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August 18th 2014 - This Date in History.


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684 – Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cement Umayyad control of Syria.
1304 – The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
1487 – The Siege of Málaga ends with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
1572 – Marriage in Paris, France of the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1612 – The trials of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
1634 – Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
1848 – Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern – Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
1891 – Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
1917 – A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1948 – The Australian cricket team completed a 4–0 Ashes series win over England during their undefeated Invincibles tour.
1950 – Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1958 – Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bangali as well as the first Asian to ever do it. He became first among 39 competitors.
1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
1971 – Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 – In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
1983 – Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989 – Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
2005 – A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
2008 – President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns due to the threat of impeachment.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1979 CANADA'S ROAD TO THE ARCTIC OPENS
Dawson Yukon - opening of Dempster Highway from Dawson, Yukon, to Inuvik, NWT.

1883
London England - Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquis of Lansdowne 1845-1927 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from Oct. 23, 1883 to May 30, 1888. Lansdowne was an enthusiastic supporter of the CPR, was later Viceroy of India, and from 1895-1905 served as British Secretary of State for War and Foreign Secretary.



In Other Events....

1995 New York New York - Regina PetroCanada pump attendant Dick Assman makes cameo appearance on CBS's Late Show With David Letterman, after months of jokes - his name is pronounced 'OSS-man;' his business triples over the month of August.
1992 Charlottetown PEI - First day of constitutional negotiation at Charlottetown.
1988 New York City - Former Canadiens star Guy Lafleur signs with the New York Rangers.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Denis Boucher signs with the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club.
1986 Maple Ontario - Folk singers Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker, formerly husband and wife, reunite for concert at Kingswood Music Theatre; first Ian and Sylvia performance in eleven years; joined by Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris and Murray McLauchlan.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Tom Kent's Royal Commission on Newspapers Report recommends action to curb the growth of newspaper conglomerates, break up monopolies in Canada.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Maurice Bolyer dies at age 57; Canada's 'King of the Banjo' and a regular on CBC's Tommy Hunter TV show since 1965.
1976 Banff Alberta - Premiers start 3-day 17th annual Conference; no agreement on patriating constitution.
1975 St. John's Newfoundland - Premiers start 4-day conference; discuss wage and price controls and shared-cost programs.
1972 Gravenhurst Ontario - Ottawa declares Norman Bethune birthplace a national historic site, and unveils plaque.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Canadian National Exhibition opens on a Sunday for the first time.
1961 Orillia Ontario - Opening of first Mariposa Folk Festival at Oval Park in Orillia; 1,500 people gather over two days to hear the Travellers, Ian and Sylvia and fiddler Al Cherny; Mariposa moves to Toronto in 1964 after fan violence.
1960 Leopoldville Congo - Canadian peace-keepers man-handled by Congolese troops.
1956 Baddeck Nova Scotia - Opening of Bell Museum at Baddeck, Nova Scotia; showcasing the life and works of Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922.
1954 Washington DC - Canada and the United States reach formal agreement on joint construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1946 Petite-Rivière Quebec - Fire burns down 14 houses in Petite-Rivière, killing nine.
1956 Baddeck Nova Scotia - Opening of Bell Museum at Baddeck, Nova Scotia; showcasing the life and works of Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922.
1944 Montreal Quebec - Camilien Houde returns to Montreal after his release from internment camp at Petawawa; former Montreal Mayor held under War Measures Act because of fascist sympathies.
1944 Trun France - Kitching's 4th Canadian Armoured division occupies Trun from the north and advances toward St Lambert sur Dives; a squadron of the South Alberta Regiment and a company of infantry from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders prepares a line of defence along the Falaise-Trun-Chambois highway to bar the Germans from breaking out of the pocket; most of the 1st Polish Armoured take up position further east to head off any attempt to break in and extricate the trapped Germans; the rest drive on to Chambois by nightfall but are spread over 10 miles of hilly countryside in numbers too few to link up with Patton's advancing Americans and Free French forces; Major David Currie assigned to close the gap with 175 men, 16 tanks and 4 MIOs from the 5th Anti-Tank Regiment.
1940 Ogdensburg New York - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sign agreement for Canada-US Permanent Joint Board of Defence after two days of talks; Board composed of senior officials from both countries; to deal with delivery of arms from US factories to Canadian forces, exchange of defence information and other defence matters.
1938 Gananoque Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicate the Thousand Islands (Ivy Lea) Bridge connecting Ontario and New York state.
1935 New Brunswick - New Brunswickers swelter through the province's warmest day on record, at 39.4 degrees Celsius.
1925 Montreal Quebec - Blessing of the cornerstone of l'Oratoire St-Joseph.
1925 Deux-Montagnes Quebec - Deux-Montagnes incorporated.
1917 Rigaud Quebec - Army powder magazine explodes at Rigaud.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Special fourth session of 12th Parliament meets until August 22; operating under War Measures Act; sets up Canadian Patriotic Fund to assist soldiers' dependents.
1887 Comeragh House, Waterford, Ireland - John Palliser 1817-1887 dies; led the Palliser Expedition of 1857-1860 on Canada's western plains, to study the natural resources of the region and its potential for agricultural development. The expedition Report advised against settlement because of drought conditions they encountered; his name survives in the semiarid corner of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan known as the Palliser Triangle.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Appointment of Royal Commission on the Canadian Pacific Railway to replace parliamentary committee; reports October 17.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - W. Hamilton receives Canada's first patent, for a fluid meter that measures gases and liquids.
1862 Montebello Quebec - Julie Bruneau dies; wife of Louis-Joseph Papineau.
1849 Montreal Quebec - Many businesses close their doors as a commercial recession hits the St. Lawrence Valley.
1843 Toronto Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 begins to publish The Banner with his father, Peter c1784-1863; Free Kirk weekly newspaper with Presbyterian and Reform principles.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Opening of fourth session of fifteenth Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until Aug. 26; after long debate, the Assembly refuses budget subsidies to Gosford, forcing the Governor to act against their wishes.
1833 Pictou Nova Scotia - Steamship 'Royal William' leaves Pictou; will arrive in Gravesend Sept 11; first vessel to cross the Atlantic under steam power.
1704 Bonavista Newfoundland - Mixed force of French and Native Americans operating out of Placentia besieges the English settlement at Bonavista; destroyed Aug. 29.
1689 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 returns to Quebec from France.
1670 Quebec Quebec - Jean Talon again appointed Intendant of New France.
1663 Montreal Quebec - St. Sulpice Seminary obtains Seigneury of Montreal from La Société Notre-Dame de Montréal.
1634 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 writes to Cardinal Richelieu outlining the importance of New France.
1621 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sends a list of grievances of Quebec's habitant settlers to the King, including requests for stronger courts and a military presence, plus a boost in Champlain's pension.
1603 Gaspé Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 hears of copper mines from the local native people.

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August 19th 2014 - This Date in History.



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295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
1153 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
1561 – 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan – the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
1848 – California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1862 – American Indian Wars: during an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1909 – The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1914 – The Ottoman-Bulgarian alliance is signed in Sofia.
1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
1927 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2 – the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1987 – Hungerford massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
1989 – Radio Caroline, the offshore pirate station in the North Sea, is raided by British and Dutch governments.
1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 – A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.
2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2005 – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed the "Toronto Supercell".
2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
2012 – A plane crash kills 32 people in Sudan.
2013 – A train accident in India kills at least 37 people and injures over a doz.








Today's Canadian Headline....


1826 GALT CHARTERS CANADA COMPANY
London England - Scottish novelist/land agent John Galt gets a charter for the Canada Company, to colonize lands in the western part of Upper Canada (Ontario). Galt was an agent of those seeking losses from the Crown for damages suffered in the War of 1812. In 1824, he convinced the British Treasury to provide half the funds, with half coming from the Government of Upper Canada, using proceeds from land sales. Galt's Company acquired almost 2.5 million acres of Crown land. He founded the town of Guelph and built a road through the Queen's Bush to a new town on Lake Huron he called Goderich.

1942
Dieppe France -
Major General J. H. Roberts leads 4,963 troops from 7 regiments of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, plus almost 1,000 British, in Operation Jubilee, a nine-hour raid on the small German-held port of Dieppe to test Hitler's Fortress Europe defences; Canadians suffer total of 3,500 casualties, with 900 killed, and 1,874 taken prisoner - Canada's costliest day in World War II; only 2,210 make it back to England; Captain John Weir Foote 1904-1988 and Lt.-Col. Charles C.I. Merritt 1908-1979 both win Victoria Crosses; gazetted Feb. 14, 1946. Rev. Foote, Canadian Chaplains' Service, was the padre of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry; during his eight hours on Dieppe beach, he tended the wounded while exposed to enemy fire; he climbed from the landing craft that was to have taken him to safety and let himself be taken prisoner so he could continue to tend the wounded men of his regiment. He is the only Canadian chaplain to receive the Victoria Cross. Merritt was C/O of the South Saskatchewan Regiment; despite serious wounds he kept leading his men across the Scie River before being taken prisoner; 81 men in the South Sasks were killed; awarded the VC for showing 'reckless bravery'.

1809
Montreal Quebec - John Molson 1764-1836 launches wooden paddle steamboat 'Accomodation' for service on the St. Lawrence River; carries 10 passengers; the first Canadian steamship; first successful steamboat built entirely in North America.



In Other Events....

1996 Montreal Quebec - Radio-Québec changes its name to Télé-Québec.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Montreal.
1992 Dieppe France - Veterans Affairs and Defence Minister Gerry Merrithew attends a ceremony honoring those who took part in the Dieppe raid exactly 50 years earlier.
1992 Calgary Alberta - Petro-Canada to sell 37% stake in Westcoast Energy to finance Hibernia expenses; wants to sell 10% of Hibernia holding after Gulf share sold.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women issues report urging more funds for shelters and counselors for abused women and children
1990 Toronto Ontario - Lorne Webster dies at age 80; former owner of the Globe & Mail; Chairman of the Toronto Blue Jays and Imperial Trust.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Argonaut Terry Greer makes 16 pass receptions in one game; CFL record.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Rocker Alice Cooper cancels his concert at the Canadian National Exhibition at the last minute, touching off a riot; police arrest 31 after fans hurl debris at the stage; $25,000 damage done to CNE Stadium.
1979 Toronto Ontario - Morris Surdin dies at age 65; composer, arranger, conductor for CBC radio and TV productions; also scored the 1971 George C. Scott movie, 'Hospital'.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Rene Levesque 1922-1987 Quebec Premier offers English-language education guarantees in Quebec in return for French-language guarantees in other provinces; turned down.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Science Council of Canada suggests slowing urbanization and immigration; to maintain Canadian standard of living.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Hamilton Tiger Cat Tommy Joe Coffey catches his second football of the game, and number 632 of his career against the CFL Alouettes; passes 10,000 yard mark, setting an all-pro record for pass receptions.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canada sends $3,540,000 in emergency aid to Pakistan following floods in that country".
1969 Montreal Quebec - All-star Baseball pitcher Claude 'Frenchy' Raymond, native of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, joins Montreal Expos after playing for the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Houston Astros and Chicago White Sox; Raymond will retire after three seasons to serve as a colour commentator.
1957 Montreal Quebec - Robert Bédard wins the Canadian Tennis Championship.
1957 Murdochville Quebec - Violence breaks out at the Gaspé copper mines.
1968 Washington DC - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 appointed to head World Bank commission to study future economic aid to developing countries; former Prime Minister.
1944 St Lambert-sur-Dives France - Major David Currie enters the village of St Lambert-sur-Dives alone and on foot on a reconnaissance mission, assesses the German positions, and quickly decides take the village, and hold it at all costs; leads a small group of tanks, anti-tank guns, and 125 men of the 29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, South Alberta Regiment and infantry from The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, but with no supporting artillery, into the centre of the village and digs in; at noon, the Poles capture the north end and attack the 1 SS Panzer Corps massed below, while the 10th Polish Mounted Rifle Regiment of the First Canadian Army, and Patton's 90th US Division link up at Chambois in a loose encirclement that traps the 7th German Army at the Trun-Chambois Gap.
1940 Canada - Start of national registration of all men between 14 and 60 years old.
1939 Montreal Quebec - Composer Achille Fourier dies at age 75; in 1885, he was the first Canadian to attend regular composition classes at the Paris Conservatory.
1935 Nova Scotia/PEI - Maritimers swelter through record heat wave; Nova Scotia has its warmest day on record - 38.3 degrees Celsius; also Prince Edward Island's warmest day, at 38.7 degrees Celsius.
1926 Ontario - Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Earl Willingdon of Ratton 1866-1941 appointed Governor-General of Canada, replacing Lord Byng; serves from October 2, 1926 to January 16, 1931.
1916 London England - Victor Christian William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire 1868-1938 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from November 11, 1916 to July 19, 1921
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Canada officially declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1914 Quebec Quebec - Quebec offers Belgium 4 million pounds of cheese as a form of wartime support.
1913 Nova Scotia/New Brunswick -Thousands of young men travel west to help bring in the harvest on prairie farms; railroads charge only a penny a mile; men placed by farmers' organizations.
1902 British Columbia - Doukhobor sects start staging nude protest parades.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - First session of 8th Parliament meets until October 5.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan - Pitikwahanapiwiyin found guilty of treason and felony after two day trial; sentenced to three years imprisonment.
1872 Montreal Quebec - Election riots break out in Montreal between supporters and opponents of George-Etienne Cartier.
1880 Niagara Falls Ontario - French acrobat Jean-François Cravelet called Blondin carries manager across Niagara Gorge and back on a tightrope.
1852 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first part of first session of fourth Parliament of Canada; meets until Nov. 10; creation of Ministry of Agriculture, votes £19,000 annual subsidy for steamship line to Britain
1831 Cape Bay - Sailing ship Lady Sherbrooke wrecked off Cape Bay; 273 persons drown.
1812 Nova Scotia - British frigate Guerriere attacked by U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) in a naval battle east of Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.
1719 Quebec Quebec - First French Admiralty Office opens in Quebec City.
1712 Paris France - Treaty of Paris gives British and French a four month long break in hostilities.
1652 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Three Rivers Governor Duplessis-Kerebot killed in Iroquois ambush along with 22 other Frenchmen including Guillaume Guillemot and his wife Isabel.
1691 Manitoba - Henry Kelsey of the Hudson's Bay Company makes first documented reference to the herds of buffalo on the Canadian Prairies.
1576 Baffin Island NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 trades meat and furs with Inuit for trinkets and clothing; Inuit kidnap five of Frobisher's men.
1535 Rivière Moisie Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sails by the Moisie River east of Sept-Iles.

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August 20th 2014 - This Date in History.


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14 – Agrippa Postumus, adopted son of the late Roman Emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances.
636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
917 – Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
1000 – The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen, celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
1083 – Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric.
1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.
1391 – Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
1467 – The Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
1519 – Philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde.
1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
1707 – The first Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
1710 – War of the Spanish Succession: a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
1794 – Battle of Fallen Timbers – American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
1910 – The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the "Big Blowup" or the "Big Burn") occurs in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2).
1914 – World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
1926 – Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
1940 – In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
1944 – World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
1944 – World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
1950 – Korean War: United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Naktong River and assault the city of Taegu.
1955 – In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1960 – Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
1968 – Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring.
1975 – Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1988 – "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
1988 – Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: a ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1988 – The Troubles: Eight British Army soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (see Ballygawley bus bombing).
1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. 51 people are killed.
1989 – The O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, the world's longest guided busway, opens.
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 – Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of its pre-World War II statehood.
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 – U.S. embassy bombings: the United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2008 – Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, and 8 more die later. Only 18 people survive.
2012 – A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1987 OTTAWA BANS EMPLOYEE SMOKING
Ottawa Ontario - Federal government slaps a total ban on smoking in public service offices, starting Jan. 1, 1988. Smoking by government employees at all public service counters ends immediately.

1620
Southwest of The Pas Manitoba - HBC employee Henry Kelsey sees buffalo on the Prairies; the first white man to describe them.



In Other Events....

1997 The Pas, Manitoba - Hudson Bay Railway, owned by Omnitrax of Denver, Colorado, takes over operation of former CN lines to Flin Flon, Lyn Lake and Churchill.
1992 Calgary Alberta - Robert Fleming says proposed Constitution will cost $300 million more a year, with a larger Commons, more complex Senate; author of book on Parliament and legislatures
1990 Kahnawake Quebec - Army moves to dismantle barricades on the Mercier Bridge south of Montreal put up by Mohawks; after three days of rioting by South Shore residents against the police
1986 Charlottetown PEI - Poet Milton Acorn dies at age 63; 1976 winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry.
1983 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa announces his return to politics.
1983 New York City - Vancouver group Loverboy has a Billboard #11 Pop Hit with Hot Girls In Love.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Former Indian Affairs Minister John Munro 1931-awarded $75,000 in libel damages against Toronto Sun newspaper.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Crowd of 1,400 riots when rocker Alice Cooper cancels a show due to illness.
1976 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot releases single, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, from his album Summertime Dream, about an ore carrier which sank on Lake Superior; will reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100..
1974 New York City - Ottawa native Paul Anka (with Odia Coates) has a Billboard #1 Pop Hit with '(You're) Having My Baby'; his last #1 was 'Lonely Boy' in 1959; longest recorded gap between top singles.
1973 Regina Saskatchewan - Rough Rider fullback George Reed sets all time world pro football rushing record, beating the 12,312 yards held by the NFL's Jimmy Brown; Reed also broke Brown's record of 106 touchdowns a week earlier.
1972 Sudbury Ontario - David Barrett 1930- sworn in as NDP Premier of British Columbia; serves until Dec. 11 1975.
1970 Sudbury Ontario - Wind storm and tornado in Sudbury area kills four, injures 200 and does $10 million damage.
1969 California - Frank Zappa disbands the Mothers of Invention after an eight-day tour in Canada; says he is tired of people who clap for all the wrong reasons.
1966 Bromont Quebec - Bromont incorporated.
1964 New Brunswick - First Ladies Marian Pearson & Lady Byrd Johnson open Roosevelt Campobello International Park on Campobello Island.
1964 Darlington Ontario - Ontario Hydro announces new 1 million kw nuclear power station at Fairport, east of Toronto.
1955 New York City - Winnipeg's Gisele MacKenzie has a #1 Billboard hit with hard to Get.
1944 Chambois France - The First Canadian Army and Patton's Americans link up at Chambois, but the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are overrun by Germans trying to break out in a series of counter-attacks.
1944 St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France - Major David Currie's squadron holds fast in St-Lambert, a village half-way between Chambois and Trun, and the main escape route to the east; the Germans tried to mount a final decisive attack to break through the gap in the evening; Currie uses his 17-pounder anti-tank gun to knock out a Tiger tank, uses his command tank to knock out a Tiger and a rifle to deal with snipers who had infiltrated close to his HQ; in total, his squadron knock out seven German tanks, 12 88-mm guns, and forty German armoured vehicles; 300 German are killed, 500 wounded, and 2100 captured; after three days of continuous fighting, the Canadians take the village and block off the German escape route; when Currie is finally relieved, he collapses from nervous exhaustion. The only officer in his unit not killed or wounded, Currie will win the Victoria Cross, the only Canadian awarded the VC for action in Normandy who did not die in the process of earning it.
1941 London England - Prime Minister Mackenzie King arrives in England.
1940 London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, saying 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
1927 Victoria BC - John Duncan MacLean becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing John Oliver; serves to Aug. 20, 1928.
1925 Quebec Quebec - Major Georges-P Vanier appointed CO of the 22e Régiment at Quebec.
1914 Rimouski Quebec - Purser's safe raised from the wreck of the Empress of Ireland after two months of salvage operations.
1912 Thunder Bay Ontario - Fort William dock workers go on strike.
1907 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Founding of the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon.
1899 Hull Quebec - First play presented in new Hull theatre.
1883 Regina Saskatchewan - First session of NWT Legislative Council meets in Regina.
1882 Regina Saskatchewan - First CPR train reaches Regina.
1882 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Founding of Saskatoon by The Temperance Colonization Society, an Ontario group that wants to make the settlement the capital of a temperance colony; surveyed by F. L. Blake; first settlers reach the townsite overland from Moose Jaw in 1883.
1872 Montreal Quebec - Mgr. Bourget meets with George-Etienne Cartier to discuss election support.
1869 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian survey crew arrives in Fort Garry to resurvey the settlement; will ignore existing agreements and ignite the Red River Rebellion.
1858 London England - Colony of British Columbia established; Hudson's Bay Company required to give up control of Vancouver Island to local authorities.
1849 Montreal Quebec - Rioters burn the Cyrus Hotel in Montreal.
1820 Winter Lake NWT - John Franklin 1786-1847 goes into winter quarters at Winter Lake; between Great Slave Lake and Coppermine River
1819 Toronto Ontario - Robert Gourlay 1778-1863 again found guilty of sedition under Alien Act; banished to US the following day.
1812 Nova Scotia - Isaac Hull on the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) defeats the British ship Guerriere after a two-day battle off Nova Scotia in the War of 1812.
1742 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Jean Urbain named director of the Forges de St-Maurice.
1738 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - First iron smelted by the upper blast furnace of the Forges de St-Maurice.
1707 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Massachusetts militia colonel John March 1658-1712 driven away from Port-Royal by de Subercase and Pierre Morpain c1686-1749, Caribbean privateer.
1681 Montreal Quebec - Hotel Dieu offers first hospital insurance plan.
1664 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council of New France orders shipload of 'undesirables' sent back to France.
1648 Quebec Quebec - Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge et d'Argentenay c1612-1660 arrives as Governor of New France; to 1651; Maisonneuve named Governor of Montreal.
1642 Sorel Quebec - Fort Richelieu attacked by the Iroquois.
1586 Cumberland Sound NWT - John Davis c1543-1605 mounts hilltop to look for sea route; finds none through islands at head of Cumberland Sound; sails down coast of Labrador, stopping at Davis Inlet and Hamilton Inlet.
1585 Cumberland Sound NWT - John Davis c1543-1605 sails 290 km into Cumberland Sound; blocked by land.
1583 Cape Race Newfoundland - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 sails to Cape Race to fish for cod and explore mainland; sends two ships back to England.

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August 21st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1139 – Song Dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin Dynasty general Wanyan Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song wars.
1192 – Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1331 – King Stephen Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stephen Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.
1680 – Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1689 – The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry.
1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
1852 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1897 – Oldsmobile, a brand of American automobiles was founded.
1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre which pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.
1942 – World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1944 – Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1944 – World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
1945 – Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1957 – The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
1959 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day
1961 – Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1963 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1968 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
1969 – An Australian, Denis Michael Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
1971 – A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
1976 – Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjom, South Korea.
1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1982 – Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1991 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1991 – Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1992 – Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho
1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
2001 – NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2001 – The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2013 – Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1796 SOLDIER KILLS MISSISSAUGA CHIEF
Toronto Ontario - Mississauga Chief Wabakinine, protecting his sister from a British soldier, is struck on the head with a rock and killed; his wife is also seriously injured.

1862
Williams Creek BC - Billy Barker discovers gold in creeks running into the Quesnel River; town of Barkerville, BC, grows up around mine; the find sparks a massive gold rush into the Cariboo.




In Other Events....

2017 Canada - The next total solar eclipse visible from Canada will happen on this day.
1995 Guyana - Cambior Inc. floods its large Omai gold mine in Guyana to limit environmental damage caused by cyanide-laced water escaping into a river.
1995 Parent Quebec - Forest fire forces evacuation of the village of Parent.
1993 Sept-Iles, Quebec - Car driven by Claude McKenzie of the Innu pop group Kashtin hits and injures a 10 year-old girl on a native reserve; will plead guilty to drunk driving causing bodily harm; sentenced to nine months in jail and ordered to undergo treatment for alcoholism..
1990 Mt-Rolland Quebec - Closing of the Mont-Rolland paper mill.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - The United Church of Canada's third General Council ends three days of intense debate, voting 302-74 to reaffirm 1988 statement on homosexuality, which permits avowed gays and lesbians to seek ordination; policy had split Canada's largest Protestant denomination.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Geraldine Kenney-Wallace named first woman chairman of the Science Council of Canada; McMaster University chemist and physicist.
1986 New York City - Canadian opera star Teresa Stratas makes her Broadway debut in Rags, a $5 million musical about Jewish immigrants who fail to find riches in the New World; closes after four performances.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Ottawa Roughrider Tony Gabriel catches a pass in his 128th consecutive game; sets world pro football record; record eclipsed in 1987 by the Steve Largent of the NFL.
1980 Calgary Alberta - Brigadier Frederick Maurice Watson VC dies; awarded Victoria Cross in World War I.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government agree to provide complete bilingual air traffic control inside Quebec.
1972 Beijing China - Opening of ten-day Canadian Trade Exposition in Beijing; largest ever trade fair for Canada.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Post Office announces closing of century-old Post Office Savings Bank.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Germaine Guévremont dies; born Marianne-Germaine Grignon at St-Jérôme, Quebec April 16, 1893. Guévremont started writing for the Montreal Gazette, Le Courrier de Sorel, Paysana and L'Oeil in the 1930s. In 1942 she published a collection of stories, En pleine terre, and the following year published chapters from her novel, Le Survenant (Beauchemin: 1945); the sequel, Marie-Didace, appeared in 1947 (Governor General's Award for English translation as The Outlander in 1950); also adapted for radio and TV in the 1950s.
1965 St Paul, Minnesota - Quebec's Mad Dog Vachon defeated by The Crusher, to lose National Wrestling Association championship.
1964 Bahamas - Canadian Bette Singer dives a record-setting 307 feet into Bahaman waters.
1961 Leonard Ontario - truck-train collision kills 8 at Leonard.
1960 Leopoldville Congo - Patrice Lumumba Premier of Congo apologizes for beating of Canadians on August 18.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces $150 million loan program for low-cost housing.
1957 Toronto Ontario - Nelson 'Nels' Stewart 1900-1957 dies; born Dec 29 1900 at Montreal; centred the Montreal Maroons' S line between Babe Siebert and Hooley Smith from 1925 to 1932; later with Boston Bruins (1932-35, 1936-37) and the New York Americans (1935-36, 1937-40); first player to score 300 goals in the NHL; had league-leading 324 goals and 191 assists in 653 league games until overtaken by Rocket Richard; took Hart Trophy in 1926 and 1930 as the NHL's MVP; one Stanley Cup with Bruins; still holds NHL record for fastest 2 goals - in 4 seconds.
1944 Atlantic - RCN corvette Alberni lost at sea.
1944 France - Canadian Major David Currie wins VC in final fighting as Canadians help close Falaise gap and crush the German Seventh Army.
1944 Falaise France - RCAF planes have hit 2600 German vehicles in the past four days. The First Canadian Army connects with the Poles - The Canadian Grenadier Guards rescuing the 1st Polish Armoured Division, trapped by the SS - and the Falaise Gap is finally closed, encircling the remnants of Kurt Meyer's 12th SS; from D-Day to Aug 21 the Germans lost 300,000 men; in early June Mayer had a division of 20,000 men with 150 tanks; now he has less than 300 men and no tanks or artillery. The next task of the Canadians is to move up the Channel coast and liberate the ports of Le Havre, Dieppe, Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk. Canadian casualties in taking Falaise and the Gap were 18,444 casualties including over 5,021 dead. The 3rd Canadian Division lost more than any other under Montgomery's command, primarily due to inferior equipment, such as the Sherman tank, no march for the German armour.
1928 Victoria BC - Simon Fraser Tolmie sworn in as Premier of British Columbia, replacing John Duncan MacLean; serves to Nov. 15, 1933.
1919 Quebec Quebec - Edward, Prince of Wales 1894-1972 arrives in Quebec City on official visit to open the Quebec Bridge; son of George V; future Edward VIII.
1877 Ste-Agathe, Quebec - Opening of the Chemin de fer des Laurentides, a railway running from Montreal.
1860 Montreal Quebec - Albert Edward the Prince of Wales continues visit to Montreal; later Edward VII.
1853 Beechey Island NWT - Edward Inglefield 1820-1894 Captain of the Royal Navy barque Phoenix rescues all 21 crew of its sister ship Breadalbane, which sank in 15 minutes after her wooden hull was pierced by an ice slab; both ships carrying supplies to Sir Edward Belcher's Arctic expedition; wreck discovered Aug 13, 1980 after 3 year search by Dr. Joe McInnes.
1852 Fort Selkirk, Yukon - Tlingit warriors destroy Hudson's Bay Company Fort Selkirk after the HBC tries to break the Tlingit monopoly on trade with interior tribes.
1847 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canada Life Insurance Company.
1816 Quebec Quebec - Quebec has an early season snowfall.
1775 Kennebec River, Maine - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 begins second wing of invasion of Canada up the Kennebec River toward Quebec.
1760 Sorel Quebec - Brigadier General James Murray 1722-1794 puts the village of Sorel to the torch.
1660 Montreal Quebec - Mgr. de Laval visits Montreal.
1624 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain and his wife Hélène leave for France; arrive in Dieppe Oct. 1.
1583 Sable Island, Nova Scotia - The Delight, with 85 persons aboard, founders on the banks of Sable Island; first Canadian shipwreck on record.

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August 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
564 – Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1559 РBartolom̩ Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1827 РJos̩ de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.
1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
1952 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1961 – Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1963 – American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (66 mi).
1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'etat, commencing 17 years of military rule.
1978 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
1984 – PC Brian Bishop was a British police officer who was shot in the head by an armed robber in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. He died from his injuries five days later.
1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1711 NINE HUNDRED DROWN IN ST. LAWRENCE
Ile-aux-Oeufs Quebec - British Admiral Hovenden Walker's assault on New France falters as 8 of his 15 warships are wrecked in gales and heavy fog in the St. Lawrence; nearly 900 men drown; 25 ships remaining in fleet return to England.

1884
Calgary Alberta - Founding of the Calgary and District Agricultural Society; to promote the district's crops and the promise of the Calgary region by means of an annual exhibition; the 1885 fair was disrupted by the North West Rebellion, but it was held successfully in 1886; forerunner of the Calgary Stampede.

1935
Edmonton Alberta - William Aberhart 1878-1943 leads Social Credit to victory over John Brownlee's United Farmers in Alberta provincial election; world's first Social Credit government will stay in power until 1971.




In Other Events....

1996 Montreal Quebec - Stéphane Richer returns to play with the Montreal Canadiens.
1994 Quebec Quebec - Gilbert Lajoie appointed Editor of the Quebec newspaper Le Soleil.
1994 NWT - Canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole.
1992 Charlottetown PEI - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the premiers and aboriginal leaders sign the Charlottetown Accord after 5 day debate; Quebec to get 25% of Commons seats; veto over French language, culture; approval on three Supreme Court judges. Provinces to have the right to veto future changes in national institutions; get full control of forestry, mining, tourism, recreation, housing, culture; also urban affairs; can opt out of new national cost-sharing programs, and be compensated. Provinces agree in principle to get rid of interprovincial trade barriers. Accord enshrines native right to self-government in Constitution; 5 years to define concept before courts get involved; natives to be able to make native laws consistent with federal and provincial laws; peace, order, good government. Accord to let territories become provinces; existing provinces to OK terms and representation. Senate to be elected and equal; Quebec and Ontario to get 18 more Commons seats each; new Senate to be cut to 62 seats, 6 from each province, 1 from each territory; proposed new Senate can veto legislation on natural resources taxation and government appointments; Quebec senators in proposed new Senate can veto legislation on French language and culture.
1992 New York City - Canadian rocker Tom Cochrane's 'Life Is A Highway' peaks at #6 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government mothballs Grande-Baleine project in James Bay.
1991 New York City - Colleen Dewhurst 1926-1991 dies of cancer at age 67; Montreal born actor starred on Broadway, then in films such as Annie Hall, and The Blue and the Gray; she was Murphy Brown's mother in the TV series, and was twice married to George C. Scott.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada strikes down the 'rape shield law'; previous sexual conduct of those alleging rape could not be presented in court.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Michel Belanger appointed co-Chair of the special commission to shape Quebec's political future; with Jean Campeau; 35 member Belanger-Campeau Commission to start Sept 4.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Musicfest rock festival opens at a park in the north end of Montreal, featuring James Brown, Huey Lewis and the News and Elton John; a financial disaster - only 160,000 people attend in 11 days, less than the 270,000 needed to break even.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Roger Simmons 1943- resigns as Mines Minister; later charged with tax evasion; appointed only ten days earlier.
1979 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Former prime minister John Diefenbaker buried on the University of Saskatchewan campus.
1964 Vancouver BC - Beatles give their first Canadian concert in Empire Stadium before 20,000 fans; hosted by DJ Red Robinson and broadcast live over radio station CKNW; play songs from their new album Something New; top ticket price $5.25; police cut concert short after 27 minutes, fearing a riot; bootlegged tapes of the show widely distributed.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Trans-Canada Airlines' first plane starts series of flights across Canada to mark 25th anniversary.
1958 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Argonauts' Boyd Carter and Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return in CFL game.
1952 Toronto Ontario - CBC tele-cine projectionist inserts a slide upside down; Canada's first known TV gaffe.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent calls for emergency meeting of Parliament after last-minute negotiations fail to avert Canada's first national rail strike; week-long shutdown by 125,000 workers in 15 railway unions causes serious transportation crisis, paralyzing rail and telegraph services; Parliament will pass back-to-work legislation Aug. 30.1950.
1944 Atlantic - German U-boats torpedo and cripple Canadian-manned aircraft carrier Nabob off Norway.
1933 Nova Scotia - Angus Lewis Macdonald 1890-1954 leads Liberals to power in Nova Scotia elections.
1919 Quebec Quebec - Edward Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII 1894-1972 opens the Quebec Bridge, redesigned and rebuilt since two disastrous crash, the first in 1910 that killed 75 workers, many from Caughnawaga, the second, the loss of the complete centre span in 1916.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - War Measures Act receives Royal Assent. The Finance Act, 1914, also becomes law, giving Ottawa the power to suspend payments in gold, and to make paper money legal tender.
1903 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Captain Robert Abram Bartlett 1875-1946 sails Neptune from Halifax under command of A. P. Low of Geological Survey; to patrol, explore and establish Canadian authority in Hudson Bay and the Arctic.
1901 Sydney, Nova Scotia - Construction starts on Cape Breton Railroad.
1898 Montreal Quebec - Completion of the new Victoria Bridge.
1886 Queenston, Ontario - William J. Kendall swims through the Niagara Rapids wearing a cork life jacket.
1872 Montreal Quebec - Alfred Bessette takes vows; becomes Frère André.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Lower Canada Governor Lord Gosford names 10 legislative councilors.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Association of Patriotic Women (l'association des Dames Patriotiques); urge the wearing of local clothing to avoid taxation.
1777 Fort Stanwix New York - Barry St. Leger abandons siege of Fort Stanwix when Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,000 arrive and frighten off Indians; retreats to Oswego.
1760 Sorel Quebec - James Murray leads British troops in attacking and destroying Sorel.
1660 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Radisson & Medart des Groseilliers return to New France with big load of furs; later fined, and their furs confiscated, for trading without a license; they decide to approach the English about forming a company to trade into Hudson Bay.

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August 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, eldest son of Marc Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Caesar and Cleopatra.
20 BC – Ludi Volcanalici are held within the temple precinct of Vulcan, and used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 – Gothic king Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by Roman general Stilicho and 12,000 "barbarians" are incorporated into the Roman army or sold as slaves.
476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
634 – Abu Bakr dies at Medina and is succeeded by Umar I who becomes the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
1244 – Siege of Jerusalem: The city's citadel, the Tower of David, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
1268 – Battle of Tagliacozzo: The army of Charles of Anjou defeats the Ghibellines supporters of Conradin of Hohenstaufen marking the fall of the Hohenstaufen family from the Imperial and Sicilian thrones, and leading to the new chapter of Angevin domination in Southern Italy.
1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
1328 – Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1382 – Siege of Moscow: The Golden Horde led by khan Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
1514 – The Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty.
1521 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.
1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 – French Wars of Religion Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1592 – Japanese invasions of Korea: The Yeongwon Castle is besieged by the Japanese Fourth Division led by Itō Suketaka.
1595 – Long War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory.
1600 – Battle of Gifu Castle: The eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the western Japanese clans loyal to Toyotomi Hideyori, leading to the destruction of Gifu Castle and serving as a prelude to the Battle of Sekigahara.
1614 – Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse.
1614 – The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic.
1628 – George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1655 – Battle of Sobota: The Swedish Empire led by Charles X Gustav defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1765 – Beginning of Burmese–Siamese War.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
1799 – Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 – Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
1898 – The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 – World War I: Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 – Italian Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 – World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
1944 – World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1946 – Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 – World Council of Churches is formed.
1954 – First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1977 – The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1982 – Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 – Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1987 – The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. The final score was 120–115 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
1989 – Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1989 – One thousand six hundred forty-five Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 – Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee opens the WWW, World Wide Web to new users.
1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 – Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.
2007 – The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2010 – Manila hostage crisis, in which eight hostages were killed.
2011 – A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD.
2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
2013 – A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, kills 31 people.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1882 NO MORE PILE OF BONES
Regina Saskatchewan - Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney replaces Battleford with Regina as the seat of government for the Northwest Territories; formerly Wascana, Cree for 'Pile of Bones,' referring to the buffalo bones that formerly littered the area and were now a cash crop; renamed Regina, after Queen Victoria, by Governor General, the Marquis of Lorne.

1850
Lancaster Sound NWT - HMS Assistance and HMS Intrepid find first trace of lost Franklin expedition in Lancaster Sound, at Cape Riley and Beechey Island.

1541
Cap Rouge, Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 arrives at Iroquois village of Stadacona on his third trip to Canada; starts to build Charlesbourg-Royale at western tip of Cape Diamond; first French fort in Canada; first French settlement in America.




In Other Events....

1989 Montreal Quebec - Rick Dempsey hits leadoff home run in the 22nd inning, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 1-0 victory over the Expos; second-longest shutout in major league baseball history.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post workers go on strike.
1988 St-Basile-le-Grand, Quebec - Fire ignites thousands of litres of oil laced with PCBs at a storage dump in St-Basile-le-Grand, SE of Montreal, forcing 3,000 residents to evacuate for 19 days; local labourer later admits to arson.
1980 Toronto Ontario - The Talking Heads make their live debut as a nine-piece band (up to now a quartet) at the Heatwave Festival, billed as a 'new-wave Woodstock'; other acts include the Pretenders and Elvis Costello.
1978 West Berlin, Germany - Helen Vanderburg of Calgary takes the gold medal for synchronized swimming at the third World Aquatic Championships.
1974 New York City - Paul Anka's (You're) Having My Baby the #1 Billboard hit for the second week in a row.
1970 St. Maurice, Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec agreed to establish St. Maurice National Park 160 km NE of Montreal; La Mauricie.
1965 Banff Alberta - Opening of five day conference on world development at Banff; topic: Canada as a middle power; sponsored by University of Alberta and Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
1958 Quebec Quebec - Future Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa marries Andrée Simard of the shipbuilding family.
1957 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas 1904- opens 740 km stretch of Trans-Canada Highway; province first to complete its portion of highway.
1943 Montreal Quebec - Trans Canada Airlines starts transatlantic service; now Air Canada
1941 England - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 booed by restless Canadian troops in England when he makes a speech; most have been in England for a year without seeing action.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 warns Cabinet to prepare for war as German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his Soviet counterpart Molotov sign non-aggression pact.
1926 Waterloo Ontario - Dedication of Waterloo Pioneers Memorial Tower, commemorating German settlement in western Ontario.
1919 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Prince Edward (Bloor) Viaduct to car traffic; construction of the 1.6 km long viaduct over the Don Valley connecting Bloor St. to the Danforth completed in 1918 for streetcar traffic; started in 1915; largest of three sections crosses 38 metres above the Don River.
1917 Toronto Ontario - Ontario cabinet passes order-in-council allowing the city of Berlin to change its name to Kitchener, effective Sept. 1.
1903 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Albert Peter Low of the Geological Survey of Canada leaves on the vessel Neptune, Captain Robert Abram Bartlett, on an expedition to explore and establish Canada's authority in the waters of Hudson Bay and the North; Low will later write an account called The Cruise of the Neptune.
1890 Moncton, New Brunswick - Moncton becomes a city.
1876 Fort Carlton Saskatchewan - Plain/Wood Cree meet to negotiate Treaty #6 in Central Alberta and Saskatchewan; get famine relief when necessary; also adherents to 1899 treaty; total 194,725 sq km set aside for reserves.
1871 Saint John New Brunswick - 'Paris' crew from Saint John defeat Renfrew crew from England in a rowing race.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Garnet Wolseley 1833-1913 arrives in Red River with expeditionary force after 96 day trek.
1853 London England - William Rowan 1789-1879 administrator of Canada; serves until June 10, 1854.
1835 Red River Manitoba - Red River settlers protest Hudson's Bay Company monopoly and high prices.
1835 Quebec Quebec - Lower Canada Governor Lord Gosford arrives at Quebec.
1834 Kingston Ontario - Founding of 'The Whig' newspaper in Kingston; today's Whig-Standard.
1828 London England - John Colborne, Baron Seaton 1778-1863 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves from Nov. 4, 1828 to Nov. 30, 1835
1820 Montreal Quebec - Lost pig enters the Bank of Montreal on St. James Street.
1797 Montreal Quebec - Emanuel Allen sold at public auction in Montreal; last slave transaction in Canada
1766 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Michael Francklin 1733-1782 appointed administrator of Nova Scotia; serves to Nov. 26, 1766
1724 Norridgewock Maine - Sebastien Rale 1657-1724 killed in British raid on Abenaki village of Norridgewock.
1691 Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 takes part in buffalo hunt with Assiniboine Indians; first European to reach Prairies; first to take part in a buffalo hunt; employee of the Hudson's Bay Company
1667 Quebec Quebec - Habitants of New France required to give 1/26 of their harvest to their seigneur (le dîme).
1623 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Pontgravé leaves Port Royal to return to France; afflicted with gout..
1577 Frobisher Bay NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 kidnaps three Inuit, then sets sail for England.

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August 24th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
79 – Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
410 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
455 – The Vandals, led by king Genseric, begin to plunder Rome. Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. He agrees and the gates of Rome are opened. However, the Vandals loot a great amount of treasure.
1185 – Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
1200 РKing John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoul̻me in Bordeaux Cathedral.
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1391 – Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army
1516 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1690 – Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
1781 – American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.
1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1820 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
1870 – The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1898 – Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1933 – The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1937 РSpanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santo̱a Agreement.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
1941 – Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.
1944 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
1949 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
1954 РGet̼lio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by Jọo Caf̩ Filho.
1963 – Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1989 – Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
1994 – Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
1998 – First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2001 – Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
2004 – Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
2010 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1814 BRITISH TORCH WASHINGTON, AVENGE BURNING OF TORONTO
Washington DC - Major-General Robert Ross leads 4,000 troops in attack on Washington; British burn the Capitol, White House, National Library and other government buildings; to retaliate for the American burning of York (Toronto) and Newark (Niagara) earlier in the War of 1812.

1990
Ottawa Ontario - PM Brian Mulroney 1939- orders destroyers Athabascan, Terra Nova & supply ship Protecteur with 934 personnel to the Persian Gulf to participate in Gulf War.



In Other Events....

1992 Montreal Quebec - Valery Fabrikant shoots to death four fellow professors at Concordia University, Matthew Douglass, Michael Hogden, Aaron (Jaan) Saber, and Phoivos Ziogas; angry at the corruption that he perceived to be in the Engineering department; University Rector blames handgun permit laws.
1991 New York City - Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It for You stays at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1990 Canada - Binational free trade panel rules in favour of Canadian pork producers; says US International Trade Commission wrong to put 8/kg tariff on Canadian products.
1990 Kuwait - Canadian Chargé d'affaires William Bowden refuses to close Canadian Embassy in Kuwait City, as ordered by Saddam Hussein; five other Canadians and 17 Kuwaiti employees have no water or electricity.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Minnesota North Stars hockey player Dino Ciccarelli sentenced to 24 hours in jail and a $1,000 fine for assault; released after two hours; first NHL player to be jailed for a penalty on ice; hit Luke Richardson of the Maple Leafs over the head twice with a hockey stick.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Star starts publishing Monday to Friday morning edition.
1974 Quebec Quebec - First Francophone International Youth Festival ends at Quebec City; 25 French-speaking countries participate.
1972 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton chosen as site for the 1978 Commonwealth Games.
1974 New York City - Ottawa pop singer Paul Anka's (You're) Having My Baby stays at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1972 Toronto Ontario - Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa lets Asians with British passports enter Canada; expelled from Uganda Aug. 5 by Idi Amin; 4,420 Ugandan Asians enter as immigrants over next three months.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - White Paper on Defence proposes maintaining NATO commitment; plus pollution control of coastal waters and policing of territorial limits and fishing zones.
1970 Regina Saskatchewan - Roland Michener 1900- opens Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts in Regina.
1969 Chester Pennsylvania - US oil tanker Manhattan leaves Chester on trial voyage through Northwest Passage; helped by Canadian Coast Guard ice-breaker John A. Macdonald
1968 New York City - Montreal actor William Shatner appears on the cover of TV Guide with fellow actors Deforest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek.
1967 Toronto Ontario - John Parmenter Robarts 1917-1982 Ontario Premier announces plans to establish French-language secondary schools in Ontario.
1965 Montreal Quebec - First subway trains run on Montreal Métro; limited service.
1949 Brussels Belgium - North Atlantic Treaty goes into effect, with the parties agreeing that an armed attack against one country would be considered 'an attack against them all.' NATO created by Canada, the US and 10 European countries.
1944 Normandy France - The Battle of Normandy closes; cost the Canadian Army 18,444 casualties including over 5,021 dead. The 3rd Canadian Army Division also suffered greater losses than any other division within the 21st army Group. The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division suffered the next highest, even though it did not arrive in France until July 7th. Canadian battle casualties slightly exceeded 3,000 in June, 5,500 in July, and 7,400 for the period 1-23 August.
1933 New York City - Cobourg, Ont. actress Marie Dressler stars in Dinner At Eight, opening at the Astor, with co-stars Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, and Billie Burke.
1931 Quebec - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau 1867-1952 reelected in Quebec provincial election for the Liberals; 493,885 Quebeckers vote out of 639,005 registered. Taschereau Premier 1920-36, until his defeat by Duplessis; his son Robert was Chief Justice of Canada 1963-67.
1908 Sydney Australia - Canadian Tommy Burns knocks out Bill Squires in the 13th round for the world heavyweight boxing championship.
1898 Quebec Quebec - Opening of conference at Quebec to discuss the Alaska Boundary issue; until Oct. 11, when the conference adjourns until Nov. 7, when it resumes in Washington until Feb. 21, 1899.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan - First census of the Northwest Territories.
1877 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell obtains Canadian telephone patent.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 flees south with other members of his government as Wolseley occupies Fort Garry; warned to lie low for a time; end of Red River Insurrection
1867 Quebec Quebec - Election riots break out in Quebec.
1852 Nanaimo BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 founds Nanaimo; takes possession of coal deposits for Hudson's Bay Company
1791 Quebec Quebec - Constitutional Act proclaimed at Quebec; Order-in-Council divides Canada at Ottawa River; each province with own legislature and governor; Upper Canada capital at Newark (Niagara); Lower Canada capital at Quebec; under Act passed June 10 by the British Parliament.
1782 Churchill Manitoba - Jean-François de Galaup, Count de Lapérouse 1741-1783 attacks the HBC post at York Factory, then commanded by Samuel Hearne.
1660 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Radisson & Medart des Groseilliers are fined for trading without a license, and their rich load of furs from the West is confiscated; they decide to approach the English about forming a company to trade into Hudson Bay; origin of HBC.
1603 Gaspé Quebec - Champlain and Pontgravé leave for France; reach Honfleur Sept. 20.
1541 Cap Rouge, Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 plants cabbage, turnips and lettuce; sees shoots appear 8 days later; finds quartz 'diamonds' and 'gold' pyrites on Cape Diamond; later gives rise to the disparaging saying in France, 'un diamant du Canada.'
1535 Sept-Iles, Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sets sail westward towards the mouth of the Saguenay, which he reaches Sept. 1.

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August 25th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


357 – Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum).
1248 – The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1580 РBattle of Alc̢ntara. Spain defeats Portugal.
1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1630 – Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.
1825 – Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
1830 – The Belgian Revolution begins.
1835 – The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
1883 – France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
1912 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
1921 – The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
1933 – The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
1942 – World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
1944 – World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1950 – President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1961 РPresident J̢nio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
1980 – Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
1988 – The Chiado area in Lisbon is partially destroyed by a fire.
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1991 – Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November, during the Croatian War of Independence
1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
2013 – 6 people die and 22 are injured when a train derails in Huimanguillo, Tabasco, Mexico.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1785 FIRST ISSUE OF THE MONTREAL GAZETTE
Montreal Quebec - Fleury Mesplet 1734-1794 publishes the first issue of 'The Montreal Gazette /Le Gazette de Montréal'; the oldest newspaper still in existence in Canada.

1906
Windsor England -
King Edward VII grants a Coat of Arms to Saskatchewan.




In Other Events....

1994 St. Marys Ontario - St.Marys selected to be the home of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; 30 acre site adjacent to the St.Marys quarry will house an old stadium and museum with artifacts of Canadian baseball history; according to University of Western Ontario professor Bob Barney, Adam Ford, an early mayor of St. Marys, chronicled Canada's first game at nearby Beachville in 1838.
1991 Sydney Nova Scotia - Donald Marshall Sr. 1925-1991 dies at age 66; Grand Chief of 30,000 person Micmac Nation; father of Donald Marshall, Jr.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Jean Charest announces $25m to be spent of protecting ozone layer; to eliminate sources, study Arctic ozone layer; out of $3 billion Green Plan
1990 Toronto Ontario - Morley Callaghan dies at age 87; wrote 20 novels and over 100 short stories; friend of Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway; won Governor-General's Award in 1952 for his novel The Loved and the Lost.
1990 United Nations New York - UN security Council passes US-Sponsored resolution to enforce trade embargo, with military action against Iraq; after several days of debate.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Medical Association decides to allow MDs to disclose blood-test results of people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus; normally a breach of patient confidentiality.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Tory leader Brian Mulroney slams Prime Minister John Turner in a televised election debate. Mulroney charged Turner had a choice when presented with a list of patronage appointments from former prime minister Pierre Trudeau..
1981 Ottawa Ontario - David C. McDonald's Commission on RCMP wrongdoing recommends that security officials be allowed to open mail; with warrant from Solicitor General and federal judge.
1979 Toronto Ontario - California Angels trounce the Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Start of Air Canada strike.
1960 Rome Italy - Canadian athletes attend opening of 17th modern Olympic Games in Rome; a total of 83 nations and 5,345 competitors attend; to Sept. 11.
1955 Canada - Agricultural experts from Soviet Union start three-week tour of Canada's farming areas.
1944 Italy - Canadian Corps starts attack on the Gothic Line with the objective of capturing Rimini; cross the Metauro River, the first of six rivers lying across the path of the advance; move on to the Foglia River where the Germans have concentrated their forces.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Franklin Delano Roosevelt visits Ottawa; first official visit to Canada by a sitting US President. Warren Harding the first US president to visit Canada while in office, stopping in Vancouver on return from a trip to Alaska in 1923, a week before his sudden death.
1941 Spitsbergen Norway - Small British-Canadian force destroys radio and weather stations and coal supplies on Spitsbergen Island; to destroy anything of use to the Germans.
1940 London England - Winston Spencer Churchill urges Mackenzie King to release French gold to British.
1937 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park announced a delay of school openings due to a polio epidemic sweeping southern Ontario.
1928 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the Tri-City Rugby Football Union, with teams from Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg.
1919 Calgary Alberta - E.L. Richardson and Guy Weadick open the Calgary Victory Stampede, sponsored by Pat Burns, A.E. Cross, George Lane and A.J. McLean, who financed the first Stampede in 1912.
1919 Toronto Ontario - Edward, the Prince of Wales 1894-1972 visits Toronto; sets precedent by holding reception at City Hall to meet public; son of George V; future Edward VIII.
1917 Calgary Alberta - Calgary court gives the death sentence to Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, two Inuit found guilty of the 1913 murder of an Oblate missionary, in the first trial of Inuit in a Canadian court; hired by two Oblates to act as guides in the Coppermine district of the NWT, the two Inuit killed the priests and stole some of their goods during a dispute, when one of the priests struck Sinnisiak; NWMP arrested the men in 1916 and brought them to Calgary; sentence later commuted to life imprisonment, and they were released two years later.
1901 Montreal Quebec - Quebec painter Marc-Aurèle Suzor-Côté holds his first exhibition in Montreal.
1878 Regina Saskatchewan - First issue of the Saskatchewan Herald published; province's first newspaper.
1873 Sydney, Nova Scotia - Hurricane slams into Cape Breton Island, washing away wharves and destroying at least 1200 fishing boats.
1860 Montreal Quebec - Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, opens Crystal Palace on St Catherine Street, a replica of the Crystal Palace in London; then he formally opens the Victoria Railway Bridge, operating since Dec. 12 1859.
1824 Montreal Quebec - First conference of the Methodist Church of Canada.
1814 Washington DC - British troops burn the American Library of Congress with its 3,000 books, many from the personal library of Thomas Jefferson.
1818 Montreal Quebec - Bank of Canada begins operations at Montreal; not a success.
1791 Quebec Quebec - Alured Clarke c1745-1832 Lieutenant-Governor serves as administrator of Quebec; to Sept. 24,1793
1782 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - First census of Newark, Upper Canada, lists 83 people
1760 Prescott Ontario - Pierre Pouchot mounts France's last stand at Fort Lévis, with 400 defenders; surrenders to William Colville, Lord Amherst, who is advancing on Montreal with 10,000 men from Oswego down the St. Lawrence, while Haviland marches up Lake Champlain; Battle of the Thousand Islands.
1758 Kingston Ontario - John Bradstreet 1714-1774 arrives at Fort Frontenac after four day journey with 2,600 provincial troops, 40 Indian scouts, and 360 armed sailors in bateaux and whaleboats from Oswego. The fort is practically defenseless; Commandant Pierre de Noyan has only 120 French Regulars, 40 Acadians and Indians, with their women and children.
1753 Quebec Quebec - Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil 1698-1778 named Lieutenant General of New France; former Governor of Louisiana 1742-53; head of the military; Quebec-born, he will later succeed Duquesne and serve as the last Governor of New France 1755-60.
1718 New Orleans, Louisiana - Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana directly from France instead of Quebec; many settle in present-day New Orleans.
1665 Sorel Quebec - French start to build Fort Chambly, and to rebuild Fort Richelieu (Sorel) to protect the Richelieu Valley.
1632 Quebec Quebec - Père Paul LeJeune baptizes a young Iroquois named Louis.

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August 26th 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

1071 – Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
1278 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
1303 – Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1346 РHundred Years' War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Cr̩cy.
1444 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.
1466 – A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 – Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
1810 – The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
1813 – War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
1814 РChilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of Jos̩ Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
1821 – The University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is officially opened.
1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
1914 – In Brazil, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is founded.
1914 – World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1940 – Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1966 – The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
1970 – The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality.
1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1978 – Papal conclave: Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
1978 – Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31.
1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, US.
1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA








Today's Canadian Headline....

1925 TED ROGERS SR. INVENTS AC TUBE
Toronto Ontario - Edward S. Rogers Sr. invents the alternating-current tube, allowing plug-in batteryless radios. The call letters of his new radio station, CFRB, stand for 'Rogers Batteryless'.

1968
Appledore England - Hudson's Bay Company launches replica ketch Nonsuch II to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the HBC.




In Other Events....

1992 Montreal Quebec - CN North America signs freight deal with Burlington Northern and Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico; single North American system; linked customs services and common equipment.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to extend full diplomatic recognition to the Baltic republics of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania; never recognized legitimacy of 1940 annexation by Stalin, but did not maintain diplomatic ties.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Fire guts the Canadian National Exhibition's 80 year old Music Building.
1982 Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA launches Canada's Anik-D1 communications satellite (mass 730 kg) aboard a Delta rocket.
1981 Vancouver BC - Vancouver transit workers end five-week strike.
1978 Ontario - First Canada Jam Festival opens; with the Doobie Brothers, the Commodores, Kansas, Dave Mason, Atlanta Rhythm Section.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec government adopts Bill 101 (La Charte de la langue française); French becomes the official language of Quebec; children whose mother or father went to English school eligible for English schooling; less stringent than Bill One.
1972 Munich Germany - Canadian athletes join 121 other nations and a total of 7,156 competitors at the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Munich; to Sept. 10.
1970 Cowes England - Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell performs at Isle of Wight Pop Festival; she bursts into tears when a spectator jumps on the stage, grabs her microphone and shouts, 'This is just a hippie concentration camp.'
1966 Canada - Canada's 118,000 railway workers go on strike; close down telecommunications, air express; all but first-class mail and ferry service to PEI.
1962 Hanover, New Hampshire - Vihjalmur Stefansson dies at age 82; born in Arnes, Manitoba Nov 3, 1879 to Icelanders who moved to North Dakota in 1880. An arctic explorer, ethnologist, lecturer and writer, Stefansson was educated at the universities of Iowa, North Dakota and Harvard; made three trips to the Arctic from 1906 to 1918, and covered over 32,000 sq km of territory. From 1913-18 he led the Canadian Arctic Expedition, which discovered Lougheed, Borden, Meighen and Brock islands, while drifting on ice floes. His unauthorized Wrangel expedition, designed to claim an island north of Siberia for Canada, ended with the tragic death of four, including a young Canadian student, and caused an international incident.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Amateur Hockey Association approves Father David Bauer's proposal to build a Canadian Olympic Hockey team, instead of sending club teams off to represent Canada; in 1965 a permanent national team for Canada was established.
1961 Toronto Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens the International Hockey Hall of Fame at the CNE; announces $5 million annual grant for amateur sports in Canada.
1960 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau decides to run for Mayor of Montreal; a social worker.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Board of Broadcast Governors (BBG) to regulate broadcasting in Canada, independent of the CBC; later becomes the CRTC, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.
1957 Toronto Ontario - Joseph Burr Tyrrell dies; geologist, explorer, historian, born at Weston, Ontario August 26, 1957. Tyrrell worked for the Geological Survey of Canada from 1881 to 1898, collecting and consolidating information on the natural history and mineral resources of many remote regions. He crossed the barrens, exploring the Dubawnt and Thelon Rivers as far as Chesterfield Inlet, and in 1884 he discovered the rich dinosaur beds of the Badlands of southern Alberta, as well as coal beds at Drumheller, Alberta, and Fernie, BC. After retiring from the government, he worked as a mining consultant, and developed properties in the Klondike and northern Ontario. The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology near Drumheller, founded in 1985, is named in his memory.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian railways adopt the Uniform Code of Operating Rules for train operation purposes.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sends personal peace appeals to Hitler, Mussolini and President of Poland.
1938 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Maroons hockey team dropped from the NHL due to financial troubles.
1919 Toronto Ontario - American pilot Rudolph Schroeder wins the CNE's Great Toronto-New York-Toronto Air Race, sponsored by the Canadian National Exhibition.
1918 France - General Arthur Currie 1875-1933 leads Canadian Corps in successful attack on the Hindenburg Line; penetrates German defenses; until September 2.
1907 Toronto Ontario - Toronto financier Cawthra Mulock opens his Royal Alexandra Theatre on King Street West; with the musical Top of the World, written by Mark Swain; theatre bought and refurbished by retailer 'Honest Ed' Mirvish in 1963.
1891 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba and the Northwest Territories provided with their first published weather forecasts.
1887 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys the Montreal Herald newspaper building.
1884 Montreal Quebec - British Army start recruiting Canadian voyageurs and boatmen to serve in Wolseley's Nile Expedition to rescue Kitchener at Khartoum.
1881 Winnipeg Manitoba - First CPR train steams into Winnipeg over the Red River Bridge.
1876 Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan - Cree, Saulteaux and Chipewyan of present-day central Alberta and Saskatchewan sign Treaty #6; to get schooling, as well as farm implements, seeds, farm animals and instruction in agricultural techniques; famine relief when necessary and medicine when needed; also adherents to 1899 treaty; total 194,725 sq km set aside for reserves.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald wires J.J.C. Abbott 'I must have another ten thousand'; stolen telegram later provided the opposition with proof that Macdonald had accepted money in return for his support in Parliament of the Hugh Allan group bidding for the CPR contact.
1837 Quebec Quebec - Governor Lord Gosford dissolves the fourth session of fifteenth Assembly of Lower Canada; meeting since Aug. 18; had refused to pass budget subsidies.
1856 Montreal Quebec - Hugh Allan 1810-1882 establishes the Allan Line with four ships - Canadian, North American, Indian and Anglo Saxon; subsidized with mail contract.
1834 Kingston Ontario - John A. Macdonald starts practicing law in Kingston.
1833 Baffin Island, NWT - Captain James Ross and his shipwrecked crew of 19 are rescued off Baffin Island by his flagship, the whaler Isabella; Ross and crew survived four winters with the help of the Inuit before abandoning Victory to the ice, and setting off, in shipwrecked boats they had found and repaired, through a lane of water that opened up leading northward.
1784 Cape Breton Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island separated from Nova Scotia; becomes its own colony, with Lieutenant-Governor and council.
1758 Kingston Ontario - John Bradstreet 1714-1774 sets up a battery within point blank range of the walls of Fort Frontenac and starts firing. Commandant Pierre de Noyan will capitulate a day later.
1748 Quebec Quebec - François Bigot arrives at Quebec to serve as the new Intendant.
1634 Quebec Quebec - Huron Indians supply wild plums to the Jesuits.
1613 St-Malo France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives in St-Malo from Tadoussac; will try and get further support for his voyages.
1576 Baffin Island NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 crew member finds what may be lump of gold; turns out to be fool's gold - iron pyrite.

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Events:C/P.

410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
1232 – The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1593 РPierre Barri̬re fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.
1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
1776 – Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: the city of Toulon revolts against the French Republic and admits the British and Spanish fleets to seize its port, leading to the Siege of Toulon by French Revolutionary forces.
1798 – Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connacht.
1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on ÃŽle de France.
1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by the United Kingdom between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
1832 – Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans, surrenders to U.S. authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1861 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1914 – Battle of Étreux: a British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
1916 – The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
1918 – Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales — U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
1922 – Greco-Turkish War: The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Kingdom of Greece.
1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
1928 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
1943 – World War II: Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1957 – Malaysia's constitution comes into force.
1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1971 РAn attempted coup d'̩tat fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.
1982 – Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1993 – The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
2000 – The 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2009 – The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
2013 – The riots between two religious communities started at Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.









Today's Canadian Headline....

1912 WILBY & HANEY START FIRST CROSS CANADA MOTOR TRIP
Halifax Nova Scotia - Thomas Wilby & Jack Haney start first cross-Canada motor trip in REO Special; to establish the All Red Route; their trip takes 52 days to Victoria, BC; Wilby is an English journalist, Haney an REO Motor Car Company mechanic/driver.

1841
Cobourg Ontario - Egerton Ryerson 1803-1882 appointed the first President of the newly incorporated Victoria College, a Methodist institution formerly called Upper Canada Academy; a degree-granting institution.

1793
Toronto Ontario - John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806 names the capital of the new Province of Upper Canada 'York,' after the Duke of York; renamed Toronto, an Iroquois word meaning Place of Meeting, in 1834, when the city of 9,000 is incorporated.




In Other Events....

1992 Montreal Quebec - Sylvie Fréchette retires from swimming competition; signs 3 year contract with la Banque Nationale.
1992 Vancouver BC - CFL revokes BC Lions franchise; later restored after reforms and refinancing.
1991 Kelowna BC - Brian Mulroney 1939- announces Royal Commission on Native Issues, co-chaired by George Erasmus and Judge Rene Dussault; also Blakeney, Chartrand, Robinson, Sillett, Wilson.
1991 Whistler BC - Provincial premiers, minus Quebec, urge Mulroney to hold conference on the economy.
1990 Oka Quebec - Canadian Army ordered to use whatever force necessary to end standoff between Kanasetake Mohawks and Quebec police at Oka.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Ted Reeve 1902-1983 dies; 1924 organized the Balmy Beach Football Club and played with them until 1934, helping them win the ORFU title in 1927 and the Grey Cup in 1930; coached Balmy Beach, then Queen's University where his team took the college championship in 1934 and 1935; also played pro lacrosse, winning the Mann Cup with Brampton (1926) Oshawa (1928) and Brampton (1930); ended career as sportswriter for the Toronto Telegram.
1980 Ottawa/Winnipeg - Thomson-owned Ottawa Journal and the Southam-owned Winnipeg Tribune stop publication; low advertising revenues blamed; Journal 94 years old.
1978 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan Roughrider Bob Macoritti kicks a record-setting seven field goals against Toronto Argonauts.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Hockey broadcaster and Canadian Sports Hall of Famer Jack Dennett dies; started career at age 15 sweeping floors at Calgary radio station CFCA; a year later he had his own show; 1935 started to do between period broadcasts for Regina Senior Hockey League; 1943 joined Toronto's CFRB radio station and did NHL hockey broadcasts for next 30 years; original member of Hot Stove Lounge with Wes McKnight, Bobby Hewitson, Elmer Ferguson and Court Benson; 1952 he joined CBC TV's Hockey Night in Canada; only Foster Hewitt had worked longer as a hockey broadcaster.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada upholds legality of the Indian Act; rules that aboriginal women marrying non-Indians must lose Indian status; a bill reversing this loss of status given Royal Assent June 1985.
1966 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists bungle holdup at the Jean-Talon cinema in Montreal; six arrested, aged between 19 and 22.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Kenneth Carter chairs Royal Commission on Taxation; famous for saying, 'A Buck is a Buck'; Carter Commission
1942 Caribbean - Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Oakville sinks U-Boat in Caribbean; fight to keep Venezuelan oil moving to Britain.
1942 Atlantic - German U-Boat sinks two ships off Newfoundland.
1937 Sherbrooke Quebec - End of strike at 9 Dominion Textile plants.
1936 Montreal Quebec - Camilien Houde resigns as Mayor of Montreal.
1928 Geneva Switzerland - Canada joins 61 other nations in signing the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, condemning the use of war as an instrument of national unity.
1860 Montreal Quebec - Prince of Wales hosts a ball with 6,000 people attending.
1819 Richmond Ontario - Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond 1764-1819 dies from the bite of a rabid fox while on a tour of Upper Canada; gives his name to the military settlement SW of Ottawa.
1807 London England - James Craig 1748-1812 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada; serves from Oct. 24, 1807 to Oct. 21, 1811.
1764 Detroit Michigan - Colonel John Bradstreet 1714-1774 holds more negotiations at Detroit.
1760 Montreal Quebec - James Murray arrives before Montreal with about 4,000 troops.
1758 Kingston Ontario - Colonel John Bradstreet 1714-1774 captures Fort Frontenac and its rich storehouses, as well as nine armed vessels with 100 guns, the total French naval force on Lake Ontario; British have only two wounded and not a single man killed; Commandant Pierre-Jacques Payen de Noyan capitulates in face of the British artillery after a token resistance of two days; has only 120 French Regulars, 40 Acadians and Indians, with their women and children. British load their bateaux and the two largest French vessels with 60 French cannon and as many of the 10,000 barrels of food, trade goods, and bales of furs they can carry, and sail off to Oswego, after burning and destroying the fort with the rest of the provisions, magazines, stores, artillery and ships. Bradstreet refuses his share of the £1 million French in booty, dividing his portion among his troops; he sends de Noyan and the prisoners to Montreal on parole, in exchange of an equal number of British captives to be forwarded to Albany.
1747 Montreal Quebec - Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais Youville 1701-1771 becomes temporary head of l'Hôpital Générale de Montréal; founder of the Grey Nuns mothered 6 children; 2 entered the priesthood
1725 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - Guillaume de Chazel, drowns in wreck of payship 'Le Chameau,' which sinks 25 km from Louisbourg; found by 3 divers in May 1966, with gold and silver coins worth $700,000; Chazel the newly appointed Intendant.
1679 Cayuga Creek, Ontario - René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 leaves on his newly built trading ship the Griffon for Michilimackinac and Green Bay, then will return east. On Sept 18 the Griffon will leave laden with furs for Niagara, but is never seen again.
1618 Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives back in Honfleur from Tadoussac; left July 30.
1612 Churchill Manitoba - Captain Thomas Button lands in his ship 'Discovery'; becomes the first European to winter in Manitoba.

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Events:C/P.

475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
663 – Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
1189 – Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1524 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1542 – Turkish–Portuguese War (1538–1557): Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
1565 РPedro Men̩ndez de Avil̩s sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1648 – Siege of Colchester ended when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the English Civil War.
1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroading.
1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.
1861 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.
1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1898 – Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called "Pepsi-Cola".
1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur, Belgium.
1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts.
1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
1963 – Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights.
1963 – The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
1998 – Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.

 

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Today's Canadian Headline....

1941 AT THE END OF THE LONG DASH MARKING TEN SECONDS OF SILENCE...
Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Observatory time becomes Canada's official time at 1 pm on this day.

1632
Quebec Quebec - Paul Le Jeune 1591-1664 sends his first report on mission work and Indian life to the Provincial of the Jesuit Order; first of the annual 'Jesuit Relations'; Le Jeune was Superior of the Jesuits in Quebec from 1632-1639.




In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - National Defence sends destroyer HMCS Gatineau to monitor UN embargo against Yugoslavia; moves to NATO standing force in Mediterranean
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister Marcel Masse says Canada prepared to send 750 troops to Somalia to help relieve famine and civil war.
1990 Oka, Quebec - Canadian Army offers 24 hour grace period to Mohawks at Kanasetake to dismantle barricades.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Marchand dies; Quebec labour leader, federal politician.
1982 Canada - Today magazine publishes last issue; distributed in 18 Canadian newspapers with circulation of 3 million
1980 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Halifax transit workers end 31-day strike ended.
1969 Quebec Quebec - Jean Lesage resigns as Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Michel Tremblay 1942- premieres 'Les Belles-soeurs'; one of first artistic uses of Quebecois French slang - 'joual'.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
1922 Craig Harbour NWT - Joseph-Elzéar Bernier builds Craig Harbour, Canada's most northerly settlement to date at 76 degrees I0' N; on the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition
1920 Toronto Ontario - Nathan Louis Nathanson presides over gala opening of his Pantages Theatre on Yonge St., with six vaudeville acts and two silent films; moved to Canada from the US in 1907 to start the Famous Players Canadian Corporation which built the Pantages. The movie palace was later renamed the Imperial, then in 1973 converted into six movie screens as the Imperial Six; closed in 1986 during dispute between Famous Players and Cineplex Odeon; restored in 1989 by Garth Drabinsky for the Toronto production of the Phantom of the Opera.
1878 Sherbrooke Quebec - First issue of Sherbrooke Examiner newspaper published.
1872 Montreal Quebec - George-Etienne Cartier defeated by 1,300 votes in Montreal East, despite the spending of over $25,000 in the riding during the election.
1872 Rouville Quebec - Honoré Mercier elected MP for the county of Rouville.
1872 Niagara Falls Ontario - James Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok 1837-1876 stars in the Grand Buffalo Hunt at Niagara Falls; first Wild West Show in Canada sees Native American and Mexican cowboys doing a thrilling display of roping and riding, and 'hunting' three tame buffalo.
1867 Quebec Quebec - Mgr. Baillargeon named Bishop of Quebec.
1861 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 dies at age 66; Toronto's first mayor and leader of the Upper Canada rebellion of 1837.
1846 London England - British Possessions Act lets Canada and Maritime provinces enact tariffs and cut or repeal duties; marks new stage in Canadian independence.
1860 Montreal Quebec - Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales attends a lacrosse match played in his honour.
1854 Montreal Quebec - Mgr. Bourget announces the building of a Roman Catholic Cathedral de Montréal.
1833 London England - British Parliament outlaws slavery in the British Empire; 700,000 persons are liberated.
1809 Montreal Quebec - Play 'Le Charivari' performed in Montreal.
1781 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - American privateers attack Annapolis Royal.
1775 Richelieu River Quebec - Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 begins one wing of invasion of Canada down Richelieu River with General Schuyler and 1,000 troops; invites inhabitants to join the American Revolution.
1760 Ile aux Noix, Quebec - William Haviland 1718-1784 takes Fort Ile aux Noix on the Richelieu River; later Fort Lennox.
1696 Churchill Manitoba - English recapture Fort York (HBC's York Factory) from the French.
1667 Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 departs for France.
1661 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Radisson & Médart des Groseilliers leave Montreal without the Governor's permission; journey to Lake Superior; possibly reach Hudson Bay.
1660 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Rene Menard 1605-1661 leaves Trois-Rivières for Keweenaw Bay on the south shore of Lake Superior, where he establishes the Ste-Thérèse mission.
1606 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Poutrincourt and Pontgravé set sail from Port Royal and explore down the American coast on the Jonas; will return Nov. 14.


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August 29th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1261 – Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.
1315 – Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
1484 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV.
1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal.
1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
1533 – Spaniard Francisco Pizarro executes Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca (sovereign emperor) of the Inca Empire.
1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss.
1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island.
1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
1825 – Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
1861 – American Civil War: United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1903 – The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1914 – Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1946 – USS Nevada is decommissioned.
1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic ocean.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1970 РChicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rub̩n Salazar.
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 – Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2004 – Michael Schumacher wins his 5th consecutive Formula One Drivers' championship (and 7th overall) at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix to beat the 47 year old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1883 THAT'S COOKING WITH ELECTRICITY!
Ottawa Ontario - Thomas Ahearn, head of the Ottawa Street Railway Company, presides over a demonstration of his pioneering electric stove at the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa. This is believed to be the world's very first dinner cooked on an all-electric stove.

1907
Quebec Quebec - South cantilever arm of the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River collapses during construction; over 65 workers killed, 11 injured in Canada's worst bridge disaster. The bridge is rebuilt in 1916 but the centre span falls into the river, killing another 13 people. When it is finally completed in September 1917, the Quebec Bridge is the world's longest cantilever bridge, and the largest bridge in the world.




In Other Events....

1996 Baikonur Azerbaijan - Canadian UVAI (Ultra-Violet Auroral Imager) instrument launched on board the Russian Interball-2 spacecraft.
1994 Messina Italy - Toronto swimmer Carlos Costa swims across the 60 km wide Straits of Messina in 23.5 hours; first disabled athlete to complete a double-crossing of the Strait; 21-year-old athlete born with no bones below the knees.
1992 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933- gets special conference of Quebec Liberal Party to approve of Charlottetown Accord; only Party's youth wing and Jean Allaire oppose deal.
1991 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba's aboriginal justice inquiry says legal system systematically discriminates against Canadian natives; recommends universal self-government and separate justice system run by natives.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Army dismantles the Mercier Bridge barricades at Kanawake; put up by Mohawks to protest Oka standoff.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Jocelyn Muir finishes her 60-day marathon swim around Lake Ontario to raise $250,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society; sets record for the longest international marathon.
1983 Pictou, Nova Scotia - Brian Mulroney 1939- wins election to the House of Commons in a by-election in Central Nova.
1983 Caracas Venezuela - Canada finishes third with 108 medals at the Pan-American Game, behind the US and Cuba; two Canadian weightlifters disqualified for steroid use.
1976 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - CHEM-TV starts broadcasting.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Gérard Pelletier named Canadian Ambassador to France.
1969 Quebec Quebec - 70,000 Quebec elementary and secondary teachers reach agreement with Quebec and local school boards after two-year dispute.
1968 Mt. Kobau BC - Ottawa cancels support for observatory under construction on Mt. Kobau, British Columbia.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament recalled to end railway strike; will grant interim wage increase of 18%.
1964 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists hold up a gun store in Montreal.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 3rd third session of 21st Parliament; deals with rail strike and Korean War; sits until January 29, 1951.
1922 Calgary Alberta - Radio CFAC goes on the air with Calgary's Salvation Army band in concert; first privately-owned station between Winnipeg and Vancouver.
1919 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island removes ban on automobiles after several years of no cars.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Borden's Union government passes Military Service Act; all male British subjects up to 45 years of age liable; with certain exceptions.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Mob of 5,000 Montrealers start violent two-day riot against Military Service Act, which receives Royal Assent on this day.
1914 Montreal Quebec - Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry regiment sails from Montreal for England.
1904 St Louis, Missouri - No Canadian team attends the opening of the third modern Olympic Games in St Louis. Canadians will win four gold medals: Étienne Desmarteau in weight throwing, George Lyon in golf, the Winnipeg Shamrocks in lacrosse, and the Galt, Ontario, Team for soccer.
1883 London Ontario - First Salvation Army service in Canada held at London.
1877 Hamilton Ontario - Melville Bell conducts 3-way telephone experiment in Hamilton for Hugh C. Baker.
1858 Kicking Horse Pass, Alberta - Dr. James Hector, geologist with the Palliser Expedition, knocked unconscious in a fall from his kicking horse near the Continental Divide; Kicking Horse Pass will later become the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Mohawk Indians win first white-Indian lacrosse game.
1810 Quebec Quebec - Over 600 prostitutes counted in Lower Canada.
1807 London England - James Craig appointed Governor of Lower Canada.
1759 Quebec Quebec - James Wolfe 1727-1759 calls a meeting of his senior officers to decide how Quebec can be taken. They recommend a landing above Cap Rouge, 40 km west of the city. Wolfe says he agrees, and concentrates his army at Pointe Lévis, sending Admiral Saunders and a squadron of twenty vessels west of the city, to drift up and downstream with the tide, searching for a place to land, forcing Bougainville's 3,000 troops to follow along the cliffs.
1758 Louisbourg, Nova Scotia - James Wolfe 1727-1759 leaves Louisbourg on campaign to destroy settlements along lower St. Lawrence River and Gaspé.
1756 Germany - Prussian Emperor Frederick II attacks Saxony; beginning of the Seven Years War that will see the English capture Canada.
1631 Cape Henrietta Maria, NWT - Thomas James 1593-1635 meets up with Luke Foxe 1586-c1635 near Cape Henrietta Maria searching for the North West Passage; together they sail into Foxe Channel as far as Cape Dorchester; James will then sail south into James Bay, named in his honour, and winter on Charlton Island.
1583 Sable Island, Nova Scotia - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 drowns off Sable Island when his ship Delight is wrecked; 12 men rescued; his reputed last words 'We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!'

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August 30th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

526 – King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.
1282 – Peter III of Aragon, originally traveling with his fleet on a military expedition against the Hafsid Kingdom, ends up in the Sicilian town of Trapani, after he was asked by the inhabitants of Palermo to help in the fight against Charles of Anjou.
1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813 – First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835 – Melbourne is founded.
1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
1917 – Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 – Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1998 – Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
1999 – East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1988 VICKI KEITH ENDS HER MARATHON SWIM
Toronto Ontario - Canada's Vicki Keith staggers ashore from Lake Ontario, ending her marathon swim of all 5 Great Lakes and setting the women's world distance record of 38 km for the butterfly stroke; Keith started her marathon on July 1.

1812
Winnipeg Manitoba - Miles Macdonnell 1769-1828 Lord Selkirk's agent and a former soldier, arrives with the first settlers, mostly Scottish, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, to found the Red River Settlement. As first Governor of Assiniboia, his duty is to establish the colony on land acquired by Selkirk from the Hudson's Bay Company; he builds Fort Douglas near the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar. The colony will be destroyed in a feud with the Norwesters in 1815, but will be re-established by Selkirk in 1817.



In Other Events....

1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939-appoints five new Senators to break GST & UIC logjams in the Senate; standings 32 PCs, 52 Liberals; Pat Carney (former MP for Vancouver Centre and Minister of International Trade), Mario Beaulieu (Montreal businessman who headed 1988 PC campaign in Quebec), Nancy Teed (NB PC organizer), Gerald Comeau (former MP from Nova Scotia), Consiglio di Nino (President of Cabot Trust and former PC fundraiser from Toronto).
1990 Las Vegas, Nevada - Ottawa native Paul Anka takes out American citizenship; pop singer, songwriter.
1987 Rome Italy - Toronto sprinter Ben Johnson runs the 100m dash at the world track and field championships in a world record 9.83, cutting one-tenth of a second from the previous record of 9.93 set by Calvin Smith four years earlier; record later erased by IAAF because Johnson admitted using steroids; in 1988, he will win gold at the Seoul Olympics with a time of 9.79 seconds but will be stripped of the medal after testing positive for steroids.
1976 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Liquor Commission fined $300,000 for violating federal wage and price controls; first case of provincial agency fined under controls.
1976 Gravenhurst Ontario - Group of 17 Chinese officials attends official opening Norman Bethune's restored birthplace, operated by Parks Canada; served as a surgeon during Mao's long march, and died in China of blood poisoning.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Group of 200 aboriginal protesters start 2-day occupation of the Indian and Northern Affairs building to demand a halt to the James Bay power development until Cree land claims are settled; also protest DINA's youth liaison program.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Striking rail workers force their way into the Centre Block of the Parliament buildings.
1972 BC - David Barrett 1930- leads the NDP to victory over WAC Bennett's Social Credit Party, taking 39 seats in the British Columbia provincial election; upsetting 20 years of Socred rule.
1972 Winnipeg Manitoba - Blue Bomber Mack Herron sets CFL record with 120 yard kickoff return.
1959 Montreal Quebec - End of Montreal streetcar service.
1957 London England - Ottawa native Paul Anka's hit single Diana peaks at #1 on the UK pop singles chart and stays there for nine weeks.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1919- cancels Winter Works Program first started in 1958-59.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament legislates end of Canada-wide strike of 15 rail unions which tied up railway and telegraph services, forces union back to work; sets up new arbitrator for this and future strikes.
1944 Rimini Italy - Two brigades of the First Canadian Corps cross the Foglia River and fight their way through the German Gothic Line toward Rimini.
1940 England - RAF's 'Canadian' Squadron sees action in Battle of Britain.
1932 Los Angeles, California - Canadian team attends opening of the tenth Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
1916 France/Belgium - Canadian Corps enters the Battle of the Somme, raging since July 1; engagements follow at Courcelette, Thiepval and Ancre Heights, end in the mud of mid-November with almost 25,000 Canadian casualties.
1907 Quebec Quebec - Opening of Inquiry into the collapse of the Quebec Bridge.
1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - George Arthur French 1841-1921 forms first detachment of North-West Mounted Police with 150 recruits.
1860 Quebec - Prince of Wales visits St-Hyacinthe and Sherbrooke.
1856 London England - Sir John Ross 1777-1856, Royal Navy officer, dies at age 79; born at Balsarroch, Scotland June 24, 1777. In 1817, Ross charted Baffin Bay; 1829-33 explored Lancaster Sound-Somerset Island in search of Northwest Passage; icebound on his ship, Victory, off the coast of Boothia Peninsula for four winters; 1831 his nephew and second-in-command, James Clark Ross, located the North Magnetic Pole on Boothia's west coast; 1850 commanded Felix in unsuccessful search for Franklin.
1856 Montreal Quebec - Abbé Chiniquy excommunicated; firebrand defector from Roman Catholic Church.
1851 London England - Parliament passes the Canadian Currency Act, specifying a conversion to decimal currency, and making the dollar legal tender, up to $10 per transaction; any new coins struck for Canada must have approval of British Government.
1851 Victoria BC - Legislative Council of Vancouver Island holds first session.
1843 Saskatchewan - Rupert's Land native Abishabis burned to death by his tribe to destroy his murderous spirit, after being caught and jailed by HBC after he killed an in-law's family and stole food and a canoe; claimed to be Jesus.
1611 Newfoundland - Newly appointed Governor John Guy issues Newfoundland's first laws; to protect forests and harbours and regulate the fishery.

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August 31st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1218 – Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil.
1314 – King HÃ¥kon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
1422 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
1803 – Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 – Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886 – An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
1913 – Police attack a union rally during the Dublin Lock-out, killing two people and injuring hundreds.
1918 – World War I: start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1935 – In an attempt to stay out of the growing turmoil in Europe, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
1941 – World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1943 – The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1963 – North Borneo (now Sabah) achieve a self governance.
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
1968 – Garfield Sobers became the first batsman ever to hit six sixes in a single over of six consecutive balls in first-class cricket.
1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.
1980 – Flood in Ibadan after 12 hours of heavy downpour killed over 300 people and properties worth million destroyed.
1982 – Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
1986 РAerom̩xico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1996 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2005 – The record for the most number of penalty kicks (40) taken in a Penalty shootout in a football match was set during an FA Cup Preliminary Round Replay match between Tunbridge Wells and Littlehampton Town at the Culverden Stadium in England.
2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1527 FIRST LETTER WRITTEN FROM CANADA
St. John's Newfoundland - John Rut writes to English King Henry VIII noting that there are 14 French and Portuguese fishing vessels in the harbour; also describes Labrador; the first recorded letter written from Canada.

1991
New York New York - United Nations awards 226 Canadian peacekeepers with UN service medals; for work in Yugoslavia. This TV feed shows a Canadian soldier taken hostage by the Bosnian Serbs .



In Other Events....

1995 Quebec - Sûreté de Québec provincial police swear in first 6 Inuit constables.
1993 Ottawa Ontario - Government slaps a ban on cod fishing after stocks dwindle.
1990 Schreiber Ontario - CP Rail sues Pays Plat Ojibwa Band for $37 million for blockading rail lines Aug 21-23 in sympathy with Oka occupation; also suit against Pic Mobert band at White River.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Canada-US Free Trade Agreement becomes law.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Quatre Saisons network launches La Maison Deschênes; 30 minute drama Canada's first daily TV soap opera.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams' 'Summer Of '69' peaks at #5 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1981 Langley BC - Clifford Robert Olson charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of nine children, after RCMP make a deal to lead them to the bodies and other evidence, in exchange for a $100,000 trust fund for his wife and infant son; native of Coquitlam, BC, will later be charged with killing 11 boys and girls aged nine to 18, and sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole.
1976 Burnaby BC - Carallyn Bowes arrives in Burnaby after running the 3,840 miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Burnaby, British Columbia in 133 days; first woman to run across Canada.
1973 Fort McMurray Alberta - Shell Canada announces plans to build $700 million oil extraction plant on Athabasca tar sands.
1971 Alberta - Peter Lougheed 1928- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory in Alberta provincial election over the Social Credit government under Harry Strom; upsetting 36 years of Socred rule.
1964 Charlottetown PEI - Centennial of Charlottetown Conference of 1864 re-enacted.
1956 Montreal Quebec - Henri Bourassa dies.
1955 Toronto Ontario - Church of England in Canada changed its name to Anglican Church of Canada.
1955 Winnipeg Manitoba - Placard-carrying mob of Ukrainian nationalists punch and kick four RCMP plain-clothes officers at Winnipeg airport, thinking they are part of a visiting delegation of Soviet farming experts; Mounties, Winnipeg city police and the railway police stop a potential riot; Soviets put under protective guard in a downtown hotel.
1944 Rimini Italy - Canadian troops break through Gothic Line south of Rimini; enter Po Valley; until Sept. 3.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Finance Minister announces Victory design on new 5¢ copper-zinc alloy (Tombac) coin, 12-sided to help distinguish it from the penny and quarter; change in metal is to preserve nickel supplies for war uses.
1940 Montreal Quebec - Mgr. Joseph Charbonneau becomes Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal on the death of Mgr. Gauthier.
1940 Berlin Germany - Canadians join RAF in first bombing attack on centre of Berlin.
1939 Hollywood California - Montreal actress Norma Shearer stars in George Cukor's 'The Women', from the Claire Boothe play; co-stars include Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, and Mary Boland.
1938 Quebec - Torrential rains hit St. Lawrence Valley; 12 persons killed in flooding and landslides.
1906 Alaska - Roald Amundsen's ship Gjoa reaches Alaska; first ship to sail the Northwest Passage.
1883 Calgary Alberta - Andrew M. Armour and Thomas B. Braden publish the first issue of their Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser newspaper; a four pager published, edited and typeset from a tiny hand-press in a tent on the banks of the Elbow River; one year subscription available for $3.00 (in advance).
1814 Castine Maine - John Sherbrooke 1764-1830 captures Castine, Maine, with a force from Halifax; War of 1812.
1721 Quebec Quebec - New France harvests 216,000 lbs of tobacco.
1721 Quebec Quebec - New France harvests 50,000 lbs of tobacco.
1673 Quebec Quebec - All beggars in Quebec ordered to leave by authorities.
1666 Quebec Quebec - Intendant Jean Talon's census taken. Here are some results: population of New France 3,418; Beauport 172; Beaupré 678; Ile d'Orléans 471; Montreal 584; Quebec 555; Sillery 217; Trois-Rivières 461. In addition, 63% are males; 257 women and 791 men are unmarried; 40% are aged 14 and under; 7 married women are aged 14 or under.
1604 Dochet Island, Maine - Poutrincourt sails for France leaving de Monts, Champlain and 77 others to spend the winter on St. Croix.
1583 Cape Race, Newfoundland - Two remaining ships of Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 return to Cape Race and head for England; Gilbert and the 'Squirrel' lost in mid-ocean.
1578 Frobisher Bay NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sets out for England; other 13 ships leave three days later.

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September 1st 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
717 – Siege of Constantinople: The Muslim armada with 1,800 ships, is defeated by the Byzantine navy through the use of Greek fire.
1270 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.
1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki.
1449 – Tumu Crisis – Mongols capture the Emperor of China.
1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
1532 РLady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fianc̩, King Henry VIII of England.
1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
1804 – Juno, one of the four largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1831 – The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: the Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War
1894 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 – A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1920 – The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 – General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
1967 – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia
1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 – Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attack his motorcade.
1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).
1980 – Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes President of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
1981 РA coup d'̩tat in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 – The death of Diana, Princess of Wales is announced by Buckingham Palace.
2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.









Today's Canadian Headline....

1980 TERRY FOX FORCED TO HALT MARATHON
Thunder Bay Ontario - Terry Fox abandons Marathon of Hope 135 days and over 5,000 km after it started at St. John's, Newfoundland, on April 12; cancer has returned and spread to his lungs; hospitalized in Vancouver where he dies the following year. Fox was studying physical education in 1977, when he lost most of one leg to bone cancer.

1864
Charlottetown PEI - Five delegates each from the Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island convene Charlottetown Conference to discuss union; will welcome representatives from the government of the province of Canada to discuss the union of British North America.



In Other Events....

1995 Toronto Ontario - Paul Bernardo found guilty of first-degree murder in sex-slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French; also guilty of seven other charges, including kidnapping and sexual assault; will be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years on the two murder counts.
1994 Chambly Quebec - Quebec provincial police raid Chambly, arresting over 100 including the town's entire police force, on suspicion of smuggling, prostitution and racketeering; most suspects later released.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada estimates 115,000 new cases of cancer in 1992; 58,300 deaths.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says lung cancer soon to pass breast cancer as leading killer of women; more men than women quitting smoking.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Allan Grossman dies at age 80; cabinet minister under three Ontario governments 1955-75; father of former Ontario PC leader Larry Grossman.
1990 Oka Quebec - Canadian Army invades the Mohawk reserve at Kanesatake to end the standoff, while at Kanawake, the Army takes control of the Mercier Bridge.
1990 Toronto Ontario - CFL Argonauts beat the British Columbia Lions 68-43, setting a Canadian Football League combined scoring record of 111 points.
1988 Toronto Ontario - CBC the first Canadian broadcasting group to use people meters to measure its audience.
1988 Montreal Quebec - New cable specialty channels start broadcasting in French: Canal Famille, Météo-Média, Musique Plus and RDS (Réseau du sport).
1987 Quebec Quebec - Quebecair privatized.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Quatre-Saisons network starts broadcasting.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Commercial Bank folds.
1984 New York City - Vancouver rocker Corey Hart's 'Sunglasses At Night' peaks at #7 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1983 North Pacific - Soviet SU-1 5 fighter shoots down Korean Air Lines 747 commercial jet after the plane entered Soviet airspace, killing 269 passengers, including 10 Canadians.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reveals that Canadian economy shrank 2.1% in second quarter of 1982; deepest economic decline since World War II.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Ottawa and Alberta sign energy deal with two-tiered price system, one price for old oil, one for new.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - CBC signs agreement with 2,100 broadcast technicians to end 14-week strike.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Eskimos star Jackie Parker named the Canadian Football League's outstanding player over a quarter century; former CFL quarterback and coach.
1972 Munich Germany - Canadians Bruce Robertson and Leslie Cliff win Olympic silver medals in swimming; Cliff in the 400m individual medley, Robertson in the 100m butterfly, losing to Mark Spitz.
1972 Victoria BC - BC orders striking longshoremen back to work to keep wheat shipments to China, Japan and USSR moving.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Arsonists set fire to the Blue Bird Club, killing 37 and injuring 54; Montreal's worst fire since 1927.
1971 Victoria BC - BC first province to ban tobacco advertising.
1961 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Premier Leslie Frost's Conservative government brings in 3% sales tax; known as the Frost Bite.
1961 Melville Island, NWT - First oil-drilling rig in Arctic unloaded in preparation for drilling on Melville Island.
1959 PEI - Walter R. Shaw 1887- leads Progressive Conservatives to win in Prince Edward Island election.
1952 New York City - Saskatchewan entertainer Art Linkletter debuts his Art Linkletter's House Party on CBS-TV; variety show began on radio in 1944.
1951 Victoria BC - Nellie McClung dies; author and advocate for women's rights; began her political activities in Manitoba, where she was active in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and continued her fight for female suffrage and dower rights for women when she moved to Alberta in 1915. She served as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton, Alberta, from 1921-1926. Her first novel, Sowing Seeds in Danny, published in 1908, launched a successful writing career.
1944 Dieppe France - Second Division of the First Canadian Army liberates Dieppe, returning in triumph to the scene of a disastrous Canadian raid two years earlier; will continue on to clear Boulogne and Calais, then move to take the strategically important port of Antwerp, Belgium.
1944 New York City - Raymond Massey stars in Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace, co-starring Cary Grant and Peter Lorre, opening at the Strand.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 proclaims War Measures Act, retroactive to August 25, as Nazi Germany invades Poland; appropriates required regulatory acts and authority from provinces.
1937 Vancouver BC - Trans-Canada Air Lines makes its first passenger and first international flight from Vancouver to Seattle, Washington.
1928 Winnipeg Manitoba - Old Age Pension Act comes into effect in Manitoba.
1921 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Transportation Commission (later renamed the Toronto Transit Commission) starts operations; TTC formed after 1920 referendum accepted proposal to replace privately-run Toronto Railway Company.
1920 Montreal Quebec - Montreal to Liverpool ocean liner crossing now takes only 5 days and 23 hours.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Edward, Prince of Wales 1894-1972 lays cornerstone of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill; son of George V; future Edward VIII.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Third session of 13th Parliament meets until November 10; amends Criminal Code; prohibits aliens from having weapons or firearms.
1917 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Press; a co-operative news agency.
1917 - 331,578 men sent overseas to Canadian Expeditionary Force to date; 831 officers and 20,179 men presently in training in Canada.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught 1850-1942 lays cornerstone of new Parliament Buildings, to be rebuilt after disastrous fire earlier that year.
1905 Alberta - George Hedley Vicars Bulyea 1859-1928 first Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta.
1905 Saskatchewan - Amedee-Emmanuel Forget 1847-1923 first Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan.
1905 - Founding of Alberta and Saskatchewan on this day; enter the Dominion as 8th and 9th provinces.
1889 Quebec Quebec - Official opening of the Quebec Assembly building; a provincial member earns $800 per session.
1879 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Springhill mine workers organize Provincial Workmen's Association, after wage cuts; first trade union to be legalized for Canadian coal mines.
1873 Chicoutimi Quebec - Opening of the Chicoutimi Seminary.
1860 Ottawa Ontario - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, lays the cornerstone of the Parliament Buildings of the Province of Canada.
1858 Kingston Ontario - New Canadian decimal coins introduced.
1858 Kingston Ontario - Government of the Canadas abolishes imprisonment for debt.
1858 Newfoundland - First transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month of operation.
1824 Montreal Quebec - Ceremony to lay foundation stone of Notre Dame Church.
1812 Sackett's Harbor, New York - Isaac Chauncey 1772-1840 appointed Commander of US naval forces on Great Lakes; makes headquarters at Sacket's Harbor.
1775 St-Jean, Quebec - American troops of the Continental Congress attack Fort St. John.
1760 Chambly Quebec - English troops capture Fort Chambly.
1755 Ticonderoga New York - Jean-Armand Dieskau 1701-1767 starts attack against British expedition under William Johnson which threatens Fort St-Frederic; Johnson built Fort Edward at head of Lake George.
1745 London England - Peter Warren c1703-1752 first British Governor of Cape Breton Island.
1740 Paris France - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Le Prevost Duquesnel c1685-1744 appointed Governor of Ile Royale (Cape Breton).
1739 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Forges de St-Maurice produce 227,000 livres of iron in one year.
1715 Paris France - Louis XIV dies of gangrene; King of Canada; his 72 year reign is the longest in European history.
1715 Louisbourg, Nova Scotia - Louisbourg's population recorded at 746.
1676 Quebec Quebec - Collège des Jésuites now has six professors.
1659 Quebec Quebec - Collège des Jésuites offers first philosophy course.
1658 Quebec Quebec - Robert de Moncel Giffard 1587-1668 gets patent of Nobility; first Canadian to receive this distinction.
1650 Quebec Quebec - Father Gabriel Dreuillettes 1610-1681 authorized to proceed to Boston as Governor's ambassador, to negotiate trade pact and help establish an alliance against the Iroquois; first official Canadian envoy to a foreign country, a Jesuit.
1625 Quebec Quebec - Construction begins on the Seminary of Quebec.
1615 Oro Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Cahiagué with 14 French and 500 Hurons; Brulé left two days earlier to visit Susquehannahs, southern enemies of the Iroquois living in what is now Pennsylvania.
1557 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 dies at age 66 at his estate of Limoilou.
1542 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 arrives in St-Malo with a cargo of quartz; left Roberval in Newfoundland June 20.

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September 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


47 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
421 – Galla Placidia, wife of the Emperor Constantius III, becomes a widow for the second time when he dies suddenly of an illness.
1192 – The Treaty of Jaffa was signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
1833 – Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
1856 – The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
1939 – World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1992 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
2013 – The new eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic, being the widest bridge in the world.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1578 CANADA'S FIRST CHURCH SERVICE
Iqaluit NWT - Robert Wolfall, Martin Frobisher's chaplain, holds Canada's first recorded Christian services at Frobisher Bay.

1912
Calgary Alberta - US rodeo showman Guy Weadick opens the first Calgary Stampede Rodeo - called 'The Last and Best Great West Frontier Days Celebration.'; convinced Pat Burns, A.E. Cross, George Lane, and A.J. McLean to provide financial backing. The six-day rodeo included a bucking horse ride, calf roping, steer wrestling, and trick riding; a highlight was Tom Three Persons' ride on the notorious bronco Cyclone.



1997 In Other Events...

Fort McMurray, Alberta - RaiLink takes over the former CN lines in northeastern Alberta from Boyle to Lynton, near Fort McMurray; operations start two days later and formal transfer made Nov. 24.
1995 Toronto Ontario - British Nimrod plane plunges into Lake Ontario before horrified spectators during the annual airshow at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto; seven RAF crew members killed.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada cuts interest rates to 6.25%, the lowest in 21 years.
1987 Quebec Quebec - Second summit of La Francophonie held at Quebec.
1986 Los Angeles, California - Canadian Cathy Eveyln Smith sentenced to three years in jail for involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose that killed comedian John Belushi in March 1982.
1985 North Atlantic - Atlantic US-French expedition discovers the wreckage of the Titanic 900 km off the coast of Newfoundland, 73 years after the White Star liner sank.
1983 Mirabel Quebec - Ottawa cancels Aeroflot landing rights at Mirabel airport to protest downing of Korean Air 747 Sept 1; killed 269 people, including 10 Canadians.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate to 9%.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Firebomb thrown into Montreal's Blue Bird Cafe killed 42 persons and injured 70-80 others.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and other dignitaries watch the Soviet national team win the opening game of hockey series with an out-of-shape and arrogant Team Canada by a score of 7-3; Canada is leading 2-0 after seven minutes, and will outshoot the USSR selects 32-30, but are stone-walled by goalie Vladislav Tretiak; shocked Forum fans boo the Canadian players. 'We were stunned, absolutely stunned,' said coach Harry Sinden after the game. 'It's the way they won. With speed, finesse, solid checks, outstanding goaltending and, most of all, teamwork. They're good. Just how good remains to be seen. There are still seven games to be played, but it's a real competition now.'
1961 Toronto Ontario - Shirley Giles and G. Marcellus appointed Canada's first women bank managers.
1945 Tokyo Japan - Douglas MacArthur takes formal surrender of Japanese on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, brings World War II to an end.
1945 Tokyo Japan - VJ Day; about 80,000 Canadians had volunteered to go to Pacific to fight Japanese.
1944 Rimini Italy - General E.L.M. Burns reports that two Canadian brigades have broken the Gothic Line in the Adriatic Sector, but Germans quickly move in divisions from other lines to slow the Canadian advance to Rimini; German 1st Parachute Division heavily defends against forward troops of the 1st Canadian Corps 5 km south of the Conca, and on the Coriano Ridge to the west; it will take three more weeks to take the hill position of San Fortunato blocking the approach to the Po Valley.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - F. Cyril James establishes Advisory Committee on Reconstruction (James Committee).
1925 New York City - Operetta Rose Marie opens in New York; featuring a cast of baritone Mounties and the song, Indian Love Call; later filmed, with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald.
1922 Foss Lake, Ontario - Curtiss HS-2L bush plane G-CAAC crashes into Foss Lake. Built by Glen Curtiss in the US in 1918, first operated by the US Navy as one of 12 planes on anti-submarine patrols out of Dartmouth, NS, then used by Canadian government to patrol for forest fires in northern Ontario and Quebec. This pioneer bush plane also made Canada's first commercial flight in June 1919, doing the first aerial timber survey. In 1968 and 1968, the Canadian Museum of Aviation retrieved the hull and many parts and fittings, and the restored plane is on display at the Museum in Ottawa.
1918 Belgium - Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps crack Germany's supposedly impregnable Hindenburg Line at two locations.
1918 Queant-Drocourt Belgium - Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson 1883-1954, an American MD in the 75th Battalion (later the Toronto Scots) performs actions that win him the Victoria Cross. His citation reads, in part: 'For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty... Without hesitation and with utter disregard for personal safety he remained on the field until every wounded man had been attended to. He dressed the wounds of a seriously wounded officer under terrific machine-gun and shell fire, and, with the assistance of prisoners and of his own men, succeeded in evacuating him to safety, despite the fact that the bearer party suffered heavy casualties. Immediately afterwards he rushed forward, in full view of the enemy, under heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, to tend a wounded sergeant, and, having placed him in a shell hole, dressed his wounds.'
1910 Paris France - Hector Fabre dies in Paris; Canada's diplomatic representative.
1908 Melbourne Australia - Canadian boxer Tommy Burns knocks out Bill Land in the second round for the world heavyweight championship.
1901 England - John Claus Voss reaches England in his Nootka Indian sailing canoe, the Tilikum, via Australia and New Zealand; left Victoria, BC, three years, three months and 12 days earlier; 65,000 km journey; Tilikum now on display at Thunderbird Park in Victoria.
1875 Montreal Quebec - Catholic mob prevents the burial in consecrated ground of the printer Joseph Guibord 1804-1869, a member of l'Institut canadien de Montréal; with the approval of Rome, Bishop Ignace Bourget had forbidden Catholics from becoming members of the Institute on pain of excommunication; Guibord refused, and on his death, was not given the last rites. In 1874, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London ordered his burial in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery. On Nov 16, a military escort will finally escort his body for burial, in an area of the cemetery that Mgr. Bourget will immediately deconsecrate.
1864 Charlottetown PEI - John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier pronounce themselves in favour of a 'great confederation of all the colonies.'
1858 Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia; serves from Nov. 19, 1858 to 1864.
1842 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the 2nd Session of the 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada.
1797 Quebec Quebec - Catholic bishops required to swear an oath of allegiance to the British Crown.
1792 Paris France - Canadian Priest André Grasset sent to the guillotine in the Reign of Terror for refusing to agree to a Church reorganization planned by leaders of the French Revolution.
1752 Canada - Last day of the Julian calendar in Britain and the Colonies; the Gregorian Calendar designed to correct the extra leap year day problem goes into effect the next day, with tomorrow being September 14, hence 11 days are dropped from the year. Most other countries made the adjustment in 1582.
1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia - William Tutty c1715-1754 founds St. Paul's Church, Halifax; oldest Anglican church in Canada.
1750 Quebec Quebec - Shipwreck of the sailing vessel 'L'Orignal' on the day of her launch.
1748 Quebec Quebec - François Bigot appointed Intendant of New France; last to fill the position.
1729 Quebec Quebec - Shipwreck of the sailing vessel 'l'Eléphant' near Quebec.
1726 Quebec Quebec - Charles de Beauharnois 1671-1749 arrives in Quebec as new Governor of New France, with Intendant Claude Thomas Dupuy; to Sept 19, 1747.
1713 Nova Scotia - France takes possession of Cape Breton island.
1670 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Port Royal handed back to the French under the terms of the Treaty of Breda of 1667.
1654 Penobscot Maine - Robert Sedgwick 1611-1656 captures Fort Pentagouet, on Penobscot River; leaves for England in the Fall with La Tour.
1651 Quebec Quebec - Martin Boutet named first town crier of Quebec.

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September 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.
590 – Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).
673 РKing Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, governor of N̨mes (France) and rival for the throne.
863 – Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid.
1189 – Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster.
1260 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1650 – Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.
1651 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
1658 – Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England
1666 – The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London
1777 – American Revolutionary War: during the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1798 – The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.
1802 – William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
1812 – 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.
1838 – Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.
1855 – American Indian Wars: in Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
1861 – American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
1874 – The congress of the State of Mexico elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.
1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1879 – Siege of the British Residency in Kabul. British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the The Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
1895 – John Brallier became the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
1914 РFrench composer Alb̩ric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
1914 РWorld War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronn̩, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
1916 – World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
1925 – USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
1933 – Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
1939 – World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
1939 – World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic.
1941 – The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
1942 – World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus.
1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
1944 – Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
1945 – Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
1950 – "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.
1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1954 – The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
1954 – The German U-boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
1967 – Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
1971 – Qatar becomes an independent state.
1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
1987 РIn a coup d'̩tat in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
1994 – Sino-Soviet split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
1997 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
2001 – In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, some of whom hurl missiles and abuse. The protest sparks fierce rioting and grabs world headlines.
2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis – day 3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.









Today's Canadian Headline....

1979 MULTICULTURAL TV GOES ON THE AIR
Toronto Ontario - CFMT-TV goes on the air, broadcasting in 26 languages to an audience of 4.5 million. It is the world's first full time private multilingual TV station; MT= Multicultural Television.

1864
Charlottetown PEI - John A Macdonald (seated) and George-Etienne Cartier (standing with hat) outline the arguments in favour of Confederation to the maritime delegates; Alexander Galt discusses the financial aspects; Charlottetown Conference.



In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces a referendum will be held October 26th on the Charlottetown accord; he will later define a referendum victory as a Yes vote of 50 per cent plus one in each province; Bill 150 will be amended to reflect the Charlottetown resolutions, giving Quebec control over manpower, regional development, immigration, but diminishing Quebec's weight in the Senate.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jay pitcher Dave Steib beats the Cleveland Indians 3-0 in the ninth no-hitter of 1990.
1989 Toronto Ontario - One pilot killed as two Snowbirds jets collide during Canadian National Exhibition airshow; other pilot ejects safely over Lake Ontario.
1987 Los Angeles, California - Montreal's Cirque du Soleil performs to rave reviews in Los Angeles.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Failure of the Commercial Bank of Canada.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Thomas Brigham 1919- arrested after a bomb explodes in a locker area of Montreal's Central Station, killing 3 and injuring 47; mentally handicapped man from of Rochester, New York.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange starts Financial Futures Market; 91-Day T-Bill and Long Term Canada Bond contracts.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Opening of 8 new stations on the Montreal Metro.
1975 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards starts legal action against Official Language Act.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Eric William Kierans 1914- Postmaster-General raises cost of first class letter to 12¢, as of November 1, 1969.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government grants $1 million for cultural exchanges with French-speaking European countries.
1962 Rogers Pass Alberta - John Diefenbaker officially opens the Trans-Canada Highway at Rogers Pass; stretching over 4800 miles from coast to coast.
1943 Messina Italy - British and Canadian troops cross Straits of Messina; land at foot of Italian mainland; immediately strike north.
1940 Newfoundland - US sells 50 overage destroyers to Britain; of which 7 go to Canada; in return for lease of neutral US bases in Newfoundland and Bermuda.
1939 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes liner Athenia en route to Montreal.
1939 London England - Britain declare war on Germany two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland; France follows 6 hours later, and then Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. On Sept 5, the United States will proclaim neutrality.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Hector B. McKinnon chairs Wartime Prices and Trade Board; selective powers to control prices, supply and distribution; former Commissioner of Tariffs; only full-time member.
1923 New York City - Canadian silent film star Mary Pickford stars in Ernst Lubitsch's first American film Rosita, premiering at the Lyric Theater.
1920 Quebec Quebec - Pierre-Georges Roy named the Archivist of Quebec.
1918 Quebec Quebec - Unveiling of a statue of Louis Hébert at Quebec.
1916 Verdun France - Allies turn back the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun.
1914 Valcartier Quebec - Mobilization of the 13th and 14th Battalions of Infantry, and the General Hospital Battalion No. 1 at Valcartier.
1894 Canada - Labour Day officially celebrated in Canada for the first time.
1888 Montreal Quebec - First Labour Day (Fête du Travail) parade in Montreal.
1876 St-Hyacinthe Quebec - Fire destroys over 500 houses in St. Hyacinthe.
1843 Quebec - Quebec has 1,298 schools, of which 665 are elementary schools.
1841 Montreal Quebec - Robert Baldwin introduces September Resolutions in favour of responsible government; passed by Assembly of the Canadas.
1825 Halifax Nova Scotia - Enos Collins 1774-1871 founds Halifax Banking Company with Samuel Cunard and five others; called the Collins Bank.
1833 Montreal Quebec - Rioting between soldiers and civilians in Montreal.
1814 Manitoulin Island, Ontario - Lt. Miller Worsley leads 77 men by canoe north from Wasaga, captures 'Tigress' at anchor in False Detour Channel; about 88 km northeast of Mackinac Island; then goes after 'Scorpion'.
1811 Quebec Quebec - George Prevost 1767-1816 arrives at Quebec from Nova Scotia, where he was Lt-Governor, to be Administrator of Lower Canada; will serve as Governor in Chief of Canada to 1815, and commander in chief of British forces in the War of 1812.
1784 Cape Breton Nova Scotia - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres 1722-1824 first Lieutenant-Governor of Cape Breton Island; serves until Oct. 10, 1787.
1783 Versailles France - Americans John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay sign the Treaty of Paris (Versailles); ends American Revolutionary War, fixes Canadian boundary; deals with fishing rights.
1763 Detroit Michigan - Major Henry Gladwin and his starving garrison at Detroit relieved as 350 Pontiac rebellion Indians in canoes fail to capture the schooner Huron ,carrying provisions from Niagara, in the Detroit River.
1697 Ryswick Netherlands - Signing of Treaty of Ryswick ends King William's War (1689-1697) in America; France and England get back all lands they lost to each other.
1657 Montreal Quebec - Abbé de Queylus becomes Montreal's first priest.
1607 Canso, Nova Scotia - Charles de Poutrincourt and his group leave from Canseau for France; arrives back in St-Malo Oct. 1
1607 St-Malo, France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves for Quebec with Louis Hébert.
1535 Tadoussac Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 and his crew sight white beluga whales in the St. Lawrence.

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September 4th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.


476 – Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang dynasty of China.
1260 – The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of Manfred, King of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
1479 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas is signed by the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and Afonso V and his son, Prince John of Portugal.
1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
1774 – New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
1797 – Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
1800 – The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate.
1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
1862 – American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
1870 – Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
1882 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
1886 – American Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1912 – Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
1939 – World War II: a Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed.
1941 – World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
1944 – World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
1944 – World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
1949 – The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre took place in San Francisco.
1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
1995 – WCW Monday Nitro makes its debut on TNT.
1996 – War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
2010 – Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.







Today's Canadian Headline....


1880 MACDONALD SIGNS CPR CONTRACT
Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald 1815-1891 signs provisional agreement with CPR syndicate for building of Canadian Pacific Railway; group consists of Bank of Montreal President George Stephen, US rail financier Duncan Mclntyre, and Ontario-born Minnesota entrepreneur James Jerome Hill; Stephen's cousin Donald Smith of the Hudson's Bay Company, who withdrew support for Macdonald during the Pacific Scandal, lurks in the background.

1984
Canada -
Brian Mulroney 1939- wins the federal election in a landslide against opponents Liberal John Turner and New Democrat Ed Broadbent. His PC Party takes a record 212 of 282 seats, to 40 Liberal; 30 NDP; 1 other, in the biggest majority (seat total) ever won by a federal party in Canadian history; also takes 58 of 75 seats in his home province after promising to reintegrate Quebec into the Canadian family 'with honour and enthusiasm'; Turner suffers crushing defeat nationally, but wins own seat in Vancouver Quadra.

1899
Montreal Quebec - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 funds the Royal Victoria College for Women at McGill University, which opens on this day. Smith, a controlling shareholder of the Bank of Montreal, the Hudson's Bay Company and the CPR, is a strong believer in education for women.


In Other Events....

1997 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe, 69, agrees to suit up for the IHL's Detroit Vipers in the team's season opener against the Kansas City Blades on Oct. 3; will become the only professional hockey player to play in six consecutive decades.
1997 Sudbury Ontario - Huron Central Railway, owned by Genessee Rail-One, takes over operation of the former CP line between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury.
1997 Montreal Quebec - Annie Perreault, speedskating champion, has an operation on both her legs.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Claude Brochu appointed CEO of the Expos baseball club.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Mila Mulroney gives birth to son Daniel Nicholas Dimitri on the first anniversary of her husband's sweep to power.
1972 Toronto Ontario - Team Canada beats the USSR 4-1 in Game 2 of the Super Series/September to Remember, to even out the series against the Soviets; known as Brother Night, because of the goal scoring of Frank and Pete Mahovlich and the goaltending and marksmanship of Tony and Phil Esposito.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Art thieves rob Montreal Museum of Fine Arts of $3 million of paintings and art objects; including $1 million Rembrandt.
1966 Hollywood California - Vancouver-born actor Raymond Burr stars in last episode of CBS-TV legal drama, Perry Mason, broadcast on this day.
1950 St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia - D. McI. Hodgson of St Ann Bay catches a tuna weighing 997 lbs.
1948 Netherlands - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates the Dutch throne in favour of her daughter, Juliana, who spent the war in Ottawa.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Louis St-Laurent appointed Minister of External Affairs.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Official opening of the Montreal municipal library.
1916 Courcelette France - Canadian Corps take over section of the Somme line; facing village of Courcelette.
1915 Montreal Quebec - Mobilization of the 73rd Infantry Battalion at Montreal.
1909 England - Robert Baden-Powell presides over first Boy Scout rally in England; movement funded in part by Canadian High Commissioner Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914.
1905 Montreal Quebec - Henri Bourassa marries Joséphine Papineau.
1876 Toronto Ontario - Frederic Stupart of the Dominion Meteorological Observatory issues Canada's first prepared storm warning.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Start of special parliamentary inquiry into the awarding of CPR contracts - the Pacific Scandal.
1858 Newfoundland - Atlantic cable breaks.
1821 Moscow Russia - Czar Alexander I forbids non-Russian ships to approach Pacific coast of North America south of 51 degrees north.
1793 Quebec Quebec - Kent Edward, Duke funds first Sunday School at Quebec, a free school.
1760 Montreal Quebec - English troops occupy Ile Perrot; closing in on Montreal.

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September 5th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings including St Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.
1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
1793 – French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1839 – The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
1862 – American Civil War: The Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
1864 – François Achille Bazaine becomes Marshal of France.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
1918 – The original publication of the Cheka decree, "On Red Terror".
1921 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport, near Lae in the Salamaua–Lae campaign.
1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1957 – Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
1970 – Jochen Rindt become the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.
1972 – Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine die the following day.
1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1980 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1990 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
1996 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
2012 – A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, killing 40 and injuring 50 others.
2012 – An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey kills 25 soldiers and wounds four others.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1945 GOUZENKO DEFECTS WITH SOVIET SPY FILES
Ottawa Ontario - Cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko 1919-1982 defects from the USSR Embassy with more than 100 secret documents under his coat, detailing the workings of a major Soviet spy ring in Canada, with tentacles reaching into the Department of External Affairs code room, the British High Commissioner's Office and the Chalk River nuclear facility; result in 20 espionage trials and nine convictions. The RCMP give Gouzenko Canadian asylum and a new identity, and he dies in hiding in 1982.

1755
Annapolis Nova Scotia - John Winslow 1703-1774, military commander at Annapolis, starts expelling 5,000 Acadians from Grand Pre, Annapolis & Fundy coast for refusing to take an oath of allegiance; their land and farms are forfeited to the Crown; most of the almost 10,000 Acadians forced into exile relocate to Louisiana.

1697
Churchill Manitoba - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706, on the Pélican, attacks and defeats 3 Hudson's Bay Company ships, sinking 2, in pitched naval battle near York Factory in Hudson Bay; Pierre, the third son of Pierre Le Moyne, had been attacking HBC posts for a decade.



In Other Events....

1995 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Luc Pépin dies at age 71; federal Liberal politician.
1990 Quebec Quebec - National Assembly sets up the Bélanger-Campeau Commission on Quebec's political and constitutional future; with representatives from government, the official opposition, unions, associations and other groups.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Mercier Bridge through the Kanawake reserve opens after 55-day Mohawk standoff.
1990 Calgary Alberta - Donald Cormie charged with stock manipulation by Alberta Securities Commission; for driving up shares in Matrix Investments Ltd., controlled by his Principal Group.
1989 St-Jean-Richelieu, Quebec - Sixteen children get lead poisoning in St-Jean.
1988 Hamilton Ontario - Tiger Cat Earl Winfield scores touchdowns on a 101 yard punt return, 100 yard kickoff return and 58 yard pass reception; CFL fullback.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Claude Brochu named President of the Montreal Expos baseball club.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Donald Macdonald's Royal Commission on Canada's economic prospects recommends free trade with the United States.
1983 New York City - Nova Scotian Robert MacNeil and colleague Jim Lehrer see their PBS show expanded to America's first hour-long network news show - The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour.
1983 Hollywood California - Canadian Alan Thicke hosts new syndicated TV talk show, Thicke Of The Night.
1982 Toronto Ontario - World Bank and International Monetary Fund start 5-day meeting in Toronto to discuss world economy.
1979 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian gold Maple Leaf coin goes on sale in Canada, the US and Europe; Canada's first gold bullion coin a runaway success for the Royal Canadian Mint.
1979 Montreal Quebec - Banque Canadienne Nationale & La Banque Provinciale du Canada merge to form Banque Nationale.
1978 Montreal Quebec - End of Air Canada strike.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Death of Judge Robert Cliche.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts 2-month program to let aliens apply for landed immigrant status; those who entered Canada as visitors and stayed.
1971 Quebec - TVA opens stations in Montreal, Quebec City and Chicoutimi; Canada's first French-language private television network.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Gene Mauch appointed first Head Coach of Montreal's new baseball team, to be called The Expos.
1967 Gander Newfoundland - Czechoslovakian airliner crashes near Gander, killing 35 passengers.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Council grants $20,000 to Humanities Research Council of Canada for Centennial history; edited by Donald Creighton and W.L. Morton.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Canada pledges $5 million in cash and commodities to kick off Canada-U.S. sponsored World Food Bank.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Jean-Louis Gagnon editor in chief of new newspaper, Le Nouveau Journal.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Louis St-Laurent resigns as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
1954 McClure Strait NWT - Icebreaker completes first passage of McClure Strait, the Northwest Passage.
1945 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis announces that his government is bringing in provincial family allowances.
1945 Chalk River, Ontario - Canada's first nuclear reactor, ZEEP - the Zero Energy Experimental Pile - goes into operation at Chalk River.
1944 Cornwall Ontario - Earthquake does serious damage to the city of Cornwall.
1929 Churchill Manitoba - Hudson Bay Railway reaches its northern terminus at Churchill; originally operated by Canadian National on behalf of Government, will become part of CNR system Sept. 5, 1951.
1925 Ottawa Ontario - Dissolution of the 14th Parliament of Canada.
1921 Geneva Switzerland - Charles James Doherty 1855-1931 represents Canada at second meeting of League of Nations; until October 5.
1914 Toronto Ontario - Baseball legend Babe Ruth hits his first professional home run at Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island, knocking in three runs; the budding southpaw pitcher also tosses a one-hitter that day as his Providence club blanks Toronto 9-0.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Proclamation prohibits the Canadian Royal Mint from issuing gold coins or bars.
1897 Klondike Yukon - Steamer 'Alice' reaches Klondike with men from Fortymile; Yukon River craft owned by Alaska Commercial Company.
1883 Toronto Ontario - Methodist Church in Canada was formed; Methodist groups in Canada since 1824; part of today's United Church.
1881 Sarnia Ontario - Forest fires in Ontario and Michigan kill an estimated 500 people in 20 villages near Lake Huron; the region is cloaked with a yellowish-green fog.
1870 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian national debt amounts to $18,587,520; Quebec's provincial debt is $9,808,728.
1854 Kingston Ontario - Opening of 1st part of 1st session of 5th Parliament of Canada; meets until Dec. 18.
1849 Kingston Ontario - Governor General Lord Elgin starts a visit to Upper Canada.
1815 Holland Landing, Ontario - Selkirk settlers arrive at Holland Landing en route to Manitoba.
1835 Montreal Quebec - 500 other young Montrealers found a new political Society called the Sons of Liberty (Fils de la Liberté) at a meeting in the Hotel Nelson on Jacques-Cartier Square; the gathering chooses the maple leaf as their emblem, and sing George-Etienne Cartier's patriotic song, 'Avant Tout Je Suis Canadien'.
1814 Manitoulin Island, Ontario - Lt. Miller Worsley, fling American colours in the Tigress, captures the Scorpion at anchor; sails both ships west to Fort Michilimackinac.
1774 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia; condemns 'Intolerable Acts' passed by British over past decade.
1684 Ontario - Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre 1622-1688 meets Iroquois, and gets them to keep peace with Miamis in the Ohio Valley.
1619 Churchill Manitoba - Jens Eriksen Munk 1519-1628 sails into Hudson Bay; forced to winter in estuary of Churchill River; Munk and two others will survive; 61 crewmen will die either of trichinosis from raw polar bear meat, or, more likely, Vitamin A poisoning from eating toxic polar bear liver.
1609 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sails back to France from Tadoussac; will arrive in Honfleur Oct. 13.
1606 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 and Poutrincourt explore south as far as Martha's Vineyard.
1604 Maine - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets out to explore coast of Norumbega, passes Grand Manan, Mount Desert, and Isle Haulte; stops at George's Island near Kennebec River.
1602 Ratcliffe England - George Weymouth arrives back in England.
1534 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 returns to St. Malo with Iroquois youths Domagaya and Taignoagny; after harrowing 137 day voyage, his first to Canada.

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