This Date In History

henric · Jan 15, 2015

January 16th 2015 - This Date in History.

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27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of TeotihuacÃ¡n.
550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of CÃ³rdoba.
1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1362 – A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
1547 – Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1761 – The British capture PondichÃ©ry, India from the French.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La CoruÃ±a.
1847 – John C. FrÃ©mont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1862 – Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1920 – Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1924 – Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
1939 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called FÃ¼hrerbunker.
1956 – President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
1964 – Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
1986 – First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
2001 – Congolese President Laurent-DÃ©sirÃ© Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
2013 – An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In AmÃ©nas, Algeria.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1905 OTTAWA WINS LOPSIDED STANLEY CUP
Ottawa Ontario - Frank McGee scores 14 goals as the Ottawa Silver 7 beat Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for the Stanley Cup. This is the most lopsided playoff game in Stanley Cup history. The Yukon team had walked from Dawson to railhead to be able to play in the tournament.

1939
New York City - Joe Schuster from Toronto publishes his first Superman comic strip.

In Other Events...

1970 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet accepts federal policy paper recommendations;.appoints Commission to oversee conversion from Imperial to International (Metric) System of Units.
1965 Winnipeg Manitoba - Chad Allen and the Expressions re-release their hit single Shakin' All Over under their new name - The Guess Who; it is the band's first record under that name.
1965 Washington DC - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 signs Canada-US Automotive Agreement, or Auto Pact with President Lyndon Johnson; free trade on new cars and car parts manufactured in either country
1961 India - Opening of Canada-India nuclear plant, gift to India under Colombo Plan.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Lester Bowles L. B. Pearson 1897-1972 chosen as party leader on first ballot by Liberal Party, replacing Louis St. Laurent; 1074 votes, to Paul Martin (305)
1908 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba government takes over provincial telephone service.
1906 Halifax Nova Scotia - Last British soldiers leave Canada, as Britain turns over control of its naval bases and garrisons to Canada; Esquimault BC left earlier.
1847 Hamilton Ontario - Colin Campbell Ferrie elected first Mayor of Hamilton.
1821 Brockville Ontario - Chauncey Beach founds The Brockville Recorder newspaper.
1814 Madrid New York - British troops start week-long raid on the towns of Madrid, Salmon River, Malone and Four Corners; retaliation for US raids in Canada; War of 1812 .
1813 Halifax Nova Scotia - Anthony Henry Holland edits and publishes the first issue of The Acadian Recorder.
1800 Fredericton New Brunswick - John Murray Bliss 1771-1834 fights the first duel in New Brunswick against Samuel D. Stuart.
1637 Quebec Quebec - The Company of New France receives a grant to establish a nunnery and Jesuit church and seminary at Quebec.

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henric · Jan 16, 2015

January 17th 2015 - This Date in History.

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38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
395 – Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother (aged 10).
1287 – King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
1377 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
1562 – France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.
1595 – Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1608 – Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1773 – Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of CalderÃ³n Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1893 – Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1913 – Raymond PoincarÃ© is elected President of France.
1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1929 – Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days.
1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
1943 – World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 – The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
1950 – The Great Brink's Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1966 – Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1982 – "Cold Sunday": in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1994 – 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 – A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
2001 – U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes William Clark from Lieutenant to Captain.
2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
2010 – Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1974 THE GOVERNOR IS A LADY
Toronto Ontario - Pauline McGibbon 1910- takes office as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the first women to hold a vice-regal post in Canada.

In Other Events...

1997 Geneva Switzerland - The World Trade Organization (WTO) rules against Canadian protectionist policies such as taxing Canadian editions of US magazines, preferential postal rates and tariff restrictions to protect its magazine industry from U.S. competition. Canada to look for other means to help industry.
1996 Detroit Michigan - Ottawa native Steve Yzerman scores his 500th goal, to help his Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2; 22nd player in NHL history to score 500 goals.
1995 Canada - Canadian dollar skids to a nine-year low of US 70.49 cents.
1976 Cape Canaveral Florida - NASA launches Canada's $60 million Communications Technology Satellite from Cape Canaveral; world's most powerful; will provide TV and phone services to Northern communities.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Armed Forces set up separate Air Command.
1972 Canada - Canadian air traffic controllers start 12-day strike, grounding most commercial flights.
1964 Winnipeg Manitoba - Opening of Winnipeg International Airport terminal.
1961 Washington DC - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 signs Columbia River Treaty with President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Canada gets half of power from dams on Canadian section; three dams in Canada
1961 Warsaw Poland - Canadian officials return Polish national treasures stored in Canadian vaults for safekeeping during World War II.
1933 Newfoundland - Newfoundland asks Britain to solve financial difficulties; wants Royal Commission
1861 Montreal Quebec - Mass meeting at Montreal protests forced return of escaped slaves to US.
1854 Hamilton Ontario - Celebration marks completion of Great Western Railway between Niagara Falls, Hamilton and Windsor; later part of Grand Trunk and CNR.
1850 Wolford Lodge England - Elizabeth Simcoe dies; buried beside husband John Graves Simcoe.
1840 Quebec Quebec - French complain that Lower Canadians not consulted about union of Upper and Lower Canada.
1839 Ontario - John Colborne, Baron Seaton 1778-1863 appointed Governor of British North America.
1838 Niagara Falls Ontario - Francis Bond Head 1793-1875 inspects Navy Island.
1651 Paris France - Jean de Lauzon c1584-1666 appointed Governor of New France; from October 14 to September 12, 1657.

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henric · Jan 17, 2015

January 18th 2015 - This Date in History.

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350 – General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
1535 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.
1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in KÃ¶nigsberg.
1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
1866 – Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
1884 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1886 – Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith.
1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1916 – A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1944 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
1945 – World War II: Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
1945 – World War II: Liberation of Krakow, Poland by the Red Army.
1955 – Chinese Civil War: Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
1977 – SFR Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1978 – The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
1994 – The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1997 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill three Spanish aid workers, three soldiers and seriously wound one other.
1997 – BÃ¸rge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
2000 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
2002 – Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
2003 – A bushfire kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
2009 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
2012 – A series of coordinated actions take place in protest against Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1967 YELLOWKNIFE NAMED NWT CAPITAL
Yellowknife NWT - Yellowknife becomes capital of the North West Territories; administration transferred from Ottawa September 15.

In Other Events...

1996 Ottawa Ontario - Lucien Bouchard resigns as Leader of the Bloc Quebecois (BQ); to become head of the Parti Quebecois and Premier of Quebec.
1982 London England - British parliamentary committee concludes that it would be proper for Parliament to adopt legislation revising the Canadian Constitution.
1977 Toronto Ontario - McClelland and Stewart start Seal Books in a joint venture with Bantam Books of Canada Ltd.; to publish paperback books by Canadian authors
1972 St. John's Newfoundland - Frank Duff Moores 1933- takes office as first Progressive Conservative premier of Newfoundland.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans use of aircraft and large ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence seal hunt.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Senate Special Committee on Science Policy issues Part Two of Report; recommends increased R & D; recommends founding Canadian Industrial Laboratories Corporation
1971 Quebec Quebec - Quebec requires English-language schools in the province to teach French as a second language.
1966 United Nations New York USA - Agriculture Minister John Joseph Greene 1905- appointed chairman of pledging committee of World Food Program; Canada contributes $27,500,000.
1963 Sheridan Park Ontario - Opening of Ontario Research Community, group of R&D laboratories at Sheridan Park near Toronto.
1958 Boston Massachusetts - Bill O'Ree starts playing for the Boston Bruins; first black person in the NHL.
1919 Versailles France - Canadian delegation attends opening of World War I Peace Congress.
1839 Montreal Quebec - Several rebels are hanged following the rebellion in Lower Canada.
1834 Toronto Ontario - Chief Justice William Campbell dies at York.
1813 Frenchtown Michigan USA - Brig. Gen. James Winchester captures Frenchtown, 40 km south of Detroit; defended by handful of Canadian militia and Iroquois; after earlier defeat.

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henric · Jan 18, 2015

January 19th 2015 - This Date in History.

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379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
639 – Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, is crowned.
649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.
1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General JosÃ© de San MartÃn, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1917 – Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ŁÃ³dź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
1977 – Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas.
1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist OgÃ¼n Samast.
2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
2013 – A failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television is foiled by security guards.
2014 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1996 WINNIPEG MOURNS AS JETS FLY SOUTH
Miami Florida - NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announces that the League has approved the sale of the Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix, Arizona investors.

1870
Winnipeg Manitoba - Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 meets Metis and Scottish settlers at two day meeting at Fort Garry to give them Canada's position. Here he is speaking to the inhabitants from a balcony at the fort.

1943
Ottawa Ontario - Princess Margriet born to Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in a room in the Ottawa Civic hospital declared to be Dutch territory. The Dutch royal family live in Ottawa as exiles during World War II; Juliana will become Queen of the Netherlands in 1948.

In Other Events...

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard delivers maiden speech as Commons Opposition leader.
1989 Calgary Alberta - Canadian Airlines International acquires Wardair, Canada's third largest carrier, for $250 million.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Erik Nielsen resigns as MP for the Yukon after 30 years in politics; former Deputy Prime Minister in Clark Government; brother of actor Leslie Nielsen.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada announces 1981 inflation rate of 12.5%; a 33-year high.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Public Archives releases minutes and documents of Canadian Cabinet War Committee of World War II.
1960 Whiteshell Manitoba - AECL to build Canada's second Nuclear Research Establishment at Whiteshell on the Winnipeg River, 100 km from Winnipeg.
1960 India - Canada meets India's request for $25 million in aid under Colombo Plan.
1958 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Football Council renamed the Canadian Football League (CFL).
1950 Downsview Ontario - Maiden flight of the Avro Canada CF-100 military jet.
1942 Halifax Nova Scotia - German submarine torpedoes Canadian ship Lady Hawkins, as U-boats ravage unprotected shipping along the Atlantic coast.
1901 Quebec Quebec - Government of Canada purchases the Plains of Abraham battlefield; to be maintained as a national park.
1857 Grand Manan New Brunswick - Vessel Lord Ashburton wrecked on Grand Manan Island en route from France to Saint John; loss of 21 lives
1843 Sackville New Brunswick - Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy opens at Sackville, New Brunswick; now Mount Allison University
1824 Toronto Ontario - William Hamilton Merritt gets Act of Incorporation for Welland Canal Company; President Samuel Keefer
1685 Matagorda Bay Texas - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1643-1687 misses Mississippi, lands in Texas.
1649 Quebec Quebec - The first executioner in Canada, a pardoned criminal, performs his first assignment at Quebec on a 16 year old girl found guilty of theft.

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henric · Jan 19, 2015

January 20th 2015 - This Date in History.

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250 – Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred.
649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
1265 – The first English parliament to include not only nobles but also representatives of the major towns meets in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".
1320 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland.
1356 – Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
1523 – Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1567 – Battle of Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces under the command of EstÃ¡cio de SÃ¡ definitively drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro.
1576 – The Mexican city of LeÃ³n is founded by order of the viceroy Don MartÃn EnrÃquez de Almanza.
1649 – Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes".
1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
1785 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-XoÃ i MÃºt.
1788 – The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.
1839 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
1877 – Last day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1921 – The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.
1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
1941 – A German officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
1945 – World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.
1949 – Point Four Program a program for economic aid to poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as President.
1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
1959 – The first flight of the Vickers Vanguard.
1960 – Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
1969 – East Pakistani police kill student activist Amanullah Asaduzzaman. The resulting outrage is in part responsible for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
1972 – Pakistan launched its Nuclear weapons program few weeks after its defeat in Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated, at age 69 the oldest man ever to be inaugurated as U.S. President, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
1986 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
1990 – Following 7 days of pogroms on local Armenian population of Baku, Azerbaijan the the Red Army enters the city to restore order.
1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
1992 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96 people on board. A design flaw in the computer mode selection system resulted in the crew selecting the wrong rate of descent.
1999 – The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use, aimed especially at Internet cafÃ©s.
2001 – Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
2006 – Witnesses report seeing a bottlenose whale swimming in the River Thames, the first time the species had been seen in the Thames since records began in 1913.
2007 – A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
2009 – A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1995 REASONABLY WELL PAID RINK RATS GO BACK TO WORK
North America - 1994-95 NHL Season starts after a lengthy pro hockey strike.

1936
London England - Edward VIII 1894-1972 starts reign on the death of his father George V. He will abdicate eleven months later, on December 11, 1936, to marry 'the woman I love,' Wallis Simpson. The stamp shows him four years earlier when he was Prince of Wales, and first visited Canada.

1899
Halifax Nova Scotia - Advance group of about 2,000 Russian Doukhobors lands in Halifax en route to the west; 5,400 follow shortly after. These first members of this mystical Christian sect (the name means 'spirit wrestlers,') are sponsored by Count Leo Tolstoy, the novelist and author of War and Peace. The picture shows a group of Doukhobor farm women breaking sod in Alberta while their husbands are away working for cash on railway construction.

In Other Events...

1995 Yellowknife NWT - Roger Warren convicted of second-degree murder for killing 9 men during the 1992 strike-related bombing of the Giant gold mine.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Telesat Canada's Anik E-1 communications satellite spins out of control; newspapers, radio and TV broadcasters scramble to get news feed.
1994 Henley-on-Thames England - Beatrice Lillie, Lady Peel 1894-1989 dies at age 94; born Constance Sylvia Gladys Munston in Toronto on May 29, 1894. Lillie was a comic movie/stage actor that Noel Coward billed as the funniest woman in the world. She appeared in such films as Auntie Mame (1958), Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967).
1971 Tuktoyaktuk NWT - Radio Tuktoyaktuk starts broadcasting in English and Inuktutuk.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Yvon Dupuis resigns on 1964 charges of accepting $10,000 bribe in 1961; Minister Without Portfolio.
1953 Toronto Ontario - CBS Television production of Studio One transmitted to CBLT-TV and rebroadcast in Canada; first transmission of a TV show from the United States to Canada.
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Government Railways becomes the CNR; takes over the Intercolonial, National Transcontinental & Hudson Bay lines.
1910 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for the Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910).
1904 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government disallows British Columbia Act to restrict Chinese immigration.
1892 Springfield Massachusetts - Almonte, Ontario native James Naismith hosts his first organized basketball game, the world's first, at the Springfield YMCA college.
1715 Nova Scotia - Samuel Vetch appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; to August 17, 1717.

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henric · Jan 20, 2015

January 21st 2015 - This Date in History.

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763 – The Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ends in a decisive Abbasid victory.
1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in ZÃ¼rich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris
1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1749 – The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
1774 – Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1840 – Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers AdÃ©lie Land, Antarctica.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1864 – The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars.
1887 – 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile.
1908 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 – Meeting of the First DÃ¡il Ã‰ireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn FÃ©in adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.
1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1941 – Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania, the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
1948 – The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
1950 – American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1958 – The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
1960 – Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca.
1961 – 435 workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapses.
1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1968 – A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
1971 – The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 – President of the United States Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1981 – Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
1997 – The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2000 – Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
2003 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
2004 – NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 – In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1907 KENORA WINS STANLEY CUP
Montreal Quebec - Kenora Thistles ice hockey team sweep the Montreal Wanderers in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.

1807
Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Ezekiel Hart d1843 elected to the Lower Canada Assembly for Three Rivers; re-elected in 1808 but again barred from sitting because of his religion; first Jew elected to a Canadian legislature.

In Other Events...

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court starts review of David Milgaard murder conviction in the death of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller; he will be freed April 16th, after 22 years in jail, when the Court finds a miscarriage of justice.
1989 St John's Newfoundland - Tory Brian Peckford resigns after 10 years as Newfoundland Premier; replaced by Clyde Wells after election.
1985 Uniondale New York - Ottawa native Dennis Potvin of the New York Islanders ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals.
1983 Regina Saskatchewan - Joanne Wilson found murdered in her garage; ex-wife of politician Colin Thatcher, son of ex-Premier Ross Thatcher, who will be found guilty of first-degree murder.
1936 London England - Edward, Prince of Wales, proclaimed King Edward VIII, one day after the death of his father, George V; will abdicate Dec 11th to marry divorced American Wallis Simpson.
1911 Washington DC - Canada and US agree to comprehensive reciprocity bill; ratified by Senate in July, but fails to pass in Canadian Parliament.
1900 Halifax Nova Scotia - Second Contingent of Canadian troops sails from Halifax for South Africa; more troop ships leave January 27 and February 21
1891 Boston Massachusetts - Calixa LavallÃ©e dies at age 48; composer of O Canada.
1880 Victoria BC - Jeffree & Pendray install Victoria's first business telephones; W. J. Jeffree's Clothing store, W. I. Pendray's Soap Factory
1864 Parry Sound Ontario - William Beatty granted 2,000 acres on site of Parry Sound.
1850 Scarborough Ontario - Incorporation of the Town of Scarborough; council meets at Dowsell's Tavern on the Markham Road
1839 Wolfville Nova Scotia - Acadia College opens in Wolfville; now Acadia University
1796 Quebec - Robert Prescott 1725-1816 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada; serves from June 21 to Dec. 15, 1796
1757 Ticonderoga New York USA - Robert Rogers 1731-1795 defeated with his Rogers Rangers by French near Ticonderoga.

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henric · Jan 21, 2015

January 22nd 2015 - This Date in History.

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613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1517 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
1521 – Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms
1555 – The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma.
1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
1824 – The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
1863 – The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
1877 – Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops decisively defeat British troops.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an onslaught by three to four thousand Zulu warriors.
1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1905 – Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1915 – Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
1944 – World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
1946 – In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president and Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
1957 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
1957 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1959 – Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
1962 – The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
1963 – The Ã‰lysÃ©e Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
1969 – A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1971 – The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.
1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
1987 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at MalacaÃ±an Palace, Manila, killing 13.
1990 – Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
1991 – Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
1992 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1992 – Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space
1995 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1874 MACKENZIE THRASHES SIR JOHN A.
Canada - Liberal Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 defeats John A. Macdonald in the second Canadian general election, 138 seats to 67; of a total 206 seats. Macdonald suffered from the Pacific Scandal revelations.

1992
Cape Canaveral Florida -
Roberta Bondar, a Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, blasts into Space from the Kennedy Space Center on an eight-day flight aboard the shuttle Discovery with six other astronauts. Here she is performing some on-board experiments. Bondar, an MD in Neurology and a PhD in Astrophysics, is Canada's first woman astronaut.

1874
Provencher Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 elected as the member of Parliament for Provencher in Manitoba. He will be prevented from taking his seat by a warrant for his arrest sworn in Ontario.

In Other Events...

1992 Toronto Ontario - Boeing sells 51% of financially-troubled de Havilland Aircraft to Montreal-based Bombardier, with Ontario acquiring the remaining shares; after 8 years of ownership of the former Crown corporation.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons votes 217-47 to endorse UN resolution on military action against Iraq. Most NDP members vote against the bill.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Northrop Frye 1913-1991 dies at age 78. Former Master of Victoria College, literary scholar Frye wrote over 20 books, including The Great Code, and Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (Governor General's Award 1986).
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Richard Schreyer 1935- takes office as Governor General of Canada; the former Manitoba Premier's term ended in 1984.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- declares International Women's Year.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and Premiers start two-day National Energy Conference in Ottawa; agree to subsidize Eastern prices and stabilize those in rest of country
1973 Toronto Ontario - Istvan Meszaros granted landed immigrant status; refused twice before as security risk; Marxist scholar and former Hungarian Culture Minister
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to discuss exchange of ambassadors with People's Republic of China.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Guy Favreau defers Fulton-Favreau formula of 1964 for repatriating constitution, because of Quebec opposition; President of Privy Council.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 raises federal grants to universities by 33%.
1951 Korea - Canadian destroyer HMCS Huron put under United Nations command.
1944 Anzio Italy - Allies establish Anzio beachhead south of Rome; Canadians man static front on Adriatic coast
1931 Montreal Quebec - Tyrone Guthrie 1900-1971 broadcasts the first episode of The Romance of Canada; first series of radio dramas produced in Canada.
1906 Pacific - US steamer Valencia sinks off Vancouver Island; 126 drown.
1901 Windsor England - Queen Victoria 1819-1901 dies at age 82, ending her 64-year reign - the longest in British history.
1878 London England Britain - Canada wins right to decide whether or not to be included in British trade treaties.
1867 Peel Ontario - First meeting of the Peel County Council, after split from York County.
1864 Sapperton BC - First session of the Legislative Council of British Columbia opens at Sapperton.
1813 Frenchtown Michigan - Major General Henry Proctor leads 500 soldiers and militia, with Tecumseh's 800 Indians from Amherstburg, in a counterattack across the frozen Detroit River after his defeat 4 days earlier. He recaptures the River Raison post, defeats 900 US troops led by Brig. Gen. James Winchester, and captures Winchester and 500 Americans.
1806 Ontario - Francis Gore 1769-1852 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves from Aug. 25,1806 to Jan 1, 1818
1699 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Saint-Vallier 1653-1727 founds the first elementary school in New France; opens following year
1690 Onondaga New York - Iroquois sign treaty of peace with British and Great Lakes tribes.

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henric · Jan 22, 2015

January 23rd 2015 - This Date in History.

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393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year old son Honorius co-emperor.
971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, FranÃ§ois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
1793 – Second Partition of Poland.
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
1855 – The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake and tsunami leaves 9 dead in New Zealand.
1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic.
1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
1904 – Ã…lesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ã…lesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.
1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl DÃ¶nitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos PÃ©rez JimÃ©nez leaves Venezuela.
1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator AntÃ³nio de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and CÃ´te d'Ivoire are established.
1967 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages.
1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying.
1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
1997 – Greek Serial Killer Antonis Daglis is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered .
2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
2012 – A group of Gaddafi loyalists take control of part of the town of Bani Walid and fly the green flag after a battle with NTC forces left 5 dead and 20 injured.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1995 MILITARY GET BLACK EYE
Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister David Collenette disbands the Canadian Airborne Regiment; after some of its soldiers were found to be involved in the death of a Somali boy during a UN mission, and revelations of illegal hazing rituals.

1836
Toronto Ontario - Francis Bond Head 1793-1875 arrives in Toronto to replace Colborne as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; he appoints Reformers Baldwin, Rolph and Dunn to the Executive Council in an effort to quell potential rebellion. Colborne moves to Montreal to take command of the military in the Canadas.

In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court of Appeal acquits Guy-Paul Morin of 1984 sex-slaying of his nine-year-old neighbor, Christine Jessop of Queensville, Ontario; ruling on basis of new DNA evidence.
1995 Victoria BC - British Columbia blocks Alcan's $1.3-billion (Canadian) Kemano power dam development, citing the threat to its salmon fishery.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that the federal government can conduct environmental reviews on any projects under its jurisdiction.
1984 Brantford Ontario - Stuart & Lillian Kelly of Brantford collect $13,890,588.80 for winning ticket in Lotto 6-49; largest to date.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa ends tax breaks to Canadian companies advertising in Canadian editions of foreign magazines.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Terrorists throw four firebombs at the Soviet consulate in Montreal, doing slight damage.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Walter Lockhart Gordon 1906-1988 heads ministerial committee to look at foreign ownership in the Canadian economy.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - NHL Toronto Maple Leafs take their undefeated streak in 18 games, the longest in their history.
1949 Regina Saskatchewan - Fire destroys the Regina transit barns, torching most of its 38 buses and streetcars.
1941 Prescott Ontario - German prisoner of war Franz von Werra escapes from a train and makes it back to Germany, only to die in action a year later; the only German POW to make a successful escape in Canada.
1935 Iroquois Falls Ontario - Thermometer hits -60C, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ontario.
1902 Toronto Ontario - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 games to win the Stanley Cup.
1901 London England - Edward VII 1814-1910 starts reign; to 1910; most public events in country cancelled on death of Queen Victoria.
1895 New York New York - Romaine Callender demonstrates his automatic telephone in New York; inventor from Brantford, Ontario
1888 Kingsville Ontario - Natural gas discovered in Kingsville by well drillers.
1883 Montreal Quebec - Montrealers celebrate winter with the city's first ice palace carnival.
1863 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange introduces first regular daily trading sessions.
1834 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys the old Chateau Saint-Louis, originally built by Samuel de Champlain, and home to the Governors of New France.

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henric · Jan 24, 2015

January 24th 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor
1438 – The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
1458 – Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
1624 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
1679 – King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1758 – During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of KÃ¶nigsberg submit to Elizabeth I of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763)
1817 – Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the Action of Picheuta.
1835 – Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
1857 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.
1859 – Political and state union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as Domnitor in both Principalities.
1862 – Bucharest is proclaimed the capital of Romania.
1878 – The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
1900 – Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
1908 – The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
1911 – Japanese anarchist Shūsui Kōtoku is hanged for treason in a case now considered a miscarriage of justice.
1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
1918 – The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS)
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
1939 – The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes ChillÃ¡n, killing approximately 28,000 people.
1942 – World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
1947 – Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1960 – Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
1961 – Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1968 – Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long BÃ¬nh and BiÃªn HÃ²a
1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1977 – Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 – Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus.
1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1996 – Polish Prime Minister JÃ³zef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2009 – The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
2011 – At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
2014 – Three bombs explode in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing about seven people and injuring over 100 others.
2014 – The Philippines and the Bangsamoro agree to a peace deal that would help end the 45-year conflict.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1978 SOVIET SATELLITE FIREBALL OVER NWT
NWT - Nuclear-powered USSR satellite Cosmos 954 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates over the Northwest Territories, scattering radiation; Canadian Armed Forces launches large operation to recover debris.

1984
Calgary Alberta - ABC network agrees to pay $386 million for US TV rights to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; a record sum to that date.

1952
Ottawa Ontario - Charles Vincent Massey 1887-1967 appointed Governor General; first Canadian-born; serves from February 28, 1952 to September 15, 1959.

In Other Events...

1988 New York City - Ben Johnson named the Associated Press (AP) athlete of the year, the first Canadian track athlete so honoured. On Sept. 26, at the Seoul Summer Olympics, Johnson will test positive for steroid use, and will be stripped of the Gold Medal he won in the 100 Metre Sprint two days earlier.
1981 Uniondale New York - Montreal native Mike Bossy, of the NHL Islanders, is the second player in league history, after Maurice Richard, to score 50 goals in the first 50 games of the season, as his team scores 5 power play goals against the Quebec Nordiques. On this day in 1986, Bossy will score his 1,000th NHL point.
1973 Vietnam - Canada joins the International Commission for Control and Supervision in Vietnam for 60-day period; ICCS a truce-observance commission; with Hungary, Poland, Indonesia.
1971 NWT - Panarctic Oils caps a natural gas well on King Christian Island that had burned out of control for 3 months.
1955 Des Joachims Ontario - Start of first Canadian nuclear power plant at Des Joachims.
1946 London England - Canada is appointed to the UN Atomic Energy Commission.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Wartime Prices and Trade Board rations sugar to 3/4 lb per person per week; cut to 1/2 lb on May 19; coupon rationing July 1
1923 Nova Scotia - George Henry Murray 1861-1929 resigns as Premier of Nova Scotia after 27 years; replaced by Ernest Howard Armstrong 1874-1946.
1903 USA - Britain and US refer Alaskan boundary dispute to commission which sits from September 3 to October 2; the result of the Anglo-American Convention will be largely in favor of American interests, enraging the Canadian public.
1885 Vancouver BC - The CPR telegraph reaches the Pacific from Halifax; now operating from coast to coast.
1848 Quebec/Ontario - Reformers led by Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine sweep elections in both Canada East and Canada West.
1688 Quebec Quebec - Francois de Laval 1623-1688 resigns as Bishop due to growing ill health.

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henric · Jan 25, 2015

January 25th 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
1348 – A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
1515 – Coronation of Francis I of France.
1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1554 – Founding of SÃ£o Paulo city, Brazil.
1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
1704 – The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
1787 – Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding recessional.
1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.
1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.
1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1944 – Florence Li Tim-Oi is ordained in China, becoming the first woman Anglican priest.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
1955 – The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany.
1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1969 – Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
1986 – The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1990 – Avianca Flight 52 crashed into Cove Neck, New York due to fuel exuasion.
1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
2005 – A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.
2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into Mediterranean Sea. All 90 passengers and crew were killed.
2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
2013 – At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1932 GG MAKES FIRST TRANS CANADA PHONE CALLS
Ottawa Ontario - Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough speaks to the Lieutenant Governor of each province, to inaugurate the Trans-Canada telephone system.

1870
Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel leads two week convention to consider the Canadian proposals put forward by Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914.

In Other Events...

1996 Red Deer Alberta - Leilani Muir awarded $750,000 by Alberta judge; she was wrongly diagnosed as mentally disabled and sterilized by the province's Eugenics Board in 1959.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture.
1977 New York New York - Rene Levesque 1922-1987 tells Wall Street audience at the Economic Club of New York that 'separation is inevitable'.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Stuart Smith elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, succeeding Robert Nixon (b1928).
1973 BC - Freighter Irish Stardust grounds north of Vancouver Island., spilling 378,000 litres of fuel oil; spill spreads 320 km south.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa issues injunction, on behalf of her husband and the unborn child, to prevent a woman having an abortion.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Archbishop Maurice Roy of Quebec appointed a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
1963 Newfoundland - Wilson Kettle dies at age 102; has 582 living descendants.
1962 St. John's Newfoundland - Bank of Montreal acquires Newfoundland Savings Bank.
1953 Liverpool England - Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada destroyed in a dockside fire; used as a troop ship during World War II.
1948 Winnipeg Manitoba - Investors Syndicate of Canada incorporates Investors Mutual of Canada Ltd.; Canada's first public mutual fund will be first sold to the public in 1950.
1924 Chamonix France - Canadian team attends the opening of the Winter Olympic games.
1905 Toronto Ontario - George William Ross 1841-1914 Liberal government defeated by Conservatives under James Whitney.
1791 London England - British Parliament approves bill splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1627 Quebec Quebec - Louis Hebert c1575- 1627 dies of a fall, after ten years in Quebec; body later reinterred in church attached to the Quebec General Hospital; Canada's first doctor, settler.

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henric · Jan 25, 2015

January 26th 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1500 – Vicente YÃ¡Ã±ez PinzÃ³n becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake—thousands die.
1564 – The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
1589 – Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1699 – Treaty of Karlowitz is signed.
1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day.
1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
1855 – Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
1856 – First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
1861 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
1863 – American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
1885 – Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
1905 – The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
1911 – Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1924 – Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 – German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1939 – Spanish Civil War – Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
1945 – World War II: Audie Murphy in action that will later win him the Medal of Honor.
1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
1950 – The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1960 – Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds the appointment of Physician to the President.
1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US until October 2010, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1986 – The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 – President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
2009 – Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1993 TOBIN WINS THE ROCK
St. John's Newfoundland - Brian Tobin sworn in as Premier of Newfoundland; calls election for Feb. 22; the former federal Cabinet Minister was chosen by the provincial Liberals to replace outgoing Premier Clyde Wells.

In Other Events...

1993 Montreal Quebec - Jeanne SauvÃ© 1922-1993 dies in hospital at age 70; born in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan April 26, 1922, SauvÃ© served as Canada's first woman Governor General, also the first female Speaker of the House of Commons.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Marshall Jr. exonerated in Marshall Enquiry Report nearly 19 years after he was falsely convicted, and wrongly served 11 yrs for stabbing death of Sandy Seale in Sydney, NS; report says Marshall a victim of ineptitude and unfairness, as well as racism, because he was a Micmac Indian.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Space Agency signs $146 million contract with Spar Aerospace for first phase of Radarsat, to be launched in 1994 to send back high-resolution images of Arctic ice, oil spills, etc.
1988 Toronto Ontario - CIBC buys 65% of Wood Gundy for $190 million, mostly in shares; will also provide $100 million in subordinated loans
1985 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky 1961- scores his 50th goal in the 49th game of season, to beat the Maurice Richard/Mike Bossy record.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government announces land claims settlement with Yukon first nations, who receive $620 million and title to 20,000 sq km.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Joe Clark warns USSR that Canada will boycott Summer Olympics in Moscow if Soviet troops do not leave Afghanistan by Feb. 20th. Canada does not attend the Games.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Gerald LeDain issues part one of his Commission on the Non-medical Use of Drugs Report; recommends legal heroin for pain treatment; later rejected by government.
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy - Canadian team attends opening of seventh Winter Olympic games at Cortina.
1924 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves the Red Ensign as Canada's official flag for government buildings at home and abroad; until the Maple Leaf is adopted.
1887 Nova Scotia - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins majority of votes in Nova Scotia; dampens repeal movement. Charles Tupper 1821-1915 had resigned from the Canadian High Commission in London to return and run in the election; he is re-elected.
1836 Montreal Quebec - John Colborne, Baron Seaton 1778-1863 assumes his new post as Commander-in-Chief of British forces in British North America.
1776 Quebec - Eustache Chartier de LotbiniÂre 1716-c1785, a Canadian priest, is appointed chaplain to serve Canadians who joined the American invading force; US Congress ratifies appointment Aug. 12; US Army's first chaplain is a French Canadian.
1666 Europe Canada - War between England and France until July 31, 1667.
1612 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Gilbert du Thet c1575-1613 arrives at Port-Royal with a relief ship; lay Jesuit sent to administer missions
1611 Dieppe France - Madame de Poutrincourt leaves Dieppe with Jesuits Pierre Biard and EnÃ©mond Masse (1575-1646) and her son, Charles Biencourt; first titled lady, first Jesuits in Canada.

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henric · Jan 26, 2015

January 27th 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
661 – The Rashidun Caliphate ends with the death of Ali.
1142 – Song Dynasty General Yue Fei is executed.
1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
1302 – Dante Alighieri, the poet and politician is exiled from Florence, Italy, where he served as one of six priors governing the city.
1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
1593 – The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy ****es and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
1869 – Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1870 – The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
1880 – Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp, the first light bulb. [1]
1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1927 – Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1943 – World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war.
1944 – World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
1961 – Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1967 – The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1974 – The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century.
1980 – Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
1983 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
1993 – American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna.
1996 – In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim BarÃ© MaÃ¯nassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
1996 – Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
2010 – The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
2013 – 242 people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1984 WAYNE'S WORLD
Edmonton Alberta - The Los Angeles Kings beat the Edmonton Oilers, 4-2, ending Wayne Gretzky's NHL record for consecutive point getting at 51 games. Gretzky collected a total of 153 points - 61 goals and 92 assists - during the scoring streak, which started Oct 5, 1983.

1859
Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 proclaims Ottawa the capital of the Canadas. As co-Premier, he had strenuously lobbied for Ottawa as the Queen's choice, against Montreal, Kingston and Toronto, as a place where French Canadians could feel at home.

In Other Events...

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Toronto area MP Jag Bhaduria quits the Liberal caucus to sit as an independent, after it was revealed he had falsified his academic background.
1982 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal rules that forced retirement at 65 contravenes province's Human Rights Act.
1967 United Nations New York - Canada joins other nations in signing UN Outer Space Treaty pledged to peaceful exploration and use..
1966 Portland Island BC - Princess Margaret returns Portland Island to province for use as provincial park; British Columbia's gift to Princess Margaret in 1958
1961 Montreal Quebec - Montreal starts to build subway, at estimated cost of $300 million; Quebec agrees to help with financing
1938 Niagara Falls Ontario - Ice dam crushes foundations of Honeymoon Bridge across Niagara River; causes bridge to collapse.
1916 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba the first province to grant women the vote and full political equality; two years before Ottawa.
1903 Toronto Ontario - Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919 offers city of Toronto $350,000 for a central public library and two branch libraries; offer by US steel magnate accepted February 23.
1855 Toronto Ontario - Alan MacNab and Etienne-Paschal TachÃ© take office as co-Premiers of the Union of the Canadas.
1854 London Ontario - Great Western Railroad opens from London to Windsor.
1826 Kingston Ontario - Catholic Church makes Upper Canada a separate diocese; Kingston the bishop's seat
1806 Quebec Quebec - Joseph-Octave Plessis 1763-1825 appointed Bishop of Quebec; serves until 1825.
1721 Quebec Quebec - First regular mail coach service starts between Quebec and Montreal.

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henric · Jan 27, 2015

January 28th 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
1760 – Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
1821 – Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'Ã©tat against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister JoÃ£o Franco.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1917 – Municipally-owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast.
1960 – The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
1964 – An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected.
1979 – CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico.
1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
1988 – In R. v. Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all 9 months of pregnancy.
2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in ChorzÃ³w/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hanged.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 TAYLOR PULLS OFF THE CANADIAN CAPER
Teheran Iran - Kenneth Taylor 1934- Canada's Ambassador to Iran engineers the escape of 6 US diplomats, housed with Canadian Embassy staff since Nov. 22, 1979, when the US Embassy was overrun during the Iranian revolution, and 66 hostages taken. The Americans leave with Canadian passports; Taylor himself leaves a few hours later.

1885
Khartoum Sudan - Frederick Charles Denison 1846-1896 reaches Khartoum with his Canadian Nile Voyageurs too late to rescue General Charles Gordon, who had been killed; 16 Canadians lost their lives in this, Canada's first overseas military expedition.

In Other Events...

1988 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada rules 5-2 that Canada's anti-abortion law violates pregnant women's right to 'security of the person' under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
1983 Winnipeg Manitoba - Progressive Conservative delegates vote 66.9% against a leadership review, but Joe Clark says the mandate is not clear enough, calls leadership convention. He will lose to Brian Mulroney.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau declares he will quit politics if Quebec votes for separation in a referendum.
1976 Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan authorizes provincial takeover of potash mines.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Alan Beddoe 1938- sees Parliament pass an Act adopting his Maple Leaf design for the new National Flag of Canada; over 2,000 designs were submitted.
1918 Guelph Ontario - Dr. John McCrae dies; author of the World War I poem, In Flanders Fields.
1916 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Legislature passes the Temperance Act; allows use of liquor at home but prohibits public bars.
1914 Regina Saskatchewan - Nellie Letitia McClung 1873-1951 her Political Equality League stages mock Parliament in the Walker Theatre; actors debate whether to give equality to men.
1853 Lennoxville Quebec - Charter granted to the University of Bishop's College in Lennoxville.
1850 Brockville Ontario - Founding of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville.
1693 New York USA - Nicholas d'Ailleboust de Manthet 1663-1709 attacks Mohawk villages in New York with Caughnawaga Indians; takes 300 Iroquois prisoners; under Frontenac's orders.

End of C/P.

henric · Jan 28, 2015

January 29th 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.
904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 – "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 – Bear River Massacre.
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred eighty-one people are killed.
1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1967 – The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
2013 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1990 HNATYSHYN TO RIDEAU HALL
Ottawa Ontario - Ray Hnatyshyn sworn in as Canada's 24th Governor General; was MP Saskatoon West 1974-88 and Minister of Justice; wife Gerda; son of John, Canada's first Ukrainian-born Senator, and Helen, President of the National Council of Women.

1946
Haiti - Racing schooner Bluenose sinks after striking a reef off Haiti; built by Smith and Rhulandat at Lunenburg, and launched March 26th, 1921, the ship was invincible in races. She was sold as a Caribbean cargo ship in 1938. Here is a MacCaskall photo of her in her glory, signed by her captain Angus Walters.

In Other Events...

1996 Quebec Quebec - Lucien Bouchard sworn in as Premier of Quebec; former Bloc Quebecois Leader replaces Jacques Parizeau.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Jean Allaire calls for Quebec control of energy, environment, industry and regional development; Allaire Report proposes sovereignty referendum by Fall of 1992.
1990 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- deplores motion by Sault Ste. Marie Town Council declaring English official language of the municipality.
1985 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield found not guilty of possession of marijuana; drug discovered in his bag during Royal Visit security search Sept 25th; he claimed it was planted.
1982 London England - British House of Lords refuses to hear case of Canadian Indians for entrenchment of rights.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Union of Postal Workers president Jean-Claude Parrot starts serving 3 month prison term for defying a back to work law making a strike illegal.
1973 Saigon Vietnam - Canadian Ambassador to South Vietnam Michel Gauvin 1919- leads first 130 members of projected Canadian complement of 230 in ICCS on arrival at Saigon.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Canadian and West Indian students occupy computer centre of Sir George Williams University.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Terrorists bomb Yugoslav Embassy in Ottawa and Consulate in Toronto.
1964 Innsbruck, Austria - Canadian team attends the opening of the ninth Winter Olympic games in Innsbruck.
1856 London England - Alexander Dunn 1833-1868 awarded Victoria Cross for gallantry at the charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea in 1854; first Canadian; awarded by Queen Victoria, the VC is Britain's highest military honour
1853 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Bytown Mechanics Institute and Athenaeum; forerunner of Ottawa Public Library.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Opening of McGill University in Montreal; built with legacy from fur trader James McGill.
1796 Toronto Ontario - Yonge Street officially opened, as a portage road running from the town of York up to Lake Simcoe.

End of C/P.

henric · Jan 29, 2015

January 30th 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.
904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 – The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children.
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred eighty-one people are killed.
1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1967 – The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 – In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
2013 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
2015 – Malaysia has officially declared the disappearance of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident and its passengers and crew presumed dead.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1990 HNATYSHYN TO RIDEAU HALL
Ottawa Ontario - Ray Hnatyshyn sworn in as Canada's 24th Governor General; was MP Saskatoon West 1974-88 and Minister of Justice; wife Gerda; son of John, Canada's first Ukrainian-born Senator, and Helen, President of the National Council of Women.

1946
Haiti - Racing schooner Bluenose sinks after striking a reef off Haiti; built by Smith and Rhulandat at Lunenburg, and launched March 26th, 1921, the ship was invincible in races. She was sold as a Caribbean cargo ship in 1938. Here is a MacCaskall photo of her in her glory, signed by her captain Angus Walters.

1897
Ottawa Ontario - Ishbel, Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General, helps found the Victorian Order of Nurses at the request of the National Council of Women; name chosen to recognize Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

In Other Events...

1996 Quebec Quebec - Lucien Bouchard sworn in as Premier of Quebec; former Bloc Quebecois Leader replaces Jacques Parizeau.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Jean Allaire calls for Quebec control of energy, environment, industry and regional development; Allaire Report proposes sovereignty referendum by Fall of 1992.
1990 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- deplores motion by Sault Ste. Marie Town Council declaring English official language of the municipality.
1985 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield found not guilty of possession of marijuana; drug discovered in his bag during Royal Visit security search Sept 25th; he claimed it was planted.
1982 London England - British House of Lords refuses to hear case of Canadian Indians for entrenchment of rights.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Union of Postal Workers president Jean-Claude Parrot starts serving 3 month prison term for defying a back to work law making a strike illegal.
1973 Saigon Vietnam - Canadian Ambassador to South Vietnam Michel Gauvin 1919- leads first 130 members of projected Canadian complement of 230 in ICCS on arrival at Saigon.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Canadian and West Indian students occupy computer centre of Sir George Williams University.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Terrorists bomb Yugoslav Embassy in Ottawa and Consulate in Toronto.
1964 Innsbruck, Austria - Canadian team attends the opening of the ninth Winter Olympic games in Innsbruck.
1856 London England - Alexander Dunn 1833-1868 awarded Victoria Cross for gallantry at the charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea in 1854; first Canadian; awarded by Queen Victoria, the VC is Britain's highest military honour
1853 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Bytown Mechanics Institute and Athenaeum; forerunner of Ottawa Public Library.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Opening of McGill University in Montreal; built with legacy from fur trader James McGill.
1796 Toronto Ontario - Yonge Street officially opened, as a portage road running from the town of York up to Lake Simcoe.

End of C/P.

henric · Jan 30, 2015

Events:C/P.

314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 – John C. FrÃ©mont is Court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of BolimÃ³w against Russia.
1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1943 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1945 – World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1: The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan.
1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
2011 – A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
2013 – An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1958 GLADSTONE FIRST ABORIGINAL SENATOR
Ottawa Ontario - James Gladstone takes his seat as Canada's first native Senator; Alberta Blood Indian is appointed by Diefenbaker.

1839
London England - John 'Radical Jack' Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 hands his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' to British Prime Minister. The former Governor of the colony blames the power of the Family Compact and Chateau Clique for the 1837 rebellions, and recommends uniting the Canadas under one responsible government, with English the only official language, so as to assimilate the French Canadians.

In Other Events...

1990 Moscow Russia - George Cohon opens first McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Pushkin Square, the world's biggest McDonald's; head of Canadian franchise subsidiary.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- urges end to Polish martial law on the 'Let Poland be Poland' TV broadcast; supporting the Polish Solidarity movement
1980 Toronto Ontario - Ontario to rebate up to $700 in sales tax for purchasers of 1979 model cars; effort to help slumping car sales.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules that Nishga Indians have no aboriginal rights over land in the Nass River Valley, BC; Nishga case.
1966 Quebec - Quebec Court of Appeals reverses Jacques Hebert's contempt of court conviction; found guilty in 1965 for statements in book on Coffin murder.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Government makes Thanksgiving Day a statutory holiday; second Monday in October
1955 Oakville Ontario - Start of l09-day strike of Ford workers at Windsor, Oakville and Etobicoke.
1951 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Duplessis Bridge over the St. Maurice River collapses, killing four people.
1907 Toronto Ontario - Timothy Eaton, founder of the T. Eaton Company of Canada, dies; an innovative retailer, he maintained fixed prices and cash sales, with satisfaction guaranteed.
1901 Montreal Quebec - Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 games for the Stanley Cup.
1863 Toronto Ontario - John Beverley Robinson dies at Beverley House; former Chief Justice.
1851 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton Gas Light Company installs first lamps.
1825 Montreal Quebec - James Reid appointed Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench.
1747 Grand Pre Nova Scotia - Arthur Noble d1747 British commander at Grand Pre surprised by Villiers; loses 500 men.

End of C/P.

henric · Jan 31, 2015

February 1st,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

481 – Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1329 – King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders
1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1814 – Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1876 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1895 – Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
1897 – Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
1942 – World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1946 – The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1953 – North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch, Watersnoodramp, literally "flood disaster") was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.
1957 – Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1964 – The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War.
1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
1974 – A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
1979 – The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1982 – Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
1989 – The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
1990 – Humanitas publishing house is founded in Bucharest, shortly after the Romanian Revolution, by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu.
1991 – A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.
1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
1993 – Gary Bettman becomes the NHL's first commissioner
1994 – Punk rock band Green Day releases their album Dookie, which would eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide.
1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2001 – Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative city, is declared a Federal Territory.
2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2004 – 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'Ã©tat to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
2013 – The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1963 NEIL YOUNG'S FIRST GIG
Winnipeg Manitoba - 17 year old Neil Young performs his first professional date at a Winnipeg country club 35 years ago today.

1920
Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, comprising the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP), formed in the 1870's to administer the NWT, and the Dominion Police, that had guarded government buildings and enforced federal statutes since 1868; headquarters moved to Ottawa while training stays in Regina; size of force set at 2,500.

In Other Events...

1983 Canada - New channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel.
1982 Fort McMurray Alberta - Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa agrees to give the 3 maritime provinces 100% of the royalties from future offshore mineral finds inside the 5 km limit; 75% of royalties beyond.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Gerald Keith Bouey 1920- succeeds Louis Rasminsky as Governor of the Bank of Canada.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Press Council founded out of 4 news organizations representing more than 700 reporters; first of its kind in Canada or US
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and China open diplomatic relations; exchange diplomats in both countries, and officially recognize each other.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Post Office starts 'assured mail program;' next-day delivery of letters posted before 11 am; in most major Canadian cities.
1965 Churchill River Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Spencer Churchill.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Gordon Graydon calls for creation of a Ministry of Food to control Wartime Prices and Trade Board; Leader of Opposition
1912 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton and Strathcona amalgamate to become the city of Edmonton.
1904 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of Dominion Railway Commission; power to fix rates, regulate operations and settle dispute.
1893 Prince Albert Saskatchewan - Coldest day on record in the province: -56.7 degrees Celsius.
1890 Ottawa Ontario - James Wilson Robertson 1857-1930 appointed first Dominion Dairy Commissioner; also Central Experimental Farm's agriculturalist
1878 Quebec Quebec - Cyrille Duquet patents a version of the telephone; from Quebec City.
1870 Quebec Quebec - Founding of the Quebec Provincial Police force.
1858 New Westminster BC - Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; requires miners to obtain licences to search for gold in the Fraser Valley.
1856 New Brunswick - New Brunswick Electric Telegraph leased by American Telegraph Company.
1854 Quebec Quebec - Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec.
1849 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 returns to Toronto from the US on the same day the Amnesty Act grants full immunity to 1837 rebels who fled; some rebels now back from Van Diemen's land, some remain, others have died
1799 Charlottetown PEI - Royal Assent given to change the name of Ile St. Jean to Prince Edward Island.
1796 Toronto Ontario - Capital of Upper Canada transferred from Newark (Niagara) to York.
1754 Cape Breton Nova Scotia - Augustin Boschenry de Drucour 1703-1762 appointed Governor of Cape Breton Island; last French Governor; from August 15 to August 15, 1758
1663 Quebec Quebec - The town of Quebec is rocked by an evening earthquake.

End of C/P.

henric · Feb 1, 2015

February 2nd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
962 – Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
1141 – The Battle of Lincoln, at which King Stephen was defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda, presenting her with the unfulfilled opportunity to become the first queen of medieval England.
1207 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established.
1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England.
1536 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1542 – Portuguese forces under CristovÃ£o da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of BaÃ§ente.
1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1848 – Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco.
1868 – Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1899 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
1901 – Funeral of Queen Victoria.
1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
1914 – Charlie Chaplin's first film appearance, Making a Living premiered.
1920 – The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1920 – France occupies Memel.
1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1933 – Working as maids, the sisters Christine and LÃ©a Papin murder their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France. The case is the subject of a number of French films and plays.
1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces.
1957 – Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
1959 – Dyatlov Pass incident
1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
1971 – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
1972 – The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
1976 – The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
1980 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1982 – 1982 Hama Massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
1988 – Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
1990 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2007 – The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1897 LADY ABERDEEN FOUNDS THE VON
Ottawa Ontario - Countess Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General, starts organizing the Victorian Order of Nurses - the VON.

1942
Vancouver BC - Ottawa proclaims western British Columbia a 'protected area' under wartime regulations, and orders Japanese nationals moved inland for security reasons; within weeks, the government includes second and third generation Canadians of Japanese origin under the edict; they are treated as aliens and deprived of their property.

In Other Events...

1977 Toronto, Ontario - Maple Leafs' Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals in a game against Detroit Red Wings, setting a record for an NHL defenceman
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa signs agreements with Newfoundland and PEI to put public employees under the federal AIB - Anti-Inflation Board.
1974 Christchurch New Zealand - Canada finishes in 3rd place at 10th Commonwealth Games at Christchurch, New Zealand; 25 gold medals, 19 silver, 18 bronze.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, effective Jan. l, 1969; cities of Ottawa & Eastview, County of Carleton, Township of Cumberland.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - David Croll issues report of his Senate Committee on the Elderly; recommends guaranteed annual income at age 65; and programs to help seniors stay productive.
1963 Charlottetown PEI - Construction begins on the Fathers of Confederation Memorial Building in Charlottetown.
1955 Sisson Dam NB - New Brunswick experiences the coldest day in recorded history in the Province: -47.2 degrees Celsius.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 loses by-election; resigns as Leader of the Conservatives and retires to practice law in Toronto; former Prime Minister was pro-conscription.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Delegation of 400 Saskatchewan farmers and businessmen visit Ottawa to demand 'Dollar Wheat.'
1926 Ottawa Ontario - Henry Herbert Stevens 1878-1973 releases damaging information about Customs officials accepting bribes; customs scandals lead to Mackenzie King's resignation June 28.
1899 Paris France - Joseph-Israel Tarte 1848-1907 appointed head of the Paris Exposition Commission for Canada; organizes Canadian display at World's Fair in Paris
1848 Halifax Nova Scotia - James B. Uniacke d1858 appointed Attorney-General in first Liberal government in Nova Scotia; Joseph Howe 1804-1873 Provincial Secretary.
1807 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada Legislature passes bill setting up provincial grammar schools in all districts.

End of C/P.

henric · Feb 2, 2015

February 3rd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1112 – Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1377 – More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
1509 – The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the MamlÃ»k Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
1534 – Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
1787 – Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
1813 – JosÃ© de San MartÃn defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
1825 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.
1830 – The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 – Wake Forest University is established.
1852 – Justo JosÃ© de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
1897 – The Greco-Turkish War breaks out.
1900 – Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
1917 – World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1930 – Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1943 – The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
1944 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
1947 – The lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 Â°C (−83.0 Â°F), is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1959 – Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
1967 – Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1969 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1989 – After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1989 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1998 – Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1947 BBRRRRR!!!
Snag Yukon - Thermometers in Snag register -64C (-83F), the lowest temperature recorded in Canada; likely the lowest temperature on record in North America.

1916
Ottawa Ontario - Fire destroys the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, killing seven. The gothic Parliamentary Library is saved by a quick thinking clerk, who closes the iron doors. The tragedy is widely blamed on German wartime saboteurs. The building, containing the Commons and Senate, will be rebuilt in the Gothic revival style, and completed in 1920.

In Other Events...

1994 Ottawa Ontario - Federal Court of Canada upholds human rights tribunal ruling on mandatory retirement in the Canadian Forces; recommends developing fitness standard instead of relying on an arbitrary age rule.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Petro-Canada offers to acquire control of Petrofina Canada Ltd. from foreign owners, at $120 a share.
1981 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Court of Appeal rules as legal Ottawa's constitutional proposals and amendments.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa makes first allocations of $200 million Canada Works program to cut unemployment.
1975 Winnipeg Manitoba - New Syncrude agreement saves tar sands project: Alberta in for 10%, Ontario 5%, Ottawa 15%.
1972 Sapporo Japan - Canadian team attends opening of Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, the first held in Asia; with total 35 nations and 1,231 competitors; to Feb. 13.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 bans all imports of Rhodesian goods, and all exports of Canadian goods to Rhodesia; with limited exceptions.
1961 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Bank of Commerce merges with Imperial Bank of Canada; to form Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $25 million to help subsidize the Commonwealth Transpacific Cable.
1959 Toronto Ontario - Gold bullion is traded on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange for the first time; today the TSE provides a market for gold futures.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Imperial Bank of Canada permitted to merge with Barclays Bank (Canada).
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Government extends compulsory military training from one month to four.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 appointed to the Senate by Bennett; made Government Leader in the Senate.
1927 Washington DC - William Phillips appointed first United States Ambassador to Canada.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - French-speaking teachers protest pay freeze, imposed after they refuse language restrictions; strike by 122 teachers closes 17 bilingual schools in Ontario.
1901 Sydney Nova Scotia - Dominion Iron and Steel Company starts up first of four new blast furnaces at Sydney.
1865 Quebec Quebec - Canadian legislature resolves in an Address to the Queen to ask for Union of the Provinces of British North America.
1831 Montreal Quebec - Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, Lord Aylmer 1775-1850 appointed Governor-General of British North America.

End of C/P.

henric · Feb 3, 2015

February 4th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
634 – Battle of Dathin: Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat the Christian Arabs around Gaza (Palestine).
960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1169 – A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
1454 – In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1758 – MacapÃ¡, Brazil is founded.
1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1810 – The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
1820 – The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
1899 – The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1945 – World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
1992 – A coup d'Ã©tat is led by Hugo ChÃ¡vez against Venezuelan President Carlos AndrÃ©s PÃ©rez.
1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 Â°F (−32.2 Â°C)
1997 – En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
2003 – The Bengali Hindus declares the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
2006 – A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1924 CANADA'S FIRST WINTER OLYMPIC GOLD
Chamonix France - First Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix. The Toronto Granite Club hockey team brings home the Gold Medal for Canada in ice hockey.

In Other Events...

1992 St. John's Newfoundland - Gulf Canada pulls out of the Hibernia oil project; Gulf's 25% stake acquired by Ottawa, the remaining Hibernia partners and Murphy Oil.
1982 United Nations New York - With 20 other nations, Canada signs a UN declaration against 'torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.'
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Official Languages Commissioner Keith Spicer recommends use of French as the language of work for Quebec employees of Air Canada and CN Rail.
1976 Innsbruck Austria - Canadian team attends opening of the 12th Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck; with total 37 nations and 1128 competitors; to Feb. 15.
1976 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Supreme Court rules that province does not have right to censor motion pictures.
1975 Alberta - Ottawa, Alberta and Ontario invest $600 million in Syncrude Canada, to develop the Athabasca tar sands.
1970 Chedabucto Bay Nova Scotia - Liberian-registered tanker Arrow goes aground, splitting in two and spilling 15,500 metric tons of bunker C crude oil; inquiry will blame improper navigation.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - George Scott Harkness 1903- Defence Minister resigns over Canada's refusal to accept US nuclear warheads for Bomarc missiles.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Kellock issues report of the Kellock Royal Commission; rules fireman unnecessary on CPR diesel railway engines.
1945 France - First Canadian Corps ordered to rejoin First Canadian Army on western front.
1932 Lake Placid New York - Canadian team attends ceremonies, as New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt opens the 3rd Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid; with total 17 nations and 306 competitors; to Feb. 15.
1903 Montreal Quebec - Montreal AAAs beat Winnipeg Victorias 2 games to 1, with 1 tie to win the Stanley Cup.
1901 Quebec Quebec - Quebec City revives its Winter Carnival; now a permanent annual event
1880 Lucan Ontario - James Donnelly, his wife Johannah, niece Bridget and sons Thomas and John are slain by night riders in Biddulph Township, north of London; six men will be acquitted in the 'Black Donnelly' murder case, after two trials. Members of the 'White Boys' faction likely carried out the crime, carrying into Canada an old religious feud originating in County Tipperary, Ireland.
1876 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba abolishes its Legislative Council or upper house.
1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg gets charter; becomes a city.
1858 Langley BC - Gold is discovered along British Columbia's Fraser River; leads to gold rush.
1839 London England - John Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 submits his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' to British Colonial Office; 'Radical Jack' recommends the anglicization of French Canadians to make them a minority.
1667 Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 hosts first ball held in New France, to celebrate his victories over the Mohawks.
1629 London England - David & Lewis Kirke found Company of Adventurers to Canada with Sir William Alexander; to capture St. Lawrence and remove French.
1623 Quebec Quebec - Louis Hebert c1575- 1627 granted seigneury of Sault-au-Matelot by Henri, Duc de Montmorency; first seigneury of 150 founded during the French regime; beginning of feudal system to 1854.

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