre and 300 seat studio.
1965 La Salle Quebec- Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex in La Salle.
1963 Victoria BC - BC government establishes Victoria College as the University of Victoria; founds Simon Fraser University in Burnaby.
1953 Washington DC - US removes embargo on Canadian livestock placed after outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 1952.
1945 Hochwald Germany - Canadian Army Major Frederick Tilston wins VC for bravery in Hochwald Forest.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends meat rationing.
1943 Dawson Creek BC - Work begins on the Alaska highway.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Women's Army Corps as part of the Canadian forces; CWACs have full military titles and hold commissions.
1927 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decides in favour of Newfoundland claim on Labrador boundary; long-standing dispute between Newfoundland and Quebec; two years earlier, Newfoundland had offered to sell Labrador to Quebec for $30 million.
1917 Edmonton Alberta - Founding of the Alberta Provincial Police Force.
1888 Ottawa Ontario - Post Office starts first parcel post service between Canada and the US.
1878 Hampton New Brunswick - G. & G. Flewwelling lease New Brunswick's first telephones.
1815 Quebec - Disbanding of Lower Canada militia after War of 1812.
1755 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Armand Dieskau 1701-1767 appointed commander of the French regular troops in Canada.
1751 Paris France - Jean-Louis, Comte de Raymond c1702-1771 appointed Governor of Ile Royale [Cape Breton Island] with headquarters at Louisbourg.
1632 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain appointed first Governor of the royal colony of New France.

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March 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges began the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
986 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
1121 – Dirk VI becomes the Count of Holland.
1127 – Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.
1458 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the King of Bohemia.
1476 РBurgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuch̢tel.
1484 – The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
1498 – Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
1657 – Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted three days
1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
1791 – Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
1807 – The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
1808 – The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1811 – Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
1815 – Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the King of Sri Lanka.
1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1865 – East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
1867 – The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
1877 – U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
1885 – Sino-French War: French victory in the Battle of Hoa Moc near Tuyen Quang, northern Vietnam.
1901 – The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1917 – The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
1919 – The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
1941 – World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
1943 – World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
1955 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
1956 – Morocco gains its independence from France.
1962 РIn Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'̩tat.
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1965 – The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
1969 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1969 – Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1983 – Compact Discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1989 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
1991 – Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
1993 – 1993 Storm of the Century begins to form over the North Atlantic Ocean.
1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2004 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
2012 – A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.





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1729 LET THEM PLAY CARDS
Paris France - King Louis XV 1710-1774 authorizes a new issue of playing card money in New France; not enough printed bills or coinage to pay the troops; Governor at Quebec allowed to sign playing cards as specie.

1699
Biloxi Mississippi - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 builds Fort Maurepas on the Gulf of Mexico; French control now extends all the way down the Mississippi River.


In Other Events...

1993 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court allows proceedings to be televised for the first time; a hearing on taxation.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules Manitoba Metis Federation can go to court to claim Red River Valley land promised in 1870s.
1990 Canada - Mark Tewksbury swims the 50m Backstroke in a world record time of 25.06 seconds. He also wins the Commonwealth Games 100m Gold this year.
1982 Halifax Nova Scotia - Ottawa and Nova Scotia sign agreement on offshore resources; Ottawa keeps final say on development; ownership of offshore resources still not settled.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Progressive Conservative members boycott Parliament for two weeks; to protest of American Energy Security Bill.
1977 Washington DC - Francis Fox 1939- signs agreement in Washington for exchange of prisoners with US; Canadian Solicitor-General.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Time magazine puts out last Canadian edition; loses advertising after Ottawa changes tax laws.
1972 Pickering Ontario - Ottawa plans new international airport in Pickering Township, 48 km east of Toronto; immediate protests from local residents.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Transport Commission orders CN to continue Super Continental passenger service; despite financial losses.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- appointed Canada's first Commissioner of Official Languages.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa stops foreign takeover of Denison Mines, Canada's largest uranium mining company, by US interests.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Lucien Rivard, jailed while fighting extradition to US on narcotics charges, escapes from Montreal prison using a garden hose to climb a prison wall; charges of bribery connected with the escape result in resignation of Justice Minister Guy Favreau; Rivard caught four months later, extradited to US, sentenced to 20-years.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - National Defence publish first Canadian casualty list from Korea; six soldiers killed.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa hit with 48.3 cm snowfall, one of its biggest single day March snows.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian budget introduces unique pay-as-you-earn income tax system.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Senate rejects Bill to legalize sweepstakes.
1923 Washington DC - Canada signs Halibut Treaty with US to preserve North Pacific fish stocks; Canada's first independent international treaty; didn't need UK signature.
1916 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes Temperance Act.
1901 Toronto Ontario - Ontario starts $1 million highways program.
1878 Quebec Quebec - Conservative Premier of Quebec Charles-Eugene Boucher de Boucherville 1822-1915 dismissed from office by Lieutenant-Governor Luc Letellier de St-Just; for keeping financial dealings secret; Liberal Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière 1829-1908 asked to form new government.
1877 Belleville Ontario - City of Belleville incorporated.
1877 Brantford Ontario - City of Brantford incorporated.
1831 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes act legalizing marriages by Methodist ministers.
1648 Paris France - Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge et d'Argentenay c1612-1660 appointed Governor of New France; serves from August 20 to October 20, 1651.

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March 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1836 – Texans celebrate the first Texas Independence Day with the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence, officially broke Texas from Mexico, and creating the Republic of Texas.
1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1875 РGeorges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its premi̬re at the Op̩ra-Comique in Paris.
1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
1918 – Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1924 – The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1938 – The Mallard the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England
1939 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
1940 РFive people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Lule̴, Sweden.
1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
1945 – World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1958 – Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 8th time.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
2002 – Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
2004 – Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world's largest brewer.
2005 – Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
2009 – The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1994 THE EAGLE IS BANDED
Boston Massachusetts - Alan Eagleson indicted on 32 counts of embezzlement, fraud and racketeering; former head of the NHL Players Association and Toronto hockey lawyer refuses to go to the US to face the grand jury; beginning of three years of legal wrangling.

1975
Yellowknife NWT - Thomas Berger 1933- starts public hearings into social and environmental costs of planned 4,184 km pipeline; Justice of the BC Supreme Court.


In Other Events...


1995 Toronto Ontario - For the second time in the 1990s, real estate developer Bramalea Inc. seeks court protection from its creditors.
1991 Vancouver BC - Celine Dion wins Juno Awards for Best Album and Best Female Vocalist; George Fox wins Best Male Country Vocalist; Colin James wins Best Single and Top Male Vocalist; Rita McNeil wins Best Female Country Vocalist; Prairie Oyster win Best Country Group; Blue Rodeo win Best Group; Tragically Hip win Entertainer of the Year.
1984 Toronto Ontario - New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Toronto Maple Leafs (6).
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada confirms that Canada entered a recession in 1982.
1981 Edmonton Alberta - NY Islanders and Edmonton Oilers skate to an 8-8 tie.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- succeeds Joe Clark as Prime Minister; Clark PM since June 4, 1979.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- resigns as Official Language Commissioner.
1970 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts visit to Ottawa and Vancouver with Princess Anne.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Canadien Jean Beliveau scores one goal in a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings; second NHL player to score 1,000 career points.
1965 New York City - Canadian actor Christopher Plummer stars as Count von Trapp in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, The Sound of Music, opening on this day; his co-stars are Julie Andrews and Eleanor Parker.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves change of name of Trans-Canada Air Lines to Air Canada; to take effect January 1, 1965.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Cairine Wilson dies at age 77; Canada's first woman senator, Canada's first woman delegate to the United Nations
1953 Karachi, Pakistan - Canadian Pacific Comet jet crashes with 11 fatalities; world's first commercial jet crash.
1942 England - First combat flight of the Canadian-built Avro Lancaster bomber.
1921 Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team's discovery of insulin.
1920 Canada - Montreal Canadiens score NHL record 16 goals in a 16-3 rout of the Quebec Bulldogs.
1919 Vancouver BC - First international airmail delivered, in a flight from Vancouver to Seattle, Washington.
1887 Washington DC - US Congress passes Fisheries Retaliation Act; bans Canadian vessels from US waters; stopped imports of Canadian fish.
1875 Montreal Quebec - First recorded hockey game using roughly modern rules.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves British Columbia's terms to join Canada; negotiated by George-Etienne Cartier.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ambroise-Dydime Lepine l834-1923, heading the Metis Provisional Government court-martial, sentences Thomas Scott to death; Charles Arkoll Boulton 1841-1899 sentenced to death but his life is spared.
1841 Montreal Quebec - Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, starts a 20 month-long round the world trip.
1838 Pelee Island Ontario - John Maitland routs Van Rensselaer and supporters of Upper Canadian rebels who captured Pelee Island on February 2; routed by regulars of 32nd and 83rd Regiments and the Essex Militia.
1722 Quebec Quebec - Council divides New France into parishes; Quebec has 41, Three Rivers 13 and Montreal 28.
1655 Montreal Quebec - Montreal physician offers first medical insurance.

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March 4th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 РExplorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Ni̱a from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. The United States Bill of Rights is written and proposed to Congress.
1790 РFrance is divided into 83 d̩partements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 – A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 – Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1908 – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1913 – The United States Department of Labor is formed
1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1918 – The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
1962 – A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1974 – People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 – The 1977 Vrancea Earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in the seriously damaged city of Bucharest, Romania.
1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1983 – Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1991 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 – 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2007 – Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.






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1982 WILSON FIRST WOMAN ON THE SUPREME COURT
Ottawa Ontario - Bertha Wilson 1933- appointed first woman to sit on Supreme Court of Canada; Ontario Court of Appeal Justice; resigned Jan, 1991.

1994
Durango Mexico - Toronto actor John Candy dies at 43 of a heart attack while filming Wagons East on location in Mexico; Candy was a Second City TV Network regular (Johnny LaRue/The Shmenge brothers' Yosh); his films include Radio Candy, 1941, Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation, The Three Amigos!, Summer Rental, Brewster's Millions, The Great Outdoors, Splash, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Home Alone (with Catherine O'Hara), JFK, Uncle Buck, Camp Candy, Cool Runnings.


In Other Events...

1989 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Ed Broadbent 1936- announces resignation as NDP leader after 14 years as an MP; leadership convention in December; Oshawa MP succeeded by Yukon MP Audrey McLaughlin.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Canadien Guy Lafleur scores his 1000th NHL Point.
1981 Mississauga Ontario - Ontario Labour Relations Board rules that Westroc Industries had right to lock out employees in July.
1977 Toronto Ontario - The Rolling Stones record their Love You Live album in Toronto.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - First TV coverage of a Canadian parliamentary committee.
1971 Vancouver BC - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church; first Prime Minister to marry while in office; couple divorce in 1984.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP to replace remaining dog teams with snowmobiles.
1968 Gabon - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 suspends diplomatic relations with the African country of Gabon.
1967 Montreal Quebec - 4,500 civic clerical workers accept two-year contract; end 34-day strike with City of Montreal
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Demonstrators protest Vietnam war on Parliament Hill.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Liberal Justice Minister Cardin breaks news of the Munsinger Affair scandal, involving former Diefenbaker Associate Minister of National Defence Pierre Sevigny 1917- and his relationship with Gerda Munsinger, known to the RCMP as a prostitute with East German contacts.
1966 Hamilton Ontario - Studebaker of Canada stops car production.
1966 Tokyo Japan - Canadian Pacific DC-8 explodes on landing at Tokyo, killing 64 people, including 18 Canadians.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Cairine R. Wilson dies at 77; first Canadian female senator appointed
1961 Ireland - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 starts three-day visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Dublin, Ireland; first Canadian prime minister to officially visit Ireland.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Guy Mollet Prime, Minister of France, addresses Parliament.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy, addresses joint session of Senate and House of Commons.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Communist MP Fred Rose and 13 others charged with spying for the Soviet Union; result of Gouzenko revelations.
1933 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange stays open as US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt closes all US banks and stock exchanges; puts embargo on gold exports; good for Canadian mining shares; $US down 35 cents
1881 St. Thomas Ontario - St. Thomas gets city charter.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - Sandford Fleming appointed engineer in charge of the Canadian Pacific Railway survey.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Thomas Scott executed by firing squad at Fort Garry.
1868 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Young Men's Christian Association in Toronto.
1868 Toronto Ontario - Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC) chartered in Toronto.
1865 New Brunswick - Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 defeated in New Brunswick elections; a vote against Confederation
1848 Montreal Quebec - Sherwood-Daly Ministry resigns.
1837 Fort Erie Ontario - Fort Erie Canal Company incorporated.
1837 Kingston Ontario - Bishop Alexander Macdonnell founds Regiopolis College, in the Hotel Dieu, Kingston.
1814 Wardsville Ontario - Americans defeat British at Battle of Longwoods; between London and Thamesville.
1791 London England - Constitutional Act introduced in the British House of Commons; to divide Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

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March 5th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by future U.S. president John Adams.
1811 – Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 РMefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premi̬re performance at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1940 – Members of Soviet politburo, including general secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoşani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
1984 – 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1988 – The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.







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1980 TONTO RIDES INTO SUNSET
Woodland Hills California - Jay Silverheels dies; born Harold J. Smith May 26, 1919 on the Six Nations Reserve, Brantford Ontario; lacrosse player, boxer, actor, he played The Lone Ranger's sidekick Tonto; founded the Indian Actors Workshop in 1963.

1967
Ottawa Ontario - Georges-Philias Vanier 1888-1967 dies at age 78; soldier, Royal 22ème Regiment; Canada's 19th Governor-General 1959-67, and the first French Canadian to hold the position.


In Other Events...

1995 Pembroke Ontario - Canadian Airborne Regiment officially disbanded at laying-up of the colors ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa; 660 paratroopers dismissed.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Robert de Cotret announces $25 million plan to cut toxic discharges into Great Lakes; part of Green Plan.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Crown charges 8 Canadian flour mills with rigging prices for food aid; $500 million over 12 years.
1985 Uniondale New York - Montreal native Mike Bossy of the NHL New York Islanders becomes the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons. Wayne Gretsky and Guy Lafleur have each scored 50 goals in six seasons.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canada Oil and Gas Act; Petro Canada gets automatic 25% of all new offshore finds; to speed offshore oil and gas development
1982 Aspen Colorado - Steve Podborski 1957- wins men's downhill skiing World Cup title over Austria's Harti Weirather; Toronto native the first non-European to win, with three Cup wins and two seconds during the season.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- suggests Ottawa can take unilateral action to patriate BNA Act if provinces unable to agree.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Réjane Laberge-Colas appointed first woman judge in the Quebec Superior Court.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Justice John C. McRuer's Royal Commission on Civil Rights recommends greater protection for the individual.
1945 San Francisco California - US, China, Soviet Union and Britain invite Canada to attend founding United Nations Conference.
1943 Germany - British and Canadian bombers start Battle of the Ruhr; year-long bombing offensive against Germany.
1910 Rogers Pass BC - Avalanche kills sixty-two railroad workers in the Rogers Pass.
1891 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins his last election 121 seats to 94; fights under the slogan 'The old man, the old flag, the old policy'
1891 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins the seventh general election, and his last, 121 seats to 94; defeats Wilfrid Laurier with 51.5% of popular vote; slogan 'the old man, the old flag, the old policy'.
1874 Charlottetown PEI - First session, after Confederation, of the Prince Edward Island legislature.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - First session of second Parliament meets until August 13; abolishes Secretary of State for Provinces; sets up Department of Interior
1872 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Typographical Union goes on 17 week strike against the Globe newspaper for nine-hour workday; 24 union members still arrested for 'conspiracy to restrain trade'- by striking.
1870 Ottawa Ontario - Garnet Joseph Wolseley 1833-1913 chosen to lead military expedition to Red River; Deputy Quartermaster-General
1844 Montreal Quebec - Province of Canada revolving seat of government moved from Kingston to Montreal.
1844 Toronto Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 publishes first edition of the Toronto Globe.
1838 Toronto Ontario - Bank of Upper Canada suspends payment; until Nov. 1, 1839.
1838 Paris Ontario - Founding of the village of Paris; near fine clay deposits used for plaster of Paris
1838 Kingston Ontario - Incorporation of the Town of Kingston.
1804 Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 starts to descend the Peace River.
1800 Quebec - Fourth session of second Parliament of Lower Canada meets until May 29; penalties for harbouring runaway sailors, bridge over Jacques Cartier R.
1764 Quebec Quebec - Governor James Murray requires inhabitants of Quebec to declare their French money; before May 1
1648 Quebec Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 convenes first sitting of the Council of New France.
1496 Bristol England - Italian merchant and explorer John Cabot [Giovanni Caboto Montecataluna] c1450-1498 gets letters patent from Henry VII for voyage; sails from Bristol with one ship, forced to return.

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March 6th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor
961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end the Emirate of Crete
1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 – York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1902 – Real Madrid C.F. was founded.
1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1968 – The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
1968 – Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.





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1834 TORONTO'S BIRTHDAY
Toronto Ontario - City of Toronto, formerly York, incorporated; population now 10,000; first municipal election to be held March 27th.

1617
Quebec Quebec - Louis Hébert signs agreement to become the first colonist of New France; he is a farmer and apothecary, and will provide herbal medicines to the inhabitants.


In Other Events...

1997 Nakina Ontario - Students at Nakina Public School, 100 km east of Lake Nipigon, exchange email with Queen Elizabeth, as she launches her official royal website from Buckingham Palace.
1995 Regina Saskatchewan - Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. agrees to pay US$810 million for Texasgulf Inc of North Carolina.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 papers and memorabilia displayed at the National Library in Ottawa; first exhibit of its kind in Canada
1962 Riondel BC - Sons of Freedom Doukhobors bomb electric power pylon near Riondel.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada nullifies Quebec 'Padlock Law' of 1937; says jurisdiction federal and not provincial.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the wartime Agricultural Supplies Board.
1925 Truro Nova Scotia - 12,000 Nova Scotia coal miners go on strike until August 6.
1909 Hamilton Ontario - Samuel Carter appointed first President of Co-operative Union of Canada, an insurance company founded at Gore Park in Hamilton; native of Guelph; origin of The Cooperators.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa increases Pacific Cable subsidy to $2 million.
1889 Toronto Ontario - Emile Zola's novels seized and destroyed by customs officers after they are ruled obscene.
1884 Toronto Ontario - Opening of free public library in Toronto; today's Toronto Public Library.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 appointed Leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing George Brown.
1852 Newfoundland - Newfoundland Electric Telegraph completed between St. John's and Carbonear.
1852 Toronto Ontario - Group of Toronto brokers frame 'a code of Rules and Regulations' for Toronto Stock Exchange
1837 London England - British Parliament passes Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions; the Governor of Lower Canada can now pay salaries of officials; without approval of the Assembly, who are refusing to vote funds.
1834 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of London and Gore (later Great Western) Railroad between Hamilton and London; first railway incorporated in Upper Canada.
1645 Paris France - Founding of la Compagnie des Habitants; gets trade and colonization rights to New France; succeeds Company of New France.

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March 7th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
238 – Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1902 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
1936 – World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
2004 – New Democracy wins the Greek elections.
2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.
2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.







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1878 TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE FOUNDED
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange incorporates; Ontario charter confirms TSE organization; rate scale :1/2% for stocks and debentures;1/4% if over $2,000.

1719
Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Michel-Philippe Isabeau starts to build Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island; engineer under director of fortifications Jean-François de Verville, who recommended the site in 1716. The fortress takes 25 years to build; here's a picture of the completed work, with the town and harbour in the foreground.



In Other Events...

1991 Toronto Ontario - Benoît Bouchard awards Spar Aerospace $195m to design Mobile Servicing System for Freedom space station; $1.2b over next ten years; 11 companies involved
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Lloyd Eisler & Isabelle Brasseur win Silver Medal in Pairs figure skating at World Figure Skating Championships;
1990 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Court of Appeal rules Nova Scotia Micmacs have constitutional right to hunt and fish for food as long as they obey conservation guidelines.
1990 Toronto Ontario - British Gas bids $1.1 billion for Consumers Gas from Reichmann family.
1986 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretsky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist.
1977 Saskatchewan - Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan acquires second mine; provincial ownership of potash industry now 20%.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts 5-year plan to build 50,000 housing units for rural and native families; payments geared to incomes.
1972 NWT - Norah Willis Michener Yukon gives 13 sq km to NWT for game reserve; to establish Norah Willis Michener Game Preserve; wife of Governor General
1969 Montreal Quebec - Pierre-Paul Geoffroy 1941- pleads guilty to 129 charges of placing bombs, conspiracy, theft, and possession of dynamite; FLQ member connected to 31 Montreal-area bombings
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian External Affairs Minister Paul Martin says Canada to participate with US in developing airborne radar system to replace DEW Line.
1965 Canada - Roman Catholic churches in Canada celebrate Mass in English or French for the first time.
1963 Quebec - FLQ starts campaign of violence by hurling Molotov cocktails at three Canadian Army armories.
1954 Stockholm, Sweden - Canada loses to Russia 7-2 in International Ice Hockey final; Russia's first World Ice Hockey tournament..
1945 Cologne Germany - Allied forces cross the Rhine River south of Cologne, and take the city.
1940 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens lose NHL record tying 15th straight game at home.
1939 New York City - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians record their signature tune, Auld Lang Syne, for Decca Records; Lombardo born in London, Ontario.
1921 Ottawa Ontario - Cy Dennehy of the Ottawa Senators scores six goals in a 12-5 victory over the Hamilton Tigers.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Government appoints receiver for bankrupt Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad.
1900 Poplar Grove South Africa - Canadians engage Boers in artillery fight at Poplar Grove.
1878 London Ontario - University of Western Ontario chartered.
1878 Montreal Quebec - Université of Montréal chartered.
1867 Fredericton New Brunswick - NB legislature rejects Confederation; angling for better terms, and the Intercolonial Railway.
1866 Ottawa Ontario - Canada puts 10,000 militia on alert after Fenians hold meeting in New York and threaten invasion; as precaution against anticipated attacks on St. Patrick's Day.
1842 Kingston Ontario - Founding of Queen's University; first in Ontario.
1800 Hull Quebec - Philemon Wright founds Wrightstown, today's Hull.
1657 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 prohibits sale of liquor to Indians in New France.
1604 Havre-de-Grace France - Francois Grave du Pont c1554-1629 leaves for Acadia on first ship of de Monts' expedition from Havre-de-Grace.

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March 8th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shāhnāmeh.
1126 – Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
1576 – Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 – Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1801 – War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1911 – International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 – Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1942 – World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1947 – Thirteen thousand troops sent by the Kuomintang government of China arrived Taiwan after the 228 Incident and launched crackdowns which killed at least thousands of people, including many elites. This turned into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.
1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
1963 РThe Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'̩tat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1966 – A bomb planted by Irish Republicans destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 – Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.





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1945 TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Canada - International Women's Day first celebrated on this day in Canada and around the world.

1901
Halifax Nova Scotia - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, arrives back in Halifax with his regiment after fighting the Boers in South Africa.


In Other Canadian Events...

1993
Somali Republic - Canadian Navy supply ship HMCS Preserver heads home after three-month tour of Somalia; her three Sea King helicopters airlifted 430 tonnes of supplies into Mogadishu.
1991
St. John's Newfoundland - Clyde Wells suggests giving Quebec a limited veto, but not recognizing Quebec as a distinct society; calling it a lesser status
1990
Halifax Nova Scotia - Kurt Browning wins second consecutive World Men's Figure Skating title, over Soviet Victor Petrenko.
1990
Sydney Nova Scotia - RCMP accept blame for bungled Donald Marshall investigation.
1990
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Calder receives Governor General's Literary Award for English Non-Fiction for his book Willie; Louis Hamelin receives Governor General's Literary Award for French Fiction for his novel La Rage; Paul Quarrington receives Governor General's Literary Award for English Fiction for his novel Whale Music; Judith Thompson receives Governor General's Literary Award for English Drama for her play The Other Side of the Dark; from Governor Gen. Ray Hnatyshyn; 51st Governor General's Literary Awards.
1990
Ottawa Ontario - Michael Wilson gets Commons to pass budget; British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta to take Ottawa to court over cuts in transfer payments.
1984
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that Ottawa owns oil resources of the Hibernia field, off Newfoundland.
1984
Primrose Lake Alberta - First US cruise missile tested over western Canada; unarmed missile stays attached to B-52 bomber.
1983
Vancouver BC - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts three-day visit to BC with Prince Phillip.
1982
London England - British House of Commons passes Canada Bill, allowing Canada to patriate its constitution; House of Lords will give final reading March 25th; Queen Elizabeth will sign the Royal Proclamation of the Constitution in a ceremony April 17th on Parliament Hill.
1965
St. John's Newfoundland - Government grants free tuition to all Newfoundland first-year students at Memorial University; first in Canada.
1961
London England - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 attends nine-day Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference; censures South African policy of apartheid.
1954
Korea - Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent visits Canadian brigade in Korea during world tour.
1922
Ottawa Ontario - First session of 14th Parliament meets until June 28; sets up Canada Wheat Board; passes National Defense Act
1907
Regina Saskatchewan - Founding of the Supreme Court of Saskatchewan.
1906
Ottawa Ontario - Second session of tenth Parliament meets until July 13; passes Lord's Day Observance Act; bans Sunday work, transport and show
1906
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 beat Smith Falls (Ontario) for the Stanley Cup.
1877
Manitoba - First session of the Council of the District of Keewatin.
1875
Toronto Ontario - First official daily Toronto Stock Exchange report published in the Globe; afterwards reported on a regular basis.
1873
Saskatchewan - Northwest Territories Council prohibits the sale of liquor at the urging of Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 ; called the Smith Act.
1871
Washington DC - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 invited to attend British negotiations that lead to signing of Washington Treaty; deals with Alabama claims, western boundary, new reciprocity
1870
St. Boniface Manitoba - Alexandre-Antonin Taché 1823-1894 arrives in Red River to negotiate with Louis Riel; Bishop of St-Boniface.
1867
London England - British Parliament gives final reading to the British North America Act; few MPs attend to vote; more rush in after to vote against a more contentious bill to place a tax on dogs. BNA Act proclaimed March 29th.
1855
Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; first suspension bridge built to carry trains; first train crosses March 9.
1837
Montreal Quebec - Bank of British North America opens in Montreal.
1836
St. Andrews New Brunswick - New Brunswick & Canada Railroad Company chartered; from St. Andrews to Quebec; boundary scrap with US delays construction
1820
Toronto Ontario - Samuel Smith 1756-1826 appointed administrator of Upper Canada; serves until June 30, 1820.
1815
Charlottetown PEI - Peter Byers, a black, sentenced to death for stealing five pounds; 2 weeks earlier his brother Sancho sentenced to hang for stealing a pound of butter and a loaf of bread.
1799
Calgary Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 explores North Saskatchewan River; later up Bow River with Duncan McGillivray past site of Calgary.
1765
Montreal Quebec - Fire levels one-quarter of the town of Montreal.

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March 9th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
632 – The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of Prophet Muhammad.
1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1230 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1500 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
1796 РNapol̩on Bonaparte marries his first wife, Jos̩phine de Beauharnais.
1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 РGiuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its premi̬re performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1847 – Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
1908 – Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1944 – World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
1945 РWorld War II: A coup d'̩tat by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1956 – Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
1989 – Financially troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.







Today's Canadian Headline...


1995 CANADA FIRES FIRST SHOTS IN TURBOT WAR
Off Labrador - Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin orders Canadian fisheries patrol vessel to seize a Spanish trawler for illegally taking undersized turbot outside Canada's 200-mile offshore limit; boat fires warning shots across bow of Spanish trawler Estai; leads to dispute between Canada and the European Union.

1990

St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord; approved by the previous Peckford administration; this will effectively kill the Accord.

1855

Niagara Falls Ontario - First Great Western Railway locomotive crosses the 255 m. long Niagara Falls suspension bridge to the USA, giving Ontario direct rail connection to New York. This is the world's first wire cable suspension bridge; it was built across the Gorge from 1851-55 by engineer John Roebling, who later built the Brooklyn Bridge.


In Other Canadian Events...


1991
Montreal Quebec - Quebec Liberals adopt Report by lawyer Jean Allaire, released January 29; also endorse the Charter of Rights, and an elected Senate.
1986
Buffalo New York - Sabres' Gilbert Perrault scores his 500th NHL goal in a 4-3 victory over New Jersey Devils.
1984
New York City - Toronto comedian John Candy stars with Darryl Hannah and Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's Splash, opening in movie houses this day.
1981
Toronto Ontario - NHL Buffalo Sabres score nine second-period goals, crushing the Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4.
1980
Ottawa Ontario - National Archives of Canada acquires 1,000 historic Canadian documents; including the original order for the expulsion of the Acadians.
1977
Vancouver BC - Terry Fox 1958-1981 loses right leg above the knee to cancer; fitted with artificial leg; learns to walk, drive a car, play golf
1977
Ottawa Ontario - Health and Welfare bans saccharin from foods, cosmetics, and drugs; potentially carcinogenic; tests showed the sugar substitute caused cancer in laboratory rats.
1973
Montreal Quebec - Canada starts direct air service with Federal Republic of Germany and People's Republic of China.
1970
Yellowknife NWT - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- opens first ever Arctic Winter Games in Yellowknife; five days of Arctic and other sporting events
1967
Ottawa Ontario - Hamilton Southam 1916- appointed first director of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
1951
Toronto Ontario - Commons approves incorporation of TransCanada Pipelines; to build 5,000 km natural gas pipeline from Alberta to Quebec; sparks Pipeline Debate when Government asks for $80 million loan to a consortium of Canadian and American investors.
1948
Montreal Quebec - NHL President Clarence Campbell expels New York Rangers Billy Taylor and Boston Bruins Don Gallinger for life on charges of associating with known gamblers.
1942
Ottawa Ontario - James Garfield Gardiner 1897-1972 announces new agricultural policy - less wheat, more of everything else; suggests price rise to 90¢ bushel; largest carryover of wheat in history = 480 million bushels.
1928
Vancouver BC - First telephone call between Vancouver and London, England.
1907
Hamilton, Ontario - Hamilton news seller fined $30 for selling US papers on a Sunday.
1906
Lethbridge Alberta - Coal miners at Lethbridge go on strike; until December 2.
1904
Brandon Manitoba - Lester Patrick the first hockey defenseman on record to score a goal; Brandon Wheat Kings player.
1901
Victoria BC - Naturalized Japanese Canadians win right to vote; successfully appeal BC Elections Act
1895
Montreal Quebec - Montreal AAA beat Queens University (Kingston) for the Stanley Cup.
1873
Ottawa Ontario - John A Macdonald's government proposes establishment of a Mounted Police force for the North West Territories; act passed May 23.
1870
Victoria BC - BC Legislature passes resolution to send delegates to Ottawa to negotiate Confederation; J. S. Helmcken and Joseph Trutch chosen to go.
1824
Quebec - Lower Canada Assembly passes Fabrique Act; priests in every parish to provide one school for every 100 families.
1824
Quebec Quebec - Canada adopts the patent system.
1815
Quebec Quebec - Treaty of Ghent proclaimed at Quebec; end of War of 1812.
1541
Paris France - Jean-Francois de La Roque de Roberval c1500-1560 authorized to take first boatload of convicts to Canada to found a colony; Jacques Cartier broke away from Roberval and went to Canada on his own.

End of C/P.