This Date In History

henric · May 8, 2014

May 9th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its dÃ©but in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1918 – World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-JÃ¼rgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1958 – Film: Vertigo (film) has world premiere in San Francisco.
1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in SÃ£o Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 – An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M, Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP-LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2012 – A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1974 COMMONS VOTES OUT TRUDEAU MINORITY
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau's minority government is defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 137-123, forcing a federal election July 8, where he will win a majority.

In Other Events...

1992 Plymouth Nova Scotia - Clifford Frame closes Curragh's Westray Mine after methane gas explosion kills 26 men underground; modern $140 million coal mine built in Premier Cameron's riding; bodies of 11 men recovered immediately; unsuccessful search for survivors continues for six days.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - National Energy Board gives TransCanada Pipelines the green light for a $2.6 billion line into the US; plus 15 export licenses for 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and the provinces unveil a 5 year $100 million plan to combat ground-level ozone, a harmful component of city smog.
1987 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Minister Gil RÃ©millard suggests five fundamental conditions for Quebec to sign the Constitution: 1. Recognition of Quebec as a distinct society; 2. Right of veto on any change to the Constitution; 3. One third of judges on the Supreme Court of Canada to be from Quebec; 4. Opting out guarantees for provinces refusing to participate in federal programs; 5. Complete control of immigration to Quebec territory.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Thomas Berger 1933- recommends 10 year delay in Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, to allow time to settle native land claims; Berger Commission also suggests permanent ban on pipelines from Alaska across the northern Yukon because of social and environmental hazards.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada cuts lending rate from 8% to 7.5%.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Fire in the downtown core destroys a building under demolition and damages the Eaton Centre.
1970 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young and his group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young see their song Woodstock peak at #11 on the pop singles chart.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 appointed Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University.
1966 Quebec Quebec - 1,600 Quebec civil servants strike for better pay; until July 29.
1937 London England - Canadian Coronation contingent the first Dominion troops to stand sentry duty at St. James and Buckingham palaces..
1926 Spitsbergen Norway - US Navy pilots Richard Evelyn Byrd 1888-1957 and Floyd Bennett 1890-1928 leave Spitsbergen Island in three-engined Fokker monoplane; fly over North Pole at 9:04 am.
1926 Arctic - Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 crosses Pole in Italian airship Norge; later lands in Alaska; Norwegian explorer.
1916 England - General Julian Hedworth George Byng, Lord Byng of Vimy 1862-1935 appointed commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Europe; succeeding General Alderson; takes post May 28; Byng will wisely leave the detailed soldiering to Canadian commander Arthur Currie.
1915 Festubert France - First Canadian Division sees action at Festubert.
1886 Halifax Nova Scotia - Over 127 mm of rain falls on Halifax; one of its greatest May rainfalls.
1885 Batoche Saskatchewan - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 attacks Gabriel Dumont at Batoche; battle rages for several days; until troops disobey Middleton, storm the trenches and slaughter the Metis defenders.
1880 Toronto Ontario - George Brown dies from wounds suffered in shooting; his assailant Bennett is later hanged for murder.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Patrick James Whelan c1840-1869 arrested and charged with murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee; Irish immigrant and Fenian sympathizer.
1853 London England - British Parliament approves of Canada's right to dispose of clergy reserves.
1813 Fort Meigs Ohio - Major General Henry Proctor forced to end 10 day siege of William Henry Harrison and Americans at Fort Meigs due to his militiamen deserting.
1804 Charlottetown PEI - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres 1722-1824 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of PEI; serves from July 1805 to Aug. 4, 1812.
1793 Peace River Alberta - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 leaves Fort York at the forks of the Peace and Smoky rivers; heads west towards Pacific with party of nine, eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean via the Bella Coola River, becoming the first European to cross North America using a route north of Mexico.
1790 Ontario - Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatamies, and Hurons cede two million acres in Ontario.
1763 Detroit Michigan - Pontiac starts rebellion against British by blockading Detroit for six months; takes all other posts west; the so-called 'Conspiracy of Pontiac' uprising lasts until August 1765.
1760 Quebec Quebec - FranÃ§ois, Duc de LÃ©vis retreats upriver, abandoning Quebec when the frigate Lowestoft arrives to relieve Murray and the British, rest of British fleet appears later that day.
1749 Nova Scotia - Edward Cornwallis c1713-1753 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia.
1677 Paris France - Louis XIV 1638-1715 sets up La PrÃ©vote de QuÃ©bec, a tribunal consisting of the Lieutenant-Governor and the King's Attorney.
1660 Hawkesbury Ontario - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux 1635-1660 killed during attack by Iroquois on an Algonkian trading post at Long Sault on the Ottawa; only one Huron escapes to Montreal; Iroquois war party turns back; commander of Montreal garrison, age 25. [various dates]
1641 Le Havre France - Jeanne Mance 1606-1673 leaves France with settlers bound for Montreal in two ships; with Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve.

End of C/P.

henric · May 9, 2014

May 10th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

28 BCE – A sunspot is observed by Han Dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.
1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves CÃ¡diz for his first voyage to the New World.
1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
1655 – England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
1833 – The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern Vietnam LÃª Văn Duyệt by Emperor Minh Mạng provokes his adopted son to start a revolt.
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.
1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
1864 – American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment "Attack-in-depth" assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.
1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1877 – Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. Recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
1904 – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded.
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
1922 – The United States annex the Kingman Reef.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1940 – World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
1940 – World War II: German raids on British shipping convoys and military airfields begin.
1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
1948 – The Republic of China implements "temporary provisions" granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
1970 – Bobby Orr scores "The Goal" to win the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, for the Boston Bruins' fourth NHL championship in their history.
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
1981 – FranÃ§ois Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers.
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
1997 – A 7.3 Mw earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killing 1,567, injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes.
1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.
2002 – F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
2008 – An EF4 tornado strikes the Oklahoma-Kansas state line, killing 21 people and injuring over 100.
2012 – The Damascus bombings were carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400 others
2013 – The Freedom Tower becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 OTTAWA BAILS OUT CHRYSLER CANADA
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa gives financially strapped Chrysler Canada $20 million in loan guarantees, and Ontario provides a $10 million grant; the US also provided $1.5 billion in loans and subsidies to bail out Chrysler Corp, the parent company. Under the leadership of Lee Iacocca, the company will return to health and pay back the loans.

1534
Cape Bonavista Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sights Cape Bonavista after three week crossing from France; stopped ten days by ice; then skirts east coast of Newfoundland; his first voyage to Canada.

In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court judge's ruling gives lesbian couples the right to legally adopt children.
1991 Vancouver BC - Inderjit Singh Reyat convicted of bombing death of two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Tokyo June 23, 1985, to protest Indian government's treatment of Sikhs; later sentenced to 10 years in jail; also linked to Air India disaster.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Mark Langston no-hits Toronto for 8 innings before Tom Lawless singles and the Blue Jays rally for 3 runs to beat Seattle 3-2; third time this season that the Blue Jays have broken up a no-hit bid in the ninth inning.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Ministry of Transport to deregulate air traffic within 2 years, airlines can offer lower rates, more routes.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Energy and Northern Affairs announces $600 million oil and gas exploration program in Beaufort Sea, NWT.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Expo Charlie Lea pitches a no-hit 4-0 victory over San Francisco Giants in the second game of a doubleheader.
1976 Windsor Ontario - Windsor high schools open for first time since end of March after Ontario legislates teachers back to work.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Olympic Lottery to continue until 1979, to cut deficit for 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1972 Sept-Iles Quebec - Workers riot, occupy a radio station, 35 people injured during riot to protest the jailing of three Quebec labor leaders.
1970 Osaka Japan - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- takes part in Expo 70's Canada Day ceremonies in Osaka during three-week visit to Asia.
1970 Boston Massachusetts - Bruins' Bobby Orr scores to beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3, for a four game sweep and the Stanley Cup; first for Boston since 1941; will repeat cup win in 1972.
1970 New York City - Burton Cummings and The Guess Who's American Woman/No Sugar Tonight stays at # 1 on the Billboard pop chart; Winnipeg-based band.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Habib Bourguiba President of Tunisia starts visit to Ottawa.
1963 Hyannisport Massachusetts - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 starts two-day visit to Hyannisport for talks with President Kennedy; Canada to get nuclear warheads; Roosevelt home on Campobello Island to be international park.
1955 Vancouver BC - Tommy Burns dies at 73; born Noah Brusso Jun 17, 1881 in Hanover, Ontario; world heavyweight boxing champion 1906-08.
1924 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Legislature votes to end prohibition in the province.
1921 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and British West Indies come to tariff arrangement.
1920 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to send its own minister to Washington, not the British ambassador, to represent the country.
1905 London England - King Edward VII grants Manitoba's Coat-of-Arms.
1896 London England - Imperial Privy Council upholds right of Ontario to enforce local prohibition; denies right to stop imports or distilling in the province.
1865 Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 advocates Maritime Union rather than Confederation.
1853 Bathurst Island NWT - Gerard Osborn 1822-1875 sails the Pioneer along east coast of Bathurst Island; until July 15; forced to winter in Wellington Channel.
1853 Quebec Quebec - Sir Hugh Allan's Genova the first steamer of the Allan Line to arrive at Quebec; starts 14-day Montreal-Liverpool mail run; steamers Sarah Sands and Lady Eglinton will follow later in the year.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Capital of Canada moves from Montreal from Kingston after years of petitions; until Nov. 14, 1849.
1841 Halifax Nova Scotia - Halifax incorporates as a city.
1840 Canandaigua New York - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 released from jail in New York State; had been arrested for violation of US neutrality regulations.
1828 Quebec Quebec - James Kempt 1764-1854 appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves from Sept. 8, 1828 to Oct. 20, 1830.
1823 London England - Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson present a petition opposing the proposed Union of Upper and Lower Canada.
1812 Washington DC - US calls out militia forces to prepare for war against Canada.
1809 Quebec Quebec - First session of fifth Parliament of Lower Canada meets until May 15.
1799 Ontario - Peter Hunter 1746-1805 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves from Aug. 17, 1799 to Aug. 21, 1805.
1794 Halifax Nova Scotia - Edward, Duke of Kent, commands British troops stationed at Halifax.
1790 Nootka Sound BC - Spanish captain Francisco de Eliza y Reventa 1759-1825 takes possession of Nootka and builds a fur fort.
1775 Ticonderoga New York - Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga from the British with his Green Mountain boys and the help of Benedict Arnold.
1758 Petersham England - George Vancouver dies; explorer and surveyor of the BC coast 1792-94, who gave his name to the city and island.
1652 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Jacques Butem 1599-1652 murdered by Iroquois north of Trois-RiviÃ¨res.
1632 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Isaac de Launoy de Razilly 1587-1635 takes possession of Acadia for the Company of One Hundred Associates; on the orders of Richelieu he builds a good working relationship with Charles de La Tour.

End of C/P.

henric · May 10, 2014

May 11th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it oldest known dated printed book.
912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1310 – In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1820 – HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched.
1846 – President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War
1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1862 – American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
1867 – Luxembourg gains its independence.
1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
1889 – An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
1891 – The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
1894 – Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
1907 – Thirty-two Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California.
1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
1918 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
1944 – World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power.
1946 – UMNO is created.
1949 – Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
1963 – Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
1967 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
1968 – The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West.
1970 – The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1983 – Aberdeen F.C. defeat Real Madrid 2–1 to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1985 – Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England.
1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
1987 – In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart–lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
1995 – More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
1996 – The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
2010 – David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form the UK's first coalition government since World War II after elections produced a hung parliament.
2013 – At least 46 people are killed in the 2013 Reyhanlı bombings in Reyhanlı, Turkey.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1870 CANADA BUYS OUT THE BAY
London England - Canada's agent in London. Sir John Rose, delivers a bank draft for Â£300,000 (the equivalent of $11 million) to the Hudson's Bay Company in full payment for the title to Rupert's Land. The land includes all territories drained by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay (most of today's Prairie provinces, northern Ontario, northwestern Quebec and portions of the Northwest Territories.) The HBC keeps blocks of land around its trading posts and 1/20 of the fertile belt (2.8 million hectares).

1940
London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill names New Brunswick-born Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, as his Minister of Aircraft Production. 'The Beaver' is publisher of the Daily Express newspaper.

In Other Events...

1992 Toronto Ontario - Baton Broadcasting buys former CBC affiliates CFPL-TV of London and CKNX-TV of Wingham; pays Blackburn family $31.5 million.
1990 Edmonton Alberta - Donald Cormie, founder of Principal Group, is sued for $235 million by the Alberta Government; suit will be dropped in return for compensating investors.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill creating the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS); civilian security agency to replace RCMP Security Service when dealing with espionage and terrorism; Bill given Royal Assent June 21.
1983 West Pubnico Nova Scotia - Mob of 100 fishermen burn and sink two fisheries patrol boats at to protest lobster quotas.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Start of first Toronto Theatre Festival; 19 theatres stage 34 plays over 10 days.
1968 Vancouver BC - 4,500 British Columbia lumber workers end strike that began Oct 4, 1967.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Transit Commission opens new subway extensions, adding 9.6 km to the system.
1966 Ontario - teamsters end 4-week strike that disrupted transport across Ontario.
1964 Montreal Quebec - CN-CP Telecommunications opens Montreal-Vancouver microwave network.
1963 Montreal Quebec - John Turner marries Geils McCrae Kilgour; Canadian Prime Minister June-Sept. 1984.
1962 Nelson BC - RCMP arrest 9 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors; sentenced to 15 years in prison for bombing power station.
1944 Cassino Italy - Canadian tanks see action near Monte Cassino as Allies launch major offensive south of Rome.
1942 Anticosti Quebec - German submarine U-S53 torpedoes British steamer Nicoya and Dutch ship Leno near Anticosti Island; Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence begins between the Royal Canadian Navy and German U-Boats.
1942 Canada - P.J.A. Cardin resigns from federal cabinet over conscription issue; Public Works Minister
1910 Trail BC - British Columbia city of Trail incorporated.
1896 Quebec - Edmund James Flynn becomes Conservative Premier of Quebec.
1885 Batoche, Saskatchewan - Metis under Louis Riel defeated by the militia at Batoche during the North West Rebellion. Riel later gives himself up and is charged with treason; executed at Regina Nov. 16th.
1880 London England - Alexander Tilloch Galt 1817-1893 appointed first Canadian High Commissioner to London, replacing Sir John Rose as Canada's agent; serves until 1883; the new office gives Canada full representation in the UK.
1856 Hamilton Ontario - John Farrell 1820-1873 appointed first Roman Catholic Bishop of Hamilton.
1847 Kingston Ontario - Henry Sherwood 1807-1855 forms administration with Daly and Draper.
1839 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Upper Canada.
1833 Atlantic - Passenger ship Lady of the Lake sinks after striking an iceberg between Quebec and England; 215 people drown.
1820 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first session of tenth Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until May 24.
1717 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Canadian commercial exchange; forerunner of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
1684 Paris France - La Rochelle merchant Bergier appointed by Louis XIV as his 'lieutenant in the government of the country and coasts of Acadia;' sends out two ships, the St. Louis and the Marianne, to chase off New England fishermen sold licences by Michel de la ValliÃ¨re; arrives back at France in October.
1676 Quebec Quebec - Beggars ordered to get permission from priests to beg in the streets of Montreal and Quebec.
1675 Quebec Quebec - Jean Oudiette awarded the monopoly of the beaver trade in New France for a period of seven years.

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henric · May 11, 2014

May 12th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope.
304 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.
907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang Dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.
922 – After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars.
1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in KrakÃ³w, Poland.
1510 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming Dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1588 – French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
1689 – King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1797 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1821 – The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.
1862 – U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
1865 – American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1873 – Coronation of Oscar II of Sweden
1881 – In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
1885 – North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel MÃ©tis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1926 – UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
1933 – The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies.
1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
1937 – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at a ceremony in Westminster Abbey.
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: in eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker Virginia was torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German U-Boat U-507.
1942 – The Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
1945 – Argentinian labour leader JosÃ© Peter declares the FederaciÃ³n Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
1948 – Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne.
1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
1949 – The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
1952 – Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
1955 – Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore's bid for independence.
1955 – Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral–Balmoral.
1975 – MayagÃ¼ez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1978 – In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.
1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
1982 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in FÃ¡tima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan MarÃa FernÃ¡ndez y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
1986 – NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
1989 – The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
2006 – Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in SÃ£o Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
2006 – Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
2007 – Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1870 BIRTH OF MANITOBA
Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees his Manitoba Act, incorporating most Metis demands, given Royal Assent; the old District of Assiniboia enters Confederation as Canada's fifth province, Manitoba
[the name means 'The Great Spirit Speaks'].

In Other Events...

1997 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Parizeau publishes Pour un QuÃ©bec souverain, stating that within days of a referendum victory, Quebec would have no choice but to declare the sovereignty of Quebec.
1995 New York City - Cineplex Odeon Corp. and Cinemark USA Inc. terminate merger talks that would have created the world's largest movie theatre company..
1992 Montreal Quebec - Canada's largest charter airline, Nationair, declares bankruptcy.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Michael Mike Harris wins Ontario PC Party leadership, defeating Rookie MPP Diane Cunningham of London 7,175 to 5,825 votes; chosen by one-member, one-vote system from 33,000 PC members.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Olympian Ben Johnson admits to Dubin Inquiry that he has used anabolic steroids to enhance performance.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Industry Minister Sinclair Stevens resigns from cabinet while an inquiry looks at a $2.6 million loan to one of his holding companies; denies breaking conflict of interest guidelines.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Ontario begins to extend provincial funding to Roman Catholic High Schools.
1981 Colorado Springs Colorado - North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) changes name to North American Aerospace Defence Command.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Ontario brings in Family Law Reform Bill; to establish equality of both partners in a marriage.
1970 Geneva Switzerland - Montreal awarded the 1976 Summer Olympic Games.
1966 Winnipeg Manitoba - Flag of Manitoba proclaimed; red ensign with provincial crest.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act to establish the Science Council of Canada.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court upholds 1876 treaties with Saskatchewan Indian tribes requiring the Crown to give them free medical care.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 25th Parliament; until September 6.
1955 New York City- Canadian pop star Gisele MacKenzie performs on the NBC-TV's Justice on this Night, singing her song, Hard to Get, that will climb to #4 on the Billboard pop music chart by September.
1937 London England - King George VI's coronation heard throughout the Empire on the first worldwide radio broadcast.
1922 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Navy cuts force to three small ships on each coast as an economy measure.
1903 Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls incorporated as a city.
1890 Ottawa Ontario - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 convicted by Parliament of looting furs during command of Northwest Rebellion; will resign his post under censure in June.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 appointed to the Senate; Dean of Law at McGill University, and later Canada's third Prime Minister.
1885 Batoche Saskatchewan - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 and his Metis warriors run out of ammunition; fire stones and nails before giving up the fight; Dumont flees to US.
1876 Ellesmere Island NWT - British polar expedition stops 650 km short of the North Pole; farthest northern point reached to that date.
1875 Charlottetown PEI - Opening of the Prince Edward Island Railroad.
1867 London England - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees passage of his Canada Railway Loan Act; to approve Â£3 million loan guarantee for Intercolonial Railway from Quebec to Halifax.
1848 London England - James Ross sails with Robert McClure and Francis McClintock on the Enterprise and Investigator; will winter in Leopold Harbour, Somerset Island.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Assembly petitions Queen Victoria for reciprocity - reciprocal free trade with the US .
1820 Quebec Quebec - George Ramsay, Lord Dalhousie 1770-1838 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada; serves from June 19, 1820 to Sept. 8, 1828.
1804 Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches Lake Athabasca.
1802 Windsor Nova Scotia - Royal charter grants university powers to King's College, Windsor.
1776 Ile Ã La Crosse Saskatchewan - Thomas Frobisher starts to build trading post at Ile Ã La Crosse on the Churchill (Misnipi) River.
1775 Crown Point New York - Seth Warner captures Crown Point from British.
1630 Cape Sable Nova Scotia - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 fights off father Claude, at Fort Lomeron; also called Fort St. Louis; Claude had joined the English and enrolled his son Charles as a Nova Scotia baronet.

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henric · May 12, 2014

May 13th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1846 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 – Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first man with dark skin to command a United States ship.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 – With the passage of the Lei Ãurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
1912 – The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of FÃ¡tima in FÃ¡tima, Portugal.
1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.[citation needed]
1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 – The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1958 – May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1963 – The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
1967 – Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
1969 – Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1972 – The Troubles: a car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2005 – The BÃnh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2006 – 2006 SÃ£o Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2008 – The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
2011 – In the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan, two bombs explode, resulting in 98 deaths and 140 others wounded.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1898 BIRTH OF THE YUKON
Ottawa Ontario - The Yukon Territory is organized, with Dawson City chosen as the capital.

In Other Events...

1997 Montreal Quebec - Radio Canada journalist Claire Lamarche faints two hours into the French portion of the federal leaders' debate; Jean-FranÃ§ois LÃ©pine had just posed the first question on Canadian unity to Jean ChrÃ©tien: 'Since you declared victory with only 50.6% of the votes in the last referendum, will you recognize a Yes victory with the same proportions?' The debate is cancelled and the unity portion resumed May 18.
1992 Toronto Ontario - CBC VP Public Affairs Trina McQueen moves the network's flagship TV news shows The National and The Journal from 10 pm slot to 9 pm.
1991 Regina Saskatchewan - Baltej Dhillon, a Sikh, becomes the first RCMP officer to wear a turban since the force's creation in 1873.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn delivers Throne Speech; promises Commons-Senate Committee to study the Constitution; education; Aboriginal Affairs; reform of Parliament.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Nolan Ryan pitches his record seventh no-hitter, in a 3-0 win over the Blue Jays, striking out 16 batters.
1989 Saskatchewan - Swift Current defeats Saskatoon 4-3 in overtime to win Memorial Cup; Major Junior A Championship
1985 Los Angeles California - Selma Diamond dies at 64; born in Montreal Aug 5, 1920; actress, scriptwriter, played Too Close For Comfort's Mildred Rafkin, and Night Court's Selma Hacker (1984-85).
1983 Nova Scotia - Nine fishermen charged with piracy after West Pubnico incident.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises prime lending rate to 8.75%.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Ottawa to build Short Take-Off and Landing airport in Montreal; with commuter service to a similar Ottawa and Toronto STOL port.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa borrows $262 million from West German, US, and Italian sources, to increase cash reserves.
1964 Quebec Quebec - National Assembly passes Education Bill 60, establishing the Quebec Department of Education.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to subsidize shipyards; reserves shipments between Canadian Great Lakes ports to Canadian ships only.
1954 Washington DC - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signs bill approving the St. Lawrence Seaway agreement with Canada.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - CNR amalgamates its National Transcontinental Railway Branch Lines Company and 5 other subsidiaries.
1942 Anticosti Island Quebec - Two more Canadian ships lost to German U-Boats in the St. Lawrence.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - R. B. Hanson chosen as interim leader by the Conservative Party, replacing R.J. Manion; serves to Nov. 12, 1941.
1940 The Hague Netherlands - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her daughter Juliana flee to London as the Nazis occupy Holland; Princess Juliana will bring her children to Ottawa for safety.
1930 Fort Radium NWT - Gilbert LaBine discovers pitchblende ore on the shore of Great Bear Lake; will become a chief source of uranium and radium.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Fifty-two unions join the metal trades workers, setting the stage for a strike that will paralyze essential services in the city.
1873 Westville Nova Scotia - Sixty men die in the Westville coal mine, in Canada's first major mine disaster.
1859 Fredericton New Brunswick - King's College at Fredericton gets charter as University of New Brunswick.
1756 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 arrives in Canada to command the French forces under Governor Pierre de Vaudreuil 1698-1778, a native-born Quebecker; Vaudreuil will not get along with Montcalm, fearing a lack of French commitment to save New France.
1724 Paris France - Louis XV issues a royal edict ordering the building of stone walls to defend Montreal.
1604 Port Mouton Nova Scotia - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 names 'Port-au-Mouton' for a sheep that jumps overboard.

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henric · May 13, 2014

May 14th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and JosÃ© Gaspar RodrÃguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1889 – The children's charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
1897 – The Stars and Stripes Forever is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
1931 – Ã…dalen shootings: five people are killed in Ã…dalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1935 – The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight.
1943 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
1955 – Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in West Germany.
1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
1988 – Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashed near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
2013 – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1946 NOW YOU'RE A REAL CANADIAN
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; first nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians; Canadian citizenship to be distinct and primary over being a British subject; to take effect January 1, 1947.

1847
Grosse Ile Quebec - First ship of the season arrives at the Grosse Ile quarantine station near the port of Quebec; beginning of the most terrible summer of its 105-year history, as the Irish famine reaches its peak, and over 100 000 immigrants, many infected with typhus, arrive in a single season. Over 5000 perish at sea, 5424 are buried on Grosse Ile and thousands die in Quebec, Montreal and Kingston.

1874
Cambridge Massachusetts - Harvard beats McGill University 3-0 in the first game of American/Canadian football (a variation of rugby); admission is first charged for a college football game, and the football goal post is also used for the first time at both ends of the playing field. The Harvard soccer team had invited McGill's rugby team to play two games - one under Harvard rules, other under McGill's. Harvard was impressed, and passed the McGill rules to Yale; the first American game followed later that year, McGill thereby introducing football to the United States.

In Other Events...

1992 Plymouth Nova Scotia - Curragh President Clifford Frame calls off search for 11 miners still trapped underground and presumed dead in the Westray Coal Mine.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Gerald Greenwald says Olympia and York developers under bankruptcy protection; $8.4 billion debt in Canada; failed to meet interest payments on First Canadian Place bonds.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Barbara McDougall reprimands External Affairs for letting Mohamed Al-Mashat into Canada on fast track; Iraqi diplomat former Ambassador to the US.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Angry truckers blockade Parliament Hill; can't compete due to higher Canadian taxes than US; diesel fuel also 10-20Â¢ a litre cheaper.
1986 Alberta - May blizzard with 80 kph winds hits southern Alberta, closing highways and toppling power lines.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Jeanne SauvÃ© 1922- sworn in as Canada's first female Governor General after recovery from a battle with cancer.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate to further record high of 18.98%.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Six associations merge to form National Union of Provincial Government Employees; Canada's 5th largest union.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup 4 games to 0.
1970 Los Angeles, California - Toronto rocker Neil Young breaks up with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash after releasing the LP Ohio to commemorate the fatal Kent State University shootings; CSN will regroup several times without Young.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Mies Van Der Rohe architect of new 56-story Toronto-Dominion Centre, opening on this day, tallest building in Canada to that date.
1966 New York City - Canadian rocker Denny Doherty and his group The Mamas & The Papas have a #1 Billboard hit with Monday Monday.
1964 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- appointed first head of new Ontario Ministry of University Affairs; future Premier.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - RÃ©al Caouette 1917-1976 leads breakaway Creditiste group of Social Credit MPs as Party splits into two wings; other led by national leader Robert Thompson.
1963 India - India purchases 16 Caribou transport aircraft from Canada.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Trade and Commerce Minister C.D. Howe brings in $80 million loan bill for US-owned Trans-Canada Pipe Lines (TCPL); needs loan from government by June 7 to start construction; start of the chaotic Pipeline Debate in the House of Commons.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Library Association established.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - John Diefenbaker first takes his seat in the Commons as MP for Prince Albert; future Progressive Conservative PM.
1920 Toronto Ontario - Frank Underhill 1889-1971 founds the Canadian Forum with C.B. Sissons 1879-1965 and Barker Fairley 1887-1986; magazine with a socialist slant.
1914 Calgary Alberta - Turner Valley oil discoveries lead to founding of Calgary Stock Exchange; now Alberta Stock Exchange; beginning of Alberta's oil industry.
1906 Toronto Ontario - Adam Beck 1857-1925 appointed founding Chairman of the new Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission; first nationalized electrical utility in world.
1904 St. Louis, Missouri - US hosts its first Olympic games; no official Canadian team attends, but Canada will win four golds: Etienne Desmarteaux for weight throwing, George Lyon for golf, the Winnipeg Shamrocks for lacrosse and the Galt Ontario team for soccer.
1886 Ottawa Ontario - The North West Territories are given their first representation in Parliament with a Saskatchewan seat.
1880 Yale BC - Andrew Onderdonk 1848-1905 sets off a dynamite blast to start construction of the British Columbia portion of the CPR.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes the General Charter of the Canadian Pacific Railway; authorizes private construction of a transcontinental railway.
1850 Toronto Ontario - Opening of third session of third Parliament of Canada; meets until Aug. 10; province takes over internal postal system.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Opening of first session of first Parliament of the Province of Canada; after the Act of Union.
1814 Port Dover Ontario - Americans land force of 600 at Port Dover, burn settlements on Lake Erie.
1792 Nova Scotia - John Wentworth 1737-1820 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia; serves until May 12, 1808.
1760 Rimouski Quebec - French fleet arrives in the St. Lawrence from France, but retreats to the Bay of Chaleur when it learns of the fall of Quebec.
1747 Atlantic - New France Governor Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La JonquiÂre 1685-1752 captured by the British at sea and taken to England.
1742 North Dakota - FranÃ§ois and Louis-Joseph de La VÃ©rendrye reach the Mandan villages on the Missouri River, then travel southwesterly through the Badlands of North Dakota.
1643 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 becomes the King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII 1601-1643.
1633 Quebec Quebec - Olivier Le Jeune d1654 baptized into the Roman Catholic faith; a slave left in Quebec by the Kirkes, he is the first recorded black in Canada.
1610 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 starts reign; to 1643 after assassination of Henri IV.
1501 Lisbon Portugal - Explorer Gaspar Corte RÃ©al leaves on his second voyage to Newfoundland; never heard from again.

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henric · May 14, 2014

May 15th 2014 - This Date in History.

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495 BC – A newly constructed temple in honour of the god Mercury was dedicated in ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills. To spite the senate and the consuls, the people awarded the dedication to a senior military officer, Marcus Laetorius
392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne.
589 – King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke Garibald I. A Catholic, she has great influence among the Lombard nobility.
1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1525 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas MÃ¼ntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
1602 – Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first recorded European to see Cape Cod.
1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1648 – The Treaty of Westphalia is signed.
1701 – The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
1755 – Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
1776 – American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
1791 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1792 – War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
1793 – Diego MarÃn Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.
1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
1800 – King George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
1811 – Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1836 – Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1849 – Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1869 – Women's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1891 – Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
1905 – Las Vegas, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
1911 – In Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
1919 – The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
1919 – Greek invasion of Smyrna. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.
1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
1929 – A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
1932 – In an attempted coup d'Ã©tat, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is murdered.
1934 – Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
1935 – The Moscow Metro is opened to the public.
1940 – USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1941 – First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
1942 – World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
1943 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1948 – Following the demise of Mandatory Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1951 – The Polish cultural attachÃ© in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
1953 – Cubmaster Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, in Manhattan Beach, California, by Pack 280c.
1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
1958 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
1960 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1966 – After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General TÃ´n Thất ĐÃnh, forcing him to abandon his command.
1969 – People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
1972 – Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
1974 – Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
1986 – Elio de Angelis, was killed while testing the Brabham BT55 at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet.
1987 – The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
1988 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1991 – Ã‰dith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
1997 – The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
2006 - Cloud Gate was formally dedicated in Chicago's Millennium Park.
2008 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
2013 – An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1919 START OF WINNIPEG STRIKE
Winnipeg Manitoba - Trades and Labour Councils support metalworkers and building trades, call Winnipeg General Strike; up to 30,000 workers from 52 unions walk off the job, paralyzing the city for 41 days, until June 25. Fearing a Bolshevik-style revolution, the government sends many labour leaders to prison under war emergency sedition laws, which are not repealed until 1936.

1885
Regina Saskatchewan - Louis Riel 1844-1885 surrenders to Middleton's troops; North West Rebellion ends after 100 days; 80 killed on each side; rebellion costs government over $5 million. Here he is under guard shortly after his capture.

1854
Beechey Island NWT - Edward Belcher 1799-1877, searching for the Franklin expedition, is forced to abandon his ships and cross the ice to Beechey Island, where he boards Inglefield's North Star, Phoenix and Talbot; with McClure and men from the Investigator.

In Other Events...

1993 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expos retire their first sweater, the #10 belonging to Rusty Staub ['le Grand Orange'].
1992 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge Kenneth Richard appointed by Premier Cameron to probe Westray Coal Mine disaster that killed 26 miners.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Mulroney government House Leader Harvie Andre brings in bill to allow Ottawa to hold vote on constitutional reform; permits 36 day campaign; groups who spend over $5,000 must register.
1991 Ontario - Angry independent truckers close down 20 km of Highway 401 near Toronto; cause huge traffic jams.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933- puts forward legislation for a Referendum on Quebec sovereignty by October, 1992; will set up two committees to study the potential impact of sovereignty.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Michel Gravel charged with 50 counts of influence peddling, bribery and abuse of public trust Progressive Conservative MP for Gamelin alleged to have corruptly obtained or sought to obtain over $100,000 from individuals or companies doing business with the government.
1981 New York City - SCTV Network 90 variety/comedy show debuts on NBC; sequel to Toronto's Second City Television.
1981 Cleveland Ohio - Len Barker of the Indians pitches a perfect no runs, no hits, no walks 3-0 game against the Toronto Blue Jays; 11th major-league hurler to toss a perfect game; first since 1968.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa agrees to extend natural gas pipeline from Montreal to Quebec City.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Joe 'Phantom' Malone dies at 79; born at Sillery Quebec Feb. 28, 1890. Malone was top scorer in the early years of the NHA and NHL, with 379 goals from 1909-24. He scored 44 goals in a 22 game schedule (1917-1918), and in his eight best seasons, with Quebec Bulldogs (5), Hamilton Tigers (2) and Montreal Canadiens (1), he scored 280 goals in 172 games. In Stanley Cup play, he notched 9 goals in one game against Sydney in 1913, 8 against the Montreal Wanderers in 1917 and NHL record 7 against Toronto in 1920.
1968 Winnipeg Manitoba - Opening of the Centennial Planetarium in Winnipeg.
1965 Omaha, Nebraska - Igor Vodic beats Quebec's Mad Dog Vachon, to become National Wrestling Association champion.
1956 Orleans Ontario - Royal Canadian Air Force plane crashes into the Grey Nuns' Home for the Aged in Orleans, killing 15 people, including 11 nuns.
1952 USA - Alberta jockey Johnny Longden became the second jockey in history, and the first North American, to ride 4,000 winners.
1938 New York City - Canadian bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra record Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride, the group's last side for Victor Records; moves the Royal Canadians over to Decca Records.
1926 Montreal Quebec - NHL awards franchise to the New York Rangers; the Rangers will win their first Stanley Cup two years later.
1912 Ottawa Ontario - Boundaries of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec extended northward.
1907 Toronto Ontario - Toronto plumbers go on four-month strike.
1894 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia votes for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1879 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Leonard Tilley's protective tariff is adopted by the Macdonald government as national policy.
1876 Montreal Quebec - Founding of l'UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al; a branch of Laval.
1874 Cambridge Massachusetts - Montreal's McGill University ties Harvard 0-0 in the second of first two football contests for which admission was charged; McGill rules later adopted by American colleges.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Lucius Seth Huntington 1827-1886 accuses Hugh Allan of paying the Macdonald government $360,000 in return for the CPR contract.
1861 Halifax Nova Scotia - Joseph Howe 1804-1873 proposes a resolution for the union of the British North American colonies; passed by the Nova Scotia Legislature sent to the governors of the other provinces on July 6.
1852 London England - Edward Belcher 1799-1877 sets sail to search for Franklin in the vicinity of Melville Island; Henry Kellett his second-in-command.
1851 Fort Confidence NWT - John Rae 1813-1893 sets off to search for Franklin; explores Victoria Island from Wilbank Bay to Cape Back.
1837 Quebec - Meeting of popular assemblies at St-Laurent and St-Marc against Lord Russell's resolutions; Governor Gosford issues a proclamation against the holding of assemblies.
1814 Port Dover Ontario - Party of 500 Americans cross Lake Erie from Erie, Pennsylvania and destroy the town of Port Dover; War of 1812.
1756 London England - England declares war on France to start the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the European counterpart to the French and Indian War (1754-1763); fighting had been going on in North America for two years, but did not go well for England until William Pitt came to power in 1756 and sent troop reinforcements.
1702 London England - The Grand Alliance declares war against France; beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, also called Queen Anne's War.
1603 Le Havre France - Samuel de Champlain sails from France on his first voyage to Canada.

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henric · May 15, 2014

May 16th 2014 - This Date in History.

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218 – Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
1770 – A 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1811 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
1812 – Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia is illegitimately annexed by Imperial Russia.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1834 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
1877 – May 1877 political crisis in France.
1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
1914 – The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
1919 – A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded.
1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1961 – Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'Ã©tat to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
1974 – Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1983 – Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
1988 – A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
2003 – In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.
2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1943 DAMBUSTERS TAKE OUT THE MOHN AND EDER
Mohne Germany - British and Canadian Lancaster pilots of the Dambusters Squadron succeed in breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin using a bouncing bomb dropped at low level; only 8 of the 17 planes return; 13 of the 53 dead are Canadians.

1806
Hull Quebec - Philemon Wright starts first raft of pine and oak staves down the Ottawa River; reaches Quebec two months later; opens up new timber trade in the Valley, with huge rafts of squared white pine being floated down to Quebec, where they are broken up and loaded into ships bound for Britain.

In Other Events...

1991 Detroit Michigan - Nepean Ontario's Steve Yzerman scores at 1:15 into the second overtime as the Red Wings advance to the Western Conference finals with a 1-0 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 7; second time in NHL history that a Game 7 was scoreless heading into overtime; first in 1950, when Red Wings beat Toronto 1-0 in the semifinals.
1990 St.-Amable Quebec - Fire breaks out at Quebec's largest tire dump (3 million tires) near Montreal; rages for four days before being put out.
1982 Vancouver BC - New York Islanders cap a four game sweep, beating the Canucks 3-1 in game 4 to take their third Stanley Cup in a row; first American NHL team to do so; will make it four in a row in 1983.
1977 Boston Massachusetts - Montreal Canadians win their 20th Stanley Cup, downing Boston 2-1, to sweep the series 4-0.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Emmet Hall issues his Report on Grain Handling and Transportation; recommends formation of Prairie rail authority; also construction of Arctic Railway.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens win their 19th Stanley Cup with a 5-3 victory over Philadelphia Flyers, to sweep the series 4-0.
1973 Zimbabwe - Zambian troops kill two Canadian women at Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) border; believed they were saboteurs.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Randy Bachman leaves the Guess Who; will found Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $1 million program to help Indians buy or build homes off reserves and closer to jobs.
1964 Maryland - E.P. Taylor's Northern Dancer, ridden by Bill Hartack, wins the Preakness Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths over The Scoundrel.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 26th Parliament; meets until December 21.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John Fitzgerald Kennedy starts three-day visit to Ottawa.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 19th Parliament; until Nov 5.
1930 Port Radium NWT - Prospector Gilbert A. Labine starts building a uranium mine on Great Bear Lake; later will open a refinery at Port Hope, Ont. to produce the fuel for the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW II.
1922 Newfoundland - Newfoundland railway workers start general strike.
1885 Thunder Bay Ontario - CPR completes Lake Superior segment to Fort William.
1871 London England - Imperial Order-in-Council lets British Columbia join the Dominion as Canada's sixth province.
1863 Quebec - Antoine-AimÃ© Dorion replaces Sicotte as Attorney-General for Canada East; forms new Liberal Macdonald-Dorion Ministry with John Sandfield Macdonald.
1854 Canada - Reciprocity Treaty between Canada and the US takes effect; US agrees to admit most Canadian products duty free; US fishermen can catch within the three-mile limit, land to cure their fish, and navigate the St. Lawrence River freely.
1853 Aurora Ontario - First train in Ontario runs from Toronto to Aurora on the Ontario Simcoe and Huron Railroad Union Company; name changed to The Northern Railway of Canada on August 16, 1858; became part of the Northern and Northwestern Railway June 6, 1879, now part of CN.
1851 Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 appointed Governor of British Columbia and Vancouver Island; serves from Sept. 1851 to Sept. 1863.
1835 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of Erie & Ontario and Hamilton & Port Dover Railways.
1807 Quebec Quebec - Incorporation of the Quebec Benevolent Society.
1796 Niagara-on-the Lake Ontario - Fifth session of first Parliament of Upper Canada meets until June 3 at Niagara.
1775 St-Jean Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 captures Fort St. John from the British during the American invasion.
1763 Sandusky Ohio - Pontiac sends warriors to take Sandusky.
1762 Maugerville New Brunswick - Captain Peabody leads first permanent British settlers from Massachusetts to New Brunswick.
1760 Quebec Quebec - FranÃ§ois, Duc de LÃ©vis abandons siege of Quebec when a British fleet commanded by Robert Swanton (d.1765) approaches up the St. Lawrence.
1646 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Isaac Jogues 1607-1646 leaves Trois-RiviÃ¨res on a successful peace mission to Mohawks with another Jesuit, Jean de La Lande.
1619 Copenhagen Denmark - Jens Eriksen Munk 1519-1628 sets sail to find North West Passage; commissioned by the King of Denmark, he will make the first European discovery of the Missinipi or Churchill River, a gateway into northern Manitoba.
1613 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Rene Le Coq de La Saussaye reaches Acadia to get Biard and Masse to make peace with Poutrincourt; sent by Antoinette de Pons, Marquise de Guercheville.

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henric · May 16, 2014

May 17th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1395 – Battle of Rovine, Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army
1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage.
1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de MontrÃ©al.
1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.
1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
1805 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
1849 – A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
1863 – RosalÃa de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.
1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
1940 – World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
1943 – World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1967 – Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
1974 – The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. It is the deadliest attack of the Troubles and the deadliest terrorist attack in the Republic's history. There are allegations that British state forces were involved.
1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2000 – Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
2007 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1939 FIRST ROYAL TOUR OF CANADA
Quebec Quebec - King George VI 1895-1952 and Queen Elizabeth disembark at Wolfe's Cove from the CP ship Empress of Australia to start a month-long royal visit to Canada; the first by a reigning British monarch; addresses citizens of Quebec in fluent French. The tour is designed to repair and enhance British-Canadian relations, as war clouds again gather in Europe.

1642
Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve 1612-1676 and Jeanne Mance arrive on Montreal Island with Mme de La Peltrie, Charlotte BarrÃ© and other colonists backed by La SociÃ©tÃ© Notre-Dame; after a thanksgiving mass they start building a fort on the site of Place Royale; found a settlement they call Ville Marie de MontrÃ©al.

1963
Montreal Quebec - Canadian Army engineer Sergeant-Major Walter Leja is seriously injured when bomb he is trying to dismantle blows up in his hands; one of a series of six FLQ terrorist bombs that explode in Westmount mailboxes starting at 3 am (five more are disarmed, another 5 are carried away and blown up safely). Three days later, police arrest 20 members of the Front de liberation Quebecois; 21 year old Mario Bachand will be sentenced to four years in jail for planting bombs.

In Other Events...

1996 Cannes France - Toronto director David Cronenberg's film Crash has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival; audiences are scandalized by the portrayal of characters sexually aroused by traffic accidents.
1995 Montreal Quebec - Hockey legend Hector 'Toe' Blake dies at 82; born at Victoria Mines, NS on Aug 21, 1912, Blake played left wing for the Montreal Canadiens, and was the Hart Trophy regular season MVP in 1939. He led the team to 2 Stanley Cups as a player and 8 more as coach; his eight Stanley Cup championships in 13 seasons as coach of the Canadiens is an NHL record.
1993 Fredericton New Brunswick - Country singer Stompin' Tom Connors awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from St. Thomas University. Born in Saint John Feb. 3, 1936, he moved to PEI as a boy and only reached Grade 9 in school. The writer of Bud the Spud and other ditties, Connors started singing for a living in 1964, when he found himself broke at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays pass the one million attendance mark in only 21 dates, earlier than any team in major league baseball history.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Department of National Defence says it is canceling orders for $900 million worth of military equipment and cutting almost 1,000 jobs at Ottawa NDHQ; due to the easing of Cold War tensions.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Rogers Communications Inc. to acquire Skyline Cablevision Ltd. of Ottawa for $70 million; plus $5 million for French language community channel.
1990 St. Andrews New Brunswick - Star-Kist Canada to close down tuna plant, throwing 250 people out of work; slumping prices to blame; plant closed due to tainted tuna scandal from 1985-88.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Charest's Commons committee unanimously recommends approving Meech Lake by June 23; says Ottawa should promote the two official languages, recognize the distinct society clause, and reform the Senate.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Former CFRB journalist and broadcaster Gordon Sinclair 1900-1984 dies after a heart attack.
1983 Edmonton Alberta - New York Islanders win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup, beating the Oilers 4- 2 in game 4.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Robert B. Bryce 1910-sees no need to screen mergers, in his report of the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration.
1975 Aylmer Ontario - Ten policewomen start training to be OPP constables at the Ontario Police College, ending 65 years of male-only service in the Ontario Provincial Police.
1974 Vancouver BC - Joe Morris 1913- elected president of the Canadian Labour Congress at Vancouver convention.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Gerald LeDain issues his LeDain Commission Report Part Two, recommending abolition of penalties for possession of cannabis.
1971 Moscow Russia - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts ten-day trip to Soviet Union.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1968 Antigonish Nova Scotia - Mike McIntosh appointed to the Board of Governors of St. Francis Xavier University; first undergraduate on a Canadian university Board.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Man and his World fair on the former Expo '67 site on Ile Ste-Helene and Ile Notre-Dame.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Construction begins on the National Library and Public Archives Building on Wellington Street in Ottawa.
1957 Cornwall Ontario - Canadian National Railways opens a 40 mile diversion of its Montreal to Toronto main line to avoid construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government grants full diplomatic recognition to the State of Israel, founded May 14, 1948.
1943 England - Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin; 30 RCAF airmen part of the Squadron; 13 of the 53 dead are Canadians.
1928 Amsterdam Netherlands - Canadian athletes join 44 other nations and a total of 3,014 competitors at the opening of the ninth modern Olympic games. Canada will win four gold medals, two by Percy Williams (100m and 200m dash) and two by Ethel Catherwood (high jump and 4x100m relay).
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Citizens' Committee of One Thousand organized to counteract Winnipeg General Strike; provide essential public services.
1882 Kingston Ontario - Queen's College in Kingston given university powers; now Queen's University.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - Thomas Edison demonstrates his new invention, the phonograph, to Governor-General and Lady Dufferin.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 moves resolution to bring Prince Edward Island into Confederation.
1871 Fredericton New Brunswick - Common Schools Act sets up separate schools in New Brunswick.
1855 Charlottetown PEI - Charlottetown incorporated as a city.
1851 Saint John New Brunswick - Launch of the sailing ship Marco Polo; reputed to be the fastest ship in the world.
1849 Red River Manitoba - Metis leaders James Sinclair and Louis Riel Senior intimidate the General Quarterly Court of Assiniboia during the trial of Guillaume Sayer for unlicensed fur trading; Sayer found guilty, but the court rules for mercy, saying that Sayer did not know that the Metis were not permitted to trade freely; illegal trading continues, threatening the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1841 Quebec Quebec - Landslide kills 32 die at Citadel Rock, Quebec City.
1793 Alberta - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies.
1790 Quebec - Government bans export of wheat, oats, and flour to cut high prices.
1775 Philadelphia Pennsylvania- US Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1757 Quebec Quebec - War speculators raise the prices of bread and meat by 1000%; 4 oz. of bread the daily ration in Quebec.
1689 Europe - Beginning of King William's War with France; to Sept. 20 1697.
1673 Sault Ste Marie Ontario - Fathers Marquette and Joliet leave Sault Ste Marie and paddle south across Lake Michigan to rediscover and claim Mississippi River for Louis XlV; they will reach south as far as the Arkansas River.
1657 France - Gabriel ThubiÃ¨res de LÃ©vy de Queylus 1612-1677 leaves from France with Sulpician priests Gabriel Souart, Dominique Galinier, and Antoine d'Allet; appointed Vicar-General by la SocietÃ© des PrÃªtres de Sainte-Sulpice, the seigneurs of Montreal.
1656 Quebec Quebec - Zacharie Dupuy c1608-1676 leaves with a group of French to establish a settlement among the Onondagas; military commander of Quebec.

End of C/P.

henric · May 17, 2014

May 18th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
1152 – Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.
1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
1388 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu led a Chinese army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of TÃ¶gÃ¼s TemÃ¼r, the Khan of Northern Yuan.
1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from CÃ¡diz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
1565 – The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
1565 – The Royal Audiencia of ConcepciÃ³n is created by a decree of Philip II of Spain.
1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
1763 – Fire destroys a large part of Montreal
1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
1803 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the RÃo de la Plata in Uruguay led by JosÃ© Artigas.
1812 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
1843 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
1912 – The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai.
1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
1927 – The Bath School disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
1956 – First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
1959 – Launch of the National Liberation Committee of CÃ´te d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
1974 – Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
1980 – 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
1980 – Gwangju Massacre: students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for 'democratic reforms'.
1983 – In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
1993 – EU - riots in NÃ¸rrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
1995 – Shawn Nelson, 35, steals a tank from a National Guard Armory in San Diego, destroying cars and other property and is shot to death by police after immobilizing the tank.
2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons: Nix and Hydra.
2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
2011 – 22 people are killed when Sol LÃneas AÃ©reas Flight 5428 crashes in southern Argentina.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1982 BOMBARDIER WINS BIG IN NY
New York City - Bombardier Inc. wins $1 billion contract to build 825 subway cars for New York; largest-ever export contract for a Canadian manufacturer.

1783
Saint John New Brunswick - First of 7,000 United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown at the mouth of the St. John River to found a settlement. Two years later, on this date, Parrtown is incorporated and renamed Saint John; first city incorporated in Canada.

1917
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden's Union Government announces it will bring in compulsory conscription; offers a coalition to Opposition leader Wilfrid Laurier, but he refuses, saying French Canadians will never accept a pro-conscription coalition, but back Henri Bourassa.

In Other Events...

1991 Montreal Quebec - Unity portion of the federal leaders' french debate resumes; Radio Canada journalist Claire Lamarche had fainted during the original debate May 13.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Gerald Schwartz's Onex Corp. launches hostile $2.3-billion takeover bid for 148-year-old brewing giant John Labatt Ltd..
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Lowell Murray begins meeting Premiers individually to lobby for passage of Meech Lake Accord; as Prime Minister Mulroney's emissary.
1989 Stratford, Ontario - Stratford Festival makes two cuts in its production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice after meeting with officials of the Canadian Jewish Congress; two anti-semitic references removed.
1973 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Family home of former Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 at Prince Albert donated to the University of Saskatchewan to hold Diefenbaker Archives.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - The Guess Who's hit American Woman/No Sugar Tonight stays at #1 on the Billboard Top 100 for the third week in a row; Winnipeg-based group.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Pacific Airlines presents reconstructed Fairchild Model 82 to Canadian Aviation Museum.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Paul-Joseph Chartier 1921-1966 killed in Parliament Buildings washroom by a bomb he intended to throw into the House of Commons.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Quebec offers $50,000 reward for information leading to convictions for terrorist acts; Montreal police set up 200-man anti-terrorist unit.
1944 Rogers Dry Lake, California - Jacqueline Cochran pilots a North American F-86 Canadair over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour, becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1944 Cassino Italy - Germans evacuate Monte Cassino in face of Canadian and British attacks, after a four-month struggle that claimed about 20,000 lives.
1939 Quebec Quebec - King George VI 1895-1952, Queen Elizabeth and the royal party board a 12 car train, (five from CP, five from CN and the two vice-regal cars), and depart for Montreal. The royal train is painted in royal blue and aluminum, and royal crowns are affixed to the running boards of both locomotives. A pilot train, carrying officials and the press, precedes the royal train by an hour and no other trains are permitted to travel within this period.
1873 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary.
1861 Ottawa Ontario - College of Bytown becomes College of Ottawa; today the University of Ottawa.
1846 Kingston Ontario - Kingston incorporated as a city.
1837 Quebec - Lower Canada banks suspend payment until June 23, 1838; due to civil strife.
1824 Queenston Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 publishes last issue of The Colonial Advocate at Queenston; will move the newspaper to York in November; future rebel leader, Mayor of Toronto.
1814 Michilimackinac Michigan - Robert McDouall reinforces Michilimackinac against Americans with two dozen seamen and a company of Newfoundland regulars; also a company of loyal Michigan Fencibles under William McKay.
1785 Quebec Quebec - Ordinance bans imports from the US by sea.
1765 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys one quarter of the town of Montreal.
1677 Paris France - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 ordered by Jean-Baptiste Colbert to live amicably with New France Intendant Duchesneau.
1675 Lake Michigan - Jacques Marquette 1637-1675 dies on trip back to St-Ignace mission at Sault Ste. Marie.

End of C/P.

henric · May 18, 2014

May 19th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
1051 – Henry I of France is married to Anne of Kiev.
1445 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1542 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma.
1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
1649 – An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1655 – The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1743 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
1780 – New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
1813 – Napoleon defeats a numerically superior Russian and Austrian Army at the Battle of Bautzen
1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
1845 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
1848 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
1911 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
1917 – the Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK was founded.
1919 – Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
1921 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
1922 – The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.
1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'Ã©tat and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
1941 – Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng Province, Vietnam.
1942 – World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
1943 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1961 – At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, drafted shortly after his arrest on April 12th during the Birmingham campaign advocating for civil rights and an end to segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter was in response to "A Call for Unity": a statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen against King and his methods, following his arrest, and became one of the most-anthologized statements of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
1997 – The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1845 FRANKLIN SAILS TO HIS DOOM
London England - John Franklin 1786-1847 departs for the Arctic on the Royal Navy ships Erebus and Terror to find the Northwest Passage; his vessels have steam engines and ice-breaking bows, and carry enough food for three years. The entire expedition will be lost.

1984
Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky and the Oilers beat the New York Islanders 5-2 to win the Stanley Cup 4 games to 1; end Islanders' four-year domination of the NHL and start a dynasty of their own.

In Other Events...

1996 Cape Canaveral Florida - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau starts his second flight into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-77.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer, head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission urges Canada to allow telephone and cable-television companies to compete head on. CRTC chairman Spicer says, 'We've received a clear message that consumers want greater choice.'
1994 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park brings in legislation to give same-sex couples the same rights as common-law heterosexual couples, including the right to adopt children.
1987 New York City - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a Billboard #1 hit with Heat of the Night.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Air Canada and the union representing 29-hundred striking ticket agents sign deal ending the three-week-old walkout.
1984 Vancouver BC - Newspaper workers end two-month strike at Vancouver Sun and Province.
1976 Moscow Russia - Soviet Union recognizes Canada's proposed 370 km (200 nautical miles) fishing zone.
1973 Boston Massachusetts - Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins 1-0 in Game 6, winning the Stanley Cup series 4 games to 2; first NHL expansion team to win the championship; will repeat in 1975.
1973 Baltimore Maryland - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins the 98th Preakness Stakes in 1:55 by 2 1/2 lengths over Sham; after taking the Kentucky Derby earlier, the pair take the second leg in horse racing's Triple Crown, and will go on to win the third jewel, the Belmont Stakes in New York.
1970 Canada - 5,000 delivery and inside postal workers attend study sessions and start rotating strikes; bring mail delivery to a standstill.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Iranian Shah Reza Pahlevi arrives in Ottawa with Empress Farah for an eight-day state visit.
1958 Colorado Springs Colorado - United States and Canada formally established the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) to coordinate continental defence.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - King George VI 1895-1952 addresses the Canadian Parliament; the first reigning monarch to do so.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Bread and milk delivery resumes during the Winnipeg General Strike.
1876 Victoria BC - British Columbia legislature passes Act to tax males $3 a year for schools.
1859 Fort Garry Manitoba - Steamboat Pioneer arrives at Fort Garry from St. Paul, Minnesota; first steamboat on the Red River.
1855 Toronto Ontario - Government grants charters to Niagara District Bank and Molson's Bank in Montreal.
1824 London England - William Parry 1790-1855 sails on another expedition to the Arctic.
1817 Montreal Quebec - Montreal business leaders adopt articles of association for the Bank of Montreal; officially founded May 23, with a capital of Â£250,000; opens for business on Nov. 3.
1804 Clearwater Rive Saskatchewan - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches mouth of Clearwater River; then heads for Cumberland House.
1781 Michilimackinac Michigan - Chippewas cede Michilimackinac Island to Britain for Â£5,000.
1780 Canada - Complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England states at 2 pm; cause never explained.
1776 Les Cedres Quebec - George Forster, with 40 regulars and 200 Indians, defeats 400 American invaders at the Battle of the Cedars, a rebel outpost 64 km west of Montreal.
1690 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Governor Louis-Alexandre Des Friches de Meneval surrenders Port Royal to Phips; taken to Boston as a prisoner.
1632 Nova Scotia - Isaac de Launoy de Razilly 1587-1635 named Lieutenant-General of New France at Port Royal; granted tract of land at Ste-Croix by the Company of New France.
1604 St. Mary's Bay Nova Scotia - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets off from Port Mouton in a long boat with a small crew to find a temporary winter quarters for the expedition, leaving de Monts and the larger vessel behind; charts coast of present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine with Jean Ralluau for three weeks; enters St. Mary's Bay [called la Baie FranÃ§aise] and travels as far as the future site of Port Royal.
1587 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sets sail on his third voyage to the Arctic with the ships Sunneshine, Elizabeth and Ellen.
1535 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves on second voyage on the Grand Hermine, Petite Hermine and Emerillon with 110 men, including two priests and many of his wife's cousins; they will take 50 days to cross the Atlantic, and winter at Quebec.

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henric · May 19, 2014

May 20th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

325 – The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
526 – An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia.
685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of AlcalÃ¡.
1449 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
1520 – The massacre at the festival of TÃ³xcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
1521 – Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1775 – Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1875 – Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
1882 – The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
1884 – Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation.
1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1896 – The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. TomÃ¡s Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
1927 – Treaty of Jeddah: the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1940 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
1948 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China.
1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
1956 – In Operation Redwing (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew.
1967 – The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War
1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
1983 – The Church Street bombing in the South African capital Pretoria. The bombing killed 19 and wounded 217.
1985 – Radio MartÃ, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
1996 – Homosexuality rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
2006 – Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes begin, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.
2013 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 QUEBEC SAYS NO
Quebec - Quebec votes No by 59.56% to RenÃ© LÃ©vesque's referendum to get a mandate to negotiate Quebec's sovereignty-association with the rest of Canada; the No forces were led by Claude Ryan; first live coverage of a Canadian referendum; LÃ©vesque says to his supporters: 'If I understand you correctly, what you are telling me is, Next Time!' Trudeau promises 'renewed federalism' even if it means patriating the constitution over the Quebec government's objections.

1948
Rome Italy - George 'Buzz' Beurling killed at age 26 when the Norseman plane he is piloting for the Israeli underground army Haganah blows up at Urbe airport. Canada's top World War II air ace with 31 1/2 kills, Beurling was born on the Miramachi, and brought up in Verdun Quebec; a high school dropout, he hung around airports until he learned to fly, failed to join the RCAF, but got into the RAF; shot down 27 German planes over Malta in a two week period, earning him the DFC, DSO, DFM and Bar He was buried in Rome's English cemetery between the graves of Keats and Shelley, but two years later the grateful state of Israel exhumed his body, laid him in state in Haifa, and buried him at the base of Mount Carmel, near the cave of Elijah the Prophet.

In Other Events...

1996 Cannes France - Toronto director David Cronenberg's film Crash wins the Prix SpŽcial du Jury for daring, originality and audacity; after scandalous reception in France, the film will win two Genies, for best adapted screenplay and best director, in November.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Lucien Bouchard sends telegram of support to the Parti Quebecois National Council meeting at Alma praising those who fought for the Yes side during the 1980 Referendum; many of his fellow Progressive Conservative caucus members are outraged; leads to his resignation from the Party and the Commons May 22.
1990 Alma Quebec - Parti Quebecois National Council issues 46 page pamphlet outlining proposals on achieving Quebec independence; discusses army, passports, common currency with Canada.
1986 Nepal - Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon of Canmore, Alberta, reach the summit of Mount Everest; Wood the first North American woman to climb the world's highest peak.
1984 Victoria BC - Robert Skelly 1943- elected leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Willie Stargell hits 535-foot home run off Wayne Twitchell to lead the Pirates' to a 6-0 win over the Expos; longest home run ever in the Olympic Stadium.
1977 Toronto Ontario - J. Pearce Bunting replaces Jack Kimber as President and CEO of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa approves 840 km Inter-provincial Pipeline extension from Sarnia to Montreal.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada upholds right of citizens to challenge provincial movie censorship laws.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Francis Simard sentenced to life imprisonment for the October 17, 1970 murder of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte.
1970 New York City - The Guess Who's American Woman/No Sugar Tonight stays at #1 on the Billboard pop chart; Winnipeg based group.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Air Canada DC-8 crashes near Ottawa on training flight, killing three veteran pilots.
1963 Montreal Quebec - RCMP arrest 20 young FLQ members for terrorist acts; Mario Bachand later sentenced to four years in jail for planting post box bombs in Westmount, including the one that maimed Canadian Army engineer Sergeant-Major Walter Leja.
1938 Vancouver BC - 500 unemployed members of Relief Project Worker's Union start sit-down strike in Hotel Georgia; paid $500 to leave; strikers stay in Art Gallery.
1932 St. John's Newfoundland - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland for Ireland; will became the first woman to make a solo plane flight across the Atlantic.
1923 London England - New Brunswick-born British Prime Minister Bonar Law resigns due to ill health; replaced by Stanley Baldwin.
1900 Paris France - Opening of the second modern Olympic Games in Paris, with 22 nations and 1330 competitors; will last five months, until Oct. 28. Canada does not send an official team, but Canadian George Orton, running for the US, will take the gold medal in the 2500m steeplechase.
1882 Brandon Manitoba - Brandon incorporated as a city.
1879 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 first director of the new Department of Railroads and Canals; a Minister will now have jurisdiction over all railways pertaining to the Dominion Government; previously under Public Works.
1870 Ottawa Ontario - Adams George Archibald 1814-1892 appointed first Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and North West Territory; serves until Dec. 1, 1872.
1862 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees his Militia Bill defeated; Macdonald Cartier government resigns.
1859 Nanaimo BC - George Barstow elected Mayor of Nanaimo with only one vote cast.
1851 Kingston Ontario - Province of Canada issues its first postage stamps.
1851 Kingston Ontario - Opening of fourth session of third Parliament of Canada; meets until Aug. 30; normal school in Canada East; medical schools in Montreal and Toronto.
1836 Toronto Ontario - City of Toronto & Lake Huron Railway Company incorporated.
1814 Sackett's Harbour New York - James Yeo 1782-1818 blockades Sackett's Harbour for three weeks during the War of 1812.
1806 BC - John Stuart 1779-1847 journeys up the Peace River with Simon Fraser; Stuart the uncle of Donald A. Smith, later Lord Strathcona.
1803 Montreal Quebec - Chief Justice William Osgoode declares slavery to be inconsistent with the laws of Canada.
1786 PEI - St. John Island separates from Nova Scotia; later named Prince Edward Island.
1776 London England - Mariot Arbuthnot 1711-1794 appointed Lieutenant Governor and administrator of Nova Scotia; serves from May 13, 1776 to Aug. 17, 1778.
1776 Vaudreuil Quebec - British defeat American invasion force in skirmish at Vaudreuil.
1774 London England - Parliament passes the Quebec Act, extending the boundaries of the province northwards to Hudson's Bay and as far south as the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
1760 Montreal Quebec - FranÃ§ois, Duc de LÃ©vis sets out from Montreal with his 7,000 strong army to retake Quebec from the British.
1751 Toronto Ontario - Pierre Robineau de Portneuf 1708-1761 orders trader Joseph Dufeaux to build a larger post, Fort RouillÃ©, to the east of Fort Toronto; on the site of the CNE.
1668 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Marquette 1637-1675 starts upriver to join Father Claude Dablon and open a mission at Sault Ste-Marie that will serve 2,000 Algonkians.
1616 Midland Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Huronia to visit the Nipissing tribe after wintering with the Hurons.
1497 Bristol England - John Cabot [Giovanni Caboto Montecataluna] c1450-1498 departs Bristol on the Matthew with a crew of about 20; his second voyage to the new world.

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henric · May 20, 2014

May 21st 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1085 – The Swedish town of Helsingborg is founded.
1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy GonzÃ¡les de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire.
1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer JoÃ£o da Nova.
1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England.
1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned some six and a half years later.
1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russian–Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1904 – The FÃ©dÃ©ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1911 – Mexican President Porfirio DÃaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad JuÃ¡rez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1917 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition – a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1972 – Michelangelo's PietÃ in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1976 – The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1981 – Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
1996 – The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead.
1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Tri Sakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2003 – An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the end of the world would occur on this day, a prophecy that would prove incorrect.
2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1920 MONTREAL STATION A RADIO FIRST
Montreal Quebec - Radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.

1914
Vancouver BC - Ship Komagata Maru arrives in Vancouver with 396 Sikh immigrants aboard; not allowed to land under Canadian immigration laws; sails away on July 23.

In Other Events...

1993 New York City - Former prime minister Joe Clark named a special UN envoy to find a peace settlement for Cyprus.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Barbara McDougall says Canada opening diplomatic relations with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; former USSR republics.
1986 Washington DC - Canadian negotiator Simon Riesman starts Canada-US free-trade talks with American counterparts.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Keith Alexander sentenced to jail by a Canadian court for dumping toxic contaminants into Toronto sewers; president of Jetco Manufacturing Ltd. the first corporate executive sent to jail for pollution-related offenses.
1981 Vancouver BC - Sculptor George Pratt starts work on a statue of Marathon of Hope runner Terry Fox.
1981 Minneapolis Minnesota - New York Islanders win their second straight Stanley Cup, beating the Minnesota North Stars 4 games to 1.
1979 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens down the New York Rangers 4-1 to win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup title.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Bryce Mackasey 1921-Postmaster-General raises first class letter rates on Sept. 1, 1976 and March 1, 1977.
1969 Gaspe Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec jointly create Forillon Park in Gaspe region; first national park in Quebec.
1965 Guelph Ontario - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 installed as first Chancellor of University of Guelph; former Ontario Premier.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Ontario's flag proclaimed; the provincial crest on a red ensign.
1953 Sarnia Ontario - Tornado flattens downtown Sarnia, doing $4 million in damage and killing 5 people.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - King George VI 1895-1952 unveils the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
1923 PEI - Prohibition comes into effect in Prince Edward Island.
1901 Victoria BC - John Claus Voss sails west in his Nootka Indian canoe, the Tilikum; reaches England Sept. 2, 1904, after taking three years, three months and 12 days to navigate the 65,000 km, via Australia and New Zealand; Tilikum on display at Thunderbird Park in Victoria.
1871 Toronto Ontario - Alexander Muir's The Maple Leaf Forever sung in public for the first time.
1862 Ottawa Ontario - Macdonald-Cartier Ministry resigns after defeat on Cartier's Militia Bill.
1856 Kingston Ontario - Allan MacNab forced to resign when all Ministers from Canada West resign.
1832 Montreal Quebec - British Army opens fire on a crowd of election rioters, killing three partisans..
1832 Quebec - Cholera brought by Irish immigrants will kill 6000 across Lower Canada this year.
1826 Winnipeg Manitoba - Red River reaches a level twice that of the disastrous 1950 flood.
1821 Toronto Ontario - William Allan gets charter for Bank of Upper Canada, and 10 year monopoly on banknotes; with J.G. Chewitt, son of Governor Simcoe's paymaster.
1816 Saint John New Brunswick - Steamboat 'General Smythe' begins operating on the Saint John River; first in the Maritimes.
1806 St-Boniface Manitoba - Marie-Anne Gaboury 1780-1875 marries Jean-Baptiste LagimodiÃ¨re; first white woman to live in western Canada; grandmother of Louis Riel.
1803 Quebec Quebec - William Osgoode 1754-1824 declares slavery 'inconsistent' with the laws of Canada; will become Chief Justice of Upper Canada.
1785 Quebec - First trial by jury in Canada under British common law.
1765 Windsor Nova Scotia - Founding of the Windsor fair; the first regular agricultural exhibition in North America and Canada's first farm fair.
1690 Annapolis Nova Scotia - William Phips 1651-1695 captures Port Royal with Massachusetts militia.
1613 Mount Desert Maine - RenÃ© Le Coq de La Saussaye withdraws Biard and MassÃ© from Port-Royal, then sails to Frenchman's Bay in Maine; builds settlement of St. Sauveur on Mount Desert Island.
1611 Montreal Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Quebec from France; travels upriver to Lachine Rapids; chooses Pointe CalliÃ¨res as site for future trading post.

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henric · May 21, 2014

May 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt
1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.
1254 – Serbian King Stephen Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of LÃ¼beck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1807 – Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire.
1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England, on June 20.
1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1840 – The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas").
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends with the Union unable to achieve any of its objectives.
1871 – The U.S. Army issues an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
1872 – Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1885 – Prior to burial in the PanthÃ©on, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc de Triomphe during the night.
1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
1903 – Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.
1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang, China.
1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1942 – Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
1942 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.
1945 – Operation Paperclip – United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
1947 – Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, the U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
1958 – Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils.
1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1961 – An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
1963 – An assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis, who will die five days later.
1964 – The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
1967 – The L'Innovation department store in the center of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
1967 – Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre.
1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1969 – Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1980 – Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
1987 – Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.
1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
1997 – Kelly Flinn, the US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court-martial.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
2002 – In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
2003 – In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika SÃ¶renstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
2004 – The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) which kills one resident, and becomes the widest tornado on record at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide; a record that wouldn't be broken until a the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013.
2008 – The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes strike 19 states and one Canadian province.
2010 – An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.
2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
2012 – Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. It is the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
2013 – British soldier Lee Rigby was murdered in a London Street during a terrorist attack.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1893 MONTREAL CAPTURES FIRST STANLEY CUP
Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (AAAs) beats the Ottawa Generals 2-1, in the first Stanley Cup Game, played for a silver bowl donated by Lord Stanley of Preston; his sons enjoyed playing the game on the Rideau Hall rink while he was serving as Governor General.

1867
London England - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act; decrees that the Dominion of Canada should come into being on July 1; BNA Act provides for Senate of 72 life members; 24 each for Ontario and Quebec; 12 each for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Here she is with her Prince Albert.

1979
Canada - Joe Clark 1939- defeats Pierre Trudeau's Liberals in general election 136 seats to 114; with 26 NDP; 6 Social Credit; 76% turnout; Canada's youngest prime minister has only two members from Quebec, says he will govern as if he had a minority; defeated in November on a non-confidence vote, he will lose to Trudeau in the election of Feb. 16, 1980.

In Other Events...

1997 Montreal Quebec - Federal Conservative leader Jean Charest says that if he were Prime Minister, his government would recognize the independence of Quebec only if the referendum question were absolutely clear.
1991 United Nations New York - UN Development Program 1991 report finds Canada second best place to live after Japan; praises education and health systems.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard resigns from Cabinet and PC caucus with several other members after sending a telegram to a PQ meeting in Alma, Que., encouraging separatism; says he will not support Charest Committee changes to Meech Lake Accord, because they dilute Quebec's five minimal conditions to accept the constitution; says 'this country doesn't work any more.'
1990 Brussels Belgium - NATO scraps plans for low level flight training centre at Goose Bay, Labrador;cites $500 million cost, plus reduction in east-west tensions.
1987 Vancouver BC - 29-year-old Rick Hansen ends his heroic Man in Motion tour; raises at least $15 million for spinal cord research and the disabled; Hansen pumped his wheelchair 3,600 times an hour for 26 months, travelling 40,000 km through 34 countries.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit home run.
1975 Ontario - Arthur Maloney 1919- former Progressive Conservative MPP appointed first Ombudsman of Ontario.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canada suspends shipments of all nuclear equipment to India after that country detonated a nuclear device using Canadian materials on May 18.
1972 Seattle Washington - The Guess Who record their Live at the Paramount album.
1971 Vancouver BC - Norwegian cruise vessel Meteor catches fire in Strait of Georgia; 70 passengers saved, 32 crew members killed.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Ontario Place on shore of Lake Ontario by Exhibition Place; $23 million amusement showcase.
1970 New York City - Burton Cummings and The Guess Who from Winnipeg earn their first of three gold records for both the album and single, American Woman; other hits on the album include, These Eyes, Laughing, and No Sugar Tonight. The group, which dates back to 1963, will disband in 1975. Randy Bachman played lead guitar before leaving the group in August, 1970 to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Cummings joined the group in 1966.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) introduces 50% Canadian content program rules for radio and TV; CanCon requirements effective Sept. 1971 for private sector.
1966 Hollywood California - BC-born actor Raymond Burr 1917-1993 performs in the last original Perry Mason episode titled The Case Of The Final Fade-Out; features writer Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the fictional lawyer, as the judge.
1965 Omaha Nebraska - Quebec's Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic to become the National Wrestling Association champion.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - NATO ministerial conference approves in principle the formation of a nuclear strike force under NATO direction.
1945 Vancouver BC - Canadian government announces that Japanese incendiary 'balloon bombs' designed to start forest fires have been found in western Canada.
1944 Atlantic - Two new RCN torpedo boat flotillas start operating off coast of France.
1943 Brest France - German Admiral Karl Doenitz withdraws his U-boats from the North Atlantic after mounting losses.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - C.G. 'Chubby' Power named Air Minister.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Royal standard waves over the Peace Tower for the first time during George VI's visit to Canada.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill prohibiting Canadians from accepting foreign hereditary titles.
1902 Fernie BC - Earth tremor causes explosion at Coal Creek mine, 8 km from Fernie, killing 128 miners.
1893 London England - John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, Lord Aberdeen 1847-1934 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from September 18,1893 to November 12,1898.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Hastings Doyle 1804-1883 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until June 24.
1872 London England - Frederick Temple Hamilton, Lord Dufferin 1826-1902 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from June 25, 1872 to Nov. 14, 1878.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Minister of Militia and Defense George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 gets Royal Assent for first Canadian Militia Bill; first active units not mustered for three years.
1853 Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto vests teaching powers in new University College; University now limited to examination and degree granting.
1850 New York City - Henry Grinnell 1799-1874 finances American expedition in search of the lost Franklin expedition; two ships commanded by Edwin De Haven (1816-1865) will enter Wellington Channel in August; find some Franklin relics.
1848 King William Island NWT - Group of 105 Franklin expedition survivors abandon Erebus and Terror 25 km off Victory Point on NE of King William Island; start trek via the Back River toward the Hudson's Bay Company posts on Great Slave Lake.
1844 Ottawa Ontario - William Harris founds the Bytown Packet newspaper; now the Ottawa Citizen.
1838 Verdun Quebec - Col. Robert Sweeny kills Major Henry Warde in a duel on the Montreal race track; Warde had sent a love letter to Sweeny's wife; last fatal duel in Canada.
1820 Halifax Nova Scotia - George Ramsay, Lord Dalhousie 1770-1838 lays the cornerstone of Dalhousie University in Halifax.
1786 Canada - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 appointed Governor-in-Chief of British North America (Quebec and Maritimes); serves from Oct. 23,1786 to Dec. 15, 1796.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Olivier Briand 1715-1794 Bishop of Quebec orders loyalty to Britain; forbids Canadian women to marry soldiers in the invading American army.
1633 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Quebec with Jean de BrÃ©beuf 1593-1649 and fathers MassÃ©, Daniel, and Davost, who take over the Recollet missions; determines to rebuild colony with help of Jesuit Order.
1616 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 departs to visit the Nipissing tribe up the Ottawa River.
1611 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Biencourt arrives at Port Royal with the first Jesuits in New France.

End of C/P.

henric · May 22, 2014

May 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

844 – Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Asturians and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.
1430 – Siege of CompiÃ¨gne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve CompiÃ¨gne.
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1568 – The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
1609 – Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London, England.
1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal FranÃ§ois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi.
1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the 8th American state.
1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
1844 – Declaration of the BÃ¡b: a merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the BahÃ¡'Ã Faith, and BahÃ¡'Ãs celebrate the day as a holy day.
1846 – Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
1932 – In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator GetÃºlio Vargas, which occurred in the city of SÃ£o Paulo. Their names and surnames were used to form the MMDC, a revolutionary group that would act against the dictatorial government, especially in the Constitutionalist Revolution ("RevoluÃ§Ã£o Constitucionalista", in Portuguese), the major uprising in Brazil during the 20th century.
1934 – The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1934 – The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melÃ©e between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1945 – World War II: The Flensburg Government under ReichsprÃ¤sident Karl DÃ¶nitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
1958 – Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.
1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than 2 months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2004 – Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
2008 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
2009 – Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun committed suicide, jumping from a 45 meter cliff known as Bueong-i Bawi in Bongha, Gimhae, South Korea.
2010 – Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.
2013 – The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1885 POUNDMAKER ENDS REBELLION
Fort Pitt Saskatchewan - Poundmaker 1826-1886 surrenders with his Cree warriors and 150 Metis on hearing of Riel's defeat; will be sentenced to three years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary; end of North West Rebellion.

1873
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes a bill creating the North-West Mounted Police; a military police like Royal Irish Constabulary, to patrol border and keep peace between Indians and traders; merged with the Dominion Police in 1920 to form the RCMP.

1886
Vancouver BC - Canadian Pacific Railway Engine 374, hauling the first transcontinental passenger train, steams into the new West Coast terminal at Vancouver harbour; Vancouver had been destroyed by fire in June 1885, and the railway would help the city grow and recover. Click to see a picture of the welcoming ceremony.

In Other Events...

1986 Washington DC - US imposes 35% tariff on imported Canadian cedar shakes and shingles.
1982 Vatican City - Pope John Paul beatifies Canadians Brother AndrÃ© Bessette and Mother Marie Rose; first steps toward sainthood.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Canada's Wonderland amusement park opens north of the city, just west of Maple.
1975 Cannes France - Michel Brault 1928- co-winner of Best Direction award at Cannes Film Festival for film Les Ordres; feature about the 1970 October Crisis.
1974 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick first province with a common law background to draft statutes in both official languages.
1968 London England - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 invited by British Broadcasting Corporation to give the BBC Reith Lectures for this year.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Government's GO Transit inaugurated; commuter rail service between Pickering, Toronto, Oakville and Hamilton under an operating agreement with Canadian National.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Engineers start drilling first stretch of tunnel for Montreal's new Metro subway system.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Arthur J. Trebilcock appointed first full time President of the Toronto Stock Exchange; former Secretary of the Standard Exchange; J.G.K. Strathy fills new post of TSE Chairman.
1944 Pontecorvo Italy - First Canadian Corps starts breaking through Hitler Line across Liri Valley, near Monte Cassino; British and Canadians occupy Pontecorvo.
1943 Vancouver BC - William Aberhart dies; radio evangelist, founding leader of Alberta's Social Credit Party.
1933 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canadian National-Canadian Pacific Act; directing the two companies to cooperate during the Depression.
1929 Regina Saskatchewan - Canada's first airborne wedding takes place in a bi-plane over Regina.
1929 Edmonton Alberta - First non-stop Winnipeg-to-Edmonton flight made in six hours and 48 minutes.
1888 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns from Commons to return to Canadian High Commission in London; serves until Jan 14, 1896.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Canadian Steam Navigation Company, to offer transatlantic service to Britain.
1842 Toronto Ontario - Architect Barlow Cumberland lays the cornerstone of King's College; now University College of the University of Toronto.
1819 London England - John Franklin 1786-1847 sails on the Prince of Wales to explore the Arctic coast from mouth of Coppermine River to Repulse Bay; with Robert Hood, George Back and Dr. John Richardson. [recounted in Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1820].
1766 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Benjamin Green 1713-1772 appointed administrator of Nova Scotia; serves until Aug. 22, 1766.
1541 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves on his third voyage, with five ships and 1500 men, including Guyon, Vicomte de BeauprÃ©; drinking water runs out on a miserable three month crossing.
1633 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain appointed Governor of New France.

End of C/P.

henric · May 23, 2014

May 24th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 – Magnus LadulÃ¥s is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1607 – 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.
1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1813 – South American independence leader SimÃ³n BolÃvar enters MÃ©rida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio JosÃ© de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland, and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
1846 – Mexican–American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1901 – Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in CoyoacÃ¡n, Mexico.
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, CordÃ³n Caulle begins to erupt.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1963 – Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1976 – The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins.
1976 – The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime RoldÃ³s Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 – Mountain climbing: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200.
2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1918 WOMEN GET FEDERAL VOTE
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 passes Canada Elections Act; gives all Canadian women over 21, the right to vote in federal elections only. Manitoba the first province to grant women the vote, in 1916; the other provinces follow suit between 1918 and 1922, except Quebec, a hold out until 1940.

1779
Montreal Quebec -
Fur traders Benjamin and Joseph Frobisher, John Ross and Peter Pond join with Montreal merchants Isaac Todd, James McGill, Simon McTavish, James McBeath and Lawrence Ermatinger to found the North West Company, with 16 shares held by 9 different partnerships; the company will let the partners spread their risk to do battle with the Hudson's Bay Company in the far west. Here is an example of one of their trade tokens.

In Other Events...

1996 Los Angeles California - Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen's espionage spoof Spy Hard is released.
1995 Toronto Ontario - $1.2-billion (Canadian) issue of Suncor Inc. shares snapped up by investors in minutes.
1995 Cambridge Ontario - Toyota's car assembly plant in Cambridge, Ont. named top North American auto plant in J. D. Power and Associates quality survey..
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- announces Canada withdrawing Ambassador to Belgrade and expelling Yugoslavian diplomats; to force Serbs to agree to a cease-fire in Bosnia.
1991 Bloomington, Minnesota- Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Stars 8-0 to win their first Stanley Cup, four games to two.
1991 Washington DC - George Bush gets US Senate to approve 'fast track' talks for North American Free Trade accord; can deal without amendments from Congress.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Konrad Sioui, a Huron from Ancienne-Lorette, is acquitted on a charge of violating Quebec provincial park laws against hunting and tree cutting; under the 1760 Hurons and British conquerors treaty.
1990 Canada - Edmonton Oilers take Stanley Cup for the fifth time in 7 years, beating Boston in 5 games; only 2 years after losing Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings.
1988 Boston Massachusetts - Boston Gardens power failure forces first suspension of a Stanley Cup playoff game; Boston and Edmonton tied 3-3 near the end of the second period, in the fourth game of the final series, with Edmonton leading three games to none. The entire game is replayed.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames 4-3 to win the series 4 games to 1, and to take home their 23rd Stanley Cup; most championships won by any North American professional sports team.
1980 New York City - Bobby Nystrom scores in overtime goal giving the New York Islanders a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers and taking the series 4 games to 2; first NHL Stanley Cup for the Islanders.
1977 Canada - Liberal Party wins five of six federal by-elections.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General, starts two-day visit to Canada.
1968 Montreal Quebec - CBC/Radio-Canada starts building new Montreal headquarters called Maison de Radio-Canada, to be finished by April of 1972.
1968 Quebec Quebec - FLQ terrorists bomb the US Consulate in Quebec City, damaging the building.
1967 Rocky Mt. House Alberta - Start of Voyageur canoe pageant, with eight provincial teams, two from Yukon and NWT; Centennial canoeists will arrive at Expo '67 in Montreal Sept. 4.
1967 Kingston Ontario - John A. Macdonald's Kingston home, Bellevue House, opened as a museum by Parks Canada.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Security guards lock Centre Block doors for first time as over 10,000 Ontario and Quebec dairy farmers protest on Parliament Hill for higher milk prices.
1967 Montreal Quebec - Wilder Penfield, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute, awarded the first Royal Bank Centennial Medal.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, starts four-day visit to Canada.
1955 Montreal Quebec - CPR and CNR cut Montreal-Vancouver travel time on passenger trains by 14 to 16 hours.
1959 London England - Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day.
1940 Halifax Nova Scotia - Four Canadian destroyers sent to Britain.
1936 Sarnia Ontario - Norman Red Ryan 1895-1936 shot and killed by police in gun fight while trying to rob liquor store; notorious bank robber.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill establishing a national broadcasting system for Canada - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ottawa orders postal workers back to work during Winnipeg General Strike.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, now Statistics Canada.
1912 Vancouver BC - Charles Saunders the first Canadian to make a parachute jump in Canada from a plane.
1902 Canada - Victoria Day first observed throughout Canada 16 months after Queen Victoria's death. Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier had designated the public holiday to fall on May 24, the Queen's birthday; in 1952, the date was changed to the first Monday preceding May 25th.
1901 Hamilton Ontario - Clementina Fessenden originates a public holiday called Victoria Day to honour the Empire by celebrating Queen's birthday; a schoolteacher, she is the mother of radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden.
1897 Quebec - FÃ©lix-Gabriel Marchand becomes Liberal Premier of Quebec.
1888 Niagara Falls Ontario - Opening of Queen Victoria Park at Niagara Falls.
1881 London Ontario - Excursion steamer Victoria, a flat-bottomed stern-wheeler, sinks in the Thames River near Riverside Park in London, with the loss of 181 lives.
1876 Regina Saskatchewan - NWMP (RCMP) band first plays in public.
1875 Swan River Saskatchewan - NWMP stages snake-killing meet at Swan River post; 1,100 serpents killed.
1873 Toronto Ontario - John Wilson Bengough 1851-1923 founds satirical weekly Grip with his own cartoons; published until Dec. 29, 1894.
1862 Kingston Ontario - John Sandfield Macdonald 1812-1872 and Louis-Victor Sicotte 1812-1889 form new Liberal Ministry.
1860 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Plate horse race run for the first time; the oldest continuously run stakes race in North America.
1856 Ontario - John A. Macdonald and E-P TachÃ© form a new Ministry; all previous Ministers back in office except Allan MacNab and Lewis Drummond.
1851 Charlottetown PEI - Reform Party leader George Coles 1810-1875 asked by Lieutenant-Governor to form a government; Prince Edward Island obtains responsible government.
1847 King William Island NWT - Graham Gore sets out from icebound Franklin ships to find Northwest Passage; likely crosses ice to southern end of King William Island and finds passage.
1846 Fort William Ontario - Paul Kane 1810-1871 sets out from Fort William with the Hudson's Bay Company spring brigade; will sketch a Metis buffalo hunt and cross the Rockies.
1833 Montreal Quebec - William Logie the first medical student to graduate in Canada, earning his degree from McGill University.
1744 Canso Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 captures Canseau fishing station with troops from Louisbourg; Canso the closest British settlement to Louisbourg.
1650 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Charles Menou d'Aulnay 1604-1650 drowns in Port Royal basin when his canoe overturns; he hangs on for an hour and a half, but dies of exposure.
1607 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 orders colony to return to France when the ship Jonas arrives with the news that his trade license has been revoked; French concern about Dutch competition in the St. Lawrence led to a rethinking about colonization in Acadia.
1603 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 anchors at the mouth of the Saguenay River with GravÃ© du Pont and Pierre de Monts on de Chaste's Bonne Renomme; his first landing in Canada.

End of C/P.

henric · May 24, 2014

May 25th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: The Carnew massacre, Dunlavin massacre and Carlow massacre take place.
1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: a group of patriots in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) revolt against the Spanish Empire, starting the South American Wars of Independence.
1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
1914 – The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne
1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
1950 – Public Transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
1961 – Apollo program: The U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 – The biggest fire in Singapore history. The Bukit Ho Swee Fire
1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 – The first prominent dÃ zÃ¬bÃ o during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
1968 – Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
1973 – HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
1977 – Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 – Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1986 – Hands Across America takes place.
1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 – The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1987 FILION WINS HIS 10,000TH RACE
Yonkers, NY - New Brunswick jockey HervÃ© Filion drives Commander Bond to victory in the third race at Yonkers Raceway, becoming the first harness racing driver to win 10,000 races.

1982
Detroit Michigan - Chatham Ontario's Ferguson Jenkins strikes out his 3,000th batter; Fergie becomes only the seventh major league pitcher to accomplish that feat.

In Other Events...

1997 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Jean ChrÃ©tien affirms that he would not recognize any referendum result of 50.1%, saying 'That's not reasonable.'
1993 Nova Scotia - Dr. John Savage wins a majority for the Liberals in the provincial election, ending 15 years of Tory rule.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Retired restaurateur Imre Finta acquitted on all counts of confinement, kidnapping, robbery and manslaughter in the 1944 deportation of 8,617 Jews while in the Hungarian police; Canada's first war crimes trial under 1987 law.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- begins meeting Premiers individually over three days to lobby for passage of the Meech Lake Accord.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Dr. Jamie Astaphan takes the stand at the Dubin Inquiry into drug use in amateur sport. Ben Johnson's personal physician admits he gave steroids to Johnson.
1989 Montreal Quebec - Calgary Flames beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup, four games to two.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 in the sixth game to win the Stanley Cup, 4 games to 2.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Hellyer launches his Action Canada political movement to pressure Ottawa on tax cuts, unemployment and wage and price controls; former Liberal MP, Cabinet Minister.
1967 Montreal Quebec - US President Lyndon Johnson unveils the United States' Centennial gift to Canada at Expo '67, a crystal and steel sculpture called The Great Ring of Canada.
1958 Toronto Ontario - Toronto gets Canada's first direct distance dialing (DDD) system.
1953 Charlottetown PEI - Alexander W. Matheson 1903- new Liberal Premier of Prince Edward Island.
1953 New York City - Canadian orchestra leader Percy Faith's The Percy Faith Orchestra has a number one dance hit with Song from Moulin Rouge.
1944 Melfa River Italy - Canadian Army Major J. K. Mahony wins VC for holding bridgehead over Melfa River.
1927 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government cuts trade ties with the new Soviet Union.
1914 Rome Italy - Archbishop Louis-Nazaire BÃ©gin 1840-1925 elected a Cardinal.
1905 Peterborough Ontario - Peterborough incorporated as a city.
1885 Quebec Quebec - Frederick Charles Denison 1846-1896 and his Nile Voyageurs arrive back in Canada.
1882 Ottawa Ontario - First meeting of Royal Society of Canada, founded to promote a national science and literature.
1870 Eccles Hill Quebec - Canadian militia commander Osborne Smith disperses a Fenian raiding party led by O'Neill and Spier back across the border; has no casualties; Fenian leaders arrested in the US; last raid on Canada.
1858 Victoria BC - First shipload of gold miners from California arrives in British Columbia.
1717 Annapolis Nova Scotia - John Doucelte d1726 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Annapolis Royal and administrator of Nova Scotia; serves until 1726.
1660 Quebec Quebec - Parisian lawyer/accountant Jean Peronne Dumesnil dc1667 examines all fur-trading transactions of the bankrupt Company of New France since 1645.
1615 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Tadoussac; learns of new Iroquois aggression.

End of C/P.

henric · May 25, 2014

May 26th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

47 BC – Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.
17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity.
946 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.
1135 – Alfonso VII of LeÃ³n and Castile is crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of all of Spain".
1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1328 – William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1573 – The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.
1637 – Mystic massacre in the Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under the English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.
1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
1736 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under the governor of Louisiana, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
1770 – The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
1805 – NapolÃ©on Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1821 – Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.
1822 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
1864 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 – American Civil War: the Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1896 – Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1897 – Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
1900 – Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1908 – At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
1917 – Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1923 – 24 Hours of Le Mans, was first held, and has since been run annually in June.
1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1940 – World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1971 – The Pakistan Army massacres at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
1972 – Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
1981 – The Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
1983 – A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004, a Boeing 767, crashes in an area of western Thailand after a thrust reverser malfunction. All 223 people aboard are killed.
1992 – The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken. Following this, the siege of Dubrovnik ends in the next months.
1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
1998 – The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
2002 – The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2008 – Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 ANOTHER GRETZKY RECORD
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins 6-3, completing a four game sweep, to win their fourth Stanley Cup in five years; MVP Wayne Gretzky has 31 assists, setting a playoff record.

1887
Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific Railway 4,700 km main line opens for public traffic, 18 months after the last spike at Craigellachie, BC. Trains have been running across Canada for a year, but passengers can now ride directly to Vancouver.

In Other Events...

1997 Canada - Controversial Reform Party TV election ad shows black and white images of Jean Charest et Jean ChrÃ©tien alongside the 1995 referendum result, with the voice over saying 'Last time, these men almost lost our country.' Then it shows Lucien Bouchard and Gilles Duceppe, and asks for a voice for all Canadians, not just politicians from Quebec.
1981 Vancouver BC - Canada and US sign Pacific coast fishery treaty; each can fish for albacore tuna in other's waters; each can enter 4 Canadian or US ports.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Lawren Harris' South Shore, Baffin Island sells for $240,000, record for Canadian painting; Group of Seven member.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston 4-1 to win their 21st Stanley Cup.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa adds over 2,900 km of Prairie rail to network protected from abandonment.
1970 New York City - The Guess Who's American Woman/No Sugar Tonight still the #1 Billboard hit after four weeks on the charts; Winnipeg band with lead singer Burton Cummings.
1969 Montreal Quebec - John Lennon and Yoko Ono start their second Bed-In for Peace in a room at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; during the event, they recorded the song, Give Peace a Chance.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - U Thant ,United Nations Secretary-General, addresses a joint sitting of the Commons and Senate.
1943 Quebec Quebec - Quebec passes a law requiring free and compulsory education in the province.
1940 Dunkirk France - Start of the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Bennett government passes the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act; to supervise all public and private broadcasting; sets up publicly-owned radio network broadcasting in English and French.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942 leads socialist Labour MPs and the League for Social Reconstruction to found the Commonwealth Party; will join that August in a new party called the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
1906 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Saskatoon incorporated as a city.
1898 London England - Judicial Committee of Imperial Privy Council rules the Ottawa has sole power to regulate ocean fisheries.
1896 Victoria BC - Bridge collapses in Victoria, killing 55 occupants of a streetcar.
1887 London England - Canada given the power to negotiate commercial treaties with foreign countries.
1874 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Dominion Elections Act bringing in the secret ballot; elections to be held simultaneously; abolishes property qualifications for MPs.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Victoria 1819-1901 approves design for the Great Seal of Canada, with arms of the four provinces.
1850 Toronto Ontario - Armand-FranÃ§ois-Marie de Charbonnel 1802-1891 consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto.
1848 Montreal Island NWT - Last members of Franklin expedition die on Montreal Island; evidence of cannibalism later found.
1846 St. John's Newfoundland - Citizens of St. John's petition the Governor for responsible government in Newfoundland.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 meets Canadian Assembly in Kingston for first time as Governor General.
1826 Toronto Ontario - Former US citizens and naturalized residents of Upper Canada given the right to vote and stand for election to the Assembly.
1793 Vancouver Island BC - George Vancouver explores Pacific Coast; circumnavigates island bearing his name; just misses meeting Alexander Mackenzie who had come overland; leaves September 20.
1703 Quebec Quebec - Governor Louis-Hector de CalliÃ¨res 1648-1703 dies.
1603 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 lands at Tadoussac on de Chaste's Bonne RenommÃ© with GravÃ© du Pont and Pierre de Monts; witnesses Montagnais 'tabagies' or feasts; gives them religious teaching.

End of C/P.

henric · May 26, 2014

May 27th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

927 – Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199 – John is crowned King of England.
1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
1908 – Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1941 – World War II: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1968 – The meeting of the Union Nationale des Ã‰tudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1968 – Major League Baseball's National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1975 – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1983 – Webb Farm disaster: a massive explosion at a secret unlicensed fireworks plant near Benton, Tennessee, kills eleven, injures one, and causes damage within a radius of several miles.[1]
1986 – Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 – First Chechnya War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 – The unusual tornado outbreak in Jarrell, Texas.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.
2009 – A suicide bombing kills at least 35 people and injures 250 more in Lahore, Pakistan.
2009 – Soyuz TMA-15 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1813 US INVADERS TAKE FORT GEORGE
Burlington Ontario - General John Vincent 1765- 1848 retreats to Burlington Heights from Niagara with the rest of his 1,400 British and Canadian militia after two days of bombardment with fire shells, and losing Fort George to American General Henry Dearborn, Winfield Scott and Isaac Chauncey and their force of 7,000 men; War of 1812.

1968
Montreal Quebec -
Montreal Expos are awarded a National League baseball franchise 30 years ago today, after several years of promotion from Montreal city councilor Gerry Snyder and a near loss of the team when Blue Bonnets owner Jean-Louis Levesque withdrew, but distillery magnate Charles Bronfman agreed to back the team, with fellow investors Paul and Charlemagne Beaudry, Lorne Webster, Hugh Hallward and Sydney Maislin. The Expos are major league baseball's first expansion outside the US, and it causes an outcry in the US Congress; under first manager Gene Mauch, the Expos will play their first home game at Jarry Park on April 14, 1969; the San Diego Padres will be the other new NL team to play.

In Other Events...

1993 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes legislation bringing Canada into the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1992 Queensland Australia - Leneen Forde appointed Governor of Queensland; first woman governor of an Australian state; born in Ottawa in 1935.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Trudeau attacks Meech Lake Accord in the media; abandons low profile he has kept since leaving public office.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Summer in the Arctic by Frederick H. Varley sells for $170,000; record for a Canadian painting; $1,1 million in sales and 10 price records broken at Sotheby Parke Bernet auction.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- agrees to separation with wife Margaret; retains custody of three children.
1977 Cannes France - Monique Mercure 1950- named co-winner of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival; for her role in J A. Martin, Photographe, produced by the National Film Board.
1975 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Flyers beat the Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to acquire DeHavilland Aircraft of Canada and Canadair, then find Canadian investors for shares; both foreign-owned companies.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau promises in an election speech to introduce a bill to make French an official language in federal courts and departments.
1967 Egypt - Egypt demands immediate withdrawal of Canadian peace-keeping troops; Canadians airlifted out within 48 hours.
1965 Carillon Ontario - Ontario and Quebec plan $10 million provincial park along Ottawa River from Carillon to Hull, Quebec; federal-provincial Centennial project.
1963 Edmonton Alberta - Opening of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Closing of Her Majesty's Theatre; open since 1898.
1949 Newfoundland - Joseph Roberts 'Joey' Smallwood 1900-1992 wins Liberal majority in first Newfoundland provincial election as a Canadian province; first Premier; will govern until January, 1972 and stay in the legislature until retiring in 1977.
1949 Canada - Louis St. Laurent 1882-1973 wins federal election with 49.5% of popular vote; takes 193 seats to 41 for George Drew's Conservatives; 13 CCF; 10 Social Credit; 5 others.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Government nationalizes the Bank of Canada three years after opening.
1898 Dawson Yukon - First edition of the Klondike Nugget, the Yukon's first regular newspaper.
1885 Frenchman Butte Saskatchewan - Big Bear and his Cree warriors escape north after artillery attack by General Thomas Strange, who then retreats to Fort Pitt; last native battle in Canada.
1873 Prince Edward Island - PEI votes for union with Canada; the province is bankrupt due to railway speculation.
1863 Cape Race Newfoundland - Sailing ship Anglo Saxon wrecked off Cape Race, with a loss of 237 lives.
1846 Montreal Quebec - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 makes first speech in Parliament; advocates repeal of usury laws.
1838 London England - Britain appoints John George Lambton, Lord Durham as Governor of Canada, with a mandate to examine and recommend the form and future government of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.
1818 London England - British government declares Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be free ports.
1798 Turtle Lake Minnesota - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches Turtle Lake; thinks it is the source of the Mississippi.
1763 Sandusky Ohio - Pontiac holds council of war to raise western tribes against Britain.
1613 Renfrew Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets out with de Vignau up the Ottawa River.
1534 Belle Isle Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 enters the Baie des Chateaux - the Strait of Belle Isle - then follows the south coast of Labrador; may have been there already with Verrazano; his second voyage to Canada.

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henric · May 27, 2014

May 28th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gao Zu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui Dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang Dynasty.
1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a papal bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)
1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1830 – The U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1871 – The Paris Commune falls.
1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1900 – Gare d'Orsay railway station is inaugurated in Paris.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1926 – 28 May 1926 coup d'Ã©tat: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1936 – Klaipėda Radio Station begins regular broadcasting.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1937 – Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer was founded.
1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
1951 – The British radio comedy program The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
1952 – The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1987 – The 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
1996 – The U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, ******** da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2010 – In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce.
2012 – The discovery of Flame, a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced.

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1985 PETERSON TAKES DOWN BIG BLUE MACHINE
Ontario - David Peterson 1943- wins minority in Ontario election; signs pact with NDP leader Bob Rae to bring down Frank Miller's Tories after 42 year rule.

1778
Nootka Sound BC - James Cook 1728-1779 anchors ship Resolution in Resolution Cove, Nootka Sound; begins to chart the coast of British Columbia along with Captain George Vancouver 1757-1798.

In Other Events...

1992 Toronto Ontario - Dave Steen named to Canadian Sports Hall of Fame; won bronze medal in decathlon at 1988 Seoul Olympics.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Mel Hurtig sells Hurtig Publishing Ltd. of Edmonton, with a 100 book backlist including the Canadian Encyclopedia, to Avie Bennett's McClelland & Stewart; Hurtig firm started in 1972.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar thanks Canada for support of United Nations; discusses security issues with Mulroney, who signs UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian aerosol industry says it will ban ozone-depleting CFCs (chloro-fluorocarbons) from spray cans.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Ontario brings in measures to allow it to censor, classify or ban commercially-distributed videotape.
1980 St. John's Nfld. - Newfoundland adopts its provincial flag.
1969 Grande Prairie Alberta - Alberta Premier Harry Strom 1914- opens the Alberta Resources Railway, a 378 km line north from Grande Prairie.
1965 Prestwick Scotland - Thomas Scheer, 42, of Langley, BC, and three other Canadians make first unescorted transatlantic helicopter flight; 6,400 km 15 day journey from Stratford, Connecticut in 26-seat, amphibian Sikorsky; longest single hop was 640 km, from Greenland to Reykjavik Iceland.
1962 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ottawa and Manitoba sign agreement for construction of $63.2 million Greater Winnipeg Floodway; later nicknamed Duff's Ditch after Premier Duff Roblin.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Theodor Hess President of Federal Republic of Germany starts one-week visit to Canada.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Dominion-Provincial Taxation Agreement Act; formalizes 1941 budget arrangements.
1927 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves Old Age Pension Plan for those over 70 with demonstrable need; means test; Ottawa's first major venture into public welfare; will first get approval from the provinces.
1900 Ottawa Ontario - Berliner Gramophone Co. of Montreal registers the famous dog and gramophone symbol, His Master's Voice as the company's Canadian trademark.
1892 New York City - Cobourg Ontario comedienne Marie Dressler makes her New York singing debut in the comic opera, The Robber of the Rhine.
1886 Windsor Ontario - Canada's first commercial electric railway starts operating in Windsor.
1885 Frenchman's Butte Alberta - Thomas Bland Strange 1831-1925 drives Big Bear off Frenchman's Butte and pursues him for a month.
1884 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns from the House of Commons to become Canada's first High Commissioner to Britain.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Henry Sherwood 1807-1855 becomes Attorney-General for Canada West on Draper's retirement.
1845 Quebec Quebec - Quebec fire destroys two-thirds of the city plus the suburbs of St-Roch and St-Jean; 1,500 houses destroyed.
1813 Burlington Ontario - General John Vincent 1765- 1848 ends his retreat to Burlington Heights after losing Fort George; Americans now control Niagara Peninsula.
1812 Quebec Quebec - Lower Canada passes general order to raise four regiments of militia.
1808 Prince George BC - Simon Fraser 1776-1862 leaves Fort George with Jules Quesnel 1786-1842 to travel in wooden dugout canoes down the river that will one day bear his name.
1801 Toronto Ontario - First session of third Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 9; regulation of militia; founding of market in Kingston.
1763 Point Pelee Ontario - Pontiac leads Wyandots in defeat of Lt Cuyler at Point Pelee.
1760 Sainte-Foy Quebec - James Murray leads 3,900 men against de LÃ©vis' 5,000 on the Plains of Abraham; British heavily mauled in a two-hour battle, but successfully retreat behind the walls of Quebec.
1754 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville 1718-1754 killed with nine other Canadians during defeat by Major George Washington and Tanaghrisson at the Battle of the Great Meadows; outbreak of French-Indian War.
1664 Paris France - French West India Company gets royal grant of all French colonies in North America; monopoly of trade in exchange for a royalty to the King.

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