This Date In History

henric · Jul 28, 2014

July 29th 2014 - This Date in History.

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238 – The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor.
615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion – Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
1018 – Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
1030 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1148 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1567 – James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – In Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
1913 – the Norwegian football club VÃ¥lerenga Fotball was founded.
1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1932 – Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1937 – Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
1950 – Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.
1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1965 – Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1967 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
1973 – During the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tyre failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (aka the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1980 – Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France FranÃ§ois Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.
2013 – Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-prÃ¨s-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1992 CANADIANS HOLD SARAJEVO AIRPORT FOR HUMANITARIAN FLIGHTS
Sarajevo Bosnia - General Lewis Mackenzie's Canadian UN peacekeepers hand over Sarajevo Airport to French relief force; 800 return to base in Croatia.

1981
La Prairie, Quebec -
Alex Baumann sets his first world swimming record, in the 200 Metre Individual Medley (butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle). Three years later, Baumann will win two Gold Medals at the Los Angeles Olympics, scoring world records in both the 200 and 400 IM.

In Other Events....

1994 Hollywood California - Canadian comedian Jim Carrey's film The Mask opens in theatres.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - External Affairs Minister Joe Clark says Canada will deny visas to all South African athletes, amateur and professional, wishing to compete in events in Canada; action consistent with the 1977 Gleneagles agreement which encouraged Commonwealth countries to combat apartheid in this way.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Lemaire resigns as coach of the Montreal: Canadiens.
1983 Los Angeles, California - Raymond Massey 1896-1983 dies at age 86; born in Toronto Aug. 30, 1896. The brother of Governor General Vincent Massey, Raymond was a stage, film and TV actor and movie producer whose most popular roles were Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), and TV's Anton the spymaster in I Spy and Dr. Kildare's Dr. Leonard Gillespie (1961-66).
1977 Toronto Ontario - Emanuel Jacques tortured and murdered in apartment above Toronto body-rub parlour; 12-year-old's death leads to police crackdown on Yonge Street 'Strip'.
1971 Halifax Nova Scotia - Sydney Oland and the Oland family present Bluenose II to the province of Nova Scotia as a floating museum; replica of original.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Canada increases aid to Malaysia under Colombo Plan by $4.5 million.
1948 London England - Canadian team watches as King George VI opens the 14th Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium; with 59 nations and 4,099 competitors; to Aug. 4.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King tells war cabinet he'd rather resign than support conscription; Prime Minister.
1924 Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec - Dollard-des-Ormeaux incorporated as a city.
1916 Matheson Ontario - Forest fire near Matheson kills 223 people.
1912 Quebec Quebec - Captain Joseph-ElzÃ©ar Bernier 1852-1934 leaves for a private Arctic trading expedition on the Minnie Maid.
1912 London England - Privy Council upholds power of provinces to make marriage laws.
1911 Thunder Bay Ontario - Canadian Northern Railroad completed between Montreal and Port Arthur.
1907 London England - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boy Scout movement, with assistance from Canadian financier Lord Strathcona.
1900 Carcross Yukon - Last spike driven on the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Skagway to Whitehorse; started in 1898, at the height of the Klondike gold rush; 35 men were killed during construction; summit of White Pass reached in February, 1899; ceased operations October, 1982.
1886 Ottawa Ontario - Joseph Thomas Duhamel appointed first Archbishop of Ottawa.
1885 Savona's Ferry BC - CPR completes BC leg from Port Moody to Savona's Ferry.
1882 Quebec Quebec - Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau 1840-1898 resigns as Premier of Quebec to become Secretary of State in John A. Macdonald's government.
1873 Quebec Quebec - First party of 285 Icelandic settlers bound for Manitoba reach Canada.
1848 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Completion of first suspension bridge over the Niagara Gorge.
1837 L'Assomption Quebec - Patriotes hold protest meeting at l'Assomption.
1830 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Samuel Benjamin Hart named to a judgeship in Trois-RiviÃ¨res.
1812 London England - Word of the US declaration of war arrives in England 41 days after it is declared.
1793 Toronto Ontario - John Graves Simcoe sails into Toronto Bay by the western gap and decides that the site will be a good place for a fort and a settlement.
1792 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - William Osgoode 1754-1824 elected first Speaker of Legislative Council of Upper Canada.
1756 Kingston Ontario - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 arrives at Fort Frontenac to join FranÃ§ois-Charles de Bourlamaque 1716-1764 and his 3,000 men in an attack on the English.
1744 Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 besieges Paul Mascarene and his 50 men at Annapolis Royal; on Oct. 2 he will abandon the siege and move to winter quarters at Minas.
1658 Quebec Quebec - Pierre de Voyer arrives at Quebec to take up his duties as Governor.
1657 Quebec Quebec - Gabriel de Queylus 1612-1677 arrives in Quebec as Vicar General of New France with 3 other priests of the Sulpician Order in a party with de Maisonneuve; on the way to found the Seminary of Montreal; sent by SociÃ©tÃ© des PrÃªtres de Ste-Sulpice.
1633 Quebec Quebec - Holding of the great Franco-Huron Council.
1609 Ticonderoga New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 met large war party of Iroquois heading north near Ticonderoga.

End of C/P.

henric · Jul 29, 2014

July 30th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

634 – Battle of Ajnadayn: Byzantine forces under Theodore are defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate near Beit Shemesh (modern Israel).
762 – Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
1729 – Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
1866 – New Orleans, Louisiana's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God we trust as the U.S. national motto.
1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to "get dirt" on Dave Winfield.
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1962 DIEF OPENS TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY
Rogers Pass, BC - Prime Minister John Diefenbaker officially opens the Trans-Canada Highway to traffic, eliminating the final 160 km of dusty, gravel road from Golden to Revelstoke. Running almost 9000 km, from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria BC, the Trans Canada is the longest national highway in the world; construction began in 1950.

1992
Barcelona Spain -
Mark Tewksbury of Calgary wins the Gold Medal in the Men's 100-metre Backstroke; sets new Olympic record.

1793
Toronto Ontario -
Upper Canada Governor John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 starts building a fort in vicinity of Fort York, and a blockhouse on Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island.

In Other Events....

1996 Atlanta Georgia - Alison Sydor wins the silver medal in the women's mountain bike event, a 9 km cross-country course at the Georgia International Horse Park; took six of the seven World Cup events this year.
1996 Montreal Quebec - Consumers Distributing goes bankrupt.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Moore Corp. launches hostile US$1.3-billion takeover bid for high-tech competitor Wallace Computer Services Inc.
1993 Calgary Alberta - Daniel Lanois and the Tragically Hip join Midnight Oil, Hothouse Flowers and Crash Vegas to record the single 'Land,' written by Jim Moginie and Rob Hirst of Midnight Oil; proceeds go to the defence of environmentalists fighting logging in BC's Clayoquot Sound.
1993 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - Over 100 southwestern Nova Scotia fishermen end 8-day marine blockade after Fisheries and Oceans orders foreign trawlers fishing 120 km of the south coast to leave.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt says Canada will allow fast-track entry of up to 26,000 immigrants from former Yugoslavia.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada sets rate at 5.42%, lowest in 19 years.
1992 Los Angeles California - Joe Schuster dies at age 78; creator of Superman comic book hero with writer Jerry Siegel; sold idea to DC comics in 1938; fired 1947 for asking for higher royalty.
1990 Goose Bay Newfoundland - US announces it will withdraw planes and troops from Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay Labrador by following July; may cost 237 jobs and $25 million in economic benefits; after 48 years on the base.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Victor Rice announces that Varity Corp. will reincorporate in Buffalo, New York; former Massey-Ferguson.
1990 Montreal Quebec - John Gomery Quebec Superior Court Judge denies Mohawks a temporary injunction to remove police roadblocks; roadblocks justified because Mohawks breaking the law.
1988 Vancouver BC - Ronald J Dossenbach starts cross Canada ride to Halifax; will do it in record 13 days, 15 hr, 4 minutes.
1986 Vancouver BC - Bill Vander Zalm chosen leader of the British Columbia Social Credit Party, replacing a retiring Premier Bill Bennett.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Andy Bean knocks in a two-inch putt with his club handle; the resulting two-stroke penalty causes him to lose the Canadian Open by two strokes.
1982 Halifax Nova Scotia - Ottawa and Nova Scotia announce $500 million oil and gas drilling program off the Nova Scotia coast.
1982 Montreal Quebec - RCMP drug unit seizes $22 million worth of hashish.
1975 Dover England - Cindy Nicholas of Toronto, 17, sets women's record time for swimming the English Channel in nine hours, 46 minutes.
1974 Quebec Quebec - Quebec National Assembly passes Bill 22, making French the province's official language, and setting up la RÃ©gie de la Langue FranÃ§aise.
1974 Quebec Quebec - Grenade explodes at Valcartier military base, killing six soldiers.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Fire kills three and injures 17 at Beacon Arms Hotel in Ottawa.
1963 Baie Comeau, Quebec - First cement poured for the Manic 2 power dam.
1962 London England - Britain purchases 10,886,400 kg (24 million lbs) of refined uranium from Canada.
1955 New York City - Canadian pop singer Giselle Mackenzie, of the TV show Your Hit Parade, has a #1 Billboard hit single with 'Hard to Get'.
1954 Vancouver BC - Former Governor-General Lord Alexander 1891-1969 opens fifth British Commonwealth Games opened in Vancouver; Games also held in Hamilton in 1930.
1945 Quebec Quebec - Group of 4,500 soldiers return to Canada from fighting in Europe.
1937 Vancouver BC - Minister of Transport C. D. Howe 1886-1960 flies to Vancouver in a 'Dawn to Dusk Across Canada' trip to start new Trans-Canada Air Lines service; with Herbert James Symington 1881-1965, director.
1932 Los Angeles California - Canadians attend Olympic Games with 37 nations and 1,408 competitors; to Aug. 14; Canada will win gold in Boxing (53.52 kilograms): Horace Gwynne; and in High Jump: Duncan McNaughton.
1927 Quebec Quebec - King George VI 1895-1952 arrives in Quebec for Canadian tour; as Prince George; with British P.M. Stanley Baldwin.
1900 Tokyo Japan - Japan bans emigration of citizens to Canada; at request of Canada.
1898 London England - Gilbert John Elliot, Earl Minto 1854-1914 appointed Governor-General. of Canada; serves from November 12,1898 to November 18, 1904.
1892 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council upholds Manitoba's right to abolish separate schools.
1887 Lachine Quebec - Victoria Bridge completed; first railway bridge over the St. Lawrence.
1880 Quebec Quebec - Inauguration of the Louise Basin in the port of Quebec.
1865 St-Thomas-de-Montmagny, Quebec - Etienne-Paschal TachÃ© 1795-1865 dies; MD, militia colonel, Minister of Public Works of the Province of Canada 1848, co-premier 1856-57 with Allan MacNab and 1864-65 with John A. Macdonald; presided at the Quebec Conference.
1855 Niagara Falls Ontario - Jean-FranÃ§ois Gravelet the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1844 Halifax Nova Scotia - Four sailors from ship, Saladin, hanged for piracy.
1838 Niagara Ontario - James Morreau hanged at Niagara for his part in the Short Hills raid.
1837 Vaudreuil Quebec - Patriotes hold protest meeting at Vaudreuil.
1827 Fort Langley, BC - Hudson's Bay Company builds Fort Langley post, at mouth of Fraser River.
1793 Toronto Ontario - Governor John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 starts building a fort in vicinity of Fort York, and blockhouse on Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island.
1789 Toronto Ontario - Elizabeth Simcoe lands on site of York; walks through 'a grove of oaks where the town is intended to be built'.
1783 Kingston Ontario - Landing of the 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Regiment of New York at Cataraqui to rebuild Fort Frontenac and prepare for the arrival of the Loyalists.
1711 Ile aux Oeufs Quebec - Ovenden Walker c1656-1725 leads British expedition against Quebec; fails when eight troop transports shipwrecked in fog; nearly 900 soldiers drowned in Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1701 Montreal Quebec - French sign peace treaty with 38 Iroquois chiefs.
1684 Montreal Quebec - Governor Joseph-Antoine de La Barre 1622-1688 leaves Montreal with 1,200 soldiers to battle the Iroquois; disastrous campaign leads to his recall in 1685; had replaced Frontenac in 1682.
1618 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets sail from Tadoussac for Honfleur, France.
1609 Ticonderoga, New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 joins skirmish with Iroquois at Crown Point; kills two chiefs with his arquebus; first French military action in America; Champlain the first European to use firearms against the North American natives; beginning of the First Iroquois War, to 1624.
1583 Funk Island Newfoundland - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 reaches coast of Newfoundland; sails south to Funk Island which he names Penguin Island (Auks); rounds Baccalieu Island and Cape St. Francis.
1578 Kodlunarn Island NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 finds his missing ships Judith and Michael behind Anne Warwick (Kodlunarn) Island.

End of C/P.

henric · Jul 30, 2014

July 31st 2014 - This Date in History.

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30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1201 – Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1492 – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1715 – A Spanish treasure fleet seven days after 12 ships left Havana, Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1763 – Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War.
1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
1913 – The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1931 – New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
1932 – The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1941 – The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann GÃ¶ring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1948 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1956 – Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1972 – The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
1988 – 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
1992 – Georgia joins the United Nations.
1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power to brother RaÃºl Castro.
2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2009 – Three members of the popular South Korean group TVXQ, (Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, and Park Yoochun), filed lawsuit against their Korean management S.M. Entertainment.
2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the greatest number of medals won at the Olympics.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1987 EDMONTON TWISTER CLAIMS 27 LIVES
Edmonton Alberta - Tornadoes touch down in Edmonton during the afternoon rush-hour, causing $150 million in damage; the main funnel cloud kills at least 36 and injures at least 250, mostly in an Edmonton East trailer park; over 400 left homeless.

1976
Montreal Quebec -
Canadian Greg Joy jumps 2.23 metres, a fraction behind the 2.25 metres of Jacek Wszola, to take the silver medal in high jump at the final full day of competition in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. Joy will go on to set the world indoor record in 1978.

In Other Events....

1996 Atlanta Georgia - Annie Pelletier wins Olympic bronze for Canada in the three-metre diving event; Gia Sissaouri takes silver in 57-kg wrestling.
1996 Vancouver BC - Ottawa-born Alanis Morissette starts her first Canadian tour before 15,000 fans at GM Place.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Expos honour Gary Carter in a ceremony at the Stade olympique.
1992 Barcelona Spain - Guillaume Leblanc of Rimouski, Que., takes Olympic silver medal in the men's 20 km race walk.
1990 Ontario/Quebec - 16,000 Ontario and Quebec steel workers walk off the job at Stelco and Algoma steel plants.
1990 Oka Quebec - Mayor Jean Ouellette gets Oka Town Council to reject $1.34 million federal offer to buy disputed land for Mohawks; and $2.5 million compensation to town for lost economic opportunities.
1989 Halifax, Nova Scotia - CBC Newsworld makes its debut on cable; news and information channel goes on the air across Canada.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Nordair Metro airline acquires Quebecair for $10 million.
1974 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa's government passes Bill 22 - the Official Languages Act (la loi sur les langues officielles) - requiring French to be used as the language of work in business and in the public service; anglophone students must also pass a linguistic aptitude test in order to attend english schools.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces that first-time offenders for cannabis possession will not be jailed.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - New Ottawa station opens in suburb of Alta Vista; Union Station in central Ottawa to become a government conference centre.
1962 Canada - Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan pledge support for care of thalidomide-deformed children; Ottawa announces cooperation August 1.
1957 Canada - Opening of Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line of radar stations; joint US-Canada defence project during the Cold War financed by the United States and operated by Canada; developments in missile technology soon make it obsolete.
1955 Dover England - Marilyn Bell conquers English Channel; Toronto swimmer at age 17 is the youngest to date.
1954 Schefferville Quebec - Opening of Quebec-Labrador iron ore project.
1930 Quebec Quebec - British airship R-100 flies up the St. Lawrence River valley en route to its mooring at St-Hubert south of Montreal; after crossing the Atlantic in 78 hours, 51 minutes.
1929 Ottawa Ontario - Charles A.E. Harriss dies at age 66; music impresario and composer; organized the 1903 Cycle of Musical Festivals of the Dominion of Canada, a concert series of British choral and orchestral music that toured to 15 Canadian cities; and the 1911 Musical Festival of the Empire, a world music tour that took him to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the US.
1917 Passchendaele Belgium - Allies mount Passchendaele offensive, the Third battle of Ypres; heavy losses from the start; Canadians among 400,000 allied dead and wounded in Flanders; advance will drag on until November with minimal gain.
1913 Vancouver BC - Alys Bryant first woman in Canada to make solo air flight; from Vancouver racetrack.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan - Louis Riel makes eloquent address to the jury, saying he had been blessed by God with a mission to help the Indians, the Metis, and the whites of the North West; repudiates any suggestions of religious insanity, asks to be judged solely on the political elements of his case; jury will find him guilty.
1882 Quebec Quebec - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau becomes Conservative Premier of Quebec replacing Chapleau.
1880 London England - Imperial Order-in-Council transfers all British possessions in North America to Canada as of September l; except Newfoundland, and including ownership of all Arctic Islands.
1879 Montreal Quebec - Richard Cowan, Charles Grimely and Charles Page make first flight in Canada in a hydrogen balloon..
1874 Winnipeg Manitoba - First group of Russian Mennonites arrive from the US on the steamer International; Canada passed special orders-in-council which guaranteed them freedom of religion, exemption from military service, and the right to conduct their own schools.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 passes act for entry of Rupert's Land and North West Territories into the Dominion of Canada.
1851 Ontario/Quebec - Grand Trunk Railway and other lines adopt the 5'6" broad gauge as the standard; used until about 1870 after which time there was a gradual change to the now standard 4' 8 1/2" gauge.
1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 elected Secretary of the Committee of Vigilance of Upper Canada; they adopt a Declaration of Independence modeled after the American one; their secret flag is blue, with two silver stars, representing the two states of Upper and Lower Canada that would join the American union.
1818 Quebec Quebec - Anne Boucher dies in Quebec at age 109.
1813 Plattsburgh, NY - British troops capture Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain; War of 1812.
1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Second session of first Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 9; discusses destruction of wolves.
1786 Vancouver Island, BC - James Strange 1753-1840 claims Vancouver Island for England.
1763 Bloody Ridge, Ohio - Maj. Henry Gladwin beaten by Pontiac at Bloody Ridge; left Detroit after reinforcements arrived.
1759 Beauport Quebec - James Wolfe's troops beaten in skirmish on Beauport flats east of Quebec.
1741 Alaska - Vitus Jonassen Bering 1681-1741 puts landing party ashore in North America for several hours, before returning to Kamchatka; beginning of Russian trade presence on the pacific coast.
1724 Montreal Quebec - Claude de Ramezay 1659-1724 dies; Governor of Montreal 1704-24.
1687 Fort Niagara New York - Governor Jacques-RenÃ© de Brisay de Denonville 1637-1710 leaves Pierre de Troyes and a garrison to build Fort Niagara at the mouth of Niagara River, then returns to Montreal.
1684 Paris France - King FranÃ§ois demands that the Iroquois be exterminated.
1667 Nova Scotia - Treaty of Breda again restores Acadia to France; end of war between England and France; since Jan. 26, 1666.
1635 Canso, Nova Scotia - Jean Thomas leads the first revolt in America at Fort Saint-FranÃ§ois.
1609 Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 Champlain celebrates St-Ignace with the Jesuits.
1606 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - PontgravÃ© arrives back at Port Royal.

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henric · Jul 31, 2014

August 1st 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army, concluding the Muslim conquest of Sicily.
1192 – Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin
1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
1664 – Ottoman forces are defeated in the battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of VasvÃ¡r.
1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
1914 – The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1944 – World War II: the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1946 – Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1964 – The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1980 – A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.
1980 – VigdÃs FinnbogadÃ³ttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Grand Prix driver was killed in a crash at Hockenheim during a private test session.
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in AsunciÃ³n, Paraguay.
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
2008 – Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1959 VANIER NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL
Ottawa Ontario- General Georges-Philias Vanier 1888-1967 appointed Governor General; first French Canadian to hold the post; serves from September 15, 1959.

1615
Huronia Ontario-
Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives in Huronia with ten Indians and Etienne BrulÃ©, to back Hurons against Iroquois; winters in Huronia; estimates population at 30,000.

In Other Events....

1995 Ottawa Ontario- Sportscaster Brian Smith shot in the head by mentally ill person as he is leaving work at CJOH-TV; former NHL player dies the following day.
1995 Ottawa Ontario- Government ends Crowsnest Pass freight rate subsidy.
1992 Peterborough Ontario- Troy Hurtubise plunges to his death while demonstrating bungee jumping; Canada's first death in the sport; failed to attach cord properly.
1990 Chateauguay Quebec- Group of 12,000 angry Chateauguay residents march on city hall to demand removal of the native blockade of the Mercier Bridge outside Montreal; Kanawake Iroquois protesting Oka standoff, now entering its second month.
1988 Quebec Quebec- FranÃ§oise Bertrand appointed President and Director General of de Radio-QuÃ©bec; ;later Chairman of Radio-Canada.
1986 Hollywood California- Canadian actor Matt Frewer stars in Max Headroom TV Talk Show, making its debut on Cinemax.
1985 Vancouver BC- Erection of the world's tallest unsupported flagpole, at 282' 4".
1985 Greenland - US icebreaker leaves Greenland for a voyage through the Northwest Passage and Canada's Arctic waters without Canadian permission.
1976 Montreal Quebec- Greg Joy honoured for his silver medal high jump the day before by being Canada's flag-bearer for the closing ceremonies of the XXI Olympiad.
1976 Montreal Quebec- 21st Olympic games at Montreal close after 16 days of events attended by 3.3 million spectators; Soviet Union takes 49 gold, 41 silver and 35 bronze to top the standings; East Germany pushes the US into third place; apparently fueled by steroid use, they win 40 gold, double their total in Munich. This harms Canada, which wins only 5 silver and 6 bronze medals, becoming the first host nation in the history of the modern Games not to win a gold. Canada's Silver: Greg Joy, high jump; John Wood, 500 metres, canoeing; Michel Vaillancourt, Grand Prix equestrian jumping; Cheryl Gibson, 400 metre individual medley, swimming; Stephen Pickell, Graham Smith, Clay Evans, Gary MacDonald, 4x100-metre medley relay. Canada's Bronze: Nancy Garapick (2), 100- and 200-metre backstroke; Becky Smith, 400-metre individual medley; Shannon Smith, 400-metre freestyle; Gail Amundrud, Barbara Clark, Becky Smith, Anne Jardin, 4x100-metre freestyle relay, swimming Wendy Hogg, Robin Corsiglia, Susan Sloan, Anne Jardin, 4x100-metre medley relay.
1975 Regina Saskatchewan- Roughrider George Reed rushes for 100 or more yards for the 59th time, setting a pro football record.
1975 Helsinki Finland- Canada signs the Treaty of Helsinki with the US, Russia and 32 other countries; ratifies Europe's post war boundaries and guarantees human rights.
1974 Quebec Quebec- Robert Charlebois, FÃ©lix Leclerc and Gilles Vigneault hold a live concert on the Plains of Abraham, telecast by Radio Canada.
1971 Ottawa Ontario- Government ends censorship of letters to and from prisoners in federal institutions.
1969 Ottawa Ontario- Largest hailstones ever measured fall on Ottawa; up to 2 3/4 inches in diameter.
1969 Saskatchewan- Saskatchewan Premier W. Ross Thatcher 1917- says government will accept feed grain as payment for university tuition.
1968 Ottawa Ontario- Royal Canadian Mint starts replacing silver with nickel in Canadian coinage, except for commemorative items and the silver dollar.
1968 Waskesiu Saskatchewan- Premiers start 9th annual conference for 3 days in Waskesiu; discuss education, health, pollution.
1966 Toronto Ontario- Provincial premiers start two-day conference; 6 of 8 reject proposed federal medicare plan.
1962 Ontario- Ontario Construction Safety Act comes into effect; employers responsible for safety of workers.
1957 Washington DC- US and Canada reach agreement to create NORAD - the North American Air Defense Command - to meet the threat from Soviet bombers.
1955 Schefferville Quebec- Schefferville incorporated as a city.
1953 Sherbrooke Quebec- Founding of the University of Sherbrooke.
1952 Victoria BC- William Andrew Cecil Bennett becomes Premier of British Columbia, taking over from Byron Johnson.
1950 St John's, Newfoundland- Royal Canadian Mounted Police take over Newfoundland Rangers and policing of Newfoundland and Labrador.
1945 Ottawa Ontario- Sir Harold Alexander becomes Governor General of Canada.
1944 Ottawa Ontario- Parliament passes Family Allowances Act; monthly baby bonuses to parents of children under 18.
1942 Ottawa Ontario- Finance Minister says 5Â¢ coin will be changed to a copper-zinc alloy (Tombac), 12-sided to help distinguish it from 1Â¢ and 25Â¢ coins; change in metal to preserve nickel supplies for wartime steel making.
1942 Ottawa Ontario- Parliament passes the Veterans Land Act (VLA) to provide settlement assistance to returning vets.
1940 Liverpool England- Part of the 2nd Canadian Division reaches Britain.
1939 Quebec Quebec- Journal 'La Nation' stops publishing.
1938 Canada- Wheat carryover of 25 million bushels into new crop year; down from 37 million bushels.
1936 Berlin Germany- Canada takes part with 49 nations and 4,066 competitors at the opening of the 11th modern Olympic games in Berlin, with Chancellor Adolf Hitler presiding over opening ceremonies.
1932 Ottawa Ontario- Congress of l'ArmÃ©e des ChÃ´meurs [Army of the Unemployed] meets at Ottawa.
1932 Calgary Alberta- James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942 chosen by a conference of labour political parties to lead a new party called the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation; CCF leader to July, 1942; calls for socialization of health services, finance, utilities and natural resources; will elect 7 members to the House of Commons in the 1935 federal election.
1930 St. Hubert Quebec- British airship R-100 lands near Montreal after crossing Atlantic in 78 hours, 51 minutes.
1928 Amsterdam Netherlands- Canada's Percy Williams wins the Olympic gold medal in the 200 metre race.
1914 London England- H.R.H. Duke of Connaught 1850-1942 formally offers services of Canadian troops to assist Britain; offer accepted August 6.
1908 Fernie BC- Coal mining town of Fernie destroyed by fire.
1907 Springhill Nova Scotia- Springhill coal miners go on three-month strike.
1899 Montreal Quebec- Financial panic in Montreal; due to recession brought on by higher world tariffs.
1898 Ottawa Ontario- End of 1865 British-German tariff treaty means no more preference for German goods.
1897 Ottawa Ontario- Finance Minister Joseph Fielding brings in a heavy tariff, but with reciprocal provisions; 25% preference for British & Empire imports.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan- Louis Riel 1844-1885 found guilty of treason and sentenced to death; defense's plea of insanity not believed by Anglo-Saxon, Protestant jury.
1882 London, England- Canada joins ten other countries in marking the thirteen months between August 1, 1882 and September 1, 1883 as International Polar Year; sponsors fifteen expeditions to study marine meteorology, geophysics and the earth sciences by collecting data in the Arctic and Antarctic.
1837 Canada- Queen Victoria 1819-1901 proclaimed Queen in Canada.
1834 London England- Slavery outlawed in the British Empire, including British North America; estimated 770,280 slaves become free; 30 years before it was outlawed in the US, after the Union victory in the Civil War.
1818 Quebec Quebec- First issue of the literary journal, L'Abeille Canadienne.
1792 Montreal Quebec- First issue of The Quebec Magazine; first in Canada.
1714 London England- George Louis, Elector of Hanover, was named King George I of Great Britain upon the death of Queen Anne.
1805 Ontario- Mississauga Indians cede over 101,170 hectares in York County to the Crown.
1701 Montreal Quebec- Death of Grand Chief Kondiaronk at Montreal.
1685 Quebec Quebec- Governor de Denonville arrives at Quebec.
1685 Quebec Quebec- Mgr. de St-Vallier named Vicar Apostolique at Quebec.
1685 Quebec Quebec- Michel Sarrazin, surgeon and naturalist, arrives at Quebec.
1639 Quebec Quebec- Marie de l'Incarnation Guyart 1599-1672 arrives in Quebec to found a convent and hospital of Ursuline nuns (Sisters of the HÃ´tel-Dieu) in the Lower Town of Quebec; first hospital in North America north of Mexico; will also open a school for girls.
1629 Tadoussac Quebec- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 reprimands Etienne BrulÃ© and Nicolas Marsolet de Saint-Aignan c1587-1677, who had gone over to the Iroquois.
1621 Quebec Quebec- Guillemette HÃ©bert and Guillaume Couillard married at Quebec; first wedding on record in the town.
1578 Kodlunarn Island NWT- Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 starts mining on Anne Warwick Island and at other sites; 1200 tonnes of supposed gold ore will be loaded on board his ships.
1534 Quebec- Jacques Cartier sights the mountains on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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henric · Aug 1, 2014

August 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
1343 – Olivier de Clisson is found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris. As a result, his wife, Jeanne de Clisson, sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate to seek revenge against the French King and nobility.
1377 – Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River.
1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1790 – The first United States Census is conducted.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship ******** da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes FÃ¼hrer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939 – Albert Einstein and LeÃ³ SzilÃ¡rd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1944 – ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found for over 50 years.
1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.
1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1973 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1998 – The Second Congo War begins.
2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1610 HUDSON ENTERS THE BAY
NWT/Quebec - Dutch navigator Henry Hudson, in the employ of the English, enters the inland sea now known as Hudson Bay, but thinks he has found the Pacific Ocean.

1922
Baddeck Nova Scotia - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 dies at his Beinn Bhreagh home on Cape Breton Island; audiologist known as the inventor of the telephone (1876); to mark his death, all telephone service in Canada is halted for 80 seconds on Aug 4, starting at 6:25 pm

In Other Events...

1995 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces it will close 150 Canada Employment Centres.
1995 Quebec Quebec - Louise Beaudoin named Quebec's Minister of Culture.
1991 Anse Aux Meadows Newfoundland - Viking replica 'Gaia' reaches Norse settlement site for 1,000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's landing; Vinland Revisited expedition left Norway May 17.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Lotta Hitschmanova 1910-1990 dies at age 80; founder of Unitarian Service Committee in 1945 to help European refugees; fled her native Czechoslovakia in 1938.
1988 Toronto Ontario - External Affairs Minister Joe Clark joins six other Commonwealth foreign ministers in lighting a 1 1/2-metre candle for the Rekindle the Light Festival to protest against South African apartheid; Canadian musician David Foster plays to an audience of more than 8,000.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Reichmann brothers acquire control of Gulf Canada for $2.8 billion.
1974 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta acquires control of Pacific Western Airlines.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act makes ship and cargo owners fully liable for pollution.
1970 BC - BC ferry 'Queen of Victoria' and Soviet freighter 'Sergey Yesinen' collide in the Active Pass.
1970 Manseau Quebec - Start of disastrous three-day Manseau Pop Festival, held on a farm 80 km southwest of Quebec City; only 10,000 fans turned out in the torrential rain; New Orleans rocker Dr. John shows up; Jimi Hendrix, Allman Brothers and Little Richard stay away because they are not paid in advance.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces new international airport near Montreal, and expansion of Toronto International.
1965 Canada- Mrs. Frank Walton Killam leaves estate to University of Alberta ($6 million), Dalhousie ($10 million), UBC ($4 million); also Halifax Children's Hospital and Montreal Neurological Institute.
1963 China- China makes second $300 million wheat purchase.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - John J. Deutsch 1919- chairs new Economic Council of Canada.
1963 Welland Ontario- Engineers make start on twinning of locks of Welland Canal; to be completed by 1968.
1962 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan passes final amendments satisfactory to both sides in Medicare plan.
1961 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Premier Leslie Miscampbell Frost 1895-1975 resigns.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Princess Margaret cuts ribbon to open the Ottawa City Hall on Green Island at the mouth of the Rideau River.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes the Family Allowance Act.
1940 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Camillien Houde 1889-1958 attacks national registration for home defence; advises Quebec men not to take part in national registration; arrested for sedition Aug. 5.
1932 Gimli Manitoba - Icelanders at Gimli host first annual Icelandic Festival (Islendingadagurinn) to celebrate their culture and honour their pioneers; settlement of New Iceland formed in 1875; became part of Manitoba in 1881.
1921 London England - General Julian Hedworth George Byng Byng of Vimy 1862-1935 appointed Governor-General of Canada, serving from August 11, 1921 to September 29, 1926.
1909 Pembroke Ontario - First passenger flight in Canada made in the Silver Dart at Camp Petawawa in an evaluation by the Canadian Army; original plane built by the Aerial Experiment Association formed by Alexander Graham Bell; made first controlled powered flight in Canada Feb. 23, 1909 off the ice at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, by designer J.A.D. McCurdy; apparently the plane had poor control characteristics.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - John Lorn McDougall 1838-1909 appointed first Auditor-General of Canada.
1877 Victoria BC - Sir James Douglas dies; former Governor of Vancouver Island and the founder of British Columbia.
1862 Victoria BC - Victoria incorporated as a city.
1858 London England - British government makes a separate Crown Colony of British Columbia; includes the mainland (named New Caledonia by Simon Fraser) and the Queen Charlotte Islands; united with Vancouver Island in 1866.
1858 Toronto Ontario - George Brown & A. A. Dorion take office; coalition of True Grits and Dorion's Rouges; the so-called 'Short Ministry' only lasts four days, the shortest Canadian Ministry on record.
1851 Toronto Ontario - Trinity College gets university charter; now part of the University of Toronto.
1851 Montreal Quebec - opening of St. Mary's College at Montreal.
1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 publishes the 'Declaration of the Reformers of Toronto' in newspaper 'The Constitution'.
1812 Amherstburg Ontario- Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 helps persuade Wyandots (Hurons) to switch allegiance to British.
1803 Quebec- Fourth session of third Parliament of Lower Canada meets until Aug. 11; renewal of Alien Act, due to war between Britain and France.
1786 Vancouver Island BC - James Strange claims Vancouver Island for Britain.
1763 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Pontiac's allies maul Bouquet and his troops at Bushy Run as they are marching to the relief of Ft. Pitt; Bouquet relieves the fort Aug. 10.
1642 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Jesuits Isaac Jogues & Rene Goupil kidnapped by Iroquois, travelling from Ste-Marie to Quebec; Goupil killed, Jogues escapes; later rescued by Dutch traders.
1589 Paris France - King Henri IV 1553-1610 starts reign on death of Henri III; to 1610, when he is assassinated.

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henric · Aug 2, 2014

August 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.
435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
1342 – The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1601 – Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of GoroszlÃ³.
1645 – Thirty Years' War: the Second Battle of NÃ¶rdlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
1795 – Treaty of Greenville is signed.
1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
1852 – Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1929 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, tagged as the messianic "World Teacher", shocks the Theosophy movement by dissolving the Order of the Star, the organisation built to support him.
1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.
1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1981 – Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom injuring seven people.
2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police RaÃºl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1876 BELL MAKES WORLD'S FIRST PHONE CALL IN CANADA
Brantford Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 holds the World's first definitive telephone tests, and makes the first intelligible telephone call from building to building, at Mount Pleasant, near Brantford; in a one-way transmission, he hears his uncle David Bell recite Hamlet's 'to be or not to be...'

1751
Halifax Nova Scotia - Bartholemew Green 1699-1751 founds first printing press in Canada; to print the Halifax Gazette

In Other Events...

1989 Ottawa Ontario - Dr. Wilbert Keon leads the team that implants the heart from an 18 month old donor into an 11 day old Ontario boy; Canada's first Infant heart transplant operation.
1981 Canada - Canadian dollar settles at US 80.53Â¢, after dropping as low as US 80.43Â¢; lowest rate of exchange since Dec. 1931 low of US 80.08Â¢.
1978 Edmonton Alberta - Opening of week-long 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton; Canada wins total of 109 medals (45 gold, 31 silver, 33 bronze) in eleven sports; attended by over 1,500 athletes from 46 countries.
1961 Victoria BC - BC government approves takeover of British Columbia Electric as a Crown corporation.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Cooperative Commonwealth Federation changes name to New Democratic Party; chooses T.C. Tommy Douglas 1904-1986 as party leader on first ballot, replacing Hazen Argue, with 1391 votes, to Argue's 380.
1954 Kitimat BC - opening of Alcan's Kitimat hydroelectric plant and aluminum smelter; world's largest; Aluminum Company of Canada started construction in 1951.
1952 Helsinki Finland - 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki; George Genereux won Canada's only gold medal, in shooting.
1944 Normany France - Gen. Bernard Montgomery orders Canadian Gen. H. D. G. Crerar to launch an attack towards Falaise to try and link up with the Americans, and trap retreating German armour pouring through the Falaise Gap; Canadian Army was still stalled on low ground below VerriÃ¨res Ridge; Gen. Guy Simonds launches Operation Totalize and uses artificial moonlight and armoured personnel carriers against the Panzers; until Aug 9.
1942 North Atlantic - RCN Corvette 'Sackville' sinks U-boat in Atlantic; one of four RCN kills in five weeks.
1931 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint Act gets Royal Assent, making the Mint a branch of the Department of Finance.
1918 London England - Lt-Col William A. 'Billy' Bishop awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; Canadian flying ace recently downed 25 German planes in 12 days, bringing his total to 72.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Government suspends coined money payments to conserve gold supply; bank notes are to be considered legal tender, instead of being redeemable for gold.
1914 Victoria BC - BC government, fearful of German raids, buys two submarines from US shipbuilder for its own private navy; subs purchased by the federal government two days later for Canadian naval force.
1860 Nova Scotia - Joseph Howe 1804-1873 Premier of Nova Scotia; succeeds William Young (1799-1887).
1847 Toronto Ontario - Montreal Telegraph Company opens line into Toronto; three years after Samuel Morse invents telegraph; connection from there to Buffalo and US cities.
1847 Fredericton New Brunswick - Opening of New Brunswick Normal School (teacher's college) in Fredericton.
1777 Fort Stanwix New York - Barry St. Leger beseiges Fort Stanwix on the Mohawk River, held by Col. Peter Gansevoort and 750 Americans.
1757 Fort William Henry New York - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 beseiges Fort William Henry on Lake George with 6,200 troops and 1,800 Indians; defended by 2,500 British under George Munro.
1751 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Jean-Louis, Comte de Raymond c1702-1771 arrives at Louisbourg to serve as Governor of Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island); until October 1753.
1615 Penetanguishene Ontario - Etienne BrulÃ© guides Champlain to Carhagonha, about 16 km west of Penetang; meet Joseph Le Caron; Champlain then leaves for village of Cahiague, on Lake Simcoe.
1610 Hudson Bay NWT - Henry Hudson d1611 enters Hudson Bay; sails along east coast possibly as far as James Bay; decides to winter on shore; ship frozen in by November.
1583 St. John's Newfoundland - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 arrives off St. John's with ships Delight, Golden Hind, Swallow and Squirrel; enters Harbour two days later to claim Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1527 St. John's Newfoundland - Captain John Rut reports to King Henry VIII about conditions in Newfoundland and Labrador; the first recorded letter from the New World to the Old.

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henric · Aug 3, 2014

August 4th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

70 Â– The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
367 Â– Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
598 Â– Goguryeo-Sui War: Emperor WÃ©ndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo (Korea) during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.
1265 Â– Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham Â– the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
1327 Â– First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
1532 Â– The Duchy of Brittany is united to the Kingdom of France.
1578 Â– Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir Â– the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
1693 Â– Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
1704 Â– War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1783 Â– Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
1789 Â– In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
1790 Â– A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1791 Â– The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the OttomanÂ–Habsburg wars.
1796 Â– French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
1821 Â– Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1824 Â– The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.
1854 Â– The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1863 Â– Matica slovenskÃ¡, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
1873 Â– American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
1892 Â– The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1902 Â– The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1906 Â– Central railway station, Sydney opens.
1914 Â– World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
1915 Â– World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the GorliceÂ–TarnÃ³w Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
1924 Â– Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1936 Â– Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
1944 Â– The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
1946 Â– An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1947 Â– The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1958 Â– The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
1964 Â– American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 Â– Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 Â– The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
1969 Â– Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1974 Â– A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
1975 Â– The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish ChargÃ© d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
1977 Â– U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1984 Â– The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1987 Â– The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
1991 Â– The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
1993 Â– A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1995 Â– Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
2002 Â– Soham murders: 10-year-old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
2005 Â– Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that MichaÃ«lle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
2006 Â– A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
2007 Â– NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
2011 Â– Mark Duggan is shot and killed by Metropolitan Police in Tottenham, London, resulting in public protests and eventually four days of riots.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1914 CANADA ENTERS WORLD WAR I
Ottawa Ontario - Canada officially enters World War I when Britain declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary; when Germany invades Belgium; US proclaims neutrality. Canada will vote to spend $50 million to raise an army.

1769
Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island comes into being as the British Crown separates Ile St-Jean from Nova Scotia. The new colony, population 250, is given a governor, lieutenant-governor, executive and legislative councils, a Supreme Court and civil service, and plans are made for a legislative assembly.

In Other Events...

1996 Atlanta Georgia - Closing of the 26th Olympic Summer games in Atlanta; Canada won 3 gold, 11 silver, 8 bronze medals.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1996 announces he will rejoin constitutional talks; boycotted since Meech Lake; likes July 7 proposals by PM and other premiers; wants Senate changes.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays Dave Stieb's perfect game broken up in 9th inning with 2 outs by NY Yankee Roberto Kelly.
1983 Toronto Ontario - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield charged by Toronto police with unncessary cruelty to an animal after he kills an Exhibition Stadium seagull with a thrown baseball; charges later dropped after Winfield convinces police the killing was accidental; the 'Fowl Ball' incident.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Molson Brewery acquires Montreal Canadiens hockey team for $20 million.
1978 Eastman Quebec - Forty one handicapped persons die when their bus plunges into a lake near Eastman.
1976 London England - Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet 1894-1974 dies at age 82; Toronto born barber's son became a millionaire owner of broadcasting stations and newspapers and North Sea oil holdings; he was elevated to the peerage in 1963.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Commons approves John Diefenbaker's Canadian Bill of Rights, setting out Canadian rights and freedoms in written form; Royal Assent August 10.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Parliamentary Library in Ottawa badly damaged by fire.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Canada decides to send 4,000 soldiers to Korea to assist the UN Force.
1944 Normandy France - Canadian Gen. H.D.G. Crerar prepares to launch Operation Totalize with 3 exhausted infantry divisions, and 2 armoured divisions: (4th Canadian and the 1st Polish); to attack towards Falaise on the 8th, bolster the American advance to the west and trap retreating German armour. Five German divisions scattered before the American front, seven in battle with the Canadians, 19 massed between the Vire and Orne rivers. On August 6, Hitler will order his Panzer divisions to counter-attack.
1944 Beauvais France - R.A.F. Squadron Leader Ian Bazalgette of Calgary, shot down over France in his Lancaster bomber during an incendiary raid on a German missile launch pad near Beauvais; with both starboard engines hit by anti-aircraft fire, he continued to guide his squadron to their target; after dropping his bombs, the fuel tank exploded, and he ordered his crew to bail out; stayed at the controls and guided the Lancaster away from the village of Senantes before it crashed, killing him and two comrades. Bazalgette was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously; a junior high school in Calgary is named in his honour.
1943 Ontario - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 wins Ontario provincial election for Conservatives.
1910 Halifax Nova Scotia - Surplus British Royal Navy cruiser becomes HMCS Rainbow, first ship commissioned by the Royal Canadian Navy.
1858 Toronto Ontario - Edmund Walker Head 1805-1868 refuses to dissolve Parliament and call election when 'Short Ministry' defeated in House; Brown & Dorion resign.
1839 Toronto Ontario - John Strachan 1778-1867 appointed first Anglican Bishop of Toronto, serving until his death.
1837 Point Barrow Alaska - Thomas Simpson 1808-1840 reaches Barrow Point; takes possession for Britain; travelling alone without Dease.
1814 Michilimackinac Michigan - Lt. Col. Robert McDouall and a small garrison of less than 200 seamen, Michigan Fencibles and Newfoundland regulars beats off Col. George Croghan and 750 Americans at Mackinaw.
1769 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island comes into being as the British Crown separates the Island of St. Jean from Nova Scotia. The new colony, population 250, is given a governor, lieutenant-governor, executive and legislative councils, a Supreme Court and civil service, and plans are made for a legislative assembly.
1757 Fort William Henry New York - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 starts to surround Fort William Henry on Lake George with 6,200 troops, who set camps in the woods round the fort, while his 1,800 Indians start shooting from the cover of tree stumps in the open areas on all sides of the fort; defended by 2,500 British under Col. George Munro. At 3 pm Montcalm asks Monro to surrender before the French Cannon are brought to bear on the fort. Munro refuses. Montcalm directs main thrust of siege on north side of the fort, with two artillery batteries, one directly against the north bastion, the other to cross fire at the same time, to deliver ricochets onto the defenses.
1701 Montreal Quebec - New France signs general treaty of peace with Iroquois.
1637 Ontario - Huron council blames smallpox epidemic on sorcery of 'black robes' (Jesuits).

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henric · Aug 4, 2014

August 5th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

25 – Guangwu claims the throne as emperor after a period of political turmoil, restoring the Han Dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin Dynasty.
642 – Battle of Maserfield – Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
939 – The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of LeÃ³n and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle resulted in a victory for the Emirate of Cordoba.
1068 – Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1278 – The Siege of Algeciras ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada. The battle resulted in a Granadan victory.
1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.
1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
1689 – One thousand five hundred Iroquois attack the village of Lachine in New France.
1716 – The Battle of Petrovaradin takes place.
1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
1772 – The First Partition of Poland begins.
1781 – The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.
1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
1861 – American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872).
1861 – The United States Army abolishes flogging.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge – Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins – At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
1882 – The Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.
1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
1901 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m). The record will stand for 20 years.
1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
1914 – World War I: The German minelayer KÃ¶nigin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
1914 – World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1940 – World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
1941 – World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
1944 – World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
1944 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
1949 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
1949 – The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana.
1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
1958 – Herbert Hoover eclipses John Adams as having the longest retirement of any former U.S President until that time. Hoover would live another six years, his record 31 years 7 months 16 days retirement has since been eclipsed by Jimmy Carter.
1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
1962 – Apartheid in South Africa: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
1963 – The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
1969 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
1974 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
1979 – In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
1981 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.
1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
2003 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
2010 – The CopiapÃ³ mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground.
2010 – Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan.
2012 – The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1960 EX-PM MEIGHEN DIES IN TORONTO
Toronto Ontario - Senator Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 dies in Toronto at the age of 86; Canada's 9th Prime Minister, 1920-21 and 1926.

1940
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Camilien Houde 1889-1958 arrested by RCMP for sedition; because of his fascist sympathies he was sent to internment camp for the rest of World War II under the War Measures Act

1969
In Other Events...

Ottawa Ontario - Energy, Mines, and Resources completes the Canadian topographical map series; 918 maps of Canada on a scale of four miles to the inch.
1965 Laval Quebec - City of Laval created by Quebec provincial legislation.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King 1874-1950 elected Leader of the Liberal Party on the third ballot, succeeding interim leader Daniel McKenzie; gets 476 votes, to W.S. Fielding's 438.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Canada joins the rest of the British Empire in the war on Germany; the day after the German invasion of Belgium.
1913 Victoria, BC - US barnstormer John Bryant killed when he crashes his Curtiss seaplane; Canada's first air fatality.
1858 Newfoundland - Frederick N. Gisbourne 1824-1892 completes laying Cyrus W Field's first transatlantic telegraph cable from Ireland to Newfoundland; started July 7; the service ends on September 1 because the current is too weak, and the line is relayed using a thicker and better shielded cable.
1833 Quebec Quebec - 'Royal William' leaves Quebec for Pictou to take on coal.
1822 London England - Imperial Trade Act forbids Lower Canada from imposing new duties without Upper Canada approval; regulates trade battle between Upper and Lower Canada.
1812 Brownstown Michigan - Tecumseh 1768-1813 defeats Americans at Brownstown, cutting General Hull's supply line; Chief of the Shawnees.
1763 Bushy Run - Pontiacdefeated by British at Bushy Run.
1756 Kingston Ontario - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 sets out from Fort Frontenac to attack British post of Fort Ontario.
1689 Lachine Quebec - 1,500 Iroquois attack and burn the village of Lachine; massacre 24 inhabitants and kidnap 90; 42 of 90 never seen again.
1602 Hudson Strait NWT - George Weymouth'Discovery' and 'Godspeed' clear Hudson Strait and head for England.
1583 St. John's Newfoundland - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 enters Harbour and reads Charter claiming the lands 200 miles around St. John's for Elizabeth I; grants shore rights to 36 foreign vessels; the first English colony in North America.

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henric · Aug 5, 2014

August 6th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
1506 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk
1538 – BogotÃ¡, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo JimÃ©nez de Quesada.
1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
1824 – Battle of Junin Peru.
1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1845 – The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of WÃ¶rth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Krakow are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising--the Krakow Uprising (1944)-- that was planned but never carried out.
1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.
1990 – Gulf War: the United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam. (228 died, 26 lived)
2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'Ã©tat in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
2011 – A march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London, ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.
2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1866 VANCOUVER ISLAND JOINED TO MAINLAND
London England - A British Imperial statute unites Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland; the Island had originally been granted to the Hudson's Bay Company and became a colony in 1850.

1654
Lachine Quebec - Pierre-Esprit Radisson 1640-1710 starts his first western trading journey with his brother-in-law Medart Chouart des Groseilliers (1618-1696); they winter at Green Bay, Wisconsin

1991 In Other Events...

Ottawa Ontario - Jean Charest announces new Aulavik National Park on Banks Island in Western Arctic; 12,000 sq km; Environment Minister; Aulavik means 'where people travel' in Inuit
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and Newfoundland will cover 75% of Hibernia operating expenses May 15-Nov 1 to $127 m; will keep Chevron, Mobil and Petro-Canada operating until Gulf replaced
1991 Toronto Ontario - Roland Michener 1900- dies at age 91; Governor General 1967-74; MLA, MP; Speaker of the Commons 5 years; Alberta native a Rhodes Scholar; set up Order of Canada
1991 Thunder Bay Ontario - Bob Rae 1949- recognizes First Nations right to self government; Ontario to devolve powers to each nation; policing, justice, medical care. education and resources
1990 United Nations New York - Canada agrees to join trade embargo against Iraq ordered by UN security Council; fear of similar aggression toward Saudi Arabia
1974 Cyprus - Canadian peacekeeper killed during Greek-Turkish fighting on Cyprus
1943 Sicily Italy - Canadian First Infantry Division and First Tank Brigade go into reserve; after victory in Sicily
1942 North Atlantic - Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine pursues and rams a German U-Boat in the fog, finally sinking her with a 4.7 inch shell
1939 Montreal Quebec - Regular air mail service inaugurated to Britain
1932 Welland Ontario - opening of new Welland Ship Canal
1931 PEI - James David Stewart 1874-1933 leads Conservatives to victory in Prince Edward Island elections
1930 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King 1874-1950 resigns as Prime Minister
1914 Ottawa Ontario - government bans export of food, coal, military and naval stores; except to Britain, Japan, France, Russia, and US allies
1884 Saskatchewan - government of NWT sets up public school system; including separate schools
1858 Canada - George-Etienne Cartier & John A. Macdonald get all their ministers to resign and exchange portfolios for one day to get around a technicality; called the 'Double Shuffle' by the Opposition
1827 London England - Treaty of London fixes co-dominion west of the Rockies; either side free to end arrangement at 12 months notice
1777 Oriskany New York - Nicholas Herkimer 1728-1777 moves to relieve Fort Stanwyck; attacked by Mohawks under Joseph Brant; badly wounded; Indians retreat when reinforcements arrive from Fort Stanwyck
1777 Oriskany New York - John Johnson 1742-1830, with John Butler and Joseph Brant and a force of Loyalists and Indians, ambushes American Gen. Nicholas Herkimer carrying reinforcements
1671 Quebec Quebec - Charles Albanel c1616-1696 sets out from Quebec to explore Hudson Bay and verify presence of Radisson and Groseilliers; on order of Jean Talon
1654 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Robert Sedgwick 1611-1656 captures Port Royal
1497 Cape Race Newfoundland - John Cabot c1450-1498 departs for Bristol, likely from Cape Race vicinity; after exploring coast of Nova Scotia; Giovanni Caboto Montecataluna.

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henric · Aug 6, 2014

August 7th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

322 BC Â– Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon.
461 Â– Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
626 Â– The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
936 Â– Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
1420 Â– Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
1427 Â– The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
1461 Â– The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1679 Â– The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1714 Â– The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
1782 Â– George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 Â– The United States Department of War is established.
1791 Â– American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1794 Â– U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1819 Â– SimÃ³n BolÃvar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of BoyacÃ¡.
1858 Â– Australian rules football was founded and the first match was played between Melbourne Football Club and Scotch Grammar. The Melbourne Football Club (the oldest remaining sporting club in the world), was also founded on this day.
1879 Â– The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.
1890 Â– Anna MÃ¥nsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 YngsjÃ¶ murder.
1909 Â– Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
1927 Â– The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1930 Â– The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1933 Â– The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1938 Â– The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
1940 Â– World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
1942 Â– World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins Â– United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1944 Â– IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1946 Â– The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
1947 Â– Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1947 Â– The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
1955 Â– Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
1959 Â– The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008.
1959 Â– Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 Â– CÃ´te d'Ivoire becomes independent from France.
1964 Â– Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1965 Â– The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
1966 Â– Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
1970 Â– California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1974 Â– Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
1976 Â– Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1978 Â– U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.
1979 Â– Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
1981 Â– The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1985 Â– Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1985 Â– The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England.
1987 Â– Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
1989 Â– U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1998 Â– The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
1999 Â– The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan.
2007 Â– Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
2008 Â– Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war.
2012 Â– Three gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1930 BENNETT SWORN IN AS PRIME MINISTER
Ottawa Ontario - Richard Bedford R. B. Bennett 1870-1947 asked to form government on resignation of Mackenzie King; Canada's 9th Prime Minister, to Oct. 23, 1935; King PM since Aug. 7, 1930.

1679
Cayuga Creek Ontario - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 launches his 46 ton trading vessel 'Le Griffon,' the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes; on Aug 27 La Salle left on the Griffon for Michilimackinac and Green Bay with trade goods, and La Salle returned east. On Sept 18 she left laden with furs for Niagara, but was never seen again.

1982 In Other Events...

Montreal Quebec - Don Muir and Andre Daemen land at Dorval Airport after a record round-the-world propellor flight in a time of 6 days, 7 hours, 30 minutes; Muir, 26, is a bush pilot from Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Daemen, 22, is a Montreal flying instructor
1979 Vancouver BC - first day of trading in British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation (BCRIC) shares.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- announces that Canada will seek agreement to set up 370 km (200-mi) economic coastal zone.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa allows first 15 members of 100 refugee families into country from Hong Kong; special policy only
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet decides to recruit and create a special Canadian armed force of 5,000 men for service with United Nations in Korea.
1948 Canada - Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 chosen as party leader on first ballot by Liberal Party; 848 votes, to J.G. Gardiner (323), Chubby Power (56)
1929 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans immigrants from entering Canada under labour contracts, except farm or domestic workers.
1929 Fort Erie Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King joins British PM Stanley Baldwin and Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) and US Vice President Charles Dawes in dedicating the Peace Bridge to Buffalo, NY, one of the busiest border crossings between Canada and the US.
1914 Britain - Britain suggests Canada issue naturalization certificates to aliens; proof of five years residence to make them British subjects
1867 Canada - John A Macdonald starts campaigning for first general elections following Confederation; election lasts until Sept 20.
1865 Canada - Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau 1808-1894 joins Macdonald in Ministry, as co-Premier.
1858 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa officially becomes capital of the Province of Canada.
1858 Canada - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 adopts Confederation as major plank of Liberal-Conservative party platform.
1858 Canada - Cartier & Macdonald let all ministers resume offices they held before July 29; procedure known as 'Double-Shuffle'; under the rules, a Minister changing his portfolio within a month of appointment can avoid election
1803 Orwell Bay PEI - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 sends first of 800 Highland settlers from Scotland to Orwell Bay; begins colonizing efforts in PEI
1640 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Chevrier, Baron de Fancamp organizes the SociÃ©tÃ© de Notre Dame de MontrÃ©al, to buy Montreal Island from the Company of New France; with Jerome Le Rouer, Sieur de La DauversiÃ¨re and Father Jean-Jacques Olier

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henric · Aug 7, 2014

August 8th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Ven, Denmark.
1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
1709 – Bartolomeu de GusmÃ£o demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal
1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1870 – The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
1885 – More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.
1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
1927 – The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.
1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1940 – The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.
1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal Â£2.6 million in bank notes.
1963 – The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road.
1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1980 – The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.
1988 – The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.
1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2008 – A EuroCity express train en route from KrakÃ³w, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near StudÃ©nka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1907 GREY FOX BREAKS OUT OF JAIL
New Westminster BC - Bill Miner 1847-1913, the Gentleman Bandit, escapes from penitentiary and flees to the US, where he continues his bank robbing career until his death in a Georgia prison; he was jailed for 25 years for his part in a bungled CPR train robbery in Kamloops in 1906; the film, The Grey Fox, is based on his exploits.

1918
Amiens France - General Sir Arthur William Currie 1875-1933 mounts four day assault on Amiens with the Canadian Corps, backed by Australians; marks the start of "Canada's Hundred Days," a string of almost continuous victories, during which the Canadian Corps played the major role in breaking the German lines and driving them back along the Western Front, culminating in the First World War armistice of Nov. 11. German General Erich Ludendorff called today the "black day of the German army."

1991
In Other Events...

Toronto Ontario - Ron Joyce sells Tim Horton's, Canada's No. 1 doughnut chain to Wendy's International Inc.; $300-million deal makes Tim Horton's co-founder the U.S. burger giant's largest single shareholder.
1977 Yukon - Ottawa approves Foothills Pipe Lines (Yukon) Ltd. plan for Alaska Highway pipeline; pending outcome of negotiations with the US
1944 Quebec - Maurice Duplessis 1890-1959 returns to power in Quebec election, partly due to Union Nationale use of conscription issue; Prime Minister of Quebec to 1959
1944 Caen France - Canadians break through first German defence line south of Caen, as Americans conquer Brittany and head toward Paris.
1944 North Atlantic - German U-boats sink Canadian Corvette HMCS 'Regina'.
1934 Wasaga Beach Ontario - J. R. Ayling and L. Reid leave from Wasaga Beach to London in first non-stop transatlantic flight from Canada to England; arrive August 9
1918 London England - John Croke becomes the first Newfoundlander to win the Victoria Cross; captured a German machine gun nest while severely wounded.
1812 Detroit Michigan - William Hull 1753-1825 withdraws to Detroit.
1774 Vancouver Island BC - Juan Jose Perez Hernandez c l725-1775 sails south to Vancouver Island.
1758 Port-la- Joie PEI - Andrew Rollo 1703-1765 captures Prince Edward Island from the French, deports 3,500 inhabitants to France, builds Fort Amherst.
1758 Fort Anne Quebec - Robert Rogers 1731-1795 defeats French at Fort Anne; Rogers' Scouts
1740 Quebec Quebec - Francois-Louis de Pourroy de LauberiviÃ¨re 1711-1740 dies 12 days after arriving in Quebec; newly appointed Bishop.
1619 Ice Cove NWT - Rasmus Jensen ship's chaplain holds first Lutheran service in Canada with Jens Munk and crew; only Munk and two others survive the voyage
1610 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 departs for France, leaving behind party of 16 under command of Jean de Godet du Parc.
1585 Cape Mercy NWT - John Davis c1543-1605 rounds peninsula he calls Cape of God's Mercy (Cape Mercy) then enters wide and deep bay; calls it Cumberland Sound; hopes it is the North West Passage

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henric · Aug 8, 2014

August 9th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
1329 – Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.
1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.
1610 – The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
1810 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole – A small band of Nez PercÃ© Indians clash with the United States Army
1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
1914 – Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
1942 – Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright.
1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
1965 – A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
1971 – The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.

Today's Canadian Highlight...

1988 PETER PUCK TRADES GRETZKY
Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky traded by Edmonton Oiler owner Peter Pocklington to Los Angeles Kings with two other players; Oilers get Jimmy Carson, top draft choice Martin Gelinas, 3 other first-round draft choices and a reputed $15-20 million.

1995 In Other Events...

Toronto Ontario - Ted Rogers Rogers Communications Inc. takes a $99-million (Canadian) writedown to bring the carrying value of its investment in Unitel Communications Inc. to zero..
1978 Edmonton Alberta - Canadian swimmer Graham Smith wins Canada's 26th gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, a record; a few hours later, he is a winner in the 400 Metre Medley, becoming the first athlete to win 6 golds at a single Games.
1974 Lebanon - Nine Canadians peacekeppers are killed when a Syrian anti-aircraft missile shoots down a UN transport plane en route to Damascus from Beirut; providing air transport and communications support to the UN Emergency Force
1969 Kejimkujik Nova Scotia - opening of Kejimkujik National Park in south-west Nova Scotia.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - federal conciliation board recommends pay rise for 100,000 non-operating railway employees; plus job security fund; breaks new ground in labour relations
1950 Korea - John Meredith Rockingham 1911- appointed commander of Canadian brigade in Korea.
1948 Montreal Quebec - Paul-Emile Borduas 1905-1960 publishes 'Refus globale'; Automatist manifesto urges liberation from controlling forces of society; removed from post at L'Ecole du Meuble; leaves Canada for Paris in 1953
1945 Honshu Island Japan - Robert Hampton Gray 1917-1944 shot down and killed in a dive bombing raid at Onagawa Wan as he sinks Japanese destroyer; Royal Navy pilot Gray was the last Canadian known to have died In World War II; he was awarded a posthumous VC. In 1989, in Sakiyami Park, Japan, Gray became the first member of the Allied Forces honored by the Japanese with a memorial.
1941 Argentia Bay Newfoundland - Winston Spencer Churchill meets Franklin D. Roosevelt at sea off Newfoundland.
1930 Toronto Ontario - Canada's Percy Williams established a world record of 10:03 seconds for 100 metres.
1881 St. John's Newfoundland - start of construction of railway from St. John's to Hall Bay; first railway in Newfoundland
1878 Victoria BC - British Columbia legislature votes to secede from Canada; gives impetus to financing of CPR and Imperial loan guarantees
1870 London England - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 negotiates Imperial Loan Act for Canadian Defences and to build fortifications; Minister of Militia
1842 Washington DC - US Secretary of State Daniel Webster & Alexander Baring, Lord Ashburton sign Treaty settling Maine/New Brunswick boundary dispute; also deals with extradition questions; Webster-Ashburton Treaty fixes the border from the headwaters of the Ste. Croix River to the Eastern Townships and from Lake Huron to the Lake of the Woods
1840 London England - Britain allows Canada to sell clergy reserves and give proceeds to Churches of England and Scotland; public lands formerly set aside for use of Church
1838 Victoria Island NWT - Simpson & Dease reach Cape Flinders near Point Turnagain; Simpson goes further160 km; names Victoria Is & Cape Pelly.
1836 Ontario - Chippewas cede 600,000 hectares in Bruce, Grey, Huron, and Wellington Counties to the Crown; 1,500,000 acres
1782 Churchill Manitoba - Chief Factor Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 surrenders HBC post Fort Prince of Wales to French force led by Jean-Francois de Galaup, Count de Laperouse 1741-1783
1757 Fort William Henry New York - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 leads 6,200 troops and 1,800 Indians in capture of Fort William Henry; takes 2,200 British prisoners; stops murder of prisoners by Native allies
1534 Anticosti Island Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sails west into St. Lawrence; believing it to be bay, turns east along coast, round Anticosti; forced by storm to shelter in bay north of Anticosti Island

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henric · Aug 9, 2014

August 10th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

955 Â– Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
991 Â– Battle of Maldon: the English, led by Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon, Essex.
1270 Â– Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year Zagwe interregnum.
1316 Â– The Second Battle of Athenry takes place near Athenry during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.
1512 Â– The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La CordeliÃ¨re and the English ship The Regent.
1519 Â– Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second in command Juan SebastiÃ¡n Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
1557 Â– Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
1628 Â– The Swedish warship Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.
1675 Â– The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
1680 Â– The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico.
1755 Â– Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.
1776 Â– American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1792 Â– French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace Â– Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1793 Â– The MusÃ©e du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
1809 Â– Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
1813 Â– Instituto Nacional, is founded by the Chilean patriot JosÃ© Miguel Carrera. It is Chile's oldest and most prestigious school. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit, which means "Work conquers all things".
1821 Â– Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1846 Â– The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
1861 Â– American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek Â– the war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
1864 Â– After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, JosÃ© AntÃ´nio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
1899 Â– the Norwegian football club Viking FK was founded.
1901 Â– The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
1904 Â– Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
1905 Â– Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1913 Â– Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1920 Â– World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of SÃ¨vres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1932 Â– A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1944 Â– World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
1944 Â– World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined GermanÂ–Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.
1948 Â– Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1949 Â– U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.
1953 Â– First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
1954 Â– At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
1961 Â– First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
1969 Â– A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1971 Â– The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
1977 Â– In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
1978 Â– Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
1981 Â– Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found. This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted.
1988 Â– Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
1990 Â– The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1990 Â– More than 127 Muslims are killed in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitary troops.
1993 Â– An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
1995 Â– Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
1998 Â– HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
2001 Â– 2001 Angola train attack, 252 deaths.
2003 Â– The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom Â– 38.5 Â°C (101.3 Â°F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 Â°F (38 Â°C).
2003 Â– Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
2009 Â– Twenty people are killed in HandlovÃ¡, TrenčÃn Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
2012 Â– The Marikana miners' strike begins near Rustenburg, South Africa.
2013 Â– The World Championships in Athletics takes place in Moscow, Russia.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1876 BELL CALLS LONG DISTANCE
Brantford Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 makes the world's first long-distance call from Brantford to the Bell homestead in Paris, Ontario; using a 13 km long line strung from Brantford.

In Other Events....

1995 Montreal Quebec- Laval Cosmodome receives a lump of moon rock from NASA.
1995 Ottawa Ontario- Ottawa shuts down B.C.'s Fraser River salmon fishery over concerns about fish stocks.
1993 Montreal Quebec- Newspaper Le Devoir rescued by investments from Le Fonds de SolidaritÃ© ($300 000) and Les Caisses Populaires ($200 000).
1993 Montreal Quebec- Man burns himself to death on Mount Royal.
1990 Ottawa Ontario- Canada to send three ships and 800 sailors to the Persian Gulf as part of multinational force to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.
1987 Toronto Ontario- CKO All-News Radio announces the purchase of Newsradio; now defunct.
1982 Montreal Quebec- Claude Ryan resigns as Leader of the Parti Liberal du Quebec; GÃ©rard-D. LÃ©vesque interim leader.
1981 Canada- 23,000 Canadian Union of Postal Workers members end 42-day strike.
1977 Ottawa Ontario- Parliament passes law to end three-day strike by air traffic controllers over wages; some Canadian controllers had refused to handle US flights after American work stoppage made the skies unsafe; trans-Atlantic air traffic thrown into chaos.
1973 Montreal Quebec- La Presse acquires MontrÃ©al-Matin tabloid newspaper.
1970 Quebec- Quebec National Assembly legislates 40,000 striking construction workers back to work.
1966 Canada- Brian Parks of Winnipeg wins world bridge trophy.
1966 Ottawa Ontario- Heron Road Bridge over the Rideau River and Canal collapses, killing 9 construction workers and injuring 80.
1966 Canada- Daylight meteor streaks across the sky from Utah to Canada; only known meteor to skip through the Earth's atmosphere and leave it again.
1961 Ottawa Ontario- National Capital Commission starts restoring east side of Sussex Drive as Centennial project.
1960 Ottawa Ontario- John Diefenbaker's Canadian Bill of Rights becomes law; document applies only to federal law because provincial consent not obtained; recognizes rights of individuals to life, liberty, personal security and enjoyment of property; protects rights to equality before the law and freedoms of speech, religion, assembly and association and the press; not superseded by the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
1954 Cornwall Ontario- Groundbreaking ceremonies held at Cornwall and Massena, New York for St. Lawrence River power plant; part of the Seaway project.
1953 Canada- Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 wins 22nd federal general election 171 seats to 51 Progressive Conservatives; 23 CCF; 15 Social Credit; 5 others; defeats George Drew with 48.8% of popular vote; Lionel Bertrand elected by acclamation in Quebec.
1953 Quebec Quebec- Wilbert Coffin jailed for murder.
1949 Toronto Ontario- Avro Canada C.102 Jetliner takes maiden flight; designed to meet a Trans-Canada Airlines requirement; first jet transport to fly in North America and second to fly in the world, 13 days after the flight of the De Havilland 106 Comet; government halts development in 1951 to force Avro to concentrate on the CF-100 jet fighter.
1935 London England- John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield 1875-1940 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves until February 11,1940; from November 2.
1927 Markerville Alberta- Stephan G. Stephanson 1853-1927 dies; born in Iceland in 1853, immigrated with his family to Wisconsin in 1878, and then to Alberta in 1889, where he took a homestead, farming in the day, and writing Icelandic narrative; known as 'Klettafjallaskadid,' the Poet of the Rocky Mountains.
1925 New Brunswick- John Baxter 1868-1946 leads Conservatives to power in NB provincial election; Premier until 1931.
1910 Pembroke Ontario- J.A.D. McCurdy sends the first wireless message from an airplane in flight; during testing at Camp Petawawa.
1907 Krugerville Alberta- John Underwood of Krugerville the first man in Canada lifted into the air by a kite; spent 15 minutes aloft tethered 10 feet in the air; Underwood brothers were farmers inspired by the Wright brothers.
1891 Ottawa Ontario- Hector-Louis Langevin retires as Minister of Public Works in the Macdonald government.
1883 Calgary Alberta- Father Albert Lacombe 1827-1916 elected President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, as W. C. Van Horne steps aside for one hour; Lacombe is also given a life pass on the CPR in recognition of his efforts to keep the peace between the Blackfoot and CPR workers.
1877 Quebec Quebec- Strike of stonecutters and masons halts construction of the Quebec parliament Buildings.
1876 Brantford Ontario- Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 makes world's first long-distance call, using a 13 km long line from Brantford to the Bell homestead in Paris.
1850 Toronto Ontario- Victoria College moves to Toronto from Cobourg; afiliated with the Methodist Church.
1850 Quebec Quebec- Incorporation of Quebec & Richmond Railroad Company.
1850 Kingston Ontario- Assembly of the Province of Canada passes An Act to amend the 1841 Currency Act; sets value of the US dollar at 5 shillings; empowers Canada to mint silver coinage in amounts of 5s, 2s 6d, 2s, 1s 3d, 1s, 6d, and 3d, and gold coins in values of 10s, 12s 6d, 1 pound, and 1 pound 5 s.
1846 Montreal Quebec- Meeting of 6,000 petitions railway development in Canada.
1840 Saint John New Brunswick- 'Star of the East' first known balloon to fly in Canada.
1764 Quebec Quebec- James Murray forms civil government in Quebec; end of military regime; deadline for transport of French who wush to return to France.
1757 Fort William Henry New York- Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 fails to prevent massacre of the departing English men, women and children by his Indian allies; only 400 of the 2,200 English make it half way to Fort Lydius (Fort Edward), where they are met by an escort of 500 men, sent out for their protection; during the siege some of the Indians contracted smallpox and brought this back to their villages that winter. The resulting epidemic during the winter of 1757-58 took most of the Great Lakes tribes out of the war.
1756 Oswego New York- Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 reaches British post of Fort Ontario and starts artillery attack on garrison consisting of two new British line regiments, the 15th and 51st, under James F. Mercer; French Canadians and Indian allies also start to fire with small arms; that night, the French start digging trenches behind the high ground to the north of the fort; two days later, they have a battery set up, with cannon on high ground, about 25 metres from the fort.
1703 Maine- Abenakis Indians raid English settlements in Maine; during Queen Anne's War (War of the Spanish Succession) 1702-1713.
1689 Fort Albany NWT- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 defends Fort Albany against English counterattack; surrenders Fort New Severn.
1685 Hudson Bay NWT- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 captures an English vessel.
1658 Quebec Quebec- Completion of the Hotel Dieu hospital at Quebec.
1535 Baie Ste-GeneviÃ¨ve Quebec- Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 enters a sheltered bay he names St. Lawrence, in honor of the saint's feast day; name given in early 1600s to Gulf of St. Lawrence & St Lawrence River.
1497 Bristol England- John Cabot receives a Â£10 reward from Henri VII for his discoveries in the New World..

End of C/P.

henric · Aug 10, 2014

August 11th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
106 – The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.
490 – Battle of Adda: The Goths under Theodoric the Great and his ally Alaric II defeat the forces of Odoacer on the Adda River, near Milan.
1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1473 – The Battle of Otlukbeli: Mehmed the Conqueror of the Ottoman Empire decisively defeats Uzun Hassan of Aq Qoyunlu.
1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer BrÃ¼cke.
1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
1812 – Peninsular War: French troops engage British-Portuguese forces in the Battle of Majadahonda.
1813 – In Colombia, Juan del Corral declares the independence of Antioquia.
1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
1898 – Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of MayagÃ¼ez, Puerto Rico.
1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
1945 – Poles in KrakÃ³w engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing 1 and wounding 5.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.
1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
1960 – Chad declares independence.
1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail
1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
1975 – East Timor: Governor MÃ¡rio Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes" – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.
2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
2006 – The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1944 CANADIANS TAKE FLORENCE
Florence Italy - Canadian tanks enter the outskirts of Florence with the British Eighth Army, forcing the Germans to evacuate the city.

1931
Ottawa Ontario - Tim Buck 1891-1973 arrested under Section 98 of the Criminal Code - for belonging to an 'unlawful association'; a machinist trained in politics at the Lenin School in Moscow, Buck is one of eight Canadian Communist leaders given prison terms in Kingston Penitentiary that November.

In Other Events....

1997 Ottawa Ontario- Jean ChrÃ©tien writes to Lucien Bouchard cautioning him about the danger of the partitioning of Quebec territory that might come with independence; says, 'The only way to ensure that there will be no partitioning of Quebec - the only legal way to be absolutely sure - is to remain part of Canada.'
1996 Hungary- Jacques Villeneuve wins the Grand Prix of Hungary on the Formula One circuit.
1993 Montreal Quebec- Newspaper Le Devoir resumes publication after bailout.
1991 Edmonton Alberta- Charles Allard dies at age 71; founder of Allarco, real estate and broadcasting empire; owned Superchannel and 50% of the Family Channel.
1990 Oka Quebec- Canadian Forces soldiers arrive at Oka to support Quebec police in their standoff with Mohawk warriors at Kanasetake.
1990 Sherbrooke Quebec- Youth wing of the Parti libŽral du QuŽbec takes a position in favour of sovereignty.
1988 Montreal Quebec- Expos' Gary Carter hits his 300th home run.
1987 Montreal Quebec- Bill Stoneman named new Manager of the Expos, replacing Murray Cook.
1986 Newfoundland- Two lifeboats with 155 Tamils from Sri Lanka found drifting in lifeboats off the coast of Newfoundland; rescued by fishermen, the group first claims they were refugees from India, but later admitted paying a West German ship captain to transport them to Canada illegally; allowed to stay for a year, then deported.
1978 Edmonton Alberta- Opening of 11th British Empire Games, newly renamed the Commonwealth Games; to Aug. 11; with track and field, badminton, boxing, cycling and gymnastics events; Canada will win 109 medals (45 gold, 31 silver, 33 bronze); games first held in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1930.
1977 Ottawa Ontario- Gordon Fairweather 1923- heads new Human Rights Commission; Progressive Conservative MP resigns his seat in Parliament to take the post.
1976 Etobicoke Ontario- Close of Olympiad for the Physically Disabled; Canada places 5th; attended by over 1,500 athletes from 38 countries.
1975 Montreal Quebec- Expos' Jose Mangual strikes out 5 times in a game.
1965 Montreal Quebec- Orford String Quartet gives its first concert.
1963 Ottawa Ontario- Bank of Canada raises discount rate from 3 1/2% to 4%.
1960 Winnipeg Manitoba- Hazen Robert Argue 1918-chosen as national leader by Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, replacing M.J. Coldwell; Coldwell CCF leader since July 1942.
1957 Issoudun Quebec- Maritime Central Airlines DC-4 charter flight from England crashes, killing 79 veterans and their families.
1948 London England- Canadian team attends opening of the Summer Olympics in Wembley Stadium.
1944 Falaise France- Canadian General H. D. G. Crerar moves into the town of Falaise in Operation Tractable, but without reinforcements from a timid Bernard Montgomery, is unable to press the attack; the Germans learn of the attack when a lost Canadian officer, with the orders on him, is captured and killed by the SS. The 18 km Falaise gap is open wide and despite heavy air strikes, the escaping Germans pour through, to fight again.
1943 Quebec Quebec- Mackenzie King welcomes Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt to the opening of the Quebec Conference.
1941 Ottawa Ontario- Government bans the use of silk; to conserve wartime supplies for parachutes.
1931 Toronto Ontario- Tim Buck 1891-1973 arrested under Section 98 of Criminal Code: belonging to an 'unlawful association'; one of eight Communist leaders given prison terms that November.
1927 Toronto Ontario- Founding of the Canadian Home and School Association.
1921 Ottawa Ontario- Julian Byng, Lord Byng of Vimy, takes office as Governor General of Canada.
1915 Sherbrooke Quebec- Mobilization of the 35th Sherbrooke Artillery battery for service in World War I.
1914 St. John's, Newfoundland- Thermometer hits 41.7 degrees Celsius, in Newfoundland's warmest day on record.
1912 Cap-Rouge, Quebec- Rainstorm lasting 108 hours drenches Cap-Rouge with 216 mm; Quebec City gets 196 mm of rain.
1911 Calgary Alberta- Calgary city commissioners accept offer of property developer John Hextall to give the city the islands of Bowness Park in exchange for the extension of the municipal streetcar line to his exclusive residential community, Bowness, along the Bow River just west of Calgary.
1906 Montreal Quebec- Pedestrian killed in first recorded fatal automobile accident in Montreal.
1883 Calgary Alberta- Crowd cheers as first CPR construction train puffs into the settlement of Calgary, a tent city whose only permanent structures are the barracks of NWMP Fort Calgary and the stores of the Hudson's Bay and the I.G. Baker trading companies.
1857 Trinity Bay Newfoundland- Cyrus Field 1819-1892 fails in first attempt to lay Atlantic telegraph cable; from Ireland to Trinity Bay; current too weak.
1854 London England- British Parliament passes Union Amendment Act allowing election of Legislative Council of Canada.
1803 London England- British Parliament passes laws to cover offenses done in Indian lands as subject to courts of Canada.
1771 England- Hudson Bay whalers return with three kills caught off Marble Island; first known Arctic whaling expeditions.
1766 Nova Scotia- William Campbell c1730-1778 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; takes office Nov. 27, 1766.
1757 Montreal Quebec- Montreal rejoices as Bougainville announces Montcalm's victory over the English at Fort William Henry.
1725 Quebec Quebec- Charles Le Moyne, Baron de Longueuil 1656-1729 appointed Administrator of New France; serves until Sept 2, 1726.
1691 La Prairie Quebec- Varennes defeats New York force led by Peter Schuyler at La Prairie.
1679 Detroit Michigan- Cavelier de La Salle arrives at Detroit.
1649 Quebec Quebec- Laurent Berman first licensed practicing notary in New France.
1611 Tadoussac Quebec- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Tadoussac to return to La Rochelle.
1607 Canso Nova Scotia- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 charts Canso and Cape Breton coast before leaving for France with Lescarbot; draws map of Atlantic coastline from Cape Breton to Cape Cod.
1607 Annapolis Nova Scotia- Port Royal Habitation abandoned; Poutrincourt sets out for Canso in a shallop.

End of C/P.

henric · Aug 11, 2014

August 12th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

30 BC – Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
1121 – Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1164 – Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
1323 – Signature of the Treaty of NÃ¶teborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia), that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.
1480 – Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church.
1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
1687 – Battle of MohÃ¡cs: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1793 – The RhÃ´ne and Loire dÃ©partments are created when the former dÃ©partement of RhÃ´ne-et-Loire is split into two.
1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.
1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1877 – Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1898 – An Armistice ends the Spanish–American War.
1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
1914 – World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Haelen a.k.a. (Battle of the Silver Helmets) a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.
1944 – Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
1944 – AlenÃ§on is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
1948 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is struck from the naval record.
1950 – Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre—American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
1953 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale.
1958 – Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait "A Great Day in Harlem" in front of a Brownstone in New York City.
1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
1969 – Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
1976 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
1977 – The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
1977 – The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.
1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.
1980 – The Montevideo Treaty, establishing the Latin American Integration Association, is signed.
1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
1982 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1993 – Pope John Paul II starts his 8th annual World Youth Day in Denver's Mile High Stadium.
1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
2000 – The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
2004 – Mr. Lee Hsien Loong was sworn in as Singapore's third Prime Minister.
2005 – Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
2007 – The bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with the oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1992 CANADA SIGNS NAFTA DEAL
Washington DC - Canadian Trade Minister Michael Wilson signs draft North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) deal with US and Mexico after 14 months of trilateral negotiations; creates the world's largest trading block; to start Jan. 1, 1994; to phase out trade and investment barriers over 10 years; many exemptions; it will take another year to iron out side issues.

1984
Los Angeles California-
Close of XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles; record attendance of 5.5 million people despite Soviet-led boycott; Canada makes best Olympic showing ever, winning 44 medals - 10 gold, 18 silver, 16 bronze - including a double gold in swimming by Alex Baumann - the 200 Metre Individual Medley and the 400 Metre Individual Medley. (Here he is on the podium) Other golds - Victor Davis in 200 Metre Breaststroke; Linda Thom in Match Pistols; Lori Fung in Rhythmic Gymnastics; Ann Ottenbrite in 200 Metre Breaststroke; Sylvie Bernier in Springboard Diving; and the Men's Eight Rowing team.

In Other Events....

1994 Montreal Quebec- Montreal Expos are having their best season to date, with 74 wins and 40 losses, when the major league baseball players go on strike to fight owners' demands for a salary cap; rest of season canceled Sept. 14th, leaving the Expos with the best record in baseball; strike will last 234 days, and wipe out the World Series.
1992 Montreal Quebec- Richard Holden joins Parti Quebecois; says independence inevitable; independent MLA for Westmount.
1991 Ottawa Ontario- Pierrette Venne joins Bloc Quebecois; wants more decentralized federal powers; first female Bloc Quebecois member; MP for St-Hubert defected from Conservative caucus Aug 9.
1991 Montreal Quebec- Guy Saint-Pierre announces takeover of bankrupt Lavalin Inc. for $90 million; President of SNC Group; SNC-Lavalin 6,000 employees, 25 offices, $800 million in revenue; world's fifth largest engineering company.
1990 Montreal Quebec- Chief Justice Alan Gold of Quebec Superior Court reaches deal accepting Mohawk conditions for resumption of talks at Oka; Tom Siddon & John Caccia sign.
1986 Edmonton Alberta- Provincial premiers agree with Mulroney that Quebec's constitutional demands should be given priority at the next federal-provincial conference..
1985 Montreal Quebec- Petro-Canada acquires 1,800 Quebec and Ontario stations from Gulf Canada; now Canada's biggest service station owner.
1981 Ottawa Ontario- Canadian air traffic controllers resume full operations after Ottawa sets up a fact-finding team to investigate problems involving US flights due to the firing of striking US controllers.
1976 Toronto Ontario- R. Howard Webster Toronto's new American League baseball team will be called the Toronto Blue Jays; Chairman of franchise
1965 Nova Scotia- India invests in a hardboard mill in Nova Scotia; India's first industrial investment in western hemisphere
1956 Hollywood California- Montreal actor William Shatner 1931- marries actress Gloria Rand; Captain Kirk in the TV series Star Trek.
1950 Ottawa Ontario- NFL New York Giants beat CFL Ottawa Roughriders 27-6 in an exhibition football game.
1928 Amsterdam Netherlands- Close of IX Olympiad in Amsterdam; Canada comes away with four gold medals: Percy Williams in the 100 m dash and 200 m dash; Ethel Catherwood in the high jump, and the women's 4x100 m relay team.
1919 St. John's, Newfoundland- Edward VIII 1894-1972 arrives in St. John's on official visit at war's end; as Prince of Wales, son of George V; future Edward VIII.
1918 Parvillers France- Private Thomas Dinesen of the 42nd Bn. Quebec Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada single-handedly captures 2 km of strongly defended enemy trenches during 10 hours of hand-to-hand fighting; kills 12 Germans with grenade and bayonet; awarded Victoria Cross Oct. 26, 1918.
1914 London England- Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; Canada automatically involved.
1912 Kenogami Quebec- Kenogami incorporated as a city.
1903 Compton Quebec- Senator Matthew Cochrane dies on his Quebec estate at Compton; boot and shoe manufacturer and the first of Alberta's cattle barons; founded the Cochrane Ranch Company in 1881 and got a 100,000 acre lease along the Bow River west of Calgary; a ranch later sold to the Mormon Church for colonization.
1900 Montreal Quebec- Opening of the ThÃ©Ã¢tre National in Montreal.
1897 Halifax Nova Scotia- British naval authorities grant US Navy permission to put battleship 'Indiana' in drydock in Halifax.
1892 Toronto Ontario- First electric streetcars start operating in Toronto; converted from horse-drawn vehicles to the new Toronto Railway Company cars on the Church route; remainder of lines converted over the next two years.
1889 London England- Imperial Statute defines boundaries of Ontario and Manitoba.
1887 Montreal Quebec- Inauguration of the Montreal-MaskinongÃ© Railway.
1882 Ottawa Ontario- Grand Trunk and Great Western railroads amalgamate into Grand Trunk Railway.
1876 Newport Rhode Island- US yacht Madeleine beats the Countess Dufferin from Toronto in two straight heats in the 4th America's Cup.
1863 Vancouver BC- First cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet for export.
1856 Victoria BC- First Legislature of Vancouver Island meets at Victoria; first elected parliament west of Upper Canada consists of seven members, elected by only 40 voters.
1845 Point Pelee, Ontario- Steamships Kent and London collide in clear weather, with the loss of ten lives.
1842 London England- Imperial Statute creates the Amalgamated Assembly of Newfoundland.
1811 Halifax, Nova Scotia- Laying of the cornerstone of Province House, Nova Scotia's legislative building.
1787 Halifax, Nova Scotia- Charles Inglis 1734-1816 consecrated as the first Anglican Bishop of Nova Scotia; first in the British Empire.
1770 Dubawnt Lake NWT- Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 reaches Dubawnt Lake, about 640 km from Coppermine; forced to turn back because of broken quadrant
1768 London England- Imperial order-in-council confirms border between Canada and New York.
1764 Erie Pennsylvania- John Bradstreet 1714-1774 holds peace talks with Pontiac Rebellion tribes of the Delaware and Shawnee at Fort Presqu'ile; sent to attack them
1756 Oswego New York- Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 sets up a battery on high ground 80 yards from British post of Fort Ontario and starts firing on it with cannon, some of which were Braddock's own cannon, seized after the Battle of the Wilderness. At 4 pm, Col. James Mercer decides the fort is no longer tenable, and orders his regiments - the 15th and 51st to evacuate across the river to old Ft. Oswego; the French then open fire with every gun, and the walls of Fort Oswego start to break apart under the cannonade. The defenders will hold out for two more days before being massacred by Montcalm's Indian allies.
1662 Quebec Quebec- FranÃ§ois de Laval 1623-1688 leaves for France to ask Louis XIV to abolish Company of New France for failing to support the Church.
1641 Quebec Quebec- Arrival of de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance at Quebec.
1638 Quebec Quebec- Start of construction of the HÃ´tel-Dieu hospital at Quebec.
1615 Midland Ontario- Joseph Le Caron c1586-1632 arrives with Champlain as first missionary to the Hurons; celebrates first recorded Mass in Ontario at Carhagonha, near Midland.

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henric · Aug 12, 2014

August 13th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
523 – John I becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas.
554 – Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius for his long and distinguished service in the Pragmatic Sanction, granting him extensive estates in Italy.
582 – Maurice becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
900 – Count Reginar I of Hainault rises against Zwentibold of Lotharingia and slays him near present-day Susteren.
1099 – Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II as the 160th pope.
1516 – The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s capture Tlatoani CuauhtÃ©moc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1532 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).
1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
1624 – The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister
1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1806 – Battle of Mišar during the Serbian Revolution begins. The battle will end two days later, with a decisive Serbian victory over the Ottomans.
1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.
1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1898 – Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.
1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
1942 – Walt Disney's 5th full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1977 – Members of the British National Front (NF) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
1978 – 150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
1979 – The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida, and devastates the surrounding area.
2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1990 BLOC TAKES FIRST SEAT IN A BY-ELECTION
Montreal Quebec - Gilles Duceppe wins Laurier-Ste-Marie riding for Bloc Quebecois by 16,818 to 4,802 for Liberal Denis Coderre; East End riding held by Liberal Jean-Claude Malepart, who died last November; Duceppe a labor negotiator; first MP elected for Bloc Quebecois group of independent MPs committed to Quebec sovereignty.

1535
Gulf of St. Lawrence - Iroquois guides Domagaya and Taignoagny show Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 'the beginning of the great river of Hochelaga and the way to Kanata'; his second voyage, on the Grande Ermine, Petite Ermine and the Ã‰mÃ©rillon.

1966
Kingston Jamaica - Eighth British Commonwealth Games close; Canadians take home 14 gold medals, 20 silver, and 23 bronze; and Canada's Elaine Tanner 1951- known as Mighty Mouse, has won an unprecedented four gold and three silver medals in swimming.

In Other Events....

1993 Montreal Quebec- Valery Fabrikant sentenced to life in prison for his murder Aug. 24, 1992 of four Concordia University professors, Matthew Douglass, Michael Hogden, Aaron (Jaan) Saber, and Phoivos Ziogas; Fabrikant was angry at the corruption that he perceived to be in the Engineering department.
1992 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench rules unconstitutional a section of the Manitoba Public Schools Act that made Christian prayer in schools mandatory.
1992 Halifax Nova Scotia- Donald Cameron announces Nova Scotia Power Corp is now fully privatized with $850 million share offering; $232 million bought by Nova Scotians on installment plan.
1992 Ottawa Ontario- CRTC head Gerard Veilleux announces approval to start Northstar satellite TV service to US cable subscribers; joint venture between CBC and Power Broadcasting.
1990 Oshawa Ontario- Michael Breaugh wins Oshawa riding for NDP by 12,046 to 9,000 for Liberal Cathy Flynn; was formerly MLA for past 15 years; replacing Ed Broadbent, who retired.
1988 Halifax Nova Scotia- Ronald J Dossenbach sets record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax in 13 days 15 hr 4 minutes.
1987 Montreal Quebec- Bank of Montreal buys 75% of the Nesbitt Thomson brokerage house.
1980 Beechey Island NWT- Joseph MacInnis oceanographer discovers sunken barque HMS 'Breadalbane,' crushed by ice and sunk at Beechey Island Aug. 21, 1853; Scottish ship well preserved by extreme cold; sonar shows some sails and rigging intact; world's northernmost found shipwreck.
1977 Winnipeg Manitoba- Rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive disbands.
1971 Ottawa Ontario- Ottawa and Ontario start $262 million 4-year pollution cleanup program; to clean up pollution in lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence.
1971 Montreal Quebec- Crown suspends charges laid under War Measures Act against 32 Quebeckers; including labour leader Michel Chartrand and lawyer Robert Lemieux.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba- Manitoba takes over provincial car insurance; additional coverage can be sold by private companies; Autopak program.
1960 Trenton Ontario- First group of Canadian Army signallers assigned to UN peacekeeping force leave Canada for Leopoldville, Congo.
1958 Ottawa Ontario- Change to Indian Act says that a person who had taken half-breed lands or scrip, who was registered as an Indian on or before this cut-off date, as well as his/her descendants, would remain registered.
1955 Canso, Nova Scotia- Opening of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton Island to the Nova Scotia mainland.
1946 Quebec Quebec- Opening of new maritime service to Baie Comeau; journey along the north shore takes 7 days.
1945 Montreal Quebec- First International Conference on Civil Aviation held in Montreal.
1944 Falaise France- Canadian General Guy Simonds urges his commanders to show: "more thrust, bypass minor opposition, and advance on a wider front" in Operation Tractable to close the Falaise Gap. British General Bernard Montgomery says to Crerar that "Falaise is to be captured with least possible delay by First Cdn Army. This is not to interfere with our drive on Trun", but offers no reinforcements, so most of the German forces escape to fight again in Holland.
1941 Ottawa Ontario- National Defence establishes the Canadian Women's Army Corps, for women who wish to volunteer for official uniformed service; positions noncombatant and clerical at the start, but some technical trades will soon open up; by 1944 CWACs are filling clerical positions in 1st Canadian Army, 1st and 2nd Canadian Corps and the five combat divisional HQs in north-west Europe; over 21,000 women will serve as CWACs to 1946.
1941 Ottawa Ontario- Wartime Prices and Trade Board moves from Labour to the Department of Finance; according to Ilsley, so that 'Finance would be held responsible for inflation'.
1930 St-Bruno Quebec- British airship R-100 leaves to return to England.
1930 New York City- Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra record their hit, Go Home and Tell Your Mother, on Columbia Records; bandleader from London, Ontario.
1923 Montreal Quebec- Norman Bethune marries Frances Penny.
1913 Nanaimo BC- Canadian Army troops called out at Nanaimo to stop rioting.
1906 Nome Alaska- Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 reaches Nome in his ship Gjoa after first east to west navigation of Northwest Passage.
1905 Japan- Japanese seize Canadian ship Antiope out of Victoria as a carrier of contraband; during Russo-Japanese War.
1901 Montreal Quebec- Opening of new military shooting range in Pointe-aux-Trembles.
1886 Nanaimo BC- John A. MacDonald drives last spike of the Esquimault-Naniamo railway in British Columbia..
1885 Regina Saskatchewan- Kapeyakwaskonam (One Arrow) tried on a charge of treason and felony; sentenced to three years in jail.
1885 Montreal Quebec- CPR buys Montreal to Quebec line.
1863 Ottawa Ontario- Cartier's Militia Act includes all male inhabitants between ages of 18 and 60.
1863 Ottawa Ontario- John Sandfield Macdonald 1812-1872 becomes Premier of the Province of Canada with A-A Dorion; until March 14, 1864.
1860 Montreal Quebec- First issue of The Daily Witness newspaper.
1834 St. Louis, Missouri- Peter Rindisbacher 1806-1834 dies; he and his family came from Switzerland to Lord Selkirk's Red River colony in 1821 believing that they were traveling to the French community of the Red River of Louisiana; helped his family by selling watercolours of daily life in the colony; family left Red River for Illinois in 1826, after floods and insects destroyed their crops; first European artist west of the Great Lakes.
1830 Quebec- Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, Lord Aylmer 1775-1850 appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves from Oct. 20, 1830 to Feb. 4, 1831.
1812 Amherstburg Ontario- Isaac Brock 1769-1812 reaches Amherstburg with 300 men from York and Niagara.
1764 Quebec Quebec- First Meeting of the Legislative Council of Quebec under English rule.
1756 Oswego New York- Gaspard Chaussegros de LÃ©ry 1721-1797 storms old Fort Oswego after Montcalm's capture of Fort Ontario (Fort Chouaguen) across the river; Quebec-born military engineer and artillery expert.
1642 Sorel Quebec- Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 builds Fort Richelieu with 100 men; on present day site of Sorel; leaves garrison of 40 soldiers to protect habitants from Iroquois.

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henric · Aug 13, 2014

August 14th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

29 BC – Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1288 – Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to DÃ¼sseldorf, the village on the banks of the DÃ¼ssel.
1352 – War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1370 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad (subsequently was named after him).
1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383–85: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Ãlvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
1592 – Imjin War: at the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin and Won Kyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu, at Hansan Island.
1598 – Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1720 – The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1816 – The United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
1848 – Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1880 – Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1911 – United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1912 – U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after JosÃ© Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
1914 – World War I: start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
1916 – Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the Entente in World War I
1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2).
1935 – Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
1945 – The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
1971 – Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
1972 – An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 – The Pakistani Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
1974 – The second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins; 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 massacred, 1,619 missing.
1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
1994 – Ilich RamÃrez SÃ¡nchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is captured.
1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
2007 – The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
2013 – Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1941 CHURCHILL AND FDR SIGN ATLANTIC CHARTER
Argentia Bay Newfoundland - British PM Winston Spencer Churchill and US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sign eight-point Atlantic Charter of war and postwar aims on board a battleship off Newfoundland; stresses human rights to choose own government; freer trade; freedom from want.

1812
Amherstburg Ontario - Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 brings 600 of his warriors to help Isaac Brock besiege General Hull at Detroit.

In Other Events....

1990 Oka, Quebec- Task force of 2,600 Canadian Army soldiers arrive to assist the Quebec police in dealing with Mohawk insurgents.
1981 Quebec Quebec- The term 'Estrie' becomes the official place name referring to the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
1980 Los Angeles, California- Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980 murdered by husband Paul Snider; Vancouver born Dorothy Hoogstratten was Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 1980. Her murder inspired several books and films, including Star 80.
1980 London Ontario- Tornado touches down south of London, tearing roofs from apartment buildings, downing power lines and uprooting trees.
1974 Ottawa Ontario- Robert Lorne Stanfield 1914- Progressive Conservative Party leader announces he will resign after leadership convention.
1972 Charlottetown PEI- Prince Edward Island creates Royal Commission to investigate land use, and sale to non-residents.
1968 Montreal Quebec- Montreal awarded National League baseball franchise; birth of the Expos.
1961 Charlottetown PEI- Opening of second conference of provincial premiers in Charlottetown.
1958 Winnipeg Manitoba- CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos 29-21 in first Canadian Football League game.
1948 London England- Closing of the 14th Olympic games in London. Canadian athletes take home no golds, and only one silver medal (Canoeing - C-1 1,000 m: Douglas Bennett) and two bronze (Canoeing - C-1 10,000 m: Norman Lane; and Track and Field 4x100-m relay: Dianne Foster, Patricia Jones, Nancy MacKay, Viola Myers).
1945 Canada- VJ Day celebrations break out as Emperor Hirohito calls upon Japan's war council to surrender unconditionally; total cost of World War to Canada: $11,344,437,766 and 42,000 dead.
1944 Falaise France- Canadian forces finally drive the Germans from the French town of Falaise.
1944 Ottawa Ontario- Closing of the first session of the 19th Federal parliament.
1944 Pembroke Ontario- Camilien Houde liberated from detention at Camp Petawawa; former Montreal Mayor held under War Measures Act for his fascist sympathies.
1943 Quebec Quebec- Mackenzie King opens Quebec Conference attended by Winston Churchill et Franklin Roosevelt; start to discussion and planning of the invasions of Italy and Europe.
1937 Ottawa Ontario- William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sets up Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations (Rowell-Sirois Commission); to examine amendment of BNA Act and relations of Ottawa and provinces.
1936 Berlin Germany- The US defeats Canada 19-8 in the final for the first Olympic basketball gold medal; game invented by James Naismith from Almonte, Ontario.
1936 Louiseville Quebec- Train and truck collide at Louiseville, killing 22.
1934 London Ontario- Millionaire brewer John Labatt abducted at gunpoint by three men, who asked for a ransom of $150,000, which the kidnappers never received; released unharmed three days later; first recorded kidnapping for ransom in Canada.
1932 Los Angeles, California- Closing of the 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles. Canada takes home two gold medals (Boxing - 53.52 kg: Horace Gwynne; High Jump: Duncan McNaughton), 5 silver (100 m sprint: Hilda Strike; 800 m: Alex Wilson; 4x100-m relay: Mary Frizzell, Mildred Frizzell, Lilliam Palmer, Hilda Strike; Wrestling - 72-kg freestyle: Dan McDonald; Yachting Team 8 m: Earnest Cribb, Peter Gordon, George Gyles, Harry Jones, Ronald Maitland, Hubert Wallace); and 8 bronze (Rowing Eights: Don Boal, Earl Eastwood, Harry Fry, Joseph Harris, Cedric Liddell, George MacDonald, Stanley Stanyar, Albert Taylor, William Thoburn; Double sculls: Noel DeMille, Charles Pratt; 400 m sprint: Alex Wilson; 800 m: Philip Edwards; 1,500 m: Philip Edwards; High Jump: Eva Dawes; 4x400-m relay: Jim Ball, Philip Edwards, Ray Lewis, Alex Wilson; Yachting Team 6 m: Earnest Cribb, Peter Gordon, George Gyles, Harry Jones, Ronald Maitland, Hubert Wallace).
1919 Montreal Quebec- first plane flight between Montreal and Quebec; takes 5 hours.
1914 Calgary Alberta- Volunteers of the Princess Patricia's Own Light Infantry leave for the European front ; first contingent from Western Canada; partially financed by Calgary lawyer, MP and future Prime Minister R.B. Bennett.
1899 Shawinigan Quebec- Opening of the Pittsburg Reduction aluminium plant in Shawinigan.
1899 Montreal Quebec- Bell Telephone Company installs first push-button pay phone in a Montreal drugstore; connections made only after 5Â¢ deposit; made by Northern Electric, today's Nortel.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan- Several Metis involved in the North West Rebellion plead guilty to treason and felony charges; get jail sentences ranging from one to seven years.
1877 Regina Saskatchewan- North-West Territorial Council passes ordinance 'For the Protection of the Buffalo' in an attempt to slow the destruction of the herds; unlawful to drive the buffalo into ravines or pits where they could be easily killed, or to hunt or kill buffalo for amusement, or solely to secure their tongues and pelts; closed season on female buffalo, extending from Nov 15 until Aug 14 each year; the herd numbering 60 million in 1800 was almost extinct by 1890.
1861 Montreal Quebec- St. Lawrence River floods, inundating 25% of Montreal.
1852 Beechey Island NWT- Edward Belcher 1799-1877 arrives at Beechey Island; winters at Dealy Island off southern shore of Melville Island.
1848 Montreal Quebec- Assembly of the Province of Canada repeals clause in Act of Union, making English Canada's official language.
1828 London England- Sir John Colborne appointed Lt Governor of Upper Canada.
1814 Wasaga Beach Ontario- Lt. Miller Worsley scuttles and burns schooner Nancy to prevent capture by US ships Niagara, Tigress and Scorpion on Georgian Bay; will later capture Tigress off Manitoulin Island.
1779 Castine Maine- George Collie 1738-1795 relieves Francis McLean's post by sea, routs Americans and destroys their ships.
1813 Atlantic- British brigantine Pelican attacks and captures the US sloop Argus off the coast of England; War of 1812.
1756 Oswego New York- Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 captures old Fort Oswego after Col. James Mercer killed by a cannon ball; his successor Lt Col Littlehaleson surrenders with 700 men of the 15th and 51st regiments; Montcalm's Indians kill over 50 English soldiers before he can stop them; he turns the fort over to them as a show of friendship and returns to Montreal, having secured control of Lake Ontario.
1749 Quebec Quebec- Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La JonquiÃ¨re 1685-1752 arrives at Quebec to take office as Governor; serves until May 17, 1752.
1586 Cumberland Sound NWT- John Davis c1543-1605 fights heavy ice taking his ship Mooneshine into Cumberland Sound.

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henric · Aug 14, 2014

August 15th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
718 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
747 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom.
927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of MÃ¡el Coluim mac Donnchada.
1070 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1237 – The Battle of the Puig takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon. The battle resulted in an Aragonese victory.
1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
1309 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
1430 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1461 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by FernÃ£o Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1519 – Panama City, Panama, is founded.
1534 – Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
1537 – AsunciÃ³n, Paraguay, is founded.
1540 – Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
1599 – Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1695 – French forces end the bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins.
1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1812 – War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.
1824 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1893 – Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the latter's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1914 – World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
1914 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
1939 – 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal — The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon — Allied forces land in southern France.
1945 – World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.
1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
1948 – The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 34 people.
1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1961 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland, UK.
1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, New York, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1969 – Woodstock rock and roll concert opens.
1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 – Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President, Park Chung-hee.
1975 – Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
1984 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
1996 – President of Turkey SÃ¼leyman Demirel approves to "Law of ban For Casino in Turkey"
1998 – Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles.
1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
2013 – The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivoran species found in the Americas in 35 years.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1972 BALLARD CONVICTED OF FRAUD
Toronto Ontario - Harold Ballard, President of Maple Leaf Gardens, convicted of 47 charges of fraud, tax evasion and theft of $205,000 from the Gardens to pay for personal expenses; sentenced to three years in Kingston Penitentiary on Oct. 20; will later pay back all funds to the publicly owned company.

In Other Events....

1995 Montreal Quebec - Strike ends at Casino de MontrŽal as 1,300 employees return to work.
1992 Sherbrooke Quebec- Congress of the youth wing of the Quebec Liberal Party refuses to recognize any understanding based on the Charlottetown Accord of July 7, and again demands another referendum on sovereignty.
1992 New York City- UN awards 226 Canadian peacekeepers with UN service medals; for work in Yugoslavia.
1991 Ottawa Ontario- Ottawa establishes 9 member panel to investigate violence against women; led by Pat Marshall and Marthe Asselin Vaillancourt.
1984 Ottawa Ontario- National Action Committee on the Status of Women televises 3-party debate on women's issues.
1982 Nepal- Canadian Mount Everest Expedition sets up base camp at the foot of the climb; on October 5, Laurie Skreslet and two Sherpas will leave camp at 4 a.m.; by 9:15 a.m. they will be standing on the summit of the world's highest mountain.
1974 Toronto Ontario- Official opening of the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo; one of the largest public zoos in the world.
1973 Mururoa Pacific- French sailors board and seize Canadian yacht Greenpeace II, protesting French nuclear tests; ship had entered security zone around test site.
1971 Banff Alberta- Start of First Banff Festival of the Arts; six days long the first year.
1971 Halifax, Nova Scotia- Hurricane Beth drops 296 mm of rain on Halifax and washes out highways and bridges in Nova Scotia.
1968 Montreal Quebec- Charles Bronfman elected Chairman of the Board of the club de hockey Canadien.
1953 Kingston Ontario- Inmates riot at Kingston Penitentiary; burn three buildings; do $2 million damage.
1950 BC- Royal Canadian Mounted Police take over British Columbia Provincial Police and assume policing of BC.
1950 New Zealand- Canada and New Zealand sign agreement for direct air service between two countries.
1947 Canada- Catholic Church abolishes meatless Tuesdays and Fridays.
1946 Ottawa Ontario- Cabinet Order in Council ends conscription for national service; also proclaims amnesty for all those who had gone AWOL from the armed services the previous New Years Day or who had not given themselves up or been arrested before this date.
1944 Falaise France- In Operation Tractable, the 2nd Canadian Division enters Falaise, but the gap between them and Patton's Americans is still 18 km wide and the Germans are pouring through.
1944 Provence France- US and Canadian First Special Service Force joins Allied invasion of southern France; Canadian landing ships used on several beaches between Nice and Marseilles.
1944 Ottawa Ontario- Parliament passes Farm Improvement Loans Act, guaranteeing bank loans to farmers; up to $3,000 for equipment, stock, electric, drainage, fencing, etc.
1944 Ottawa Ontario- Parliament passes Agricultural Prices Support Act; sets up board with $200 million revolving fund; all but wheat.
1943 Kiska Alaska- Invasion force of 34,426 Canadian and US troops land on Alaska's Kiska Island; Japanese have fled.
1940 Britain- Squadron Leader Ernest McNab scores first RCAF kill in Battle of Britain; German Luftwaffe suffers its greatest losses for a single day during the Battle of Britain, losing 75 out of 1000 aircraft, versus 35 lost by the Allies.
1940 Canada- Canada now guarding 8,000 German prisoners of war in various camps across the country.
1940 Ottawa Ontario- Bank of Canada Governor Graham Towers urges King to proceed with Rowell-Sirois recommendations.
1937 Ottawa Ontario - Newton Wesley Rowell 1867-1941 appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations; from l938 with Joseph Sirois.
1936 Quebec- Maurice Duplessis wins Quebec election with 77 seats against 13 for the Liberals.
1930 Montreal Quebec- Laying of the cornerstone of the Oratoire St-Joseph.
1917 Lens France - Canadian troops gain victory at Hill 70 near Lens.
1916 Quebec Quebec- Embarkation of the 117th Sherbrooke Infantry Battalion for service in France.
1909 Grosse-Ile, Quebec- Erection of a monument at Grosse-Ile quarantine station to commemorate those who died in cholera ships while immigrating to Canada in the 1840s.
1889 Murray Bay Ontario- Opening of Murray Bay Canal connecting Bay of Quinte to Lake Ontario.
1881 Memramcook, New Brunswick- First Acadian National Convention, held at Saint Joseph's College, chooses August 15, Assumption Day as National Acadian Day; inspired by work of Father Camille Lefebvre; second convention in Miscouche in 1884 will choose an Acadian national anthem (Ave Maris Stella) and flag (tricolour and star), and will move to establish French schools, hospitals and newspapers.
1866 Kingston Ontario- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons chartered in Kingston.
1866 Ottawa Ontario- Start of the last session of Parliament before Confederation.
1866 Ottawa Ontario- Ottawa College chartered as the University of Ottawa.
1851 Quebec Quebec- First council of Canadian Catholic bishops takes place at Quebec.
1849 Montreal Quebec- House of Louis-H. LaFontaine attacked by anti-reform rioters; 5 arrested.
1822 Quebec Quebec- Census shows Upper Canada has 120,000 inhabitants, Lower Canada 500,000.
1822 Quebec Quebec- Proposal for the union of Upper and Lower Canada presented to the Assembly.
1818 Kingston Ontario- Robert Gourlay 1778-1863 tried for sedition and libel; challenged authorities on land grants; acquitted, but ordered to leave; under Alien Act of 1804; also tried at Brockville on Aug. 31.
1816 Fort William Ontario- Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 captures Fort William with private army of discharged veterans; arrests William McGillivray and Norwesters for Seven Oaks Massacre, and sends them to trial in Montreal.
1814 Fort Erie Ontario- Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond 1771-1854 defeated by Americans in costly counter-attack on Fort Erie; British have 900 casualties.
1812 Chicago Illinois- British Indians massacre entire American garrison at Fort Dearborn; War of 1812.
1696 Fort Pemaquid, Maine- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 takes Fort Pemaquid with Bonaventure after unsuccessful attempt in 1692; destroys the Fort and sails off to Newfoundland.
1688 Quebec Quebec- FranÃ§ois de Laval 1623-1688 returns to Quebec to live in the Seminary he founded, and to die there.
1670 Quebec Quebec- FranÃ§ois-Marie Perrot 1644-1691 arrives in New France with Intendant Jean Talon, his wife's uncle, to serve as Governor of Montreal for the Sulpicians; he will be later arrested for illegal brandy trading from his fort on Ile Perrot, north of Montreal.
1646 Quebec Quebec- Abraham Martin c1587-1664 named Pilote Royal of New France; will train other pilots to guide ships up the St. Lawrence.
1641 Quebec Quebec- Charles Le Moyne 1626-1685 arrives at Quebec at age 15; works as an interpreter, then a land speculator; acquires the seigneuries of Beauharnois and ChÃ¢teauguay; in 1654 marries Catherine Thierry-Primot; they have a large family, including 11 sons - the best known are Charles, 1st Baron de Longeueil; FranÃ§ois, Sieur de Bienville; and Pierre, Sieur d'Iberville.
1633 Quebec Quebec- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 writes a report to Cardinal Richelieu.
1624 Quebec Quebec- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sails from Quebec with his wife HÃ©lÃ¨ne.
1620 Quebec Quebec- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Quebec with his wife HÃ©lÃ¨ne; the ship carries the first donkeys seen in New France.
1612 Churchill Manitoba- Thomas Button reaches Port Nelson; winters at York Factory site in Nelson River estuary; first British flag in Manitoba.
1587 Chateau Bay Newfoundland- John Davis c1543-1605 sails down coast of Labrador; fishes in Chateau Bay before returning to England.
1535 Anticosti Island, Quebec- Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 rounds what he calls l'Ile de l'Assomption; second voyage to Canada.
1534 Gulf of St. Lawrence- Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 starts his return to France after his first voyage to Canada.

End of C/P.

henric · Aug 15, 2014

August 16th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the day prior, had no heirs.
1328 – The House of Gonzaga seizes power in the Duchy of Mantua, and will rule until 1708.
1513 – Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs): King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
1792 – Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
1793 – French Revolution: A levÃ©e en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
1819 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
1841 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
1859 – The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
1863 – The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio LuperÃ³n raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
1869 – Battle of Acosta Ã‘u: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
1906 – An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hits ValparaÃso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.
1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary.
1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
1920 – The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.
1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
1929 – The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
1942 – World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
1944 – First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
1945 – An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.
1945 – Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.
1946 – Mass riots in Kolkata begin, in which more than 4,000 would be killed in 72 hours.
1946 – The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad.
1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d'Ã©tat replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn KhÃ¡nh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d'Ã©tat attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.
1987 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashes after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
2010 – China Overtakes Japan as world's second-largest economy
2012 – South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute near Rustenburg.
2013 – The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people and 59 others missing.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1896 GOLDEN DAYS
Bonanza Creek Yukon- George Washington Cormack and his wife Kate, acting on a tip from Canadian prospector Robert Henderson, discover placer gold in Rabbit Creek tributary of Klondike River, later called Bonanza Creek; with Patsy Henderson and his Indian helpers Tagish Charlie and Skookum Jim. They stake their claims the following day, renaming Rabbit Creek Bonanza Creek. Carmack will later say that the gold veins were 'thick between the flaky slabs, like cheese sandwiches.'

Also on this day in 1969, Winnipeg supergroup The Guess Who receive their first gold record for 'These Eyes.'

1979
Ottawa Ontario - Right Honorable John Diefenbaker 1895-1979 dies in Ottawa at age 83; born Sept. 18, 1895 in Neustadt, Ontario; Leader of the Opposition 1956-1957, 1963-1967; Prime Minister of Canada June 21, 1957 - April 22, 1963.

In Other Events....

1996 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - Lunenburg designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1991 New York City- Bryan Adams hit (Everything I Do) I Do It for You stays at #1 on the Billboard charts for the fifth straight week.
1990 Montreal Quebec- Quebec Superior Court Chief Justice Alan Gold gets talks with Mohawks to resume after breakdown on August 15.
1989 Vancouver BC- Tom Drees pitches his third no-hitter of the season for Vancouver Canadians AAA baseball team, as they beat Las Vegas 5-0 in a seven-inning, first game of a doubleheader in the Pacific Coast League. Drees became the first pitcher in the PCL of the majors with three no-hitters in a year.
1988 St-Zotique Quebec- Hurricane hits St-Zotique region.
1985 Montreal Quebec- Ronald Corey appointed President of the Montreal Port Authority/SociŽtÃ© du Port de MontrÃ©al.
1985 Quebec Quebec- Bernard Landry announces that he will not be a candidate for the leadership of the Parti Quebecois.
1980 Winnipeg Manitoba- Rev. Lois Wilson elected the first woman moderator of the United Church of Canada.
1974 Toronto Ontario- Cindy Nicholas 1957- crosses Lake Ontario in 15 hours, breaking old record by nearly three hours; native of Scarborough, Ontario.
1972 Toronto Ontario- Canadian National Exhibition opens in Toronto with display by the Peoples Republic of China; CNE's display the first by Red China in the Western world.
1971 Nova Scotia- Hurricane Beth slams into coast of Nova Scotia, doing serious damage.
1969 Longueuil Quebec- The towns of Jacques-Cartier and Longueuil amalgamate into the city of Longueuil.
1969 Halifax Nova Scotia- Opening of two-week long Canada Summer Games in Halifax-Dartmouth; first Canada Summer Games.
1968 Jamaica- Air Canada acquires 40% of the stock of Air Jamaica.
1966 Stratford Ontario- Brian Macdonald 1928- premieres his ballet Rose Latulipe at Stratford Festival; first full-length Canadian ballet; with music by Harry Freedman 1922-.
1966 Toronto Ontario- George Chuvalo becomes Canadian Heavyweight Boxing champion.
1965 Vancouver BC- Canadian jockey Johnny Longden wins his 6,000th race.
1963 Ottawa Ontario- Government announces Canadian-United States agreement on nuclear warhead storage.
1960 Montreal Quebec- Start of strike by 1,300 Dominion Bridge employees.
1956 New York City- Christopher Plummer marries musical star Tammy Grimes; their daughter, Amanda Plummer, is also an actress.
1947 Toronto Ontario- First flight of de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver bush plane; with high-lift wing and flap configuration, the all-metal Beaver has very good short take-off-and-landing capability even with heavy loads; US Army and US Air Force will buy 980 for use in Korea, where it was known as the General's Jeep. Total of the 1600 made, a record number for an aircraft designed and built in Canada.
1945 Ottawa Ontario- War Measures Act canceled.
1944 Falaise France- From dawn until dusk, the RAF and RCAF bomb, and shoot up German transport, tanks, and guns, blocking the roads with wrecked equipment; the 2nd Canadian Division (6th Canadian Infantry Brigade [South Sasks, The Camerons and the Fusiliers Mont-Royal] and Sherbrooke Fusilier tanks) finally enters Falaise that night through the woods to the north; Mayer's 12 SS grenadiers fight to the death. The Falaise Gap between the Canadians and the Americans is still 18 km wide and the Germans are pouring through, with the 2 SS Panzer Corps holding open the road to Vimoutiers and Rouen. Montgomery has not ordered the Americans to move and it is too late to have them encircle the retreating Germans.
1943 Sicily Italy- Allies complete conquest of Sicily.
1943 Canada- End of strike at three aircraft plants in Toronto and Montreal.
1936 Berlin, Germany- Closing of 11th Summer Olympics in Berlin. Canadians take home one gold medal (Canoe C-1 1,000 m: Francis Amyot), 3 silver (Basketball Team: Gord Aitchison, Ian Allison, Art Chapman, Charles Chapman, Edward Dawson, Irving Meretsky, Doug Peden, James Stewart, Malcolm Wiseman; Canoeing C-2 10,000 m: Harvey Charters, Frank Saker; Track and Field 400-metre hurdles: John Loaring) and 5 bronze (Canoeing C-2 1,000 m: Harvey Charters, Frank Saker; Track and Field 80-m hurdles: Betty Taylor; 800 m: Philip Edwards; 4x100-metre relay: Dorothy Brookshaw, Hilda Cameron, Jeanette Dolson, Aileen Meagher; Wrestling 72-kg freestyle: Joseph Schleimer).
1934 New Brunswick- Post office issues 2 cent stamp to commemorate 150th anniversary of founding of New Brunswick.
1930 Hamilton Ontario- First British Empire Games held at Hamilton; now called the Commonwealth Games.
1917 Loos France- Private Harry Brown, 10th Bn. Quebec Regiment dies of wounds near Hill 70, near Loos; after his company is surrounded, and the signal lines cut, he delivers a message across no-man's land while severely wounded; awarded Victoria Cross Oct. 17, 1917.
1913 St-Hyacinthe Quebec- Election crowd of 10,000 welcomes Wilfrid Laurier to St-Hyacinthe.
1897 Dawson Yukon- NWMP Superintendent James Morrow Walsh 1843-1905 appointed Commissioner of the Yukon by the new Yukon Administration responsible for law and order headed by a commission of six; creation of Yukon Judicial District.
1882 Montreal Quebec- Peter Redpath opens Redpath Museum at McGill University.
1858 Canada- Bank of Canada chartered.
1858 Heart's Content, Newfoundland- Queen Victoria sends US President Buchanan the first Atlantic Cable dispatch, from Newfoundland to Britain via Valencia, Ireland; Cyrus W. Field's cable laid by USS Niagara and HMS Agamemnon, and landed on second attempt at Trinity Bay, but the cable will fail in October.
1858 Marieville Quebec- Marieville incorporated.
1858 Arthabaska Quebec- Arthabaska incorporated.
1858 Ottawa Ontario- Assembly of the Province of Canada charters a Bank of Canada; abolishes imprisonment for debt.
1853 Toronto Ontario- Ontario Simcoe and Huron Railroad Union Company changes its name to the Northern Railway of Canada; became part of the Northern and Northwestern Railway June 6, 1879; now part of the Canadian National system.
1850 Montreal Quebec- First English Catholic newspaper in Montreal.
1847 Montreal Quebec- Arsonist sets fire to the old Hotel Donegana in Montreal.
1847 Montreal Quebec- Salaries of all government employees, even the Governor, now under control of elected Assembly; Act of June 9, 1846 gives responsible government.
1846 Toronto Ontario- Founding of the Provincial Agricultural Association and the Board of Agriculture for Canada West; precursor of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) board.
1838 London England- Parliament passes a Bill of indemnity disavowing the policies of Lord Durham in suggesting assimilation of the French Canadians.
1827 Ottawa Ontario- Admiral John Franklin 1786-1847 lays first stone of Rideau Canal locks; on his return down the Ottawa River from the Arctic.
1812 Detroit Michigan- General Isaac Brock 1769-1812 captures Detroit and the Michigan territory with 400 troops and 300 militia from York and Niagara, and with the aid of Tecumseh and 600 Indians; American General William Hull and his more than 2,000 troops had retired to Fort Detroit after Tecumseh's attacks caused him to abort his invasion of Upper Canada; Brock knighted for this victory, but news did not reach him before his death Oct. 13, 1812 at Queenston Heights.
1807 Quebec- Militia captains enroll 1,200 militiamen in Lower Canada to meet American threats.
1784 London England- Thomas Carleton 1735-1817 appointed Governor of new province of New Brunswick; serves from Nov. 22, 1784 to Oct. 29, 1786; now separate colony, with nominated council and elected assembly.
1756 Oswego, New York- Montcalm's soldiers demolish Fort Chouaguen (the English Fort Ontario).
1665 Quebec Quebec- Arrival of 12 mares and 2 stallions; gift of Louis XlV to start a new breed of Canadian horse.
1654 Annapolis, Nova Scotia- Captain John Leverett left at Port Royal by General Sedgwick as governor and commander of the forts of St. John, Port Royal and Penobscot; this English possession lasts from 1654 to 1667.
1654 Saint John New Brunswick- Robert Sedgwick 1611-1656 leads New England expedition to capture Fort La Tour, but driven back; in reprisal for French attacks.
1637 Quebec Quebec- Duchesse d'Aiguillon donates 22,400 Livres to establish Hotel-Dieu, first hospital in North America outside Mexico; Cardinal Richelieu's niece.
1636 Montreal Quebec- The Jesuits become the first seigneurs of l'Ile JÃ©sus north of Montreal.
1634 Quebec Quebec- Father Le Jeune baptizes the Huron child, Akhikouch, age 12.

End of C/P.

henric · Aug 16, 2014

August 17th 2014 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

309/310 – Pope Eusebius is banished by the Emperor Maxentius to Sicily, where he dies, perhaps from a hunger strike.
986 – Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan – The Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron defeat the Byzantine forces at the Gates of Trajan, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
1186 – Georgenberg Pact: Duke Ottokar IV of Styria and Duke Leopold V of Austria sign a heritage agreement in which Ottokar gives his duchy to Leopold and to his son Frederick under the stipulation that Austria and Styria would henceforth remain undivided.
1386 – Karl Topia, the ruler of Princedom of Albania forges an alliance with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the Ottomans in return.
1424 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil – An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under the Duke of AlenÃ§on, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas.
1498 – Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate. On the same day, the French King Louis XII names him Duke of Valentinois.
1549 – Battle of Sampford Courtenay – The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in England.
1560 – The Roman Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in Scotland.
1585 – Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces.
1585 – A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Ralegh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
1597 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.
1611 – Gaspar de Borja y Velasco is made a cardinal by Pope Paul V.
1668 – An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter magnitude scale causes 8,000 deaths in Anatolia, Ottoman Empire.
1717 – Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire.
1723 – Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraş and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraş, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI.
1740 – Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
1771 – Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis in Scotland
1784 – Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of ChinchÃ³n.
1798 – The Vietnamese Roman Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Lady of La Vang.
1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York, for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1862 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
1862 – American Civil War: Major General J.E.B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville – Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
1866 – The Grand Duchy of Baden announces her withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia.
1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
1896 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the world's first motoring fatality.
1907 – Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, Washington, opened.
1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Ã‰mile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
1914 – World War I: Battle of StallupÃ¶nen – The German army of General Hermann von FranÃ§ois defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.
1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari).
1943 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission.
1943 – World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
1943 – World War II: First QuÃ©bec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1950 – Hill 303 massacre: American POWs are shot to death by the North Korean Army.
1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
1960 – Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.
1962 – East German border guards kill Peter Fechter, 18, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage.
1970 – Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, at Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.
1982 – The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
1988 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
1999 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country.
2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
2005 – Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh
2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.
2009 – An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1774 SPANISH MARINER DISCOVERS NOOTKA SOUND
Nootka Sound BC - Juan Jose Perez Hernandez c l725-1775 discovers Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, four years before Captain Cook's arrival; the local Nootka people are skilled whalers and trappers of sea otters.

1943
Quebec Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 hosts Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the sixth Anglo-American War Conference, held in the Chateau Frontenac; the first Quebec Conference plans 1944 landings in France.

1896
Bonanza Creek Yukon - George Washington Cormack, with his Indian brothers in law Tagish Charlie and Skookum Jim,stakes a gold claim in the Rabbit Creek tributary of the Klondike River; acting on a tip from Canadian prospector Robert Henderson.. According to Carmack, the gold veins were "thick between the flaky slabs, like cheese sandwiches." He ripped some bark off a tree, and wrote on it: "I name this creek Bonanza. George Carmack."

In Other Events....

1997 Liverpool, Nova Scotia- Old Canadian National train station in Liverpool reopens as the Hank Snow Country Music Centre; 83 year old Snow too ill to attend, but donates two vintage cars and one of his rhinestone suits to the centre.
1996 New York City- Ottawa actor Matthew Perry appears on the cover of TV Guide with his co-stars from the television sitcom Friends.
1995 Chicago Illinois- U.S. forestry giants Boise Cascade Corp. and Stone Container Corp. say they will merge their Canadian newsprint subsidiaries.
1994 Quebec Quebec- Quebec City announces it is applying to host the 2002 Olympic Winter Games; awarded to Salt Lake City.
1992 Croatia- Sergeant Michael Ralph killed when his UN vehicle is blown up by a land mine; combat engineer from St. John's Newfoundland.
1992 Ottawa Ontario- Marcel Beaudry appointed Chairman of the National Capital Commission; replacing Jean Pigott; former Mayor of Hull, Quebec.
1990 Oka Quebec- Canadian Army replaces the SQ at the Kanesatake barricades.
1990 Montreal Quebec- Olympic deficit swells to $16 billion.
1988 NWT- Torontonian Jeff MacInnis, 25, and Mike Beedell, 32, of Ottawa, sail their catamaran through the Northwest Passage; first to navigate the Passage by wind power alone.
1985 Montreal Quebec- Corey Hart plays his first show as an arena headliner before home town crowd of 18,000; on this day his hit single, 'Never Surrender' peaks at #3 on the Billboard pop chart.
1983 St. Louis, Missouri- Former Canadien Jacques Demers appointed trainer of the NHL St. Louis Blues.
1982 Atlanta Georgia- Montreal catcher Gary Carter the first Expo to reach the 1,000 hit mark, as he hits an infield single against the Atlanta Braves.
1972 Ontario- Dennis Study on housing shows 6 developers in 10 of Canada's largest cities own over 50% of stock.
1971 Ottawa Ontario- Ottawa creates 457 French-speaking units in public service; affects 29,000 employees.
1970 Osaka Japan- Arthur Erickson 1924- wins top architectural prize for his Canadian pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka.
1969 Montreal Quebec- FLQ bomb explodes in a Ministry of Labour office.
1966 Toronto Ontario- Beatle John Lennon expresses admiration for American draft dodgers who had fled to Canada; in Toronto news conference.
1965 Toronto Ontario- Beatles play Maple Leaf Gardens; Toronto Telegram reviewer says, 'The Beatles whipped Toronto's teens into ecstatic frenzy last night in two wild 30 minute performances.'
1965 Oak Island Nova Scotia- Four treasure seekers drowned in money pit at Oak Island, digging for buried treasure; the gold of Captain Kidd?
1959 Yukon- Oil first discovered in the Yukon.
1959 LaSarre Quebec- LaSarre incorporated.
1944 Chambois France- Canadian Army still trying to close off the Falaise Gap, near the village of Chambois on the River Dives, that is letting parts of the encircled German 7th Army escape annihilation; attack on Hans von Luck's depleted 125th Panzer Grenadier Regiment; 1st Polish Armoured Division tries to block the German line of retreat just east of the town; first contact made with Patton's Americans.
1944 Montreal Quebec- Dr. L.-P. Roy appointed editor in chief of the L'Action Catholique newspaper.
1943 Sicily Italy- Allied forces gain complete control of Sicily after five week campaign; Canadians have suffered 2,434 casualties since the July 10 invasion.
1943 PeenemÃ¼nde Germany- Canadian and British bombers cripple flying-bomb and atomic research site at PeenemÃ¼nde.
1943 Quebec Quebec- William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 hosts Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the sixth Anglo-American War Conference, held in the Chateau Frontenac; the first Quebec Conference plans 1944 landings in France.
1940 England- RCAF's No. 1 Fighter Squadron sees action over England in the Battle of Britain.
1940 Quebec- Ottawa sets up 14 military training centres in Quebec.
1940 Ogdensburg New York- William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 meets Franklin D. Roosevelt for two-day conference at Ogdensburg to discuss North American Defence; will sign Ogdensburg Agreement; discuss modifying cash and carry principle for delivery of arms from US factories to Canadian forces.
1936 Quebec- Maurice Duplessis 1890-1959 leads his Union Nationale to landslide victory in their first Quebec election; Union Nationale 76, Liberals 14; soon brings in promised old age pensions.
1936 Ottawa Ontario- Bank of Canada starts printing bilingual money.
1936 Montreal Quebec- Montreal store hit by gas explosion; three killed.
1923 Toronto Ontario- Failure of the Home Bank, with 71 branches across Canada; some top managers jailed; first chartered bank to go under since Farmer's Bank in 1911.
1914 Quebec- Chanteuse Mary Travers (la Bolduc) marries Edouard Bolduc.
1913 Toronto Ontario- Ontario Department of Instruction again issues Circular #17; bans use of French in Ontario schools past Grade 1.
1911 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec- Wilfrid Laurier begins his election campaign in Three Rivers.
1904 JonquiÃ¨re Quebec- JonquiÃ¨re incorporated.
1903 Walkerville Ontario- Henry Ford incorporates the Ford Motor Company of Canada; starts building cars in a converted wagon works in Walkerville, near Windsor. The first car built by the Company in early 1904 is the 2-cylinder Model C, and a total of 117 cars are made in the first year; a few 4-cylinder Model Bs are also built, and in 1905 the Company adds the new 2-cylinder Model F; in 1906, both the C and B are discontinued, and the Company starts building the low-priced 4-cylinder Model N, and the large 406 cid 6-cylinder Model K; in 1907 the F is phased out, and the new 4-cylinder Model R and Model S made until October 1908, when the Model T makes its debut.
1896 Bonanza Creek Yukon- George Washington Cormack rips some bark off a tree, and writes on it: "I name this creek Bonanza. George Carmack." Along with his wife Kate and Indian brothers in law Tagish Charlie and Skookum Jim, stakes a gold claim in the Rabbit Creek tributary of the Klondike River. Within two years, the Klondike Gold Rush will turn nearby Dawson into the largest city north of San Francisco and west of Winnipeg. Within three years, all important creeks in the Klondike valley had been staked out by the gold-seekers. Total value of gold production in the eight years after the find exceeded $100 million.
1889 Ottawa Ontario- Canadian College of Music opens in Ottawa.
1878 Ottawa Ontario- Dissolution of the 3rd federal Parliament.
1871 Old Fort Garry Manitoba- Lt. Governor Adams G. Archibald 1814-1892 negotiates Treaty #2 in Southern Manitoba with Chippewa (Ojibway); awards them 57,452 sq km; $3 per Indian, acreage.
1855 Nicolet Quebec- First Sisters of the Assumption (Soeurs de l'Assomption) arrive at Nicolet; one year later, on this date, they found la CommunautÃ© des Soeurs de l'Assomption.
1833 Gravesend England- Royal William, built at Quebec, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic under steam; later the first steamship to fire a gun.
1809 Montreal Quebec- Construction of Admiral Nelson's Monument begins; at the top of Jacques Cartier Square.
1775 Quebec Quebec- Quebec legislative council meets for the first time.
1706 Quebec Quebec- Quebec law requires taverns to close at 9:00 pm.
1635 Quebec Quebec- Father Jean de Quen arrives in Quebec; will found a mission for the fishermen and Montagnais at Ange-Gardien (Sept-Iles) in 1651.
1615 Oro Ontario- Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at the Huron village of CahiaguŽ on Lake Simcoe, after traveling down 'La mer douce' - Lake Huron.

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