This Date In History

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July 8th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1099 – First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1283 – War of the Sicilian Vespers: Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta in the Battle of Malta.
1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
1709 – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
1716 – Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place.
1730 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline.
1758 – French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
1760 – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche – British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France.
1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1853 – U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo bay with a treaty requesting trade.
1859 – King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1864 – Ikedaya Incident: the Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
1874 – The Mounties begin their March West.
1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
1892 – St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1912 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
1933 – The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
1962 – Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
1966 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
1968 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
1988 – The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1974 TRUDEAU WINS MAJORITY
Canada - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- wins majority 141 of 264 seats in federal election; to 95 Conservative; 16 NDP; 11 Social Credit; 1 other; Andy Hogan the first Roman Catholic priest elected to the Commons.

1917
Algonquin Park Ontario - Thomas John 'Tom' Thomson 1877-1917 drowns in Canoe Lake in his beloved Algonquin Park; a friend and associate of the Group of Seven landscape painters, his death has never been explained.

1792
Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 assumes office as the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; until July 20, 1796. Here he is after his swearing in outside Navy Hall.



In Other Events....

1995 Las Vegas Nevada - Las Vegas Posse meet Sacramento Gold in first CFL game between 2 US teams.
1994 Cape Canaveral Florida - NASA launches Columbia on Shuttle Mission STS-65; carries the International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2), which includes a number of Canadian experiments in space medicine and physiology.
1991 St. John's Newfoundland - Joseph Burke gets 25 months in prison for abusing boys under care at Mount Cashel Orphanage in 1970s; former Christian Brother.
1991 Toronto Ontario - C.D. Howe Institute study points out dangers of post-separation economic alliance between Quebec and Canada.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - CDIC to provide funds to needy depositors of Bank of Credit and Commerce Canada; Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Gallup poll reports that 69% of Canadians want Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 1939- to resign; 80% in Ontario, 54% in Quebec.
1988 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland the eighth province to ratify the Meech Lake accord; approval later rescinded by Wells government.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada released figures showing more than half of Canada's population was over 30.
1982 Sudan - Martin Overduin, a missionary pilot from Komoka, Ont., freed with four other hostages after Sudanese troops attack a rebel camp in southern Sudan.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Imperial Oil suspends $12 billion Cold Lake oil sands project, pending energy agreement; later scaled down.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Toronto police detective Adolphus Payne dies; known for rounding up the Boyd Gang bank robbers in 1952.
1981 Burlington Ontario - Start of 4-day Ontario Games for the Physically Disabled at Burlington.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Air Traffic Controllers Association and Canadian Airline Pilots Association support more use of French in air for small planes under visual control.
1965 Gustafsen Lake BC - Bomb explodes on Canadian Pacific airliner; crashes into Gustafsen Lake, killing 52.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Arnold Heeney releases Report; recommends independent staff relations board for collective bargaining, conciliation; Civil Service should be reclassified into six major occupational groups.
1964 London England - Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference opens in London.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - US President Dwight David Eisenhower starts three-day visit to Canada for talks; leads to founding of Canada-US joint committee on defence.
1944 Caen France - The 3rd Canadian Division and 1st British Corps and move into the city; the 9th Canadian takes both Buron and Authie; the 7th Brigade captures Cussy and Ardenne; the 8th Brigade completes its capture of Carpiquet as the Germans are pulled back.
1943 Nassau Bahamas - Canadian gold millionaire Harry Oakes found burned and beaten to death in his villa; murder remains unsolved.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley becomes Minister of Finance; until Dec. 9, 1946; replaced by Abbott.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Angus Lewis Macdonald 1890-1954 becomes Navy Minister; Nova Scotia Premier.
1937 Montreal Quebec - Imperial Airways flying boat Caledonia arrives in Montreal from Southampton, England; inaugurates new transatlantic air service connecting with TCA.
1934 Vancouver BC - First performance of the Vancouver Symphony in the Malkin Bowl, an outdoor performance theatre in Stanley Park; built as a 2/3 size replica of the Hollywood Bowl, it served as the home of the Theatre Under the Stars Company.
1906 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg street cars started making Sunday runs despite church opposition.
1899 London Ontario - Troops called in to stop rioting during two-day streetcar workers strike in London.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns office as Canada's 6th Prime Minister, since May 1; succeeded by Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919; will serve as Leader of the Opposition to 1901.
1884 Duck Lake Saskatchewan - Louis Riel 1844-1885 arrives back in the North Saskatchewan valley to meet Gabriel Dumont.
1883 Manitoba - CPR workers lay a record 9.6 km of Canadian Pacific Railway track in one day.
1867 Moncton New Brunswick - Le Moniteur Acadien first published; first French-language newspaper in the Maritimes.
1852 Montreal Quebec - Fire in east end of Montreal leaves over 10,000 homeless.
1822 Ontario - Chippewas cede 234,700 hectares in Lambton, Middlesex, and Kent Counties to the Crown.
1822 Astoria Washington - John Cameron c1777-1857 assumes the position of Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company post at Fort George.
1760 Restigouche New Brunswick - John Byron defeats French relief force under François-Gabriel d'Angéac (1708-1782); , in last naval battle in New France, the Battle of the Ristigouche, at mouth of Restigouche River.
1759 Niagara New York - Brigadier General John Prideaux demands that French Commander Pouchot surrender Fort Niagara; Pouchot refuses, saying 'He did not understand English'; the English start their siege by building a zig-zag trench towards the fort to mine the walls; Pouchot sends a dispatch to Lignery at Fort Machault, for reinforcements; Lignery immediately cancels his attack on Pittsburgh, and departs for Niagara.
1758 Ticonderoga New York - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 holds Fort Carillon; drives off 6,000 British regulars and 9,000 American militia under James Abercromby (1732-1775).

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July 9th 2014 - This Date in History.


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455 – The Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
491 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
660 – Battle of Hwangsanbeol: Korean forces under general Kim Yu-shin defeat the army of Baekje at Nonsan (South Korea).
869 – A magnitude 8.6Ms earthquake and subsequent tsunami strikes the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu, Japan.
1357 – Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1572 – Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
1701 – War of the Spanish Succession: Austrians defeat France in the Battle of Carpi.
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces.
1776 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York, for the first time.
1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1790 – Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund – in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1793 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
1807 – The Treaties of Tilsit are signed by Napoleon I of France and Alexander I of Russia.
1810 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1811 – Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state, US), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.
1815 РCharles Maurice de Talleyrand-P̩rigord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1821 – 470 prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence
1850 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore succeeds him as 13th President of the United States.
1850 – Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
1863 – American Civil War: the Siege of Port Hudson ends.
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
1875 – Outbreak of the Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.
1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives Royal Assent to an Act creating Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
1903 – Future Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia for three years.
1918 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1932 РThe state of Ṣo Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan – American forces take Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Tali-Ihantala – Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
1955 – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London, England, United Kingdom.
1958 – Lituya Bay is hit by a megatsunami. The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, the largest in recorded history.
1961 – Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
1962 – The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States.
1962 – Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
1972 – The Troubles: In Belfast, British Army snipers shoot five civilians dead in the Springhill Massacre.
1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by the famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1981 – Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released. The game marks the debut of Nintendo's future mascot, Mario.
1982 – Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1986 – The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
1993 – The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act that would legally divide the Northwest Territories based on plebiscite results
1995 – The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
1999 – Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
2006 – At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
2008 – Iran conducts the Great Prophet III missile test and war games exercise.
2011 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1960 ROGER GETS THE RIDE OF HIS LIFE
Niagara Falls Ontario - Roger Woodward survives 162 foot plunge over the Horseshoe Falls because he is wearing a lifejacket; his first word when rescued is 'gosh'; the 7-year-old is the first person to go over the Falls by accident and live.

1874
Pembina Manitoba - First North West Mounted Police (NWMP) force of 318 men heads west from Fort Dufferin to the American whisky post called Fort Whoop Up at the junction of the Oldman and St. Mary rivers near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta; abandoned with the arrived of the police, Fort Whoop-Up will serve as an outpost for the force; forerunners of RCMP.

1923
Calgary Alberta -
Guy Weadick holds first Chuckwagon Race at the Stampede, persuading 6 local ranchers to risk their wagons and horses in what will be billed as 'the half mile of hell'.



In Other Events....

1995 South Pacific - French commandos board the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II in the South Pacific; the ship is protesting continued French nuclear testing.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- says he will release the federal position on unity by September; cites divisions over issues between English and French ministers.
1991 St. Lazare Manitoba - 400 residents of St. Lazare flee homes when train carrying highly corrosive acetic anhydride derails; emergency evacuation ends after six days.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- meets US President Bush at the SkyDome for talks on common approach to aid for Soviet Union; American League beat National League 4-2 in the first All-Star game held in Toronto.
1991 Montreal Quebec - International Human Rights Federation releases report citing human rights violations in the Oka crisis of 1990; Amnesty International report also cites mistreatment of natives by Quebec Police.
1988 Lisbon Portugal - Bryan Adams holds concert before record 30,000 person crowd in Lisbon; joined by British singer Bonnie Tyler singing 'Straight From the Heart' and No Way to Treat a Lady,' two of her hits which he had written.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- calls federal general election for September 4, saying Canadians needed a 'renewal of confidence and certainty in this country.'
1976 Montreal Quebec - Houston Astros pitcher Larry Dierker hurls a no-hitter, fanning eight and walking four as the Astros beat the Montreal Expos 6-0.
1975 Teheran Iran - Canada and Iran sign trade agreements worth up to $2 billion.
1974 New York City - Springhill, Nova Scotia's Anne Murray has a #1 Billboard hit with 'He Thinks I Still Care.'
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes the Official Languages Act, making English and French the official languages of federal administration in Canada.
1955 Stratford Ontario - Festival Singers of Toronto gave their first concert, at the Stratford Festival; formed in 1954 by Elmer Iseler, the choir turn professional in 1968, as the Festival Singers of Canada.
1947 London England - Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Royal Navy Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, a member of the Greek royal family.
1944 Caen France - Canadians and British capture Caen after massive bombardment by 467 planes from Bomber Command; urban area north of Orne River secured by nightfall by two British Divisions and the 3rd Canadian; the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders and the Sherbrooke Fusilier tanks are the first into the ruined city, although the famous Abbaye-aux-Hommes, 1000 years old, is untouched; 1,194 Canadian casualties, 334 are fatal.
1920 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau sworn in as Liberal Premier of Quebec.
1904 Peterborough Ontario - Opening of giant hydraulic liftlock on the Trent-Severn Waterway; steamboat Stoney Lake first through lock from Rice Lake up the Otonabee River to the Kawartha Lakes.
1886 Ottawa Ontario - Crown grants general amnesty to those involved in Northwest Rebellion of 1885; except for murderers.
1847 Ottawa Ontario - Joseph-Bruno Guigues 1805-1874 appointed first Roman Catholic Bishop of Bytown.
1843 Montreal Quebec - Launch of the Prince Albert; first iron steamship built in Canada.
1837 Mackenzie River NWT - Thomas Simpson 1808-1840 reaches Mackenzie River with Peter Dease.
1827 Guelph Ontario - Group of 150 destitute and homeless settlers arrived in Ontario via New York; after emigrating from England to Venezuela where they found the climate, soil and political conditions inhospitable.
1811 Washington State - North West Company trader David Thompson raises the Union Jack at the junction of the Snake River and the Columbia, and claims the area for Britain; territory stays British until the Oregon Treaty of 1846 awards it to the United States.
1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake - Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passes Act Against Slavery, banning the further import of slaves into Upper Canada, and limiting the contract of those remaining; Act declares that slaves' children should be free at age 25; all slaves entering the province from this date were henceforth automatically free.
1793 Quebec Quebec - Importation of slaves into Lower Canada prohibited; bill to abolish slavery failed until 1804.
1793 Montreal Quebec - Jacob Mountain 1749-1825 appointed first Anglican Bishop of Canada.
1755 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Daniel de Beaujeu 1711-1755 kills 600 of 1200 British regulars under General Edward Braddock in an ambush at Fort Duquesne; both Braddock and de Beaujeu mortally wounded in the Battle of the Monongahela, near present-day Pittsburgh. One survivor was an aide to Braddock - Col. George Washington - who wrote to his brother, 'But by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!'.
1749 Halifax Nova Scotia - Edward Cornwallis c1713-1753 founds new settlement of Halifax founded as naval settlement to counter Louisbourg.
1615 Huronia Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 travels up Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing, and down French River into Lake Huron; explores and maps; first discovered by Etienne Brulé and father Caron.

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July 10th 2014 - This Date in History.


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48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
645 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
988 – The Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
1519 – Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1584 РWilliam I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar G̩rard.
1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1832 – The U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1913 – Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1967 – New Zealand adopts decimal currency
1971 РHassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'̩tat, which lasts until June 11.
1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1976 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1978 РPresident Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'̩tat.
1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
1992 – In Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
2000 РEADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of A̩rospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
2007 РErden Erṳ begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1943 CANADIANS INVADE SICILY
Pachino Italy - In Operation Husky, Canadian 1st Infantry Division and 1st Tank Brigade invade Sicily with British 8th Army, U.S. and French troops; after training for 3 1/2 years in Britain; Sicily taken Aug. 17 with 2,434 Canadian casualties.

1789
Near Inuvik, NWT - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches flats and marshes of the Mackenzie Delta, struggles to within a short distance of Arctic Ocean before turning back.

1920
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 retires as head of Unionist Government due to ill-health; Canada's 8th Prime Minister, since Oct. 12, 1917; replaced by Arthur Meighen ,Canada's 9th Prime Minister to Dec. 29, 1921; then 1926.



In Other Events....

1991 Sechelt BC - Grace MacInnis dies at age 85; British Columbia's first female MP; daughter of CCF founder J.S. Woodsworth.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Kim Campbell unveils draft law to extradite wanted criminals to home countries; to decrease stages of appeal from 7 to 3; also draft law on criminal insanity - insane defendants no longer indefinitely jailed.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Charest orders full-scale environmental assessment of Great Whale hydro project, but no stoppage; criticism from Quebec, environmentalists and Cree.
1987 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg musician and bandleader Jimmy King dies at age 67; director of the Jimmy King Orchestra and the Golden Boy Brass.
1985 Auckland, New Zealand - French agents sink 160-foot protest vessel, Rainbow Warrior, owned by Vancouver-based Greenpeace environmental group, with an underwater bomb, killing one crew member; France's defence minister will resign four months later, after it is reported he knew of the plot; two French secret service agents later plead guilty to manslaughter; Greenpeace protesting French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
1982 Vancouver, BC - Three $2 ticket bettors win $579,129 apiece at the races in Exhibition Park.
1972 New York City - Leonid Brezhnev, Leader of the USSR, when asked by Time Magazine how many ballistic missiles were aimed at Toronto, replies: 'None; I have nothing against the Indians'.
1970 Quebec - Quebec passes provincial health insurance bill, joins the federal Medicare plan.
1969 Ontario - 17,000 Inco workers strike at plants in Sudbury and Port Colborne.
1967 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts 12-day tour of Maritime provinces with the Queen Mother.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Government approves BC's signing of Columbia River Treaty; allowing project to start on Peace and Columbia rivers.
1958 Washington DC - John Diefenbaker and Dwight D. Eisenhower sign agreement to have Canada and the United States set up Joint Committee to guide North American defenses in the event of enemy attack.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canada formally ends state of war with Germany.
1946 Hamilton Ontario - Canada's first drive-in movie theatre opens in Hamilton.
1920 New Brunswick - New Brunswick votes for prohibition in a referendum.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Government votes financial aid to CPR.
1869 Thunder Bay, Ontario - Montreal mining engineer Thomas McFarlane discovers rich vein of silver galena near Prince Arthur's Landing on Lake Superior; developed as Silver Islet mine.
1852 London England - Edward Inglefield 1820-1894 sets sail in Lady Franklin's yacht Isabella to search for Franklin; will enter Smith Sound and Kane Basin; names Ellesmere Island.
1827 Ontario - Chippewas cede 890,000 hectares in Lambton, Middlesex, Oxford, Perth, Waterloo and Wellington counties.
1755 Quebec Quebec - Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil 1698-1778 appointed Governor of New France; receives annual salary of 372 pounds; last French Governor, to Sept 8, 1760.
1690 The Pas Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 comes to what he calls Deerings Point, probably at bend in Saskatchewan River near The Pas; takes possession of land for HBC; winters there.<
1631 London England - King Charles I orders William Alexander to give Port Royal back to French and destroy fort built by son.
1628 Quebec Quebec - David & Lewis Kirke capture Tadoussac, Miscou, and Cap Tourmente, and seize supply ship of Hundred Associates; leave Quebec when Champlain makes show of strength and refuses to surrender.
1559 Paris France - King François II 1544-1560 starts reign; to 1560; on death of Henri II.

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July 11th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.
1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.
1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans.
1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
1740 – Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1893 РA revolution led by the liberal general and politician, Jos̩ Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
1895 РBrothers Auguste and Louis Lumi̬re demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
1897 РSalomon August Andr̩e leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
1914 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
1921 – Former President of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1930 – Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take off.
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 РWorld War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe P̩tain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
1960 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris, France on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking on flights.
1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1978 – Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1995 – The Srebrenica massacre is carried out.
2006 – Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2012 – Astronomers announce the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1990 QPP CONSTABLE KILLED AT OKA
Oka (Kanesetake) Quebec - Corporal Marcel Lemay, a 31 year old constable, killed during gun battle as 100 members of La Sûreté du Québec attack Mohawk barricades, put up in March to block expansion of a golf course on land they claim was never signed away. Mohawks at Chateauguay (Kahnawake) set up sympathy blockade at Mercier bridge leading into Montreal, causing massive traffic jams for thousands of south shore commuters.

1896
Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 sworn in as Canada's 7th Prime Minister, succeeding Charles Tupper; Canada's first French-speaking Prime Minister; to Oct. 6, 1911; MP Drummond-Arthabaska 1874-1877, Quebec East 1877-1919; Liberal Party Leader 1887-1919; Leader of the Opposition 1887-1896, 1911-1919.



In Other Events....

1992 New York City - Céline Dion's 'If You Asked Me To' peaks at #4 on the pop singles chart.
1991 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Nationair charter jet crashes in Saudi Arabia killing all 261 on board, including 14 Canadian crew members.
1991 Washington DC - American trade representative Carla Hills says North American free-trade deal will not endanger auto pact or harm Canadian culture.
1989 Dover England - Canadian marathoner Vicki Keith, from Kingston, Ontario, becomes the first person to swim the English Channel using the butterfly stroke; .
1984 Canada - Canadian dollar sinks to US74.86¢, an all-time low to that date.
1980 L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland - UNESCO unveils plaque at L'Anse aux Meadows, declaring Viking ruins First World Heritage Site; first Europeans known to visit North America landed there c950.
1974 Washington DC - US starts anti-dumping action against Canada for eggs shipped to the States.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian university presidents meet to discuss campus unrest; 40 presidents.
1967 Sudbury Ontario - Canadian Pacific inaugurates first major unit train, shipping 3,700 tons of sulfuric acid from Copper Cliff to CIL in Sarnia.
1960 Resolute Bay, NWT - Northwest Territories Council holds first session at Resolute Bay; most northerly point for any legislative meeting.
1944 Caen, France - Guy Simonds, 2nd Canadian Corps, takes over operational command of the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division and Rd Canadian Infantry Division in Normandy.
1940 England - Petty Officer D. A. Hewitt first Canadian killed in the Battle of Britain.
1936 Manitoba - Manitoba experiences its hottest day on record - 44.4 degrees Celsius.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Canada signs trade agreement with Netherlands.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 introduces Conscription Act; splits Opposition into Conscription Liberals and Laurier Liberals; Solicitor General.
1911 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Professional Golfers Association.
1911 Cobalt Ontario - Huge forest fire breaks out in Porcupine district near Timmins, fanned by high winds into a 40 km long front, the fire takes 200 lives; over 3,000 left homeless; burns up 2200 sq. km, destroying the mining communities of South Porcupine, Cochrane and Goldlands.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Senate passes the Lord's Day Act; supported by Protestant and Roman Catholic churches and labor groups; struck down by Supreme Court of Canada in 1985.
1896 Halifax Nova Scotia - William S. Fielding 1848-1929 retires as Premier of Nova Scotia to become Minister of Finance in the Laurier government; former anti-Confederation repealer.
1889 Kingston Ontario - Premiere of opera entitled 'Leo, the Royal Cadet', at Martin's Opera House under the patronage of the Royal Military College.
1838 Kingston Ontario - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 reaches Kingston to begin week-long visit to Upper Canada.
1873 Cypress Hills, Alberta - American whisky traders massacre group of Assiniboines; Cypress Hills Massacre forces the Government to send police to the Canadian West.
1814 Eastport Maine - John Sherbrooke 1764-1830 captures Eastport, Maine, with a force from Halifax; later Castine and Machias.
1776 Portsmouth England - Captain James Cook sets sail on his third and last voyage with the HMS. Resolution and HMS Discovery, to seek a North-West Passage round the north coast of America from the Pacific; makes first for Tasmania, then New Zealand and Tahiti, then turns north, arriving along the Oregon Coast by March 1778; on March 29, 1778, they reach Nootka Sound (named King George's Sound by Cook) and drop anchor; they stay for a month, repairing the ships and trading with the local Nootka people, then go north on April 26, 1778; they fail to find a passage; nine months later Cook is killed on a Hawaiian beach.
1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Fire almost completely destroys newly-established community of Halifax.
1616 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives back in Quebec.
1603 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 gets back to Tadoussac and departs with Grave du Pont to Gaspé; hears Prévert's comments on Acadian minerals.
1576 Greenland - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sights Greenland but cannot land because of ice and fog; storm causes the Michael to turn back.

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July 12th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

927 Р̠thelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter will not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain. This is considered the closest thing that England has to a foundation date.
1191 – Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
1470 – The Ottomans capture Euboea.
1493 – Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published.
1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
1561 – Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow is consecrated.
1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
1580 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
1690 – Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) – The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.
1691 – Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) – The decisive victory of William III of England's forces in Ireland.
1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
1789 – French revolutionary and radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gave a speech in response to the dismissal of Jacques Necker France's finance minister the day before. The speech calls the citizens to arms and leads to the Storming of the Bastille two days later.
1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
1799 – Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire).
1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: British Royal Navy ships inflict heavy damage against Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras.
1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.
1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
1806 – Liechtenstein is given full sovereignty after its accession to the Confederation of the Rhine.
1812 – War of 1812: The United States invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
1879 – The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria is founded.
1913 – Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
1917 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1918 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognizes independent Lithuania.
1932 – Hedley Verity takes a cricket world record ten wickets for ten runs in a county match for Yorkshire.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest tank engagements of all time.
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
1960 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1961 – Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death toll exceeds 2,000.
1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London, England, United Kingdom.
1963 – Pauline Reade, who was 16-years-old, disappears on her way to a dance at the British Railways Club in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
1967 – The Newark riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
1970 – A fire consumes the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt and irretrievably destroys about 90 percent of his output.
1971 – The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
1973 – A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from United Kingdom.
2006 – Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
2007 – U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
2012 – The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1812 AMERICANS INVADE CANADA
Windsor Ontario - US Brigadier General William Hull 1753-1825 crosses the Detroit River with 2,500 troops and occupies the town of Sandwich; first American invasion in the War of 1812; worried about a new alliance between the British and the Indians led by Tecumseh, Hull will soon retreat to Detroit, and surrenders to the British a month later.

1978
Rome Italy - Alfred Bessette 1845-1937 declared venerable by Pope Paul VI; lay brother at the Oratoire St-Joseph in Montreal known as Frère André.



In Other Events....

1997 Waterloo Ontario - St. Jacobs Railway starts passenger service over the former CN Waterloo Spur between Waterloo and Elmira.
1981 British Columbia - 48,000 BC woodworkers go on strike, shut down forest industry; 60,000 workers off the job by July 20.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules federal Indian Act inoperative because it discriminates against Native people.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa puts forward ocean policy to ensure Canadian control of technical and industrial knowledge; emphasis put on special programs in marine science and technology.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Terrorists destroy Queen Victoria monument in Dominion Square in a dynamite explosion.
1952 Colombo Sri Lanka - Canada signs agreement with Ceylon to provide aid under Colombo Plan.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Alexander Magrath 1860-1949 appointed Dominion Fuel Controller.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Army orders harvest furloughs to Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers still in training camps in Canada.
1912 Montreal Quebec - Montreal transport workers go on strike; to July 15.
1898 London England - Use of penny postage starts in the British Commonwealth; Canadian stamp celebrating event supposedly designed by Postmaster General Sir William Mulock.
1888 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Legislature passes Jesuits Estates Act; payment of $400,000 for property confiscated in 1773 from the Jesuit Order.
1876 Niagara Falls Ontario - Signorina Maria Spelterina walks across Niagara Falls backward on a tightrope, with peach baskets on her feet; 23 year old takes 11 minutes to cross; the following week, she walks across blindfolded, then with her wrists and ankles manacled.
1874 Guelph Ontario - Founding of the Ontario Agricultural College; today the University of Guelph.
1871 Toronto Ontario - Toronto and Nipissing railway opens for traffic to Uxbridge; 3'6" gauge line converted to standard by 1884; North America's first public narrow gauge railway.
1850 Quebec Quebec - Joseph Signay 1778-1850 appointed first Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Quebec.
1849 Saint John New Brunswick - Riot between Orangeman and Catholics in Saint John kills twelve.
1843 London England - British Parliament passes the Canada Corn Act, that lets Canadian wheat into the UK with minimal duty; creates a boom all along the St Lawrence.
1839 Cobourg Ontario - Upper Canada government cancels Orange Order parade in Cobourg, as a concession to Reformers.
1836 St-Jean Quebec - Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence, starts service between Laprairie and St-Jean on the Richelieu.
1782 London England - John Parr 1725-1791 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; takes office Oct. 19.
1759 Lévis Quebec - James Wolfe 1727-1759 orders cannon to start firing on Quebec from heights of Lévis; that night Jean-Daniel Dumas leads 1,600 soldiers, mostly students, in a disastrous night attack on the English; the young men panic and fire on each other.
1742 Repulse Bay NWT - Christopher Middleton d1770 passes Whalebone Point on board the Furnace; discovers Cape Dobbs, Wager Bay, Repulse Bay; with William Moor (d1765) in the Discovery.

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July 13th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

756 – Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty China flees the capital Chang'an as An Lushan's forces advance toward the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
1769 – An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1771 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
1789 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
1789 – Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
1790 РFrench Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the F̻te de la F̩d̩ration.
1791 – The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
1853 – Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
1865 – First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
1877 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
1900 – Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
1902 – The Campanile in St. Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat.
1916 – Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916.
1928 – New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party's most important leaders in its early years.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: in Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
1933 – The Nazi eugenics begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring that calls for the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.
1943 – In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
1948 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon.
1957 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
1958 – Iraqi Revolution: in Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation's new leader.
1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1965 – The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
1969 – Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers.
1969 – The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
1987 – Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
1992 – 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
2003 – In an effort to discredit U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame is a CIA "operative".







Today's Canadian Headline....

1976 COMMONS ABOLISHES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons abolishes the death penalty by a free vote of 132-124.

1896
Fort MacLeod, Alberta -
Jerry Potts 1840-1896 dies of tuberculosis; Métis scout and interpreter who helped NWMP secure loyalty of native people in Alberta and Saskatchewan; born 1840 to Blood mother and white fur trader father; hired as guide and translator for first contingent of North West Mounted Police; arranged first meeting between Assistant Commissioner James Macleod and Blackfoot leaders in fall of 1874; helped bring about signing of Treaty Seven in 1877, assisted in convincing Blackfoot to remain neutral during North West Rebellion of 1885.



In Other Events....

1997 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada designates André Joli-Coeur an amicus curiae to assist the Court in pleading cases which other parties such as the Government of Quebec do not want to plead; friend of Jacques Parizeau and his wife Lisette Lapointe.
1991 Goose Bay Newfoundland - Marcel Masse confirms shut-down of Goose Bay, Labrador, military base in 1995; if European nations no longer need it for test flights.
1990 Prince Edward Island - Edward 'Fast Eddy' McDonald does record 8,437 loops in one hour with his yo-yo.
1990 Oliver BC - World's largest cherry pie baked in Oliver; weighs 37,740 pounds and 10 ounces with 36,800 pounds of cherry filling a 20' diameter pan.
1978 Inuvik NWT - Inuit group CORE (Committee for Original Peoples' Entitlement sign deal renouncing claims to 500,000 sq. km, including Mackenzie River delta lands, in return for surface rights and title to 95,000 sq. km of the Western Arctic and $45 million for 2,500 Inuit from 1981 to 1994.
1972 St. Boniface Manitoba - Dedication of new St. Boniface Cathedral; built within walls of historic cathedral destroyed by fire.
1972 Canada - Donald Macdonald 1909- elected first non-European president of 91 nation International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; Canadian Labour Congress President.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange members agree to declare the exchange a public institution; issue statement of principals.
1955 New York City - Winnipeg pop singer Giselle Mackenzie has a #1 Billboard hit with 'Hard to Get'.
1943 Montreal Quebec - Canadian National Railways opens Central Station in Montreal.
1940 England - Andrew George Latta McNaughton 1887-1966 put in command of new Anglo-Canadian 7th Army Corps; with British and New Zealand troops as well as Canadian.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - David Mansur chairs first meeting of Central Mortgage Bank; but suspended until after the War; recruited from Sun Life; later first President CMHC.
1915 London England - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 attends British Cabinet meeting; first Canadian Prime Minister to be invited and first Prime Minister from the Dominions to attend.
1789 Nootka Sound BC - Estaban Jose Martinez 1742-1798 seizes another British ship, the Princess Royal; the Nootka Crisis brings Britain and Spain to the brink of war.
1775 Point Grenville BC - Bruno Hecata claims Vancouver Island for Spain.
1771 Coppermine NWT - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 reaches Coppermine River; finds native copper; sees bloody massacre of Inuits at Bloody Falls.
1696 St. John's Newfoundland - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 and his naval commander Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure 1659-1711 captures the English ship Newport near St. John's.
1645 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 makes peace treaty with Mohawk chief Kiotsaton; known as Montmagny's Peace.
1643 Boston Massachusetts - Charles La Tour leaves Boston on the Clement with reinforcements to break d'Aulnay's blockade of his fort on the St John River; will chase d'Aulnay back to his stronghold at Port Royal; the Clement had been sent by the Huguenot merchants of La Rochelle to assist La Tour in his battle against d'Aulnay.

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July 15th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1482 – Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
1741 – Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
1799 РThe Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-Fran̤ois Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years of terror.
1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1870 – Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
1922 – Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
1974 РIn Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'̩tat, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called malaise speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise.
1980 – A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing US$160 million in damage.
1983 – Orly Airport attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day
2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1917 BODY OF TOM THOMSON RECOVERED
Algonquin Park Ontario - The body of painter and park guide Thomas John 'Tom' Thomson 1877-1917 is found in Canoe Lake; was last seen trolling past Wapomeo Island on July 8, and his upturned canoe was discovered later that day; the cause of his death remains a mystery.

1691
The Pas Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 travels up Saskatchewan and Carrot River to Prairies; first European to record the buffalo and grizzly bear.

1909
Ottawa Ontario
- George-Etienne Cartier's Manitoba Act comes into effect; creates new bilingual province in West; recognizes Metis land claims by setting aside 566,000 hectares; gives English and French languages equal status; guarantees Protestant and Roman Catholic educational rights; Manitoba enters the Dominion as our fifth province; The North West Territories (Rupert's Land) officially transferred to Canada; Canada takes over all land between Ontario and British Columbia.



In Other Events....

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Harry LaForme appointed head of federal commission to settle land claims from breaches of treaty; Indian Commissioner of Ontario.
1990 Oka Quebec - John Caccia emerges after 3 days of meetings with Mohawk leaders on Kanesetake reserve with tentative agreement; Mohawks wants complete police withdrawal and amnesty.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa approves US cruise missile testing in northern Canada for early in 1984.
1978 NWT - Ottawa offers $45 million to 2,500 Inuit in western Arctic from 1981 to 1994; to own surface rights; negotiations with Committee for Original Peoples' Entitlement (CORE).
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to raise strength of Armed Forces by 4,700 to 83,000.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament founds Crown agency to operate National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Commission on Great Lakes Shipping suggests board of trustees to control major maritime unions.
1950 Quebec Quebec - 60 tonne liner `Franconia' runs aground in St. Lawrence after leaving Quebec City for Liverpool; off Ile d'Orleans.
1921 Washington D.C. - US cancels wartime legislation giving Canadian vessels free access to American ports.
1895 Montreal Quebec - failure of La Banque du Peuple; creditors get only 25¢ on the dollar.
1889 London England - British Postmaster gives CPR contract to transport mail from Halifax or Quebec to Hong Kong.
1878 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton District Telegraph Company opens first telephone exchange in the British Empire.
1846 Hamilton Ontario - First issue of Hamilton 'Spectator'.
1811 Cape Disappointment Oregon - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches Pacific Ocean at Cape Disappointment, mouth of Columbia River.
1774 Queen Charlotte BC - Juan Jose Perez Hernandez c l725-1775 sights Queen Charlotte Islands; contacts Haidas; names northwestern point of islands Santa Margarita; first BC place named by Europeans.
1701 Quebec Quebec - Pierre Joubert born at Quebec; lives for 113 years; see Nov. 16, 1814.
1695 Kingston Ontario - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 rebuilds Fort Frontenac.
1578 Hudson Strait NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 reassembles English fleet after bad storm; one ship crushed by ice, two missing, one deserts; crew survive.

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July 16th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1054 – Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East–West Schism.
1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
1377 – Coronation of Richard II of England.
1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1683 – Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego, California.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
1790 – The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
1809 – The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
1849 – Antonio María Claret y Clará founded the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
1861 – American Civil War: at the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
1862 – American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
1909 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.
1915 – First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded.
1927 РAugusto C̩sar Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
1942 – Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.
1945 – Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
1950 – Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army.
1951 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
1960 – USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1973 – Watergate scandal: former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1981 – Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister.
1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1990 – The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.
1990 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
1994 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.
2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
2008 – Sixteen infants in Gansu Province, China, who had been fed on tainted milk powder, are diagnosed with kidney stones; in total an estimated 300,000 infants are affected.






Today's Canadian Headline....

1981 BURGESS SHALE NAMED WORLD HERITAGE SITE
Yoho British Columbia - UNESCO names Yoho National Park's Burgess Shale deposit Canada's 5th World Heritage Site; there are about 140 species of soft-bodied marine invertebrates in the 530-million-year-old deposit in the Rockies, 75 km west of Banff.

1880
Toronto Ontario -
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada; practicing since 1867, when she graduated from the New York Medical College (no Canadian medical college would then accept a female student).

1783
Montreal Quebec -
British Crown announces land grants to American loyalists; heads of families get 100 acres, members of families 50 acres each, single men 50 acres, non-commissioned officers 200 acres.



In Other Events....

1994 Shreveport Louisiana - Shreveport Pirates play their first CFL home game against the visiting Toronto Argonauts.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says inflation at annual rate of 1.1% in June; lowest in 30 years, since Diefenbaker was PM in 1962.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Provincial court judge throws out charges against Global TV reporter Doug Small in the 1989 federal budget leak case.
1988 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers superstar hockey player Wayne Gretzky marries Hollywood starlet Janet Jones (Police Academy 5).
1988 Calgary Alberta - British rock singer Sting cancels Calgary concert in Calgary due to severe throat infection; Edmonton show the following night also canceled; 11,000 fans get refunds.
1979 Point au Gaul Newfoundland - 135 pothead whales beach themselves at Point au Gaul for no known reason; rescue workers try to free them, but in vain.
1977 Halifax Nova Scotia - Marg Osburne dies at age 49; member of Don Messer's Islanders.
1975 Guelph Ontario - Fire ravages Bell Organ factory, founded in 1864, in Guelph.
1972 Charlottetown PEI - Charlie Chamberlain dies at age 61; member of Don Messer's Islanders since the group's beginning in Charlottetown in 1939.
1970 Winnipeg: Manitoba - Manitoba legislature approves bill allowing the use of French as a language of instruction in public schools; end of 54 year old language fight.
1970 Edinburgh Scotland - Opening of 9th British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh; Canada finishes 3rd of 41 nations competing; 18 gold medals, 24 silver, 2 bronze.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $2 million to endow the Vanier Institute of the Family.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government to place $215 million order for Northrop CF-5 aircraft.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Bill extending Canada's fishing limits to 19.3 km (the 12 mile limit).
1958 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Theatre Centre stages first production; Canada's first regional theatre.
1945 White Sands New Mexico - US scientists explode first atomic bomb using Canadian U-235 refined in Port Hope, Ontario.
1927 Ottawa Ontario - Canada at first refuses to join US in building St. Lawrence Seaway from Great Lakes to Atlantic.
1924 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan repeals prohibition of liquor, in place since 1916; brings in government control of sales.
1860 New Westminster BC - Incorporation of the City of New Westminster.
1853 Toronto Ontario - Trinity College becomes Trinity University by royal charter; part of the University of Toronto.
1849 Victoria BC - Richard Blanshard c1817-1894 appointed Governor of Vancouver Island; serves until Aug. 1851.
1837 Deschambault Quebec - Patriotes hold illegal protest meeting at Deschambault.
1836 Toronto Ontario - Constitutional Reform Society organizes in Upper Canada.
1812 Quebec Quebec - Third session of seventh Parliament of Lower Canada meets until Aug. 1.
1792 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 issues a royal proclamation dividing Upper Canada into districts and counties, and setting the allotment of representatives.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Twelve horses brought to Quebec for use by Canadian farmers; first since time of Governor de Montmagny.
1647 Lac St-Jean Quebec - Jean de Quen c1603-1659 discovers Lac St-Jean and route leading into interior; later founds Saguenay missions.
1536 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 returns to St. Malo after his second voyage to the new world, an absence of 14 months.

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July 17th 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.


180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc
1453 – Battle of Castillon: The last battle of Hundred Years' War, the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
1771 – Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
1794 РThe sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compi̬gne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
1896 – Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Indian sage, at age 16, spontaneously initiates a process of self-enquiry that culminates within a few minutes in his own permanent awakening.
1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost.
1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
1944 РWorld War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-L̫, France.
1945 – World War II: the main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
1953 – The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida killing 44.
1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
1968 – A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
1979 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
1981 – The opening of the Humber Bridge by Queen Elizabeth II in England, United Kingdom.
1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
1985 РFounding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states Fran̤ois Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
1989 – Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1996 – The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is founded.
1998 – Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2001 – Concorde is brought back in to service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1976 QUEEN OPENS MONTREAL OLYMPIC GAMES
Montreal Quebec - Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Montreal Summer Olympic Games in the afternoon, before Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau and an enthusiastic crowd of 73,000 at Olympic Stadium; the Games of the XXI Olympiad are Canada's first Olympics and will cost $1.5 bilion, much for massive anti-terrorist security. A total of 6,085 competitors from 92 nations compete over 16 days; the Stade olympique is unfinished, and 21 countries, mostly African, boycott the games; Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci is the sensation of the games with two perfect 10 scores. Canada will win five silver and six bronze medals, becoming the first host country not to win a gold medal.

1673
Kingston Ontario -
Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 holds peace conference with Iroquois at Cataraqui; makes treaty the following year.

1840
Halifax Nova Scotia -
Samuel Cunard 1787-1865 arrives at Halifax with his daughter on his first steamship, the paddle steamer Britannia, 12 days after leaving Liverpool, England; ship then goes on to Boston on the 19th, completing the new Liverpool-Halifax-Boston mail route in 14 days and 8 hours; first scheduled transatlantic mail service by steamship, and a blow to the age of sailing ships. Cunard was born and raised in Halifax, builds a shipping, banking, lumber and coal empire; shareholder in the wooden paddle wheeler Royal William which crosses the Atlantic in 1833, mainly under steam power; wins the Admiralty contract to provide a fixed schedule mail service to Halifax and Boston in 1839, and starts the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company; launches Britannia May 1840; will move the Cunard HQ from Halifax to Liverpool in 1861. The Cunard Line will thrive until the era of transatlantic passenger jets.



In Other Events....

1995 Calgary Alberta - Christine Silverberg appointed chief of the Calgary Police Service; 45 year old the first female police chief of a major Canadian city.
1978 Washington DC - Canada and the US agree to let Canadians in American jails and Americans in Canadian prisons finish their sentences in their home countries.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Ed Broadbent 1936- chosen as interim national leader of the NDP after defeat of David Lewis in general election.
1974 New York City - Anne Murray has a #1 Billboard hit with her song 'He Thinks I Still Care.'
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up New Horizons program to help retired seniors develop their own work projects.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Bomb placed under a ramp at the Montreal Forum explodes, blowing up an equipment truck and destroying 30 speakers belonging to the Rolling Stones; Montreal radio stations receive over 50 calls claiming responsibility but the bomber is never found; the concert goes on as scheduled.
1968 London England - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 appointed President of the London-based Institute for Strategic Studies; defence and disarmament research centre.
1968 Ontario - 2,700 Ontario brewery workers end three-week strike.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Economic Council of Canada recommends founding Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs.
1964 Ste-Luce-sur-Mer, Quebec - Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Ireland rediscovered by scuba divers; sunk in a collision May 29 1914, with the loss of 1,014 lives.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Emergency Measures Organization, to deal with possible nuclear attack and protect the public.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - CNR amalgamates Canadian Northern, Grand Trunk Pacific and 15 other subsidiaries.
1944 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Royal Canadian Navy escorts war's largest convoy of 167 ships into Atlantic; meets no U-Boat opposition; RCN now controls all Battle of the Atlantic escort forces.
1897 Seattle Washington - Klondike gold rush starts when the Excelsior and Portland arrive from Skagway with the first group of gold-laden Yukon prospectors.
1886 Prince Albert Saskatchewan - Lone outlaw holds up Prince Albert mail coach; first stagecoach robbery in Saskatchewan.
1850 Cape Bathurst NWT - William Pullen 1813-1887 starts down Mackenzie River in search of Franklin; reaches Arctic Ocean on July 22 and Cape Bathurst on Aug. 9.
1839 Cobourg Ontario - Troops foil rebel-republican plan to rob and murder in Cobourg.
1838 Niagara Falls, Ontario - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 reviews the 43rd and other regulars at Niagara; a show of force to impress American sympathizers of the rebels.
1820 Kingston Ontario - Young boy named John Alexander Macdonald arrives from Scotland with his family; later Prime Minister of Canada
1817 Toronto Ontario - Samuel Jarvis kills John Ridout, 18, in a duel in the town of York.
1817 Lachine Quebec - Construction begins on the Lachine Canal; completed eight years later.
1812 Michilimackinac Michigan - Charles Roberts 1772-1817 captures Fort Michilimackinac with 600 British, Canadians and Indian allies from the British Fort St. Joseph.
1792 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 chairs first meeting of the Executive Council of Upper Canada.
1771 Coppermine, NWT - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 and his Chipewyan guide, Matonabbee, reach the partially frozen Arctic Ocean after descending the Coppermine River to its mouth; first European to reach the Arctic overland.
1731 Brudenell Point PEI - Jean-Pierre Roma gets grant for Compagnie de l'Est de l'Ile St-Jean to settle colonists in what is now Prince Edward Island.
1673 Ferryland Newfoundland - Dutch privateers raid Ferryland.
1673 Quebec - Second census of New France shows a population of 6,705.
1656 Syracuse .New York - Zacharie Dupuy c1608-1676 starts construction of a trading house on the site of Syracuse.
1654 Saint John New Brunswick - Robert Sedgwick 1611-1656 forces La Tour to surrender Fort Ste-Marie.
1648 Sillery Quebec - First temperance gathering in North America takes place at Quebec; in settlement for Christianized Indians of Loretteville.

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July 18th 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

390 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
362 – Roman–Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
645 – Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.
1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
1342 – Mu'izz al-Din Husayn defeats the Sarbadars in the Battle of Zava.
1389 – France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War.
1391 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Kondurcha River – Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present day southeast Russia.
1555 – The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
1812 – The Treaties of Orebro ends both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
1841 – Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, on 18 July.
1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1862 – First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner – one of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
1870 – The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1936 – An army uprising in Spanish Morocco starts Spanish Civil War.
1942 – World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
1944 – World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1982 – 268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
1984 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
1995 РOn the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufri̬re Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever: the Saguenay Flood.
1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu: the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 soldiers.
2012 – At least 7 people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1976 NADIA A PERFECT TEN
Montreal Quebec - Romania's 14-year-old star gymnast Nadia Comaneci, performing on the uneven parallel bars, scores the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history. Nadia will go on to collect seven perfect scores, three gold medals, a silver and a bronze; she will also win two gold and two silver medals in the 1980 Olympic games.

1817
Red River Manitoba - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 makes first treaty with local Ojibway and Swampy Cree people on behalf of King George III.



In Other Events....

1991 St. John's, Newfoundland - Archbishop Alphonsus Penny offers his resignation after release of report blaming church officials for covering up sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
1991 London England - Brian Mulroney 1939- tells Mikhail Gorbachev Canada will lift freeze on $150 million in food credits imposed during Baltic crackdown; also offers $10 million technical assistance package.
1991 Vancouver BC - Rita Johnston wins Social Credit leadership, edging party matriarch Grace McCarthy 941-881 on second ballot; other candidates McCarthy, Jacobsen, Couvelier and Crandall.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Marcellus François dies 2 weeks after shooting by Sgt. Michel Tremblay; black youth mistaken for murder suspect; Harvey Yanovsky appointed July 25 to head coroner's inquest.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Johnny Wayne dies at age 72; partner of Frank Schuster in comedy duo Wayne & Schuster; started touring for the Canadian army in World War II; born John Louis Weingarten in Toronto.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Gerry Boulet dies at age 44; singer and keyboardist with French rock band Offenbach; as a solo artist, he won two Felix awards.
1981 New York City - Canadian blues artist Rick James' single 'Give It To Me Baby' peaks at #40 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to sponsor up to 50,000 Vietnamese Boat People; equal number can enter Canada under private sponsorship.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes law to control purchase and use of firearms, and increase police wiretapping powers.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Olympic events start in Montreal; Taiwan refused entry; 19 nations absent to protest New Zealand's rugby tour of South Africa.
1973 Mississauga Ontario - Christine Demeter found bludgeoned to death in her home; husband of former fashion model later convicted of hiring an assailant to kill her, to collect $ 1 million insurance policy.
1970 Montreal Quebec - Willie Mays becomes the 10th major league baseball player to get career hit number 3,000, off Mike Wegener in the second inning of the San Francisco Giants' 10-1 victory over the Montreal Expos.
1968 Vancouver BC - Bank of British Columbia opens its first branch office.
1968 Canada - 24,000 postal workers start three-week nation-wide strike; ends Aug. 9.
1966 Quebec - Non-medical workers at Quebec hospitals strike for more pay.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Government to create National Energy Board, with powers over oil, natural gas, and electricity.
1958 Washington DC - Sidney Earle Smith 1897-1959 meets British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, and US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; External Affairs Minister discusses Middle East.
1945 Halifax Nova Scotia - Naval ammunition barge catches fire in Bedford Basin; the magazine explodes for 24 hours causing evacuation of half the city's population; $4 million damage but no loss of life.
1944 Caen France - Bomber Command sends 100 RAF and RCAF planes to attack German defenses around Caen; much of the city destroyed and up to 3,000 French killed; Canadians and British gain a few miles in attacks beyond Caen in Operation Goodwood/Atlantic to secure Vaucelles and Colombelles, preparing the way to break through the triangle to Falaise; the 2nd Infantry under Maj. Gen. Charles Foulkes comes into line to join the 3rd and 2nd Armoured Brigade of Lt. Gen. Guy Simonds' 2nd Corps and they move forward to take the German stronghold on the Verrières Ridge.
1932 Washington DC - Canada and US sign treaty laying the groundwork to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1929 PEI - Prince Edward Island plebiscite sustains prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1928 British Columbia - Simon Fraser Tolmie 1867-1937 leads Conservatives to win in BC provincial election.
1922 Quebec Quebec - Joseph-Elzéar Bernier leaves Quebec City in command of the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition, sent to assert Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic.
1921 Alberta - Herbert Greenfield wins provincial election as head of the United Farmers of Alberta; succeeded as Premier in 1925 by John Brownlee, until 1935.
1916 Waterton Lake Alberta - John George 'Kootenai' Brown 1839-1916 dies at his home on Waterton Lake; born in County Clare, Ireland, during the potato famine; served in India with the British Army, sold his commission in 1861, and prospected for gold in the Cariboo; worked as a Pony Express rider in the Dakota and Montana territories; married Metis woman Olive Lyonnais in 1869, and joined her people in the buffalo hunt, then ran a small trading post on the shores of Waterton Lake (which he called Kootenay Lake after the original inhabitants) and guided hunters and visitors. Brown lobbied for the establishment of Kootenay National Forest in 1895, and served as fishery officer and forest ranger. In 1911, the government created Waterton Lakes National Park.
1913 Vancouver BC - Sikh immigration from India causes race riots in Vancouver.
1905 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act creating the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan out of the North West Territory.
1853 Toronto Ontario - The Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railroad starts operating to Brantford, Ontario.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Trains start running over first North American international railroad between Portland, Maine and Montreal.
1818 Red River Manitoba - Grasshoppers plague Red River, hiding the sun and devouring everything green; staple potato crop of settlers and livestock completely destroyed in just a few minutes.
1814 Ancaster Ontario - Eight traitors captured during the War of 1812 are hanged at Ancaster, Upper Canada; two days later, their headless bodies are put on public display to discourage disloyalty to the British Crown.
1814 Prairie du Chien, Iowa - William McKay marches south with 150 Michigan Fencibles and party of Green Bay Indians; captures Prairie du Chien, and the US gunboat Governor Clark.
1812 River Canard USA - British victory at River Canard; War of 1812.
1809 Montreal Quebec - Judge sentences two Montreal women to 25 lashes for disorderly conduct.
1796 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Peter Russell 1733-1808 appointed President of the Council of Upper Canada; acting administrator.
1739 Quebec - Census shows population of New France to be 42,701.
1628 Gaspé Quebec - David & Lewis Kirke attack French supply fleet of Company of 100 Associates under command of Claude Roquemont de Brison.

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July 19th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
1333 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: the first Siege of Boulogne begins.
1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days on the throne.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
1832 – The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.
1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1864 – Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking – The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
1900 РThe first line of the Paris M̩tro opens for operation.
1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Fromelles – British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1940 - 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony First occasion in World War II, that Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements.
1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
1942 РWorld War II: Battle of the Atlantic РGerman Grand Admiral Karl D̦nitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
1943 – World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
1947 – The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.
1947 – Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
1952 – The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.
1961 – Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1964 – Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1972 – Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1979 – The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
1981 РIn a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister Fran̤ois Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.
1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1985 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1989 – United Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112.
1992 – A car bomb placed by mafia with collaboration of Italian intelligence kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort
1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.








Today's Canadian Headline....


1996 CELINE OPENS ATLANTA OLYMPICS
Atlanta Georgia - Montreal singer Céline Dion performs at the opening ceremonies of the Atlanta Centennial Olympics (XXVI Olympiad), singing 'The Power of the Dream,' commissioned for the occasion. The Canadian team joins 197 other nations, as Atlanta native and heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield carries the Olympic torch into the stadium with a female Greek gold medalist from the 1992 Barcelona Games; they give the torch to Janet Evans, who hands off to Muhammad Ali for the official lighting of the flame.

1577
Frobisher Bay NWT -
Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 enters Frobisher Bay; explores islands and shores for gold; trades with Inuit; names Mount Warwick, no trace of kidnapped sailors lost the previous year. Here is an engraving of his crew mining ore for gold.



In Other Events....

1994 Toronto Ontario - Rolling Stones play a surprise date at the RPM club to preview of their Voodoo Lounge tour; had been rehearsing at a private school and an empty hangar at Pearson Airport.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Johnny Wayne dies at 72; born in Toronto May 28, 1918; partner with Frank Schuster in the comedy team of Wayne and Shuster.
1990 Calgary Alberta - Peter Pocklington sells Palm Dairies Ltd. to Beatrice Foods Inc. of Toronto for an estimated $100 million.
1981 Douglas Point, Ontario - Ontario Hydro closes down Douglas Point and Rolphton nuclear power stations due to leaks in Douglas boiler.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Hailstones the size of tennis balls fall near Toronto, causing millions of dollars worth of damage.
1980 Moscow Russia - Canada joins the USA and other nations in protesting the invasion of Afganistan, by boycotting the 22nd Olympiad, opening today in Moscow; 81 other nations and 5,326 competitors attend; until August 3.
1978 Yukon - US and Canada start 10-year program to pave and rebuild Alaska and Haines highways.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises qualifying period for unemployment benefits from 8 weeks to 10-14 weeks; cuts benefit period to from 10 to 50 weeks.
1976 Hollywood California - NBC airs last episode of The Rich Little Show, TV variety program hosted by Ottawa-born comic.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- announces western Canadian wheat farmers will get $250 million in interest-free advance cash payments for their farm-stored grain; effective Aug. 1.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Yukon and Northwest Territories represented for the first time at a federal-provincial conference.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Julius Nyerere President of Tanzania visits Ottawa.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Kwame Nkrumah Prime Minister of Ghana starts four-day visit to Montreal and Ottawa; addresses Parliament.
1958 Kelowna BC - Princess Margaret opens Okanagan Lake Bridge in Kelowna.
1952 Helsinki Finland - Canadian team attends the 15th Olympiad, opening today in Helsinki; 68 other nations and 4,925 competitors attend; until August 3; Canada will win one gold medal, George Genereux in Shooting.
1950 Korea - UN asks RCAF transport squadron to assist in United Nations airlift in Korea.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - John Bracken resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservatives; will be replaced by George Drew.
1945 Halifax Nova Scotia - End of Halifax ammunition dump crisis after day of terror.
1944 Normandy France - Canadians and British start Operation Goodwood/Atlantic, to secure Vaucelles and Colombelles, and prepare the break through to Falaise. General Dempsey, commander British 2nd Army, launches his Eighth Corps of three armoured divisions south of Caen; attacked by 1st SS Panzer Division and forced to halt; 7th Armoured Division fails to capture Verrières and Bourguebus Ridges; the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division under Maj. Gen. Charles Foulkes comes into line to join the 3rd and 2nd Armoured Brigades of the 2nd Canadian Corps under Lt. Gen. Guy Simonds, who fight on the Eighth's right with infantry; ordered to cross the Orne River into the southeastern suburbs of Caen, force the enemy out of his entrenched positions there, and then forge southward into open country. Their tanks are neutralized by German anti-tank fire and the infantry are decimated as they advance; they gain Colombelles and the Queen's Own captures Giberville. The rest of the 8th Brigade passes south, and by nightfall the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division has taken Cormelles and the eastern part of Vaucelles; the southern part of Caen is cleared; the Black Watch cross the Orne River, and advance to St-Andre-sur-Orne and the northern edge of Verrières Ridge.
1937 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada issues Canada's first bilingual currency.
1933 Montreal Quebec - La Presse acquires newspaper La Patrie.
1921 Ontario - Official start of prohibition of manufacture, importation, and sale of liquor in Ontario.
1918 Canada - Start of Spanish flu epidemic that will kill over 30,000 people in Canada.
1908 Quebec Quebec - Start of festivities marking the 300th anniversary of Champlain's founding of Quebec.
1875 Ottawa Ontario - Passage of the Parliament of Canada Act, defining the powers and privileges of its members.
1844 Quebec Quebec - François-Xavier Garneau appointed city clerk of Quebec.
1840 Boston Massachusetts - Samuel Cunard's first steamship, the paddle steamer Britannia arrives at Boston from Halifax 14 days and 8 hours after leaving Liverpool, England; first scheduled transatlantic mail service by steamship, and a blow to the age of sailing ship; won the Admiralty contract to provide a fixed schedule mail service to Halifax and Boston in 1839, started the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and launched Britannia in May.
1833 Montreal Quebec - City council adopts coat of arms with the four national flowers of France (fleur-de-lys), England (rose), Scotland (thistle), and Ireland (shamrock), and the motto 'Concordia Salus'.
1830 London England - Lord Aylmer appointed Governor of Lower Canada.
1826 Halifax Nova Scotia - First sailing regatta held in Halifax on the North West Arm; first regatta in Canada.
1821 Montreal Quebec - Start of excavation of the Lachine Canal.
1814 Prairie du Chien Wisconsin - Lt. Colonel William McKay captures Fort Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; British now have base for potential 1815 attacks on St. Louis, Missouri, and down the Mississippi.
1812 Sacketts Harbor, NY - British launch unsuccessful attack on Sacketts Harbor during the War of 1812.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Olivier Briand becomes the 7th Bishop of Quebec.
1759 Youngstown, NY - English General Prates mistakenly steps in front of a mortar and is blown to pieces during the bombardment of the French at Fort Niagara; Sir William Johnson assumes command under protest of Lieutenant Colonel Eyre Massey, who argues he has seniority.
1701 Detroit Michigan - Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac 1658-1730 arrives at site of Detroit with his lieutenant Alphonse de Tonty c1659-1727 and 100 men.
1701 Oswego, NY - Iroquois deed hunting ground north of Lake Ontario and west of Lake Michigan to England.
1673 Kingston Ontario - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 completes Fort Frontenac; fortified base for fur trade west of St. Lawrence Valley.
1654 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Marguerite Sedilot marries Jean Aubuchon at the age of 11 years, 5 months; youngest bride in Canadian history.
1629 Quebec Quebec - David & Lewis Kirke arrive in sight of Quebec; capture the party Champlain sent to warn relief ships.
1616 Quebec Quebec - Marguérite Vienne dies; first French woman in New France.
1611 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Quebec.
1603 Gaspé Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Gaspé.

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July 20th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

70 – Siege of Jerusalem – Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
911 – Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
1189 – Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy.
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
1402 – Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara – Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
1592 – During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.
1738 РCanadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La V̩rendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
1799 – Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of five reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
1807 РNic̩phore Ni̩pce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyr̩olophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Sa̫ne in France.
1810 – Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa – The Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1885 – The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1917 – World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 – The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
1932 – In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who attempt to march to the White House.
1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
1934 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, Washington, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1936 – The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
1938 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York, New York against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
1940 – Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
1940 – California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
1941 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1949 – Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
1950 – Cold War: In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
1954 – Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon almost 7 hours later. (US Time)
1969 – A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the "Football War".
1974 – Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'etat, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1977 – Johnstown, Pennsylvania is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage.
1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
1982 – Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1989 – Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
1992 – Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
1999 – The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
2012 – A gunman (later revealed to be James Eagan Holmes), opens fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.
2013 – 17 government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1871 BC ENTERS CONFEDERATION
Ottawa Ontario - British Columbia Act comes into effect, making BC the sixth province to enter Confederation; George-Etienne Cartier promises rail link start within two years, completion within ten years; Canadian government takes over telegraph lines in the province, including the Collins Overland Stage Line.

1629
Quebec Quebec - David & Lewis Kirke force Champlain to surrender his fur fort at Quebec; backed by London fur traders, the Kirke brothers occupy New France until 1632; Champlain sent to England as a prisoner.



In Other Events....

1996 Boilleau Quebec - Earth dam owned by Stone Consolidated ruptures its banks after torrential rains fill Lac Ha! Ha! to overflowing; wall of water moves down the river at 32 kmh, wiping out every thing in its path, from Boilleau to La Baie, and destroying over 150 homes and cottages; up to 260 mm of rain falls around the Réserve faunique des Laurentides over a 28 hour span.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) buys 58 Miracle Food Marts and 11 Ultra-Mart food and drug stores from Steinberg Inc. for $235.5 million; stores mostly in Toronto area.
1988 Montreal Quebec - Air Canada acquires 34 Airbus A-320 passenger jets.
1985 Calgary Alberta - Alberta Court of Queen's Bench fines former school teacher James Keegstra $5,000 for willfully promoting hatred against Jews; taught Eckville students that the Holocaust didn't happen and that a Jewish conspiracy controls world affairs; Alberta Court of Appeal overturns verdict in 1988; Supreme Court of Canada will agree there should be a new trial in 1990; second jury convicts Keegstra in 1992.
1981 Montebello Quebec - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney hosts Group of Seven Economic Summit of leaders of major Western trading nations; US, Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to provide $12.3 million for rural development in Nepal over three years.
1980 Toronto Ontario - World Future Society and Canadian Futures Society open 5-day First Global Conference on the Future; 4,000 thinkers from all over the world attend.
1978 Toronto Ontario - A. J. Casson Retrospective art exhibition opens at Art Gallery of Ontario; last living member of the Group of Seven.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - CRTC fails to find separatist bias in Radio-Canada French-language service.
1975 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Fire burns down business section of Springhill, destroying 25 buildings and causing over $3 million in damages.
1963 Montreal Quebec - City of Montreal annexes Rivière-des-Prairies.
1945 Canada - Ottawa sends out first Family Allowance payments to Canadian families; critics call it a waste of money, say it will encourage poor families to have more children.
1944 Normandy France - Canadian 2nd Infantry Division sets out to capture Verrières Ridge, 88 metre-high kidney-shaped hill overlooking the main road running from Caen south to Paris, defended by SS veterans of the 1st Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. Simonds sends the 6th Brigade with the Essex Scottish Regiment into the centre at 1500 hrs; South Saskatchewan Regiment mauled during heavy rain after losing air support, losing 200 dead, wounded, or captured; Essex Scottish stops German counterattack; Queen's Own Highlanders moves to secure St. André-sur-Orne, and Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal advance behind tanks and artillery barrage to attack heavily fortified Beauvoir and Troteval farms; ambushed by Germans camouflaged and hiding in cellars; 60% of the Fusiliers killed or wounded. Out of 877 tanks attacking this day, 437 are lost. General Montgomery finally calls off Operation Goodwood/ Atlantic that afternoon, after the British and Canadian armies lose 4,000 men and 500 tanks, over 1/3 of their total armour.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Veterans Land Act (VLA), to award land grants or veterans' mortgages.
1928 Ottawa Ontario - Japan opens legation in Ottawa.
1908 Quebec Quebec - Prince of Wales arrives in Quebec for the 300th anniversary celebration.
1905 Ottawa Ontario - Regina and Edmonton declared the capitals of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan - Trial of Louis Riel 1844-1885 for treason begins at Regina, the capital of the North-West Territories; Riel wishes to plead not guilty, but his lawyers enter an insanity plea over his objections.
1859 New Westminster BC - Queen Victoria 1819-1901 renames town of Queensborough New Westminster.
1854 Montreal Quebec - Laying of first stone of the Victoria Railway Bridge from Montreal to the south shore of the St. Lawrence.
1820 Quinte Ontario - Mohawks cede over 13,350 hectares in the Bay of Quinte region to the Crown.
1814 Ancaster Ontario - Eight Americans hanged for treason in the Bloody Assize.
1773 Pictou, Nova Scotia - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou.
1697 Ryswick Netherlands - Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the League of Augsbourg; France and Spain recognize William III as King of England; all territorial conquests returned, including the Hudson's Bay Company posts seized by Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville between 1686 and 1697.
1653 Le Havre, France - Departure of de Maisonneuve and Marguerite Bourgeois for Quebec; arrive Sept. 22.
1628 Gaspé Quebec - David & Lewis Kirke defeat Roquemont in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; capture 17 supply ships; Claude de Saint-Etienne de La Tour captured and taken to England.
1620 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 starts building Fort St. Louis on Cap Diamant; first fort built on the cliff at Quebec.
1616 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sails for France.
1611 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Quebec for Tadoussac, then back to France.
1585 Greenland - John Davis c1543-1605 sights east coast of Greenland; calls it 'Land of Desolation'; rounds Cape Farewell; sails up western coast; names the old Norse Settlement 'Gilbert Sound'.
1576 Resolution Island NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 reaches southeastern end of Baffin Island; names Resolution Island 'Queen Elizabeth's Foreland'.
1534 Baie de Chaleur Quebec/New Brunswick - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 enters the bay which he names Baie de Chaleur; thinks it is a passage to the Far East.

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July 21st 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.


356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope.
285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
365 – A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
1242 – Battle of Taillebourg : Louis IX of France puts an end to the revolt of his vassals Henry III of England and Hugh X of Lusignan.
1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
1545 – The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
1568 – Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
1645 – Qing Dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.
1656 – The Raid on Malaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1718 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
1774 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
1831 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
1861 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York
1903 – Battle of Ciudad Bolívar, a victory of federal army of Juan Vicente Gómez over forces of general Nicolás Rolando.
1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
1907 – The passenger steamer SS Columbia collides with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, causing the Columbia to sink killing 88 people.
1914 – The Crown council of Romania decides for the country to remain neutral in World War I.
1918 – U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing 12 people.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1925 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, father of Donald Campbell, becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
1944 – World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
1944 – World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1959 – NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
1959 – Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20 in North America).
1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Friday – the Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing 9 and injuring 130.
1973 – In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
1977 – The start of the four day long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1983 – The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
1995 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
2001 – At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
2005 – Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
2007 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the fastest-selling novel ever is published. It sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release.
2011 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
2012 – Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1896 CANADA'S FIRST FILM SHOWING
Ottawa Ontario - John C. Green shows the first display of Thomas Edison's Vitascope at the Ottawa Electric Railway Company's West End Park near the intersection of Holland Avenue and Carling Avenue in Ottawa; Canada's first motion picture showing.

1836
La Prairie Quebec -
Governor Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford 1776-1849 rides on the first train of the Champlain & St. Lawrence with 300 other guests, pulled by the locomotive Dorchester over wooden rails; the 23 km portage road running from La Prairie opposite Montreal to St-Jean on the Richelieu is Canada's first public railway line; became part of the Montreal and Champlain Railroad in 1857; leased to the Grand Trunk in 1864; now part of the CN system.



In Other Events....

1996 Chicoutimi Quebec - End of 72 hours of torrential rain in Chicoutimi Region; flooding and landslides kill 10, estimated $365 million in damage.
1996 Atlanta Georgia - Hamilton cyclist Clara Hughes wins Canada's first medal at the Summer Olympics, taking the bronze in the women's road race in a time of 2:36.44; Jeannie Longo of France wins gold, Italian Imelda Chiappa silver, just holding off Hughes; first ever medal for Canada in Olympic women's cycling, which made its debut in 1984. Hughes, 23, born and raised in Winnipeg.
1996 Atlanta Georgia - Calgary's Curtis Myden swims to a Canadian and Commonwealth record winning the bronze medal in the 400-metre individual medley at the 1996 Olympic Games; finishes in 4:16:28 seconds, about .7 of a second better than his previous personal best. Tom Dolan of the US takes gold, teammate Eric Namesnik silver.
1994 Watervliet New York - Dorothy Collins, singer, actor, dies of a heart attack at age 67; born Marjorie Chandler in Windsor, Ontario Nov. 18, 1926; began performing on TV's Your Hit Parade in the 1950's, singing "Be happy, go Lucky" for the sponsor, Lucky Strike cigarettes; later sang weekly top hits; in the 1960's, helped set up gags on unwitting victims for Allen Funt's Candid Camera; married to Raymond Scott 1952-55.
1991 Cooperstown New York - Chatham, Ontario, born Ferguson Jenkins admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame; first Canadian; won 284 games during 12 seasons; won 1971 Cy Young award as top National League pitcher.
1990 San Bernardino California - Robert Thomas Allen dies at age 79; won Leacock Medal twice: for The Grass is Never Greener; and Children, Wives and Other Wildlife.
1990 Montreal Quebec - 'Weird Al' Yankovic performs live at the Theatre St-Denis for the Just For Laughs comedy festival; taping for Showtime pay TV network.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - New Emergencies Act receives royal assent; War Measures Act of 1914 set aside; two other bills designed to weed out bogus refugee claimants also get royal assent.
1986 Halifax Nova Scotia - Premier John Buchanan hosts banquet with over 500 people to honour 72-year-old country singer Hank Snow, who was born in Liverpool, but moved to Nashville in the mid-1940's; proclaims Hank Snow Week in Nova Scotia.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Canada signs $1 billion contract with Lockheed Aircraft for 18 long-range Orion patrol aircraft.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up Canadian Human Rights Commission; to stop discrimination by federal companies.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canada decides to end all cease-fire monitoring activities in Vietnam.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - CRTC approves creation of a Global TV network;. licensed to serve five Ontario cities; Canada's third TV network today part of CanWest.
1967 Saskatchewan - Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River dedicated in honour of James Garfield Gardiner 1897-1972.
1963 Quebec - British freighter and Bermudan ore carrier collide in St. Lawrence; 18 dead, 15 missing and presumed dead.
1961 Inuvik NWT - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens government built Arctic town of Inuvik, North West Territories; to replace Aklavik as the central town of the district.
1944 Fleury Normandy - SS veterans of the 1st Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler attack the Essex Scottish Regiment and Les Fusiliers Mont Royal in heavy rain; Montreal's Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, helped by heavy artillery bombardment and support of two tank regiments, beats Germans back, but they keep Verrières Ridge; South Sasks and Essex Scottish suffer over 450 casualties in two days, and the 2nd Canadian Corps loses 1149 men over four days of fighting. Simonds blames Foulkes and tries to get him fired, but Crerar protects him. Pressure from US General Bradley, ready to launch Operation Cobra, had forced Montgomery to pressure the Canadians for action.
1935 Washington DC - US government apologizes to Canada; pays $50,000 to compensate for sinking of the rum runner I'm Alone in 1929.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - First Imperial Economic Conference opens in Ottawa; until Aug. 20.
1928 Thelon River, NWT - Four surveyors discover the bodies of English trapper Jack Hornby, his young cousin Edgar Christian, and their friend Adlard in a cabin on the Thelon River; inside the stove is Christian's diary detailing how they slowly starved to death over the winter and spring; Hornby died April 16, after weeks of suffering, Adlard died May 4, and Christian continued his diary until his final entry June 1, noting he is too weak to walk and cannot fetch wood for the stove. He then crawls into his bunk and dies.
1911 Regina Saskatchewan - Olivier-Elzéar Mathieu 1853-1929 appointed first Roman Catholic Bishop of Regina.
1904 Montreal Quebec - Completion of the first grain elevator in the port of Montreal.
1899 Queenston Ontario - Opening of new suspension bridge over Niagara River to Lewiston, New York.
1890 Calgary Alberta - Crowd of 2,500 attend sod-turning ceremony for Calgary and Edmonton Railway; last spike driven at Strathcona, south of Edmonton on July 27, 1891; cut the five-day stagecoach journey to a three hour train trip; C&E line taken over by Canadian Pacific Railway in 1903.
1797 Montreal Quebec - American spy David McLane publicly hanged, beheaded and disembowelled; first execution of its kind in Canada.
1793 Dean Channel BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 arrives at the head of Dean Channel on the Pacific after descending the Bella Coola River.
1730 Quebec Quebec - Canada's population estimated at 33,682 French inhabitants.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Claude Allouez 1622-1689 appointed Vicar-General of the Quebec diocese by Bishop Laval, with responsibility for mission work around Great Lakes, and the central region of what is now the USA.
1576 Baffin Island NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sails north into Frobisher Bay; thinks it is a passage to Asia; takes possession for England; names bay after himself.

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July 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.


838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1209 РMassacre at B̩ziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1499 – Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1587 – Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – Outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1894 РThe first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but The 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemątre driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
1916 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing ten and injuring 40.
1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1937 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 – Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
1946 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1963 – Sarawak achieve independence.
1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2013 – A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1948 NEWFOUNDLAND VOTES TO JOIN CANADA
Newfoundland - Second Newfoundland referendum in less than two months gives narrow 7,000 majority for union with Canada.

1793
Dean Inlet, BC -
Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Pacific Ocean down the Bella Coola River into Dean Channel; mixes some vermilion in melted grease and inscribes and paints on a large rock: 'Alex Mackenzie from Canada by land 22d July 1793.'; first to cross the Great Divide and North America north of Mexico; his party set out in May, and traveled much of the way on foot; when they reached the Bella Coola River, they traded goods for canoes and paddled to the sea; hostile natives made them beat a hasty retreat upriver; back in Montreal, the North West Company can see no practical use for Mackenzie's route, but he will be knighted for his exploit.

1876
Ottawa Ontario -
James Farquharson Macleod 1836-1894 resigns his magistrate's role to return to the North West Mounted Police as to Commissioner; serves with the NWMP until 1880, when he becomes a member of the North West Territories Council, and in 1887 is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the NWT. Macleod served as brigade major with the Wolseley expedition in 1870; he founded Ft Macleod, suppressed the illegal whisky trade and negotiated Treaty No 7 with the Blackfoot.




In Other Events....

1996 Quebec Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec set up $200 million relief fund to help Saguenay flood victims.
1981 Halifax Nova Scotia - Halifax police end 53-day strike, 196 officers accept 3-year contract.
1981 Quebec - Quebec licensed taverns required to post notice saying that women are allowed to enter; end of an old tradition; taverns licensed before 1979 not affected and can still bar women.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate from 11.25% to 11.75%.
1968 St. Boniface Manitoba - Fire guts historic Basilica of St. Boniface; $2.5 million damage; priceless items of early western history destroyed.
1968 Canada - Canada signs Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty at Moscow, London and Washington.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court of Appeal grants citizenship to Dutch immigrants Ernest and Cornelia Bergsma; previously denied because they were atheists.
1965 Canada - 10,000 postal workers in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia strike for better pay; Montreal workers return to work August 7.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - André Laurendeau 1912-1968 and Davidson Dunton 1912- appointed to chair the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, starts visit to Canada.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act establishing the Department of Industry.
1962 Honolulu Hawaii - Canadian Pacific airliner crashes during an emergency landing at Honolulu, killing 27 people, including 11 Canadians.
1961 Whitehorse Yukon - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens Northwest Telecommunications System; largest single microwave project in Canada.
1959 Saskatchewan - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- opens Queen Elizabeth Generating Station of Saskatchewan Power Corporation.
1953 Ottawa Ontario - National Defense issues final Korean War casualty list, showing 1,500 Canadian soldiers killed or wounded in the UN mandated conflict.
1950 Old Chelsea, Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King dies at his Kingsmere estate at age 75; born Dec. 17, 1874, at Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario; educated at the universities of Toronto and Harvard; Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour and editor of the Labour Gazette 1900-1908; Labour consultant, Rockefeller Foundation 1914-1918; Liberal Party Leader 1919-1948; Leader of the Opposition 1919-1921, 1926, 1930-1935; Prime Minister Dec. 29, 1921-June 28, 1926; Sept. 25, 1926-Aug. 7, 1930; Oct. 23, 1935-Nov. 15, 1948.
1947 Chalk River Ontario - Heavy water-cooled NRX (National Research Experimental) reactor starts electricity production at Chalk River.
1944 Halifax Nova Scotia - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 leaves Halifax on the RCMP patrol ship St. Roch to return to Vancouver via Northwest Passage; completes trip 86 days later.
1943 Assoro Italy - Canadians capture Assoro and Leonforte; with three other Italian towns.
1932 Hamilton, Bermuda - Reginald Fessenden dies at 65; born at Milton-Est, Quebec Oct. 6, 1866, inventor, engineer, with 300 radio patents; broadcast the world's first program of voice and music Christmas Eve, 1906.
1917 Ypres Belgium - British and Canadians soften up the German lines at Ypres with a bombardment of 4,250,000 grenades.
1915 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Sir Sandford Fleming dies at 88; born Jan 7, 1827 at Kirkaldy, Scotland; railway engineer, devised a way to divide the world into time zones.
1912 Stockholm Sweden - Close of the fifth Olympic games in Stockholm; attracted 28 nations and 2546 competitors; Canada has three gold medals: George Goulding in the 10 000 metre walk, and George Hodgson in the 400 and 1500 metre swims.
1908 Quebec Quebec - Prince of Wales arrives at Quebec City to celebrate the city's 300th anniversary.
1906 Ontario/Quebec - Grand Trunk Railway changes from left to right hand running on double track sections; the company had to change all its crossovers, switches and semaphore signals.
1893 Stillwall, Orkney, Scotland - John Rae dies at age 79; born Sept. 30, 1813; physician, explorer of the Canadian Arctic who found the first Franklin remains.
1892 St. John's, Newfoundland - Fire destroys a large section of the city of St. John's.
1892 Washington DC - US and Britain sign Boundary Convention on Alaska and Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine.
1884 London England - Imperial Privy Council defines new boundaries of Ontario.
1847 London England - British Act gives Canada power over own taxation; Canada can now raise own duties for revenue.
1811 Oregon - David Thompson 1770-1857 sets off on return trip from the Pacific; will winter in western Manitoba.
1783 Shelburne Nova Scotia - Governor John Parr 1725-1791 names Loyalist settlement of Shelburne.
1778 Labrador - George Cartwright shoots six polar bears, but takes only one skin; describes it as 'the finest sport that man ever had.'.
1773 London, England - Francis Legge c1719-1783 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; serves from Oct. 8, 1773 to July 29, 1782.
1629 Quebec Quebec - David, Louis and Thomas Kirke raise the English flag over Quebec and take possession of Fort St-Louis and Champlain's Habitation; a year earlier, the Kirke brothers demanded the surrender of the fort, but Champlain drove them off; French will leave Quebec on Sept. 14; some habitants stay behind; four years later, the colony will revert to France.
1629 Quebec Quebec - Olivier le Noir the first black man to arrive at Quebec, with the Kirkes.

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July 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
1793 – Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1821 – While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Minor Asia coasts.
1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1833 – Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
1881 – The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will accept all but one of those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1942 – The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
1945 РThe post-war legal processes against Philippe P̩tain begin.
1952 – The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1967 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
1968 – Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.
1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1983 – 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1986 – In London, England, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
1993 – Agdam was occupied by Armenian separatists.
1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
1999 – Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2012 – At least 107 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1983 JET RUNS OUT OF GAS IN MID AIR
Gimli Manitoba - Air Canada 767 runs out of fuel in midair and makes emergency glide landing at Gimli airstrip; due to metric confusion and fuel meter problems.

1974
Ottawa Ontario -
Former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker sworn in as an MP for a record 12th consecutive time; Dief will make it 13 in a row in 1979, but dies before the opening of Parliament.



In Other Events....

1993 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa comic Dan Ackroyd's movie Coneheads: The Movie opens in US movie houses.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Defense Minister Marcel Masse announces 13 year $4.4 billion purchase of 50 new EH-101 high-tech military helicopters to replace the aging Sea Kings; the Chretien government will scrap the deal after they are elected in 1993, but later restore the contract.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Susan Nelles awarded $30,000 after being found wrongly accused of murdering 4 babies at Hospital for Sick Children; also $10,000 to family endowment fund.
1988 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan's Riders' Dave Ridgway kicks CFL record 8 field goals against the Edmonton Eskimos.
1987 Porcupine Hills, Alberta - Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre officially opened by the Duke and Duchess of York; first excavated in 1938, designated a provincial historic site in 1979 and a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981; named for young Peigan boy who was crushed by the buffalo because he wanted to watch the animals as they plunged over the cliff.
1982 Europe - International Whaling Commission votes to phase out commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bars Soviet Union's Atlantic fleet from Canadian ports for overfishing quotas.
1975 Regina Saskatchewan - George Reed of the CFL Saskatchewan Rough Riders sets pro football record with 127th career touchdown; against Calgary Stampeders.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises prime lending rate to 9.25%.
1973 BC - Ottawa and BC announce $325 million rail, port, and resource project in northwestern BC.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Huang Hua takes up his post as first Chinese ambassador to Canada.
1967 Quebec Quebec - General Charles de Gaulle debarks at Anse-au-Foulon; that night Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson holds an official dinner to honour the French leader.
1967 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pan-American Games opens in Winnipeg; 28 nations competing in two-weeks of events; Canada wins 92 medals including 12 gold.
1963 Winnipeg Manitoba - Toronto rocker Neil Young holds his first recording session in Winnipeg.
1962 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan government and provincial doctors sign deal settling the Medical Care Insurance Act dispute.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Government nationalizes CP ferries.
1956 - John Jearmey the first male swimmer to conquer Lake Ontario.
1955 Chicoutimi Quebec - Jacques Amyot wins the first annual Traversée Internationale du Lac-St-Jean; does it in 11.5 hours.
1944 Normandy France - Lt. Gen. H.G.D. Crerar 1888-1965 sets up First Canadian Army headquarters in France; Canadian army goes into action for the first time as a separate unit, taking over the front south of Caen; composed of General Guy Simonds' 2nd Corps, including the 1st Polish Division and the 51st Highland Division, and the 1st British Corps, with its Dutch and Belgian brigades.
1943 Montreal Quebec - Trans-Canada Air Lines inaugurates transatlantic service.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie King government passes Bill 80 by 141-45, sanctioning his promise not to bring in conscription for overseas service; conscription becomes obligatory in Canada.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Wartime Prices and Trade Board fixes price for all grades of wheat, flour & bread; prevents millers from passing on 15%/bushel wheat processing tax.
1935 PEI - William J. P. MacMillan leads Conservatives to victory in Prince Edward Island provincial elections; Liberals win all 30 provincial seats in PEI legislature; first Commonwealth parliament without any sitting opposition.
1923 Newfoundland - William Robertson Warren 1879-1927 succeeds Richard Squires 1880-1940 as Prime Minister of Newfoundland.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Ontario puts Ottawa School Commission under trusteeship for flouting Regulation #17; banning use of French in Ontario schools past Grade 1.
1914 Vancouver BC - Canadian government forces Japanese freighter Komagata Maru to leave Vancouver Harbour with its cargo of 376 passengers, mostly Sikhs, after a Board of Enquiry rules that they can not land; ship departs for Hong Kong, as thousands on the Vancouver docks cheer.
1908 London England - Bobby Kerr of Hamilton wins the gold medal in the 220-yard sprint at the Olympic Games in London.
1900 Ottawa Ontario - Government bans immigration of criminals or 'paupers' to Canada.
1898 Ottawa Ontario - The Earl of Minto takes up his post as Governor General of Canada.
1892 Manitoba - Manitoba votes for prohibition of alcoholic beverages; legislation not put into effect.
1840 London England - British Parliament passes the Act of Union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada; to take effect Feb. 10, 1841, providing for the union of the two provinces under a single government; also assumption of £1.2 million Upper Canada debt, establishment of a civil list, banning of the French language in the Assembly and in all government departments, and dissolution of French educational and civil law institutions. The Union will soon become unworkable, and the province ungovernable.
1837 Return Reef Alaska - Thomas Simpson 1808-1840 reaches Return Reef with Peter Dease.
1814 Ohio - Shawnee, Delaware, Seneca, Wyandot and Miami people make peace with Americans, enlist against British; after death of Tecumseh.
1776 Montreal Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 re-establishes civil jurisdiction in Quebec.
1767 London England - Crown holds Prince Edward Island land lottery to divide PEI among various claimants for military or other public service; lots chosen at random, all in one day. The Earl of Egmont had asked George III to grant him Prince Edward Island forever; he planned to build armed castles and moats for himself and about 400 lesser lords.
1759 Quebec Quebec - English cannon balls fired from LŽvis destroy the Cathedral of Quebec.
1757 Ticonderoga NY - Colonel Parker, of The Jersey Blues, leaves Fort William Henry with a force of 350 men, 5 captains, 4 lieutenants, and an ensign in 22 barges, two of which are under sail, to meet the incoming French troops, an army consisting of the companies of La Reine, La Sarre, Languedoc, and Guyenne, almost 1,000 men of La Marine, a three hundred man unit known as Villiers' Volunteers, 2,500 Canadians and 1,800 warriors from the western Indian nations of Ottawa, Menomonee, Sauk (Winnabagos and Wichitas), Potawatomie and Fox. The barges are ambushed and sunk by the Indians, and most of the English captured for ransom.
1632 Dieppe France - Ship bearing 300 colonists bound for New France leaves the port of Dieppe.


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July 24th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer.
1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
1783 – The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1814 – War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1823 – Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1823 – In Maracaibo, Venezuela the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla, defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1866 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
1915 – The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1924 – Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys".
1938 – First ascent of the Eiger north face.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
1963 – The iconic Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1972 – Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1974 – Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1977 – End of a four day long Libyan–Egyptian War.
1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
1990 – Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
1991 – Manmohan Singh presents his budget speech to the Indian Parliament which led to economic liberalisation in India
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
2002 – Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2009 – The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying a cargo of timber, is allegedly hijacked in the North Sea by pirates, but much speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events.
2011 – Digital switchover is completed in 44 of the 47 prefectures of Japan, with Iwate, Miyagi[disambiguation needed], and Fukushima television stations terminating analog broadcasting operations later as a result of the Tōhoku earthquake.
2013 – A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.







Today's Canadian Headline....


1984 LEADERS SPAR IN FIRST FRENCH TV DEBATE
Montreal Quebec - Federal party leaders Ed Broadbent, Brian Mulroney & John Turner meet in the first French-language television debate.

1534
Penouille Point Quebec -
Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 lands at rocky Penouille Point on the Gaspé coast; erects 10 metre high cross, bearing fleur-de-lys and motto 'Vive le Roy de France'; takes possession of the mainland of Canada in the name of François I; Donnacona, the Iroquois chief at Stadacona (Quebec) will later protest against Cartier's declaration.



In Other Events....

1996 Atlanta Georgia - Canada's Marianne Limpert wins Olympic silver in the 200M individual medley.
1995 New York City - Regina filling station attendant Dick Assman (pronounced OSS-man) appears to great hilarity on CBS's Late Show With David Letterman, introducing a dumb ad segment; Assman works at the Petro-Canada at the corner of Victoria and Fleet.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Defense Minister Marcel Masse announces 13 year $4.4 billion purchase of new EH-101 military helicopters to replace aging Sea Kings.
1991 Sept-Isles, Quebec - Quebec police find over 270 barrels of hashish floating in the St. Lawrence, after smugglers try to transfer the drugs from a tug onto life rafts; over 25 people from Vermont, Holland and the Philippines are later arrested.
1991 Lac Ste Anne Alberta - Douglas Crosby asks forgiveness for abuse suffered by native children in 60 Oblate schools since 1880s; President of Oblate Conference of Canada.
1988 St. John's Newfoundland - Emma Houlston lands single engine plane; youngest person to fly across Canada; nine year old from Medicine Hat, Alberta; took off from Victoria July 10; her father the navigator and official pilot-in-command.
1988 Edmonton Alberta - Group of thirsty Edmontonians whip up the world's largest milk shake ever; weighing 54,914 pounds, 13 ounces, the shake uses 44,689 lb, 8 oz of ice cream, 9,688 lb, 2 oz of syrup, and 537 lb, 3 oz of topping
1984 Montreal Quebec - Party leaders John Turner, Brian Mulroney & Ed Broadbent meet in a French-language television debate; first time in Canadian history.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to undertake national survey of 4 hazardous pollutants: lead, beryllium, mercury, asbestos.
1967 Montreal Ontario - General Charles de Gaulle shouts the separatist slogan 'Vive le Quebec libre' from the balcony of Montreal's City Hall; French President touches off a diplomatic row as PM Pearson protests the remarks; two days later, de Gaulle abruptly cancels his official visit to Ottawa and returns to France.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - First reporter from the New China News Agency arrives in Canada.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Louis Rasminsky 1908- appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada.
1958 Winnipeg Manitoba - CCF convention accepts a Canadian Labour Congress proposal to found a 'people's political movement' to be called the New Democratic Party.
1943 Hamburg Germany - Bomber Command launches week-long Operation Gomorrah on German port of Hamburg; using new device called 'Window' to counter Nazi radar; concentrated heavy bombing by the RAF and RCAF leaves 20,000 dead.
1941 Arvida Quebec - Workers go on strike at the Aluminium Company's plant at Arvida.
1940 Winnipeg Manitoba - Fall of France causes 30¢ drop in Winnipeg wheat price.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons gives third reading to Conscription Act.
1895 Fort Constantine Yukon - NWMP constable Charles Constantine builds Fort Constantine at junction of Forty-mile Creek and Yukon River.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan - William Henry Jackson found not guilty of treason by reason of insanity for involvement in North West Rebellion; sent to a lunatic asylum in Manitoba.
1862 Edmonton Alberta - Party of 150 men and one woman arrive in Fort Edmonton on the way to travel overland to the Cariboo gold fields in BC; the Overlanders note the scarcity of buffalo on the plains, and find more beef than pemmican available in the Hudson's Bay Company store.
1860 St. John's, Newfoundland - Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, arrives in Newfoundland to begin his North American visit; later King Edward VII.
1846 Toronto Ontario - First Canadian demonstration of the electric telegraph at Toronto city hall.
1814 Niagara Falls, Ontario - General Phineas Riall advances by night toward Niagara with 1,000 men to hold back Jacob Brown's American invaders; he is greatly outnumbered and waits for reinforcements from Kingston under General Sir Gordon Drummond 1771-1854.
1790 Nootka Sound BC - Spanish agree to compensate Britain for ships seized in Nootka Sound.
1788 Kingston Ontario - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 divides Upper Canada into four judicial districts: Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nassau, and Hesse; judge and sheriff appointed for each.
1775 Montreal Quebec - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 conscripts 6,000 French Canadians to fight off the potential American invasion.
1766 Oswego New York - Pontiac makes peace with Sir William Johnson at the Treaty of Oswego.
1759 La Belle Famille, Quebec - William Johnson defeats François de Lignery, coming to aid Niagara, at La Belle Famille; de Lignery dies of his wounds four days later.
1759 Youngstown, New York: - Lieutenant Colonel Massey arrives outside French Fort Niagara with extra troops; the incoming French reinforcements will be stopped by a volley of musket fire, and attacked by Johnson's Indian allies; Pierre Pouchot will surrender the French garrison the following day.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Over 15,000 cannon balls have hit Quebec from the English forces across the St. Lawrence at Lévis.
1749 Montreal Quebec - Swedish naturalist Pierre Kalm arrives at Montreal.
1701 Detroit Michigan - Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac 1658-1730 builds Fort Detroit; new settlement becomes main commercial crossroad of the Great Lakes.
1629 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Quebec for England, a prisoner of the Kirke brothers; next day, the Kirkes capture Emery de Caen's supply ship.
1578 Frobisher Bay NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 assembles fleet back in Frobisher Bay, which he calls Countess of Warwick Sound.

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July 25th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Viking.
1139 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques.
1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
1278 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
1456 – The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.
1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
1759 РFrench and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouill̩.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.
1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
1869 – The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 РLouis Bl̩riot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1920 – Telecommunications: The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
1920 – France captures Damascus.
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: One thousand five hundred casualties, including 500 killed.
1946 – Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
1952 – The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1959 – SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.
1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
1978 – Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
1979 – Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.
1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 – In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and four on the ground.
2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1990 BOUCHARD FOUNDS BLOC QUEBECOIS
Montreal Quebec - Lucien Bouchard announces formation of the Bloc Quebecois, a federal political party consisting of himself, five other ex-Conservative MPs and ex-Liberal Jean Lapierre; all of whom left their parties after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord; Bouchard is a former Environment Minister in the Mulroney Government and Canadian Ambassador to Paris.

1814
Niagara Falls, Ontario -
Gordon Drummond 1771-1854 arrives with reinforcements for a retreating General Riall at Lundy's Lane, 2 km below the falls, and takes the battle to Jacob Brown's Americans at 6 pm; Americans stalemated in a bitter all night battle, one of the bloodiest in the War of 1812; British and Canadians have 878 casualties, 84 killed, out of 3000 men; General Riall taken prisoner; Americans withdraw the following day to Fort Erie with 853 casualties, including 171 killed.



In Other Events....

1982 Archambault Quebec - Bloody riot erupts at Archambault maximum-security prison near Montreal; inmates trying to escape kill three guards; two convicts commit suicide.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - McDonald Royal Commission condemns illegal RCMP activities against Quebec separatists and other dissidents; recommends civilian agency to take over security work.
1975 Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler 1923- sentenced to 18 months in jail; serves 10 months before a retrial ordered.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Government increases the Canadian contingent of the UN peacekeeping force on Cyprus from 486 to 950; at request of United Nations.
1973 Quebec Quebec - Louis St-Laurent 1882-1973 dies in Quebec at age 91; born Feb. 1, 1882, at Compton, Quebec; educated at St. Charles Seminary, Sherbrooke and Laval University; Professor of Law, Laval University 1914; President of the Canadian Bar Association 1930-1932; Counsel to Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations 1937-1940; MP Quebec East 1942-1958; Liberal Party Leader 1948-1958; Canada's 12th Prime Minister Nov. 15, 1948-June 21, 1957; Leader of the Opposition 1957-1958.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament amends Official Languages Act to declare English and French the official languages of Canada.
1969 New York City - Toronto native Neil Young joins rock group Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time at a concert at the Fillmore East; former Buffalo Springfield member with Stephen Stills; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young will perform at Woodstock a month later; they break up in 1971.
1966 Charlottetown PEI - Charlottetown Festival premieres the musical Turvey, based on Earle Birney's novel about the comic adventures of a Canadian soldier during World War II; revised and restaged in 1970 as Private Turvey's War.
1966 Sofia Bulgaria - Martine van Hamel 1945- wins junior class of international competition in Bulgaria; Toronto ballerina.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Premiers meet for 3-day federal-provincial conference on constitutional amendments and tax issues.
1958 Hollywood, California - Harry Warner dies at 76; born Dec 12, 1881; film executive, one of Warner Brothers born at London, Ontario.
1952 Montreal Quebec - CBC/Radio Canada TV covers Montreal Royals baseball game; first experimental Canadian telecast; regular programming begins in September.
1950 Montreal Quebec - RCAF Squadron 426 leaves Dorval for the Far east as the Korean War begins.
1944 Normandy France - The 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions around Caen are ordered by Montgomery to push the entrenched German army off the Verrières ridge, take the heat of the Americans at St-Lô, and clear the main road through Falaise to Paris. Operation Spring begins with six infantry divisions and three tank squadrons attacking separately along an 8 km front against entrenched 1st SS Division panzer positions well sited on commanding high ground. In the early hours, German snipers ambush the advancing Canadians from cellars, tunnels and mine shafts, while Guy Simonds' plan to guide the assault troops toward Tilly-la-Campagne by bouncing searchlights off the clouds to produce artificial moonlight fails when someone orders the lights dropped to ground level, silhouetting the men to German fire; only about 100 men and just four tanks of the 3rd Division's North Nova Scotia Highlanders, the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, and the 2nd Armoured Brigade's Fort Garry Horse make it back to their lines; later that morning the lead company of The Royal Regiment of Canada succumbs to the fire of 30 enemy tanks, and the Cameron Highlanders of Canada, the Calgary Highlanders, and the Le Régiment de Maisonneuve are mauled when they tried to secure May-sur-Orne and Verrières village. The 5th Brigade's Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada cross the Orne, but are virtually wiped out when they are trapped on Verrières Ridge in heavy rain; only 60 out of 325 men make it to the top, and only 15 of the Black Watch live to tell about it. Before nightfall, a German counterattack leaves 2 companies of Fusiliers Mont-Royal virtually wiped out, and nearly breaks the 2nd Division's Royal Hamilton Light Infantry under J.L. Rockingham, but they clear Verrières village and dig in with anti-tank defenses to withstand three days of assaults. Except for Aug. 19, 1942 at Dieppe, this is the bloodiest day of the war for Canada, with over 1,500 wounded, and 450 dead. In total, Canadian divisions in Normandy will suffer 18,444 casualties, with 5,021 killed.
1937 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Saunders 1867-1937 dies; Dominion Experimental Farm scientist developed the superior Marquis strain of wheat which helped open the Prairies to farming.
1920 St. John's, Newfoundland - Canadian Marconi Company makes first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast from Signal Hill to the SS Victoria.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Sir Thomas White introduces the Income Tax War Bill; proposal to levy the first national tax on personal income on Canadians; as a wartime measure only.
1911 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Bobby Leach survives drop over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel; spends 23 weeks in hospital recovering from injuries.
1911 Hawkesbury, Ontario - Carillon and Grenville Railway abandoned; portage railway opened Oct. 25, 1854; last remaining broad gauge (5'6") line in North America; later acquired by the Canadian Northern Railway as part of its new Montreal to Ottawa line.
1908 Quebec Quebec - Prince of Wales Revue inspects naval review at Quebec; to celebrate 300th anniversary.
1905 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Northwest Territories Act; sets new boundaries; headed by a Commissioner.
1899 Toronto Ontario - Theodore August Heintzman dies at age 82; started making pianos in Toronto before 1860, founded the Heintzman and Company piano manufacturing company in Toronto in 1866; moved operations to Hanover, Ontario in 1978.
1879 Quebec Quebec - Letellier de St-Just loses his position of Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
1874 Newmarket Ontario - Alexander Muir conducts a choir of schoolchildren singing his song, 'The Maple Leaf Forever', at the laying of the foundation stone for the Christian Baptist Church; not the first time; the 1871 sheet music says it had already been 'sung with great applause by J.F. Hardy, Esquire, in his popular entertainments.'
1873 Victoria BC - BC government protests Canada's failure to build railroad connection to fulfill terms of union.
1871 Old Fort Garry Manitoba - Lt. Governor Adams G. Archibald 1814-1892 negotiates Treaty #1 in Southern Manitoba with Swampy Cree and Chippewa (Ojibway); 26,875 sq km; $3 per Indian, acreage.
1850 Montreal Quebec - Francis Fulford 1803-1868 consecrated first Anglican Bishop of Montreal.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Abbé Ignace Bourget consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal.
1787 Queen Charlotte BC - George Dixon dc1800 names Queen Charlotte Islands; trader with the King George's Sound Company.
1779 Castine Maine - Francis McLean c1717-1781 drives off American attack on Castine.
1759 Toronto Ontario - French abandon Fort Rouillé when they hear that Johnson has captured Fort Niagara.
1759 Youngstown New York - William Johnson and Brigadier General John Prideaux get surrender of Fort Niagara from outnumbered and outgunned French Commander Pouchot; he insists upon a solemn promise that Sir William Johnson will protect them from his Iroquois allies.
1758 Louisbourg, Nova Scotia - James Wolfe's troops silence Louisbourg's Island battery, and an exploding shell lands on the deck of the French warship Célèbre, setting off barrels of gunpowder; the fire jumps from ship to ship, destroying all but two of the French warships, the Prudent and Bienfaisant; at midnight, Amherst sends 25 boatloads of Marines into the harbour and takes the last two French ships.
1755 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence meets with Acadians and orders them to take oath of allegiance to British Crown; they refuse.
1722 Maine - Beginning of Three Years War along Maine and Massachusetts border; mostly guerrilla raids by Indians along the Kennebec River.
1686 Churchill Manitoba - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captures the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Albany after a two-week siege.
1629 La Malbaie Quebec - David & Lewis Kirke defeat Emery De Caen and capture his supply ship; first naval combat on the St. Lawrence between the English privateers and French merchants.
1534 Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves Gaspé with Domagaya and Taignoagny, two sons of Iroquois Chief Donnacona; promises to return them following year.


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July 26th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


657 – First Fitna: in the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
811 – Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 – Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.
1509 – The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire.
1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1745 – The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
1758 – French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.
1822 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
1822 – First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
1847 – Liberia declares its independence.
1861 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1882 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1887 – Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
1890 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1914 – Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1936 – The Axis powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1936 – King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the thrоne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1941 – World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
1944 – World War II: the Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom.
1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 – The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1945 – HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War
1945 – The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
1951 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 – An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
1963 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1971 – Apollo program: launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush.
2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over two days.
2007 – Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.
2008 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1874 THAT RINGS A BELL
Brantford Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell first describes his idea for the telephone to his father in Brantford.

1758
Niagara Falls, Ontario -
Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Jeffery Amherst 1717-1797 captures Louisbourg after siege of nearly 2 months; with Admiral Edward Boscawen and Brigadier James Wolfe. French commander Augustin Boschenry de Drucour 1703-1762 surrenders with 3,500 soldiers and about 4,000 sailors and militia. Amherst promises the French regulars their lives, but will offer no terms to the Canadians or Indians; if captured they will be treated the same as the garrison at Fort William Henry. Drucour forced to accept these conditions, and the Canadians and Indians flee in their canoes. English send French troops to England as prisoners of war for five years, deport civilian population to France.



In Other Events....

1996 Montreal Quebec - Howard Galganov's Political Action Committee says it will start a boycott campaign against businesses in the west island of Montreal who post signs in French and not in English as well. Louise Beaudoin, minister responsible for la Charte de la langue franaise, has noted at least 142 infractions in the Fairview, Cavendish and Rockland shopping centres.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Creation of the Information Highway Secretariat.
1995 Toronto Ontario - John Labatt Ltd. sold to Belgian brewer lnterbrew SA, completing a takeover valued at C$2.7 billion; deal makes lnterbrew the world's third-largest brewery.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Sweden's Trelleborg AB sells its 28.3% interest in Falconbridge Ltd. to a syndicate of 15 brokerage firms for $1.4 billion.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Football League assumes ownership of the nearly bankrupt Ottawa Rough Riders CFL football team.
1991 New York City - Bryan Adams' single '(Everything I Do) I Do It for You' stays at #1 on the Billboard pop chart for the second week in a row.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Expos pitcher Mark Gardner the first to hurl nine no-hit innings against a Dodger home team since Johnny Vander Meer beat Brooklyn at Ebbets Field on June 15, 1938, for his second straight gem; Dodgers win in 10th on two singles off Gardner and Darryl Strawberry's RBI single off Jeff Fassero.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government offers $3,840,000 to acquire the Oka lands claimed by the Mohawks as a burial ground and sacred site.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Pete Rose of the Expos ties Ty Cobb all-time career singles mark of 3,052, with a base hit in the eighth inning in a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada says that the obligation of parents from other provinces moving to Quebec to register their children in French schools is unconstitutional.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Cookie Gilchrist first player to refuse induction into the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame; former CFL star with the Argonauts.
1982 Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA launches Canada's Anik D1 Comsat on a Delta rocket.
1982 Archambault Quebec - Prisoners kill 3 guards during escape attempt at Archambault maximum security prison near Montreal; two inmates commit suicide.
1982 Lima Peru - Karen Baldwin of London, Ontario, chosen first Canadian Miss Universe; age 18.
1980 New York City - Blues Brothers single 'Gimme Some Lovin' peaks at #18 on the Billboard pop singles chart; featuring John Belushi and Ottawa's Dan Ackroyd.
1978 Edmonton Alberta - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts 10-day visit to Canada to open the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton.
1967 Montreal Quebec - French President Charles de Gaulle ends controversial Canadian tour, flies home to France, after rebuke from Canada for his 'Vive le Quebec libre' statement.
1966 Vancouver BC - George Victor Spencer found guilty of gross misconduct in supplying information to Soviet Union; former postal clerk.
1959 New York City - Ottawa pop singer Paul Anka's single 'Lonely Boy' hits #1 on the Billboard charts.
1953 Pamnunjon Korea - UN signs Korean Armistice in Pamnunjon.
1950 Toronto Ontario - Funeral services for former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
1944 Tilly France - Canadians reportedly capture Tilly before dawn, but they only control half the village, and the German panzers counter-attack, destroying most Canadian tanks and cutting off the North Nova Scotia Highlanders.
1936 Arras France - King Edward VIII 1894-1972 dedicates Vimy Memorial, designed by Canadian sculptor Walter Allward, commemorating those Canadians who took Vimy Ridge in 1917.
1923 Vancouver BC - Warren Harding 1865-1923 visits Vancouver on way back from Alaska; first US President to visit Canada during his term of office.
1923 PEI - James David Stewart 1874-1933 leads Conservatives back to power in Prince Edward Island elections.
1881 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian Pacific Railway completed to Winnipeg.
1889 Lac Ste-Anne, - Group of over 100 people make a pilgrimage to the church at Lac Ste-Anne, 50 km NW of Edmonton; built to commemorate the vision of a parish priest from St. Albert, who saw a vision of the Saint on a visit to Ste. Anne's shrine in France in 1889; tradition continues today.
1885 Calgary Alberta - Father Lacombe welcomes five teaching sisters from the Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus who had been trapped in Batoche during the Riel Rebellion; that September, the sisters enroll 22 pupils in what will become Roman Catholic School District Number One.
1880 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald leaves for London to discuss the CPR and Canadian finances.
1879 Quebec Quebec - Theodore Robitaille 1834-1897 new Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec; former incumbent Letellier de St. Just dismissed by John A. Macdonald.
1852 Toronto Ontario - Toronto business leaders Bloor, Gzowski, McMaster, Barrow & Frazer form an Association of Brokers to promote local securities; membership cost $6; a false start to a stock exchange.
1837 Yamachiche Quebec - Patriotes hold a protest meeting at Yamachiche, in the county of Saint-Maurice.
1814 Fort Erie Ontario - Major General Jacob Brown withdraws to Fort Erie with General Eleazor Ripley after mauling at Lundy's Lane; 853 US casualties, including 171 killed; end of American offensive in Niagara.
1786 Charlottetown PEI - Edmund Fanning 1737-1818 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of St. John Island; incumbent Walter Patterson at first refuses to give up office; Fanning serves May 1787 until May 9, 1804.
1759 Ticonderoga New York - Jeffery Amherst 1717-1797 captures Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga); and Fort St-Frederic (Crown Point) five days later; French retreat to Montreal.
1757 Lake George New York - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 and François de Lévis, Duc de Lévis 1719-1787 defeated by British troops led by Colonel Parker at Sabbath Day Point.
1704 Quebec - Mgr. de St-Vallier captured by the English.
1673 Kingston Ontario - Fort Frontenac completed by the French.
1664 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council fixes commodity and shipping prices; requires price tags on goods.
1651 Montreal Quebec - Band of 200 Iroquois attack l'hôpital de Montréal.
1615 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Establishment of the first mission at Three Rivers.

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July 27th 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.
1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade.
1202 – Georgian-Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum.
1214 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire.
1299 – According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state.
1302 – Battle of Bapheus: Decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines opening up Bithynia for Turkish conquest.
1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
1663 – The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1689 – Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
1694 – A Royal charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1720 – The Battle of Grengam marks the second important victory of the Russian Navy.
1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
1789 – The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
1862 – Sailing from San Francisco, California to Panama City, Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.
1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
1880 – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand – Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1890 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
1900 – Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
1914 – Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Philippine government.
1917 – The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1919 – The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
1921 – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.
1929 – The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1941 – Japanese troops occupy French Indochina.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 – Fighting in the Korean War ends when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
1964 – Vietnam War: Five thousand more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
1981 – British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.
1981 – Adam Walsh, 6-year-old son of John Walsh, is kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida and is found murdered two weeks later.
1983 – Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
1987 – RMS Titanic Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1990 – The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3.
1990 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d'état in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying the Trinidad and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet as well as the staff at the television station hostage for six days.
1995 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1996 – Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. One hundred eleven are injured.
1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
1999 – Tony Hawk lands the first 900 on a skateboard (two-and-a-half complete revolutions) at the fifth annual X Games in San Francisco, California.
2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007 – Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase.







Today's Canadian Headline....


1996 BAILEY THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE; 3RD GOLD FOR MCBEAN & HEDDLE
Atlanta Georgia - Canada's Donovan Bailey wins Olympic gold, running the 100 m sprint in 9.84, setting a new world record; competition held beneath flags at half-mast to honour the one person killed and 100 injured by a pipe bomb. At Lake Lanier, Canadian rowers Marnie McBean and Kathleen Heddle also win gold in the double sculls, becoming Canada's first and only three-time Olympic gold medalists. Both Silken Laumann and Derek Porter row to silver in their single sculls. Canada now has 2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze medals in the games.

1921
Toronto Ontario -
Frederick Banting first isolates insulin from the pancreatic duct of a dog; assisted by colleagues J. J. R. Macleod, Charles Best [left in the picture], and Bertram Collip at the University of Toronto; in January 1922, they administer insulin to 14 year old Leonard Thompson, and prove it an effective lifesaving treatment for diabetes in humans; in 1923, Banting and Macleod will be the first Canadians to win a Nobel Prize (they will share the award with Best and Collip); Banting does not patent the process, but assigns the rights to the University of Toronto, who will manufacture it through Connaught Laboratories.

1866
Heart's Content, Newfoundland -
Cyrus W. Field and his Anglo-American Telegraph Company finally succeed, after two failures, in laying the first workable underwater telegraph cable 1,686 miles long across the Atlantic Ocean to Wales; had set up operations in Newfoundland, and the steamship Great Eastern successfully retrieved and mended the broken cable from earlier attempts.



In Other Events....

1995 Toronto Ontario - Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. buys 19 of 21 small newspapers in Ontario and Saskatchewan that Thomson Corp. put up for sale as part of a reorganization.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Kim Campbell unveils new firearms regulations; 60 military-type weapons banned; magazines limited to 5, 10 shot; Justice Minister; guns must be stored away from ammunition, and kept locked.
1991 Penticton BC - 2,000 youths riot after a concert by rap star MC Hammer; smash and loot downtown stores, and wreck tourist establishments along the beach; 90 jailed, 60 treated for injuries.
1991 New York City - Bryan Adams' single '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart and will stay there for seven weeks.
1984 New York City - Anne Murray's single 'Just Another Woman in Love' peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Expos' Pete Rose passes Ty Cobb for the most career singles with #3,503, getting the hit against his former team, the Philadelphia Phillies.
1982 Montreal Quebec - Expos win their 1,000th game with a 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government announces 20% cut in Via Rail passenger service.
1972 Quebec Quebec - NHL star Maurice 'Rocket' Richard jumps leagues and signs with the WHA Quebec Nordiques.
1965 Charlottetown PEI - Alan Lunt premieres musical play 'Anne of Green Gables,' based on the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery, at the Charlottetown Festival.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Tunku Abdul Rahman Prime Minister of Malaysia, starts three-day visit to Canada.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Talent Library begins operations.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian army units were formed for service in the Congo on behalf of the United Nations.
1959 New York City - Toronto joins New York, Houston, Denver, and Minneapolis-St. Paul as one of the five cities named as part of the new Continental Baseball League; Branch Rickey was named League president.
1953 Panmunjon Korea - armistice ends Korean War; 21,940 Canadians in Korea in Army, 3,621 in Navy, and 1,104 in Air Force; 7,000 Canadians serve in Korea with UN forces after end of war, until November.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.
1935 New Brunswick - A. Allison Dysart 1887-1957 leads Liberals to victory in NB provincial elections.
1934 Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan Farmer Labor Party becomes the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation - CCF; later the NDP.
1926 Arvida Quebec - Smelting of the first aluminum ingot at Arvida.
1924 Paris France - Closing of the eighth Olympic games in Paris. Canada won no gold medals, but silver in the Rowing Eights: Arthur Bell, Ivor Campbell, Robert Hunter, William Langford, Harold Little, John Smith, Warren Snyder, Norm Taylor, William Wallace; silver in the Coxless Fours: Archie Black, Colin Finlayson, George MacKay, William Wood; silver in Team Clay Pigeon: William Barnes, George Beattie, John Black, James Montgomery, Sam Newton, Sam Vance; bronze in Boxing 66.68 kilograms: Doug Lewis.
1913 Ottawa Ontario - First issue of the newspaper 'Le Droit' published at Ottawa; today part of Southam/Hollinger chain.
1898 Skagway Alaska - Michael J. Heney operates first locomotive on his White Pass & Yukon Railway.
1897 Toronto Ontario - Toronto has its greatest one-day rainfall, a torrent amounting to 98.6 mm.
1891 Strathcona Alberta - Last spike driven on the Calgary and Edmonton Railway; begun July 21, 1890; five-day stagecoach journey reduced to a train trip of only a few hours; C&E taken over by CPR in 1903.
1880 Montreal Quebec - Old Hotel Donnagona becomes a hospital.
1853 Sherbrooke Quebec - Grand Trunk Railroad completed from Sherbrooke to the US border.
1865 Montreal Quebec - Death of Augustin-Norbert Morin, lawyer, port, former co-Premier of the Province of Canada.
1812 Toronto Ontario - Fifth session of sixth Parliament of Upper Canada meets until Aug. 5; passes Act for defence of province.
1762 St. John's Newfoundland - Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac de Ternay 1723-1780 captures Fort William Henry at St. John's.
1636 Quebec Quebec - Signature of the first marriage contract in New France; such notarized family agreements often predated Church weddings.
1606 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 arrives at Port-Royal on the Jonas with Louis Hébert; the expedition sows grain and other foods successfully; the first permanent French colony in Canada.

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July 28th 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomienda/province in the country.
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
1854 – USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, is commissioned.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church – Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
1933 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be immediately executed.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1974 – Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations.
1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
2005 – Tornadoes touch down in residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
2010 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1914 CANADA AUTOMATICALLY AT WAR
London England - Britain declares war on Germany and Austro-Hungary after Austria declares war on Serbia, beginning the First World War; Britain's declaration automatically includes Canada, as part of the British Empire.

1930
Canada -
Richard Bedford (R. B.) Bennett 1870-1947 wins 17th Canadian general election 137 seats to 91 Liberals; 12 Progressive; United farmers 10, 5 other; defeats WLM King with 48.8% of popular vote; Agnes MacPhail the only woman elected.



In Other Events....

1996 Atlanta Georgia - Canadian rowers win medals at Lake Lanier: Dave Boyes, Jeff Lay, Gavin Hassett and Brian Peaker take Olympic silver in the men's four; Marnie McBean, Kathleen Heddle, Laryssa Biesenthal and Diane O'Grady come away with bronze in the women's four; Emma Robinson, Anna van der Kamp, Theresa Luke, Tosha Tsang, Alison Korn, Heather McDermid, Maria Maunder, Jessica Monroe and Lesley Thompson have a silver-medal performance in the women's eight with coxswain.
1996 Atlanta Georgia - Canadian Brian Walton wins Olympic silver in the cycling points race; Curt Harnett earns the bronze medal in the men's sprint on the track near Stone Mountain; Canada's men's doubles team of John Child and Mark Heese take the bronze at the inaugural Olympic beach volleyball tournament.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada refuses appeal of lower court ruling awarding the NHL oldtimers estimated $45 million from the League in surplus pension funds.
1994 Barrie Ontario - Crowd of 35,000 people attend the first Lollapalooza festival in Molson Park, featuring Smashing Pumpkins, the Beastie Boys and George Clinton; rain turns the park into a sea of mud.
1993 Havre-St-Pierre, Quebec - Plane crash kills five at Havre-St-Pierre.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Expos' Dennis Martinez pitches 15th perfect game in major league history (96 pitches, 66 strikes); as the Expos shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0.
1989 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Anne Murray returns to her home town of Springhill to open the Anne Murray Centre, a museum devoted to her career that officials hope will attract up to 90,000 visitors a year; Murray first hit the charts in 1970 with her ballad Snowbird.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - The House of Commons in a free vote turns down a government resolution and five amendments on an abortion bill.
1984 Los Angeles California - Canadians attend opening of 23rd Olympiad; Los Angeles Olympics boycotted by 15 Russian and Eastern countries, who stayed away in a Soviet-led withdrawal in response to Western boycott of the Moscow games
1984 Montreal Quebec - Expos' Pete Rose passes Ty Cobb for the most singles in a career with #3,503 against the Philadelphia Phillies.
1982 Canada - Last issue of Today magazine, distributed in 18 Canadian newspapers.
1981 Saint John New Brunswick - St. Paul's Anglican Church in Saint John destroyed by fire; built in 1871.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Hailstorm lasting 15 minutes pounds Calgary and vicinity, causing $100 million in damage.
1979 Toronto Ontario - Grade A egg dropped from the CN Tower observation deck lands unbroken in a net; cushioned by shaving cream and cotton.
1973 Watkins Glen, New York - Canadian group The Band performs before 600,000 fans at the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, along with the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band; biggest rock festival since Woodstock four years earlier.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Senate Banking Committee recommends charters for Bank of Western Canada and Laurentide Bank.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canada Student Loans Act providing interest-free loans to university students through the banks.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Hartland Molson appointed to the Senate.
1954 Vietnam - Canada agrees to serve with India and Poland on special commission to supervise Indo-China armistice.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Bureau of Statistics says Canada has 13,845,000 inhabitants.
1948 Quebec - Maurice Duplessis reelected as Premier of Quebec, as his Union Nationale Party wins 82 seats, against 7 for the Liberals.
1945 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Section of Prospect Point overlooking the US Falls breaks off and slides into the Niagara River Gorge.
1943 Agira Italy - Canadians take the town of Agira after five days of hard fighting at heavy cost against heavily dug in German troops.
1934 Los Angeles California - Marie Dressler dies at age 64; vaudeville and film star known for her Tugboat Annie role, born Leila Marie Koerber in Cobourg, Ontario.
1914 Alberta - A.W. Dingman gives Governor General the Duke of Connaught and Lady Connaught a tour of his oil discovery in southern Alberta, lighting a 40 foot jet of gasoline from the well.
1914 Ontario/Quebec - Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges close for three months; brokers fear financial panic due to war; in concert with New York; shut down till Spring of 1915.
1897 Ottawa Ontario - Canada imposes new 2% royalty on minerals from Canadian mines; primarily a tax on Klondike gold to pay for law enforcement.
1891 Toronto Ontario - First annual Harvest Excursion leaves for Western Canada with 1,300 farm workers.
1890 Trois-Rivières Quebec - First electric street lighting in Trois-Rivières.
1883 Alberta - CPR sets track laying record: 10.9 km in one day.
1863 London England - Imperial Statute defines boundaries of British Columbia.
1858 Canada - John A. Macdonald & George-Etienne Cartier resign after defeat on motion that Ottawa should not be the capital of Canada; they resign the next day.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Several new businesses incorporated in Lower Canada - the Montreal Mining Company, the British North America Company, the British & Canadian Mining Company of Lake Superior, the St. Lawrence & Industry Railroad, and the Canada, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick Railroad.
1847 London, Ontario - London incorporated as a city.
1847 Brantford Ontario - Brantford incorporated as a city.
1839 NWT - Simpson & Dease round Cape Alexander and find Simpson Strait separating King William Island from mainland; explore NE of Cape John Ross to Castor & Pollux River, named after ship.
1838 Hamilton Bermuda - Eight exiled Lower Canada Patriotes arrive in Bermuda.
1824 Quebec Quebec - Ile d'Orléans shipyard launches the steamboat 'Columbus'.
1819 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Son of Nova Scotia Attorney-General John Uniacke goes on trial for murder after duel In Halifax.
1812 Toronto Ontario - Isaac Brock asks sixth Parliament of Upper Canada to repeal Habeas Corpus and impose martial law; Legislature uncooperative; doesn't take threat of US invasion seriously.
1786 Montreal Quebec - John Molson proclaims that 'good ale is all I want;' says he wants to brew beer 'on the grand stage of the world.'.
1755 Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence gets approval of Council to deport those Acadians who refuse to take oath of allegiance.
1642 Montreal Quebec - Priest baptizes a 4 year old Algonquin boy.
1633 Quebec Quebec - Flotilla of 140 Huron canoes arrives at Quebec.
1615 French River Ontario - Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron.

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