This Date In History

henric · May 28, 2014

May 29th 2014 - This Date in History.

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363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
1108 – Battle of UclÃ©s: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and LeÃ³n alliance under the command of Prince Sancho AlfÃ³nsez.
1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1414 – Council of Constance.
1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
1727 – Peter II becomes Czar of Russia.
1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1852 – Jenny Lind left New York after her wildly successful two-year American tour.
1861 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1886 – The Pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in The Atlanta Journal.
1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Ã‰mile Gentil.
1903 – In the May coup d'Ã©tat, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.
1931 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1939 – The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history.
1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1948 – Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1969 – General strike in CÃ³rdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: 39 association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1989 – Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1993 – The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2008 – A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
2012 – A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1987 REFORM PARTY FOUNDING CONVENTION
Vancouver BC - Founding of the Reform Party of Canada, with Preston Manning as leader; Deborah Grey will become the party's first MP when she wins the 1989 Beaver River Alberta by-election; The Party will take 52 seats in 1993 election, decimating the Tories, and 60 seats in 1997, taking away Official Opposition status from the Bloc Quebecois.

1914
Rimouski Quebec - Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland outbound from Quebec is hit by a Norwegian collier ship Storstad at 1:55 am in Gulf or St. Lawrence; three minutes later water reaches the dynamos, dousing power and light, and the ship sinks in 11 minutes later when Storstad backs out of the hole in the hull; 1,024 lives are lost, 464 saved; $1 million in silver bars later recovered by divers.

In Other Events...

1995 Victoria BC - Scientific panel's report on Clayoquot Sound offers more than 100 recommendations for logging in area on west coast of Vancouver Island.
1993 Toronto Ontario - Wayne Gretzky scores three goals, for a record eighth time in his playoff career, to lead the Los Angeles Kings to a 5-4 victory over the Maple Leafs in Game 7 of the Campbell Conference final; Kings advance to the Stanley Cup final.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visits Canada en route to his Washington summit with President Bush.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Oakland's Rickey Henderson gets his major league record-setting 893rd stolen base in the sixth inning, breaking Ty Cobb's 62-year-old American League record, but Toronto Blue Jays still beat the Athletics 2-1; Henderson will later play a year for the Jays.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes Bill C-43 by 140-131; allows abortions at all stages of pregnancy, as long as a doctor believes the physical or mental health of the woman is endangered.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Global TV reporter Doug Small and five others charged by RCMP with releasing confidential budget details; budget leaked on April 26.
1985 Victoria BC - Amputee Steve Fonyo, 19, completes a cross-Canada marathon started 14 months earlier in Newfoundland, by dipping his artificial left leg into the Pacific at Mile Zero of the Trans-Canada Highway; officially completing his Journey for Lives run; inspired by Terry Fox, Fonyo raises almost $9 million in donations for cancer research.
1979 Santa Monica California - Silent film star and movie producer Mary Pickford dies of a stroke at 86; America's Sweetheart was born in Toronto Apr 8, 1893; started in the theater at age 6 as 'Baby Gladys Smith' (her real name), and she toured into the US with her family in a number of theater companies. In 1907, she adopted the family name Pickford and joined the David Belasco troupe, acting in the long running 'The Warrens of Virginia'. She started in films in 1909 with D.W. Griffith's Biograph Company, and in 1920 was a co-founder of United Artists with her husband Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes 138-114 in favor of extending a partial ban hanging for five more years; capital punishment only for murderers of policemen and prison guards.
1973 Vietnam - Canada announces it will withdraw from International Control Commission (ICCS) truce observance force in Vietnam by July 31, two months after the end of the initial 60-day period.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Quebec bans commercial salmon fishing off Gaspe Peninsula because of depleted stocks.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Hudson's Bay Company moves its head office from London, England to Winnipeg.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves increase in the federal minimum wage from $1.25 an hour to $1.65. Provinces set their own minimum wages, with a high of $1.55 in Alberta and a low of 90Â¢ for Nova Scotia women..
1968 Appin Ontario - Presbyterian Church in Canada ordains its first female minister.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - National Museum of Canada opens its Hall of the Canadian Eskimos exhibit.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes $700 million War Appropriations Act, authorizing two more Army divisions.
1934 Corbeil Ontario - Allan Roy Dafoe 1883-1943 delivers the last of the Dionne Quintuplets: Annette, Emilie (d1954), Yvonne, Cecile and Marie (d1970).
1849 London England - David Anderson 1814-1885 appointed first Anglican Bishop of Rupert's Land; arrives in Red River Oct. 3.
1838 Wellesley Island Ontario - Pirate Bill Johnston 1782-1870 attacks and burns the Canadian steamer Sir Robert Peel off Wellesley Island in the Thousand Islands.
1838 Quebec Quebec - John George Lambton, Lord Durham, lands at Quebec; appointed Governor by British Prime Minister Lord Melbourne to investigate colonial grievances after the rebellions of 1837.
1832 Ottawa Ontario - Steamboat Pumper arrives at Bytown from Kingston; first vessel through the Rideau Canal.
1815 London England - British government opens Canadian commerce to US citizens after the War of 1812 ends.
1813 Sackett's Harbour New York - James Yeo 1782-1818 raids Isaac Chauncey's naval base at Sackett's Harbour with Roger Sheaffe; forced to withdraw by Brigadier Jacob Brown; new Commodore of Provincial Marine based in Kingston; War of 1812.
1792 Vancouver BC - George Vancouver's ship Discovery visits Vancouver Harbour, as he circumnavigates Vancouver Island, and charts the Juan de Fuca Strait, Puget Sound, Howe Sound, Jarvis Inlet and the Strait of Georgia.
1733 Quebec Quebec - Gilles Hocquart 1694-1783, Intendant of New France, upholds the right of Canadians to have Indians as slaves and to sell them.
1690 Portneuf Quebec - Casco takes Portneuf.
1673 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 issues proclamation giving the RÃ©collet fathers land on the St. Charles River.
1667 Thunder Bay Ontario - Claude Allouez 1622-1689 celebrates first mass west of Sault with Nipissing tribe members who fled Iroquois.

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henric · May 29, 2014

May 30th 2014 - This Date in History.

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70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
1381 – Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
1416 – The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 – Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
1434 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of MiletÃnek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
1510 – During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming Dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1631 – Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
1635 – Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague is signed.
1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
1806 – Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I is exiled to Elba.
1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
1832 – End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1834 – Joaquim AntÃ³nio de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders", earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
1876 – Ottoman sultan AbdÃ¼laziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London (1913), is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
1914 – The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York, New York.
1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
1922 – The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1925 – May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
1932 – The National Theatre of Greece is founded.
1937 – Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill 10 labor demonstrators.
1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
1942 – World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
1961 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1966 – The former Congolese Prime Minister, Ã‰variste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Ã‰lysÃ©es in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1974 – The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
2012 – Former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2013 – Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1985 OILERS REPEAT CUP WIN
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers win second consecutive Stanley Cup, beating the Philadelphia Flyers four games to one.

1905
London England - King Edward VIII grants Prince Edward island Its Coat of Arms; also on this day, in 1907, he grants Alberta its Coat of Arms.

In Other Events...

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Constitutional reform talks break up with distinct society clause for Quebec, native self-government agreed on; also more provincial powers in immigration, job training and culture.
1992 United Nations New York - Canada backs UN sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro; oil imports, air flights, all trade except food and medicine.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Kim Campbell introduces new gun control legislation, boosting penalties for some firearms offences while exempting competition shooters.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says Unemployment Insurance payouts up 34.3% from April 1990; 1.22 million Canadians get benefits; 10.2% unemployed.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Mikhail Gorbachev visits Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Mulroney; discuss unified Germany in NATO, USSR security concerns and Moscow's sanctions against Lithuania.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian country performer Joe Brown dies; founder of the Family Brown.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament raises number of Senate seats from 102 to 104; adds 1 new seat each for Yukon and NWT.
1968 Longueuil Quebec - Venetia Barrette wins first $100,000 grand prize in Montreal's voluntary tax lottery scheme.
1966 PEI - Alexander Bradshaw Campbell 1933- leads Liberals to win in PEI provincial election.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Rioting breaks out around Allan Gardens after 5,000 people protest against neo-Nazi rally.
1961 Buffalo Gap Saskatchewan - Torrential storm drops 25 centimetres of rain in one hour; one of Canada's most intense rainstorms on record.
1942 Cologne Germany - British and Canadian planes ravage Cologne in first thousand-plane bomber raid; over 500 Canadians involved in first saturation attack aimed at crippling Nazi war production.
1940 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange declines 25% after German victories in Europe.
1938 Toronto Ontario - Lawyer and financier Charles Vance Miller dies, ending the stork derby; willed estate to the Toronto woman who gave birth to most children in 10 years following his death; four mothers each will have nine children and each will receive $100,000.
1913 Ottawa Ontario - Senate rejects by a vote of 51 to 24 a bill to create a Canadian Navy.
1897 Saskatchewan - Almighty Voice 1874-1897 surrounded and shot to death after two year search; Cree desperado first arrested for killing a cow; he escaped and shot a NWMP sergeant.
1883 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns as an MP to serve as Canadian High Commissioner in London; takes office in 1884 replacing Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt.
1876 Montreal Quebec - Fire in Montreal destroys 411 homes.
1864 BC - Chilcotin Indians massacre group of road builders.
1864 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island Legislature appoints delegates to Charlottetown conference on Maritime Union.
1858 London England - British Parliament revokes charter of Hudson's Bay Company to the mainland of British Columbia.
1855 Hamilton Ontario - Founding of the Hamilton & South Western Railroad.
1853 Baffin Bay NWT - Elisha Kent Kane 1820-1857 commands the second Grinnell expedition in the Advance to Baffin Bay, through Smith Sound to Kane Basin; winters at Rensselaer Bay, Greenland.
1851 St. Andrews New Brunswick - Opening of telegraph line from Saint John to St. Andrew's and the US border.
1849 Toronto Ontario - King's College chartered as the University of Toronto; effective Jan. 1, 1850.
1849 Montreal Quebec - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 again attacked by mob; Tory violence continues through into the summer.
1849 Quebec Quebec - Assembly authorizes the Chambly ship canal from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence River.
1848 Fredericton New Brunswick - Fredericton gets city charter.
1838 London England - Queen Victoria grants extension of the monopoly held by the Hudson's Bay Company; renewal of charter for another 21 years.
1832 Ottawa Ontario - Rideau Canal officially opened to traffic, with 47 locks linking the Ottawa River at Ottawa with Lake Ontario at Kingston; first proposed as a military route between the two cities; 50 dams built to control water levels along the route.
1814 Sackett's Harbour New York - British seamen ambushed in Sandy Creek, near Sackett's Harbour; War of 1812.
1718 Churchill Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 made Governor of all Hudson Bay settlements; until 1722.
1675 Paris France - Jacques de La DoussiniÃ¨re et d'Ambua Duchesneau d1696 appointed Intendant of New France; serves from Sept. 16 until 1682.
1574 France - King Henri III 1551-1589 starts reign; to 1589; on death of Charles IX.

End of C/P.

henric · May 30, 2014

May 31st 2014 - This Date in History.

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1279 BC Â– Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
455 Â– Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
526 Â– A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000.
1223 Â– Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River Â– Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
1578 Â– Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich in England to Frobisher Bay in Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1578 Â– King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
1669 Â– Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1775 Â– American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
1790 Â– Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 Â– The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1795 Â– French Revolution: the Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1805 Â– French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock.
1813 Â– In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1854 Â– The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
1859 Â– The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
1862 Â– American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) Â– Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
1864 Â– American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor Â– The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade.
1866 Â– In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
1879 Â– Gilmores Garden in New York, New York is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1884 Â– The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria
1889 Â– Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1902 Â– Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
1909 Â– The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
1910 Â– The creation of the Union of South Africa.
1911 Â– The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
1911 Â– The President of Mexico Porfirio DÃaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
1916 Â– World War I: Battle of Jutland Â– The British Grand Fleet under the command of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty engage the Imperial German Navy under the command of Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1921 Â– Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
1924 Â– The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Beijing government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
1927 Â– The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1929 Â– The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
1935 Â– A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
1941 Â– A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
1941 Â– Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
1942 Â– World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
1961 Â– The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
1961 Â– In Moscow City Court, the RokotovÂ–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
1962 Â– The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1962 Â– Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1970 Â– The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
1971 Â– In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 Â– The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1977 Â– The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
1981 Â– The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
1985 Â– 1985 United StatesÂ–Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1989 Â– A group of six members of the guerrilla group TÃºpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
1991 Â– Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
2005 Â– Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
2010 Â– In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
2013 Â– The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
2013 Â– A powerful EF5 tornado devastates El Reno, Oklahoma, killing nine people, becoming the widest tornado in recorded history, with an astounding diameter of 2.6 miles (4.2 km).

Today's Canadian Headline...

1578 STREETS OF LONDON PAVED WITH GOLD
Harwich England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sails with fleet of 15 ships to build a settlement at Frobisher Bay and mine the 'gold' ore found a year earlier; will discover Hudson Strait; the 2,000 tons of 'gold' ore he mines will prove to be worthless pyrites, and used to pave the streets of London.

1866
Fort Erie Ontario - John O'Neill 1834-1878 leads about 800 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo to threaten Canadian garrisons, occupy Fort Erie, capture the Buffalo & Lake Huron Railroad and cut telegraph lines. The Fenians were dedicated to freeing Ireland from the English, by force if necessary; here's a cartoon of the time.

In Other Events...

1991 Oka Quebec - Chief George Martin of Kahnesatake Mohawk Reserve fails to block members from voting 526-21 for direct election of a new band council.
1990 Edmonton Alberta - Premier Don Getty announces that Alberta will privatize 50% of $3 billion giant, Alberta Government Telephones (AGT); Albertans given first right to buy shares.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Assembly of First Nations Chief George Erasmus says First Nations pleased with Supreme Court ruling requiring governments to bargain on native rights and land claims, and not ignore treaty obligations.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- invites Premiers to Ottawa June 3 to try and save the Meech Lake Accord; refuses full First Ministers Conference; says Senate reform main obstacle.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Superior Court convicts two Columbians and a New Yorker of attempting to smuggle and traffic $200 million of cocaine through New Brunswick in April 1988; given 10-25 year sentences.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes one bill giving all federal employees the right to a smoke-free workplace, and another banning virtually all tobacco advertising, effective Jan 1, 1989.
1987 Edmonton Alberta - Oilers beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1985 Ontario - Tornadoes hit central Ontario communities of Barrie, Grand Valley, Orangeville, and Tottenham, killing 12, injuring hundreds and damaging or destroying at least 1,000 buildings.
1977 Beijing China - Canadian Wheat Board sells China 3 million tonnes (110 million bushels) of wheat; valued at $330 million.
1976 Quebec - Ottawa averts national strike by 2,200 controllers over use of French in Quebec air traffic control.
1975 Orillia Ontario - Raynell Andreychuck the first woman appointed President of the National Council of the YMCA.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- announces new awards for bravery and merit for civilians and members of the Armed Forces; plus new level to the Order of Canada.
1971 Halifax Nova Scotia - Sandra Oxner, age 29, appointed first female judge of Nova Scotia Magistrate's Court.
1970 Quebec - 2,500 employees in 54 Quebec private hospitals strike for higher wages.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- officially opens the National Arts Centre on Confederation Square.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Grondin 1925- heads 27 member surgical team at the Montreal Heart Institute in performing Canada's first heart transplant, and the world's 18th, on Albert Murphy, a 58-year-old retired butcher; died 46 hours after start of operation.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of Sir John Carling Building, new Department of Agriculture headquarters.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- gives twelve white swans to the City of Ottawa as her Confederation gift; flown from England to Canada.
1964 Moscow Russia - Canadian Press sends its first resident correspondent to Soviet Union.
1962 Peterborough Ontario - Queen's Park announces plans for building Trent University at Peterborough; Ontario's 14th university slated to open Sept, 1964.
1954 Winnipeg Manitoba - CBWT-TV Winnipeg goes on the air; first prairie television station.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - Emergency Powers Act expires; gave Cabinet wide control over Canadian economy; later replaced by War Measures Act.
1943 Edmonton Alberta - Ernest Charles Manning 1908- succeeds William Aberhart as Social Credit Premier of Alberta.
1928 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia abolishes its Legislative Council; Quebec now the only province with an upper house.
1902 Vereeniging South Africa - Treaty of Vereeniging ends Boer War; cost Canada almost $3 million; 7,368 Canadians served with British forces.
1877 Brantford Ontario - Brantford incorporated as a city.
1877 London England - Canadian medical degrees became acceptable to Britain.
1862 Victoria BC - Incorporation of the Bank of British Columbia.
1831 Bellot Strait NWT - James Ross discovers Bellot Strait dividing Somerset Island from mainland of Boothia Peninsula; the northernmost point of the North American continent.
1794 Ontario - Upper Canada passes Alien Act, to guard against anti-British sentiment.
1793 Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes Act making it possible for public servants to perform marriages.
1790 BC - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca; claims area for Spain on Aug. 1.
1577 Harwich England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sets sail from Harwich on the Gabriel (20 tons), Michael (25 tons) and Ayde (a 10 ton pinnace); will reach Labrador coast July 28, then Frobisher Bay.

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henric · May 31, 2014

June 1st 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

193 – The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and LeÃ³n.
1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole.
1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 – American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861): the first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
1862 – American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: the Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
1913 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1939 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
1941 – World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
1962 – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
1967 – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles is released.
1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2012 – The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental jumbo jet aircraft is introduced with Lufthansa.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1997 CHRETIEN TO PRESIDE OVER PIZZA PARLIAMENT
Canada -Jean ChrÃ©tien wins re-election for the Liberals with 155 seats, to 60 Reform, 44 Bloc Quebecois, 21 NDP, 20 PC and 1 Independent; major bloc voting and the regionalization of parties sees the Liberals strong in Ontario and West Quebec, and Reform in Western Canada. Preston Manning's Reform Party will form the Official Opposition in the so-called Pizza Parliament.

In Other Events....

1991 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP unfurls its official flag.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney hosts all-night negotiations to iron out the remaining Meech Lake wrinkles; first ministers agree unanimously to present the Accord to their legislatures.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - The 10 premiers agree that Ottawa can carry on free trade-talks with the US without direct participation by the provinces.
1984 New York City - NBC-TV special Welcome To The Fun Zone stars Canadians Howie Mandel and John Candy.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec raises provincial minimum wage from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour; highest in Canada.
1970 Peru - Canada gives $1 million in emergency relief assistance to Peruvian earthquake victims; sends aircraft to ferry services, tents, and flour.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government sets retirement age for Senators at 75.
1953 London England Britain - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- crowned in Westminster Abbey 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI; marked by official ceremonies across Canada; first coronation to be televised.
1952 Montreal Quebec - TV broadcasting starts in Canada when Radio Canada's Channel 2 shows a test pattern.
1929 Guelph Ontario - Severe tornado hits Guelph, knocking out some city services for almost three years.
1925 Saskatchewan - Charles Avery Dunning 1885-1958 leads Liberals to re-election victory in Saskatchewan provincial election.
1916 Mount Sorrel France - Canadian troops see action at Mount Sorrel; to June 13.
1913 Canada - Trade agreement with British West Indies comes into effect; about 50 Canadian products get 20% tariff reduction.
1889 Portland Maine - CPR opens Short Line Railroad through Maine to connect Montreal with Saint John.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 resigns as leader of Liberal opposition in Parliament; replaced by Laurier on June 7.
1886 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes an Act establishing the Dominion Experimental Farm.
1866 Fort Erie Ontario - John O'Neill 1834-1878 leads 700 Fenians against raw Canadian militia at the Battle of Ridgeway; militia units panic, but stout defense eventually turns Fenians back.
1855 Fort Resolution NWT - James Anderson & James Stewart leave Fort Resolution to confirm Rae's report on Franklin; find articles from Franklin's ships at Back River, more relics at Montreal River.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Opening of third session of second Parliament of Canada; meets until July 28; control of Post Office; duties lowered on American imports; British imports raised to uniform 7.5%.
1847 Montreal Quebec - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 enters cabinet for the first time as Receiver-General.
1800 Trinity, Newfoundland - John Clinch administers the first smallpox vaccination in North America.
1800 Toronto Ontario - Fourth session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 4; introduction of British criminal law into the Canadas.
1794 Toronto Ontario - Third session of first Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 9; sets up Court of King's Bench; passes Act restraining domestic animals.
1776 Chambly Quebec - John Thomas 1725-1776 dies of smallpox which is ravaging the invading American army; succeeded by John Sullivan.
1763 Michilimackinac Michigan - Pontiac takes Fort Michilimackinac.
1755 Fort Beausejour Nova Scotia - Robert Monckton 1726-1782 lands over 2,000 troops at mouth of Missaguash River in Acadia; attacks Vergor at Fort Beausejour.
1671 Montreal Quebec - Daniel de RÃ©my de Courcelle 1626-1698 leaves Montreal on peace mission to the Iroquois on Lake Ontario.
1615 Quebec Quebec - First RÃ©collet missionaries arrive from Rouen (Fathers Denis Jamet, Jean Dolbeau and Joseph Le Caron, with Brother Pacifique Duplessis); build first monastery and chapel.

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henric · Jun 1, 2014

June 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1010 – The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Cordoba.
1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1615 – The first RÃ©collet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1793 – French Revolution: FranÃ§ois Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1866 – Fenian raids: the Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1886 – The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
1994 – An RAF Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland killing all 29 on board. The original cause of the crash is ruled as pilot error, this verdict is overturned in 2011.
1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was executed four years later.
1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2010 – A 52-year-old man went on a four-hour killing spree in west Cumbria, shooting dead 13 (inc. himself) and injuring 11 others.
2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

henric · Jun 2, 2014

June 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

350 Â– The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
713 Â– The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.
1140 Â– The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 Â– The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1539 Â– Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1608 Â– Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1621 Â– The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
1658 Â– Pope Alexander VII appoints FranÃ§ois de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1665 Â– James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
1781 Â– Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
1839 Â– In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsÃ¼ destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1861 Â– American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) Â– Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
1862 Â– A 3000-strong riot occurred at Wardsend Cemetery in the Sheffield, England, against rumours of bodysnatching from the grounds.
1864 Â– American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor Â– Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
1866 Â– The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
1885 Â– In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
1888 Â– The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1889 Â– The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1889 Â– The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1916 Â– The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1932 Â– Lou Gehrig and his teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty-one times in one-hundred and twenty years.
1935 Â– One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 Â– The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
1940 Â– World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 Â– World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
1940 Â– Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1941 Â– World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
1942 Â– World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
1943 Â– In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
1950 Â– The first successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; the summit of Annapurna is reached by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.
1959 Â– Singapore was declared a self-governing state even though it was still a part of the British Empire.
1962 Â– At Paris Orly Airport, an Air France Boeing 707 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
1963 Â– The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
1965 Â– The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
1968 Â– Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1969 Â– MelbourneÂ–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1973 Â– A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
1979 Â– A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
1980 Â– The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics compiled on the deadly storm by the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
1982 Â– The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
1984 Â– Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1989 Â– The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1991 Â– Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1992 Â– Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
1998 Â– Eschede train disaster: an ICE high-speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
2006 Â– The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2012 Â– A Dana Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashes into a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing 163 people.
2013 Â– At least 120 people are killed in a fire at a poultry plant in Northeast China.
2013 Â– The trial of United States Army private Bradley Manning (later known as Chelsea Manning) for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1987 MULRONEY AND PREMIERS INK DEAL
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- and the 10 provincial premiers initial the Meech Lake Accord constitutional deal after an all-night meeting in the Langevin Block; if approved by Parliament and all 10 provincial legislatures within three years, it will give Quebec special status within Canada and increase the powers of the provinces.

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Gravesend England - Medart Chouart des Groseilliers 1618-1690 sets sail on the ketch Nonsuch on a trade voyage to Hudson Bay, after convincing a group of London merchants to back him; the trading voyage will be a success, leading to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670.

In Other Events....

1995 New York City -Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a #1 pop chart hit with his Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
1994 London England - Queen Elizabeth unveils war memorial in Green Park to honour Canadians who fought and died in both world wars.
1990 Hull Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- meets Premiers over dinner at the Canadian Museum of Civilization to discuss the Meech Lake Accord; meeting stretches to week long closed-door conference, but Newfoundland and Manitoba will be unable to keep their part of the bargain.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Official opening of SkyDome, Toronto's $500 million domed stadium; 50,000 baseball fans soaked by rain when retractable roof opens.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises Petroleum Compensation Charge by $1.25 per barrel; to offset drop in value of Canadian dollar; Lougheed levy raised $1.10.
1972 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young's Old Man peaks at #31 on the pop singles chart.
1972 Vancouver BC - Mob of 2,000 fans fail to crash a Rolling Stones rock concert; 31 policemen injured before crowd dispersed.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Ontario stops construction of Spadina Expressway in Toronto, after strong civic opposition; construction started in 1964.
1970 Romania - Canada grants up to $7.5 million in relief assistance to flood victims in Romania.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Mint to replace silver in coins with a nickel alloy, beginning in August.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares 12 Mile Limit; (19.3 km) exclusive fisheries zone off the Canadian coast; effective May, 1964.
1961 Regina Saskatchewan - Temperatures soar above 32 degrees to start 10 day Prairie heat wave.
1959 Washington DC - US President Eisenhower bounces a message off the moon to Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker.
1955 Vancouver BC - CP Airlines starts first Vancouver-Amsterdam service over North Pole.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - Haile Selassie I Emperor of Ethiopia starts four-day visit to Canada.
1953 London England - Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 attends six-day meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers.
1948 Newfoundland - First Newfoundland referendum returns 69,000 votes for self-government, 64,000 for union with Canada; 22,000 for no change (colonial status).
1935 Vancouver BC - 1,000 unemployed men board freight cars in Vancouver to begin the On to Ottawa protest trek.
1934 London England - Dr. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, knighted by King George V.
1922 Niagara Falls Ontario - Lt.-Gov. Harold Cockshutt unveils the Memorial Tower, designed by architect Charles Wilmott, to honor Niagara residents killed during the First World War.
1918 Quebec - Post office starts new airmail service linking Montreal and Quebec City with Boston and New York.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet sets up Board of Pension Commissioners to administer naval and military pensions.
1909 Ottawa Ontario - W.L. Mackenzie King sworn in as first Canada's Deputy Minister of Labour.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa carpenters go on strike for higher wages and union certification.
1889 Saint John New Brunswick - First Canadian Pacific train beyond Montreal arrives in the ice-free port of Saint John, marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a coast to coast railway.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier elected Leader of the Liberal Party.
1885 Steele Narrows Saskatchewan - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 leads the NWMP detachment against Big Bear, but the Cree leader again escapes; last military engagement fought on Canadian soil.
1876 London England - Montreal team introduces the sport of lacrosse to Britain.
1866 Fort Erie Ontario - George Peacocke leads British regulars and Canadian militia to relieve Fort Erie; O'Neill's Fenians escape across the border, meeting a heroes' welcome.
1856 Windsor Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia government opens the Windsor Branch Railway from Windsor to Windsor Junction; oldest constituent of the Dominion Atlantic Railway.
1813 Kingston Ontario - James Yeo 1782-1818 leaves for Niagara with reinforcements, stores and 300 soldiers.
1799 PEI Canada - Island of St. John officially proclaimed as Prince Edward Island.
1789 Fort Chipewyan NWT - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sets out from Fort Chipewyan down the Slave River, to find a way to ship furs to the west coast; the Yellowknife Indians will tell him of a river flowing northwest from Great Slave Lake, and he will travel down the Mackenzie River, reaching the Arctic Delta on July 10; a North West Company partner.
1778 Montreal Quebec - First issue of the Literary Gazette (Gazette LittÃ©raire) published; will become the Montreal Gazette.
1753 Montreal Quebec - Louis La Corne 1703-1761 sets out to command western fur trading posts; builds Fort St-Louis on the Saskatchewan.
1753 Montreal Quebec - Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais Youville 1701-1771 gets the administration of 'HÃ´pital GÃ©nÃ©ral de MontrÃ©al transferred permanently to the Grey Nuns.
1658 France - FranÃ§ois de Laval 1623-1688 appointed vicar apostolic in New France by the Pope.
1620 Quebec Quebec - RÃ©collets lay cornerstone of Notre-Dame-des-Anges; both a church and a monastery, it is today the oldest stone church in French North America.
1613 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 reaches site of Ottawa.
1608 Tadoussac Quebec Canada - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Tadoussac with Etienne BrulÃ© his third voyage to New France.

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henric · Jun 3, 2014

June 4th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1039 – Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1745 – Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfiÃ¨re (hot air balloon).
1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1794 – British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
1802 – Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1825 – General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
1859 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.
1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1932 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'etat establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
1939 – Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts RamÃ³n Castillo.
1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
1957 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
1961 – In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
1965 – Duane Earl Pope robs the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution-style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime later puts Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
1967 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead.
1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2001 – Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
2004 – Marvin Heemeyer's eventually suicidal protest rampage with an improvised bulletproofed bulldozer destroys 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, including the town hall.
2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
2012 – The Diamond Jubilee Concert is held outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall, London. Organised by Gary Barlow, the concert is part of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1976 CANADA TAKES CHARGE OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF
Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares 370 km (200 nautical mile) offshore fisheries jurisdiction zone, effective Jan 1, 1977; Canada to set numbers of fish harvested and quotas for foreign fleets.

1979
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- takes office as Canada's 16th Prime Minister one day before his 40th birthday; succeeds Pierre Trudeau, PM since April 20, 1968. Canada's youngest PM, and the first native westerner to serve as Prime Minister, Clark includes in his cabinet the first black minister (Lincoln Alexander) and the youngest ever cabinet minister (Perrin Beatty, 29).

In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark's Referendum Bill passed by the Commons; most NDP and Bloc Quebecois opposed; says he will prefer to get provincial agreement instead.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Diane Francis appointed Editor of the Financial Post, replacing John Godfrey.
1990 Moncton New Brunswick - Daniel Maston charged with spiking a lunch room cooler with radioactive heavy water; exposing 8 co-workers to high radiation when they drank the water.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney calls first ministers conference in final push to get unanimous support for Meech Lake Accord before June 23 deadline for ratification.
1989 Boston Massachusetts - Red Sox leading Blue Jays 10-0 in the seventh inning, Jays take the game 12-11 in the 12th; their 12th consecutive victory at Fenway Park.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Prince Edward arrives in Canada for a week-long visit.
1988 Saskatchewan/ Manitoba - Start of week-long, record-breaking heatwave on the Prairies.
1984 Alliston Ontario - Honda Canada Inc. starts building $100 million factory in Alliston; to produce 40,000 cars annually.
1983 Cincinnati Ohio USA - Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers one of 19 Canadians killed as Air Canada DC-9, flying from Texas to Toronto, catches fire and has an emergency landing; 23 of 46 passengers and crew die of smoke and flames due to a fire caused by smoking in a washroom.
1980 Hartford Connecticut - Gordie Howe announced his retirement as a player at age 52.
1979 Sudbury Ontario - 12,000 Inco workers at Sudbury end 12-month strike; accept three-year contract.
1975 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick Supreme Court overturns monopoly convictions against K. C. Irving Ltd. and others.
1969 Quebec City/Toronto - Ontario and Quebec form permanent Commission for Ontario-Quebec Co-operation.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Attorney General Claude Wagner sworn in as Quebec's first Minister of Justice.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Achmed Sukarno President of Indonesia, starts two-day visit to Ottawa.
1944 France - Bomber Command starts operations against railheads and coastal batteries as a prelude to D-Day.
1940 London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill says Britain will 'fight on alone' if necessary; with the Commonwealth.
1940 France - RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron posted to France.
1940 Dunkirk France - Dunkirk evacuation completed; 340,000 Allied troops get safely to Britain; Canadians recross Channel with only six men missing.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Mayor of Winnipeg mobilizes protest against Winnipeg General Strike.
1907 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Lt.-Gov. Sir William Mortimer Clark opens the Memorial Hall at Niagara; first building in Ontario constructed for use solely as an historical museum.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Fitzpatrick 1853-1942 appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1868 London England - British government tells Canada it will not let Nova Scotia withdraw from Confederation.
1851 Prince Regent's NWT - William Kennedy and Joseph-RenÃ© Bellot sail the Prince Regent to Prince Regent's Inlet to search for Franklin; Bellot a French naval officer.
1843 Victoria BC - Founding of the town of Victoria, British Columbia.
1812 Washington DC - Congress votes for war against Britain; the War of 1812 begins June 18, when President James Madison officially proclaims the U.S. to be at war.
1792 Washington USA - Capt. George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
1765 Mackinaw Michigan - Alexander Henry 1739-1824 appointed Captain of western trading posts, with headquarters at Michilimackinac.
1763 Mackinaw Michigan - Chippewas captured Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1760 Nova Scotia - Twenty-two ships carrying New England planters arrive in Nova Scotia to take land forcibly vacated by the Acadians.
1742 Quebec Quebec - Le Canada launched; first French warship built in Canada sails for Rochefort, France.
1671 Sault Ste Marie Ontario - Simon-FranÃ§ois Daumont de Saint-Lusson d1677 takes possession of lands around Sault Ste. Marie and claims Huron and Superior areas for France; sent by Jean Talon to do a survey of the area.
1534 PEI - Prince Edward Island sighted by Jacques Cartier.

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henric · Jun 4, 2014

June 5th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
1257 – KrakÃ³w, in Poland, receives city rights.
1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salermo.
1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.
1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
1940 – World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
1941 – World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
1942 – World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
1944 – World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
1963 – The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo affair.
1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1967 – The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 – The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
1976 – The collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, in the United States.
1977 – A coup takes place in Seychelles.
1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1984 – The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1993 – Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
1995 – The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
2000 – The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50Â°C (122Â°F) in the region.
2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
2009 – A fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.
2012 – The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1895 DAVIN PROPOSES VOTE FOR WOMEN
Ottawa Ontario - Regina MP Nicholas Flood Davin 1843-1901 introduces a motion in the House of Commons giving women the vote; it is soundly defeated.

1813
Stoney Creek Ontario - John Harvey 1778-1852 makes surprise attack with 700 British regulars of the 8th and 49th Regiments and some Canadian militia against 2,000 strong American force under Brigadiers William Winder and John Chandler at Stoney Creek; Americans withdraw toward Forty Mile Creek after midnight; War of 1812.

In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization says cod stocks at lowest level ever; suggests cutting catch to 50,000 tonnes; half caught already.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company to change 8 remaining Simpsons stores to Bay, selling 5 others to Sears; store founded in 1872 in Toronto.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays lose 5-3 against the Milwaukee Brewers in their first game in the SkyDome; first pitch by Jimmy Key to Paul Molitor a curve-ball strike (ball sent to the Baseball Hall Of Fame).
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Government tables white paper calling for 15 year expenditure of $200 billion on defence, including ten nuclear submarines.
1984 Lloydminster Saskatchewan - Husky Oil Ltd. starts $3.2 billion heavy oil upgrader backed by Ottawa, Alberta and Saskatchewan; largest energy project since 1978 slow in getting off the ground.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Federal and provincial Finance Ministers start two-day meeting; agree to limit inflation; more funds to poorer provinces.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting dimes and quarters to pure nickel as soon as possible; to head off silver speculators and hoarding.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Edwin Godfrey Newman first native Indian appointed a magistrate.
1966 Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 leads Union Nationale to victory in Quebec provincial election; will only serve two years of the mandate before his death.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald's home Earnscliffe declared a National Historic Site; residence of British High Commissioner.
1944 Normandy France - D-DAY-1; Soldiers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, part of British 6th Airborne Division's 3rd brigade make advance overnight landing before D-Day; "C" company lands in the most easterly drop-zone near Varville, blows up a bridge across the Divette River, destroying a German strong-point and then moves back four miles to the village of le Mesnil.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet declares 16 Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal under wartime emergency legislation; jails leaders.
1897 Quebec Quebec - Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier sails to England to attend Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; he will return knighted as Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
1884 Montana - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906, accompanied by with Michel Dumas, Moise Ouelette, and James Isbister, visits Louis Riel in Montana, where he is teaching; after several days of discussion, he agrees to return to help the Metis protect their rights.
1876 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada holds its first sitting; presiding is William Richards, first chief justice, appointed Oct. 1875.
1854 Washington DC - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 signs Reciprocity Treaty with US negotiator William Marcy; opens U.S. to natural produce only in return for freedom of operation on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; begins Oct 15; leads to great prosperity in the Canadas, until it is canceled by the Americans in March 1866.
1817 Kingston Ontario - Launching of steamship Frontenac; first steamer on the Great Lakes makes its inaugural trip west to the town of York.
1798 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Second session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 5; sets up county system; makes valid marriages performed by non-Anglicans.
1741 Siberia - Vitus Jonassen Bering 1681-1741 sails from Kamchatka Peninsula to explore Alaska.
1673 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 requires coureurs de bois to give notice if they leave settlement to trade for more than two days; royal decree to control independent traders makes them divert trade south.
1613 Cobden Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 loses his astrolabe near Lac des Chats on the Ottawa River; one such instrument, supposedly found on June 7, 1867, is not old enough to be Champlain's.

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henric · Jun 5, 2014

June 6th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops
1513 – Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1523 – Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected king of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
1644 – The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.
1654 – Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav. She abdicated because she wanted to become a Catholic (which is forbidden in the strictly Protestant Sweden) and did not want to marry to produce an heir to the throne.
1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.
1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.
1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1822 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
1832 – The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.
1833 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.
1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden–Norway.
1859 – Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
1892 – Chicago 'L' (commuter rail system) begins operation
1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1909 – French troops capture AbÃ©chÃ© (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1921 – Southwark Bridge in London is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4Â¢/L) sold.
1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 – New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven teams.
1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
1971 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1981 – Bihar train disaster: a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual death toll is closer to 1,000.
1982 – The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1982 – A British Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter is destroyed in a friendly fire incident, resulting in the loss of four lives.
1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is released.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the remains exumed are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
1992 – The Fantoft Stave Church in Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes. This was the first in a string of church arsons in the Early Norwegian black metal scene
1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
1997 – Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.
2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2004 – Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1994 VETS CELEBRATE D-DAY ANNIVERSARY
Normandy France - Canadians join a contingent of 35,000 WW II Allied veterans (and even some Germans) commemorating the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France.

1944
Normandy France - D-DAY: Operation Overlord's 60-mile front opens a new campaign in western Europe as about 14,000 Canadian soldiers join in the landing on Juno beach between Courseulles and St-Aubin-sur-Mer. RCN minesweepers help clear the lanes in, and RCAF bombers and fighters help soften up the German defenses. The main task of the Canadian Army is to push through the gap between Bayeux and Caen. The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion red berets were part of the advance landing during the night, capturing a bridge near Caen with the British. At about 7:40 am, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd and 3rd Armoured, under Major-General R. F. L. Keller, start landing in rough seas. The 8th Brigade capture BerniÃ¨res-sur-Mer [in the picture] by 9:30 am but mines and German anti-tank guns hold up the advance inland, creating a traffic jam in the village streets; they take BÃ©ny by evening. The 7th Brigade captures Courseulles, Ste-Croix and Banville, with heavy losses. The 9th Brigade make it through BÃ©ny to Villons-les-Buissons, less than four miles from Caen, and nearly at their goal - Carpiquet airport. Canadian casualties that day are less than expected - 715 wounded, 359 dead.

In Other Events....

1996 Denver Colorado -Peter Forsberg of the Avalanche scores a hat trick in the first period of Colorado's 8-1 win over Florida to take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals; sixth player in Stanley Cup finals history to score three goals in a period. Colorado's Joe Sakic also had three assists in the second period tying a finals record.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Belgian Brewer Omterbrew offers $2.7 billion for John Labatt Ltd., owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Argonauts, the SkyDome and Labatt's brewery.
1993 New York City - Canadian production of Kiss of the Spiderwoman awarded seven Tonys; Brent Carver named best actor in a musical.
1992 Rio de Janeiro Brazil - John Crosbie welcomes 180-nation accord on sustainable fishing on the high seas; at UN Environmental Conference - the Earth Summit.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules 6-1 that public servants can work on election campaigns; except for top bureaucrats, who must remain neutral.
1990 Modena Italy - John Ralston Saul wins Italian book award, the Premio Litterario Internazionale Citta di Modena, for his adventure novel The Paradise Eater; published in English in 1988; Ottawa native.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland House of Assembly rescinds approval of the Meech Lake Accord; government of Clyde Wells essentially kills the Accord, which needed unanimous provincial assent.
1979 Vancouver BC - BC Iongshoremen start 13-day strike, disrupting prairie wheat shipments.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Ontario announces plans to examine health hazards in gold and uranium mines.
1973 Alert Bay BC - Raising of the world's tallest totem pole, at 173 feet.
1973 Eastport Maine - Canada bans US oil tankers from Canadian waters to reach planned oil refinery at Eastport, Maine.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts program to help illegal immigrants become Canadian citizens; about 50,000 apply for landed immigrant status before Oct 15 deadline.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes resolution for bilingual federal public service by 1978.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Black Watch of Canada retired from battle order.
1966 Toronto Ontario - Presbyterian Church in Canada agreed to ordination of women as elders and ministers.
1957 Toronto Ontario - CBC TV program Front Page Challenge first broadcast.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes the Trans-Canada pipeline bill.
1945 Montreal Quebec - Provisional civil aviation organization established by 26 UN countries, including Canada.
1929 Ottawa Ontario - CNR takes over Kent Northern; Inverness Ry & Coal Co; Montreal & Southern; Quebec Oriental; Atlantic, Quebec & Western; Saint John and Quebec railways.
1929 Saskatchewan - Conservatives win Saskatchewan provincial election.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Government incorporates the Canadian National Railways Company; consolidating the Canadian Northern and Canadian Government Railways.
1910 Rome Italy - Canada signs reciprocity agreements with Italy; mutual tariff reductions.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 takes office on Macdonald's death; a Senator; Prime Minister to Nov. 24, 1892; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister, and first native-born PM.
1891 Cornwall Ontario - Cornwall hit by a tornado that destroys 500 homes.
1879 Toronto Ontario - Northern Railway of Canada becomes part of the Northern and Northwestern Railway, now part of Canadian National.
1861 Niagara Falls Ontario - Maid of the Mist the first vessel to navigate the Niagara River's whirlpool rapids.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Alessandro Gavazzi foments riots in Quebec after lecturing in the Presbyterian Church on the 'errors of Rome'; former Italian priest.
1829 St. John's Newfoundland - Shanawdithit dies; last known survivor of the Beothuk Indians.
1821 Montreal Quebec - Laying of cornerstone of Montreal General Hospital.
1813 Stoney Creek Ontario - Lt.-Col. John Harvey finishes victory over two brigades of invading Americans, who retreat to Fort George by June 8; War of 1812.
1771 Quebec Quebec - Hector Theophilus CremahÃ© 1720-1788 appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec; serves from Sept. 26, 1771 to May 23,1782.
1707 Annapolis Nova Scotia - John March 1658-1712 attacks Port-Royal; Massachusetts militia colonel.
1543 La Malbaie Quebec - Jean-FranÃ§ois de La Roque de Roberval 1500-1560 explores a short distance up the Saguenay River.

End of C/P.

woofy · Jun 5, 2014

Thanks henric for all the cools posts.. Great job you do here and it's appreciated just so you know bro...:brew:

henric · Jun 6, 2014

June 7th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

421 Â– Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
1099 Â– First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420 Â– Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli.
1494 Â– Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1628 Â– The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1654 Â– Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 Â– Port Royal, Jamaica, was hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people were killed and 3,000 were seriously injured.
1776 Â– Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1788 Â– French Revolution: Day of the Tiles Â— civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1800 Â– David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 Â– The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1832 Â– Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1862 Â– The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 Â– During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 Â– 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1880 Â– War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the CampaÃ±a del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1892 Â– Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1892 Â– Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1893 Â– Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.
1899 Â– American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1905 Â– Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1906 Â– Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1909 Â– Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
1917 Â– World War I: Battle of Messines Â– Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 Â– Sette giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta.
1929 Â– The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
1936 Â– The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president.
1938 Â– The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1940 Â– King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves TromsÃ¸ and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
1942 Â– World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
1942 Â– World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1944 Â– World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
1944 Â– World War II: Battle of Normandy Â– At Abbey Ardennes, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1948 Â– Edvard BeneÂš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
1955 Â– Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1965 Â– The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1967 Â– Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
1971 Â– The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1971 Â– The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1975 Â– The inaugural Cricket World Cup began in England.
1977 Â– 500 million people watched the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
1981 Â– The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1982 Â– Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.
1989 Â– Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
1990 Â– Universal Studios Florida opens in Orlando, FL.
1991 Â– Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
1995 Â– The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
2000 Â– The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1944 PANZER SS SHOOT CANADIAN POWS IN COLD BLOOD
Normandy France - D-DAY + 1; the 3rd Canadian Division, 9th Canadian Brigade, North Novas with the Sherbrooke tanks for support, and some Cameron Highlander machine-gunners, push through Buron and Authie toward Capriquet airport, 3 miles west of Caen; lose naval gunfire support, pass out of range of Canadian artillery, and lose contact with a British brigade ordered elsewhere; Lt Col Petch decides to withdraw to higher ground, but C company attacked by the German 12th SS Panzer at Authie, just North of Caen-Bayeux road; 250 North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 60 Sherbrooke Fusilier tankmen are killed or captured; 23 Canadian POWs are executed that night by the Panzers.

1866
Frelighsburg Quebec - Fenian leader Spier leads 1,800 raiders across the border; they loot around Pigeon Hill; plunder St-Armand and Frelighsburg, then retreat when the Canadian militia cavalry arrive and attack them [in the picture]; US troops later seize their supplies at St. Alban's, and they retreat south.

In Other Events....

1996 Quebec Quebec - Quebec's Chief Electoral Officer charges 11 business and student organizations, some in Ontario, with violating the referendum law.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Benoit Bouchard announces $435,000 aid program for Oka to help rebuild battered economy after 78 day standoff with the Mohawks.
1989 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky wins his ninth NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Ernie Whitt has three hits and drives in three runs as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 in their first game in the SkyDome, before a crowd of more than 45-thousand; first game in major league history played indoors and outdoors in the same day; with rain threatening in the fifth inning, operators start closing the $100 million retractable roof at 8:48 pm, finishing 34 minutes later, too late to prevent a short game delay.
1962 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives in Canada with Queen Mother for l0-day visit.
1956 Niagara Falls Ontario - Two-thirds of an Ontario Hydro power generating station collapses into the Niagara River gorge, about a kilometre below the Falls.
1950 New York City - Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo and his orchestra have a #1 hit with their recording of The Third Man Theme.
1939 Niagara Falls Ontario - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, leave Canada after their Royal Tour and make the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
1909 New York City - Toronto born actress Mary Pickford makes her motion picture debut in The Violin Maker of Cremona.
1904 Ottawa Ontario - Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton, Earl Dundonald 1852-1935 dismissed as Commander-in-Chief of military forces in Canada for criticizing the Minister of Militia; end of practice of Imperial officers commanding the forces in Canada.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 elected leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing Edward Blake; later Canada's 7th Prime Minister.
1886 Rome Italy - Montreal Bishop ElzÃ©ar-Alexandre Taschereau 1820-1898 created Canada's first Roman Catholic cardinal by Pope Leo XIII.
1862 Washington DC - United States and Britain sign a mutual treaty to suppress the slave trade..
1834 Back River NWT - George Back descends the Back River to Chantry Inlet on the Arctic coast, then returns to Fort Reliance; learns of Ross' safe return to England.
1832 Quebec Quebec - Irish Immigrants arrive aboard the sailing ship Carrick from Dublin; a government inspector lets the vessel leave the quarantine station, but some of the Irish have Asian cholera, which soon spreads in Quebec and Montreal; the resulting epidemic kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Dedication of Notre-Dame Church on the Place d'Armes.
1824 Quebec Quebec - Francis Burton appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves until Sept. 16, 1825.
1819 Toronto Ontario - Opening of fourth session of seventh Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until July 12; authorizes land grants to war veterans.
1816 British Columbia - James Keith 1784-1851 put in charge of the North West Company's Fort George and coastal district, as the NWC divides the Columbia district in two; Donald McKenzie 1783-1851 put in charge of the inland district.
1800 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River.
1776 Trois RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Arthur St. Clair 1734-1818 skirmishes with the British at Three Rivers; the American invaders are beaten back the next day by Simon Fraser and the 24th Regiment.
1689 Paris France - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 reappointed Governor of New France, with instructions to capture Hudson Bay and New York; recalled seven years earlier.
1677 Ontario - Olivier Morel de La Durantaye 1640-1716 claims the Lake Erie-Huron area for France.
1654 Paris France - Louis XIV crowned King of France.
1586 North Atlantic - John Davis c1543-1605 sends the Sunneshine and North Starre to look for a passage between Iceland and Greenland.
1585 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sails on the Sunneshine and Mooneshine, with Queen Elizabeth's royal patent to discover the North West Passage.
1576 Bristol England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sails on the Gabriel and Michael to search for the North West Passage; licensed by the Muscovy Company; backed by Elizabeth I and London merchants; will sight Greenland, and name Frobisher Bay after himself.

End of C/P.

henric · Jun 7, 2014

June 8th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
218 – Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-RiviÃ¨res – American attackers are driven back at Trois-RiviÃ¨res, Quebec.
1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: the completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim PhÃºc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2001 – Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
2008 – At least 7 people are killed and 10 injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1944 D-DAY+2 - MORE MURDERS OF CANADIAN POWS
Caen France -Canadians move inland from Juno beach; Rommel orders Kurt Meyer's 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to attack the Canadian 7th Brigade at Putot-en-Basin (8 kms west of Caen). They cross the railway and outflank the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, destroying the three forward companies; the rest withdraw, leaving their wounded behind; the Canadian Scottish, Canscots and 1st Hussars then use an artillery barrage from the 12th and 13th field regiments to retake Putot, but Meyer counter-attacks with 22 Panther tanks, the Regina Rifles fight a night-long battle, and hold. During these fights, the SS murder several Canadian POWs, including six Winnipeg Rifles, and a Red Cross stretcher-bearer, who are ordered into a wood and shot in the temple; 13 more Canadians are executed within 100 yards of the Command post; the bodies of 7 more are found near-by, all shot in the head with small arms; finally, 40 Winnipegs and Cameron Highlanders are marched into a field, ordered to sit together with the wounded at their centre, and machine gunned; 5 escape.

1685
Quebec Quebec - Jacques de Meulles d1703 uses card money to pay soldiers during a coin shortage; the playing cards are used whole, or cut into halves and quarters; redeemed in 1718, but in common use until the inflations of the 1750s.

1995
Ontario - Mike Harris wins Ontario election for the Progressive Conservatives, defeating Bob Rae of the NDP, in power since 1990; takes 82 out of 130 seats.

In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Space Agency chooses 4 new astronauts from 5,300 applicants; Chris Hadfield, aviation systems specialist, Air Force Major, age 32; Julie Payette, computer engineer with Bell-Northern Research; Montreal native, age 28; Robert Stewart, geophysicist with University of Calgary; Calgary native, age 37; Dafydd Williams, Toronto physician, age 37.
1991 Calgary Alberta - Jack Pierce dies at 67 during a cattle roundup at his Turner Valley ranch; founder of Ranger Oil in the 1950s.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts two-month public service hiring freeze.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Gilbert LaBine dies, discoverer of pitchblende at Great Bear Lake, and developer of what is now the Eldorado refinery at Port Hope, Ont., where the U-235 for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was made.
1976 Inuvik NWT - Thomas Berger 1933- ends hearings into social and environmental effects of the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline; Justice of the BC Supreme Court.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Leger 1913-1980 suffers a stroke; administrative duties taken by Chief Justice.
1972 London England - Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972 receives Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth; former Prime Minister.
1968 Orillia Ontario - Former residence of Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 at Brewery Bay near Orillia designated a national monument.
1968 London England - James Earl Ray suspected assassin of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. arrested four days after the murder traveling with two forged Canadian passports.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Ludwig Erhard Chancellor of West Germany arrives in Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Pearson.
1944 Atlantic - Flight Officer K. O. Moore, piloting a Canadian Liberator bomber, destroys two German U-Boats in 22 minutes.
1940 Montreal Quebec - RCAF's No. 1 Fighter Squadron leaves for Britain.
1927 Ontario - Canada protests immigration quotas applied to Canadians crossing border to take US jobs.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates office of Dominion Fuel Controller.
1900 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island passes Canada's first prohibition law.
1893 Victoria BC - Steamship Miowera arrives in Victoria from Sydney, Australia; first steamer of the Canadian Australian Line.
1886 Montreal Quebec - Ã‰douard-Charles Fabre 1827-1896 appointed first Archbishop of Montreal.
1881 Montreal Quebec - Montreal fire destroys 642 houses.
1866 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the fifth session of the eighth Parliament of Canada; meets until Aug. 15; last session as the Province of Canada.
1866 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet suspends writ of Habeas Corpus for one year; to capture persons suspected of complicity in Fenian invasions.
1859 Victoria BC - British Columbia establishes the BC Supreme Court.
1843 Toronto Ontario - John Strachan 1778-1867 enrolls first students in King's College, predecessor of the University of Toronto; first President; later founds Trinity College.
1826 Toronto Ontario - Tory youths dump printing press of William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 into Toronto Bay; he had angered the Family Compact with articles in his newspaper, the Colonial Advocate.
1824 Quebec Quebec - Noah Cushing receives a patent for a washing and fulling machine; first patent issued in Canada.
1813 Stoney Creek Ontario - James Yeo 1782-1818 arrives off Forty Mile Creek with a fleet from Kingston with reinforcements after the Battle of Stoney Creek; American invaders under Winder and Chandler retreat toward Niagara.
1790 Windsor Nova Scotia - King's College opens at Windsor, Nova Scotia; founded by a group of Loyalist scholars from what is now Columbia University in New York; gets Royal Charter in 1802; later moves to Halifax.
1776 Trois RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Simon Fraser leads 24th Regiment in beating back St. Clair's American invaders at Three Rivers.
1736 Lake of the Woods Ontario - Jean-Baptiste Gaultier de La VÃ©rendrye 1714-1736 and 20 of his men are massacred by a Sioux raiding party near Fort St. Charles in the Lake of the Woods; son of Pierre; dead include Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau (1705-1736).
1731 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La VÃ©rendrye 1685-1749 leaves Montreal with three sons Jean-Baptiste, Pierre, and FranÃ§ois and 50 men to explore and trade in the west; with nephew Christophe Dufrost de La Jemerais (1708-1736).
1542 St. John's Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves Charlesbourg after a difficult winter; 35 Frenchmen may have been killed by Iroquois; meets Roberval in Nfld.; refuses order to join him and returns to France.

End of C/P.

henric · Jun 8, 2014

June 9th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
53 – The Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
68 – The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
1311 – Duccio's MaestÃ Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
1772 – The British schooner GaspÃ©e is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set.
1856 – 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1873 – Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
1885 – Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in a British prison under mysterious circumstances.
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hung from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1946 – King Ananda Mahidol is found shot dead in his bedroom, Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
1953 – Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1957 – First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London's Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
1965 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy QuÃ¡t, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
1973 – In horseracing, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
1974 – Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney (Australia) kills seven.
1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon. He will not be released until 1991.
1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
2006 – 60th Anniversary Celebrations of Bhumibol Adulyadej's Accession.
2008 – Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding, breaking the dam holding the lake back.
2009 – An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
2010 – At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 others are wounded as an explosion rips through an evening wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1977 JOEY RESIGNS
St. John's Newfoundland -Joey Smallwood resigns from the House of Assembly; Newfoundland Premier 1949-72; brought the province into Confederation in 1949.

1944
Norrey France -D-Day +3; Kurt Meyer withdraws his defeated 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to Rots, then throws his last fresh Panther tank company in broad daylight against the Regina Rifles position at Norrey; but the 17-pounder Sherman Firefly tanks of the 1st Hussars drive him back. Later in the day, the Queens Own Rifles and 1st Hussars capture the village of Le Mesnil-Patry, seven miles forward of Norrey; attacked by 88s, they lose 19 of the Hussar Shermans in fifteen minutes; the Queen's Own Rifles have 87 casualties, the 1st Hussars 60. Later in the day, the SS executes 18 more Canadian POWs at Abbey d'Ardenne, Kurt Meyer's HQ, on his orders.

In Other Events....

1995 Toronto Ontario - Inco Ltd. pays $700 million to buy 30% of Diamond Fields Resources Inc.'s metal deposit at Voisey Bay, Labrador; will eventually acquire control.
1993 Los Angeles California - Alexis Smith 1921-1993 dies; born Gladys Smith at Penticton, BC in 1921; Smith was a leading film actress in the 1940 and 1950s; also won a Tony for her performance in the Sondheim musical Follies (1971); played J. R. Ewing's enemy Lady Jessica Montford on the TV show Dallas from 1984 to 1990.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 to clinch their 24th Stanley Cup title in the 100th anniversary season; goalie Patrick Roy wins Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP.
1990 Hull Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- reaches compromise with 10 provincial Premiers over the Meech Lake Accord; series of agreement and add-ons.
1989 Cold Lake Alberta - Jane Foster and Deanna Brasseur pass course to become Canada's first two female fighter pilots available for combat roles; possibly the world's first.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada denies Newfoundland's 12-year quest for a better contract with Quebec for power from the Churchill Falls Hydro project.
1984 Halifax Nova Scotia - Fleet of tall ships arrives at Halifax; celebrating the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's discovery of Quebec; will visit several Canadian cities before arriving at Quebec.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Pittsburgh Penguins pick Mario Lemieux as their number one draft choice in the NHL Entry draft.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- decides with the 10 Premiers that federal-provincial ministers will negotiate a list of 12 items of constitutional change; announces the next day that Ottawa might act unilaterally.
1979 Vancouver BC - Fred (Cyclone) Taylor dies; born at Tara, Ont. June 23, 1885; played for the Ottawa Senators (1908), the Renfrew Millionaires (1909-11) and the Vancouver Millionaires (1913-21), scoring 194 goals in 186 games; elected first living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame at the charter meeting in 1947.
1973 Belmont New York - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat to victory in the 105th Belmont Stakes in a world record time for a 1 1/2 mile course (2:24) and a record for the largest margin of victory in the Belmont (31 lengths); also takes horse racing's Triple Crown, the first winner in 25 years.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa founds Canada Development Corporation; to help develop Canadian-owned and managed companies.
1969 British Columbia - BC Premier W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 dedicates the Keenleyside Dam on the Columbia River.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Canadian political party leaders debate policy on television for the first time (Pierre Trudeau, Robert Stanfleld, Tommy Douglas and RŽal Caouette).
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends wartime control and rationing of dairy products.
1942 Valetta Malta - George 'Buzz' Beurling 1921-1948 reaches Malta; starts rise to top rank of Canadian fighter pilots; the Montrealer will shoot down 15 enemy aircraft while with the Royal Air Force.
1935 Richmond Hill Ontario - First observations made at the University of Toronto's David Dunlap Observatory.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg City Council dismisses Police Force during Winnipeg General Strike.
1900 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island first province to bring in prohibition; not repealed until 1948.
1866 Sherbrooke Quebec - British Army soldier Timothy O'Hea enters a burning Grand Trunk Railway boxcar, rips the lids from munition boxes, and douses the flames with buckets of water; the Irish Private will become the only person to earn the Victoria Cross for an incident In Canada.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Alessandro Gavazzi foments another riot in Montreal; troops fire on crowd, leaving ten dead; former Italian priest.
1846 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton gets city charter.
1846 St. John's Newfoundland - Fire destroys the wharves and most of the houses in St. John's, leaving thousands of people homeless.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 appoints Legislative Council of 24 members, which holds its first meeting on June 11.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Thirty Montrealers 'take the pledge' to abstain from alcohol at first temperance meeting in Canada.
1818 Quebec Quebec - founding of the Bank of Quebec, with Â£75,000 in capital.
1793 Toronto Ontario - Assembly passes law prohibiting the importation of slaves into Upper Canada.
1790 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 leaves Cumberland House to survey the Saskatchewan River.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 proclaims martial law and calls out militia to augment 800 British regular troops; suspends administration of the Quebec Act to meet the American invasion.
1643 Montreal Quebec - Iroquois ambush and kill five farmers and inhabitants of Montreal.
1537 Rome Italy - Pope Paul III declares in his encyclical Veros homines that 'Indians are human beings, with the qualities and faults of human beings.'
1534 Quebec - Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Laurence River; looking for gold and a northwest passage to the Orient; names the river for St. Lawrence on his feast day.

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henric · Jun 9, 2014

June 10th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measure time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1329 – The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
1523 – Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
1539 – Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of ZÃ¡blatÃ, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 – Signing of the Treaty of CompiÃ¨gne between France and the Netherlands.
1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1719 – Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1838 – Myall Creek massacre: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1854 – The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads - Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1898 – Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
1912 – The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa.
1916 – An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia breaks out.
1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent IstvÃ¡n sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 – Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1940 – World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 – World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
1963 – Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program
1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities
1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn FÃ©in.
1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1937 BORDEN DEAD AT 83
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 dies at age 83; Canada's 8th Prime Minister; June 26 1854, Grand PrÃ©, Nova Scotia; called to Nova Scotia Bar in 1878; Leader of the Opposition 1901-1911; 1901-1920 Conservative Party Leader; 1911-1917 Prime Minister; 1917-1920 led Union Government (coalition of pro-conscription Liberals and Conservatives).

1957
Canada - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 wins a minority in the 23rd Canadian federal election with 40.9% of popular vote; takes 112 seats to 105 for Louis St. Laurent's Liberals; 25 CCF; 19 Social Credit; 4 others; PM to 1963; first Conservative victory in 27 years.

In Other Events....

1996 Miami Florida -Colorado Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy makes 63 saves for his third post season shutout, and Uwe Krupp scores at 4:31 of the third overtime, as the Avs beat the Florida Panthers 1-0 in triple overtime to take their first Stanley Cup with a four-game sweep; third longest game in Stanley Cup finals history.
1992 New York City - International Court of Arbitration gives France control zone of 24 nautical miles around St-Pierre-Miquelon; plus 10.5 mile corridor from sea; only 18% of what France wanted.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - David Croll dies at 91; MPP 1934, MP 1945; Senate 1955; chaired committees on aging, credit and poverty; immigrated from Russia in 1905.
1990 Fredericton New Brunswick - Frank McKenna passes Meech Lake accord in the provincial legislature after his concerns are addressed in a compromise meeting.
1985 London England - Toronto financier Conrad Black acquires 14% of The Daily Telegraph newspaper for $17 million; will later win control.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- returns to Canada after tour of D-Day battlefields in Europe and 3-day Western summit in London.
1982 Montreal Quebec - CFL Montreal Concordes lose to Toronto in their first game; football team will later revert to former name, the Alouettes, but eventually fold.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Dome Petroleum buys Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas.
1979 NWT Canada - Energy, Mines, and Resources dismantles Project Lorex, or the Lomonsov Ridge Experiment; scientific station set up on the Arctic ice to study a submarine ocean range had drifted 240 km across the North Pole since April; Gov. Gen. Ed Schreyer, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made scuba dives from the project.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises export price of natural gas to the US by 21%.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament creates new Department of the Environment under a Minister of State; Canada also agrees in principle on a joint attack with the U.S. on pollution in the Great Lakes.
1966 Vancouver BC - CPR signs deal with National Harbours Board to end 30-year argument over Vancouver waterfront; enables development of waterfront.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Lal Bahadur Shastri Prime Minister of India arrives in Ottawa for a five-day visit.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - US President Harry S. Truman starts two-day visit to Ottawa; first president to pay a state visit to Canada.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King justifies his wartime policy by stating that the best approach is: 'Conscription if necessary but not necessarily conscription.'.
1940 Canada - Defence Minister Norman Rogers killed in a plane crash.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares war on Italy; the same day, Italy declares war on France and Britain; World War II.
1930 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the Winnipeg Rugby Football Club; today's Blue Bombers.
1925 Toronto Ontario - United Church of Canada holds first service under its new name; merger of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches.
1884 Montana - Louis Riel leaves his teaching post to return to Canada to lead what was to become the Northwest Rebellion.
1878 Victoria BC - Fort Rod Hill built to protect Esquimalt in the event of a war with Russia.
1857 Kingston Ontario - Canadian Assembly passes bill bringing in the American decimal (dollar) system of currency; goes into effect midnight, Dec. 31.
1857 Quebec - St. Hyacinthe and Trois-RiviÃ¨res incorporated as cities.
1842 New York City - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 moves his family to New York to try and start a printing business.
1839 Canandaigua New York - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 sentenced to eighteen months in jail for violating US neutrality laws.
1838 Pelham Ontario - James Morreau leads a rebel raiding party across the Niagara River; attacks St. Johns, in Pelham Township June 11; gets as far as Short Hills by June 21.
1817 Toronto Ontario - Samuel Smith 1756-1826 appointed administrator of Upper Canada; serves from June 11, 1817 to Aug. 13, 1818.
1791 London England - Parliament passes the Constitutional Act, providing for the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, each with a separate legislature.
1650 Midland Ontario - Jesuits abandon Ile Saint-Joseph, their last mission in Huronia, established in 1623; return to Quebec carrying the bleached bones of two martyrs, Fathers Jean de BrÃ©beuf and JÃ©rÃ´me Lalement, who had been tortured and killed by the Iroquois; Hurons also flee to Quebec, and settle at Lorette.
1611 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Pierre Biard c1567-1622 writes first recorded letter sent to France from the new world; Jesuit missionary at Port Royal.
1527 Gravesend England - Royal Navy captain John Rut, sent by Henry VIII, leaves on the Mary Guildford and the Samson on an expedition to find a passage to Asia; Samson lost at sea.

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henric · Jun 10, 2014

June 11th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

1184 BC Â– Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
323 BC Â– Alexander the Great dies in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon
173 Â– Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
631 Â– Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
786 Â– A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh. Idris ibn Abdallah flees to the Maghreb, where he later founds the Idrisid dynasty.
1345 Â– The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
1429 Â– Hundred Years' War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1488 Â– Battle of Sauchieburn: fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the King.
1509 Â– Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1594 Â– Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the PrincipalÃa (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1770 Â– British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1775 Â– The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
1776 Â– The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1788 Â– Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1805 Â– A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
1825 Â– The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1837 Â– The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
1865 Â– The Naval Battle of Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
1892 Â– The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1898 Â– Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.
1898 Â– The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.
1901 Â– New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
1903 Â– Group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
1907 Â– George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
1917 Â– King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
1919 Â– Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
1920 Â– During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
1935 Â– Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 Â– The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
1937 Â– Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1938 Â– Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
1942 Â– World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1944 Â– USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
1955 Â– Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
1956 Â– Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
1962 Â– Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 Â– American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
1963 Â– Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1963 Â– John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionist American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.
1964 Â– World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1970 Â– After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
1971 Â– The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
1972 Â– The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.
1978 Â– Altaf Hussain founds the students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
1981 Â– A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
1982 Â– The Sentosa Musical Fountain was officially opened as part of the second phase of construction on the island of Sentosa, Singapore.
1987 Â– Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black Parliamentarians in Great Britain.
1998 Â– Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
2001 Â– Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2002 Â– Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2004 Â– Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
2007 Â– Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
2008 Â– Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.
2012 Â– Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide, which buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days of digging, only five bodies were recovered and the search was called off.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1944 CANADIAN ADVANCE HALTED IN NORMANDY
Le-Mesnil-Patry France - D-Day +5; 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) and Queens Own try to outflank Carpiquet by moving from Norrey-en-Bessin through Le-Mesnil-Patry towards Cheux, but they meet heavy mortar, machine-gun and 88mm anti-tank gun fire from the 12th Panzer SS, slowing the Sherman tanks; only 2 that enter the town survive; 59 men are killed, 21 wounded; the Queen's Own also loses 55 killed and 44 wounded; in the 6 days of June 6-11, 1017 Canadians are killed in action and 1814 more are wounded.

1534
Brest Harbour Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 and his crew celebrate the first recorded Catholic mass in North America; Brest Harbour used by cod fishermen for wood and water; notes poverty of Labrador- not even 'a cartful of earth... this is the land that God gave to Cain'.

1983
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- chosen as party leader on 4th ballot by Progressive Conservatives, replacing interim leader Erik Neilsen; by 1,584 votes to Joe Clark's 1,324 on the 4th ballot; first PC leader from Quebec since Confederation.

In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- closes 3 months of constitutional talks; says all except Newfoundland like Senate reform ideas; suggests possible referendum.
1992 Martensville Saskatchewan - Police charge couple Ron and Linda Sterling and son Travis, 6 others with 170 counts of sexual assault, forcibly confining children; operators of unlicensed babysitting service; most charges quashed.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops calls for change to prevent sexual abuse by priests; says dioceses should check allegations, support victims.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- tells Globe & Mail interviewers he intended to stall the first ministers talks until the last minute; says it is important to know 'when to roll all the dice'.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells, who promised only to seek the judgment of the people of Newfoundland on the Meech Lake Accord, concedes there isn't time to arrange a referendum by June 23; told by Ottawa the deadline can't be extended, he opts for a free vote in the House of Assembly.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Stanley Waters named to Senate by P.M. Mulroney; after Don Getty promised no further elections until studies done; Getty held Canada's first Senate election in Oct 1989 to push reform.
1978 Temiskaming Ontario - High waves swamp canoeing expedition from St. John's school in Claremont, Ontario; 12 students and a teacher drowned in Lake Temiskaming on the Ontario-Quebec border.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Electoral boundary changes increase number of seats in House of Commons by 18 to 282; at next general election.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - National Energy Board cuts oil exports to the US by 12%.
1976 Vancouver BC - United Nations Habitat conference on human settlements ends in Vancouver.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $55 million in aid to flood victims on the Ottawa and Gatineau Rivers.
1971 Washington DC - Canada and US agree to pollution control program in the Great Lakes.
1966 San Diego California - Torontonian David Bailey 1945- first Canadian to break four-minute mile (3:59.1).
1964 Hungary - Canada and Hungarian People's Republic sign three-year trade pact; first between two countries in postwar era.
1962 Nelson BC - Start of preliminary hearing against 72 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors for incidents between 1958 and 1961; conspiracy charges will be dismissed August 7.
1945 Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 wins Canada's twentieth federal general election 125 seats to 67; CCF 28; Social Credit 13; Independents 12; defeats John Bracken with 40.9% of popular vote.
1943 Hot Springs Georgia - Canada signs international agreement on post-war relief; origin of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
1941 Ottawa Ontario - DBS issues census results, showing Canada's population has reached 11,506,655.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Princess Juliana of the Netherlands arrives in Canada to seek refuge during the Second World War; will settle in Ottawa.
1936 Quebec Quebec - Joseph-AdÃ©lard Godbout becomes Liberal Premier of Quebec.
1934 Flin Flon Manitoba - Miners in Flin Flon go on strike until July 14.
1931 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes to proclaim Remembrance Day, November 11, as a general holiday.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Borden's Union government introduces the Conscription Act in the Commons, then calls an election to get a mandate; election that followed passage of the bill one of the most divisive in Canadian history.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates the Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners, to be established in Regina.
1889 Toronto Ontario - D'Alton McCarthy 1836-1898 founds Equal Rights Association in Toronto to argue for repeal of Quebec's Jesuits Estate Act, claims government let Roman Catholic Church control political decision-making; Conservative MP backed by Orange Order also agitated against Catholic separate schools in Manitoba and the Northwest.
1847 King William Island NWT - Rear Admiral John Franklin 1786-1847 dies in his ice-bound ship; command goes to Francis Crozier; James Fitzjames second-in-Command; 14 others already dead; remainder sick from eating tainted canned rations.
1847 Lapierre House Yukon - Alexander Murray 1818-1874 sets out from Lapierre House on the Bell River to build Fort Yukon for the Hudson's Bay Company.
1782 Halifax Nova Scotia - William Black preaches his first sermon in Canada, as first Canadian Methodist minister.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Royal Highland Regiment soldiers issued two quarts of spruce beer daily.
1638 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Jesuit Relations describe first recorded earthquake in Canada; tremors for six months, from GaspÃ© to Montreal, but no casualties reported.
1636 Quebec Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 arrives in Quebec as Governor and Lieutenant General of New France; to 1648; first Governor in title; builds upper town; forbids French to sell firearms to Indians.
1611 Hudson Bay, off Northern Quebec - Hendrick Hudson's ship, the Half Moon freed from the ice; heads north for home.
1603 Saguenay Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 explores 56 km up Saguenay River; hears of salt sea to the north, but doesn't believe it is the Pacific.
1583 Plymouth England - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 leaves Plymouth on second voyage with five ships; Delight, Raleigh, Golden Hind, Swallow and Squirrel; chartered to search for the Northwest Passage, and a patent from the English crown to explore and colonize America.

End of C/P.

henric · Jun 11, 2014

June 12th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1381 – Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: the Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1889 – 78 are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1940 – World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1942 – Holocaust: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest non-martyr saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
1972 – The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-BÃ©del Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 – Russia Day – the parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1947 ON KING! ON YOU HUSKIES!!
New York City -First broadcast of radio show Sergeant Preston of The Yukon; about a Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King; continued until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958); show created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, originators of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

1758
Louisbourg Nova Scotia -
James Wolfe takes possession of the Light-House Point, destroyed and abandoned by Governor Drucour after the British landing on June 8; at 2 am, Major Scott marches with 500 Light Infantry and Rangers, making a sweep through the woods, in order to take the Light-House battery; Wolfe follows at 5 am, with four companies of Grenadiers, and 1200 men detached from the line; he will secure the area, bring in artillery by sea, and open fire on Louisbourg's Island battery on the night of the 19th.

In Other Events....

1995 Quebec Quebec -Jacques Parizeau sets up Common Front for the Referendum with Lucien Bouchard of the Bloc Quebecois and Mario Dumont of the Liberal splinter group Parti de l'Action Democratique; Quebec Premier wants another sovereignty referendum in the Autumn; Bouchard insists on having a political and economic partnership with Canada as part of the question.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- and his CRTC rule 4-1 to let Unitel, BCRL compete in $7.5 billion long-distance market with phone companies; Chairman of Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.
1991 Toronto Ontario - US Trade Representative Carla Hills opens trilateral talks for North American Free Trade zone; Michael Wilson says culture will not be on the table.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Monique Landry announces $3 million bailout of World University Service of Canada; partly a CIDA loan; WUSC founded 1939 to send teachers to third world.
1991 Winnipeg Manitoba - Cree lawyer Ovide Mercredi beats Phil Fontaine, leader of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, on the fourth ballot, to become the new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, representing Canada's 500,000 status Indians; replaces George Erasmus in $85,000-a-year post; member of First Nations Circle on the constitution; Manitoba vice-chief since 1989.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Journalist Lise Bissonnette named Director (editor) of the Montreal daily Le Devoir.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper uses rules of procedure to block the introduction of the resolution ratifying the Meech Lake Accord in the Manitoba legislature; a Cree and NDP MLA, Harper forces the legislature to delay opening debate on the constitutional agreement, which eventually dies.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Patricia Starr charged along with the National Council of Jewish Women (Toronto section) of 71 counts of violating Ontario's election spending law; exceeding maximum allowed; former Liberal fund-raiser.
1986 Ontario - Ontario MDs strike to protest a government ban on extra-billing.
1985 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League Celebration of Excellence awards Wayne Gretsky his sixth Hart Trophy as MVP.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Premier William Davis says Ontario to give Roman Catholic separate schools the same status and funding as Ontario's public education system to Grade 13; previously only to Grade 10.
1983 Hollywood California - Norma Shearer dies at age 80; movie actress, model, born Edith Shearer at Montreal Aug. 10, 1902. Shearer's major role was in The Divorcee; she was the wife of studio executive Irving Thalberg.
1979 Toronto Ontario - Bobby Orr, Harry Howell and Henri Richard named to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts constitutional program entitled 'A Time For Action'; proposes charter of rights; plus repatriation of the constitution and an amending formula.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Progress Club sponsors 2-day Canadian Special Olympics for handicapped athletes.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Hall & Dennis issue Living and Learning report; suggest abolishing grades, percentage marks, corporal punishment; committee to examine Ontario educational system.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Harold Macmillan British Prime Minister addresses Parliament during visit to Ottawa.
1952 British Columbia - W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 invited to form a Social Credit minority government after BC provincial election.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and the U.S. sign two agreements to avoid double taxation of their citizens and to prevent income tax evasion.
1944 France - D-DAY +6; Canadian 3rd Division is withdrawn from battle for three weeks, until July 4, after mauling in Normandy.
1927 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dismisses appeal by Roman Catholics for separate schools in Ontario.
1903 Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls incorporated as a city.
1901 Montreal Quebec - City of Montreal passes by-law making indoor toilets compulsory.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Fire in a Montreal theatre kills 200 people.
1811 London England - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 completes purchase of 300-thousand square km of Red River land from the Hudson's Bay Company; at a price of 10 shillings a year rent on the land; five times bigger than his native Scotland.
1799 Toronto Ontario - Third session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until June 29; provisions for education and support of orphans.
1793 Portage Lake BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Continental Divide at Portage Lake; his party first Europeans to cross Divide north of Spanish territories.
1690 Churchill Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 sets out from York Factory with party of Stone and Assiniboine Indians on journey lasting two years; Hudson's Bay Company employee will record first European description of grizzly bears and buffalo.
1670 Ontario - Daniel de Remy de Courcelle 1626-1698 gets Iroquois to stop war against Algonquins.
1647 Quebec Quebec - Jesuits lay cornerstone of College at Quebec.
1611 Hudson Bay NWT - Hendrick Hudson d1611 starts return voyage, but his ship Discovery is again locked in spring ice.

End of C/P.

henric · Jun 12, 2014

June 13th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
1381 – The Peasants Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1625 – King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
1917 – World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1952 – Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last US Number 1 song.
1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
1978 – Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1982 – Riccardo Paletti, was killed when he crashed on the start grid for the Canadian Grand Prix
1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
1997 – Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.
2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1944 MYNARSKI WINS VC
over Cambrai France - Winnipeg-born Andrew Mynarski 1916-1944 is Flight Sergeant on Lancaster bomber A for Able in No. 419 Squadron on the night of June 12-13, their 13th mission, when it is attacked by a Junkers night fighter and set on fire. Mynarski tries to rescue crewmate Pat Brophy, the trapped rear gunner, but his clothes and parachute catch fire; by the time he jumps he is badly burned, and later dies of his burns; Brophy survives, carrying a four leaf clover Mynarski gave him just before takeoff; valor wins him a posthumous Victoria Cross.

1673
Kingston Ontario - RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 builds Fort Cataraqui at the mouth of the Cataraqui River on the orders of Count Frontenac; succeeded by Fort Frontenac; five years later La Salle will use the fort as a staging base for his explorations down the Mississippi.

In Other Events....

1995 Ottawa Ontario - Alan Rock gets his Gun Control Act passed in the Commons 192 votes to 63; controversial gun-control legislation calls for eventual registration of all firearms.
1991 Bonn Germany - Brian Mulroney 1939- meets Chancellor Helmut Kohl and urges financial aid for Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that almost all laws in Manitoba are constitutionally invalid because they were written in English only.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - U.S. asks Canada for formal authority to test the cruise missile in Canada; approval granted July 15.
1968 Quebec Quebec - La Haye Commission on urbanization recommends reorganizing Quebec Municipal Affairs Department.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - National Capital Commission expropriates 16,590 hectare Green Belt surrounding Ottawa.
1941 St. John's Newfoundland - L. W. Murray heads new Canadian convoy escort force based on Newfoundland; Northwest Atlantic Canada's responsibility.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - James Layton Ralston 1881-1948 becomes Defence Minister on Norman Rogers' death in a plane crash.
1940 Britain - Canadian brigade leaves for France to form defence line across Brittany peninsula; a failure; Paris falls to Germans the next day.
1930 Provost Alberta - Dirty rain falls in Provost, a combination of wind blown dirt and precipitation.
1916 Edmonton Alberta - Emily Murphy of Edmonton appointed first woman police magistrate In the British Empire.
1908 Paris France - Canadian Tommy Burns 1881-1955 knocks out Bill Squires in the 8th round to win the world heavyweight boxing championship.
1898 Dawson Yukon - William Ogilvie 1846-1912 appointed Commissioner of new Yukon Territory; serves until 1901; with a Legislative Council partly elected, partly appointed by the Governor General. Yukon separated from Northwest Territories and given separate territorial status, two years after the Klondike gold discovery, capital placed at Dawson City, the largest community north of Seattle and west of Winnipeg, with about 30,000 people.
1895 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba ignores federal order of March 21 to restore rights of Catholics to denominational schools.
1886 Vancouver BC - Fire wipes out much of Vancouver, destroying nearly 1,000 buildings; 50 people killed, and only 4 houses left standing; rebuilding will begin within days, helped by the recent arrival in the city of the CPR.
1882 Victoria BC - Robert Beaven becomes Premier of British Columbia, until Jan. 27, 1883; replacing George Walkem (since June 25, 1878).
1871 Newfoundland - Hurricane kills 300 on Labrador coast.
1854 Richmond Nova Scotia - Construction starts on Nova Scotia Railroad at Richmond, near Halifax.
1853 Bradford Ontario - Northern Railroad reaches Bradford.
1851 Victoria Island NWT - John Rae 1813-1893 crosses Dease Strait from Cape Alexander looking for Franklin survivors; explores Victoria Island from Cambridge Bay to Pelly Point; after return to Kendall River June 10.
1833 Toronto Ontario - John Wilson kills Robert Lyon in the last fatal duel in Ontario; the two law students and former friends quarrelled over remarks made by Lyon about a local teacher, Elizabeth Hughes; Wilson will be acquitted of murder; later marries Hughes and becomes an MP and judge.
1829 London England - John Ross 1777-1856 sets sail aboard the Victory on Arctic expedition lasting four years; with nephew, James Ross.
1818 Dublin Ireland - Richard Talbot sails for Canada with 200 Irish settlers who will found St. Thomas, Ontario.
1813 Boston Massachusetts - Philip Vere Broke, commanding HMS Shannon, with 38 guns, defeats US warship Cheseapeake, commanded by James Lawrence, off Boston Harbour; tows her to Halifax as a prize.

End of C/P.

henric · Jun 13, 2014

June 14th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1158 – Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar.
1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France captures the city of Winchester and soon conquers over half of the Kingdom of England.
1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1285 – Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of the Trần Dynasty destroy most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chuong Duong.
1287 – Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1381 – Richard II of England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1645 – English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,600 mi) journey in an open boat.
1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1800 – The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande ArmÃ©e defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1830 – Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers begin their invasion of Algiers, landing 27 kilometers west at Sidi Fredj.
1839 – Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
1846 – Bear Flag Revolt begins – Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
1863 – Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
1872 – Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1907 – Norway grants women the right to vote.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1926 – Brazil leaves the League of Nations
1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 – U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
1940 – World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
1940 – A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from TarnÃ³w become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1941 – June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
1944 – World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army abandons Operation Perch, its plan to capture the German-occupied town of Caen.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 15th, 66th and 121st Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL liberate the captured in Ilocos Sur and start the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 – The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
1955 – Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1959 – A group of Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of overthrowing the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
1967 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
1982 – Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
1985 – TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
1994 – The 1994 Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated CA$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1617 FIRST FRENCH FAMILY IN CANADA
Tadoussac Quebec - Marie Rollet d1649 arrives in Canada with husband Louis HÃ©bert and three children; first French family in Canada; HÃ©bert Canada's first doctor and herbalist.

1919
St. John's Newfoundland - British Army Captain John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown take off in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight; their 3,100 km flight ends 16 hours later with a nose-down landing in a Clifden, County Galway, Ireland peat bog; they win the Â£10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail, and are both awarded knighthoods.

1935
Regina Saskatchewan - 'On to Ottawa' trek reaches Regina from Vancouver; now numbering 2,000; leaders continue on to Ottawa to protest government economic policies during the Depression.

In Other Events....

1995 New Brunswick -Steve and Lorelei Turner convicted of manslaughter in failing to provide the necessities of life to a child; in starvation death of their 3 year old son.
1994 Vancouver BC - Fans riot in the streets after the NHL Canucks lose the Stanley Cup to the New York Rangers 4 games to 3 at Madison Square Garden; police use TV news videotapes of the riot to lay charges; first Ranger win in 54 years.
1991 Berlin Germany - Brian Mulroney 1939- says Canada will scale down military in Europe; 8,000 at Lahr and Baden Baden; 1,400 to be withdrawn this year.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Michael Wilson says Free Trade tribunal ruling for Canadian pork exporters proves deal works; end of countervail pork duty; $20 million refund.
1990 Geneva Switzerland - World's fair officials choose Hanover, Germany over Toronto by a one-vote margin to host Expo 2000.
1988 Montreal Quebec - Pianist Angela Cheng of Edmonton the first Canadian to win the top prize at the Montreal International Music Competition.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- says farewell to Liberal Party in gala tribute at the opening night of the Liberal party leadership convention.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - CBC President Al Johnson asks for public input in changing the corporation's program philosophy.
1971 Victoria BC - Ottawa and provinces start four-day federal-provincial constitutional conference at Victoria.
1966 Quebec - Quebec longshoremen end 39-day strike; get 34% wage increase.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - James Elliott Coyne 1910- Bank of Canada Governor resigns over policy difference with PM Diefenbaker.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Liberal Minister of Trade and Commerce C.D. Howe makes his famous comment: 'What's a million?'
1950 Niagara Falls Ontario - U.S. signs deal to allocate Canada more water from the Niagara River to generate hydro-electric power.
1949 Yukon - Yukon temperature hits 36.1 degrees Celsius; warmest day on record.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Library Association.
1944 Normandy France - All units of the exhausted 3rd Canadian Infantry Division put on reserve after taking le Mesnil-Patry; Germans concentrated 7.5 of their 8 armoured divisions, and half of their 12 other divisions against Canadians and British; Canadians spend second half of June in reserve before resuming attack on Capriquet airfield.
1937 Toronto Ontario - Bert Pearl first hosts CBC radio show The Happy Gang, with Kay Stokes, Bob Farnon and Blaine Mather; will run for 22 years until 1959; Pearl dies in 1986.
1932 Quebec - DorimÃ¨ne Roy Desjardins dies; co-founder with her husband Alphonse of les Caisses populaires Desjardins.
1894 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Massey Hall for musical performances.
1892 Ontario/Quebec - Tornado rages down the Ottawa Valley between Renfrew and Montreal, killing 12 persons.
1887 Vancouver BC - Canadian Pacific steamer Abyssinia the first passenger ship from the Orient to dock at Vancouver; from Yokohama, Japan.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Macdonald government passes the Canadian Pacific Railway general charter and the Trade Unions Bill, which legalized unions.
1864 Ottawa Ontario - TachÃ© & Macdonald Ministry loses vote of censure.
1853 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Incorporation of the St. Maurice Iron Works.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Opening of the first session of the first Parliament of United Canada; meets until Sept. 18; will pass act unifying the banking system, District Council Act, abolish the pillory.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Robert Baldwin resigns from Ministry over lack of French Canadians and Reformers in Councils of government; Reformers hold majority in Assembly.
1808 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the first Methodist church in Montreal.
1649 Midland Ontario - Jesuits and their Huron allies abandon the Huronia missions after Iroquois attacks; retreat to Christian Island in Georgian Bay; leave Huronia completely the following year.
1610 Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 joins new expedition against Iroquois with Algonkian/Huron allies.

End of C/P.

henric · Jun 14, 2014

June 15th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
1184 – King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. According to legend, this battle also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world's first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.
1246 – With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded.
1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
1410 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
1580 – Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1776 – Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
1785 – Jean-FranÃ§ois PilÃ¢tre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1859 – Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1867 – Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
1905 – Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
1913 – The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
1920 – Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
1920 – A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
1945 – The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1954 – UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
1970 – Charles Manson Infamous trial for the Sharon Tate murders begin.
1972 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
1985 – Rembrandt's painting DanaÃ« is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Ãlvarez-MachaÃn that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
2001 – Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.
2013 – A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1995 WEBER & MLAKHOV FIRST TO POLE ALONE
NWT -Richard Weber of Chelsea, Quebec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov reach Ward Hunt Island, Canada's northernmost point of land, becoming the first to ski to the North Pole and back without support teams or outside help; started 1500 km trek Feb. 13; proved that Robert Peary could not have reached the Pole.

1944
Regina Saskatchewan - Baptist Minister T.C. Tommy Douglas 1904-1986 takes 47 of 55 seats, to the liberals 5, to win the Saskatchewan election for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation; forms Canada's first socialist (CCF) government; Douglas resigned his Commons seat to run; he will be Premier for the next 17 years, resigning to become first head of the New Democratic Party.

In Other Events....

1995 New York City - Moody's lowers Quebec's credit rating due to political uncertainty and high taxes.
1993 Alberta - Ralph Klein leads provincial Conservatives to 7th majority win in a row; Party trailed in opinion polls under former leader and Premier Don Getty, before electing Klein, a former Liberal, mayor of Calgary.
1992 Sarajevo Bosnia - Lewis MacKenzie Canadian General optimistic about latest ceasefire in capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina; UN Chief of Staff trying to reopen airport to aid flights.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes new sexual assault legislation - the 'no means no' rape law; defines consent by requiring voluntary agreement by the woman; no consent if incapacitated, given by third person, or under abuse of authority.
1991 Fredericton NB - Dennis Cochrane elected Leader of the Progressive Conservatives in New Brunswick, beating Bev Lawrence 955 to 166; replaces Barbara Filliter, who resigned after 17 months in office.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper blocks Premier Gary Filmon's attempt to introduce the Meech Lake resolution in the Manitoba Legislature; puts in procedural roadblocks until June 20; says Meech Lake did not address native concerns.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Patrick Nowlan resigns PC caucus to protest Mulroney's 'highly manipulative' handling of Meech Lake negotiations; veteran Nova Scotia MP.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Canada expels eight Soviet diplomats for industrial espionage; not made public until June 21.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Ontario passes North America's first pay equity legislation.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams has a No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Heaven.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces temporary closure of the Canadian embassy in Beirut.
1980 Canada - Bob Nolan dies at 72; country singer, poet, songwriter born Robert Clarence Nobles Apr. 1, 1908; of Sons of the Pioneers.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Judy LaMarsh issues Report of the Ontario Royal Commission on Violence in the Media; rejects greater censorship; advises stricter control over print and broadcast media.
1974 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot has a No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Sundown.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa restricts export of gasoline and heating oil to slow down increase in export of these products.
1962 Wallops Island Virginia - Canada launches first space vehicle, 11.3 kg non-orbiting instrument package.
1951 Montreal Quebec - Fire kills 35 elderly persons at l'Hospice Ste-CunÃ©gond.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament amends Northwest Territories Act to provide for partly elective NWT Council.
1944 France - First RCAF fighter wings move into France after D-Day.
1940 France - Canadians withdraw from France over a two day period.
1919 Clifden, County Galway, Ireland - British Army Captain John Alcock and Royal Flying Corps Lt. Arthur Brown make a nose-down landing in a peat bog in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 16 hours, 20 minutes; they win the Â£10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail, and are both awarded knighthoods.
1915 Givenchy France - Lt. Frederick William Campbell of the 1st Bn. Western Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force moves two machine-gun detachments forward under heavy fire at Givenchy; reaches the German front line trench with one gun after nearly all his detachment killed or wounded; holds back German counter-attack by advancing further and firing off 1,000 more rounds before getting hit by fire; dies four days later at age 48; awarded Victoria Cross posthumously Aug. 23, 1915.
1905 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland bans sale of bait and granting of licenses to Canadian and foreign fishing fleets.
1902 Canada - Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time.
1900 Ottawa Ontario - Manitoba Catholics ask Ottawa for relief from Manitoba law abolishing separate schools.
1900 Victoria BC - James Dunsmuir becomes Premier of British Columbia, succeeding Joseph Martin; serves to Nov. 21, 1902.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - J.J.C. Abbott sworn in as Prime Minister after being chosen leader of Conservative Party.
1887 Niagara Falls Ontario - Carlisle D Graham survives his second ride over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel.
1875 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Presbyterian Church of Canada.
1873 Cypress Hills Saskatchewan - Renegade American whisky/fur traders massacre Assiniboine Indians in their camp; leads to formation of the North-West Mounted Police.
1863 London England - Robert Benson acquires control of the Hudson's Bay Company for the International Financial Society, a syndicate of bankers.
1859 Washington USA - Hudson Bay Company pig breaks into potato patch of American squatter; nearly triggers British-American war over ownership of one of the San Juan Islands.
1846 Washington DC - U.S. President James Polk signs the Oregon Treaty (Treaty of Washington), declaring the 49th parallel and the Strait of Juan de Fuca the boundary between Oregon and British America; Queen Victoria signs the Treaty two days later. The treaty was a compromise - the British claimed Oregon and the Americans claimed all of the west coast up to the southern limit of the Russian territory of Alaska - 54/40 - the slogan 'Fifty-four forty or fight' was a Democratic Party slogan in the 1844 election.
1815 Red River Manitoba - Most Selkirk settlers, who had grown dependent on buffalo for survival, forced to leave for Upper Canada because of harassment by Metis hunters; North West Company traders wanting to challenge the authority of the Hudson's Bay Company were backing the Metis nationalists; settlement reestablished the following August.
1814 Port Dover Ontario - Major General Jacob Brown leads 500 American raiders across Lake Erie to burn and loot Port Dover and Long Point; War of 1812.
1811 Vancouver Island BC - John Jacob Astor's ship Tonquin attacked by local Nootka who kill the sailors and destroy the ship the next day; end of New York fur trader's hopes for northwest coast trade in competition with North West Company.
1790 Manitoba Canada - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches mouth of Saskatchewan River; travels from Cumberland House.
1776 Montreal Quebec - American General Benedict Arnold orders Montreal burnt as the Army of the Continental Congress retreats south; citizens put the fire out.
1676 Quebec Quebec - Chief citizens of Quebec hold meeting to fix price of bread.
1673 Arkansas USA - Marquette & Joliet arrive at upper reaches of Mississippi, after paddling more than 800 km; explore south; believe Mississippi empties into Gulf of Mexico.
1629 GaspÃ© Quebec - Brothers David, Lewis and Thomas Kirke reach GaspÃ© on a second privateering expedition with nine ships; plan to capture Quebec and the St. Lawrence River trade; accompanied by Sir William Alexander, Jr., proprietor of Nova Scotia, who sails directly south for Port Royal, while the Kirkes found a settlement at Port aux Baleines.
1616 Tadoussac Quebec - RÃ©collet friar Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children at Tadoussac; later Trois-RiviÃ¨res.
1605 Nova Scotia - PontgravÃ© arrives at St. Croix.
1534 Cabot Strait Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 steers southward along west coast of Newfoundland to Cabot Strait, then turns west.

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June 16th 2014 - This Date in History.

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363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal Roman forces suffering several attacks from the Persians.
632 – Yazdegerd III ascends to the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).
1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ QuÃ½ Ly and his son King Hồ HÃ¡n Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies.
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia (Old Style).
1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort BeausÃ©jour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1795 – First Battle of Groix otherwise known as "Cornwallis' Retreat".
1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
1858 – The Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.
1891 – John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.
1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1915 – Foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1922 – General election in the Irish Free State: the pro-Treaty Sinn FÃ©in win a large majority.
1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
1925 – The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the Soviet Union, Artek, is established.
1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1933 – The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed.
1940 – World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe PÃ©tain becomes Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'Ã‰tat FranÃ§ais).
1940 – A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1944 – At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
1948 – Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
1955 – In a futile effort to topple President Juan PerÃ³n, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of PerÃ³n in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some forces soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.
1958 – Imre Nagy, PÃ¡l MalÃ©ter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins
1972 – The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.
1976 – Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
1989 – Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
2000 – Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel does so, except the disputed Shebaa farms.
2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
2012 – China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts – including the first female Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang – to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1833 NINETEEN YEAR OLD KILLED IN PERTH PISTOL DUEL
Perth Ontario - John Wilson 1809-1869 kills 19 year old Robert Lyon in last duel in Upper Canada; Wilson was acquitted, and later became a judge of the Ontario Supreme Court.

1984
Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- chosen as Liberal Party leader on second ballot, with 1862 votes, to Jean Chretien's 1368, Don Johnston's 192; defeats six others; replaces Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister, but will lose ensuing election to Brian Mulroney.

In Other Events....

1997 GaspÃ© Quebec -Non-profit Corporation du chemin de fer de la GaspÃ©sie takes over former CN line between Chandler and GaspÃ©; line owned by local municipalities, operated by Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs which started operations between Matapedia and Chandler in Dec. 1996
1993 Cyprus - Canada closes UN peacekeeping mission on Cyprus after 29 years of service by 35,000 soldiers; control of Canadian sector handed to British and Australian troops the previous day.
1991 Deidesheim Germany - Brian Mulroney 1939- holds joint news conference with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; want more aid to Soviet Union; express concern over Quebec separation.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Atlanta Brave Otis Nixon steals six bases against the Montreal Expos to set modern National League record; ties major league record set by Eddie Collins of the Philadelphia A's in 1912.
1981 Washington DC - President Reagan awards Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-80; first foreign citizen given the honour.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Jean Keable 1929- heads Quebec Commission of inquiry into illegal police activities; after conviction of three officers for entering a press office without a search warrant.
1976 Washington DC - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- visits Washington to reaffirm Canada's commitment to NATO anti-submarine patrol; presents President Ford with book 'Between Friends/ Entre Amis'.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of India starts 8-day visit to Canada.
1972 Churchill Falls Newfoundland - Prime Minister Trudeau pushes a button to start Churchill Falls, Labrador, on the Hamilton River, the largest single-site hydro-electric power project in the western world.
1967 Monterey California - Toronto rocker Neil Young and his band Buffalo Springfield join Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who, Otis Redding, the Mamas and the Papas, The Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane and Hugh Masekela at the Monterey Pop Festival; 50,000 people attend free rock fest.
1958 Manitoba Canada - Dufferin 'Duff' Roblin 1917- leads Progressive Conservatives to win in Manitoba election.
1914 Ste-Luce-Sur-Mer Quebec - First dive to the sunken Empress of Ireland to test diving equipment; as a Commission of Inquiry convenes in Quebec under Lord Mersey; on June 22, diving operations start to recover bodies and valuables from the wreck; on Aug. 20, the Purser's safe is raised.
1898 Dawson Yukon - First issue of the Klondike Nugget published; 50Â¢ an issue.
1894 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Bulletin reports presence of oil in what is now Alberta.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 chosen in convention to succeed Macdonald as Leader of the Conservatives and Canada's third Prime Minister for 17 months; resigned due to ill health Nov. 24 1892; first Prime Minister to lead the country from the Senate; was Dean of Law, McGill 1855-1880; Mayor of Montreal 1887-88.
1890 Placentia Junction Nfld. - Newfoundland awards contract for railway from Placentia Junction to Hall's Bay.
1884 Adolphustown Ontario - United Empire Loyalists celebrate centennial of the Peter VanAlstine settlement in Adolphustown, Prince Edward County.
1832 Prescott Ontario - Prescott hit by first case of Asian cholera in Upper Canada; brought on an Irish immigrant ship.
1784 Adolphustown Ontario - Peter VanAlstine lands with his band of Loyalists in Adolphustown.
1755 Chignecto New Brunswick - Robert Monckton 1726-1782 leads 2,000 British troops in capture of Fort BeausÃ©jour on the Isthmus of Chignecto from Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor 1713-c1775; Fort Gaspereau, the last French fort in Acadia, surrenders the next day; giving the British full control of what is now New Brunswick.
1744 Annapolis Nova Scotia - French make unsuccessful assault on Annapolis Royal (Port Royal).
1703 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council reorganized as Superior Council.
1659 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 grants aid to emigrants to New France.
1659 Quebec Quebec - FranÃ§ois de Laval 1623-1688 arrives in Canada as Vicar Apostolic of New France; becomes first Bishop of Quebec in 1674.
1587 Upernavik Greenland - John Davis c1543-1605 reaches Gilbert Sound; sails north along Greenland's west coast to Upernavik; calls it Sanderson's Hope, after his merchant backer, William Sanderson.

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