This Date In History

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April 19th 2014 - This Date in History.


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65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persian at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria).
1012 РMartyrdom of ̠lfheah in Greenwich, London.
1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
1539 – Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt.
1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1897 РL̩o Taxil exposes his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.
1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
1975 – India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas.
1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.





Today's Canadian Headline...

1948 CÔTÉ TAKES 4TH BOSTON MARATHON
Boston Massachusetts - Gérard Côté wins his fourth Boston Marathon; native of St-Barnabé Quebec a former snowshoe champion.

1904

Toronto Ontario - Great Toronto fire starts in the evening, and rages for two days fed by high winds; the city's 200 firefighters call on crews from London, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Peterborough and Buffalo for help, but bitter cold and a lack of adequate water pressure makes the fire hoses almost ineffective. No people or horses perish, but the fire does an estimated $12 million dollars damage and destroys 104 buildings, leaving 14 acres of the city's business core in ice-covered ruins. 'Standing at the corner of Front and Bay streets,' writes a Globe reporter on April 21, 'one begins to realize the extent of the awful destruction that has been wrought. On every hand are ruins almost as far as one can see.'


In Other Events...

1995 Quebec Quebec - Publication of the Report of the National Commission on the Future of Quebec - La Commission nationale sur l'avenir du Québec.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Ministry of National Defense announces 5 year renewal of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) agreement with the US.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Fisheries Minister Bernard Valcourt says fishery should be pared down and year-round work provided, instead of seasonal work and; unemployment insurance that destroys work ethic.
1990 Simcoe Ontario - Five teenagers charged with setting massive tire fire at the Tyre King Recycling dump in Hagersville; burned for 17 days in February, forcing 500 from homes.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Dickson 1916- sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; after death of Justice Bora Laskin Mar 26.
1984 Halifax Nova Scotia -CP Air buys Eastern Provincial Airways, Canadian regional airline.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises taxes to pay for 4-year, $4.8 billion recovery program; 1983-84 projected deficit of $31.3 billion.
1972 Winnipeg Manitoba - Province announces tougher boxing regulations after Stewart Gray's death Feb. 22 during a match with Canadian champion Al Sparks
1963 Montreal Quebec - Alan Chippindale elected First President of the Canadian Mutual Funds Association at first Annual Meeting.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - National Capital Commission expropriates 62.3 hectare Lebreton Flats area of central Ottawa.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Sankara Pillai slain in his office by intruder; first Secretary of Indian High Commission.
1947 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 to take the Stanley Cup 4 games to 2.
1944 Boston Massachusetts - Gérard Côté wins his second straight and third career Boston Marathon; native of St-Barnabé Quebec a former snowshoer.
1927 New Brunswick - New Brunswick takes control of the sale of liquor in the province.
1912 Nova Scotia - Mystery man Jerome dies at about age 58; found on a beach with both legs amputated, he refused to talk or write, and died unidentified.
1883 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys the Parliament Buildings in Quebec City.
1862 St. Andrew's Ontario - Simon Fraser 1776-1862 dies; fur trader, explorer of the BC river that bears his name.
1775 Concord Massachusetts - British troops fire on American minutemen starting the American Revolution; lasts until Nov. 30, 1782.
1627 Paris France - Cardinal Richelieu signs the charter of the Company of One Hundred Associates, with a contract to develop and colonize Canada.

 

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April 20th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
1535 – The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1689 – The former king, James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57)
1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
1789 – President George Washington arrives in Philadelphia after his inauguration to elaborate welcome at Gray's Ferry just after noon first inauguration of George Washington
1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
1876 – The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
1912 – Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston.
1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
1916 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
1939 – Billie Holiday records the first civil rights song "Strange Fruit".
1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1951 – Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
1978 – Korean Air Lines Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
1980 – Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
1985 – The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
1998 – German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
2007 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
2013 – Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Japan last reactor is shut down at midnight.
2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.





Today's Canadian Headline...

1968 BOMBARDIER FIRST CANADIAN TO THE POLE
NWT - Ralph Plaistead and Jean-Luc Bombardier lead Canadian-US expedition to the North Pole on four snowmobiles; the trip takes 42 days and its the first indisputable arrival; Plaistead a St. Paul, Minnesota native sponsored by CBS-TV; Bombardier, the nephew of snowmobile inventor Joseph Armand Bombardier, is the first Canadian to reach the Pole.

1968

Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- sworn in at Rideau Hall as Canada's 15th Prime Minister, succeeding Lester Pearson, who was PM since April 22, 1963; Trudeau serves until June 4, 1979


In Other Events...

1990 Toronto Ontario - Hillsdown Holdings buys 30% the Canada Packers shares held by the McLean family to own 56% of new $4 billion company; British owner of Maple Leaf Mills.
1990 Kingston Ontario - Correctional Service of Canada task force recommends closing Kingston Prison for Women; founded in 1934; replace with 10-person cottage-like facilities and an Aboriginal Healing Lodge.
1989 Newfoundland - Clyde Wells leads Newfoundland Liberals to victory in provincial election; later says the province will rescind the Meech Lake agreement unless the pact is changed.
1982 Edmonton Alberta - Businessman Peter Pocklington held hostage in his home for almost 12 hours by a gunman demanding $1 million; police end the incident by rushing the house; Pocklington and the gunman are slightly injured.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $41 million program to upgrade the East Coast fishery.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament gives unions the right to appeal Anti-Inflation Board rulings.
1973 Cape Canaveral Florida - Anik-II launched from Cape Canaveral; Canada's second communications satellite, and the world's first commercial satellite in orbit.
1971 Washington DC -Canada and the US sign agreement for $45 million communications satellite, to be launched in 1974.
1969 Montreal Quebec -6,200 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers go on month-long strike; grounds most commercial aviation.
1966 Ottawa Ontario -Alex Colville 1920- awarded $9,000 prize for designs for Canadian Centennial coins; Canadian artist.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Eric Williams Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago starts four-day visit to Ottawa.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Wilfred O'Neill, a 65-year-old night watchman, is killed by a terrorist bomb placed in a garbage container at the Montreal army recruiting centre; work of new Front de Libération du Quebec; O'Neill first victim of the FLQ.
1958 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 5-3, taking the Stanley Cup 4 games to 2; their third Cup in a row.
1941 Hyde Park New York - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 signs Hyde Park Agreement with Franklin D. Roosevelt; eases exchange crisis, pools some defence purchasing, resources and production.
1931 St. Catherines Ontario - Opening of new Welland Canal, linking Lakes Erie and Ontario; wide enough to carry big lakers.
1920 Antwerp Belgium - Canadian athletes join 18 other nations at the opening of the seventh modern Olympic Games; total of 2,692 competitors.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Government calls up men from ages of 20 to 22 for military service.
1910 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes a Bill setting up the Royal Canadian Navy.
1907 Thunder Bay Ontario - Port Arthur and Fort William incorporated as cities; become the single city of Thunder Bay Jan. 1, 1970.
1899 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange moves next door to 20 King St E., renting premises from A.E. Ames; establishes clearing house for stocks.
1893 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island amalgamates its Legislative Council with the Assembly.
1885 Calgary Alberta - Thomas Bland Strange 1831-1925 leads 600-man Alberta Field Force from Calgary towards Fort Edmonton.
1836 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of company to build a Niagara River suspension bridge.
1769 Cahokia Illinois - Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas, murdered by an Illinois Indian; six years earlier he helped lead the Ottawa, Hurons (Wyandots), Potawatomis and Ojibwas in a rising against the British garrisons on the Great Lakes.
1534 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sets sail on first voyage with two ships; commissioned by François I to find passage to Asia and 'lands where there is a great quantity of gold'; makes crossing to Newfoundland in just 20 days; explores Strait of Belle Isle, which he hoped was the beginning of a river leading to China; says of the coast, 'I believe that this was the land God gave to Cain'; returns Sept. 5.

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April 21st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

753 BC – Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
900 – The Laguna Copperplate Inscription: the Honourable Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon from all their debts by the Commander in chief of Tundun, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah. Luzon, Philippines.
1092 – The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II
1506 – The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics.
1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
1526 – The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
1615 – The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.
1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1863 – Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, declares his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest".
1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
1914 – Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz, Veracruz.
1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
1934 – The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
1941 – Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
1952 – Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1960 – Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
1962 – The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
1963 – The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time.
1964 – A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
1965 – The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
1967 – Greek military junta of 1967–74: A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
1970 – The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
1982 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
1992 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Alexander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.
1993 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
2004 – Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.






Today's Canadian Headline...

1921 OTTAWA WINS STANLEY CUP
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.

1918

Bertangles France - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen 1881-1918 shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Captain Roy Brown 1893-1944 of Carleton Place, Ontario, a flight leader in the 209th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps [In the picture, Brown is in the rear trailing the Baron]. It is likely that Australian ground fire downed the Red Baron, victor over 80 Allied planes. The tail of von Richthofen's plane is on display at Toronto's Royal Military Institute.


In Other Events...
1991 Montreal Quebec - Jean Chrétien 1934- urges a referendum in early 1992; suggests giving veto to four regions - Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and the West - and the allocation of power to the government that can handle it best.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts sign Heisman Trophy winner and expected number one pick of the Dallas Cowboys, Rocket Ismail, to a $26 million contract.
1986 PEI - Joe Ghiz leads Prince Edward Island's Liberal Party to win 21 of 32 seats in the provincial election, ending the 7-year government of the Conservatives.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expo David Palmer is pitching a perfect game against the St. Louis Cardinals when the home plate umpire calls the game in five innings on account of rain. Palmer had made 57 pitches and was leading the Cards 4-0; the fourth shortened, perfect game in major-league baseball history.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Foster Hewitt dies; radio and television voice of NHL games for over 50 years.
1977 New York City - Billy Martin's Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-6; Martin pulled the Yankee line-up out of a hat.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Over 200,000 Quebec public service workers end their ten day strike.
1961 Quebec Quebec - Premier Jean Lesage institutes the Parent Commission on education in Quebec; influenced by Les Insolences du frère Untel by Jean-Paul Desbiens, a critique of religious control over education in the province.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 leaves for Mexico City for talks with President Lopez Mateos.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Labour Congress formed from a merger of the Canadian Congress of Labour and the Trades and Labour Congress.
1951 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King sets record 20 years, 10 months and 10 days of service as a Commonwealth prime minister.
1908 NWT - Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940 claims to have reached the North Pole on this date, ahead of US Admiral Peary; first man to do so; claim rejected in 1909; still a controversy, although in actual fact neither reached the Pole at all.
1906 Washington DC - Britain and US sign convention fixing the Canada-Alaska boundary at the 141st meridian.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Oaths Act gives CPR select committee power to question witnesses under oath; declared unconstitutional that July.
1821 Toronto Ontario - Bank of Upper Canada incorporated.
1806 St-Boniface Manitoba - Marie-Anne Gaboury marries Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière; the first white woman to live in Western Canada, Gaboury is Louis Riel's grandmother.
1785 Quebec Quebec - Trial by jury begins in Canada with the adoption of British common law.
1664 Quebec Quebec - Governor bans the littering of streets with 'straw, manure or anything else'; first hygiene regulations in New France.

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April 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

238 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
1529 – Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
1622 – The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.
1889 – At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
1911 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
1912 – Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with CSAR operations in the China-Burma-India theater.
1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
1983 – The German magazine Der Stern claims that the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
1992 – In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
1993 – Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released.
1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
1997 – The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
2008 – The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.






Today's Canadian Headline...

1945 CANADIANS FEED STARVING DUTCH
Netherlands - Canadian Army halts front operations in western Holland due to the need to feed the starving Dutch people, their fields flooded and their barns looted by the retreating Germans.

1915
Ypres Belgium - Germans release poisonous chlorine (mustard) gas across the fields of Flanders towards French Algerian troops at Ypres; opens up 6.5 km gap; Canadian 13th Battalion stands firm under heavy shelling; many Canadians gassed.


In Other Events...
1991 Victoria BC - Brian Mulroney 1939- promises Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs to settle all land claims by the year 2000.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Willard Estey retires from the Supreme Court of Canada.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Samuel Grange 1920- heads Ontario Royal Commission of inquiry into deaths of 28 babies at Hospital for Sick Children; nurse Susan Nelles wrongly charged.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to boycott 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, to protest Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1979 Toronto Ontario - Mick Jaggar and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones give a benefit concert for the blind as part of Richard's release on drug charges.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Robert B. Bryce 1910- heads new Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration; to examine corporate power and mergers in Canada.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Consumers' Gas acquires controlling interest in Home Oil Ltd. of Calgary.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa allocates $41.2 million in federal aid to Newfoundland, and $32.5 million to New Brunswick; to compensate for regional inequality.
1968 Oakville Ontario - 11,000 Ford of Canada workers end six-day strike.
1965 Montreal Quebec - The Rolling Stones start their first North American tour in Montreal.
1964 Saskatchewan - W. Ross Thatcher 1917- wins Saskatchewan provincial election for Liberals, displacing CCF-NDP after 20 years.
1963 Quebec Quebec - Royal Commission on Education recommends formation of Quebec Ministry of Education and complete reorganization of education in the province.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup, winning back the trophy after 11 years; they will keep it for the next three seasons.
1945 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley appointed Vice-Chairman of Treasury Board for duration of War; (DM Finance was ex-officio Secretary of the Treasury Board).
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - NWMP Inspector Francis Jeffrey Dickens 1844-1886 reaches Battleford after abandoning Fort Pitt when white settlers decide to surrender to Big Bear during the North West Rebellion; he is the third son of novelist Charles Dickens.
1844 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Bytown Packet, later the Ottawa Citizen.
1737 Trois-Rivières Quebec- Opening of Canada's first iron smelter at Les Forges de St-Maurice.
1635 London England - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling 1577-1640 given new grants of land in Canada by Charles I; proprietor of Nova Scotia.

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April 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P

215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
711 – Dagobert III is crowned King of the Franks
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England,
1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
1516 – The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot is signed in Ingolstadt.
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1655 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising: a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1910 – American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
1920 – The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara.
1927 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
1929 – Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children's Day as a national holiday.[1]
1932 – The 153-year-old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1945 – World War II Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: Forty-two villagers are killed.





Today's Canadian Headline...

1915 FIRST VC FOR THE CANADIAN ARMY
St. Julien, Belgium - Canadian 13th Battalion Quebec Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada) moves up reserves to plug a gap in the line at Ypres. Lance-Corporal Frederick Fisher goes forward with his company machine-gun under heavy fire, and covers the retreat of a battery, losing four of his gun team. He then obtains four more men, and moves forward again to the firing line, but is killed while bringing his machine-gun into action under very heavy fire. For his bravery, Fisher is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously on June 23, the first Canadian-born man to win the VC while serving in the Canadian Army.

1851

Quebec Quebec - Civil engineer Sandford Fleming 1827-1915 designs the red Three-Pence Beaver stamp issued this day; the Province of Canada's first regular postage stamp. In 1849, Fleming rescued the portrait of Queen Victoria from the burning Parliament Buildings in Montreal; he will later serve as Engineer-in-Chief of the Intercolonial and Canadian Pacific railways.


In Other Events...

1997 Toronto Ontario - Ted England, head trader at Peters & Co. Ltd., purchases 100 shares of Bell Canada, the last trade ever made on the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, as the TSE closes its floor after 145 years and moves to computer trading.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson convinces Quebec civil servants to take 6 month pay freeze; Treasury Board President in the Bourassa government.
1989 St. John's Newfoundland - Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland sets up a five-member panel to inquire into the sexual abuse of children during the 1970's at the Mount Cashel Orphanage.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves the final draft of Canada's proposed new constitution.
1979 PEI - John Angus MacLean 1914- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory over Bennett Campbell's Liberals in Prince Edward Island election.
1974 Sudbury Ontario - Ontario Ministry of the Environment temporarily closes Falconbridge Nickel; air pollution index 102; first industrial closure in Ontario for this reason.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - First public hearings of the CRTC held in the Chateau Laurier Hotel.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Taschereau appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
1950 Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings beat the NY Rangers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1928 Ontario - William H. Clark appointed first British High Commissioner to Canada; takes office September 22.
1924 Canada - Canadians hear radio broadcast of the voice of King George V opening the Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
1906 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Legislature sets the provincial speed limit at 10 mph in the city and 20 mph in the country.
1887 Toronto Ontario - Founding of McMaster University in Toronto as a union of Woodstock College and the Toronto Baptist College; moved from Hamilton, the college will again move back to Hamilton and the Bloor St. building becomes the Royal Conservatory of Music of the University of Toronto.
1879 Guelph Ontario - Guelph incorporated as a city.
1830 PEI -Catholic Emancipation Act gives Catholics in Prince Edward Island the right to vote.
1827 Halifax Nova Scotia - Digging starts on the Shubenacadie Canal, to connect Halifax with the Bay of Fundy.

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April 24th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1558 РMary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, Fran̤ois, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
1923 – In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego.
1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
1957 – The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore
1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1965 РCivil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caama̱o, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'̩tat against Juan Bosch.
1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2005 – Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog.
2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.







Today's Canadian Headline...


1915 TWO MORE VCS IN FLANDERS
Ypres Belgium - Germans pour shells and mustard gas against Canadian troops, but their attack is repelled. Canadians win two Victoria Crosses during this day in Flanders:

At St-Julien, Company Sergeant-Major William Hall (1885-1915) of the 8th Battalion, 90th Winnipeg Rifles, makes a second attempt to help a wounded man lying 15 yards from the trench, in the face of very heavy enfilade fire by the enemy, when he is killed by a bullet in the head [awarded posthumously 23 June].
Near Kerselaere, Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew (1892-1961) of the 7th Battalion, British Columbia Regiment, is in action as battalion machine-gun officer, with two guns in action on high ground, when the enemy's attack breaks in full force. With no reinforcements in sight, Lt. Bellew and his Sergeant Peerless decide to fight it out; Peerless is killed and Bellew wounded, yet he keeps up his fire until his ammunition fails, and he is taken prisoner.


1885

Fish Creek Saskatchewan - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 engages the Metis troops of Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 at Fish Creek; battle a stalemate; Middleton badly mauled and his advance to Batoche slowed; loses 11 killed and 48 wounded.

1895
Boston Massachusetts - Joshua Slocum, from Briar Island, NS, leaves Boston to begin his solo around-the-world voyage on an 11 metre oystercatcher called Spray; first sails to Yarmouth to refit; will return from his epic circumnavigation July 3, 1898.


In Other Events...

1996 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh Penguins need four overtime periods to win 3-2 over the Washington Capitals; their victory ties the Stanley Cup series 2-2; longest NHL game in 60 years.
1993 Ames Iowa - Toronto rocker Neil Young joins Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Travis Tritt, Lyle Lovett, Dwight Yoakam, Bruce Hornsby and Ringo Starr at Farm Aid Six concert.
1992 St. John's Newfoundland - Hughes report confirms assertions of former Mount Cashel residents that they suffered physical and sexual abuse at the Newfoundland orphanage run by the Christian Brothers.
1990 Cornwall Ontario - Violence erupts on Akwesasne Mohawk reserve, over gambling on the New York portion of the reserve; bomb damages dozens of cars and a Canadian police station.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada ruling allows Sunday shopping in most provinces.
1984 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky the third person to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot.
1983 Sheffield England - Canadian Cliff Thornburn wins the World Professional Snooker Championships; first person to record a maximum 147 break.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes amendments to constitutional proposals; eight Liberals abstain from voting.
1972 Ottawa Ontario -Government bans fishing off New Brunswick and Port aux Basque, Newfoundland, to conserve fish stocks.
1971 Ottawa Ontario -David Lewis 1909-1981 chosen party leader on 4th ballot by New Democratic Party, replacing Tommy Douglas; gets 1046 votes, to James Laxer's 612.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Creditiste MPs Gérard Girouard and Gérard Ouellet defect to the Conservative Party.
1952 Sarnia Ontario - First shipment of oil from Alberta arrives in Ontario by pipeline and lake freighter.
1952 Los Angeles California - Canadian actor Raymond Burr makes his TV acting debut on the Gruen Guild Playhouse in an episode titled, The Tiger; later stars in Perry Mason and Ironside series.
1951 Kapyong Korea - Canadian troops defend Kapyong Valley in Korea against two-day Chinese attack; 10 dead, 23 wounded.
1942 Toronto Ontario - Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874-1942 dies at 68; published 22 works of fiction, 450 poems and 500 short stories, including Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon.
1928 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that the words 'qualified persons' in Section 24 of BNA Act do not apply to women, that 'by the Common Law of England, women were under a legal incapacity to hold public office.' Five prominent Alberta women will appeal the decision to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at Westminster.
1896 London England Britain - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 appointed High Commissioner to Britain, replacing Sir Charles Tupper.
1895 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament decides not to bring in prohibition after reading Report of Royal Commission.
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 relieves NWMP garrison at Battleford.
1866 Victoria BC - Victoria connected to British Columbia mainland via cable and telegraph.
1629 Savoy France - France and England sign Treaty of Susa; all territory captured after signing to be returned; Kirke's capture of Quebec later that year is therefore nullified.
1626 Dieppe France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sails on his 11th voyage to Canada.
1615 Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Honfleur for New France.

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April 25th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

404 BC – Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over Transcaucasia is solidified, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and flee to the Byzantine Empire.
1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 – La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945 – The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
1951 – Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
1990 – Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
2001 – Michele Alboreto was killed testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2005 – One hundred seven people die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.






Today's Canadian Headline...

1940 QUEBEC WOMEN WIN VOTE
Quebec City - Quebec women allowed to vote and run for office in provincial elections, 22 years after women were granted the federal vote. In 1927, Idola St-Jean founded l'Alliance canadienne pour le vote des femmes du Québec. The following year, Thérèse Casgrain founded La Ligue des droits de la femme. Both these groups lobbied Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout, who finally succeeded in getting the clergy to drop their opposition.

1849
Montreal Quebec - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, providing payment for people who lost property in the rebellions of 1837-1838. Angry Tory mobs are furious the Queen's representative would sign a bill rewarding treason. They throw garbage and dead rats at members of the Assembly, and pelt an official reading the Riot Act with onions. That night, the mobs set fire to the Legislature, destroying parliamentary and government records; the official portrait of Queen Victoria is rescued from the flames by a young engineer named Sandford Fleming. Lord Elgin barely escapes to the viceregal residence at Monklands; he was not permitted to call out troops to quell riots because they were British, and could not interfere in a Canadian civil matter. As a result of this lack of public security in Montreal, the government decides to move to Toronto; so begins the period of wandering government, when Kingston and Quebec City will also share the duties of being the capital of the Canadas.

1959
Montreal Quebec - St. Lawrence Seaway opens for traffic as the first ship enters the locks south of Montreal; 650 km. waterway between Montreal and Lake Erie. To commemorate the event, Canada and the US both issued a similar stamp. Some of the Canadian issue got inverted, resulting in this collector's dream.


In Other Events...

1995 Berwick-Upon-Tweed England - Alexander Knox 1907-1995, actor, scriptwriter, dies at 88 of bone cancer. Born Jan .16, 1907 in Strathroy Ontario, Knox played in 70 movies, including Gorky Park and Two of a Kind. He was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in Wilson (1944). For more, check out the Internet Movie Database.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - George Erasmus suggests new national treaty separate from the current constitutional negotiations; Chief of Assembly of First Nations.
1991 Montreal Quebec -Interprovincial Pipeline mothballed; Quebec refiners can buy oil cheaper offshore; Sarnia to Montreal 832 km line built in 1974 energy crisis.
1991 Toronto Ontario -Gallup Poll finds Reform Party backed by 16%, up from 7% in March; PCs 14%; Liberals 32%, NDP 26%; undecided 37%, up from 24% in March.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Edmund C. Bovey dies at 74; President of Northern Ontario Natural Gas, founding company of Norcen Resources; Past President of Ontario and National Ballet of Canada.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Tory Finance Minister Michael Wilson's budget leaked by Global TV reporter Doug Small. When opposition parties reject his request for an emergency evening sitting, he calls a 10 pm news conference to announce budget highlights.
1989 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Penguin Mario Lemieux ties NHL record of 4 goals in the first period of a playoff game.
1985 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game for the second time.
1984 Moscow Russia - Canada signs agreement with Soviet Union to cooperate in Arctic research and resource development.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to pay $630 million for new Coast Guard ships, and $147 million for fire-fighting aircraft.
1979 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal strikes down an 1890 law prohibiting the use of French in the provincial legislature, courts and schools.
1974 United Nations New York - Canada to support UN Emergency Force in Middle East for additional six months.
1972 Toronto Ontario - Paula the cat, a ten month old tabby, survives a fall from the 26th floor of an apartment building.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes Act unifying the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force into one unit, the Canadian Armed Forces.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3 for their third consecutive Stanley Cup.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and PEI sign an agreement with Ottawa to build the Trans-Canada Highway.
1945 San Francisco California - Canada one of 50 nations attending founding conference of United Nations, opening in San Francisco; to June 26; approves United Nations Charter.
1945 Germany - RCAF's No. 6 Group makes its last bombing raid over Germany.
1940 Scotland - Two Canadian battalions held back in Scotland; on the way to join British force bound for Norway.
1908 Westmount Quebec - Westmount incorporated as a city; Montreal residential area.
1900 Israel's Port South Africa - Canadians engage Boers in Battle of Israel's Port.
1890 Blackfoot Crossing Alberta - Indian leader Crowfoot dies on the Blackfoot reserve; head Chief during signing of Treaty Seven.
1862 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier's Militia Bill for a more efficient military leads to the Macdonald-Cartier government's defeat.
1815 Ontario - George Murray 1772-1846 appointed provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves until July 1, 1815.
1720 Halifax Nova Scotia - First Governor and Council of Nova Scotia appointed.

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April 26th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).
1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
1802 РNapoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious ̩migr̩s of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien R̩gime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yama****a.
1946 – Naperville train disaster kills 47.
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1982 – Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1989 – People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).





Today's Canadian Headline...

1935 BOUCHER GIVEN IT FOR GOOD
Montreal Quebec- Frank Boucher of the New York Rangers given permanent possession of the Lady Byng Trophy for the most sportsmanlike player in the NHL; he had won it for 7 of its 11 year history. NHL will purchases a new trophy to be awarded the following year.


In Other Events...

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Richard Bennett Hatfield 1931-1991 dies of brain cancer; Premier of New Brunswick 1970-87; Senator 1990-91; first elected 1961; Premier 1970, defeating Louis Robichaud.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Vice-Admiral Charles Thomas resigns, warns defense cuts will threaten sovereignty and endanger lives of military personnel; Thomas is Deputy Commander of the Canadian Armed Forces.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Business Council on National Issues warns country must compete against rest of world; urges common-sense redivision of federal-provincial powers.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Michael Wilson forced to read contents of his Budget at an evening news conference, after Global TV reporter Doug Small broadcasts the leaked contents.
1988 Manitoba - Gary Filmon 1945- leads Manitoba PCs to minority victory in provincial election; both his opponents, Gary Doer (NDP) and Sharon Carstairs (Liberal), were opposed to the Meech Lake Accord.
1983 Toronto Ontario - First flight of Skyship 500 at Toronto Airport; can carry 10 people; uses non-flammable helium; first Canadian-built airship.
1982 Saskatchewan - Grant Devine 1934- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory in Saskatchewan election, defeating Allan Blakeney with 57 of the 64 seats.
1982 Ontario - 80% of Ontario's 14,000 doctors stage 2-day walk-out to protest new fee schedule.
1968 Africa - Ottawa grants long-term interest-free loan to Ghana, Togo, and Dahomey for electric power grid; largest Canadian project in Africa.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court authorized to review Steven Truscott's 1959 murder conviction and life sentence.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Federal budget includes 10% cut in personal income tax.
1959 Montreal Quebec - Fidel Castro Cuban Premier visits Montreal.
1954 Geneva Switzerland - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 leads Canadian delegation at conference to settle the Korean question.
1944 Atlantic - Canadian warships sink German destroyer off France.
1918 Halifax Nova Scotia - Women in Nova Scotia granted the right to vote.
1900 Hull Quebec - Start of fire in Hull; spreads across the river to Ottawa; kills 7, causes $10 million in losses.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - First CPR bill introduced in Parliament.
1871 Winnipeg Manitoba - Eight Ontario land agents reach Fort Garry; beginning of influx of speculators and settlers that leads to the Red River Insurrection.
1860 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Second Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada from six independent militia units; later the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, oldest regiment in the Canadian Armed Forces.
1778 Nootka BC - Captain Cook sets sail to the north west from Nootka Sound, tracing the coast of British Columbia and Alaska.
1625 Dieppe France - Jesuit priest Jean de Brébeuf sails for Quebec with two priests and two lay brothers; founder of Huron Mission.

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April 27th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

33 BC – Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania.
395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
629 – Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1578 – Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
1810 – Beethoven composes Für Elise.
1813 – War of 1812: American troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
1865 – The steamboat SS Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by U.S. General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots in the Korean War.
1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1974 – Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
1977 – Twenty-eight people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1986 – The City of Prypiat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl Disaster
1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1989 – The April 27 Demonstration,a student-led protest responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
1996 – The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2011 – The April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.






Today's Canadian Headline...


1942 NOT NECESSARILY CONSCRIPTION
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 released from 1940 election pledge with a 63.7% victory in the conscription plebiscite, giving him a mandate to impose overseas conscription 'if necessary'; Quebec votes 72% against; other provinces vote 80% in favour.

1967

Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson officially opens l'Exposition universelle de Montréal - Expo '67; Canada's first world's fair runs until Oct. 29.

1813

Toronto Ontario - Invasion force of 1,700 US troops under Zebulon Pike and Henry Dearborn assaults the town of York; Sheaffe and 600 defenders withdraw to Kingston; Americans torch Upper Canada's parliament buildings, and depart May 8 after burning and looting the town. Britain retaliates a year later by raiding Washington, and setting fire to the White House. The panorama shows the American naval force attacking Fort York.


In Other Events...

1992 Montreal Quebec - Lina Haddad, age 27, gives birth to Quebec's first quintuplets - three boys and two girls.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Quebec women celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the vote for women in the province.
1990 Vancouver BC - Charles Woodward dies at the age of 66; CEO of Woodward's for 31 years, he added 21 stores to the BC-Alberta chain; had resigned June 1988 before giving up family control to the Bay.
1983 Houston Texas - Nolan Ryan of the Astros strikes out Montreal Expo pinch-hitter Brad Mills in the eighth inning as the Astros beat the Expos 4-2; breaks Walter Johnson's 56 year old record of 3,508, to become major league baseball's all-time strikeout king.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Parti Quebecois government proposes the Charter of the French Language as Bill One in the National Assembly; to make French thee working language in Quebec and limit the use of English.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Beryl Plumptre 1927- chairs new Food Prices Review Board.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces $15 million Colombo Plan contribution to Pakistan.
1928 PEI - Prince Edward Island changes to driving on the right hand side of the road.
1908 London England - Canada sends team of 84 athletes to the fourth modern Olympic Games opening this day in London; attracts 22 nations and a total of 2056 competitors; Canada will win three golds, in Lacrosse, Shooting (Walter Ewing) and the 200m Race (Robert Kerr); events last until Oct. 31.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 resigns; calls his opponents in the Cabinet 'a nest of traitors'; ex-Head of the Orange Lodge, he is not able to deal with religious factions in the Conservative Party; succeeded by Sir Charles Tupper.
1880 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie resigns as Liberal Party leader; the former PM is succeeded by Edward Blake.
1846 Toronto Ontario - John A. Macdonald from Kingston gives his maiden speech in the Assembly.
1838 Montreal Quebec - Martial law revoked in Lower Canada; invoked the previous year because of the rebellion.
1831 Quebec Quebec - Steamship Royal William launched at Quebec City; first Canadian vessel to cross the Atlantic entirely under steam power.
1644 Montreal Quebec - Wheat planted in Canada for the first time.

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April 28th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1887 РA week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebel̩ is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
1952 – Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
1986 – The Chernobyl Disaster: High Levels of Radiation as a result of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident is detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden.
1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
1999 – In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting.
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.







Today's Canadian Headline...

1996 EXPOS ROCK ROCKIES
Denver Colorado - Montreal Expos thrash Colorado Rockies 21-9 at Coors Field.

1760
Ste-Foy Quebec - François, Duc de Lévis, with 5,000 soldiers and Indians, defeats James Murray's 3,900 British troops at the Battle of Ste-Foy; Murray, leader of the British after Wolfe's death, wisely retreats behind the walls of Quebec to wait for reinforcements by ship.


In Other Events...

1996 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg Jets play their final game as a team, and are eliminated from the playoffs, losing to the Detroit Red Wings 4-1; the s-called 'Winnipeg Whiteouts' play as the Phoenix Coyotes in the 1996-97 season.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Milwaukee Brewers wallop Toronto Blue Jays 22-2 with an American League record 31 hits in 9 innings.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Floyd Laughren presents $52.8 billion NDP spending budget that will triple Ontario Deficit to record $9.7 billion; Ontario Treasurer goes against advice of Ottawa.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Matthew Fedor dies at age 4; first Canadian to receive a bone-marrow transplant from an unrelated donor.
1983 Albany New York - Ontario signs agreement with New York State to exchange information and research on acid rain.
1972 Tuktoyaktuk NWT - Ottawa starts building 1,690 km long highway from Alberta border to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.
1968 Halifax Nova Scotia - Walter Sitch, 98, is possibly Canada's first great-great-great-grandfather when his great-great-granddaughter gives birth to a son.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Vasily Vasilievich Tarasov expelled from Canada for spying; Ottawa correspondent for Soviet newspaper Izvestia.
1945 Netherlands - Truce arranged between Canadian and German forces in Holland.
1919 Geneva Switzerland - Canada joins 41 other countries as they unanimously accept the Covenant of the League of Nations.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister John Rose brings down the first Canadian budget after Confederation for the Macdonald Ministry.
1827 Guelph Ontario - John Galt 1779-1839 founds town of Guelph; chooses site as headquarters of Canada Company.
1760 Quebec Quebec - Last meeting of the Sovereign Council of New France.
1631 London England - Luke Foxe 1586-c1635 sails from London on the Charles to find the Northwest Passage; skirts the western shore of Hudson Bay; finds relics of Button's expedition.
1610 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Quebec.

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April 29th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I.
1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
1521 – Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of VästerÃ¥s and soon capture the city of VästerÃ¥s. The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 January the following year, after a nine-month siege.
1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
1832 – Évariste Galois is released from prison.
1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
1882 – The "Elektromote" – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada.
1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
1916 – World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
1944 – World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
1945 РWorld War II РFuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl D̦nitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
1951 – Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1965 – Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
1986 – The Chernobyl Disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
1992 – Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
1999 – The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 – Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
2011 – The Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.
2013 – A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1970 BOURASSA TAKES QUEBEC
Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 leads Liberals to 72 seats and victory in the Quebec election, defeating the Union Nationale under Jean-Jacques Bertrand (17 seats); 12 Social Credit and 7 members of the Parti Quebecois also elected to National Assembly.

1880
Ottawa Ontario - Melville Bell, Alexander Graham Bell's brother, incorporates The Bell Telephone Company of Canada on this day as Royal Assent is given to the act chartering the firm; the Bell stock is soon listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, whose members quickly take to the new fangled device. The invention was developed over the past decade at the Bell homestead in Brantford, and the first business phones installed in Hamilton.

1903
Crowsnest Pass Alberta - A 90 million ton wedge of limestone slides off Turtle Mountain onto the coal mining village of Frank at 4:10 am, burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds; the slab is 1,300 ft high, 4,000 ft wide, 500 ft thick. Seventeen men in the mine dig themselves out a day later. The town will be permanently evacuated.


In Other Events...

1995 Kitchener Ontario - Butchers finish making the world's longest sausage, with a length of 28.77 miles.
1991 Iqualuit NWT - Environment Minister Jean Charest announces $100 million program to clean up toxic sites and contaminated waste dumps in the Arctic.
1991 Elliot Lake Ontario - Denison Mines to close uranium plant in Elliot Lake, putting 1000 out of work; blames high costs, cancellation of Ontario Hydro supply contract.
1986 Kingston Ontario - Queen's offensive tackle Mike Schad chosen by Los Angeles Rams, to become the first Canadian football player ever selected in the first round of the NFL draft.
1981 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Phillies' Steve Carlton strikes out Montreal Expo Tim Wallach, in the first inning of the 6-2 victory; becomes the sixth major-league pitcher, and the first left-hander, to strike out 3,000 batters.
1973 New Brunswick - Saint John River flooding causes up to $25 million damage in New Brunswick.
1971 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 outlines his James Bay project; Hydro Quebec to build $6 billion hydroelectric power project in James Bay region; largest such development ever undertaken in western hemisphere.
1970 Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 leads Liberals to 72 seats and victory in the Quebec election, defeating the Union Nationale under Jean-Jacques Bertrand (17 seats); 12 Social Credit and 7 members of the Parti Quebecois also elected to National Assembly.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Ontario government brings in $1 an hour provincial minimum wage; starting June 29.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - British PM Harold Macmillan arrives in Ottawa for talks with Diefenbaker and Cabinet on European Common Market.
1948 United Nations New York-Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 proposes 'collective-security league;' helps lead to formation of NATO.
1945 Netherlands - Canadians start air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch.
1944 Atlantic - German U-Boats sink Royal Canadian Navy destroyer HMCS Athabaskan off the coast of France.
1944 Atlantic - HMCS Haida drives flaming German warship aground.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley calls taxes 'a temporary wartime expedient' in budget speech to Commons; warns of probable $500 million deficit.
1914 Toronto Ontario - Supreme Court of Ontario bans employment of unqualified teachers.
1891 Vancouver BC - CP steamship Empress of India arrives in Vancouver from Yokohama to open regular service to the Far East; breaks record Pacific crossing by two days.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - First session of 7th Parliament meets until September 30; deals with government scandals.
1817 Washington DC - Richard Rush for the US and Charles Bagot for Britain sign the Rush-Bagot Agreement limiting the number of warships the two countries can maintain on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain - 2 ships each under 100 tons on upper Great Lakes, 1 each on Lake Champlain. On this day in 1818, US President Monroe proclaims US naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1776 Montreal Quebec - Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 arrives in Montreal with Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase; sent by the Continental Congress to convert Canadians to freedom.
1745 Canso Nova Scotia - William Pepperell 1696-1759 departs Canso to attack Louisbourg with British naval squadron from West Indies under Comm. Peter Warren; joined at Canso by smaller groups from New Hampshire and Connecticut.
1742 North Dakota - François de Varennes de La Vérendrye leaves Fort La Reine with his brother Louis-Joseph, to follow the Souris River to the Missouri River watershed.
1671 Paris France - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 receives royal Patent for her Sisters of the Congregation of Montreal.
1644 Quebec - François-Joseph Bressani 1612-1672 captured by Iroquois near Fort Richelieu; ransomed by Dutch.
1628 Quebec - Guillaume Couillard-Lespinay c1591-1663 first person in Canada to use an ox-drawn plow; Louis Hébert's son-in-law.
1627 Paris France - Cardinal Armand de Richelieu 1585-1642 founds the Company of New France, or One Hundred Associates, with 100,000 crowns capital; 'to be proprietors of Canada; to govern in peace and war.' The company, a group of merchants and aristocrats, is given the monopoly of the fur trade; in return they have to settle 300 colonists a year up to 1643.

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April 30th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
313 – Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
642 – Chindasuinth is proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops.
1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
1598 РJuan O̱ate makes a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico.
1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1871 – The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
1885 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
1939 – The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.
1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed the Hoover Dam a second time.
1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty."
1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.
1967 – The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
1973 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned.
1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.
1980 – Beatrix of the Netherlands becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
1982 – Bijon Setu massacre
1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany
1994 – Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton becomes the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters.
2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
2009 – Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker.
2013 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands.





Today's Canadian Headline...

1987 ACCORD AT MEECH LAKE
Old Chelsea Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- and 10 premiers agree on constitutional draft called the Meech Lake Accord, to enable Quebec to join the constitutional fold by meeting its five conditions, including recognizing Quebec as a distinct society; needs to be ratified by Parliament and all provincial legislatures by June 23rd, 1990 to become law.

1658
Montreal Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 opens Ville Marie's first school for French and Indian children, in a stone stable measuring 36' by 18' borrowed from the Company of Montreal.


In Other Events...

1991 Montreal Quebec - William J. Bennett dies; former President of the Iron Ore Company of Canada (1965-77); Private Secretary to C.D. Howe (1934-46); mentor of Brian Mulroney.
1990 Cornwall Ontario - 500 evacuated Mohawks from the 9,000 member Akwesasne reserve decide not to return home until dispute on gambling resolved.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Strong winds across Exhibition Stadium cause a 30 minute delay, then cancellation of a Blue Jays game with the Texas Rangers.
1982 Fort McMurray Alberta - Alberta Alsands oil project collapses despite offers of aid from Ottawa and Alberta.
1981 Nepal - John Lauchlan & James Blench; both natives of Seebe, Alberta, reach summit of 7,454.5m Mt. Gangapurna in the Himalayas by a new south face route.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes Petroleum Administration Act; Ottawa to set domestic price of oil and gas without consulting provinces.
1974 Edmonton Alberta - Ralph Steinhauer 1905- appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta by PM Trudeau; former chief of the Saddle Lake Indian band the first aboriginal Canadian named to a viceregal position.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Hydro Quebec outlines plans to build $6 billion hydro-electric power project in James Bay region; largest such development ever undertaken in the western hemisphere.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government allowed the anti-terrorist Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act to lapse at midnight; FLQ still illegal under Criminal Code.
1970 Vancouver BC - First computer-controlled CP Rail coal train reaches Roberts Bank from mines in Alberta.
1966 Hull Quebec - National Capital Commission starts marina-recreation complex on Quebec side of the Ottawa River across from Rideau Falls.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Lt. Gen. H.D. Graham leaves the Canadian armed forces; last officer with a World War I ribbon to retire.
1950 Edmonton Alberta - Construction starts on $95 million Interprovincial Pipeline to carry oil from Alberta to the Lakehead.
1942 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange Index hits wartime low of 84.8 on news of German victories.
1941 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian passenger ship Nerissa off Ireland; 73 Canadian Army personnel lost.
1932 Fredericton NB - RCMP absorbs provincial police force of New Brunswick due to near bankruptcy of the province.
1903 Toronto Ontario - Emily Howard Stowe 1831-1903 dies; first Canadian woman admitted to practice medicine in Canada (1880).
1892 Church Point Nova Scotia - St. Anne's College at Church Point gets university charter.
1803 Paris France - Napoleon Bonaparte sells Louisiana to the US for $27 million; territories between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains first claimed by explorers from New France.
1789 Saint John, New Brunswick - Parrtown and Carleton became Saint John, the first incorporated city in Canada.
1745 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - William Pepperell 1696-1759 anchors main body of the attacking British fleet at Flat Point Cove in Gabarus Bay off Louisbourg; the fortress is defended by 560 regular French soldiers and 1,400 militiamen.
1630 Scotland - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling 1577-1640 grants barony in Nova Scotia, from Yarmouth to Lunenburg, to Claude and Charles de La Tour.

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May 1st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
1328 – Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1455 – Battle of Arkinholm, Royal forces end the Black Douglas hegemony in Scotland.
1576 – Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1707 – The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1753 – Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1759 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
1776 – Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
1778 – American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
1785 – Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaiʻi, defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
1786 – In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's the opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
1794 – War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
1840 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1844 – Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
1846 – The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
1851 – Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
1852 – The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
1856 – The Province of Isabela was created in the Philippines in honor of the Queen Isabela II of Spain.
1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1865 – The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
1869 РThe Folies Berg̬re opens in Paris.
1875 – Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
1884 – Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
1884 – Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
1885 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
1886 – Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket Affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
1893 – The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C..
1898 – Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay: The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
1900 – The Scofield mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
1901 – The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
1925 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
1925 – The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
1927 – The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
1927 – The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1933 – The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
1933 – The Humanist Manifesto I published.
1940 – The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
1941 – World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
1944 – Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
1945 – World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
1945 – World War II: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths.
1945 – The Yugoslav partisans free Trieste.
1946 – Start of three year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
1946 – The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
1947 – Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano; 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
1948 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
1950 – Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
1956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1956 – A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
1957 – Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire England.
1960 – Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Also known as "Maharashtra Day".
1960 – Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961 – The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1965 – Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
1970 – Protests erupt in Seattle, Washington, following the announcement by U.S. President Richard Nixon that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country.
1971 – Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
1974 – The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
1977 – Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
1978 – Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1982 – The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1982 – Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
1983 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
1987 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1989 – Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1990 – The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
1991 – Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record.
1994 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
1995 – Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
1999 – The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
2001 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
2004 – Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2006 – The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2007 РThe Los Angeles May Day m̻l̩e occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
2008 – The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
2009 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2011 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.





Today's Canadian Headline...


1921 QUEBEC STAYS WET
Quebec Quebec - The Quebec government takes control of the sale of liquor in the province; with near universal prohibition of alcoholic beverages in North America, Quebec is the only 'wet' jurisdiction on the continent for a time.

1660
Hawkesbury, Ontario - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux 1635-1660 with 16 compatriots and 44 Huron allies, intending to ambush the Iroquois, instead meets a war party of 300 Onondagas, and has to retreat into an abandoned Algonkian fort by the Long Sault Rapids on the Ottawa River; some French panic and fire on the Iroquois, leading to the desertion of Huron chief Annaotaha. When a powder cask blows up, the Iroquois attack. [see tomorrow for conclusion].


In Other Events...

1991 Houston Texas - Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers shuts out the visiting Toronto Blue Jays 3-0, throwing a record seventh no-hitter; Ryan is 44 years old.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Charlie Mayer announces price of No. 1 spring wheat to drop by 18%; from $165 to $135 a tonne; Grains and Oilseeds Minister.
1987 London England - British Customs seizes Air Canada jet at Heathrow Airport after discovering a major hashish shipment from India; plane released after Air Canada pays substantial fine.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts Sport Select baseball pool; meets opposition of the provinces and major league baseball.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa imposes special tax of $1.15 per barrel to pay for Petro-Canada's purchase of Petrofina.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to control own air space for the first time since NORAD agreement signed in 1958.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to bring 3,000 South Vietnamese refugees to Canada.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Ontario awards $16 million to West German firm Krauss Maffei to build 4 km elevated transit system at CNE.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules compulsory breath tests do not constitute a breach of the Canadian Bill of Rights.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Bureau of Statistics changes name to Statistics Canada.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Jack Kimber appointed second outside President of the Toronto Stock Exchange; ex-chairman of the OSC and the Attorney General's Committee on Securities Legislation.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Radicals bomb US Consulate in Montreal.
1963 Quebec Quebec - Hydro-Quebec expropriates the 11 remaining private power companies in Quebec for $600 million, extending its operation province-wide; founded in 1944 after the Duplessis government took over Montreal Light, Heat and Power Consolidated and its subsidiary, Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Co.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia, starts two-day visit to Canada.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.
1956 Canada - Founding date of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC).
1951 Korea - 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group sent to join United Nations forces in Korea.
1950 Edmonton Alberta - Start of $95 million inter-provincial pipeline to carry oil from Edmonton to Lake Superior.
1944 London England - London Conference of Dominion premiers meets until May 16.
1940 Canada - Storage stocks of every commodity except cheese at 3 year high; due to 'Phony War'.
1932 PEI - RCMP absorbs provincial police force of Prince Edward Island.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Building trades in Winnipeg strike over union recognition and collective bargaining.
1912 Ottawa Ontario - Canada issues first five-dollar bank note.
1911 France - Philippe Ray appointed Canadian Commissioner to France.
1909 Ontario - Prohibition goes into effect in Ontario.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the Carnegie Library at Ottawa; today's Ottawa Public Library.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Public Printing Bureau adopts eight hour work day.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 asked by the Governor General to serve as Canada's 6th Prime Minister on resignation of Mackenzie Bowell; Tupper PM to July 8, 1896, when he is defeated in the election.
1893 Ottawa Ontario - Joseph Burr Tyrell 1858-1957, of the Geological Survey of Canada, leaves Ottawa to map 5,150 km of Barren Lands from Hudson Bay to Lake Athabasca; with brother J. W. Tyrell.
1888 Ottawa Ontario - Frederick Arthur, Baron Stanley of Preston starts his term as Governor-General of Canada; serves from June 11, 1888 to September 6, 1893; will later donate hockey's Stanley Cup.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Electric lighting used for the first time to illuminate city streets in Ottawa.
1876 St. Catharines Ontario - St. Catharines incorporates as a city.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Post Office Savings Bank established.
1850 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 brings his family home to Toronto after 12 year exile in the US.
1822 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Montreal General Hospital with 80 patients.
1776 Quebec Quebec - John Thomas 1725-1776 relieves Arnold and Wooster and the American invading force at Quebec.
1775 Quebec - The Quebec Act comes into force, creating a Governor and Council, and allowing the continued exercise of the French language and Roman Catholic religion. In Montreal, English vandals blacken the bust of King George III and place a 'potato' rosary around its neck. On the bust they write: 'Behold, the Pope of Canada, or the English idiot.'
1688 Quebec Quebec - In Lower Town, the cornerstone is laid for the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires; two years later, the church is named to celebrate Count Frontenac's 1690 victory over the English fleet led by Phips; it is Canada's oldest full-sized church.
1682 Quebec Quebec - Jacques de Meulles d1703 appointed Intendant of New France; serves from October 9, 1682, to September 23, 1686.
1682 Paris France - Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre 1622-1688 appointed Governor of New France to replace Frontenac, who is recalled from Quebec; serves from October 9, 1682 to July 31, 1685.
1663 Paris France - Augustin de Saffray de Mezy appointed first Royal Governor of New France; serves from September 15, 1663 to May 5, 1665.

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May 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
1335 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1611 – The King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
1672 – John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
1808 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
1816 РMarriage of L̩opold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.
1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
1863 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.
1866 – Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
1876 – The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
1879 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers' leader Pablo Iglesias.
1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
1885 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
1885 РThe Congo Free State is established by King L̩opold II of Belgium.
1889 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
1906 – Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
1932 – Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
1941 РFollowing the coup d'̩tat against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power.
1945 – World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
1945 – World War II: Italian Campaign – General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.
1945 РWorld War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates W̦bbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
1946 – The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place; two guards and three inmates are killed.
1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1963 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
1964 – First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1972 – In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.
1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1986 – The Chernobyl Disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster
1989 – Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
1994 – A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
1995 – During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
1998 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
1999 – Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2004 – Yelwa massacre ended. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa killing more than 78 Christians including at least 48 who were worshipping inside a church compound. More than 630 nomad Muslims were killed by Christians in Nigeria.
2008 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
2008 РChait̩n Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2011 – An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
2012 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.





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1670 BAY DAY
London England - Charles II grants a Royal charter to his cousin Price Rupert and a group of investors called The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay: today's Hudson's Bay Company. Two French explorers and traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers, proposed the fur-trading company to the group, and mounted a successful season of trade a year earlier. The charter gives the company the exclusive monopoly of commerce in lands flowing into Hudson Bay, and charges them to find a route to the South Seas.

1497
Bristol England - John and Sebastian Cabot, Italian-born navigators, set sail to follow Columbus' route to what he thought was Asia; Cabot's expedition reaches land June 24th, likely at Cape Breton, then sails east along the south coast of Newfoundland. The picture shows the Lord Mayor and Bishop sending off the expedition at the Bristol wharves.

1660
Hawkesbury Ontario - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux 1635-1660 with 16 compatriots and 44 Native allies, starts battle against a war party of 800 Iroquois at an abandoned Algonkian fur fort at Long Sault on the Ottawa River; the French hold back the Iroquois for a time, but all are killed during the battle or tortured to death as prisoners. The French fight so bravely that the Iroquois abandon their plans to attack Montreal.


In Other Events...

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Bertha Wilson heads Canadian Bar Association task force to improve status of women in legal profession; she retired from the Supreme Court in November 1990 after 8 years.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court strikes down 190 year old law that let the Crown jail people found not guilty by reason of insanity, or commit them to a mental institution indefinitely.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - National Arts Centre sells 16,408 seats for the British musical CATS, the largest single-day sale of tickets for a musical in Canada.
1988 Halifax NS - Bruce Curtis transferred to Nova Scotia prison from New Jersey after a campaign by family and friends; was sentenced to 20 years for 1982 shooting death of classmate's mother; maintained the gun went off accidentally.
1986 New York City - Nova Scotia singer Anne Murray's Now and Forever (You and Me) reaches #1 on the Billboard pop chart.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Dr. Wilbert Keon performs Canada's first artificial heart transplant at the Ottawa Civic Hospital; fits patient Noella Leclair, 42, with a Jarvik 7- 70 until a human heart is found several days later.
1986 Vancouver BC - Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Expo '86; Vancouver Exposition runs until October 13th.
1975 Point Lepreau NB - New Brunswick starts building of $900 million Point Lepreau nuclear power station; to provide 30% of New Brunswick's electricity on completion in 1980.
1970 Amsterdam Netherlands - International Olympic Committee awards the 1976 Summer Olympics to Montreal; first time for a Canadian city.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government and Trans-Canada Telephone Systems form Telesat Canada, to develop communications satellites.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1964 Louisville Kentucky - Windfield Farms owner Edward Plunkett (E. P.) Taylor 1901-1989 sees jockey Bill Hartack ride his stallion Northern Dancer to victory in the Kentucky Derby; first Canadian-bred horse to win; the same pair will go on to take the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian dollar officially pegged at US 92.5¢.
1961 Montreal Quebec - Ocean liner Empress of Canada arrives at Montreal on maiden voyage; new flagship of Canadian Pacific fleet.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - The National Film Act creates the National Film Board as a public production agency, headed by Scottish film maker John Grierson 1898-1972.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg metalworkers (the Central Metal Trades) go on strike for an eight hour day.
1885 Edmonton Alberta - Thomas Bland Strange 1831-1925 relieves Fort Edmonton during the North West Rebellion.
1885 Cut Knife Hill Saskatchewan - Colonel William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 forced to retreat with eight dead and 15 wounded, as Cree chief Poundmaker 1826-1886 holds off his attack at Cut Knife Hill.
1881 Portage La Prairie Manitoba - Canadian Pacific Railway starts building its prairie section of track; first sod turned for the CPR as a company line; first rail also laid at Fort William.
1838 Quebec Quebec - James Cuthbert 1769-1849 chairs the Special Council of Lower Canada, a 22 member body set up by Governor Colborne.
1835 Victoria BC - Hudson's Bay Company launches The Beaver, the first steamship on the British Columbia coast.
1835 Quebec - William Colville, Lord Amherst Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada; resigns in May.
1610 London England - John Guy (c1584- c1629), the Sheriff and later Lord Mayor of Bristol, is charged by the Company of Adventurers & Planters of London & Bristol (Newfoundland Company) to colonize the island; King James I had given the Company the grant of Newfoundland at the urging of Francis Bacon.
1602 Ratcliffe England - George Weymouth and expedition set sail on the ships Discovery and Godspeed to find the North West Passage to China; carries letters for the Khan; promised £500 prize by East India Company.

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May 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico assumes the throne.
1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1491 РKongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of Jọo I.
1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It's the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
1860 – Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 – The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1877 – Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
1913 – Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
1928 – Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
1951 – The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
1960 – The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1960 – The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1979 – After the general election, Margaret Thatcher forms her first government as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 – A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003 – New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.





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1915 IN FLANDERS FIELDS
Ypres Belgium - Lt.-Col. John McCrae 1872-1918 composes his poem 'In Flanders Fields' in 20 minutes, while overlooking the grave of a fellow officer at Ypres; first published in Dec. 1915 in Punch magazine, his elegy is the most famous English poem written during World War I; MD from Guelph Ontario.

1917

Acheville, France - Lieutenant Robert Grierson Combe 1880-1917 of the 27th Battalion, Manitoba Regiment, takes 80 German prisoners with a platoon of only 5 men; killed by a sniper while leading his bombers against another objective; awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously June 27, 1917.

1980
Anaheim California - Ferguson Jenkins leads his Texas Rangers in a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles; fourth pitcher in major league history to win 100 or more games in both the AL and NL leagues, joining Cy Young, Jim Bunning, and Gaylord Perry. In 1991, Jenkins, from Chatham, Ontario, was the first Canadian elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame


In Other Events...

1991 Charlottetown PEI - Brian Mulroney 1939- promises 500-job GST processing centre for Summerside to help community hard hit by closing of Canadian Forces Base.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada unanimously rules that Angelique Lyn Lavallee of Winnipeg was acting in self defence when she shot her husband to death after years of beatings; women can use battered wife syndrome as defence against murder charge.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- announces resignation as Liberal leader as soon as a leadership convention date is set.
1987 Europe - Sweden defeats Canada 9-0 to win World Hockey Championship; first in 25 years.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Giants first baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final career home run off Montreal's Scott Sanderson, tying him with Ted Williams on the all-time HR list; McCovey will retire June 6.
1979 Dawson City Yukon - Yukon River submerges Dawson under more than two metres of water; downtown declared a disaster area.
1971 Victoria BC - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts one-week visit to British Columbia for the province's centennial, with Prince Philip and Princess Anne.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Rock star Jimi Hendrix arrested for heroin possession at Toronto International Airport; released on $10,000 bail.
1963 Hay River NWT - Over 1,600 residents of Hay River and Fort Simpson airlifted to safety after towns struck by flooding.
1963 London England - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 visits London for talks with British Prime Minister Macmillan; received by Queen Elizabeth and appointed to the Privy Council.
1961 China - Canada sells $362 million of grain to People's Republic of China.
1960 London England - John G. Diefenbaker 1895-1979 attends Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference; proposes Colombo Plan for aid to Africa.
1959 Vatican City - Beatification of Mother Marguerite d'Youville, founder of the Sisters of Charity; first Canadian to be beatified; canonized by Pope John Paul Dec. 9, 1990.
1958 Brockville, Ontario - Trust company at Brockville robbed of $3.3 million dollars in bonds and securities.
1945 Wismar Germany - First Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar.
1922 Charlottetown PEI- Women in Prince Edward Island win the right to vote.
1922 Montreal Quebec - Creation of radio station CKAC, the first in Quebec; starts broadcasting officially in October.
1887 Nanaimo BC - Coal mine explosion at Nanaimo kills 150.
1886 Vancouver BC- M.A. Maclean elected first mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia.
1871 St. Boniface Manitoba - Collè St-Boniface gets provincial charter.
1867 Victoria BC - Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1850 London England - Horatio Austin 1801-1865 sails with fleet of four ships to search Wellington Channel for signs of the Franklin expedition.
1835 Halifax Nova Scotia - Joseph Howe 1804-1873, editor of The Novascotian, acquitted of charges of libel against a group of Halifax magistrates.
1811 London England - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 purchases 300,000 sq km of Manitoba from the Hudson's Bay Company for a Red River colony named to be named Assiniboia.
1744 Canso Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 appointed by Duquesnel, Commandant of Louisbourg, to capture British fishing station at Canseau; closest British settlement to Louisbourg.
1699 Biloxi Mississippi - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 leaves Louisiana for France, puts colonists under command of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville 1680-1767 and Ensign Sauvole (d1701).
1536 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 discovers threat of Iroquois rebellion; captures chief Donnacona as hostage during a religious ceremony; promises to bring him back from France in ten moons.

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May 4th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1814 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
1836 – Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 – Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1902 – 8 fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, County Galway, Ireland in the Galway Bay drowning tragedy.
1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1912 – Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
1945 – World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1945 – World War II: Denmark is granted liberation, when Germany was forced to step out of Denmark thus ending 5 years of occupation.
1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1990 – Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
2002 – An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff, killing 149 people.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado—the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita Scale.






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1945 CANADIANS CEASE FIRE IN EUROPE
Europe - Fighting stops in the Canadian sector near Wilhelmshaven, Aurich, and Emden; German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to surrender to Canadian commanders.

1958
New York City - Canadian comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster make their first of a record 67 appearances on TV's Ed Sullivan Show.


In Other Events...

1992 NWT - Residents of the Northwest Territories vote to partition the territories into two sections Canada's new Inuit territory - an area over 5 times the size of Alberta - will be called Nunavut.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Hundreds riot for four hours on Yonge Street strip after peaceful rally to protest the recent police shooting of black man.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company buys 5 Robinsons stores in Ottawa and Southern Ontario; will switch them to Bay or Zellers outlets.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Junior Felix of Toronto Blue Jays becomes 53rd major league baseball player to hit a home run at his first at bat.
1976 Canberra, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says that Waltzing Matilda will be his country's national anthem at the upcoming Montreal Summer Olympic Games.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Ontario to raise fees for foreign students at Ontario universities from $585 to $1,500.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Anglican Church of Canada decides to allow women to become ordained ministers.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up 37 bilingual districts; government services now available in both official languages.
1971 St-Jean Vianney Quebec - Mud slide buries part of St. Jean Vianney, killing 31 people; $1 million damage.
1969 St. Louis Missouri - Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup.
1969 Placentia Bay Newfoundland - Ottawa bans fishing in Placentia Bay because of pollution.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Steven Truscott's appeal rejected by Supreme Court; eventually paroled in 1969.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Dr. Jean Sutherland Boggs 1922- appointed first woman Director of the National Art Gallery of Canada; first woman to head an agency with the status of deputy minister.
1961 Halifax Nova Scotia - Launch of Federal Maple; first of two passenger-cargo ships presented to Federation of West Indies under Canada-West Indies Aid Program.
1951 Europe - National Defence forms 27th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group for service in Europe with NATO forces.
1949 Toronto Ontario - Leslie Miscampbell Frost 1895-1975 succeeds Thomas L. Kennedy as Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario.
1944 Atlantic - RCAF kills three U-boats in under a month.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Turgeon presents Report of Royal Grain Enquiry; prospects and future policy.
1924 Paris France - Canada joins 43 other nations and a total of 3,092 competitors at the opening of the eighth Olympic Games; to July 27.
1910 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes to create a Royal Canadian Navy.
1907 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa hit by 19.1 cm snowfall; city's greatest one day May snowfall.
1892 Spray, North Carolina - Canadian Thomas I. 'Carbide' Willson develops first manufacturing process to create acetylene gas; already developed on a laboratory scale; sells process to Union Carbide; builds a calcium carbide plant on Victoria Island in the Ottawa River in 1896, a mansion in Ottawa with a lab in the basement, and a summer home and hydro dam on Meech Lake.
1891 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Ontario Bureau of Mines.
1880 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 chosen as party leader by the Liberal Party, replacing Alexander Mackenzie; serves as leader to June 2, 1887.
1859 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Western Canada and La Banque Nationale incorporated.
1852 Halifax Nova Scotia - William Walsh 1804-1858 appointed first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Halifax.
1836 London England - Hudson's Bay Company acquires the Red River Colony from the sixth Earl of Selkirk for £15,000.
1836 Montreal Quebec - Delivery of Canada's first railway locomotive, the Iron Kitten.
1783 Nova Scotia - First United Empire Loyalists settle in the Maritimes.
1752 London England - Peregrine Thomas Hopson d1759 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; serves from August 3 to January 7, 1756.
1639 Quebec Quebec - Barthelémy Vimont 1594-1667, new Superior of the Jesuits in Canada, arrives with Joseph-Antoine Poncet de La Rivière and Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot.
1639 Quebec Quebec - Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de La Peltrie 1603-1671 brings three Ursuline nuns including Marie Guyart (Marie de I'lncarnation).
1493 Rome Italy - Pope Alexandre VI, by his Bull Inter C¾tera, divides up the New World between Spain and Portugal and forbids further exploration; France respects the ban, but England sends off John Cabot to stake claims in defiance of the order.

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May 5th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
1811 РIn the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de O̱oro the French army, under Marshall Andr̩ Mass̩na, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.
1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language.
1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
1944 – German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece
1945 – World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
1945 – World War II: The Prague Uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
1973 – Secretariat (horse) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a still standing record.
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime. However, significant numbers of Americans were also in favor of it.
2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
2007 – All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.






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1970 GUESS WHO GO GOLD
New York City - Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman and the Guess Who rocket to the top of the US charts with their No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: American Woman; Winnipeg based band.

1950
Winnipeg Manitoba - Waves caused by 80 kph winds break through the dikes of Winnipeg, inundating the city, leaving one dead, and causing $100 million damage; one third of the population are forced to flee their homes. The picture shows two nuns paddling a canoe through the gates of their convent.

1814
Oswego New York - Commodore James Yeo leads a fleet with 1,100 men from Kingston against 500 US defenders of Fort Ontario; captures valuable supplies; destroys the American naval base and firmly fixes British control of Lake Ontario until the close of the War of 1812.


In Other Events...

1996 Europe - Martin Prochazka scores a tie breaker with 19 seconds left, leading the Czech Republic to a 4-2 win over Canada 4-2 for the world hockey championship.
1992 Calgary Alberta - William Hopper says Petro-Canada to lay off 1,200 employees by end of 1993; company lost $598 m in 1991; largest corporate loss in the history of Canada
1983 BC - William Richards Bennett 1932- wins British Columbia election for ruling Social Credit party; 35 seats to the NDP's 22.
1982 China - Canadian Wheat Board announces record Chinese wheat purchase; at least $2.25 billion over 3 years.
1980 England - Canada's Cliff Thornburn beats Alex Higgins 18-16 to take the world professional snooker title; first player from outside the British Isles to win.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises export price of natural gas from $1.00 per thousand cubic feet to $1.40 on Aug. 1; to $1.60 on Nov. 1
1973 Louisville, Kentucky - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte and Secretariat win the Kentucky Derby in a record time of 1:59.4.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Indian Association files legal action to stop James Bay power project; claims compensation under the 1912 Transfer Act that gave the province northern land.
1968 Long Beach California - Toronto rocker Neil Young plays final show with Buffalo Springfield; he and Steven Stills will join David Crosby and Graham Nash, while Jim Messina will team up with Kenny Loggins..
1966 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Hal C. Banks sentenced to five years, but later flees to native US; Seafarers' International Union leader.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa suspends consumer credit restrictions.
1949 Asbestos Quebec - Johns-Manville strikers seize town of Asbestos on learning of plans to hire scab workers; 400 heavily armed police eventually end insurrection
1945 Germany - German commanders surrender in Canadian sector near Wilhelmshaven, Aurich, and Emden.
1929 Montreal - CNR radio operator achieves two-way conversations with moving trains.
1912 Stockholm Sweden - Canadian team joins 27 other nations and a total of 2,546 competitors at the opening of the Stockholm Olympic Games; to July 22.
1900 London England - Private Richard R. Thompson of Ottawa is awarded one of only seven Queen's Scarves, knitted by Queen Victoria, for his gallantry in the Boer War.
1863 London Ontario - Founding of Huron College by the Anglican Church; now affiliated with the University of Western Ontario.
1859 New Westminster BC - Richard C. Moody 1813-1887 makes town of Queensborough the capital of British Columbia; later called New Westminster.
1842 Saint John New Brunswick - Abraham Gesner 1797-1864 opens Gesner Museum at Saint John; the first public museum in Canada is a financial failure; but geologist Gesner goes on to invent kerosene, and makes a fortune.
1813 Fort Meigs Ohio - Major General Henry Proctor attacks 1,200 US reinforcements coming up to end 5 day siege of Americans under William Henry Harrison at Fort Meigs; 400 US soldiers killed, British losses number only 15 in this War of 1812 battle.
1800 Saskatchewan - David Thompson 1770-1857 starts survey of North Saskatchewan River.
1789 Nootka Sound BC - Estaban Jose Martinez 1742-1798 arrives in Nootka Sound on Spanish warship Princesa; proclaims Spanish sovereignty on west coast
1727 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia's first Justices of the Peace are commissioned.
1660 Quebec - Bishop François de Laval 1623-1688 threatens to excommunicate all residents of New France who sell liquor to the Indians.

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May 6th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
1536 – King Henry VIII of England orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church.
1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
1659 – English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
1682 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
1757 – Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
1757 – The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1844 – The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
1857 – The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1902 – Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President.
1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
1916 – 21 Lebanese nationalists executed in the Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman wāli.
1933 – The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
1935 – The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
1962 – St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
1976 – An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
1984 – 103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is known as the "coaster wars".
1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
1994 – Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against United States President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start.
1999 – The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody.





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1973 WHALERS WIN FIRST AVCO CUP
Hartford, Connecticut - The WHA New England Whalers beat the Winnipeg Jets in five games, four games to one, to win the first World Hockey Association title series, the Avco Cup.

1777
Quebec Quebec - British General John (Gentleman Johnny) Burgoyne 1722-1792 arrives in Quebec as field commander of the British forces against the American rebels; his plan is to march down the Hudson River via the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain through Albany, with a secondary advance through the Mohawk Valley, and divide the rebels at New York.

1859
NWT - Robert Hobson of the McClintock expedition finds a cairn with a paper signed by Fitzjames and Crozier, dated April 25, 1848, confirming their disaster; last log of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, sent to discover the North West passage.


In Other Events...

1993 Quebec City - Robert Bourassa's government passes Bill 86, permitting interior English signs if they are smaller than those outside.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Canadair gets 100 orders for twin engined Regional Jet; cost $275 million to develop; the plane is a stretched Challenger for less than 100 passengers.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mulroney says tough economic measures by his government will continue to make him unpopular with the public.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint announces it will strike a $20 Centennial gold coin.
1965 Thunder Bay Ontario - Norman Paterson 1883-installed as first Chancellor of Lakehead University.
1954 Washington DC - US House of Representatives approves joining Canada in construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1950 New York City - The Third Man Theme by Canadian bandleader Guy Lombardo peaks at #1 on the pop singles chart; stays there for 11 weeks.
1950 Rimouski Quebec - Fire at Rimouski causes $10 million in damage.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Dunning establishes the Central Mortgage Bank, owned by the Government and run by the Bank of Canada; now CMHC; money to be loaned at 3% to banks, on condition they lower mortgage rates to 5%.
1939 Toronto Ontario - Edward S. Rogers 1890-1945) dies; Canadian inventor of the AC tube (used in his Rogers Batteryless Radio) and founder of radio station CFRB, Toronto.
1910 London England - King Edward VII dies; accession of King George V.
1901 Queenston, Ontario - Niagara Parks Commission signs deal with Cataract Construction to divert water around the Falls to generate hydro electricity; start of Niagara's hydro industry.
1898 Vancouver BC - T. D. Evans commanding the Yukon Field Force, consisting of 203 volunteers from the Permanent Force, leaves Vancouver for Dawson to keep law and order in the gold fields.
1890 Longue-Pointe Quebec - Fire destroys lunatic asylum at Long Point, killing 70 inmates.
1880 Ottawa Ontario - Lucius O'Brien chairs first meeting of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; sponsored by the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise.
1877 Wood Mountain Saskatchewan - Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads 1,500 of his followers into Canada to ask protection from the Queen; after defeating General George Custer and the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1860 Montreal Quebec - Hugh Allan's Allan steamship line wins government mail contract for weekly postal service to Liverpool.
1854 New York City - Cyrus Field 1819-1892 founds the New York, Newfoundland, & London Telegraph Company;
1814 Oswego New York - Lt. General Gordon Drummond's 1,100 troops having captured the American naval base of Fort Ontario, with its valuable supplies and schooners, Col. Fisher and Capt. Mulcaster hold the fort against counterattack; the base will be destroyed, and British control of Lake Ontario will be fixed until the close of the War of 1812.
1776 Quebec Quebec - Charles Douglas d1789 arrives at Quebec with a British relief fleet; Thomas and the Americans abandon their siege and retreat upriver to Chambly.
1708 Quebec Quebec - François de Laval 1623-1708 dies; appointed first Bishop of New France in 1674.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Leneuf de La Potherie 1606-1685 Governor of Trois-Rivières appointed acting administrator of New France; serves until September 12, 1665.
1628 Paris France - Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis Richelieu 1585-1642 gets Council of State to ratify the charter of Company of One Hundred Associates; with a 15 year trade monopoly, the Company agrees to plant 300 settlers immediately, and 16,000 more before 1643.
1604 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - Sieur Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 arrives at Le Port du Rossignol with Champlain, Hébert and Baron Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt; asks Champlain to hunt for a good site for a trading colony; sailed from Havre-de-Grâce (Le Havre) March 7.
1536 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves ship La Petite Hermine behind and sets sail from St. Croix for France; takes furs and pyrite ore he thinks is gold; accompanied by Chief Donnacona and 9 other Iroquois hostages, including 4 children.

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May 7th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P

351 – The Jewish revolt against Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.
558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
1429 РJoan of Arc ends the Siege of Orl̩ans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
1487 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.
1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
1763 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
1794 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
1832 – The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1847 – The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide was launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire
1915 – Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation)
1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
1920 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
1940 – The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
1942 – During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).
1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1964 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
1974 – West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
1986 – Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49).
1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 РIn Guinea-Bissau, President Jọo Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
2009 – Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.
2013 – Twenty-seven people are killed and more than 30 injured, when a tanker truck crashes and explodes outside Mexico City.





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1945 VE DAY MARKED BY RIOTING IN HALIFAX
Rheims, France - VE Day celebrated as Germany signs the armistice ending World War II in Europe in a schoolhouse in Rheims; the Germans on the eastern front will surrender unconditionally to the Soviets the next day. In Halifax, exuberant crowds start a riot that will last for two days.

1870
Toronto Ontario - Garnet Wolseley 1833-1913 leaves for Red River to enforce Canadian rule with the 60th Rifles and Ontario and Quebec militia units; they will travel via Prince Arthur's Landing and Lake of the Woods. Here is a painting of the expedition crossing a portage west of Thunder Bay.

1837
St-Ours Quebec - Louis-Joseph Papineau chosen leader of the Patriotes at a protest meeting of about 1,200 people; they adopt the Declaration of St. Ours, declaring smuggling a public duty.


In Other Events...

1997 Quebec City - Le Soleil publishes extracts from Jacques Parizeau's book, Pour un QuŽbec souverain; says if the Yes side had won the referendum, the government would make a unilateral declaration of sovereignty within a week or ten days to have the new state recognized.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Cal Best issues report of Task Force on Amateur Sport; more support for amateurs; focus on developing top athletes, more professional coaching.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Claude Morin admits to Radio Canada that he was a paid RCMP informant from 1974 to 1977; was a Parti Quebecois insider and Rene Levesque's Intergovernmental Affairs Minister.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Bernard Valcourt unveils $584 million aid package to cut size of fishery; mainly to the Newfoundland communities of Trepassy, St. John's, Grand Bank and Gaultois, as well as North Sydney, Canso and Lockeport in Nova Scotia.
1988 Moncton NB - Mila Mulroney struck in the stomach by a placard during a labor rally outside a Tory gathering; a man is arrested but no charges are laid.
1985 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers take their second Stanley Cup with a 7-3 win over the Chicago Black Hawks; set a National Hockey League record for playoff wins (12).
1983 Louisville Kentucky - Sunny's Halo wins Kentucky Derby; Canadian-owned horse.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Ontario doctors agree to new fee plan.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Labour Congress rejects Ottawa's proposal for voluntary wage and price restraints.
1975 Cape Canaveral Florida - Anik III launched at Kennedy Space Center; Canada's third communications satellite.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Canada's mayors attend 'Cities for the 70's' conference; agree to seek additional funds from Ottawa and provinces
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada bans all tobacco advertising on CBC/SRC radio and television networks.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Expos manager Gene Mauch, upset at a balk call, kicks pitcher's resin bag twice, then punts the baseball; he is ejected from the game.
1966 Quebec City - Parent Royal Commission on Education in Quebec recommends non-denominational education, local school reorganization.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Two Soviet diplomats expelled from Canada for plotting an espionage network.
1953 Washington DC - Louis St. Laurent 1882-1973 starts two-day official visit to the United States.
1944 Atlantic - German U-boats sink RCN frigate HMCS Valleyfield.
1935 Richmond Hill Ontario - University of Toronto completes David Dunlap Observatory with a 188 cm reflector telescope; first observations take place June 9.
1920 Toronto Ontario - Art Gallery of Ontario opens an exhibition titled 'The Group of Seven' with paintings by Carmichael, Harris, Jackson, Johnston, Lismer, MacDonald and Varley; their first exhibition.
1908 Vancouver BC - Founding of the University of British Columbia as a branch of McGill University in Montreal; becomes independent in 1915.
1907 Vancouver BC - Incorporation of the Vancouver Stock Exchange; issues of British Columbia companies previously traded in Spokane and Rossland; the VSE are soon listing Cobalt mining shares as well.
1906 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Hydro created as a Crown corporation.
1903 Montreal Quebec - Dock workers in Montreal go on three-day strike.
1882 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Bank gets charter.
1880 Winnipeg Manitoba - Great North Western Telegraph Company founded in Winnipeg.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canadian Pacific Railroad Bill; line to be completed within 10 years from Nipissing Junction to the Pacific Ocean.
1870 London England - The Hudson's Bay Company delivers a signed deed of surrender to the British Colonial Office, officially transferring Rupert's Land to Canada; title sold for £200,000 and 1/20th of the fertile belt.
1865 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Land & Emigration Company acquires ten townships in Canada West; later founds towns of Haliburton and Minden
1865 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick rejects Confederation.
1849 Toronto Ontario - Fire destroys large section of Toronto.
1771 Coppermine NWT - Samuel Hearne arrives at the Coppermine River and views the Arctic Coast.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec; serves from Sept 24, 1766 to Oct. 26, 1768.
1676 Cape Breton Nova Scotia - Michael Le Neuf Sieur de La Vallire de Beaubassin 1640-1705, the elder, with his brother-in-law, Sieur Richard Denys, as second in command, seize three Boston ketches taking on coal at Cape Breton; two of them are declared lawful prizes.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Louis Gaudais-Dupont takes possession of New France as special commissioner acting in the name of King of France.
1657 Paris France - Louis XlV prohibited the sale of liquor to Indians.
1586 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sets sail on his second voyage to look for the North West Passage; with four ships: the Sunneshine, Mooneshine, Mermayd and North Starre.

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May 8th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

453 BC – The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period of China.
413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
589 – Reccared I summons the Third Council of Toledo.
1450 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
1788 – The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
1794 РBranded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme G̩n̩rale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
1842 – A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
1846 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
1901 – The Australian Labour Party is established.
1902 РIn Martinique, Mount Pel̩e erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day.
1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
1927 РAttempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Fran̤ois Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against the British rule in India.
1941 – The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
1945 РHundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the S̩tif massacre.
1945 – World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
1945 – The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax.
1945 – End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
1945 – Dissolution and surrender of Nazi Germany and all its forces.
1946 РEstonian school girls Aili J̵gi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
1966 – A plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania kills the Pennsylvania Attorney General, his wife, and other state officials.
1967 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
1970 – The Hard Hat Riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
1972 – Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1972 – Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1980 – The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.
1984 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
1984 РCorporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. Ren̩ Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened.
1987 – The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.
1997 – A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.





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1987 BIRTH OF THE LOONIE
Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint unveils one-dollar coin to replace the paper dollar; made of nickel, copper and recycled tin, the loonie has a loon engraved on its rear side.

1982
Zolder Belgium - Gilles Villeneuve, from Berthierville, Que. dies in a 225 KPH accident while qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Villeneuve began his racing career on snowmobiles, and won the world championships in 1974. He entered his first car race in 1973 and by 1976 was dominating the Formula Atlantic series. He signed with McLaren and later joined Ferrari to drive Formula One. In 1978 he won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal - a first by a Canadian driver. Visit the Gilles Villeneuve Museum .


In Other Events....

1991 Bathurst New Brunswick - 1,400 United Steelworkers of America workers end strike at Brunswick Mining and Smelting; cost local economy $40 million in lost wages.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican President, addresses Parliament during official visit to Canada.
1984 Quebec Quebec - Canadian Army Corporal Denis Lortie 1959- sprays the Quebec National Assembly with sub-machine gun fire, killing 3 and wounding 13; on leave from his base, he tells his captors he wanted to destroy the Parti Quebecois.
1979 Mexico Mexico - Mexico to sell Canada 17 million L ( 100,000 barrels) of oil a day for 10 years; will look at purchase of Candu reactor.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau loses a non confidence vote on the budget, when the Conservatives and NDP combine to defeat the Liberal government by a vote of 137 to 123; says he will call an election for July.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 2nd session of the 27th Parliament; until April 23, 1968.
1963 Haiti - Canada evacuates citizens by air from riot-torn Haiti.
1951 United Nations New York - Canada signs trade agreements with 16 other countries at UN; resulting from Torquay Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1950-51.
1950 Manitoba - Ten thousand people evacuate the Red River valley south of Winnipeg; the flood ends May 25 after causing $25 million damage.
1945 Berlin Germany - Second World War ends in Europe with unconditional surrender of German land, sea and air forces to the Soviets.
1945 Halifax Nova Scotia - In the second day of rioting, 10,000 servicemen loot and vandalize downtown Halifax during VE-Day celebrations.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Government appoints War Purchasing Board.
1907 Los Angeles California - Canadian boxer Tommy Burns knocks out Jack O'Brien in the 20th round, to win the heavyweight championship of the world.
1906 Edmonton Alberta - founding of the University of Alberta at Edmonton.
1906 Kamloops BC - American desperado Bill Miner holds up a CPR train, but gets only $15 and is captured a few days later; Canada's first train robbery is the subject of a film 'The Grey Fox'.
1882 Ottawa Ontario - Order-in-Council divides NWT into Athabasca, Assiniboia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, provisional districts of the NWT, with the capital at Regina.
1880 Victoria BC - Founding of the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company; the first in British Columbia.
1871 Washington DC - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 signs the Treaty of Washington; US gets fishing rights in Canadian waters, use of Canadian canals; both countries have freedom of navigation on the Great Lakes.
1858 Chatham Ontario - American abolitionist John Brown 1800-1859 holds an anti-slavery convention at Chatham.
1842 Toronto Ontario - Michael Power 1804-1847 appointed the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto.
1821 London England - William Parry 1790-1855 sails from England on a new voyage to the Arctic; until Oct. 10, 1823.
1818 London England - Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond 1764-1819 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from July 30, 1818 until his death from rabies on Aug. 28, 1819.
1813 Toronto Ontario - General Zebulon Pike departs from York to Fort Niagara after burning the Parliament Buildings, looting the town; occupied since Apr 27.; British retaliate a year later by burning the American capital, Washington.
1760 Quebec Quebec - French Superior Council meets for the last time.
1642 Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve becomes the first governor of Ville-Marie.
1620 Le Havre France - Samuel de Champlain sails for Canada, accompanied by his young wife Hélène, who 'brought him a useful dowry.'
1604 LaHave, Nova Scotia - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 arrives in Acadia with Champlain, Hébert and Baron Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt; asks Champlain to hunt for a good site for a trading colony. The first piece of land they encounter they call Cap de LaHeve, now called LaHave, where Champlain draws the first official map ever made in North America.

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