This Date In History

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September 26th 2014 - This Date in History.


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46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 РRagenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compi̬gne.
1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is issued to confirm the hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Přemyslid dynasty.
1345 – Friso-Hollandic Wars: Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
1371 – Serbian–Turkish wars: The forces of the Ottoman sultan Murad I's lieutenant Lala Şahin Pasha and the Serbian army under the command of Vukašin Mrnjavčević and Jovan Uglješa clash at the Battle of Maritsa.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera
1580 – Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution.
1786 – Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays' Rebellion.
1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) is established in New York City.
1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 – the Norwegian football club SK Brann was founded.
1910 – Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled.
1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1917 – World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations.
1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don’t shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
1933 – Ten convicts escape from the Indiana State Prison with guns smuggled into the prison by bank robber John Dillinger
1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1942 – The Holocaust: August Frank, a higher official of the SS concentration camp administration department, issues a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated".
1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1954 – Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km2).
1971 – The Freetown Christiania was founded.
1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1980 – At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people died and 211 were injured.
1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Le Joola capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
2009 – Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1976 SWEET KICKS FOR WORLD RECORD IN BIG O
Montreal Quebec - Montreal Alouette kicker Don Sweet notches his 17th and 18th consecutive field goals, setting a world record before 68,500 fans in the first football game played in Olympic Stadium; Sweet will run the string to 21 before missing.

1904
London England - Albert Henry George, Earl Grey 1851-1917 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from December 10, 1904 to October 12, 1911. An MP and former administrator of Rhodesia, Grey was a strong believer in the Empire and promoted imperial loyalty in his speeches. In 1909, he donated the Grey Cup to the championship of Canadian football.




In Other Events....

1995 Toronto Ontario - AT&T Canada and three Canadian banks pay $250. million to become new owners of long-distance carrier Unitel Communications Inc; two biggest shareholders, Canadian Pacific Ltd. and Rogers Communications Inc., drop out of deal.
1994 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Parizeau sworn in as Quebec's 26th Premier; after defeating Daniel Johnson in election.
1993 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Dave Munday takes his second plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel; 53-year-old diesel mechanic from Caistor Centre, Ontario, the first person to make two trips over the Falls; previous trip in 1985.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Angus Reid/Southam News release poll saying Yes forces rapidly losing ground in referendum battle.
1991 Guiane - European Space Agency rocket launches Canada's Anik-E1 (mass 2,977 kg) comsat from Kourou, French Guyana, aboard an Ariane 44P rocket.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Danek Mozdzenski's statue of Lester B. Pearson unveiled on Parliament Hill.
1990 Oka Quebec - Army officials take 34 men, 16 women and six children into custody from their stronghold in a drug treatment centre; most taken to military base at Farnham, Quebec; 78-day standoff ends.
1988 Seoul Korea - Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100 Metre Olympic Gold Medal and world record following a positive drug test; forced by the lOC to return the medal and disqualified from the games.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park extends $500,000 line of credit to ailing publisher McClelland & Stewart.
1984 California - Walter Pidgeon 1897-1984 dies at age 87; born Sept. 23, 1897 in Saint John, NB; TV/movie actor, singer; a major star for MGM, his movie career lasted from 1925 to 1978, best known for his performances in Madame Curie, Forbidden Planet, Mrs. Miniver.
1981 Moscow Russia - Canada signs five-year agricultural agreement with USSR; scientific cooperation, crop data exchange; Canada-Soviet Commission on agricultural issues founded.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post opens the National Postal Museum.
1972 Moscow Russia - Canadian NHL All Stars fight back to tie series, defeating the Soviet team 4-3 in the third game in the USSR; series now tied 3-3 with one tie.
1970 New York City - Anne Murray's hit song Snowbird peaks at #8 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1969 Manicouagan Quebec - Hydro-Quebec names Manic 5 power dam the Daniel Johnson Dam in honour of late Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson 1915-1968.
1969 Manicouagan Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 (père) dies after visit to open Hydro Quebec's Manic 5 power dam; succeeded by Jean-Jacques Bertrand as Union Nationale Premier.
1966 New York City - Two FLQ members go on hunger strike in New York.
1963 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists hold up a branch of the Royal Bank in Montreal.
1960 United Nations, New York - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 asks Soviet Union to resume disarmament negotiations; offers proposals for world peace; in address to UN General Assembly.
1958 Yukon - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 the first prime minister to visit the Yukon while in office.
1950 England - Sun turns blur over parts of the United Kingdom due to airborne sulphur particles from forest fires in Northern Alberta and BC.
1939 London England - Britain asks Canada to train Commonwealth airmen.
1918 France/Belgium - General Sir Arthur Currie's Canadians lead final offensive against the Germans on the Western Front.
1896 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange lists first mining stocks.
1884 Montreal Quebec - St. Lawrence and Ottawa Railway leased to the Canadian Pacific Railway for 999 years.
1851 Kingston Ontario - Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine 1807-1864 resigns as co-Premier of the Province of Canada; will be appointed Chief Justice of Lower Canada.
1842 Montreal Quebec - Robert Baldwin & Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine asked by Lord Elgin to form the Province of Canada's first liberal Executive Council; victory for Reformers, responsible government and French rights.
1826 Ottawa Ontario - Incorporation of Bytown; becomes City of Ottawa in 1855.
1819 Melville Island, NWT - Edward Parry anchors off Melville Island; first explorer to winter in the Arctic by choice.
1813 Amherstburg Ontario - William Henry Harrison's 4,500 US troops land near Fort Malden to move against Proctor up the Thames; beginning of American military rule in western Ontario for the remainder of the War of 1812.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Government passes regulations licensing the sale of alcohol.
1751 Halifax, Nova Scotia - 1,000 immigrants from Wurtemburg, Germany arrive.
1634 Quebec - Father Jean de Brébeuf baptizes the mother of an Indian chief.
1613 France - Samuel de Champlain tries to get support for colonization and exploration in France.

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September 27th 2014 - This Date in History.


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1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1331 – The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1422 – After the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
1822 РJean-Fran̤ois Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 – The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1875 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool; the United States Congress subsequently awards 27 gold Lifesaving Medals to the lifeboat men who went to rescue her crew.
1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1916 – Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu I.
1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
1928 – The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
1959 – Nearly 5,000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
1977 – A U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes into a residential neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, killing two children on the ground and injuring seven other people.
1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
1996 – The Julie N. tanker ship crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
2000 – The first Olympic Gold Medal ever for Tae Kwon Do was won by Greek athlete Michalis Mouroutsos in men's -58 kg division in Sydney.
2001 – Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
2002 – Timor-Leste joins the United Nations.
2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.
2005 – After 162 episodes, Tom and Jerry airs its final episode titled, The Karate Guard.
2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe.
2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
2012 – A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing 6 people, including the gunman who committed suicide, and wounding 2 others.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1918 CANADIANS BREAK LAST GERMAN LINE
Canal du Nord France - Arthur William Currie 1875-1933 leads Canadian troops in a three day offensive against the Canal du Nord, outflanking the last section of the Germans' defensive Hindenburg Line. Canadians capture over 7,000 prisoners and 205 heavy guns. Germans abandon the line and continue retreating east, finally signing the Armistice Nov. 11.

1972
Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles 'Mike' Pearson 1897-1972 dies in Ottawa at the age of 75; buried at Wakefield, Quebec; Canada's 14th Prime Minister 1963-68.



In Other Events....

1994 Argentia, Newfoundland - US Navy closes Argentia submarine detection base; last US military base in Canada.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Robert Bourassa undergoes an operation to remove a malignant melanoma from his back; the skin cancer will eventually take his life.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- increases the size of the Senate to 112, appointing 8 new senators: Keon, Meighen, Forrestal, Grimard, Lavoie-Roux, Ross, Johnson, Berntson; now 54 PCs, 52 Liberals; to stop Senate from blocking GST.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Minister of State for Finance Gilles Loiselle revises Trust and Loan Companies Act; lets banks own insurance and trust companies; no shareholder over 10%..
1990 Toronto Ontario - Dalai Lama arrives in Canada for four-day visit; spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Canada Packers (60%) and John Labatt (40%) merge into Maple Leaf-Ogilvie; operate Country Style Doughnuts and Buns Master franchises.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Singer Elton John apologizes to 35,000 people for poor sound quality at a concert in SkyDome.
1989 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Jeff Petkovich and Peter DeBernardi survive a barrel drop over Horseshoe Falls; the first two-man team to succeed.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson returns to Canada in disgrace after being stripped of his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics for using steroids.
1988 New York City - Guy Lafleur signs a one year contract with the NHL New York Rangers.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Jacqueline Gareau wins the Montreal Marathon; André Viger comes second.
1983 Montreal Quebec - Expo slugger Tim Raines hits a three-run homer against St. Louis to become the first player in National League history to knock in at least 70 runs and steal 70 bases in one season.
1982 Moncton, New Brunswick - L'Evangeline stops publishing; this voice of Acadia was the only French language newspaper east of Quebec.
1982 London Ontario - General Motors of Canada wins $625 million contract to build armoured cars for US Army and Marines.
1977 Milan Italy - Gilles Villeneuve signs a 2 year contract to drive Formula One with Ferrari.
1977 Quebec - Quebec credit union manager Charles Marion released on payment of $50,000 ransom; held for 83 days in Canada's longest kidnapping.
1973 Quebec - Marcel Pépin elected President of La Confédération mondial du Travail.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans sale of firecrackers.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Postmaster-General Eric William Kierans 1914- ends Saturday mail and post office service, effective Feb. 1,1969.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate from 4 1/2% to 5%.
1963 Toronto Ontario - Founding of C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation; financial aid to young people with promise of leadership.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 25th Parliament; until February 5, 1963.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - Shigeru Yoshida Prime Minister of Japan, starts two-day visit to Canada.
1954 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Wheat Board takes over from optional Wheat Board; price of wheat increased from 90¢ a bushel to $1.25.
1934 Montreal Quebec - Official opening of the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University.
1922 Montreal Quebec - Radio station CKAC starts broadcasting at Montreal.
1919 Montreal Quebec - The 'Seagull' the first seaplane to land at Montreal.
1916 Montreal Quebec - 148th and 150th Battalions of Montreal Infantry, and the 189th Battalion of Infantry of Fraserville embark for service in France.
1896 Montreal Quebec - CPR telegraph operators and despatchers strike for shorter hours and higher wages; until October 7.
1879 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the Dominion Industrial Exhibition at Ottawa; Ottawa's fall fair became the Central Exposition in 1896; now called the Central Canada Exhibition.
1858 Stratford Ontario - Grand Trunk Railway completed to Stratford from London.
1853 Montreal Quebec - First provincial agricultural exhibition held in Montreal.
1839 Quebec Quebec - Group of 58 convicted rebels leave Quebec for exile in Australia.
1806 Kingston Ontario - Isaac Brock 1769-1812 appointed to command British forces in Upper Canada.
1759 Quebec Quebec - First Protestant religious service on record in Quebec.
1612 Paris France - Comte de Soissons awarded a 12 year monopoly of the fur trade in New France.
1610 Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain returns to France; stops writing in his journal for a time.

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September 28th 2014 - This Date in History.


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48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
995 – Members of Slavník's dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066 – William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1106 – The Battle of Tinchebray – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
1542 – Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland.
1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
1924 – First round-the-world flight completed.
1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
1941 – The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1962 – The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
1963 - Whaam!, now considered Roy Lichtenstein's most important work, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery that lasted until at October 24.
1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser's temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.
1971 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1973 РThe ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'̩tat in Chile.
1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
1996 – Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2006 – Suvarnabhumi Airport opens in Amphoe Bang Phli, Samut Prakan Province from Don Mueang International Airport after the older airport ceased international commercial flights.
2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed, and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
2012 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port city of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
2012 – A Dornier Do 228 light aircraft crashes on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, killing 19 people.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1981 SUPREME COURT SAYS YES, BUT...
Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules 7-2 that Prime Minister Trudeau's unilateral constitutional plan is strictly legal; Parliament can act alone to patriate the BNA Act; but a 'convention' requires substantial provincial consent, in that the plan does not follow normal constitutional procedures; suggests unilateral action might breach the spirit of federalism, and it is the duty of Ottawa to try and forge provincial consent. The new constitution, brought home without provincial consent, will be signed by the Queen on July 1st, 1982.

1972
Twenty Five Years Ago Today...

Moscow Russia - Paul Henderson scores on Vladislav Tretiak with 34 seconds remaining in regulation time, giving Team Canada a 6-5 victory over the USSR hockey all-stars, and a 4-3-1 victory in the eight game Summit Series. The Soviets led 5-3 at the end of the Second Period, and Russian officiating threatened to turn the game into a brawl, but Phil Esposito and Yvan Cornoyer tied the game in the third. As Foster Hewitt called it, "Here's a shot. Henderson makes a wild stab for it and falls. Here's another shot. Right in front. They Score!! Henderson scores for Canada!"



In Other Events....

1996 Quebec Quebec - Lucien Bouchard rejects hard-liners in the Parti Quebecois who want a unilingual Quebec..
1995 Montreal Quebec - Alcan Aluminium Ltd. takes after-tax charge of $280 million; writes down investment in scrapped Kemano hydroelectric project in British Columbia; company to seek compensation from BC.
1995 Quebec - Quebec Southern Railway starts operating former CP short lines from Lennoxville to St-Jean, Brookport to Wells River, Vt., Farnham to Ste-Rosalie Jct. and Stanbridge.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Bell Canada announces 5,000 job cuts.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Expo Dennis Martinez beats the Marlins, becoming the 7th pitcher in history to win 100 games in both the American and National Leagues.
1992 Montreal Quebec - CROP poll released today says No vote in Quebec is 49%; Yes vote 37%; Undecided 14%.
1992 Pittsburg Pennsylvania - Mario Lemieux signs a contract with the NHL Penguins worth $42 million over 7 years.
1982 Moncton, New Brunswick - L'Evangeline of Moncton shuts its doors; only French-language newspaper east of Quebec.
1982 PEI - James Matthew Lee 1937- leads Progressive Conservatives to reelection victory in Prince Edward Island, wins 22 of 32 seats.
1978 Banff Alberta - World Energy Conference opens in Banff.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Margaret Birch appointed a minister without portfolio; first woman named to an Ontario cabinet.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada issued.
1969 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist bomb explodes at the home of Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau.
1968 Hudson Hope, BC - BC Premier W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 opens Dr. Gordon M. Shrum Powerhouse at $485 million Peace River hydro-electric project.
1962 Vandenberg AFB, California - Canada launches its first orbiting satellite, Alouette 1, on a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base; weighs 320 lbs, cost $2.9 million; to study ionosphere from 1000 km in space; joint project of Defence Research Board and Canadian electronics industry.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Last regularly scheduled CPR steam train leaves Ottawa's Union Station.
1945 Calgary Alberta - Calgary Bronks football team changes its name to the Calgary Stampeders.
1942 Kiska Alaska - Canadian war planes make first attacks on Japanese forces on Kiska Island in the Aleutians.
1930 Montreal Quebec - Monument to Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine unveiled in Parc LaFontaine.
1929 Edmonton Alberta - Joe Hess of the University of Alberta makes the first interception return for a touchdown in Canadian football.
1929 Churchill Manitoba - Hudson Bay Railway reaches its northern terminus at Churchill; originally operated by Canadian National on behalf of the Government; became part of the CN system in 1951, then privately run.
1960 Prescott Ontario - Opening of new 'Seaway Skyway' bridge from Prescott to Ogdensburg, New York.
1899 Dawson Yukon - Opening of telegraph service to Dawson from BC.
1892 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick abolishes Legislative Assembly; upper house.
1885 Montreal Quebec - Rioting breaks out in Montreal against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1872 Quebec Quebec - George-Etienne Cartier departs for London to get treatment for Bright's Disease; he will die there.
1869 Quebec Quebec - Quebec sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert sails for Italy to continue his studies.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier makes a speech supporting the British connection against Canadian independence.
1869 Ottawa Ontario - William McDougall appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Rupert's Land and NWT; will be stopped by the Metis at the border.
1857 Cambridge Ontario - Great Western Railroad opens from Galt to Guelph.
1867 Toronto Ontario - Toronto officially becomes the capital of Ontario.
1854 London England - Edward Belcher 1799-1877 arrives in England; all captains court martialled and honourably discharged or acquitted.
1843 Montreal Quebec - Opening of third session of first Parliament of United Canada; meets until Dec. 9; 60 of 84 members; new duty on American horses, cattle & grain, to match US tariff.
1813 Toronto Ontario - British defeated in York Bay naval battle.
1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Upper Canada legislature passes decree that all slave children born in Upper Canada after this date were to become free at age 25.
1737 Montreal Quebec - Marguerite d'Youville leases the 'Le Verrier' house in Montreal.
1685 Quebec - Smallpox epidemic breaks out in New France.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council forbids selling or giving liquor and firearms to the Indians.
1535 Lac St-Pierre, Quebec - Jacques Cartier crosses Lac St-Pierre on his way to Montreal.

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September 29th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

522 BC РDarius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaum̢ta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1364 – Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.
1717 – An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1848 – Battle of Pákozd: stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
1850 – The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1932 – Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1938 – Munich Agreement: Germany is given permission from France, Italy, and Great Britain to seize the territory of Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. The meeting takes place in Munich, and leaders from neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovakia attend.
1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
1963 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1971 – Oman joins the Arab League.
1972 – China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland.
1982 – The Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991 РMilitary coup in Haiti (1991 Haitian coup d'̩tat).
1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
2006 РGol Transportes A̩reos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.
2013 – Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1962 CANADA LAUNCHES FIRST SPACE BIRD
Vandenburg AFB, California - Canada launches its first orbiting satellite, Alouette 1, on a Thor-Agena B rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base; mass: 145 kg; cost $2.9 million; to study ionosphere from 1000 km in space; joint project of Defence Research Board and Canadian electronics industry.

1988
Seoul Korea - Carolyn Waldo wins a gold medal in synchronized swimming at the 24th Olympiad in Seoul. Two days later she will wins another gold in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian female to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition.



In Other Events....

1996 Houston, Texas - Ottawa's Alanis Morissette finishes her first U.S. tour.
1995 Montreal Quebec - Large pro-sovereignty rally held in Montreal Forum.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Falconbridge Ltd. and Luxembourg-based Minorco SA announce plans to proceed with $1.75-billion development of Collahuasi copper deposit in northern Chile.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says 500 full time jobs a day disappeared during recession of past three years; 11 businesses, 73 people a day go broke.
1989 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter DeBernardi the first to go over Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of Niagara and live to tell the tale.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - NDP leader Ed Broadbent announces his retirement from politics.
1988 Tadoussac Quebec - International forum on the beluga whale held at Tadoussac; species endangered by pollution in the St. Lawrence and Saguenay.
1985 Quebec Quebec - Pierre-Marc Johnson elected leader of the Parti Quebecois; decides to keep sovereignty on the back burner and calls an election to get a new mandate.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bails out debt-laden Dome Petroleum.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces program to put first Canadian in space within 2 years.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Jean Drapeau 1916- bomb explodes at home of Montreal Mayor; no injuries.
1966 Montreal Quebec - Montreal police arrest eight people, seize $3 million worth of heroin.
1948 Detroit Michigan - London Majors score five runs in the top of the ninth to defeat Fort Wayne (Indiana) General Electrics 5-0 in the deciding game of the best-of-seven international sandlot series.
1944 Montreal Quebec - Defence Minister James Layton Ralston 1881-1948 flies to Europe to check reports of Canadian infantry shortages.
1930 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton Tigers play the University of British Columbia in the first Canadian football game played under lights.
1930 Prince Edward Island - Final section of PEI's 3'6" gauge railway converted to standard gauge; work started in 1919.
1922 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 declares Canada not automatically at war when Britain is; during Chanak Crisis in Dardanelles; officials leaked British request for troops, to force Canada's hand.
1921 Ottawa Ontario - Georges-P Vanier marries Pauline Archer; future Governor General.
1914 France - Arthur Currie 1875-1933 appointed to command the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade; a militia commander from Victoria, BC, known for his artillery skills.
1905 Guelph Ontario - Opening of Carnegie Library at Guelph.
1902 Dawson City, Yukon - Banks in Dawson City announce that they will no longer accept gold dust as legal tender; concern that miners lost money on transactions as gold dust particles were lost in handling.
1898 Canada - Canada holds national referendum on the prohibition of alcoholic beverages; 278,380 for, 264,693 against; government takes no action in view of close vote.
1852 New Brunswick - New Brunswick issues contracts for railroad from Nova Scotia to boundary of Maine.
1710 Boston Massachusetts - Francis Nicholson 1665-c1728 sails from Boston with 2,000-man force to attack the French at Port Royal.
1668 Charles Fort NWT - Zachariah Gillam 1636-1682 reaches Rupert River on the 'Nonsuch' with Medart des Groseilliers; they proceed to build Charles Fort, make a treaty with the local chief and spend the winter trading. The success of this venture leads to the creation of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Germain Morin 1642-1702 ordained at Quebec; first Canadian born priest.
1661 Quebec - Jacques Lemaître, sculptor, massacred by the Iroquois.
1658 Montreal Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 departs for France with Jeanne Mance to recruit young girls to be teachers.
1642 Quebec - Father René Goupil 1608-1642 killed by Iroquois.
1498 London England - Jean Cabot receives a reward of £200 from King Henry VII for his discoveries in North America.

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September 30th 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

489 – Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
737 – Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 РThe National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and J̩r̫me P̩tion as "incorruptible patriots".
1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 – The Royal Galician Academy, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
1907 – McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1965 – The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 – BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
1988 – Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1993 – An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
1996 – The United States Congress passes an Amendment that bars the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level.
1999 – Japan's second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 – The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1989 JAYS TAKE A.L. EAST
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 4-3, to win the American League East baseball title.

1907
Baddeck Nova Scotia - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 founds the Aerial Experimental Association at Baddeck; with two young Canadian engineers, Casey Baldwin and John A.D. McCurdy, as well as US Army Lt. Thomas Selfridge and engine maker Glenn Curtiss. The first experiments are with kites, and a year later 4 biplanes are built at Curtiss' plant, including the Silver Dart.



In Other Events....

1996 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Chrétien's government asks the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the legality of a unilateral declaration of independence on the part of the Province of Quebec.
1996 Whitehorse Yukon - NDP defeats Yukon Party 10 seats to 7 in territorial election; each party wins 44% of the popular vote.
1994 North America - NHL postpones start of hockey season for at least 2 weeks to deal with labour strife.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules a man accused of sexual assault can use the defence that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.
1993 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports drunk driving charges dropped 45% between 1981 and 1991; tougher laws, more policing, education, lower alcohol sales (down 10%).
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada votes 5-4 to deny bid of Sue Rodriguez, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, for doctor-assisted suicide; rules Criminal Code sanctions against assisting in a suicide do not infringe on her rights; Victoria woman will commit suicide four months later, aided by a sympathetic doctor.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - 52 Charlottetown Referendum Yes committees now registered; including Business Council on National Issues; also Status of Women, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Francophones; 17 for the No side, including the National Citizens Coalition; also CUPW, BC Liberals, Quebec arm of Canadian Auto Workers.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Bernard Ostry resigns as Chairman of TV Ontario after audit shows excessive spending on dinners and travel.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Jean Beetz dies at age 64; retired Supreme Court justice, helped Trudeau draft constitutional policy.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Bank of Nova Scotia buys Macleod Young Weir for $483 million; price later cut by $64 million.
1986 Kingston Ontario - Lake Ontario's water outflow reaches 844 billion litres per day, the greatest outflow since the start of record keeping in 1860; over 25% above normal.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government liquidates the insolvent Northland Bank.
1984 Caniapiscau River, Quebec - High water levels fatal to 10,000 caribou, who drown while their herd is crossing the Caniapiscau to move to winter pasture.
1981 Calgary Alberta - International Olympic Committee votes to give Calgary the 1988 Winter Olympic Games.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court upholds provincial ruling that two or more breath analyses necessary to convict person.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to phase out language training and bilingualism pay bonuses for the public service by 1983.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP riot squad officers stop 200 Indians from entering Parliament Buildings during the official opening of first session; a bloody scuffle erupts; 30th Parliament the longest in Canadian history; sitting until July 30, 1976; PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919-.
1973 Cape Dorset, NWT - Peter Pitseolak 1902-1973 dies at Cape Dorset; Inuit photographer, artist and writer; recorded Inuit legends and traditions, illustrating them with his own drawings; acquired first camera from Oblate missionary, and documented the igloos and dog teams of the Inuit hunters as the old era ended.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Telesat Canada signs $31 million deal with Hughes Aircraft of California to build Anik, Canada's first domestic communications satellite.
1967 Fort McMurray, Alberta - $235 million Great Canadian Oil Sands plant starts to extract oil from Athabasca tar sands.
1966 London England - Toronto-born Roy Thomson, later Lord Thomson of Fleet, acquires control of The Times of London.
1960 Churchill Manitoba - Black Brant, the first all Canadian sounding rocket, launched from Churchill.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 leaves Canada on official tour of 12 countries, including Soviet Union, Singapore, India, Far East.
1955 NWT - Completion of Operation Franklin, geological survey of Canada's Arctic Archipelago.
1954 Nova Scotia - Henry Davies Hicks 1915- elected Liberal Premier of Nova Scotia.
1953 Montreal Quebec - McGill University scientists develop radar system for early warning against air attacks.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Cabinet decides to free exchange rate of Canadian dollar, putting it on the open market.
1947 United Nations, New York - Canada elected to United Nations Security Council for two-year term.
1944 Calais France - Canadian troops capture the French Channel port of Calais.
1929 Toronto/Montreal - Canadian stock index hits 322.6; peak of bull market.
1886 Montreal - Chief Crowfoot arrives in Montreal with delegation of western chiefs; given lifetime CPR pass.
1875 Ottawa Ontario - First sittings of the Supreme Court of Canada.
1865 Ottawa Ontario - John Michel 1804-1886 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until Feb. 12, 1866.
1850 Victoria Island NWT - Robert McClure caught by ice in Prince of Wales Strait between Banks and Victoria Island; last gap in NW Passage; spends two winters in Mercy Bay on north coast of Banks Island.
1760 Toronto Ontario - Robert Rogers 1731-1795 visits site of Toronto on his way to Detroit; finds French have departed from Fort Niagara.
1746 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière 1685-1752 leads remnants of 65-ship French armada, ravaged by storms and typhus, back to France; 2,400 men eventually die, none in action; no shots fired in d'Anville's failed attempt to recapture Louisbourg and Acadia.
1738 Montreal Quebec - Grey Nuns found nunnery at Montreal; les Soeurs Grises.
1731 Terrebonne Quebec - Building of first warship in New France, at Terrebonne.
1682 Montreal Quebec - Governor Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre arrives in New France with his Intendant, Jacques de Meulles.
1585 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 returns to England from his Arctic explorations.

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October 1st 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England.
1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.
1814 РOpening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napol̩on the previous spring.
1827 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1832 – Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1880 – John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 – In California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1905 – František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.
1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.
1920 – Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as High Commissioner in Iraq.
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 – USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1942 – First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
1946 – Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
1946 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 – General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 – The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1975 – Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.
1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 – The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
1982 – Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 – The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis.
1987 – The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
1991 – The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992 – Cartoon Network begins broadcasting.
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012 – A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
2012 – Domestic and International flights of Thai AirAsia transferred all operations from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Don Mueang International Airport .
2013 – The U.S. federal government shuts down non-essential services after it is unable to pass a budget measure.









Today's Canadian Headline....

1988 LEWIS AND WALDO WIN GOLDS (HER SECOND)
Seoul Korea - At the 24th Olympiad, Canadian super-heavyweight Lennox Lewis defeats Riddick Bowe to win Canada's first Olympic Boxing gold medal in 56 years. In the pool, Carolyn Waldo wins her second gold medal in synchronized swimming, in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian woman to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition.

1848
Toronto Ontario - Paul Kane 1810-1871 returns from his wanderings on the prairies and Pacific coast of North America with over 700 sketches of life in the west; he starts to paint canvases of his subjects during this winter.

1919
London Ontario - Canadian Army vaudeville troupe the Dumbells, who first performed at Vimy Ridge in 1917, premiere their musical review in London. They follow up with rave reviews at the Grand Theatre in Toronto, and opened a new variety show at the Ambassador Theatre in New York two years later, becoming the first Canadian musical on Broadway. The Dumbells disbanded in 1929.



In Other Events....

1992 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- comes out strongly against Charlottetown Accord; will weaken Ottawa and create hierarchy of rights; Quebeckers at the top, individuals Canadians at the bottom.
1992 Indian Brook Nova Scotia - Reg Maloney Micmac chief gets right to try some native court cases on 1,200 member reserve; minor criminal cases.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says first-time bride aged 26 in 1990, 22.6 in 1971; groom 27.9, 24.9; first marriages 77%, 90% in 1971; 7.1/1000 people; 7.9 in 1921.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Raymond Protti named head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, replacing Reed Morden; former Deputy Minister of Labour.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to privatize Petro-Canada; 3,300 outlets, $6.8b assets; limits foreign ownership to 25%; no one investor to own more than 10% of the company.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Hon. John Fraser was elected speaker of the House of Commons; had resigned as a Minister after tainted tuna scandal.
1981 Vancouver BC - Anik satellite used to extend national edition of Globe and Mail to Vancouver.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Provincial Premiers meet in Toronto; again fail to reach agreement on amending formula for BNA Act.
1970 BC - Soviet vessels banned from fishing in Big Bank region off the west coast of Vancouver Island; after collisions between Soviet and Canadian ships.
1966 Montreal Quebec - CBC starts first colour television broadcasting.
1961 Paris France - Donald Methuen Fleming 1905- elected Chairman of new Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Canadian Finance Minister.
1960 Toronto Ontario - Opening of O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts (now the Hummingbird Centre), with the premiere of Lerner and Loewe's musical Camelot, with Canada's Robert Goulet in the role of Sir Lancelot.
1959 PEI - Federal-provincial hospital plan goes into effect in PEI.
1958 New York New York - Sidney Earle Smith 1897-1959 Canadian External Affairs Minister opens Canada House in New York City; with Mayor Robert Wagner.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Charlotte Whitton becomes Mayor of Ottawa on death of incumbent. She is Canada's first woman mayor.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Governor-General becomes independent; given authority to exercise all Royal powers and executive authority of the Crown in relation to Canada.
1944 Calais France - Canadians take Calais, overrun flying bomb sites; end campaign to clear Channel ports.
1944 Antwerp Netherlands - Second Canadian Division crosses Antwerp Canal to begin freeing of Scheldt estuary.
1943 Naples Italy - Allies capture Naples.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Agricultural Supplies Board given power to fix prices.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Robert B. Bryce begins work in Department of Finance; a disciple of Keynes.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators readmitted to NHL, which drops Pittsburgh; financially troubled team unable to make a profit during Depression, and goes out of business.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Second Canadian War Loan of $100 million oversubscribed.
1899 Quebec Quebec - Diomede Falconio 1842- arrives in Quebec as first permanent Apostolic Delegate to Canada.
1898 Dawson Yukon - T. D. Evans Dawson detachment of Yukon Field Force reaches Klondike gold fields.
1876 Ontario - first western Canadian wheat shipped to Ontario.
1853 Toronto Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 first issues his 'Globe' newspaper as a daily.
1846 London England - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from Jan. 30,1847 to Dec. 19, 1854.
1674 Quebec Quebec - François de Laval 1623-1688 appointed first Bishop of Quebec by Pope Clement X.
1674 Rome Italy - Pope Clement X creates bishopric of Quebec; appoints Laval first Bishop of Quebec.
1669 Hamilton Ontario - François Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 reaches Tinaouataoua with La Salle and fellow Sulpician Galinée; winter on north shore of Lake Erie; La Salle leaves them to continue exploration.
1665 Lake Superior - Claude Allouez 1622-1689 founds mission in birch-bark chapel at Pointe du Saint Esprit; begins missionary work into Illinois; Jesuit priest.
1578 London England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 and his ships all return to England safely; worthless pyrites used to pave London streets; giving rise to the saying that the streets of London were paved with gold.

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October 2nd 2014 - This Date in History.



Events:C/P.

829 – Theophilos (813–842), succeeds his father as Byzantine Emperor.
1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1470 – A rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is located.
1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1780 РJohn Andr̩, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1814 РBattle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeats rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jos̩ Miguel Carrera.
1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
1937 – Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland.
1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre by the order of the president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, to the soldiers of killing unarmed students, hiding the event from the public eye. The 1968 Summer Olympics hosted in Mexico City, started 10 days after the massacre.
1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1979 – Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
1992 РThe Carandiru massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in Ṣo Paulo, Brazil.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 РAeroper̼ Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2005 – Ethan Allen boating accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1758 CANADA'S FIRST ELECTED PARLIAMENT MEETS
Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence convenes the first meeting of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the Halifax Court House; this is the first elected Parliament in Canadian history.

1604
Dochet Island Maine - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives back at Ste-Croix with Jean Ralluau after exploring the coast of Maine; they have a hard winter with de Monts and 77 others, and the following Spring move across the Bay of Fundy to found Port Royal on the Annapolis Basin. Here is Champlain's map of Ste-Croix, today's Dochet Island.

1535
Lachine Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 arrives at the Iroquois village of Hochelaga; names Mont Royal [Mont Réal]; visits rapids at the head of navigation and calls them La Chine [China]; local natives tell him of rapids and rivers to the west, and of mines of gold and copper; a priest blesses the Indian sick.



In Other Events....

1995 New York City - Alanis Morissette's debut album 'Jagged Little Pill' reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its 15th week; first chart topper for Maverick label, founded by Madonna.
1995 London England - Paul Reichmann leads investment group in regaining ownership of Canary Wharf, office complex that brought down his Olympia & York Developments Ltd. real estate empire 3 years earlier; Canadian developer.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays clinch American League East title and become first team in sports history to draw four million fans in one season.
1991 Regina Saskatchewan - Hazen Argue dies at age 70; Senator; first elected 1945 at age 24 for the CCF; jumped to Liberals in 1961; Canada's longest serving parliamentarian.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Gilles Loiselle legislates Public Service Alliance of Canada strikers back to work, after talks break down Sept 27; Treasury Board President.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- says he will unilaterally patriate constitution, and amend it by adding Charter of Rights; debate starts in House of Commons Oct. 6.
1973 Red Deer, Alberta - Gas main ruptures near Red Deer Lake, forcing evacuation of 500 people from three Alberta towns.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Andrei Gromyko Soviet Foreign Minister starts two-day visit; first Foreign Minister of USSR to visit Canada.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Jacques Bertrand 1916-1973 appointed Premier of Quebec after death of Union Nationale leader Daniel Johnson.
1952 Vancouver BC - Riot broke out at the Oakalla Prison Farm in Vancouver.
1948 Winnipeg Manitoba - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 chosen as party leader on first ballot by Progressive Conservative Party, replacing John Bracken; 827 votes, to J.G. Diefenbaker (311), Donald Fleming (104).
1944 Antwerp Netherlands - First Canadian Army drives to clear Scheldt estuary and open port of Antwerp to shipping.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 appointed Borden's Solicitor General; drafts Conscription Bill and Wartime Elections Act.
1914 Toronto Ontario - William Howard Hearst sworn in as Premier of Ontario.
1895 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up northern districts of Yukon, Ungava, Mackenzie, and Franklin, under the administrative control of the north West Territories government at Regina; enlarges Athabasca District eastward; Yukon becomes a territory in 1897; others divided into the districts of Mackenzie, Keewatin and Franklin in 1918.
1887 Vancouver BC - Fraser River fisherman nets a 12 foot sturgeon, weighing 822 pounds.
1883 Kingston Ontario - Dr. Jennie Trout opens a women's medical college at Queen's University in Kingston.
1871 PEI - Start of construction of Prince Edward Island Railroad.
1861 London England - Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck 1819-1894 appointed administrator of Canada; serves from Oct. 25 to Nov. 28, 1861.
1847 Quebec Quebec - Montreal Telegraph Company opens line into Quebec; three years after Samuel Morse invents telegraph.
1754 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Opening session of first Supreme Court in English-speaking Canada held at Halifax.
1744 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 ends siege of Annapolis Royal, when he gets order to withdraw to winter quarters at Minas.

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October 3rd 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
42 BC – First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.
1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
1683 – The Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1739 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War, 1736–39.
1778 – Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
1789 – George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
1835 – The Staedtler company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by United States President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
1872 – The Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
1949 – WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
1950 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
1957 – Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled to be not obscene by the California State Superior Court.
1961 – The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States.
1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
1963 – A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform, and begins two decades of military rule.
1964 – First buffalo wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
1981 – The hunger strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).
1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
1990 – German reunification: The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
1993 – Battle of Mogadishu: In a failed attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
2009 – The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council.
2013 – At least 134 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
2013 – The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1927 KING MAKES FIRST TRANSATLANTIC PHONE CALL
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian PM William Lyon Mackenzie King inaugurates the first transatlantic telephone service to the UK by chatting with British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. For the time being, all calls are operator-assisted until 1956, when direct dialing comes in.

1738
Portage La Prairie Manitoba - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Verendrye 1685-1749 rides up the Assiniboine Valley with sons Louis-Joseph and François to build Fort La Reine; on the site of Portage La Prairie.




In Other Events....

1995 Chicago Illinois - Canadian dollar climbs to highest level in 19 months on the commodity exchanges, US$75.27.
1992 Ste-Agathe Quebec - Bodies of two cult members of the Order of the Solar Temple found in a burned-out condominium north of Montreal; the following day 48 members are found dead in Switzerland, and three more bodies will be found in the ruins at Ste-Agathe Oct 5.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays beat Detroit Tigers to win American League East pennant.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Cross-border shopping up 57.4%, to $617m for first half of 1991, over $392 million in same period 1992; Statistics Canada reports.
1991 San Lorenzo Spain - Canada signs Antarctic Treaty accord with 26 other nations; bans mining and oil exploration for next 50 years.
1987 Washington DC - Simon Riesman and other negotiators sign the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, to take effect Jan. 1, 1989; all tariffs between the two countries to be phased out before 1999; creation of common energy market in petroleum, gas, uranium and electricity; creation of dispute settlement mechanism; deal reached just before US fast-track deadline for completing negotiations.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Ground-breaking ceremonies held for SkyDome, Toronto's 56,000 seat stadium built on vacant railway land on Front Street.
1981 New York City - Montreal Expos defeat the NY Mets 5-4 to win their first NL pennant; go on to beat Philadelphia in playoff series but lose to Los Angeles Dodgers in bid to reach World Series when Rick Monday hits winning home run off Expo pitcher Steve Rogers; end of split season disrupted by long players strike.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Winnipeg Blue Bomber Dieter Brock sets CFL passing record by completing 41 of 47 passes in 44-24 win over Ottawa Rough Riders.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts inquiry into government-approved international cartel to market uranium; possible violations of combines law.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Start of three-day federal-provincial conference on fiscal issues.
1946 Stephenville Newfoundland - American Overseas Airlines plane crashes near Stephenville, killing all 39 on board; worst civil aviation disaster in US history to date.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley puts price freeze proposals to Cabinet; King sceptical at first.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Stores grocery chain incorporated.
1914 Gaspé Quebec - First Canadian Division sails for England with 33,000 volunteers, 7,000 horses and 144 pieces of artillery, travelling in a 32 ship convoy escorted by 10 British warships; largest armed convoy ever to cross the Atlantic by that date; arrive in England Oct. 14.
1882 Paris France - Hector Fabre 1834-1910 appointed agent for Canadian government in France.
1874 Aurora Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 makes famous Aurora Speech, urging development of a Canadian spirit.
1873 North West Angle, Ontario - Saulteaux and Chippewa (Ojibway) sign Treaty #3 in southern Manitoba and north-western Ontario; 88,511 sq km; $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction; acreage.
1535 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves Hochelaga in the the Émerillon to return to Stadacona [Quebec] for the winter.

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October 4th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

23 – Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
610 – Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1302 – A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302).
1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1597 – The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1725 – Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1777 – Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 – Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands.
1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
1917 – The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007.
1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1940 – Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1943 – World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
1963 – Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1965 – Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere.
1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
1976 – Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train.
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
1988 – U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
1992 – El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
2001 – NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.

 

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October 5th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

456 – The Visigoths under king Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga (Gallaecia).
610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 – King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
1550 – Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1813 – Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
1857 – The City of Anaheim, California is founded.
1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
1911 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.
1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.
1930 – British Airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1938 – In Nazi Germany Jews' passports were invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes were given one marked with the letter J (Jude – Jew).
1943 – Ninety-eight American POW's executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
1944 – Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1955 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.
1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1970 – Montreal: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.
1973 – Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
1975 – Operation Primicia: terrorist attack against a Military Regiment at Formosa, Argentina.
1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
1988 – The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
1988 – The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 – Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
2011 – In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1970 FLQ TERRORISTS KIDNAP BRITISH TRADE ENVOY
Montreal Quebec - British Trade Commissioner James R. Cross kidnapped at gunpoint from his Westmount home at 8:45 am by masked Front de Libération du Québec terrorists; FLQ group consists of Jacques Lanctot, Marc Carbonneau, Louise and Jacques Cossette-Trudel and Yves Langlois; at 1:00 pm they deliver a communique to a site in Parc LaFontaine demanding a $500,000 ransom, and the release of 23 'political' prisoners; at 4;00 pm Justice Minister Jérôme Choquette holds a press conference making the FLQ conditions public; at 5:00 pm the Bourassa and Trudeau cabinets both hold emergency meetings; Cross will be released unharmed in December.

1984
Cape Canaveral Florida - Marc Garneau 1949- becomes first Canadian in space on board Space Shuttle Challenger Flight STS-41G; during the eight day mission he will travel a total of 3.4 million miles around the Earth in 133 orbits; the crew will deploy the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, conduct scientific observations of the earth with the OSTA-3 pallet and Large Format Camera (LFC), and demonstrate potential satellite refueling with an EVA and associated hydrazine transfer. Mission duration is 197 hours 23 minutes.



In Other Events....

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces new social assistance reform program.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - George Weber first Canadian to head 152 country International Red Cross Society; world's largest aid group; Secretary-General of Canadian Red Cross.
1992 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia - 4 Westray officials charged with violating mine safety rules; failed to clear explosive dust; mine disaster killed 26.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Senate ends filibuster on GST; Liberal Senator Sid Buckwold, chairman of the banking committee, moves a report recommending that the 7% Goods and Services Tax proposed by the Mulroney government be killed.
1987 Montreal Quebec - New York Islander star Mike Bossy announces he will be taking a year off from the NHL to rehabilitate his injured back.
1987 Washington DC - Canada and US sign Free Trade Agreement.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays clinch their first American League Eastern Division baseball pennant.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expo Ron Leflore steals bases 96 and 97 against Philadelphia, becoming the first player in baseball history to win the stolen bases title in both major leagues. Leflore won the American League title In 1978, stealing 68 bases with Detroit.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules that death penalty not cruel and unusual penalty; within meaning of Canadian Bill of Rights.
1975 Ste. Therese, Quebec - Official opening of Mirabel Airport.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Leger 1913-1980 takes duties as Governor General after recovering from a stroke; serving from Jan. 14, 1974 to Jan. 22,1979.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sells China up to 7,800 million L (220 million bushels) of Canadian wheat over three years.
1973 San Francisco, California - Toronto rocker Neil Young joins Graham Nash and David Crosby, as they do a 50 minute set with Stephen Stills and Manassas at San Francisco's Winterland ballroom; first performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in two years.
1961 Paris France - Inauguration of la Maison du Québec in Paris.
1959 New York City - Ottawa singer Paul Anka's 'Put Your Head On My Shoulder' peaks at #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1959 Canada - Roman Catholics celebrate the 300th anniversary of the hierarchy in Canada.
1957 Murdochville Quebec - End of bitter 6 month strike at the Murdochville mine.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Canada announces plans to build power plant in Pakistan under Colombo Plan.
1954 Montreal Quebec - Maurice Duplessis meets Louis St-Laurent to discuss taxation.
1951 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Centre for Physical Sciences at McGill University.
1949 New York City - Canadian mission attends opening ceremony, as the United Nations flag is raised over its new New York headquarters.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces it has issued a Canadian citizenship certificate to Igor Gouzenko; defected from Soviet embassy with files that showed Communist spy rings operating in Canada; put under protective custody.
1944 France - Five RCAF pilots destroy first German jet fighter.
1940 England - Second World War Battle of Britain ends, with RAF airmen, many of whom were Canadian, driving Hermann Goring's Luftwaffe from the skies over southern England.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Andrew George Latta McNaughton 1887-1966 named to head First Canadian Division.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Department of Finance sets up War Supply Board for government purchasing; transferred to new Department of Munitions and Supply in 1940.
1912 Hamilton Ontario - Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 single points in one Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) game.
1907 Montreal Quebec - Montreal defeats Toronto 17-8 in first game of the new Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU).
1885 Battleford Saskatchewan - Itka and Man Without Blood tried, found guilty and sentenced to hang for killing farm instructor Payne on the Mosquito reserve on March 29.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - John Douglas Sutherland, Marquis Lorne 1845-1914 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from Nov. 25,1878 to Oct. 21,1883; wife Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victoria.
1871 St. Norbert, Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 secretly returns to Manitoba to help government put down Fenian Raid; publicly thanked by Lieutenant-Governor Adams Archibald.
1871 Pembina Manitoba - William B. O'Donoghue 1843-1878 leads Fenian raiding party across Manitoba border at Pembina; seizes HBC post; followed and arrested by US troops.
1871 Charlottetown PEI - Sod turned for Prince Edward Island's first railway.
1869 Saint John, New Brunswick - Hurricane comes up the Bay of Fundy, sinking or driving ashore over 120 ships.
1835 Montreal Quebec - Railway promoters put forward a plan to build a line from Quebec to New Brunswick.
1813 Moraviantown Ontario - Shawnee chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 killed in the Battle of the Thames, as William Henry Harrison defeats an outnumbered Henry Proctor.
1813 Lake Ontario - Commodore Isaac Chauncey captures six British schooners carrying reinforcements and sick and wounded from York to Kingston.
1795 Edmonton Alberta - Hudson Bay Company starts building a fur trade post on a sheltered curve of the North Saskatchewan River, near the present day Alberta Legislature.
1793 Nootka, BC - Captain George Vancouver arrives at Nootka Sound.
1786 Halifax Nova Scotia - Prince William becomes the first member of the Royal Family to visit Halifax; the 21 year old is known as 'Coconut Head' to his fellow Navy officers; he has a reputation for 'wenching'.
1755 Kingston Ontario - Captain Pierre Pouchot and the Guienne regiment sail from Fort Frontenac with orders to rebuild the fortifications at Niagara; new colonial war beginning; starts line of fortifications from Lake Ontario to the bank of the Niagara River, with a wall flanked by two projecting bastions, in the manner of Vauban's great European fortresses.
1710 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Francis Nicholson 1665-c1728 attacks Port-Royal. De Subercase, with less than 300 men, resists for eight days before surrendering.
1658 Paris France - Cavelier de La Salle enters the noviciat des Jésuites in Paris.

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October 6th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

105 BC – Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
69 BC – Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic led by Lucullus defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
23 – Rebels kill and decapitate the Xin Dynasty emperor Wang Mang two days after the capital Chang'an is sacked during a peasant rebellion.
404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after.
1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 РJacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its premi̬re performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 17.
1762 – Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: General Sir Henry Clinton leads British forces in the capture of Continental Army Hudson River defenses in the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.
1789 – French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1854 – England: The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 – Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis.
1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (seven times in total).
1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul.
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Polesia army after the Battle of Kock
1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
1973 – Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on board are killed.
1976 – New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
1976 – Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
1977 – In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 – Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
1985 – PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
1995 – 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it.
2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
2000 – Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1970 CANADA SAYS NO DEAL FOR CROSSOttawa Ontario РExternal Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp says the government of Canada refuses to meet conditions of FLQ given in a communiqu̩ broadcast at 1:30 over CKAC for the release of British Trade Commissioner James Cross Рpublication of the FLQ Manifesto in newspapers, release of FLQ militants from jail, and rehiring of 400 ex-employees of the Lapalme transport company by the Post Office.



In Other Events….

1997 Quebec Quebec – Quebec lawyer Guy Bertrand asks the Quebec Superior Court to recommend creation of a fund to hold tax revenues payable to the Quebec government in the event of a unilateral declaration of independence.
1996 Boisbriand Quebec – General Motors’ 15,000 workers at Boisbriand walk off the job.
1995 Quebec – Most Quebec CÉGEP students walk out to protest tuition fee hikes.
1993 Oka Quebec – Non-natives erect barricade at Oka to protest actions of Kanesatake Mohawks.
1992 China – Canadian built Ultra Violet Auroral Imager and Cold Plasma Analyzer instruments carried on board Swedish-German Freja satellite launched on a Chinese Long March IIC rocket.
1992 Windsor Ontario – Ontario Consumer & Commercial Relations Minister Marilyn Churley announces the province has chosen Windsor as site of pilot casino; will supply badly needed revenue to border city, help control organized crime.
1992 Ottawa Ontario – Statistics Canada reports killings by handguns doubled to 136 in 1991 from 68 in 1990 and 45 in 1989; used in half of shooting homicides, up from 30% in 1991. 1991 homicides rose to a record 753, up 14.8% from 1990; BC and Manitoba highest; PEI lowest; 270 killed by firearms, up almost 40% since 1990.
1989 Ottawa Ontario РRay Hnatyshyn appointed new Governor General, to replace Jeanne Sauv̩; Saskatchewan native a former Conservative Justice Minister.
1986 Montreal Quebec – Explosion damages Petro Canada refinery in east end Montreal.
1984 Fort McMurray Alberta – Syncrude goes ahead with $600 million tar sands expansion.
1983 Victoria BC – NDP Leader Dave Barrett ejected from the Legislature for defying a ruling by Speaker Walter Davidson over fiscal restraint bills; first leader of a Canadian political party to be forcefully ejected.
1981 Frankfurt Germany – Canadian government sells Telidon two-way television system to Siemens AG of West Germany for $10 million; user can retrieve graphical information from electronic libraries.
1981 Los Angeles, California – First Canadian gas reaches Los Angeles through Foothills Pipeline; ‘prebuilt’ western section of Alaska gas pipeline.
1977 Montreal Quebec РStrike at Montreal dailies La Presse and Montr̩al-Matin.
1974 Moscow Russia – WHA Team Canada comprised of World Hockey Association players wins 1 game, ties 3 out of 8 with USSR.
1976 Barbados – Cuban jet leased from Air Canada crashes near Barbados, killing 78.
1973 St-Mathias-de-Chambly, Quebec – UFO sighted by 2 two people at St-Mathias.
1970 Montreal Quebec – Canadiens defensive stalwart John Ferguson announces his retirement from hockey.
1967 Ucluelet BC – 19.26 in of rain falls in 24 hours for a Canadian record.
1967 Fredericton, New Brunswick – W.T. Ross Flemington 1916- former president of Mount Allison University appointed New Brunswick’s first ombudsman.
1966 Churchill Falls, Labrador – Hydro-Quebec and British Newfoundland Corporation sign 40-year power deal; letting Quebec buy power from Churchill Falls at what will turn out to be bargain rates.
1965 Ottawa Ontario – Vincent Bladen issues Bladen Commission report; recommends higher university grants and aid to students; also federal minister of higher education.
1964 BC – Mount St. Laurent in Rocky Mountains named to honour former Prime Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973.
1961 Ottawa Ontario – Canadian Committee for Control of Radiation Hazards presents 141,000-name petition to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.
1959 Japan – John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 announces $20,000 grant to Japanese Red Cross for relief of typhoon victims.
1954 New York City – Nova Scotia country singer Hank Snow 1914- has a #1 hit with his RCA single, ‘I Don’t Hurt Anymore’.
1950 Los Angeles, California – Saskatchewan born entertainer Art Linkletter premieres his ‘Life With Linkletter’ TV Variety show on ABC.
1948 Ottawa Ontario – Newfoundland delegates meet in the Senate chamber with their Canadian counterparts to discuss final arrangements for entry into Confederation; to October 27.
1942 Vancouver BC – Last group of Japanese internees detained at Hastings Park internment camp leave for camps in the BC Interior.
1942 Winnipeg Manitoba – Ella Cora Hind 1861-1942 dies; journalist, born at Toronto Sept. 18, 1861; moved to Winnipeg, worked as a public stenographer when denied a job at the Free Press; set up a marketing service for the province’s dairy industries; in 1901 became agricultural editor of the paper and an expert on the western Canadian wheat crop yield; elected President of the Canadian Women’s Press Club in 1904; participated in Winnipeg’s famous Mock Parliament in 1914, which defeated a motion to give the vote to men; retired in 1935; author of Seeing for Myself (1937), about her round the world trip to observe farming methods.
1932 Ottawa Ontario – Opening of fourth session of 17th Parliament; meets until May 27,1933.
1927 New York City – Canadian born film producers, the Warner Brothers, premiere the world’s first talking film, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson; not a true talkie, with only 291 spoken words, but the first to integrate sound and dialogue into a story through the Vitaphone disk process.
1925 Aklavik NWT – RCCS Aklavik radio station opens; part of North West Territories and Yukon Radio System.
1923 Quebec City – Earthquake rattles windows and causes mud slides in Quebec region.
1917 Montreal Quebec – Departure of 258th Montreal Battalion of Infantry for service in France.
1915 France – Major Adolphe Roy the second Canadian to die at the front in World War I.
1911 Ottawa Ontario – Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 resigns as Prime Minister following political upset by Borden; Liberal Party leader since 1887; MP Quebec East since 1877; Leader of the Opposition until his death in 1919.
1890 Washington DC – US President William McKinley brings in punitive McKinley Tariff; Canada applies counter-tariffs soon after, leading to recession on both sides of the border.
1862 Manitouwaning Ontario – Indian Commissioner William Macdougall 1822-1905 negotiates Manitoulin Island treaty with Ottawa and Chippewa; Crown awards land grants and interest for land.
1825 Miramachi New Brunswick – Beginning of great Miramachi fire that kills over 500 people.
1818 Astoria Oregon – Fort Astoria on the Columbia River returned to the United States under War of 1812 peace treaty; sold to the North West Company by starving Americans in 1813, then formally captured by a British warship; Canada loses territories of the Pacific Northwest first explored by the Norwesters.
1604 Dochet Island, Maine – First snow of winter falls on Ste-Croix Island as Champlain, de Monts and the settlers dig in for winter.
1586 Dartmouth England – John Davis c1543-1605 arrives back in England from his Arctic explorations.

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October 7th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828 – Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia
1864 – American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870 РFranco-Prussian War РSiege of Paris: L̩on Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
1960 – Nigeria joins the United Nations.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1971 – Oman joins the United Nations.
1976 – Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier.
1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
1987 – Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
1988 – An Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills one civilian.
1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 – A historic recall election takes place in the U.S. State of California in which the sitting Governor Gray Davis, a Democrat, is overwhelmingly voted out of office. Actor, bodybuilder and Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected to be the 38th Governor of California over fellow Republican Tom McClintock and Democrat Cruz Bustamante who at the time was the sitting Lt. Governor of California. This is the first recall election in the history of the State of California in which a sitting Governor has been successfully recalled from office.








Today's Canadian Headline....


1737 - Iron ore first smelted in Canada at the Forges du St.-Maurice, north of Trois-Rivières.
1774 - Québec Act given Royal Assent; governor & council; freedom of religion to RCs
1763 - Royal Proclamation of 1763 declares Aboriginals hold lands unless ceded or sold to Crown."
1913 - William Herron discovers oil on Dingman site near Calgary; Alberta's First oil boom.
1992 - NAFTA - the North American Free Trade Agreement - initialled by Canada, Mexico and USA.
1535 - October 7 - Jacques Cartier plants a cross at the mouth of the St. Maurice River and claims the land for France; calls the river the Rivière Fouez. Trois-Rivières, Québec
1661 - October 7 - Crime - Daniel Uvil executed; shot for selling alcohol to the Indians. Québec, Québec
1663 - October 7 - First municipal council meets at Montréal. Montréal, Québec
- October 7 - Jean de Repentigny elected First Mayor of Québec. Québec, Québec
1737 - October 7 - Smelting - Iron ore is smelted in Canada for the First time on the banks of the St. Maurice River upstream from Trois-Rivières; Parks Canada operates the Forges du St.-Maurice as a national historic site. Trois-Rivières, Québec
1758 - October 7 - First meeting of the Nova Scotia Legislature. Halifax, Nova Scotia
1763 - October 7 - King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763; constitutes the new British Province of Quebec; provides terms of government for the territories Britain acquired from France under the Treaty of Paris; recognizes Indian rights in British North America, that "it is just and reasonable, and essential to our Interest, and the Security of our Colonies, that the several Nations or Tribes of Indians with whom We are connected, and who live under our Protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the Possession of such Parts of Our Dominions and Territories as, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us, are reserved to them, or any of them, as their Hunting Grounds"; effectively closing lands north and west of the Alleghenies to settlement, which infuriates many American colonists; sets the western boundary where the 45th parallel crosses the St. Lawrence River NW to Lake Nipissing; the Appalachian watershed becomes the eastern boundary of Quebec. London, England
- October 7 - Royal Proclamation of 1763 declares that [Aboriginals] should not be "molested or disturbed in the Possession of such Parts of Our Dominions and Territories as, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us", at the same time that it assumes that all lands in British territories belong to the Crown. London, England
- October 7 - Cape Breton annexed to Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nova Scotia
- October 7 - Justice - Government appoints 10 English-speaking Justices of the Peace. Québec, Québec
1777 - October 7 - American Revolutionary War - Robert Rogers' First American Regiment beats back George Washington and his rebel forces at Chadds Ford; regiment later known as the Queen's York Regiment organized before the Revolution by Rogers; later moved to York (Toronto) by Lt-Col John Graves Simcoe. Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
1897 - October 7 - Frederick Haultain, Premier of the Northwest Territories, supports the creation of a new prairie province called "Buffalo"; in a speech in Yorkton. Yorkton, Saskatchewan
1920 - October 7 - Kettle Valley Railway opens its spur from Princeton to Copper Mountain, BC. Princeton, BC
1931 - October 7 - Strike by Estevan coal miners ends. Estevan, Saskatchewan
1934 - October 7 - Richard Reid sworn in as UFA Premier of Alberta, succeeding John Brownlee. Edmonton, Alberta
1936 - October 7 - Paul Sauvé opens the Québec National Assembly as Premier. Québec, Québec
1944 - October 7 - World War II - RCAF's No. 6 Group strikes at Dortmund; loses only two out of record 293 bombers. Dortmund, Germany
1950 - October 7 - Montreal born comedian Ben Blue a cast member of The Frank Sinatra Show, that debuts on this day; the crooner's First plunge into TV. Los Angeles, California
1951 - October 7 - Princeton incorporated as a Village: Isaac Plecash, mayor. Princeton, BC
1960 - October 7 - Trade - Fifteen Canadian industrialists leave on three-week trade mission to Europe. Europe
1961 - October 7 - NHL All-Stars beat Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 in the 15th National Hockey League All-Star Game in Chicago. Chicago, Illinois
1963 - October 7 - Terrorism - Front de Libération du Québec leader Georges Schoeters given 2 five-year terms for terrorist activities; FLQ co-founders Gabriel Hudon and Raymond Villeneuve plead guilty to involuntary homicide, get 12 years for April 20, 1963 death of Canadian Army watchman Sgt. Wilfred O'Neill. Montréal, Québec
1964 - October 7 - Education - Opening of Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology in Ottawa; today's Algonquin College. Ottawa, Ontario
1965 - October 7 - Justice - Patrick Kelly chairs Commission on Windfall Mines; wants Ontario Securities Commission set up as independent body. Toronto, Ontario
1966 - October 7 - South Saskatchewan Dam renamed the Gardiner Dam to honour Jimmy Gardiner, former Premier of Saskatchewan and federal Minister of Agriculture. Saskatchewan
1968 - October 7 - Terrorism - FLQ terrorists steal dynamite from store at Chomedey. Chomedey, Québec
- October 7 - Strike - Students occupy Collège Lionel Groulx, demand job programs and new French-language courses; other provincial colleges strike, but all CÉGEPs re-open by October 28, 1968. Ste-Thérèse de Blainville, Québec
1969 - October 7 - Strike by Montreal's 3,700 police and firefighters; the 16-hour wildcat strike results in violence, looting and arson, as well as the death of one policeman and one civilian; both unions legislated back to work October 8, 1969; during the strike, FLQ terrorists broke into an armory and stole weapons. Montreal, Québec (CBC Archives)
- October 7 - Diplomacy - Canada resumes diplomatic relations with Gabon; suspended on February 19, 1968. Gabon
1970 - October 7 - October Crisis - FLQ Manifesto read over radio station CKAC; the demands of the terrorists have expired without action from the federal or provincial governments. Chronology of the day: at 9:00 am, police discover the taxi used for the kidnapping of James Cross; at noon, Windsor Station is ransacked; in the afternoon, the FLQ issue two more communiqués, and at 6:00 pm, their lawyer Robert Lemieux holds a press conference to discuss the government's offer to negotiate. Montréal, Québec
1973 - October 7 - South Similkameen Museum Society opens its museum in Keremeos; Constable W.B. Stewart, retired, of BCPP, officiates. Keremeos, BC
1975 - October 7 - Strike - British Columbia Legislature passes emergency measures legislation to force striking forest, railway, propane, and food industry workers to work. Victoria, BC
1977 - October 7 - Morrissey, Fernie and Michel Railway Company dissolved. Fernie, BC
1982 - October 7 - Canadian mountaineer Patrick Morrow reaches peak of Everest; one Canadian and 3 Nepalese killed in the ascent; native of Kimberley, BC. Nepal
1983 - October 7 - Bell Helicopter Textron starts construction of Canada's First helicopter factory at Mirabel Airport; investment of $766 million subsidized by Ottawa and Québec. Ste-Thérèse de Blainville, Québec
1990 - October 7 - Canadian Forces CF-18 fighter jets start arriving at 'Camp Canada Dry' on the Persian Gulf to join a multinational force blocking Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Qatar, United Arab Emirates
1992 - October 7 - Michael Wilson initials NAFTA - the North American Free Trade Agreement - with Mexico and USA; symbolic ceremony attended by PM Brian Mulroney, US President Bush and Mexican President Salinas. San Antonio, Texas
- October 7 - Canadian Forces planning special peacekeeping force for UN duties; reaching limit of what it can do with conventional troops. Ottawa, Ontario
- October 7 - Media - CBC unveils new 9:00 pm news program Prime Time News; with Peter Mansbridge and Pamela Wallin; to replace The National and The Journal. Ottawa, Ontario
- October 7 - Hockey - Montréal Canadiens hold a ceremony to retire the #1 sweater of goaltender Jacques Plante. Montréal, Québec
1995 - October 7 - Funeral held for former Québec Premier Robert Bourassa, who died of cancer. Montréal, Québec
1997 - October 7 - Airbus Enquiry - Arbitrator orders RCMP to make reparations of $2 million plus interest to former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, to cover his legal expenses, for defamatory accusations released during the Airbus enquiry; Mulroney launched a $50-million libel suit in November 1995 against the government after the Justice Department and RCMP investigators linked his name to over $5 million in purported kickbacks from the 1988 sale of 34 Airbus A320 passenger jets to Air Canada for $1.8 billion. Montréal, Québec
- October 7 - New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna retires after 10 years in office. Fredericton, New Brunswick
1999 - October 7 - Adrienne Clarkson sworn in as Governor General of Canada; former CBC broadcaster the second woman to hold the office; named September 8, 1999. Ottawa, Ontario
2001 - October 7 - Military - Canada joins NATO attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan; Canadian fighter pilots and ground troops are involved in the war. Kabul, Afghanistan
2002 - October 7 - Terrorism - U.S. Immigration and Naturalization officials at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport deport Canadian citizen Maher Arar, suspected of having links to al-Qaeda, to his native Syria; he was detained for questioning on September 26, 2002 while returning alone to Montreal from a family vacation in Tunisia; Arar is carrying a Canadian passport; he is tortured by the Syrians. New York, New York.

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October 8th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

314 – Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories.
451 – At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1).
1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, defeated in the battle of Bliska, is arrested by the Parliament.
1480 – Great stand on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde.
1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years' War.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 – San Marino adopts its written constitution.
1645 РJeanne Mance opened the H̫tel-Dieu de Montr̩al, the first lay hospital in North America.
1806 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.
1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
1821 – The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
1829 – Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Perryville: Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.
1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
1879 – War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
1895 – Eulmi incident: Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by Japanese infiltrators inside Gyeongbok Palace.
1904 – Edmonton, Alberta is incorporated as a city.
1904 – Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is incorporated as a city.
1912 – First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
1918 – World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor.
1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
1928 – Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
1932 – The Indian Air Force is established.
1939 – World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
1941 – World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs just outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
1956 – New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series.
1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuvre called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason.
1962 – Algeria joins the United Nations.
1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a manoeuvre to deceive world opinion".
1973 – Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
1973 – Greek military junta of 1967–74: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1990 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
1991 – Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, rendering the country fully independent.
2001 – A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
2005 – 2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1898 CENTENNIAL OF CANADIAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Montreal Quebec - McGill University beats Queen's University, 3-2, in the first Canadian Intercollegiate football game, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY.

1951
Montreal Quebec - Princess Elizabeth 1926- arrives at Dorval Airport to start cross-country tour with her husband Prince Philip, later Duke of Edinburgh; her first Royal Tour lasts until November 12; she will be crowned Queen the following year.




In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Expansion Ottawa Senators beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 in the Civic Centre; Doug Smail scores a pair of goals, first regular season NHL game for a Senators team in 58 years.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn unveils new $2.8 million peacekeeping monument on traffic island in Ottawa; called Reconciliation; to honour 90,000 Canadians who served, 80 who died on duty since 1947.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jays lose American League title to Oakland A's with 4-3 loss in Game 5.
1984 Nashville Tennessee - Springhill, Nova Scotia's Anne Murray wins the Country Music Association's Album of the Year Award for 'A Little Good News'; sold over 12-million copies; first woman and first Canadian to win the award.
1984 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- announces he will retire early in 1985; Conservative Premier of the province since 1971.
1979 New Brunswick - New Brunswick Acadians announce desire for new political slatus for Acadia as Canada's 11th province.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Gilles Villeneuve wins his first Formula 1 race at the Montreal Grand Prix.
1975 Montreal Quebec - Canadien Guy Lafleur scores his first NHL goal.
1974 London England - Paul Martin Sr appointed Canadian High Commissioner to Britain.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules Indian woman cannot be deprived of Indian status because of marriage to non-Indian; under the Bill of Rights.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Henri Richard elected captain of the NHL Canadiens hockey team.
1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues; the FLQ Manifesto is broadcast on Radio-Canada at 10:30 pm.
1970 Quebec - Quebec medical specialists go on 10-day strike over Medicare issues.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - opening of 3rd session of the 28th Parliament; until Feb. 16,1972.
1969 Montreal Quebec - National Assembly legislates Montreal police and firemen back to work; state of emergency declared,; emergency meeting.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Federal-provincial conference of Attorneys-General meets to discuss amendments to BNA Act.
1945 Washington DC - President Harry Truman says that the secret of the atomic bomb will only be shared with Britain and Canada
1943 Italy - Italian government surrenders to Allied forces; Germans and Fascist supporters keep fighting on.
1928 Washington D.C. - US Supreme Court decides that Canadians working in the US not liable for immigration fee when crossing.
1916 London England - James Richardson awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for inspiring men of 16th Canadian Battalion to capture a German position at the Somme. Richardson fearlessly marched in front of the enemy playing his bagpipes, and was killed.
1904 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton incorporated as a city.
1904 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - Prince Albert incorporated as a city.
1804 Lake Ontario Ontario - Government schooner 'Speedy' lost with all hands in a storm on Lake Ontario; dead include Judge Cochrane; Solicitor-General Gray; Surveyer Stegman.
1783 Adolphustown Ontario - Loyalists from New York travel through Quebec and settle at Adolphustown.
1643 Montreal Quebec - Jeanne Mance 1606-1673 opens the Hôtel Dieu, Montreal's first hospital and the first lay hospital in North America; she will treat the French and Indian populations for over 30 years.
1613 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 decides to continue Quebec venture; names nephew, Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons, Lt Governor; after collapse of de Monts' partnership.

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October 10th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

19 AD – Roman general Germanicus suddenly dies in Antioch under mysterious circumstances. Roman historian Tacitus records that Germanicus was poisoned by Syrian Governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso under orders from Roman emperor Tiberius.
680 – Battle of Karbala: Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Muslims as Aashurah.
732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Córdoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle.
1471 – Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm: Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
1575 – Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1580 – Over 600 Papal soldiers land at Dún an Óir, Ireland to support a rebellion.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1631 – An Electorate of Saxony army takes over Prague.
1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname - descended from escaped slaves - gain territorial autonomy.
1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipman students and seven professors.
1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
1860 – The original cornerstone of the University of the South is laid in Sewanee, Tennessee.
1868 РCarlos C̩spedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba's independence
1871 – The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10.
1897 – German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
1910 – Tau Epsilon Phi: Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, New York.
1911 – The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of the Qing dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
1913 – United States President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1920 – The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1933 – 1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion: A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 РA coup d'̩tat by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.
1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany.
1942 – The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with Australia.
1943 – Double Tenth Incident in Japanese-controlled Singapore
1944 – Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.
1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China. Later, the pact is commonly referred to as the Double Tenth Agreement.
1953 – Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.
1957 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite.
1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.
1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
1970 – In Montreal, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1980 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs in the Algerian town of El Asnam. 3,500 die and 300,000 are left homeless.
1980 – FMLN was founded in El Salvador.
1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested.
1986 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
1997 – An Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.
1998 РA Lignes A̩riennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
2008 – The 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1754 - Hudson's Bay Company trader Anthony Henday the First European to visit Blackfoot Nation.
1849 - Over 325 prominent Montréal citizens sign The Annexation Manifesto.
1864 - Opening of the Quebec Conference; 33 delegates start drafting 72 Resolutions for Confederation.
1970 - Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte kidnapped by FLQ cell from his St-Hubert home.
2013 - Canadian short story writer Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1613 - October 10 - John Guy explores Trinity Bay with 18 men, to establish contact with the Beothuk Indians. Trinity Bay, Newfoundland
1615 - October 10 - Samuel de Champlain and his party of 500 Huron warriors move to attack Onondaga and Seneca strongholds. Syracuse, New York
1836 - October 10 - William Lyon Mackenzie and others found the Toronto Political Union to press for constitutional reform. Toronto, Ontario
1851 - October 10 - Disaster - The Great American Gale destroys 80 fishing vessels, mainly American, and kills 130 men; one of Prince Edward Island's worst natural calamities. PEI
1864 - October 10 - Confederation - Opening of the Quebec Conference at 11:00 am in the Hotel St. Louis in Quebec City; 33 delegates start drafting the 72 Resolutions as an outline to the proposed union, which will form the core of the British North America Act; ends October 29, 1864. Québec, Québec
1868 - October 10 - Education - Collège Saint-Joseph opens its doors as the first Acadian institution of higher education. Moncton, NB - See: Opening of the Acadian Collège St-Joseph
1868 - October 10 - Football - First written account of a football game played in Quebec, by Tait Mackenzie; between a team of officers from the English troops garrisoned in Montreal and a team of civilians, mainly from McGill University, it was played on the St. Catherine Street cricket grounds. Montréal, Québec
1878 - October 10 - Federal Election - Alexander Mackenzie resigns with his Liberal government after election defeat by John A. Macdonald. Ottawa, Ontario
1885 - October 10 - North West Rebellion - Start of trial of five Aboriginal people for involvement in the massacre at Frog Lake; found guilty and sentenced to hang. Battleford, Saskatchewan
1895 - October 10 - Alberta and British Columbia Exploration Company incorporates the International Trading Company, orignially based in the State of Idaho but now transferred to Alberta. Alberta
1899 - October 10 - Education - Wardner School closes. Wardner, BC
1903 - October 10 - Henry Ford starts auto production at Walkerville; Ford of Canada makes 117 cars in its First year. Walkerville, Ontario
1911 - October 10 - Robert Borden sworn in as Prime Minister succeeding Wilfrid Laurier; was Leader of the Opposition 1901-1911; serves to July 10, 1920. Ottawa, Ontario
- October 10 - Francis Cochrane sworn in as Minister of Railways and Canals in the new Borden government. October 10 - Robert Rogers sworn in as Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in the new Borden government.
- October 10 - Justice- Opening of new BC provincial courthouse on Georgia St., Vancouver; Frank Rattenbury the architect. Vancouver, BC
1920 - October 10 - J. D. Reid sworn in as Minister of Railways and Canals.
1921 - October 10 - Prohibition - New Brunswick votes against importing liquor for personal use. New Brunswick
1925 - October 10 - F. M. Crapper dies; Regina's First non-Aboriginal settler. Saskatchewan
1927 - October 10 - Politics - Opening of Conservative Party convention in Winnipeg; R. B. Bennett will be chosen to succeed Arthur Meighen as Tory leader. Winnipeg, Manitoba
1949 - October 10 - NHL All-Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 in the 3rd National Hockey League All-Star Game, played at Maple Leaf Gardens. Toronto, Ontario
1959 - October 10 - Highway - Inauguration of the Autoroute des Laurentides from Montréal to [{St-Jovite, Québec. Montréal, Québec
1960 - October 10 - Football - Ottawa Rough Riders star Ron Stewart rushes for 287 yards against the Montréal Alouettes, to set a single game CFL record. Ottawa, Ontario
1961 - October 10 - State Visit - Urho Kekkonen President of Finland starts six-day visit to Canada. Ottawa, Ontario
1962 - October 10 - Disaster - Collision between TCA Viscount and RCAF fighter kills 2, injures 5 over Bagotville. Bagotville, Québec
1964 - October 10 - Olympics - Canadian team joins 92 other nations at the opening of the 18th Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo; total of 5,140 athletes compete until Oct. 24. Canada will take home one gold medal (Coxless pairs: George Hungerford, Roger Jackson); two silver (Judo: Plus 80 kilograms: Doug Rogers; and Track and Field: 800 m: Bill Crothers); and one bronze (Track and Field: 100 m: Harry Jerome). Tokyo, Japan
- October 10 - NHL All-Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in the 18th National Hockey League All-Star Game, played at Maple Leaf Gardens. Toronto, Ontario
- October 10 - Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Québec marred by separatist demonstrators; police wield nightsticks to break up crowds; called "le Samedi de la Matraque" or "Nightstick Saturday". Québec, Québec
1965 - October 10 - Cartography - Yale University historians introduce the Vinland Map as being the First known map of America, drawn in about 1440 to illustrate a book of journeys by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson; in fact, if authentic, it is the First known map of a part of Canada, in that is shows Labrador and the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland; however in 1974, ink analysis by Walter McCrone showed the New World portions may be a forgery, although Yale historians still insist it may be genuine. New Haven, Connecticut
Pierre Laporte
1969 - October 10 - Elections - Manitoba cuts voting age in provincial elections from 21 to 18. Winnipeg, Manitoba
1970 - October 10 - October Crisis - Chronology of this day: 5:30 pm - Québec government refuses to free Front de Libération du Québec prisoners; 5:45 pm - Government rejects other FLQ conditions; 6:00 pm - Québec Justice Minister Jérôme Choquette opens a news conference to announce that the government is refusing to negotiate with FLQ terrorists; 6:18 pm - Québec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by an FLQ cell while playing football with his son outside his suburban home in St-Hubert, Québec; 7:10 pm - intense police activity around Montréal as the search begins for Laporte. Montréal, Québec - (CBC Achives)
1971 - October 10 - Réal Caouette re-elected Leader of the Crédit Social (Ralliement des créditistes). Québec
1972 - October 10 - Women - PEI Premier Alex Campbell appoints Jean Canfield minister responsible for the PEI Housing Authority; First woman cabinet minister in Prince Edward Island history. Charlottetown, PEI
1973 - October 10 - Pierre Trudeau starts six-day visit to China, where he meets with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung; First visit by a Canadian Prime Minister. China
- October 10 - Energy - Opening of $200 million oil refinery at Come By Chance; with a capacity of 100,000 barrels a day, and a deepwater terminal, the refinery produces its first oil in December. The operation will go into receivership in 1976, and will be acquired by Petro-Canada in July, 1980; currently operated by Harvest Energy Trust. Come By Chance, Newfoundland
1974 - October 10 - Cycling - Canadian cyclist John Hathaway begins a two year world cycle trip of 81,500 km.
1975 - October 10 - Canadian Wheat Board sells the Soviet Union up to $100 million of grain. Winnipeg, Manitoba
1978 - October 10 - Women - Female pages are hired for the House of Commons for the First time. Ottawa, Ontario
1979 - October 10 - Hockey - Morris Lukowich scores the First NHL goal for the Winnipeg Jets; in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Winnipeg, Manitoba
- October 10 - Hockey - Québec Nordiques Réal Cloutier scores three goals in the Nordiques' First game in the NHL; his hat trick a League record for a First game; Nordiques still lose 5-3 to Atlanta Flames. Québec, Québec
1986 - October 10 - Crime - Mafia boss Frank Cotroni arrested in Montreal. Montréal, Québec
1992 - October 10 - Constitution - Ottawa releases legal text of The Charlottetown Accord; some changes to Senate and native rights; not yet signed or legally binding. Ottawa, Ontario
- October 10 - k. d. laing hit song Constant Craving peaks at #38 on the Billboard pop singles chart; Alberta country singer. New York, New York
1996 - October 10 - Keith Milligan sworn in as Premier of Prince Edward Island; former silver fox fur farmer chosen Liberal leader October 5, 1996, after resignation of Catherine Callbeck. Charlottetown, PEI
2004 - October 10 - Diplomacy - Prime Minister Paul Martin arrives in Russia for two days of talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and others. Moscow, Russia
2005 - October 10 - Education - Strike by British Columbia teachers closes down 40,000 schools, affecting 600,000 students; will end October 24. BC
2006 - October 11 – Cinema - Media reports that film "Bon Cop, Bad Cop" has beaten "Porky's" to become the top-grossing Canadian film of all time in domestic box office; numbers later disputed as not having taken inflation into account.
2007 - October 10 - Ontario general election won by Dalton McGuinty's governing Liberals.
2008 - October 10 - Crime - Start of British Columbia pipeline bombings: bomber sends message to local media outlets warning oil and gas companies to leave the area: "We will no longer negotiate with terrorists which you are as you keep endangering our families with crazy expansion of deadly gas wells in our home lands".
2013 - October 10 - Literature - Canadian short story writer Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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October 11th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria.
1142 – A peace treaty between the Jin dynasty and Southern Song dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court during the Jin–Song wars.
1531 – Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1634 – The Burchardi flood – "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1649 – Sack of Wexford: After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops (under Oliver Cromwell) stormed the town of Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Valcour Island – On Lake Champlain a fleet of American boats is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777.
1797 – Battle of Camperdown: Naval battle between Royal Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. The outcome of the battle was a decisive British victory.
1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
1833 – A big demonstration at the gates of the legislature of Buenos Aires forces the ousting of governor Juan Ramón Balcarce and his replacement with Juan José Viamonte.
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1862 – American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
1864 – Campina Grande, Brazil, is established as a city.
1865 – Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
1890 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
1906 – San Francisco public school board sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
1918 – San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico.
1929 – J. C. Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance – On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
1944 – Tuvan People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva is annexed by the U.S.S.R
1950 – Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1957 – Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit.
1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
1972 – A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam during Operation Linebacker.
1975 – The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Andy Kaufman, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as guests.
1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.
1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
1984 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.
1986 – Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
1996 РPala accident: a wood lorry and school bus collide in J̵geva county, Estonia, killing eight children.
2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2002 – A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1869 METIS START RED RIVER REBELLION
St-Vital Manitoba - Canadian surveyor Adam Clark Webb and his crew try to mark off a long farm field belonging to Metis André Nault, a cousin of Louis Riel; when Nault asks them to leave and they refuse, a group of 16 unarmed Metis led by Riel arrive; Riel places his foot on the surveyor's chain, and tells the crew 'You go no further'. This incident marks the beginning of the Red River Insurrection; Metis and others object to transfer of Rupert's Land to Canadian sovereignty without being consulted, and fear a flood of eastern settlers will destroy their way of life.

1942
Halifax Nova Scotia - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 sails the RCMP patrol vessel 'St. Roch' into Halifax harbour after making the first west-to-east crossing of the Northwest Passage; one of his eight-man crew had died of a heart attack in the Arctic as the wooden sailing schooner with an auxiliary engine spent the winter in the ice less than 80 km from the North Magnetic Pole. The St. Roch was built in North Vancouver in 1928. A wooden schooner with sail and auxiliary engine, she left Vancouver in the summer of 1940, took the southerly route through the Arctic islands, and spent two winters trapped in the ice; she was the second ship to sail the Passage, after Amundsen's Gjoa in 1908. She returned to Vancouver July-Oct. 1944 by the northerly Lancaster Sound route, and today you can see her berthed in Vancouver's Maritime Museum.

1615
Perryville New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635, with a war party of Hurons, is ambushed by the Onondagas. The Hurons get the worst of the fighting after a three hour battle, even though Champlain uses his blunderbuss against the Iroquois. He is wounded and the party withdraw back across Lake Ontario. This is the only known portrait of Champlain.



In Other Events....

1994 Quebec - Gérald Godin dies, politician and Parti Quebecois Culture Minister, poet, Les Cantouques (1966).
1992 Oakland California - Toronto Blue Jay Roberto Alomar hits 2-run homer against Oakland A's pitcher Dennis Eckersley to send Game 4 of the American League Championship Series into extra innings; Toronto down 6-1 in seventh, goes on to beat the Athletics 7-6 in the 11th; Jays take 3-1 series edge in ALCS playoff; Eckersley saved 51 games for Oakland during the regular season.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays lose third game of American League Championship Series as Kansas City Royals take a 6-5 comeback victory, led by George Brett, who has four hits, including two homers.
1984 Boston Massachusetts - Penguin rookie Mario Lemieux scores on his first shift of his first NHL game, putting his first shot behind Bruins goaltender Pete Peeters.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Expo pitcher Steve Rogers leads his team to a 3-0 victory over Philadelphia in Game 5 of the National League East Divisional playoff; throws a 6-hit shutout and knocking in 2 Expo runs.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 4th session of the 30th Parliament; until March 26, 1979.
1977 Manitoba - Sterling Lyon leads the Progressive Conservatives to victory in provincial election; ousts NDP Premier Ed Schreyer after eight years in office.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Les Nordiques play their first NHL game in the Colisée arena.
1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues; Chronology of the day: 2:15 am - police search the homes of several suspects; 9:03 am - discovery of communiqué from the Chénier FLQ cell; FLQ extend deadline; 10:30 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman arrested; 12:00 am - Robert Bourassa meets his Cabinet in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; 1:00 pm - discovery of a further communiqué from the Chénier FLQ cell; 5:00 pm - another communiqué from the Chénier cell; 9:45 pm - Bourrassa offers to negotiate to free the hostages; 10:00 pm FLQ deadline expires.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 4th session of the 30th Parliament; until March 26, 1979.
1968 Washington DC - US pays Canada $52.1 million for BC flood control benefits from Columbia River project.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Opening of a congress of independantists to found the Parti Quebecois; Rene Levesque will be elected President the following day.
1967 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Justice Minister Frederic Dorion orders 6,000 Montreal Transportation Commission employees back to work, after 80-day strike.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Committee on the Study of Election Expenses recommends full disclosure of election spending by parties and candidates.
1962 Zweibrucken Germany - First of 200 Canadian-built CF-104 Starflghters leave for West Germany; to join strike-reconnaissance squadron.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the National Defence Medical Centre; to serve veterans, members of the three services and Parliamentarians.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa brings in program to help low-income families find rental housing.
1952 Montreal Quebec - CBFT Television in Montreal carries the first hockey telecast in Canada, Montreal Canadiens vs. Detroit Red Wings, in French; origin of Radio-Canada's 'la Soirée du Hockey'.
1944 Romagna Italy - 1st Canadian Infantry Division returned to the line and the 5th Division goes into corps reserve; for three weeks, the Canadians will fight in the watery Romagna area south of the Po Valley.
1934 Montreal Quebec - Pro-Fascist demonstration takes place at the Monument National in Montreal.
1927 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs first concert.
1926 Toronto Ontario - Hugh Guthrie chosen as interim party leader by Conservative Party, replacing Arthur Meighen; serves to Oct. 12, 1927.
1920 Winnipeg Manitoba - Wing Commander Robert Leckie arrives from Dartmouth Nova Scotia in the first flight across Canada; Air Commodore A.K. Tylee and three other pilots take over the plane for the flight to Vancouver, arriving Oct. 17; total elapsed time 45 hours and 20 minutes for a flight of 5,488 km.
1918 Cambrai France - Lt. Wallace Lloyd Algie of the 20th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, killed in a battle north east of Cambrai, after taking two machine gun nests, and capturing a German officer and 10 men. He is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously Jan. 21, 1919.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Union government brings in new regulations for wartime labour; bans strikes and lockouts.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Borden Cabinet bans strikes and walkouts for duration of war.
1911 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 succeeds Wilfrid Laurier as Prime Minister; to Oct. 12, 1917, then head of Unionist Government to July 10; ninth Dominion Ministry.
1910 Kitchener Ontario - Adam Beck's Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario inaugurates first electrical service, sending Niagara power by a new transmission line to Berlin, now Kitchener; into Toronto by 1911.
1884 Quebec Quebec - Two dynamite explosions rock new Quebec parliament Buildings.
1875 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Party of almost 300 Icelanders land on the steamer International en route to their colony of New Iceland on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg; harsh winters and an epidemic that killed over 200,000 of their sheep caused them to look for a new home.
1853 Barrie Ontario - Northern Railroad reaches Barrie from Toronto.
1850 Richmond Quebec - Opening of St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad from Longueuil to Richmond.
1849 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Gazette publishes the Annexation Manifesto, asking for union with U.S. if commercial difficulties with Britain cannot be resolved.
1776 Ticonderoga, New York - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 inflicts heavy losses on General Benedict Arnold's American fleet at Valcour Island off Crown Point; first naval battle of Lake Champlain a British victory, but it stalls Carleton's plans to invade the rebel colonies from Canada.
1754 Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday meets a party of Blackfoot Indians; he tries to convince them to travel to Hudson Bay to trade, but they decline; first European/Blackfoot contact.
1676 Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 sets up public markets at Quebec, Three Rivers and Montreal.
1615 Perryville New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 ambushed by Onondagas and Senecas near present-day Syracuse; Hurons get worst of fighting after three hour battle; Champlain wounded by an arrow; party withdraw back across Lake Ontario; French use guns against the Iroquois for the first time.
1535 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier returns to Stadacona from his trip upriver to Montreal [Hochelaga]; he and his crew settle in for the winter.

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October 12th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1113 – The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum ("vár" means fortress in Hungarian).
1216 – John, King of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.
1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon.
1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
1748 – British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1773 – America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia.
1792 – First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York City.
1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
1799 РJeanne Genevi̬ve Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
1871 – Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
1933 – The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice
1942 – World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
1944 – World War II: The Liberation of Athens from the German invaders.
1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1953 – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York City
1959 – At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
1960 – Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast.
1962 – Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits
1967 – Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain
1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China
1988 – Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.
1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1988 – Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India
1991 – Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
1992 – 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1994 – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere).
1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
2003 – Michael Schumacher wins his 6th Formula One Drivers' championship at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix to beat the 48 year old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio
2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
2013 – 51 people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convención Province in Peru.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1970 TRUDEAU SENDS IN THE TROOPS
Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues: Chronology of the day: 1:45 am - new FLQ communiqué; 2:45 am -James Cross writes a letter to CKLM; 8:00 am - Canadian Army troops leave Camp Petawawa and mobilize in Ottawa to meet terrorist threats, guard government buildings and officials, and protect the diplomatic community; 4:00 pm - FLQ Chénier cell issues another communiqué; 10:55 pm - new FLQ communiqué.

1957
Stockholm Sweden - Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972 awarded Nobel Peace Prize for his establishment of a United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt to solve the Suez Crisis and halt the Israeli-British-French invasion..



In Other Events....

1994 Stockholm Sweden - Bertram N. Brockhouse wins the Nobel Prize for Physics with American Clifford G. Shull; retired professor at McMaster University in Hamilton pioneered the use of beams of neutrons to study matter in its smallest detail.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Robert Bourassa debates the Charlottetown Accord with Jacques Parizeau on Radio-Canada.
1992 Windsor Ontario - Paragon Petroleum strikes oil on farm east of Windsor; pumping 500 barrels a day, versus 60 for the average Alberta well.
1990 New York City - United Nations endorses joint Canadian and British resolution condemning Israel for the Oct. 8 shooting of Palestinians at the Temple Mount.
1989 Stockholm Sweden - Sydney Altman wins Nobel Prize for chemistry with colleague Thomas Cech; Canadian scientist working in US.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Olympic Stadium roof raised for the first time.
1987 Quebec - Students from 20 CÉGEPs [community colleges] now on strike.
1986 Vancouver BC - Expo '86 closes; over 20 million visited the world's fair, based on the theme of transportation and communication.
1982 New Brunswick - Richard Bennett Hatfield 1931-1991 leads Progressive Conservatives to re-election victory in New Brunswick, winning 39 of 58 seats.
1980 Edmonton Alberta - Peter Lougheed 1928- announces Alberta will curtail oil production by 25% beginning March 1, 1981.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 2nd session of the 30th Parliament; until Oct. 17, 1977.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post workers go on strike.
1970 Pembroke Ontario - Troops leave Camp Petawawa for Ottawa to meet FLQ terrorist threats.
1968 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque elected President of the new Parti Québécois at the founding convention.
1968 Mexico City - Canadian athletes join 111 other nations at the opening of the 19th Summer Olympic games in Mexico; first Olympiad ever held in Latin America attracts 5,530 competitors; Canada will win one gold medal (Equestrian - Team Jumping: Jim Day, Jim Elder, Tom Gayford), three silver medals (Elaine Tanner in 100 and 200m Backstroke and Ralph Hutton in 400m Freestyle), and one bronze medal (4x100m Freestyle: Angela Coughlan, Marilyn Corson, Marion Lay, Elaine Tanner).
1968 Val d'Or, Quebec - Val d'Or incorporated.
1964 Osoyoos BC - Ottawa announces plans to build Queen Elizabeth II Observatory at Mt. Kobau, BC.
1960 Regina Saskatchewan - Opening of new airport terminal at Regina.
1960 Massey Sound, NWT - Massey Sound between Axel Heiberg Island and Amund Ringnes Island in Arctic named after former Governor General Charles Vincent Massey 1887-1967.
1956 New York City - Canadian Sunset by the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra & Eddie Heywood peaks at # 2 on the pop singles chart. [This piece of music has no redeeming Canadian content.]
1953 Montreal Quebec - Statue of Wilfrid Laurier unveiled in Dominion Square.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - J. L. Ilsley makes budget speech, forecasting deficit of $2.242 billion; and unemployment rate of 4% for 1946 (in fact rate was 3.6%).
1937 Toronto Ontario - Public schools open six-weeks late after polio epidemic eases; disease claimed 150 lives that summer.
1927 Winnipeg Manitoba - Richard Bedford R. B. Bennett 1870-1947 chosen as party leader by Conservative convention, replacing interim leader Hugh Guthrie; serves to July 7, 1938.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 forms Unionist Government, with 10 Liberals and 13 Conservatives in Cabinet; many English Speaking Liberals abandon Laurier over conscription issue.
1916 Montreal Quebec - Royal Bank of Canada absorbs the Bank of Quebec.
1916 Montreal Quebec - First publication of the newspaper 'La Bataille'.
1912 Garneau Ontario - French-speaking students at Garneau walk out of class to protest English-speaking teacher.
1907 Vancouver BC - Canadian government agrees to cover costs of mob riots in Japanese and Chinese sections of Vancouver.
1899 Ottawa Ontario - Canadians split over Britain's decision to go to war against the Boers in South Africa; most English Canadians want to support the Mother Country, but many French Canadians identify with the Boers, or like Henri Bourassa reject getting involved in an imperial war. Wilfrid Laurier's solution is to decline joining the Boer War officially by sending the Canadian Army (a decision given to Joseph Chamberlain in 1897), but to place 8,300 volunteers at the disposal of Britain and supply up to $3 million in funding.
1872 Canada - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 defeats Alexander Mackenzie with 49.1% of popular vote, versus Mackenzie's 49.9%; 104 seats to Liberal 96; balloting from July 20 to Oct. 12.
1872 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Foot Ball Club plays Quebec City to a 0-0 tie, in its first game.
1868 London England - Minister of Militia George-Etienne Cartier arrives in London to get loan guarantees for railways and fortifications.
1864 Quebec Quebec - Journalists ask to attend sessions of the Quebec Conference; declined.
1859 Quebec Quebec - William Williams 1800-1883 administrator of Canada; serves until Feb. 22, 1861.
1856 Quebec Quebec - First street lighting by coal gas in Quebec.
1818 Ontario - Opening of third session of seventh Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until Nov. 27; bans meetings held for 'seditious purposes'.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Mgr. Pontbriand tells the people of Quebec to accept the English conquerors.
1675 Kingston Ontario - Cavelier de La Salle appointed Governor of Fort Frontenac.
1615 Syracuse, New York - A wounded Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 and his Huron war party withdraw back toward Lake Ontario after defeat by Senecas and Onondagas.
1535 Quebec Quebec - Iroquois show Jacques Cartier and his crew the use of tobacco.

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October 13th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

54 – Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him to the Roman throne.
409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy.
1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1644 – A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 – The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1812 – War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights – As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
1843 – In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1884 – Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, United States.
1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
1911 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor-General of Canada of royal descent.
1914 – In Major League Baseball's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 0, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history.
1915 – The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
1917 – The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
1918 – Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
1923 – Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1943 – World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
1944 – World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1958 – Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, makes his debut.
1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
1970 – Fiji joins the United Nations.
1972 – An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes outside Moscow killing 174.
1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued.
1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
1977 – Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.
1990 – End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1992 – An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered CCCP-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
2010 – The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1970 OCTOBER CRISIS STANDOFF
Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues, as 15 soldiers from the 22nd Regiment arrive in Montreal to assist civil authorities; other units take up positions in Quebec City; police have Jacques Lanctôt under suspicion; Paul Rose picked up by surveillance but lost. Chronology of the day: 10:00 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux set free; 2:00 pm - Robert Lemieux meets Quebec Government lawyer/negotiator Robert Demers; 5:20 pm: Robert Lemieux makes a speech critical of the Government; 5:30 pm: Government refuses to negotiate further.

1812
Queenston Ontario - Isaac Brock 1769-1812 dies in battle while storming the Queenston Heights to dislodge Stephen Van Rensselaer and his invading army of 1,200 US troops and militia; Roger Sheaffe 1763-1851 takes command after Brock's death. Americans lose 90 dead, 100 wounded, over 850 prisoners. Ironically, Brock was awarded a knighthood in England three days before his death; a monument to him stands at Queenston Heights.



In Other Events....

1997 Les Eboulements, Quebec - Bus carrying elderly daytrippers crashes into ravine, killing 44
1993 Stockholm Sweden - British-born Canadian citizen Michael Smith awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry; jointly with US chemist Kary Mullis for work on DNA molecules of genetic material.
1993 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson announces his candidature for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party; son of former Quebec Premier; brother of PQ cabinet minister.
1993 New York City - Woolworth announces closure of 900 stores in Canada and the US.
1992 London England - Michael Ondaatje 1943- named joint winner of $45,000 Booker Prize with British author Barry Unsworth; for novel The English Patient; Toronto poet, novelist came to Canada from Sri Lanka in 1962; first Canadian to win the prize, awarded for Commonwealth literature.
1992 Charlottetown PEI - Brian Mulroney 1939- says Canada will not break up if No side wins; but warns of uncertainty until Quebec election; PQ if elected will hold another sovereignty referendum.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General's Performing Arts Awards announced: William Hutt Stratford actor; Gwenneth Lloyd ballet choreographer; Dominique Michel actress, comedienne; Gilles Maheu (Carbone 14 Dance Ensemble); Norman Jewison (work with Canadian Film Centre); Leopold Simoneau tenor; Oscar Peterson jazz pianist; Mercedes Palomino theatre director; to be awarded by Ray Hnatyshyn at Nov. 7 gala.
1992 Tracy Quebec - Ottawa charges Tioxide Canada Inc. for polluting St. Lawrence River; a federal offence; dumps 127 tonnes of sulphuric acid, 100 kilos heavy metals a day.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Minnesota Twins beat Blue Jays 8-5 at the SkyDome to win the American League pennant; Cito Gaston first manager ejected in a playoff game.
1987 New Brunswick - Frank McKenna leads his provincial Liberals to total sweep of Richard Hatfield's PCs, winning all 58 seats in the legislature.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Mad Dog Vachon retires from pro wrestling; gets farewell gala at Paul-Sauvé Arena.
1984 Cape Canaveral, Florida - Marc Garneau 1949- on board the Space Shuttle Challenger Flight STS-41G touches down on Runway 33 of the Kennedy Space Center after successful eight-day mission; total of 3.4 million miles around the Earth in 133 orbits; mission duration 197 hours 23 minutes; Garneau first Canadian in space.
1982 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- announces Ontario purchasing 13 million shares of Suncor for $325 million.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- imposes wage and price controls for 36 months; rejected a month earlier in the election campaign; federal Anti-Inflation Act sets up a three-year control system on wages and prices - the so-called the '6-and-5' program.
1972 Beijing China - Canada and China sign civil air agreement; direct flights between nations to start in 1973.
1970 Nova Scotia - Gerald Augustine Regan 1929- leads Liberal Party to victory in Nova Scotia election, defeating Conservatives under Ike Smith.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canada opens diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China; ends official ties with Taiwan.
1968 Quebec - Rene Levesque 1922-1987 leads Mouvement Souveraineté-Association at 3-day convention in Quebec City; to hammer out independence policy plank.
1966 Montreal Quebec - Robbers get away with $1 million mail theft at Montreal International Airport.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government founds Canadian Film Development Agency as Crown corporation to help private film-makers.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip end their visit to Canada; trip marred by protests of Quebec separatists.
1961 Montreal Quebec - Jean Béliveau named Captain of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Department of National Defence allows 16 year olds to enter the Canadian Army.
1952 Montreal Quebec -Gratien Gélinas premieres a film version of his 'Ti-Coq' stage character.
1947 Toronto Ontario - NHL All Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs.
1945 Ottawa Ontario - MPs get $2,000 salary raise; Government cuts federal tax by 16%.
1917 Canada - Recruiting officers call first class of conscripts to register for military service; bachelors from age 20-34 required to take medical exam; first call-up under Military Service Act.
1914 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - Opening of the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway to Hearst; construction started in 1899; name shortened to Algoma Central in 1965.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - End of the first federal-provincial conference in Ottawa.
1905 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Provincial Police established by Order-in-Council.
1899 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian contingent organized to serve with British in South African War; war declared October 12.
1892 Montreal Quebec - Ville-Marie incorporated.
1884 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the daily newspaper, 'La Presse'; today the largest French daily in Canada.
1866 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys 2,500 buildings in Quebec City.
1864 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Conference delegates feted at three simultaneous banquets in Quebec City.
1830 Quebec Quebec - Lord Aylmer arrives in Quebec to serve as Governor.
1812 Queenston Ontario - Roger Sheaffe 1763-1851 becomes Commander-in-Chief of British forces and Administrator of Upper Canada on Brock's death; serves from Oct. 20 to June 19, 1813.
1812 Queenston Ontario - James Secord, of the 1st. Lincoln Militia, badly wounded in the Battle of Queenston Heights. The following May, Queenston is again invaded by the Americans, this time successfully; all men over 18 made prisoners of war, but due to his wounds, Secord allowed to stay in his home with his wife, Laura Ingersoll Secord, and three US officers billeted in the house. In June, 1813, the couple overhear the Americans planning a surprise attack on Lt. FitzGibbon and his Mohawk warriors at Beaverdams. Laura walks 32 km to the Decew house where FitzGibbon is staying; her warning and a decisive American defeat leads to the salvation of Upper Canada.
1812 Queenston Ontario - Stephen Van Rensselaer leads invading army of 1,200 Americans across from Lewiston, and gains heights at Queenston; on hearing the news, Isaac Brock 1769-1812, 11 km away at Fort George, hurries to engage the Americans.
1776 Crown Point Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 corners American rebel fleet at Crown Point.
1710 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Francis Nicholson 1665-c1728 captures Port Royal; renames it Annapolis Royal in honour of Queen Anne; end of French rule throughout Nova Scotia.
1761 Montreal Quebec - Montreal divided into 5 judicial districts.
1761 Paris France - François Bigot 1703-1777 jailed in the Bastille; the last Intendant of New France. Bigot looted the colony for years; he was charged with embezzlement, ordered to make restitution of £1.5 million, and sentenced to perpetual banishment; he died under an assumed name in Switzerland.
1705 Montreal Quebec - Agathe de St-Père opens a cloth mill in Montreal.
1694 Churchill, Manitoba - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 attacks York Fort, the stronghold of the Hudson's Bay Company; captures it two days later.
1651 Montreal Quebec - Jean Lauzon, père, named Governor of Montreal.
1609 Honfleur France - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives back in France; left Tadoussac Sept. 05.

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October 14th 2014 - This Date in History.


Events:C/P.

222 – Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I.
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1465 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirch.
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1773 – Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
1806 – Battle of Jena–Auerstedt France defeats Prussia.
1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1812 – Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station – Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of Virginia.
1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
1884 – The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
1915 – World War I: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
1939 – The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940 – Balham underground station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
1943 – The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
1943 РJos̩ P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic).
1944 – Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head of government.
1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the throne in Ottawa, Canada.
1958 – The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas.
1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
1962 – The Cuban missile crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
1967 – The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 – Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
1968 – Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast, by American astronauts in orbit, was performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
1968 – An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall[disambiguation needed] of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1983 РMaurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'̩tat led by Bernard Coard.
1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
1998 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.
2006 – The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1935 KING BEATS BENNETT IN DEPRESSION LANDSLIDE
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 defeats R. B. Bennett in the 18th federal general election; wins 171 of the 245 Commons seats, to 40 Conservatives, 17 Social Credit; 7 CCF, 1 Independent; takes 44.8% of the popular vote for the largest majority since Confederation. King will remain prime minister until 1948. Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 becomes Senate Opposition leader on King's victory; only person to lead government and opposition in both houses. In other results, Henri Bourassa loses his Labelle seat.

1641
Montreal Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 takes formal possession of Montreal Island for Sieur de Maisonneuve's colonizing company.

1944
Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 becomes Minister of Reconstruction as well as Munitions and Supply; lures away Mackintosh and a brain trust of economists from Finance to assist him. Here he is at the wheel of the 500,000th military vehicle produced by war plants in Canada.



In Other Events....

1996 Montreal Quebec- First World Conservation Congress held in Montreal.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Alexa McDonough wins the federal NDP leadership race, succeeding Audrey McLaughlin; former social worker headed the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party 1980-94; frontrunner Svend Robinson drops out after leading on the first ballot.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Juan Guzman pitches Toronto Blue Jays to 9-2 win in 6th game against Oakland Athletics; Joe Carter and Candy Maldonado hit homers; first American League pennant after attempts in 1985, 1989, 1991; first Canadian baseball team to reach the World Series.
1992 Stockholm Sweden - Rudolph Marcus wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to theory of electron transfer reactions; 69 year old Montreal-born scientist researching at Caltech.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Car-bomb explosion damages Litton Systems plant in Toronto; injures 7, including 3 police officers; plant produces guidance system for US cruise missiles.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Provincial Premiers start constitutional conference; only Ontario and New Brunswick support Ottawa; rest to challenge Trudeau's patriation proposals in court.
1979 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his first NHL goal; will eventually become the League's greatest scorer.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Darryl Stiller of the Maple Leafs notches seven assists in a 10-7 victory over the New York Islanders.
1978 Fiji - Cathy Sherk wins women's world amateur golf championship in Fiji; native of Fonthill, Ontario.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts her Silver Jubilee visit to Canada; will open a session of Parliament; see 1957.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Over 1 million Canadian Labour Congress members participate in 'Day of Protest' on Parliament Hill against federal wage and price controls.
1975 Asbestos Quebec - 3,500 asbestos workers end strike.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Luc Pepin 1924- chairs new Anti-lnflation Board to administer wage and price controls; assisted by Beryl Plumptre 1927-, the former Mayor of Rockcliffe.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa cuts personal income taxes 3%, and corporate taxes 7%, retroactive from July 1 to Dec. 31; unemployment now at highest level in a decade.
1969 Ontario/Quebec - 14,500 Stelco workers end 75-day walkout.
1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues. Chronology of the day: 5:30 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux issues a statement on the breakdown of talks to free Laporte and Cross; 8:00 pm - Robert Bourassa replies to Lemieux; it is later revealed that the FLQ has 22 cells and 130 hard core members.
1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists explode two bombs in Montreal.
1968 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque elected leader of the Parti Quebecois by 2,000 separatist supporters; Jacques Parizeau a key strategist; Quebec's withdrawal from Confederation seen as the primary goal.
1965 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque announces he is resigning from the Quebec Liberal Party.
1969 Moncton New Brunswick - Ottawa and New Brunswick agree to establish Kouchibouguac National Park; new national park north of Moncton.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Air Canada presents CF-TCA No. 1112 to National Aviation Museum; first aircraft owned by Trans-Canada Air Lines in 1937.
1966 Montreal Quebec - Montreal's new Metro subway goes into operation; 26 stations operated by la Société de Transport de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal (STCUM).
1965 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque appointed first Minister of Family and Social Services (Ministère de la Famille et du Bien-Etre Social).
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Start of federal-provincial constitutional conference; some agreement on amending formula.
1961 North America - Canada and US test North American air defence in a NORAD simulated nuclear attack.
1960 Havana Cuba - Fidel Castro's government nationalizes all foreign banks except Bank of Nova Scotia and Royal Bank of Canada.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- opens first session of 23rd Parliament; first time opened by reigning monarch; meets until February 1, 1958.
1952 United Nations New York - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 elected President at opening of 7th session of United Nations General Assembly.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister James L. Ralston 1881-1948 returns from Europe; makes speech urging conscription for service overseas.
1944 Duisburg Germany - RCAF's No. 6 Group attacks Duisburg twice in 16 hours; total of 501 bombers.
1943 - King George VI 1895-1952 approves Canada Medal on recommendation of Canadian Cabinet; first distinctly Canadian decoration; medal never awarded.
1943 Campobasso Italy - First Canadian Brigade push north to Potenza; occupy Campobasso, turning it into a 'Canada Town' recreation centre.
1942 Port-au-Basques, Newfoundland - German U-boat torpedoes Newfoundland Railway Fleet steamship 'Caribou' in the Cabot Strait on the North Sydney-Port-au-Basques route; 137 lives lost. In spite of this the Battle of St. Lawrence is rapidly ending after taking 700 lives, 23 ships.
1942 Valetta Malta - RCAF ace George 'Buzz' Beurling 1921-1948 wounded and shot down over Malta.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet decides on complete freeze of wages and prices as of December 1; under Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
1914 Plymouth England - First Canadian Contingent arrives at Plymouth with 33,000 men, 7,000 horses and 144 pieces of artillery travelling in 32 ships; convoy escorted by 10 British warships was the largest armed force ever to cross the Atlantic by that date; troops soon move to camps on Salisbury Plain before seeing action in World War I.
1909 Quebec Quebec - Empress of Ireland liner punctures her hull after hitting submerged object on the St. Lawrence River; able to reach port safely. On May 29, 1914, the ship will collide with a Norwegian freighter off Ste-Luce-Sur-Mer, and sink with the loss of 1,014 lives
1886 Quebec - Quebec provincial vote sees the election of 31 Liberals, 27 Conservatives and 6 Nationalists.
1885 Alberta - First Mormon settlers drive their wagon trains into Southern Alberta.
1874 Fort Macleod, Alberta - North West Mounted Police start building a post on the Old Man River named after Assistant NWMP Commissioner James F. Macleod; first police post in Alberta made of cottonwood logs plastered with clay; with barracks, stables, a hospital and a smithy.
1873 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the first YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) building in Montreal.
1866 St-Roch Quebec - Fire in St-Roch and St-Sauveur suburbs of Quebec destroys over 2,000 homes.
1866 Quebec Quebec - Grand ball held to fete the delegates at the Quebec Conference; 800 persons attend.
1844 Kingston Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 elected to Upper Canada Assembly to represent Kingston; re-elected in 1848, 1851, 1854, 1857, 1861, 1863.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Royal charter awarded to Queen's College at Kingston as a Presbyterian institution; today's Queen's University.
1815 Montreal Quebec - First presentation of a Moliere play, 'Les Fourberies de Scapin' in Montreal.
1754 Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday shares a pipe and a meal with a Blackfoot chief; fails to persuade him to send his young men to York Factory on Hudson Bay to trade for guns, blankets and beads directly instead of through Cree middlemen; the chief says his young men cannot leave their horses, and have no experience with boats and paddles; besides, the Blackfoot get all they need from the buffalo.
1752 Quebec Quebec - Pierre Reverd hanged at Quebec for counterfeiting.
1698 Quebec Quebec - New France census shows the following tallies: 32,524 arpents under cultivation, with 994 sheep, 5,147 pigs, 684 horses, 10,209 cattle; 2,310 houses (211 in Trois-Rivières, 1,460 in Québec, 639 in Montréal); population includes 7,391 males, 6,424 females; settlements include Batiscan with 422 inhabitants, Beauport with 444, Château-Richer with 373, L'Ancienne-Lorette with 68, L'Ile d'Orléans with 1,472, Longueuil with 223, Montréal with 1,185, Québec with 1,988, Rivière-du-Loup with 22, Sorel with 59, Ste-Anne de Beaupré with 222.
1690 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 reaches Quebec with 3,000 men two days before arrival of English.
1654 Quebec Quebec - Start of construction of a new hospital in Quebec.
1652 Montreal Quebec - Major Lambert Closse mobilizes inhabitants of Montreal, alerted by barking dogs, against a force of invading Iroquois; will beat back the Iroquois in a two day battle near Montreal.
1598 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Trois-Rivières numbers 358 inhabitants.

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1066 РEdgar the ̠theling proclaimed King of England, but never crowned. Reigned until 10 December 1066.
1211 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Lascaris.
1529 – The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
1783 РThe Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-Fran̤ois Pil̢tre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
1793 – Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
1815 – Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1863 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy.
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1880 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
1888 – The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 – Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
1940 – The President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
1944 – The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
1945 – World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
1951 – The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
1954 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto. As a Category 4 upon landfall, it is the strongest storm on record to strike as far north as North Carolina.
1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
1966 – Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1969 – Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capital.
1970 – Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
1970 – The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
1971 – The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia.
1979 – Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1995 – Marco Campos, died in an accident in a International Formula 3000 race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours circuit, making him the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
1997 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere.
1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
2001 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
2003 – The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.
2005 – A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.
2011 – Global protests break out in 120 cities in 48 countries.
2012 – British Prime Minister David Cameron and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond agree on a deal setting out the terms of a referendum on Scottish independence at a meeting in Edinburgh.
2013 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the Philippines, resulting in more than 215 deaths.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1970 OCTOBER CRISIS CONTINUES
Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau sends the Canadian Army into Montreal at the request of the Quebec government. Chronology of the day: 9:00 pm - Premier Robert Bourassa rejects conditions imposed by the FLQ for freeing hostages James Cross and Pierre Laporte; 10:00 pm: FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux declares that his mandate is over; 4:00 am following - Trudeau proclaims the War Measures Act, giving police sweeping powers to arrest and detain without warrant anyone suspected of involvement with the FLQ.

1912
Port Alberni BC - Thomas Wilby & Jack Haney reach Alberni after first cross-Canada motor trip; 52 day trip to establish the All Red Route; they spent 41 days of driving in their Reo.

1954
Ontario - Hurricane Hazel drives across the Appalachians and hits South-Central Ontario; 124 km/h winds, 10.1 cm (4 in.) of rain falls in 12 hours, the heaviest rains in southern Ontario history; on Raymore Drive in Etobicoke, 17 homes are swept into the Humber River, and 36 are killed when debris blocks a bridge and more homes are washed away; storm does $25 million damage, kills total of 83 people.



In Other Events....

1996 Quebec - Jean Grimaldi dies at age 98; father of the Quebec music hall.
1993 Canada - Federal election campaign heats up as Kim Campbell's Conservative campaign committee release series of TV ads attacking Jean Chrétien; critics charge the ads make fun of the Liberal leader's face, disfigured by a childhood disease; ads later withdrawn.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Eric Hoskins wins 1992 Pearson Peace Medal, awarded by United Nations Association in Canada; 31 year old doctor gave humanitarian aid to postwar Iraq.
1992 New Delhi, India - Talwinder Singh Palmar d1992 killed in gun battle with Indian police; prime suspect in 1985 bombing of Air India jet; Sikh militant arrested in 1985 but later released.
1989 Edmonton Alberta - Los Angeles Kings star Wayne Gretzky gets two goals and one assist against his former Oiler teammates to pass Gordie Howe as the National Hockey League's all time scoring leader, with 1,851 career points. His first goal ties the game in the third period, his second wins it 5-4 in overtime. Gretzky does it in his 780th NHL game; Howe's record came in 1,767 games.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet issues White Paper on the reform of Canada's financial institutions.
1986 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque publishes his book, 'Attendez que je me Souvienne' [Wait Until I Remember].
1986 Stockholm Sweden - University of Toronto professor John Polanyi named joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Jean Chrétien publishes his book, 'Dans la Fosse aux Lions' [In the Lions' Den].
1983 Montreal Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933- regains leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party at Montreal convention; after Claude Ryan retires.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks players score five goals in 1:24; sets NHL record for the fastest five goals by two teams.
1983 Montreal Quebec - Expo Tim Raines hits a three-run homer against the St. Louis Cardinals to become the first National League player to knock in at least 70 runs and steal at least 70 bases in one season.
1981 Collingwood Ontario - RCMP seize $200 million shipment methaqualone at Collingwood airport; largest drug seizure in Canadian history to date.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - National Archives releases previously secret testimony from 1946 Taschereau-Kellock Royal Commission on Soviet espionage.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Department of National Defence to buy 128 West German-made Leopard tanks for $184 million; delivery to start July 1978.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Foreign Investment Review Act screening comes into effect; Ottawa starts monitoring new investments.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Herbert Gray appointed Minister without Portfolio by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; MP for Windsor West becomes Canada's first cabinet minister of Jewish background.
1969 Vatican City - Canada and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations, as Canada opens an Embassy in the Vatican.
1968 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque 1922-1987 chosen President of new Parti Québécois; after 3-day convention in Quebec City merges the Mouvement Souveraineté-Association and the Ralliement National.
1968 France - Atomic Energy of Canada signs 5-year agreement with the French Atomic Energy Commission.
1967 Quebec - René Lévesque 1922-1987 resigns from Quebec Liberal Party after they reject idea of Quebec separation.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of Macdonald-Cartier Bridge across Ottawa River, and the Gatineau Autoroute to Old Chelsea.
1963 United Nations New York - Canada doubles contribution to UN Special Fund to $5 million.
1962 Hamilton Ontario - Tiger Cats quarterback Joe Zuger throws a CFL record eight touchdown passes in a 67-21 romp over Regina Roughriders.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Golda Meir Israeli Foreign Minister visits Ottawa.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II sets off a dynamite charge to signal the start of construction of the Queensway expressway in Ottawa; the $31-million, 24 km long road bisects the city along the old CPR right-of-way.
1953 Vancouver BC - Completion of Trans Mountain oil pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Charlotte Whitton elected Mayor of Ottawa after serving in an acting capacity after death of incumbent; she is the first female mayor of a Canadian city.
1945 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Institute of Medicine of the University of Montreal.
1943 Vinchiaturo Italy - Second Canadian Brigade takes Vinchiaturo; Canadian tanks support British units attacking Termoli.
1942 Metis Quebec - German U-Boat torpedoes cargo ship off Metis.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Government prohibits the private use of glycerine; needed for explosives.
1936 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Mary Teresa Sullivan 1902-1973 sworn in as member of Halifax City Council; first woman alderman in Canada.
1924 Toronto Ontario - Prince George 1895-1952 visits Toronto; later King George VI.
1920 Winnipeg Manitoba - Civil Avro 504K takes off on one of the first commercial passenger flights into the Canadian bush; a two day trip to The Pas; carried two passengers in an enlarged front cockpit. [A former Air Force 504 will make the first winter flight to James Bay in 1922.]
1912 Alberni BC - Thomas Wilby & Jack Haney reach Alberni after first cross-Canada motor trip; British journalist and mechanic make 52 day trip to establish the All Red Route; they spent 41 days of driving in their Reo.
1884 Montreal Quebec - First issue of newspaper 'La Presse' published.
1874 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 charged with a warrant of outlawry by a Manitoba court.
1872 Montreal Quebec - Hugh Allan 1810-1882 appointed President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company; has 13 directors from all provinces.
1863 Toronto Ontario - End of the 1st Session of the 8th parliament of United Canada; session adopts George-Etienne Cartier's Militia Act.
1851 Toronto Ontario - Lady Elgin, wife of the Governor General, turns the first sod for the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Union (later the Northern) Railway.
1792 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes law providing for a fine of £20 for selling liquor in prisons; the province's first law restricting the sale of alcohol.
1785 Saint John, New Brunswick - Governor issues writs for the election of the first representative assembly in New Brunswick.
1754 Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday sights the Rocky Mountains, near present day Red Deer; Hudson Bay Company employee is trying to get the Blackfoot to travel to Hudson Bay, avoiding the Cree middlemen.
1694 York Fort NWT - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 recaptures York Fort, the stronghold of the Hudson's Bay Company; renames it Fort Bourbon.
1672 La Malbaie, Quebec - First wood exported to France from La Malbaie [Murray Bay]..
1666 New York - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 puts Mohawk villages to the torch after making peace with Senecas and Oneidas; claims Iroquois territory for Louis XIV.
1663 Quebec Quebec - New France expels undesirables from the colony.
1641 Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve arrives on the island that will become Montreal; his colonizing company starts to build a settlement.
1612 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 made Lieutenant General of New France; first Governor of New France until 1629.
1582 France - Gregorian calendar introduced in Catholic countries, cutting 10 prior days (October 5 becomes October 15).

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October 16th 2014 - This Date in History.


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456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing eight.
1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1841 – Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1906 РThe Captain of K̦penick fools the city hall of K̦penick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1944 – Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon.
1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1949 – Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established.
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1968 – Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
1975 – The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
1991 – Luby's shooting: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
1993 – Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
1996 – 84 people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
2006 – Hawaii earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
2012 – The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
2013 – Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.








Today's Canadian Headline....

1970 TRUDEAU INVOKES WAR MEASURES ACT
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- declares 'a state of apprehended insurrection' and imposes the War Measures Act before dawn, after Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was found murdered. Canadian troops are ordered to protect public figures, and police round up and interview 497 possible suspects, arresting 250, including Michel Chartrand, and searching 170 homes, in an attempt to break the FLQ cell structure and find British diplomat James Cross, also kidnapped by the terrorists. The Act lets Cabinet overrule civil rights and authority. It is the first time emergency powers have been used in peacetime, and the only use of the 1914 statute during a domestic crisis; it could be invoked when the Cabinet perceived the existence of 'war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended'. Chronology of the day: 04:00 am - Proclamation of the War Measures Act; 11:00 am - government issues special emergency regulations; 5:00 pm - Premier Robert Bourassa approves the proclamation of an emergency; 8:00 pm - Mayor Jean Drapeau approves the government's action; 10:15 pm - Pierre Trudeau addresses the nation.

1690
Quebec Quebec - William Phips 1651-1695 arrives at Quebec with 37 ships and 2,200 men, and asks for surrender; Count Frontenac, with garrison of 3,000 refuses; the English start bombarding the city on the 18th, but have little effect; after a defeat at Beauport on the 21st, they retreat. Quebec's annual fete de Notre Dame de la Victoire is held on this day. Here is Frontenac scoffing at an emissary's demand for surrender.



In Other Events....

1993 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-5, in Game 1 of the World Series.
1992 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young joins George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and others in a salute to Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden. .
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court Justice Barry Strayer rejects appeal by Native Women's Association of Canada to halt referendum; says right to be included in talks expired March 12.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports youth violence offenses up to 855 per 100,000 in 1991, up from 415 in 1986; assault charges total 632 per 100,000, up from 300 in 1986.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Roberta Jamieson is appointed Ontario's new ombudsman; the 37-year-old Mohawk is the first aboriginal Canadian to hold the post.
1989 Detroit Michigan - Montrealer Luc Gingras wins the Detroit Marathon.
1987 Hollywood California - Canadian actor Matt Frewer stars in the last episode of his TV sci-fi adventure 'Max Headroom'.
1987 Loma Linda, California - Baby Paul Holc of South Surrey, British Columbia, receives a donor heart at the Loma Linda University Medical Centre from an Ontario-born baby girl when he is only 3 hours old; world's youngest heart transplant born by caesarean section with a potentially fatal heart malformation.
1987 Toronto Ontario - TD's Green Line Investors Service buys 100% of Gardiner Group.
1985 Montreal Quebec - National and Mercantile Banks merged into the National, Bank of Canada.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of Canada Post Corporation/Société canadienne des postes, to replace the Post Office; Crown Corporation takes over Jan. 1, 1982.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds.
1969 Saint John New Brunswick - New Brunswick to build $4 million container shipping terminal in Saint John.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Maple Lead Jim Dorey gets nine penalties in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins; spends total of 48 minutes in the penalty box (44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period); NHL record for most penalties in a single hockey game.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Government increases old age security pensions to $75 per month.
1961 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canada sells $20 million worth of wheat to Poland.
1953 Toronto Ontario - Roman Catholic Church in Canada issues a report discouraging teenagers from forming steady romantic attachments.
1951 Toronto Ontario - TTC Ferry Thomas Rennie christened; operated by the Toronto Transit Commission between the city and the Toronto Islands.
1946 Detroit Michigan - Floral, Saskatchewan's Gordie Howe 1928- plays in his first NHL game, and scores his first goal as a Detroit Red Wing; against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1945 Quebec Quebec - Start of first United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization conference of 29 countries, including Canada; FAO meets until Nov 1.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 promoted to the rank of General; first Canadian to hold that rank in the field.
1940 Vatican - The Pope names eight Jesuit martyrs as the first North American Saints, the Patron Saints of Canada.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Government orders the First Canadian Division to Britain.
1911 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg receives first electric power.
1911 Quebec City - Unveiling of a monument to the Marquis de Montcalm.
1909 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pittsburgh Pirates catcher George Gibson, from London, Ontario, helps his team defeat the Detroit Tigers 8-0 to clinch the World Series; holds Pirates record for most games played by a catcher (1,203).
1901 Montreal Quebec - Inauguration of the Victoria Bridge.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie ends his only elected term of office; Canada's first Liberal prime minister.
1875 Montreal Quebec - Ontario wins first Quebec vs. Ontario rugby football game.
1869 Manitoba - Louis Riel elected Secretary of the new Comité National des Métis (National Council of the Metis), formed to discuss their rights with Ottawa; he was well known throughout the Red River Settlement because of his confrontation with the Canadian survey party.
1857 London England - British Treasury approves weight of the new Canadian 20¢ piece - 71.73 grains of 0.925 fine silver.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Queens University in Kingston is chartered.
1820 Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton Island officially rejoins Nova Scotia.
1813 Astoria Oregon - John Jacob Astor with his Pacific Fur Company partners, sells Fort Astoria to the North West Company; proclaimed British territory.
1792 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario - Assembly renames Upper Canada's judicial districts: Hesse-Western District, Nassau-Home District, Mecklenburg-Midland District, Lunenburg-Eastern District.
1785 Canada - Forest fires cause black rain in Eastern Canada, as soot from the fires mixes with precipitation.
1736 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Cugnet and Company take over the iron smelting operations of the Forges de St-Maurice.
1731 Crown Point, new York - French engineers build Fort St-Frédéric at the southern end of Lake Champlain.
1710 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Col. Francis Nicholson and Sir Charles Hobby capture the French settlement of Port Royal after two previous failures in 1704 and 1707; Queen Anne's War or the War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1713.
1689 Oka, Quebec - Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth c1639-1710 defeats Iroquois on Lake of Two Mountains outside Montreal.
1679 Quebec Quebec - Sovereign Council of Quebec rules that liquor may not be taken to Indian villages.
1666 New York State - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, military governor of New France (1663-67), with army of 1000 French regulars, 600 New France militia and 100 Hurons and Algonkians; in 300 boats and canoes; arrives at deserted Mohawk village of Andarague after rain-soaked march of several days; destroys settlement and Iroquois corn crops. as well as three other settlements; expedition ordered by Jean Talon left Quebec Sept. 14 after peace talks failed; Iroquois turn to English for help.
1652 Montreal Quebec - Major Lambert Closse drives off Iroquois after two day battle near Montreal; town saved by barking dogs.

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