This Date In History

henric · Apr 25, 2015

April 26th,2015 - This Date in History.

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1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).
1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious Ã©migrÃ©s of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien RÃ©gime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
1903 – AtlÃ©tico Madrid Association football club is founded
1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yama****a.
1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1982 – Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1989 – People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
2002 – Robert SteinhÃ¤user infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

Today's Canadian Headline...

1935 BOUCHER GIVEN IT FOR GOOD
Montreal Quebec- Frank Boucher of the New York Rangers given permanent possession of the Lady Byng Trophy for the most sportsmanlike player in the NHL; he had won it for 7 of its 11 year history. NHL will purchases a new trophy to be awarded the following year.

In Other Events...

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Richard Bennett Hatfield 1931-1991 dies of brain cancer; Premier of New Brunswick 1970-87; Senator 1990-91; first elected 1961; Premier 1970, defeating Louis Robichaud.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Vice-Admiral Charles Thomas resigns, warns defense cuts will threaten sovereignty and endanger lives of military personnel; Thomas is Deputy Commander of the Canadian Armed Forces.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Business Council on National Issues warns country must compete against rest of world; urges common-sense redivision of federal-provincial powers.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister Michael Wilson forced to read contents of his Budget at an evening news conference, after Global TV reporter Doug Small broadcasts the leaked contents.
1988 Manitoba - Gary Filmon 1945- leads Manitoba PCs to minority victory in provincial election; both his opponents, Gary Doer (NDP) and Sharon Carstairs (Liberal), were opposed to the Meech Lake Accord.
1983 Toronto Ontario - First flight of Skyship 500 at Toronto Airport; can carry 10 people; uses non-flammable helium; first Canadian-built airship.
1982 Saskatchewan - Grant Devine 1934- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory in Saskatchewan election, defeating Allan Blakeney with 57 of the 64 seats.
1982 Ontario - 80% of Ontario's 14,000 doctors stage 2-day walk-out to protest new fee schedule.
1968 Africa - Ottawa grants long-term interest-free loan to Ghana, Togo, and Dahomey for electric power grid; largest Canadian project in Africa.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court authorized to review Steven Truscott's 1959 murder conviction and life sentence.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Federal budget includes 10% cut in personal income tax.
1959 Montreal Quebec - Fidel Castro Cuban Premier visits Montreal.
1954 Geneva Switzerland - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 leads Canadian delegation at conference to settle the Korean question.
1944 Atlantic - Canadian warships sink German destroyer off France.
1918 Halifax Nova Scotia - Women in Nova Scotia granted the right to vote.
1900 Hull Quebec - Start of fire in Hull; spreads across the river to Ottawa; kills 7, causes $10 million in losses.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - First CPR bill introduced in Parliament.
1871 Winnipeg Manitoba - Eight Ontario land agents reach Fort Garry; beginning of influx of speculators and settlers that leads to the Red River Insurrection.
1860 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Second Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles of Canada from six independent militia units; later the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, oldest regiment in the Canadian Armed Forces.
1778 Nootka BC - Captain Cook sets sail to the north west from Nootka Sound, tracing the coast of British Columbia and Alaska.
1625 Dieppe France - Jesuit priest Jean de BrÃ©beuf sails for Quebec with two priests and two lay brothers; founder of Huron Mission.

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henric · Apr 26, 2015

April 27th,2015 - This Date in History.

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33 BC – Lucius Marcius Philippus, step-brother to the future emperor Augustus, celebrates a triumph for his victories while serving as governor in one of the provinces of Hispania.
395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of the more powerful Roman empresses of Late Antiquity.
629 – Shahrbaraz is crowned as king of the Sasanian Empire.
711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
1509 – Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
1522 – Combined forces of Spain and the Papal States defeat a French and Venetian army at the Battle of Bicocca.
1539 – Re-founding of the city of BogotÃ¡, New Granada (now Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and SebastiÃ¡n de BelalcÃ¡zar.
1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1578 – Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade by the Ottomans, where today the largest Orthodox church building in the world stands
1650 – The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army from Orkney invades mainland Scotland but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for Â£10.
1749 – First performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Ridgefield: A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
1810 – Beethoven composes FÃ¼r Elise.
1813 – War of 1812: American troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York (present day Toronto, Canada).
1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1865 – The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
1865 – The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,800, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.
1904 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1911 – Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1914 – Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1927 – Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
1945 – World War II: German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland.
1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1950 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
1953 – Operation Moolah is initiated by U.S. General Mark W. Clark against Communist pilots in the Korean War.
1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
1961 – Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
1967 – Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1974 – Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
1977 – Twenty-eight people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1986 – The City of Prypiat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl Disaster
1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1989 – The April 27 Demonstration,a student-led protest responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
1996 – The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
2005 – The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2011 – The April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. 205 tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
2012 – At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
2014 – Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954.
2014 – A tornado outbreak over much of the eastern United States kills more than 45 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1942 NOT NECESSARILY CONSCRIPTION
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 released from 1940 election pledge with a 63.7% victory in the conscription plebiscite, giving him a mandate to impose overseas conscription 'if necessary'; Quebec votes 72% against; other provinces vote 80% in favour.

1967
Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson officially opens l'Exposition universelle de MontrÃ©al - Expo '67; Canada's first world's fair runs until Oct. 29.

1813
Toronto Ontario - Invasion force of 1,700 US troops under Zebulon Pike and Henry Dearborn assaults the town of York; Sheaffe and 600 defenders withdraw to Kingston; Americans torch Upper Canada's parliament buildings, and depart May 8 after burning and looting the town. Britain retaliates a year later by raiding Washington, and setting fire to the White House. The panorama shows the American naval force attacking Fort York.

In Other Events...

1992 Montreal Quebec - Lina Haddad, age 27, gives birth to Quebec's first quintuplets - three boys and two girls.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Quebec women celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the vote for women in the province.
1990 Vancouver BC - Charles Woodward dies at the age of 66; CEO of Woodward's for 31 years, he added 21 stores to the BC-Alberta chain; had resigned June 1988 before giving up family control to the Bay.
1983 Houston Texas - Nolan Ryan of the Astros strikes out Montreal Expo pinch-hitter Brad Mills in the eighth inning as the Astros beat the Expos 4-2; breaks Walter Johnson's 56 year old record of 3,508, to become major league baseball's all-time strikeout king.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Parti Quebecois government proposes the Charter of the French Language as Bill One in the National Assembly; to make French thee working language in Quebec and limit the use of English.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Beryl Plumptre 1927- chairs new Food Prices Review Board.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces $15 million Colombo Plan contribution to Pakistan.
1928 PEI - Prince Edward Island changes to driving on the right hand side of the road.
1908 London England - Canada sends team of 84 athletes to the fourth modern Olympic Games opening this day in London; attracts 22 nations and a total of 2056 competitors; Canada will win three golds, in Lacrosse, Shooting (Walter Ewing) and the 200m Race (Robert Kerr); events last until Oct. 31.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell 1823-1917 resigns; calls his opponents in the Cabinet 'a nest of traitors'; ex-Head of the Orange Lodge, he is not able to deal with religious factions in the Conservative Party; succeeded by Sir Charles Tupper.
1880 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie resigns as Liberal Party leader; the former PM is succeeded by Edward Blake.
1846 Toronto Ontario - John A. Macdonald from Kingston gives his maiden speech in the Assembly.
1838 Montreal Quebec - Martial law revoked in Lower Canada; invoked the previous year because of the rebellion.
1831 Quebec Quebec - Steamship Royal William launched at Quebec City; first Canadian vessel to cross the Atlantic entirely under steam power.
1644 Montreal Quebec - Wheat planted in Canada for the first time.

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henric · Apr 27, 2015

April 28th,2015 - This Date in History.

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357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume SchnaebelÃ© is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
1952 – Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1975 – General Cao Văn ViÃªn, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4Â½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – Port Arthur Massacre (Australia): Gunman Martin Bryant opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
2001 – Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1996 EXPOS ROCK ROCKIES
Denver Colorado - Montreal Expos thrash Colorado Rockies 21-9 at Coors Field.

1760
Ste-Foy Quebec - FranÃ§ois, Duc de LÃ©vis, with 5,000 soldiers and Indians, defeats James Murray's 3,900 British troops at the Battle of Ste-Foy; Murray, leader of the British after Wolfe's death, wisely retreats behind the walls of Quebec to wait for reinforcements by ship.

In Other Events...

1996 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg Jets play their final game as a team, and are eliminated from the playoffs, losing to the Detroit Red Wings 4-1; the s-called 'Winnipeg Whiteouts' play as the Phoenix Coyotes in the 1996-97 season.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Milwaukee Brewers wallop Toronto Blue Jays 22-2 with an American League record 31 hits in 9 innings.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Floyd Laughren presents $52.8 billion NDP spending budget that will triple Ontario Deficit to record $9.7 billion; Ontario Treasurer goes against advice of Ottawa.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Matthew Fedor dies at age 4; first Canadian to receive a bone-marrow transplant from an unrelated donor.
1983 Albany New York - Ontario signs agreement with New York State to exchange information and research on acid rain.
1972 Tuktoyaktuk NWT - Ottawa starts building 1,690 km long highway from Alberta border to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.
1968 Halifax Nova Scotia - Walter Sitch, 98, is possibly Canada's first great-great-great-grandfather when his great-great-granddaughter gives birth to a son.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Vasily Vasilievich Tarasov expelled from Canada for spying; Ottawa correspondent for Soviet newspaper Izvestia.
1945 Netherlands - Truce arranged between Canadian and German forces in Holland.
1919 Geneva Switzerland - Canada joins 41 other countries as they unanimously accept the Covenant of the League of Nations.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister John Rose brings down the first Canadian budget after Confederation for the Macdonald Ministry.
1827 Guelph Ontario - John Galt 1779-1839 founds town of Guelph; chooses site as headquarters of Canada Company.
1760 Quebec Quebec - Last meeting of the Sovereign Council of New France.
1631 London England - Luke Foxe 1586-c1635 sails from London on the Charles to find the Northwest Passage; skirts the western shore of Hudson Bay; finds relics of Button's expedition.
1610 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Quebec.

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henric · Apr 28, 2015

April 29th,2015 - This Date in History.

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1091 Â– Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I.
1386 Â– Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
1429 Â– Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
1483 Â– Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
1521 Â– Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of VÃ¤sterÃ¥s and soon capture the city of VÃ¤sterÃ¥s. The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 January the following year, after a nine-month siege.
1770 Â– James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
1781 Â– American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
1832 Â– Ã‰variste Galois is released from prison.
1861 Â– American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
1862 Â– American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
1864 Â– Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
1882 Â– The "Elektromote", forerunner of the trolleybus, is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
1903 Â– A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, North-West Territories, Canada.
1910 Â– The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
1916 Â– World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
1916 Â– Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
1944 Â– World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
1945 Â– World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
1945 Â– World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
1945 Â– World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
1945 Â– World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl DÃ¶nitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
1945 Â– The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
1945 Â– The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
1946 Â– The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
1946 Â– Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
1951 Â– Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
1953 Â– The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1965 Â– Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
1967 Â– After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
1968 Â– The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
1970 Â– Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
1974 Â– Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1975 Â– Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1975 Â– Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnamese-held Trường Sa Islands.
1986 Â– A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
1986 Â– The Chernobyl Disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
1991 Â– A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249 km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
1992 Â– Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
1997 Â– The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
1999 Â– The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
2004 Â– **** Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
2004 Â– Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
2005 Â– Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
2011 Â– The Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.
2013 Â– A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1970 BOURASSA TAKES QUEBEC
Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 leads Liberals to 72 seats and victory in the Quebec election, defeating the Union Nationale under Jean-Jacques Bertrand (17 seats); 12 Social Credit and 7 members of the Parti Quebecois also elected to National Assembly.

1880
Ottawa Ontario - Melville Bell, Alexander Graham Bell's brother, incorporates The Bell Telephone Company of Canada on this day as Royal Assent is given to the act chartering the firm; the Bell stock is soon listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, whose members quickly take to the new fangled device. The invention was developed over the past decade at the Bell homestead in Brantford, and the first business phones installed in Hamilton.

1903
Crowsnest Pass Alberta - A 90 million ton wedge of limestone slides off Turtle Mountain onto the coal mining village of Frank at 4:10 am, burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds; the slab is 1,300 ft high, 4,000 ft wide, 500 ft thick. Seventeen men in the mine dig themselves out a day later. The town will be permanently evacuated.

In Other Events...

1995 Kitchener Ontario - Butchers finish making the world's longest sausage, with a length of 28.77 miles.
1991 Iqualuit NWT - Environment Minister Jean Charest announces $100 million program to clean up toxic sites and contaminated waste dumps in the Arctic.
1991 Elliot Lake Ontario - Denison Mines to close uranium plant in Elliot Lake, putting 1000 out of work; blames high costs, cancellation of Ontario Hydro supply contract.
1986 Kingston Ontario - Queen's offensive tackle Mike Schad chosen by Los Angeles Rams, to become the first Canadian football player ever selected in the first round of the NFL draft.
1981 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Phillies' Steve Carlton strikes out Montreal Expo Tim Wallach, in the first inning of the 6-2 victory; becomes the sixth major-league pitcher, and the first left-hander, to strike out 3,000 batters.
1973 New Brunswick - Saint John River flooding causes up to $25 million damage in New Brunswick.
1971 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 outlines his James Bay project; Hydro Quebec to build $6 billion hydroelectric power project in James Bay region; largest such development ever undertaken in western hemisphere.
1970 Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933-1997 leads Liberals to 72 seats and victory in the Quebec election, defeating the Union Nationale under Jean-Jacques Bertrand (17 seats); 12 Social Credit and 7 members of the Parti Quebecois also elected to National Assembly.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Ontario government brings in $1 an hour provincial minimum wage; starting June 29.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - British PM Harold Macmillan arrives in Ottawa for talks with Diefenbaker and Cabinet on European Common Market.
1948 United Nations New York-Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 proposes 'collective-security league;' helps lead to formation of NATO.
1945 Netherlands - Canadians start air dropping food supplies to the starving Dutch.
1944 Atlantic - German U-Boats sink Royal Canadian Navy destroyer HMCS Athabaskan off the coast of France.
1944 Atlantic - HMCS Haida drives flaming German warship aground.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley calls taxes 'a temporary wartime expedient' in budget speech to Commons; warns of probable $500 million deficit.
1914 Toronto Ontario - Supreme Court of Ontario bans employment of unqualified teachers.
1891 Vancouver BC - CP steamship Empress of India arrives in Vancouver from Yokohama to open regular service to the Far East; breaks record Pacific crossing by two days.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - First session of 7th Parliament meets until September 30; deals with government scandals.
1817 Washington DC - Richard Rush for the US and Charles Bagot for Britain sign the Rush-Bagot Agreement limiting the number of warships the two countries can maintain on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain - 2 ships each under 100 tons on upper Great Lakes, 1 each on Lake Champlain. On this day in 1818, US President Monroe proclaims US naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1776 Montreal Quebec - Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 arrives in Montreal with Charles Carroll and Samuel Chase; sent by the Continental Congress to convert Canadians to freedom.
1745 Canso Nova Scotia - William Pepperell 1696-1759 departs Canso to attack Louisbourg with British naval squadron from West Indies under Comm. Peter Warren; joined at Canso by smaller groups from New Hampshire and Connecticut.
1742 North Dakota - FranÃ§ois de Varennes de La VÃ©rendrye leaves Fort La Reine with his brother Louis-Joseph, to follow the Souris River to the Missouri River watershed.
1671 Paris France - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 receives royal Patent for her Sisters of the Congregation of Montreal.
1644 Quebec - FranÃ§ois-Joseph Bressani 1612-1672 captured by Iroquois near Fort Richelieu; ransomed by Dutch.
1628 Quebec - Guillaume Couillard-Lespinay c1591-1663 first person in Canada to use an ox-drawn plow; Louis HÃ©bert's son-in-law.
1627 Paris France - Cardinal Armand de Richelieu 1585-1642 founds the Company of New France, or One Hundred Associates, with 100,000 crowns capital; 'to be proprietors of Canada; to govern in peace and war.' The company, a group of merchants and aristocrats, is given the monopoly of the fur trade; in return they have to settle 300 colonists a year up to 1643.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 29, 2015

April 30th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
313 – Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
642 – Chindasuinth is proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops.
1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
1598 – Juan de OÃ±ate makes a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico.
1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda CamarÃ³n, Mexico.
1871 – The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
1885 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
1939 – The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.
1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
1945 – World War II: FÃ¼hrerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed the Hoover Dam a second time.
1948 – In BogotÃ¡, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty."
1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco.
1967 – The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
1973 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned.
1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
1980 – Beatrix becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
1980 – The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
1982 – The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta.
1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by GÃ¼nter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany
1994 – Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton becomes the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters.
2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2009 – Seven people are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
2009 – Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker.
2012 – An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
2013 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands.
2014 – A bomb blast in ÃœrÃ¼mqi kills three people and injures 79 others.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1987 ACCORD AT MEECH LAKE
Old Chelsea Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- and 10 premiers agree on constitutional draft called the Meech Lake Accord, to enable Quebec to join the constitutional fold by meeting its five conditions, including recognizing Quebec as a distinct society; needs to be ratified by Parliament and all provincial legislatures by June 23rd, 1990 to become law.

1658
Montreal Quebec - Marguerite Bourgeoys 1620-1700 opens Ville Marie's first school for French and Indian children, in a stone stable measuring 36' by 18' borrowed from the Company of Montreal.

In Other Events...

1991 Montreal Quebec - William J. Bennett dies; former President of the Iron Ore Company of Canada (1965-77); Private Secretary to C.D. Howe (1934-46); mentor of Brian Mulroney.
1990 Cornwall Ontario - 500 evacuated Mohawks from the 9,000 member Akwesasne reserve decide not to return home until dispute on gambling resolved.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Strong winds across Exhibition Stadium cause a 30 minute delay, then cancellation of a Blue Jays game with the Texas Rangers.
1982 Fort McMurray Alberta - Alberta Alsands oil project collapses despite offers of aid from Ottawa and Alberta.
1981 Nepal - John Lauchlan & James Blench; both natives of Seebe, Alberta, reach summit of 7,454.5m Mt. Gangapurna in the Himalayas by a new south face route.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes Petroleum Administration Act; Ottawa to set domestic price of oil and gas without consulting provinces.
1974 Edmonton Alberta - Ralph Steinhauer 1905- appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta by PM Trudeau; former chief of the Saddle Lake Indian band the first aboriginal Canadian named to a viceregal position.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Hydro Quebec outlines plans to build $6 billion hydro-electric power project in James Bay region; largest such development ever undertaken in the western hemisphere.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government allowed the anti-terrorist Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act to lapse at midnight; FLQ still illegal under Criminal Code.
1970 Vancouver BC - First computer-controlled CP Rail coal train reaches Roberts Bank from mines in Alberta.
1966 Hull Quebec - National Capital Commission starts marina-recreation complex on Quebec side of the Ottawa River across from Rideau Falls.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - Lt. Gen. H.D. Graham leaves the Canadian armed forces; last officer with a World War I ribbon to retire.
1950 Edmonton Alberta - Construction starts on $95 million Interprovincial Pipeline to carry oil from Alberta to the Lakehead.
1942 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange Index hits wartime low of 84.8 on news of German victories.
1941 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian passenger ship Nerissa off Ireland; 73 Canadian Army personnel lost.
1932 Fredericton NB - RCMP absorbs provincial police force of New Brunswick due to near bankruptcy of the province.
1903 Toronto Ontario - Emily Howard Stowe 1831-1903 dies; first Canadian woman admitted to practice medicine in Canada (1880).
1892 Church Point Nova Scotia - St. Anne's College at Church Point gets university charter.
1803 Paris France - Napoleon Bonaparte sells Louisiana to the US for $27 million; territories between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains first claimed by explorers from New France.
1789 Saint John, New Brunswick - Parrtown and Carleton became Saint John, the first incorporated city in Canada.
1745 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - William Pepperell 1696-1759 anchors main body of the attacking British fleet at Flat Point Cove in Gabarus Bay off Louisbourg; the fortress is defended by 560 regular French soldiers and 1,400 militiamen.
1630 Scotland - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling 1577-1640 grants barony in Nova Scotia, from Yarmouth to Lunenburg, to Claude and Charles de La Tour.

End of C/P.

henric · Apr 30, 2015

May 1st,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
524 – King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at OrlÃ©ans after an 8-year reign and is succeeded by his brother Godomar.
880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
1328 – Wars of Scottish Independence end: By the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1455 – Battle of Arkinholm, Royal forces end the Black Douglas hegemony in Scotland.
1576 – Stephen BÃ¡thory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1707 – The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1786 – In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
1794 – War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
1840 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1844 – Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
1846 – The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
1851 – Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
1852 – The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
1856 – The Province of Isabela was created in the Philippines in honor of the Queen Isabela II of Spain.
1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army completes its capture of New Orleans.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1865 – The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
1866 – The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1885 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
1886 – Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
1893 – The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
1898 – Spanish–American War: Battle of Manila Bay: The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
1900 – The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
1901 – The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
1925 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
1925 – The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
1927 – The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
1927 – The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1933 – The Roca–Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
1933 – The Humanist Manifesto I published.
1940 – The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
1941 – World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
1944 – World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens, Greece in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
1945 – World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
1945 – World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the FÃ¼hrerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.
1945 – World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
1945 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans free Trieste.
1946 – Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
1946 – The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
1947 – Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
1948 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
1950 – Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
1956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1956 – A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
1957 – Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire England.
1960 – Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Also known as "Maharashtra Day".
1960 – Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961 – The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1965 – Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
1970 – Protests erupt in Seattle, following the announcement by U.S. President Richard Nixon that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country.
1971 – Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
1974 – The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expelled from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan PerÃ³n.
1977 – Thirty-six people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
1978 – Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1982 – The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1982 – Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
1983 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
1987 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1989 – Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1990 – The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
1991 – Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record.
1993 – Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion
1994 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
1995 – Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
1999 – The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
2001 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
2004 – Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2006 – The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2007 – The Los Angeles May Day mÃªlÃ©e occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
2008 – The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
2009 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2011 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
2011 – Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has been killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Due to the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, bin Laden was actually killed on May 2.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1921 QUEBEC STAYS WET
Quebec Quebec - The Quebec government takes control of the sale of liquor in the province; with near universal prohibition of alcoholic beverages in North America, Quebec is the only 'wet' jurisdiction on the continent for a time.

1660
Hawkesbury, Ontario - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux 1635-1660 with 16 compatriots and 44 Huron allies, intending to ambush the Iroquois, instead meets a war party of 300 Onondagas, and has to retreat into an abandoned Algonkian fort by the Long Sault Rapids on the Ottawa River; some French panic and fire on the Iroquois, leading to the desertion of Huron chief Annaotaha. When a powder cask blows up, the Iroquois attack. [see tomorrow for conclusion].

In Other Events...

1991 Houston Texas - Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers shuts out the visiting Toronto Blue Jays 3-0, throwing a record seventh no-hitter; Ryan is 44 years old.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Charlie Mayer announces price of No. 1 spring wheat to drop by 18%; from $165 to $135 a tonne; Grains and Oilseeds Minister.
1987 London England - British Customs seizes Air Canada jet at Heathrow Airport after discovering a major hashish shipment from India; plane released after Air Canada pays substantial fine.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts Sport Select baseball pool; meets opposition of the provinces and major league baseball.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa imposes special tax of $1.15 per barrel to pay for Petro-Canada's purchase of Petrofina.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to control own air space for the first time since NORAD agreement signed in 1958.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canada to bring 3,000 South Vietnamese refugees to Canada.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Ontario awards $16 million to West German firm Krauss Maffei to build 4 km elevated transit system at CNE.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules compulsory breath tests do not constitute a breach of the Canadian Bill of Rights.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Bureau of Statistics changes name to Statistics Canada.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Jack Kimber appointed second outside President of the Toronto Stock Exchange; ex-chairman of the OSC and the Attorney General's Committee on Securities Legislation.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Radicals bomb US Consulate in Montreal.
1963 Quebec Quebec - Hydro-Quebec expropriates the 11 remaining private power companies in Quebec for $600 million, extending its operation province-wide; founded in 1944 after the Duplessis government took over Montreal Light, Heat and Power Consolidated and its subsidiary, Beauharnois Light, Heat and Power Co.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia, starts two-day visit to Canada.
1959 Ottawa Ontario - Streetcars in Ottawa replaced by buses.
1956 Canada - Founding date of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC).
1951 Korea - 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group sent to join United Nations forces in Korea.
1950 Edmonton Alberta - Start of $95 million inter-provincial pipeline to carry oil from Edmonton to Lake Superior.
1944 London England - London Conference of Dominion premiers meets until May 16.
1940 Canada - Storage stocks of every commodity except cheese at 3 year high; due to 'Phony War'.
1932 PEI - RCMP absorbs provincial police force of Prince Edward Island.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Building trades in Winnipeg strike over union recognition and collective bargaining.
1912 Ottawa Ontario - Canada issues first five-dollar bank note.
1911 France - Philippe Ray appointed Canadian Commissioner to France.
1909 Ontario - Prohibition goes into effect in Ontario.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the Carnegie Library at Ottawa; today's Ottawa Public Library.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Public Printing Bureau adopts eight hour work day.
1896 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 asked by the Governor General to serve as Canada's 6th Prime Minister on resignation of Mackenzie Bowell; Tupper PM to July 8, 1896, when he is defeated in the election.
1893 Ottawa Ontario - Joseph Burr Tyrell 1858-1957, of the Geological Survey of Canada, leaves Ottawa to map 5,150 km of Barren Lands from Hudson Bay to Lake Athabasca; with brother J. W. Tyrell.
1888 Ottawa Ontario - Frederick Arthur, Baron Stanley of Preston starts his term as Governor-General of Canada; serves from June 11, 1888 to September 6, 1893; will later donate hockey's Stanley Cup.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Electric lighting used for the first time to illuminate city streets in Ottawa.
1876 St. Catharines Ontario - St. Catharines incorporates as a city.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Post Office Savings Bank established.
1850 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 brings his family home to Toronto after 12 year exile in the US.
1822 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Montreal General Hospital with 80 patients.
1776 Quebec Quebec - John Thomas 1725-1776 relieves Arnold and Wooster and the American invading force at Quebec.
1775 Quebec - The Quebec Act comes into force, creating a Governor and Council, and allowing the continued exercise of the French language and Roman Catholic religion. In Montreal, English vandals blacken the bust of King George III and place a 'potato' rosary around its neck. On the bust they write: 'Behold, the Pope of Canada, or the English idiot.'
1688 Quebec Quebec - In Lower Town, the cornerstone is laid for the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires; two years later, the church is named to celebrate Count Frontenac's 1690 victory over the English fleet led by Phips; it is Canada's oldest full-sized church.
1682 Quebec Quebec - Jacques de Meulles d1703 appointed Intendant of New France; serves from October 9, 1682, to September 23, 1686.
1682 Paris France - Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre 1622-1688 appointed Governor of New France to replace Frontenac, who is recalled from Quebec; serves from October 9, 1682 to July 31, 1685.
1663 Paris France - Augustin de Saffray de Mezy appointed first Royal Governor of New France; serves from September 15, 1663 to May 5, 1665.

End of C/P.

henric · May 1, 2015

May 2nd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
1335 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
1611 – The King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
1672 – John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
1808 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
1812 – The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under JosÃ© MarÃa Morelos y PavÃ³n abandon the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under FÃ©lix MarÃa Calleja.
1816 – Marriage of LÃ©opold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales.
1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
1863 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.
1866 – Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
1876 – The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
1879 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers' leader Pablo Iglesias.
1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
1885 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King LÃ©opold II of Belgium.
1889 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
1906 – Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
1932 – Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
1933 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
1941 – Following the coup d'Ã©tat against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power.
1945 – World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
1945 – World War II: Italian Campaign: General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.
1945 – World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates WÃ¶bbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death.
1946 – The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place; two guards and three inmates are killed.
1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1963 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
1964 – First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1972 – In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.
1980 – Referendum on system of government held in Nepal.
1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
1986 – The Chernobyl Disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster
1989 – Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
1994 – A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
1995 – During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
1998 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
1999 – Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2004 – Yelwa massacre ended. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa killing more than 78 Christians including at least 48 who were worshipping inside a church compound. More than 630 nomad Muslims were killed by Christians in Nigeria.
2008 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
2008 – ChaitÃ©n Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2011 – An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
2012 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
2014 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people missing.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1670 BAY DAY
London England - Charles II grants a Royal charter to his cousin Price Rupert and a group of investors called The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay: today's Hudson's Bay Company. Two French explorers and traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and MÃ©dard Chouart des Groseilliers, proposed the fur-trading company to the group, and mounted a successful season of trade a year earlier. The charter gives the company the exclusive monopoly of commerce in lands flowing into Hudson Bay, and charges them to find a route to the South Seas.

1497
Bristol England - John and Sebastian Cabot, Italian-born navigators, set sail to follow Columbus' route to what he thought was Asia; Cabot's expedition reaches land June 24th, likely at Cape Breton, then sails east along the south coast of Newfoundland. The picture shows the Lord Mayor and Bishop sending off the expedition at the Bristol wharves.

1660
Hawkesbury Ontario - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux 1635-1660 with 16 compatriots and 44 Native allies, starts battle against a war party of 800 Iroquois at an abandoned Algonkian fur fort at Long Sault on the Ottawa River; the French hold back the Iroquois for a time, but all are killed during the battle or tortured to death as prisoners. The French fight so bravely that the Iroquois abandon their plans to attack Montreal.

In Other Events...

1991 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Bertha Wilson heads Canadian Bar Association task force to improve status of women in legal profession; she retired from the Supreme Court in November 1990 after 8 years.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court strikes down 190 year old law that let the Crown jail people found not guilty by reason of insanity, or commit them to a mental institution indefinitely.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - National Arts Centre sells 16,408 seats for the British musical CATS, the largest single-day sale of tickets for a musical in Canada.
1988 Halifax NS - Bruce Curtis transferred to Nova Scotia prison from New Jersey after a campaign by family and friends; was sentenced to 20 years for 1982 shooting death of classmate's mother; maintained the gun went off accidentally.
1986 New York City - Nova Scotia singer Anne Murray's Now and Forever (You and Me) reaches #1 on the Billboard pop chart.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Dr. Wilbert Keon performs Canada's first artificial heart transplant at the Ottawa Civic Hospital; fits patient Noella Leclair, 42, with a Jarvik 7- 70 until a human heart is found several days later.
1986 Vancouver BC - Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Expo '86; Vancouver Exposition runs until October 13th.
1975 Point Lepreau NB - New Brunswick starts building of $900 million Point Lepreau nuclear power station; to provide 30% of New Brunswick's electricity on completion in 1980.
1970 Amsterdam Netherlands - International Olympic Committee awards the 1976 Summer Olympics to Montreal; first time for a Canadian city.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Federal government and Trans-Canada Telephone Systems form Telesat Canada, to develop communications satellites.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1964 Louisville Kentucky - Windfield Farms owner Edward Plunkett (E. P.) Taylor 1901-1989 sees jockey Bill Hartack ride his stallion Northern Dancer to victory in the Kentucky Derby; first Canadian-bred horse to win; the same pair will go on to take the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian dollar officially pegged at US 92.5Â¢.
1961 Montreal Quebec - Ocean liner Empress of Canada arrives at Montreal on maiden voyage; new flagship of Canadian Pacific fleet.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - The National Film Act creates the National Film Board as a public production agency, headed by Scottish film maker John Grierson 1898-1972.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg metalworkers (the Central Metal Trades) go on strike for an eight hour day.
1885 Edmonton Alberta - Thomas Bland Strange 1831-1925 relieves Fort Edmonton during the North West Rebellion.
1885 Cut Knife Hill Saskatchewan - Colonel William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 forced to retreat with eight dead and 15 wounded, as Cree chief Poundmaker 1826-1886 holds off his attack at Cut Knife Hill.
1881 Portage La Prairie Manitoba - Canadian Pacific Railway starts building its prairie section of track; first sod turned for the CPR as a company line; first rail also laid at Fort William.
1838 Quebec Quebec - James Cuthbert 1769-1849 chairs the Special Council of Lower Canada, a 22 member body set up by Governor Colborne.
1835 Victoria BC - Hudson's Bay Company launches The Beaver, the first steamship on the British Columbia coast.
1835 Quebec - William Colville, Lord Amherst Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada; resigns in May.
1610 London England - John Guy (c1584- c1629), the Sheriff and later Lord Mayor of Bristol, is charged by the Company of Adventurers & Planters of London & Bristol (Newfoundland Company) to colonize the island; King James I had given the Company the grant of Newfoundland at the urging of Francis Bacon.
1602 Ratcliffe England - George Weymouth and expedition set sail on the ships Discovery and Godspeed to find the North West Passage to China; carries letters for the Khan; promised Â£500 prize by East India Company.

End of C/P.

henric · May 3, 2015

May 4th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1814 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
1836 – Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1902 – Eight fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, Ireland in a drowning tragedy.
1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1912 – Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
1945 – World War II: German surrender at LÃ¼neburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1945 – World War II: Denmark is granted liberation, when Germany was forced to step out of Denmark thus ending five years of occupation.
1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro TomÃ , due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The first Grammy Awards are held.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1990 – Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
2002 – An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff, killing 149 people.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita Scale.
2014 – Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1945 CANADIANS CEASE FIRE IN EUROPE
Europe - Fighting stops in the Canadian sector near Wilhelmshaven, Aurich, and Emden; German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to surrender to Canadian commanders.

1958
New York City - Canadian comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster make their first of a record 67 appearances on TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

In Other Events...

1992 NWT - Residents of the Northwest Territories vote to partition the territories into two sections Canada's new Inuit territory - an area over 5 times the size of Alberta - will be called Nunavut.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Hundreds riot for four hours on Yonge Street strip after peaceful rally to protest the recent police shooting of black man.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company buys 5 Robinsons stores in Ottawa and Southern Ontario; will switch them to Bay or Zellers outlets.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Junior Felix of Toronto Blue Jays becomes 53rd major league baseball player to hit a home run at his first at bat.
1976 Canberra, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says that Waltzing Matilda will be his country's national anthem at the upcoming Montreal Summer Olympic Games.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Ontario to raise fees for foreign students at Ontario universities from $585 to $1,500.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Anglican Church of Canada decides to allow women to become ordained ministers.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up 37 bilingual districts; government services now available in both official languages.
1971 St-Jean Vianney Quebec - Mud slide buries part of St. Jean Vianney, killing 31 people; $1 million damage.
1969 St. Louis Missouri - Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup.
1969 Placentia Bay Newfoundland - Ottawa bans fishing in Placentia Bay because of pollution.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Steven Truscott's appeal rejected by Supreme Court; eventually paroled in 1969.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Dr. Jean Sutherland Boggs 1922- appointed first woman Director of the National Art Gallery of Canada; first woman to head an agency with the status of deputy minister.
1961 Halifax Nova Scotia - Launch of Federal Maple; first of two passenger-cargo ships presented to Federation of West Indies under Canada-West Indies Aid Program.
1951 Europe - National Defence forms 27th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group for service in Europe with NATO forces.
1949 Toronto Ontario - Leslie Miscampbell Frost 1895-1975 succeeds Thomas L. Kennedy as Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario.
1944 Atlantic - RCAF kills three U-boats in under a month.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Turgeon presents Report of Royal Grain Enquiry; prospects and future policy.
1924 Paris France - Canada joins 43 other nations and a total of 3,092 competitors at the opening of the eighth Olympic Games; to July 27.
1910 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes to create a Royal Canadian Navy.
1907 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa hit by 19.1 cm snowfall; city's greatest one day May snowfall.
1892 Spray, North Carolina - Canadian Thomas I. 'Carbide' Willson develops first manufacturing process to create acetylene gas; already developed on a laboratory scale; sells process to Union Carbide; builds a calcium carbide plant on Victoria Island in the Ottawa River in 1896, a mansion in Ottawa with a lab in the basement, and a summer home and hydro dam on Meech Lake.
1891 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Ontario Bureau of Mines.
1880 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 chosen as party leader by the Liberal Party, replacing Alexander Mackenzie; serves as leader to June 2, 1887.
1859 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Western Canada and La Banque Nationale incorporated.
1852 Halifax Nova Scotia - William Walsh 1804-1858 appointed first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Halifax.
1836 London England - Hudson's Bay Company acquires the Red River Colony from the sixth Earl of Selkirk for Â£15,000.
1836 Montreal Quebec - Delivery of Canada's first railway locomotive, the Iron Kitten.
1783 Nova Scotia - First United Empire Loyalists settle in the Maritimes.
1752 London England - Peregrine Thomas Hopson d1759 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; serves from August 3 to January 7, 1756.
1639 Quebec Quebec - BarthelÃ©my Vimont 1594-1667, new Superior of the Jesuits in Canada, arrives with Joseph-Antoine Poncet de La RiviÃ¨re and Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot.
1639 Quebec Quebec - Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de La Peltrie 1603-1671 brings three Ursuline nuns including Marie Guyart (Marie de I'lncarnation).
1493 Rome Italy - Pope Alexandre VI, by his Bull Inter CÂ¾tera, divides up the New World between Spain and Portugal and forbids further exploration; France respects the ban, but England sends off John Cabot to stake claims in defiance of the order.

End of C/P.

henric · May 4, 2015

May 5th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
1811 – In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de OÃ±oro the French army, under Marshall AndrÃ© MassÃ©na, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de OÃ±oro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.
1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
1925 – Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language.
1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
1944 – German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece.
1945 – World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
1945 – World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned King Rama IX of Thailand.
1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
1973 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a still standing record.
1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon are broadcast.
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1970 GUESS WHO GO GOLD
New York City - Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman and the Guess Who rocket to the top of the US charts with their No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: American Woman; Winnipeg based band.

1950
Winnipeg Manitoba - Waves caused by 80 kph winds break through the dikes of Winnipeg, inundating the city, leaving one dead, and causing $100 million damage; one third of the population are forced to flee their homes. The picture shows two nuns paddling a canoe through the gates of their convent.

1814
Oswego New York - Commodore James Yeo leads a fleet with 1,100 men from Kingston against 500 US defenders of Fort Ontario; captures valuable supplies; destroys the American naval base and firmly fixes British control of Lake Ontario until the close of the War of 1812.

In Other Events...

1996 Europe - Martin Prochazka scores a tie breaker with 19 seconds left, leading the Czech Republic to a 4-2 win over Canada 4-2 for the world hockey championship.
1992 Calgary Alberta - William Hopper says Petro-Canada to lay off 1,200 employees by end of 1993; company lost $598 m in 1991; largest corporate loss in the history of Canada
1983 BC - William Richards Bennett 1932- wins British Columbia election for ruling Social Credit party; 35 seats to the NDP's 22.
1982 China - Canadian Wheat Board announces record Chinese wheat purchase; at least $2.25 billion over 3 years.
1980 England - Canada's Cliff Thornburn beats Alex Higgins 18-16 to take the world professional snooker title; first player from outside the British Isles to win.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises export price of natural gas from $1.00 per thousand cubic feet to $1.40 on Aug. 1; to $1.60 on Nov. 1
1973 Louisville, Kentucky - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte and Secretariat win the Kentucky Derby in a record time of 1:59.4.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Indian Association files legal action to stop James Bay power project; claims compensation under the 1912 Transfer Act that gave the province northern land.
1968 Long Beach California - Toronto rocker Neil Young plays final show with Buffalo Springfield; he and Steven Stills will join David Crosby and Graham Nash, while Jim Messina will team up with Kenny Loggins..
1966 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1964 Montreal Quebec - Hal C. Banks sentenced to five years, but later flees to native US; Seafarers' International Union leader.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa suspends consumer credit restrictions.
1949 Asbestos Quebec - Johns-Manville strikers seize town of Asbestos on learning of plans to hire scab workers; 400 heavily armed police eventually end insurrection
1945 Germany - German commanders surrender in Canadian sector near Wilhelmshaven, Aurich, and Emden.
1929 Montreal - CNR radio operator achieves two-way conversations with moving trains.
1912 Stockholm Sweden - Canadian team joins 27 other nations and a total of 2,546 competitors at the opening of the Stockholm Olympic Games; to July 22.
1900 London England - Private Richard R. Thompson of Ottawa is awarded one of only seven Queen's Scarves, knitted by Queen Victoria, for his gallantry in the Boer War.
1863 London Ontario - Founding of Huron College by the Anglican Church; now affiliated with the University of Western Ontario.
1859 New Westminster BC - Richard C. Moody 1813-1887 makes town of Queensborough the capital of British Columbia; later called New Westminster.
1842 Saint John New Brunswick - Abraham Gesner 1797-1864 opens Gesner Museum at Saint John; the first public museum in Canada is a financial failure; but geologist Gesner goes on to invent kerosene, and makes a fortune.
1813 Fort Meigs Ohio - Major General Henry Proctor attacks 1,200 US reinforcements coming up to end 5 day siege of Americans under William Henry Harrison at Fort Meigs; 400 US soldiers killed, British losses number only 15 in this War of 1812 battle.
1800 Saskatchewan - David Thompson 1770-1857 starts survey of North Saskatchewan River.
1789 Nootka Sound BC - Estaban Jose Martinez 1742-1798 arrives in Nootka Sound on Spanish warship Princesa; proclaims Spanish sovereignty on west coast
1727 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia's first Justices of the Peace are commissioned.
1660 Quebec - Bishop FranÃ§ois de Laval 1623-1688 threatens to excommunicate all residents of New France who sell liquor to the Indians.

End of C/P.

henric · May 5, 2015

May 6th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
1536 – King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church.
1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
1659 – English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
1682 – Louis XIV moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
1757 – Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
1757 – The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
1844 – The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
1857 – The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1902 – Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President.
1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
1916 – Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists executed in the Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman wāli.
1933 – The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut fÃ¼r Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
1935 – The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
1962 – St. MartÃn de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and HÃ¼seyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
1975 – During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut to commemorate 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
1976 – An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
1984 – One hundred three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is known as the "coaster wars".
1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President FranÃ§ois Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
1994 – Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against United States President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
1999 – The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
2004 – The series finale of the television sitcom Friends is aired on NBC. The finale attracts 52.46 million viewers, making it the fourth most watched television series finale in U.S. history.
2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio. Ariel Castro, is taken into custody.
2014 – Six people are injured in a knife attack at a Chinese train station in Guangzhou.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1973 WHALERS WIN FIRST AVCO CUP
Hartford, Connecticut - The WHA New England Whalers beat the Winnipeg Jets in five games, four games to one, to win the first World Hockey Association title series, the Avco Cup.

1777
Quebec Quebec - British General John (Gentleman Johnny) Burgoyne 1722-1792 arrives in Quebec as field commander of the British forces against the American rebels; his plan is to march down the Hudson River via the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain through Albany, with a secondary advance through the Mohawk Valley, and divide the rebels at New York.

1859
NWT - Robert Hobson of the McClintock expedition finds a cairn with a paper signed by Fitzjames and Crozier, dated April 25, 1848, confirming their disaster; last log of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, sent to discover the North West passage.

In Other Events...

1993 Quebec City - Robert Bourassa's government passes Bill 86, permitting interior English signs if they are smaller than those outside.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Canadair gets 100 orders for twin engined Regional Jet; cost $275 million to develop; the plane is a stretched Challenger for less than 100 passengers.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Mulroney says tough economic measures by his government will continue to make him unpopular with the public.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint announces it will strike a $20 Centennial gold coin.
1965 Thunder Bay Ontario - Norman Paterson 1883-installed as first Chancellor of Lakehead University.
1954 Washington DC - US House of Representatives approves joining Canada in construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1950 New York City - The Third Man Theme by Canadian bandleader Guy Lombardo peaks at #1 on the pop singles chart; stays there for 11 weeks.
1950 Rimouski Quebec - Fire at Rimouski causes $10 million in damage.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Dunning establishes the Central Mortgage Bank, owned by the Government and run by the Bank of Canada; now CMHC; money to be loaned at 3% to banks, on condition they lower mortgage rates to 5%.
1939 Toronto Ontario - Edward S. Rogers 1890-1945) dies; Canadian inventor of the AC tube (used in his Rogers Batteryless Radio) and founder of radio station CFRB, Toronto.
1910 London England - King Edward VII dies; accession of King George V.
1901 Queenston, Ontario - Niagara Parks Commission signs deal with Cataract Construction to divert water around the Falls to generate hydro electricity; start of Niagara's hydro industry.
1898 Vancouver BC - T. D. Evans commanding the Yukon Field Force, consisting of 203 volunteers from the Permanent Force, leaves Vancouver for Dawson to keep law and order in the gold fields.
1890 Longue-Pointe Quebec - Fire destroys lunatic asylum at Long Point, killing 70 inmates.
1880 Ottawa Ontario - Lucius O'Brien chairs first meeting of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; sponsored by the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise.
1877 Wood Mountain Saskatchewan - Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads 1,500 of his followers into Canada to ask protection from the Queen; after defeating General George Custer and the US 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1860 Montreal Quebec - Hugh Allan's Allan steamship line wins government mail contract for weekly postal service to Liverpool.
1854 New York City - Cyrus Field 1819-1892 founds the New York, Newfoundland, & London Telegraph Company;
1814 Oswego New York - Lt. General Gordon Drummond's 1,100 troops having captured the American naval base of Fort Ontario, with its valuable supplies and schooners, Col. Fisher and Capt. Mulcaster hold the fort against counterattack; the base will be destroyed, and British control of Lake Ontario will be fixed until the close of the War of 1812.
1776 Quebec Quebec - Charles Douglas d1789 arrives at Quebec with a British relief fleet; Thomas and the Americans abandon their siege and retreat upriver to Chambly.
1708 Quebec Quebec - FranÃ§ois de Laval 1623-1708 dies; appointed first Bishop of New France in 1674.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Leneuf de La Potherie 1606-1685 Governor of Trois-RiviÃ¨res appointed acting administrator of New France; serves until September 12, 1665.
1628 Paris France - Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis Richelieu 1585-1642 gets Council of State to ratify the charter of Company of One Hundred Associates; with a 15 year trade monopoly, the Company agrees to plant 300 settlers immediately, and 16,000 more before 1643.
1604 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - Sieur Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 arrives at Le Port du Rossignol with Champlain, HÃ©bert and Baron Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt; asks Champlain to hunt for a good site for a trading colony; sailed from Havre-de-GrÃ¢ce (Le Havre) March 7.
1536 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves ship La Petite Hermine behind and sets sail from St. Croix for France; takes furs and pyrite ore he thinks is gold; accompanied by Chief Donnacona and 9 other Iroquois hostages, including 4 children.

End of C/P.

henric · May 6, 2015

May 7th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

351 – The Jewish revolt against Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.
558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of OrlÃ©ans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
1487 – The Siege of MÃ¡laga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1664 – Louis XIV of France begins construction of the Palace of Versailles.
1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
1763 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
1794 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
1832 – The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1847 – The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia.
1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire
1915 – Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation)
1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by JÃ³zef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
1920 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
1940 – The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
1942 – During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).
1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1964 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
1974 – West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
1986 – Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President JoÃ£o Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
2009 – Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.
2013 – 27 people are killed and more than 30 injured, when a tanker truck crashes and explodes outside Mexico City.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1945 VE DAY MARKED BY RIOTING IN HALIFAX
Rheims, France - VE Day celebrated as Germany signs the armistice ending World War II in Europe in a schoolhouse in Rheims; the Germans on the eastern front will surrender unconditionally to the Soviets the next day. In Halifax, exuberant crowds start a riot that will last for two days.

1870
Toronto Ontario - Garnet Wolseley 1833-1913 leaves for Red River to enforce Canadian rule with the 60th Rifles and Ontario and Quebec militia units; they will travel via Prince Arthur's Landing and Lake of the Woods.

1837
St-Ours Quebec - Louis-Joseph Papineau chosen leader of the Patriotes at a protest meeting of about 1,200 people; they adopt the Declaration of St. Ours, declaring smuggling a public duty.

In Other Events...

1997 Quebec City - Le Soleil publishes extracts from Jacques Parizeau's book, Pour un QuŽbec souverain; says if the Yes side had won the referendum, the government would make a unilateral declaration of sovereignty within a week or ten days to have the new state recognized.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Cal Best issues report of Task Force on Amateur Sport; more support for amateurs; focus on developing top athletes, more professional coaching.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Claude Morin admits to Radio Canada that he was a paid RCMP informant from 1974 to 1977; was a Parti Quebecois insider and Rene Levesque's Intergovernmental Affairs Minister.
1990 Halifax Nova Scotia - Bernard Valcourt unveils $584 million aid package to cut size of fishery; mainly to the Newfoundland communities of Trepassy, St. John's, Grand Bank and Gaultois, as well as North Sydney, Canso and Lockeport in Nova Scotia.
1988 Moncton NB - Mila Mulroney struck in the stomach by a placard during a labor rally outside a Tory gathering; a man is arrested but no charges are laid.
1985 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers take their second Stanley Cup with a 7-3 win over the Chicago Black Hawks; set a National Hockey League record for playoff wins (12).
1983 Louisville Kentucky - Sunny's Halo wins Kentucky Derby; Canadian-owned horse.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Ontario doctors agree to new fee plan.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Labour Congress rejects Ottawa's proposal for voluntary wage and price restraints.
1975 Cape Canaveral Florida - Anik III launched at Kennedy Space Center; Canada's third communications satellite.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Canada's mayors attend 'Cities for the 70's' conference; agree to seek additional funds from Ottawa and provinces
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada bans all tobacco advertising on CBC/SRC radio and television networks.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Expos manager Gene Mauch, upset at a balk call, kicks pitcher's resin bag twice, then punts the baseball; he is ejected from the game.
1966 Quebec City - Parent Royal Commission on Education in Quebec recommends non-denominational education, local school reorganization.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Two Soviet diplomats expelled from Canada for plotting an espionage network.
1953 Washington DC - Louis St. Laurent 1882-1973 starts two-day official visit to the United States.
1944 Atlantic - German U-boats sink RCN frigate HMCS Valleyfield.
1935 Richmond Hill Ontario - University of Toronto completes David Dunlap Observatory with a 188 cm reflector telescope; first observations take place June 9.
1920 Toronto Ontario - Art Gallery of Ontario opens an exhibition titled 'The Group of Seven' with paintings by Carmichael, Harris, Jackson, Johnston, Lismer, MacDonald and Varley; their first exhibition.
1908 Vancouver BC - Founding of the University of British Columbia as a branch of McGill University in Montreal; becomes independent in 1915.
1907 Vancouver BC - Incorporation of the Vancouver Stock Exchange; issues of British Columbia companies previously traded in Spokane and Rossland; the VSE are soon listing Cobalt mining shares as well.
1906 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Hydro created as a Crown corporation.
1903 Montreal Quebec - Dock workers in Montreal go on three-day strike.
1882 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Bank gets charter.
1880 Winnipeg Manitoba - Great North Western Telegraph Company founded in Winnipeg.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canadian Pacific Railroad Bill; line to be completed within 10 years from Nipissing Junction to the Pacific Ocean.
1870 London England - The Hudson's Bay Company delivers a signed deed of surrender to the British Colonial Office, officially transferring Rupert's Land to Canada; title sold for Â£200,000 and 1/20th of the fertile belt.
1865 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Land & Emigration Company acquires ten townships in Canada West; later founds towns of Haliburton and Minden
1865 Fredericton NB - New Brunswick rejects Confederation.
1849 Toronto Ontario - Fire destroys large section of Toronto.
1771 Coppermine NWT - Samuel Hearne arrives at the Coppermine River and views the Arctic Coast.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec; serves from Sept 24, 1766 to Oct. 26, 1768.
1676 Cape Breton Nova Scotia - Michael Le Neuf Sieur de La ValliÂre de Beaubassin 1640-1705, the elder, with his brother-in-law, Sieur Richard Denys, as second in command, seize three Boston ketches taking on coal at Cape Breton; two of them are declared lawful prizes.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Louis Gaudais-Dupont takes possession of New France as special commissioner acting in the name of King of France.
1657 Paris France - Louis XlV prohibited the sale of liquor to Indians.
1586 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sets sail on his second voyage to look for the North West Passage; with four ships: the Sunneshine, Mooneshine, Mermayd and North Starre.

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henric · May 7, 2015

May 8th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
589 – Reccared I summons the Third Council of Toledo.
1450 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
1516 – Trần Cảo Rebellion: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor LÃª Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended.
1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it RÃo de EspÃritu Santo.
1788 – The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme GÃ©nÃ©rale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
1842 – A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
1846 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
1901 – The Australian Labour Party is established.
1902 – In Martinique, Mount PelÃ©e erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
1919 – Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I.
1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and FranÃ§ois Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.[1][2]
1941 – The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the SÃ©tif massacre.
1945 – World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
1945 – Dissolution and surrender of Nazi Germany and all its forces.
1945 – End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
1945 – The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax.
1946 – Estonian school girls Aili JÃµgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
1962 – The Rabindra Bharati University, a prominent University in India, was founded.
1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
1966 – A plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania kills Pennsylvania Attorney General, Walter E. Alessandroni, his wife, and other state officials.
1967 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
1970 – The Hard Hat Riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
1972 – Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1972 – Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
1984 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. RenÃ© Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened.
1987 – The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
1997 – A China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1987 BIRTH OF THE LOONIE
Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint unveils one-dollar coin to replace the paper dollar; made of nickel, copper and recycled tin, the loonie has a loon engraved on its rear side.

1982
Zolder Belgium - Gilles Villeneuve, from Berthierville, Que. dies in a 225 KPH accident while qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Villeneuve began his racing career on snowmobiles, and won the world championships in 1974. He entered his first car race in 1973 and by 1976 was dominating the Formula Atlantic series. He signed with McLaren and later joined Ferrari to drive Formula One. In 1978 he won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal - a first by a Canadian driver.

In Other Events....

1991 Bathurst New Brunswick - 1,400 United Steelworkers of America workers end strike at Brunswick Mining and Smelting; cost local economy $40 million in lost wages.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican President, addresses Parliament during official visit to Canada.
1984 Quebec Quebec - Canadian Army Corporal Denis Lortie 1959- sprays the Quebec National Assembly with sub-machine gun fire, killing 3 and wounding 13; on leave from his base, he tells his captors he wanted to destroy the Parti Quebecois.
1979 Mexico Mexico - Mexico to sell Canada 17 million L ( 100,000 barrels) of oil a day for 10 years; will look at purchase of Candu reactor.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau loses a non confidence vote on the budget, when the Conservatives and NDP combine to defeat the Liberal government by a vote of 137 to 123; says he will call an election for July.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 2nd session of the 27th Parliament; until April 23, 1968.
1963 Haiti - Canada evacuates citizens by air from riot-torn Haiti.
1951 United Nations New York - Canada signs trade agreements with 16 other countries at UN; resulting from Torquay Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1950-51.
1950 Manitoba - Ten thousand people evacuate the Red River valley south of Winnipeg; the flood ends May 25 after causing $25 million damage.
1945 Berlin Germany - Second World War ends in Europe with unconditional surrender of German land, sea and air forces to the Soviets.
1945 Halifax Nova Scotia - In the second day of rioting, 10,000 servicemen loot and vandalize downtown Halifax during VE-Day celebrations.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Government appoints War Purchasing Board.
1907 Los Angeles California - Canadian boxer Tommy Burns knocks out Jack O'Brien in the 20th round, to win the heavyweight championship of the world.
1906 Edmonton Alberta - founding of the University of Alberta at Edmonton.
1906 Kamloops BC - American desperado Bill Miner holds up a CPR train, but gets only $15 and is captured a few days later; Canada's first train robbery is the subject of a film 'The Grey Fox'.
1882 Ottawa Ontario - Order-in-Council divides NWT into Athabasca, Assiniboia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, provisional districts of the NWT, with the capital at Regina.
1880 Victoria BC - Founding of the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company; the first in British Columbia.
1871 Washington DC - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 signs the Treaty of Washington; US gets fishing rights in Canadian waters, use of Canadian canals; both countries have freedom of navigation on the Great Lakes.
1858 Chatham Ontario - American abolitionist John Brown 1800-1859 holds an anti-slavery convention at Chatham.
1842 Toronto Ontario - Michael Power 1804-1847 appointed the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto.
1821 London England - William Parry 1790-1855 sails from England on a new voyage to the Arctic; until Oct. 10, 1823.
1818 London England - Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond 1764-1819 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from July 30, 1818 until his death from rabies on Aug. 28, 1819.
1813 Toronto Ontario - General Zebulon Pike departs from York to Fort Niagara after burning the Parliament Buildings, looting the town; occupied since Apr 27.; British retaliate a year later by burning the American capital, Washington.
1760 Quebec Quebec - French Superior Council meets for the last time.
1642 Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve becomes the first governor of Ville-Marie.
1620 Le Havre France - Samuel de Champlain sails for Canada, accompanied by his young wife HÃ©lÃ¨ne, who 'brought him a useful dowry.'
1604 LaHave, Nova Scotia - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 arrives in Acadia with Champlain, HÃ©bert and Baron Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt; asks Champlain to hunt for a good site for a trading colony. The first piece of land they encounter they call Cap de LaHeve, now called LaHave, where Champlain draws the first official map ever made in North America.

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henric · May 8, 2015

May 9th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1092 Â– Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1386 Â– England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
1450 Â– 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1662 Â– The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
1671 Â– Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1726 Â– Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1763 Â– The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
1864 Â– Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1873 Â– Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874 Â– The first horse-drawn bus makes its dÃ©but in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
1877 Â– Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877 Â– A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1887 Â– Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1901 Â– Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1904 Â– The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1911 Â– The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
1915 Â– World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1918 Â– World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1920 Â– Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
1926 Â– Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
1927 Â– The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1936 Â– Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1940 Â– World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1941 Â– World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942 Â– Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
1945 Â– World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-JÃ¼rgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
1945 Â– World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1946 Â– King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
1948 Â– Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
1949 Â– Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 Â– Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1955 Â– Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1958 Â– Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
1960 Â– The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1961 Â– FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
1964 Â– Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
1969 Â– Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in SÃ£o Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1970 Â– Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974 Â– Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1977 Â– Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
1979 Â– Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
1980 Â– In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 Â– In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 Â– An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M, Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP-LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
1992 Â– Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
1992 Â– Westray Mine Disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
2001 Â– In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002 Â– The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2012 Â– A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1974 COMMONS VOTES OUT TRUDEAU MINORITY
Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau's minority government is defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 137-123, forcing a federal election July 8, where he will win a majority.

In Other Events...

1992 Plymouth Nova Scotia - Clifford Frame closes Curragh's Westray Mine after methane gas explosion kills 26 men underground; modern $140 million coal mine built in Premier Cameron's riding; bodies of 11 men recovered immediately; unsuccessful search for survivors continues for six days.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - National Energy Board gives TransCanada Pipelines the green light for a $2.6 billion line into the US; plus 15 export licenses for 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa and the provinces unveil a 5 year $100 million plan to combat ground-level ozone, a harmful component of city smog.
1987 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Minister Gil RÃ©millard suggests five fundamental conditions for Quebec to sign the Constitution: 1. Recognition of Quebec as a distinct society; 2. Right of veto on any change to the Constitution; 3. One third of judges on the Supreme Court of Canada to be from Quebec; 4. Opting out guarantees for provinces refusing to participate in federal programs; 5. Complete control of immigration to Quebec territory.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Thomas Berger 1933- recommends 10 year delay in Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, to allow time to settle native land claims; Berger Commission also suggests permanent ban on pipelines from Alaska across the northern Yukon because of social and environmental hazards.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada cuts lending rate from 8% to 7.5%.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Fire in the downtown core destroys a building under demolition and damages the Eaton Centre.
1970 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young and his group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young see their song Woodstock peak at #11 on the pop singles chart.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 appointed Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University.
1966 Quebec Quebec - 1,600 Quebec civil servants strike for better pay; until July 29.
1937 London England - Canadian Coronation contingent the first Dominion troops to stand sentry duty at St. James and Buckingham palaces..
1926 Spitsbergen Norway - US Navy pilots Richard Evelyn Byrd 1888-1957 and Floyd Bennett 1890-1928 leave Spitsbergen Island in three-engined Fokker monoplane; fly over North Pole at 9:04 am.
1926 Arctic - Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 crosses Pole in Italian airship Norge; later lands in Alaska; Norwegian explorer.
1916 England - General Julian Hedworth George Byng, Lord Byng of Vimy 1862-1935 appointed commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Europe; succeeding General Alderson; takes post May 28; Byng will wisely leave the detailed soldiering to Canadian commander Arthur Currie.
1915 Festubert France - First Canadian Division sees action at Festubert.
1886 Halifax Nova Scotia - Over 127 mm of rain falls on Halifax; one of its greatest May rainfalls.
1885 Batoche Saskatchewan - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 attacks Gabriel Dumont at Batoche; battle rages for several days; until troops disobey Middleton, storm the trenches and slaughter the Metis defenders.
1880 Toronto Ontario - George Brown dies from wounds suffered in shooting; his assailant Bennett is later hanged for murder.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Patrick James Whelan c1840-1869 arrested and charged with murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee; Irish immigrant and Fenian sympathizer.
1853 London England - British Parliament approves of Canada's right to dispose of clergy reserves.
1813 Fort Meigs Ohio - Major General Henry Proctor forced to end 10 day siege of William Henry Harrison and Americans at Fort Meigs due to his militiamen deserting.
1804 Charlottetown PEI - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres 1722-1824 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of PEI; serves from July 1805 to Aug. 4, 1812.
1793 Peace River Alberta - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 leaves Fort York at the forks of the Peace and Smoky rivers; heads west towards Pacific with party of nine, eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean via the Bella Coola River, becoming the first European to cross North America using a route north of Mexico.
1790 Ontario - Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatamies, and Hurons cede two million acres in Ontario.
1763 Detroit Michigan - Pontiac starts rebellion against British by blockading Detroit for six months; takes all other posts west; the so-called 'Conspiracy of Pontiac' uprising lasts until August 1765.
1760 Quebec Quebec - FranÃ§ois, Duc de LÃ©vis retreats upriver, abandoning Quebec when the frigate Lowestoft arrives to relieve Murray and the British, rest of British fleet appears later that day.
1749 Nova Scotia - Edward Cornwallis c1713-1753 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia.
1677 Paris France - Louis XIV 1638-1715 sets up La PrÃ©vote de QuÃ©bec, a tribunal consisting of the Lieutenant-Governor and the King's Attorney.
1660 Hawkesbury Ontario - Adam Dollard des Ormeaux 1635-1660 killed during attack by Iroquois on an Algonkian trading post at Long Sault on the Ottawa; only one Huron escapes to Montreal; Iroquois war party turns back; commander of Montreal garrison, age 25. [various dates]
1641 Le Havre France - Jeanne Mance 1606-1673 leaves France with settlers bound for Montreal in two ships; with Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve.

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henric · May 9, 2015

May 10th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

28 BCE – A sunspot is observed by Han Dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king.
1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves CÃ¡diz for his first voyage to the New World.
1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
1655 – England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
1833 – The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern Vietnam LÃª Văn Duyệt by Emperor Minh Mạng provokes his adopted son to start a revolt.
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.
1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
1864 – American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment "Attack-in-depth" assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.
1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
1866 – Romania National Holiday 1866-1947, The Modern Monarchy Instauration of the Kingdom of Romania, Carol I of Romania
1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1876 – The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II.
1877 – Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. Recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
1904 – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded.
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
1922 – The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1940 – World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
1940 – World War II: German raids on British shipping convoys and military airfields begin.
1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
1940 – World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
1948 – The Republic of China implements "temporary provisions" granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
1970 – Bobby Orr scores "The Goal" to win the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, for the Boston Bruins' fourth NHL championship in their history.
1972 – First flight of the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (a.k.a. "Warthog").
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
1981 – FranÃ§ois Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers.
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
1997 – A 7.3 Mw earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killing 1,567, injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes.
1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.
2002 – F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 meters) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
2008 – An EF4 tornado strikes the Oklahoma–Kansas state line, killing 21 people and injuring over 100.
2012 – The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400 others
2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 OTTAWA BAILS OUT CHRYSLER CANADA
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa gives financially strapped Chrysler Canada $20 million in loan guarantees, and Ontario provides a $10 million grant; the US also provided $1.5 billion in loans and subsidies to bail out Chrysler Corp, the parent company. Under the leadership of Lee Iacocca, the company will return to health and pay back the loans.

1534
Cape Bonavista Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 sights Cape Bonavista after three week crossing from France; stopped ten days by ice; then skirts east coast of Newfoundland; his first voyage to Canada.

In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court judge's ruling gives lesbian couples the right to legally adopt children.
1991 Vancouver BC - Inderjit Singh Reyat convicted of bombing death of two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Tokyo June 23, 1985, to protest Indian government's treatment of Sikhs; later sentenced to 10 years in jail; also linked to Air India disaster.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Mark Langston no-hits Toronto for 8 innings before Tom Lawless singles and the Blue Jays rally for 3 runs to beat Seattle 3-2; third time this season that the Blue Jays have broken up a no-hit bid in the ninth inning.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Ministry of Transport to deregulate air traffic within 2 years, airlines can offer lower rates, more routes.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Energy and Northern Affairs announces $600 million oil and gas exploration program in Beaufort Sea, NWT.
1981 Montreal Quebec - Expo Charlie Lea pitches a no-hit 4-0 victory over San Francisco Giants in the second game of a doubleheader.
1976 Windsor Ontario - Windsor high schools open for first time since end of March after Ontario legislates teachers back to work.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Olympic Lottery to continue until 1979, to cut deficit for 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1972 Sept-Iles Quebec - Workers riot, occupy a radio station, 35 people injured during riot to protest the jailing of three Quebec labor leaders.
1970 Osaka Japan - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- takes part in Expo 70's Canada Day ceremonies in Osaka during three-week visit to Asia.
1970 Boston Massachusetts - Bruins' Bobby Orr scores to beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3, for a four game sweep and the Stanley Cup; first for Boston since 1941; will repeat cup win in 1972.
1970 New York City - Burton Cummings and The Guess Who's American Woman/No Sugar Tonight stays at # 1 on the Billboard pop chart; Winnipeg-based band.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Habib Bourguiba President of Tunisia starts visit to Ottawa.
1963 Hyannisport Massachusetts - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 starts two-day visit to Hyannisport for talks with President Kennedy; Canada to get nuclear warheads; Roosevelt home on Campobello Island to be international park.
1955 Vancouver BC - Tommy Burns dies at 73; born Noah Brusso Jun 17, 1881 in Hanover, Ontario; world heavyweight boxing champion 1906-08.
1924 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Legislature votes to end prohibition in the province.
1921 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and British West Indies come to tariff arrangement.
1920 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to send its own minister to Washington, not the British ambassador, to represent the country.
1905 London England - King Edward VII grants Manitoba's Coat-of-Arms.
1896 London England - Imperial Privy Council upholds right of Ontario to enforce local prohibition; denies right to stop imports or distilling in the province.
1865 Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 advocates Maritime Union rather than Confederation.
1853 Bathurst Island NWT - Gerard Osborn 1822-1875 sails the Pioneer along east coast of Bathurst Island; until July 15; forced to winter in Wellington Channel.
1853 Quebec Quebec - Sir Hugh Allan's Genova the first steamer of the Allan Line to arrive at Quebec; starts 14-day Montreal-Liverpool mail run; steamers Sarah Sands and Lady Eglinton will follow later in the year.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Capital of Canada moves from Montreal from Kingston after years of petitions; until Nov. 14, 1849.
1841 Halifax Nova Scotia - Halifax incorporates as a city.
1840 Canandaigua New York - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 released from jail in New York State; had been arrested for violation of US neutrality regulations.
1828 Quebec Quebec - James Kempt 1764-1854 appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves from Sept. 8, 1828 to Oct. 20, 1830.
1823 London England - Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson present a petition opposing the proposed Union of Upper and Lower Canada.
1812 Washington DC - US calls out militia forces to prepare for war against Canada.
1809 Quebec Quebec - First session of fifth Parliament of Lower Canada meets until May 15.
1799 Ontario - Peter Hunter 1746-1805 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves from Aug. 17, 1799 to Aug. 21, 1805.
1794 Halifax Nova Scotia - Edward, Duke of Kent, commands British troops stationed at Halifax.
1790 Nootka Sound BC - Spanish captain Francisco de Eliza y Reventa 1759-1825 takes possession of Nootka and builds a fur fort.
1775 Ticonderoga New York - Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga from the British with his Green Mountain boys and the help of Benedict Arnold.
1758 Petersham England - George Vancouver dies; explorer and surveyor of the BC coast 1792-94, who gave his name to the city and island.
1652 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Jacques Butem 1599-1652 murdered by Iroquois north of Trois-RiviÃ¨res.
1632 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Isaac de Launoy de Razilly 1587-1635 takes possession of Acadia for the Company of One Hundred Associates; on the orders of Richelieu he builds a good working relationship with Charles de La Tour.

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henric · May 10, 2015

May 11th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1310 – In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition to cross the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1820 – HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched.
1846 – President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War
1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1862 – American Civil War: The ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
1867 – Luxembourg gains its independence.
1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
1889 – An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
1891 – The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
1894 – Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
1907 – Thirty-two Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California.
1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
1918 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
1944 – World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power.
1946 – UMNO is created.
1949 – Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
1963 – Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
1967 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
1968 – The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West.
1970 – The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1985 – Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England.
1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
1987 – In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart–lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
1995 – More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
1996 – The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
2010 – David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form the UK's first coalition government since World War II after elections produced a hung parliament.
2013 – At least 46 people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
2014 – 15 people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into the stand by police officers attempting to defuse a hostile incident.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1870 CANADA BUYS OUT THE BAY
London England - Canada's agent in London. Sir John Rose, delivers a bank draft for Â£300,000 (the equivalent of $11 million) to the Hudson's Bay Company in full payment for the title to Rupert's Land. The land includes all territories drained by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay (most of today's Prairie provinces, northern Ontario, northwestern Quebec and portions of the Northwest Territories.) The HBC keeps blocks of land around its trading posts and 1/20 of the fertile belt (2.8 million hectares).

1940
London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill names New Brunswick-born Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, as his Minister of Aircraft Production. 'The Beaver' is publisher of the Daily Express newspaper.

In Other Events...

1992 Toronto Ontario - Baton Broadcasting buys former CBC affiliates CFPL-TV of London and CKNX-TV of Wingham; pays Blackburn family $31.5 million.
1990 Edmonton Alberta - Donald Cormie, founder of Principal Group, is sued for $235 million by the Alberta Government; suit will be dropped in return for compensating investors.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill creating the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS); civilian security agency to replace RCMP Security Service when dealing with espionage and terrorism; Bill given Royal Assent June 21.
1983 West Pubnico Nova Scotia - Mob of 100 fishermen burn and sink two fisheries patrol boats at to protest lobster quotas.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Start of first Toronto Theatre Festival; 19 theatres stage 34 plays over 10 days.
1968 Vancouver BC - 4,500 British Columbia lumber workers end strike that began Oct 4, 1967.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Transit Commission opens new subway extensions, adding 9.6 km to the system.
1966 Ontario - teamsters end 4-week strike that disrupted transport across Ontario.
1964 Montreal Quebec - CN-CP Telecommunications opens Montreal-Vancouver microwave network.
1963 Montreal Quebec - John Turner marries Geils McCrae Kilgour; Canadian Prime Minister June-Sept. 1984.
1962 Nelson BC - RCMP arrest 9 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors; sentenced to 15 years in prison for bombing power station.
1944 Cassino Italy - Canadian tanks see action near Monte Cassino as Allies launch major offensive south of Rome.
1942 Anticosti Quebec - German submarine U-S53 torpedoes British steamer Nicoya and Dutch ship Leno near Anticosti Island; Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence begins between the Royal Canadian Navy and German U-Boats.
1942 Canada - P.J.A. Cardin resigns from federal cabinet over conscription issue; Public Works Minister
1910 Trail BC - British Columbia city of Trail incorporated.
1896 Quebec - Edmund James Flynn becomes Conservative Premier of Quebec.
1885 Batoche, Saskatchewan - Metis under Louis Riel defeated by the militia at Batoche during the North West Rebellion. Riel later gives himself up and is charged with treason; executed at Regina Nov. 16th.
1880 London England - Alexander Tilloch Galt 1817-1893 appointed first Canadian High Commissioner to London, replacing Sir John Rose as Canada's agent; serves until 1883; the new office gives Canada full representation in the UK.
1856 Hamilton Ontario - John Farrell 1820-1873 appointed first Roman Catholic Bishop of Hamilton.
1847 Kingston Ontario - Henry Sherwood 1807-1855 forms administration with Daly and Draper.
1839 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Upper Canada.
1833 Atlantic - Passenger ship Lady of the Lake sinks after striking an iceberg between Quebec and England; 215 people drown.
1820 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first session of tenth Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until May 24.
1717 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Canadian commercial exchange; forerunner of the Montreal Stock Exchange.
1684 Paris France - La Rochelle merchant Bergier appointed by Louis XIV as his 'lieutenant in the government of the country and coasts of Acadia;' sends out two ships, the St. Louis and the Marianne, to chase off New England fishermen sold licences by Michel de la ValliÃ¨re; arrives back at France in October.
1676 Quebec Quebec - Beggars ordered to get permission from priests to beg in the streets of Montreal and Quebec.
1675 Quebec Quebec - Jean Oudiette awarded the monopoly of the beaver trade in New France for a period of seven years.

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henric · May 11, 2015

May 12th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope.
304 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.
907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang Dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.
922 – After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars.
1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in KrakÃ³w, Poland.
1510 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming Dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1588 – French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was sentenced to death for high treason.
1689 – King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1797 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1821 – The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.
1862 – U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1873 – Coronation of Oscar II of Sweden
1881 – In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
1885 – North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel MÃ©tis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1926 – 1926 General Strike: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
1933 – The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies.
1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
1937 – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German U-Boat U-507.
1945 – Argentinian labour leader JosÃ© Peter declares the FederaciÃ³n Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
1948 – Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne.
1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
1949 – The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: The Federal Republic of Germany.
1952 – Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
1955 – Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore's bid for independence.
1955 – Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral–Balmoral.
1975 – MayagÃ¼ez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1978 – In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.
1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
1982 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in FÃ¡tima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan MarÃa FernÃ¡ndez y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
1986 – NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
1989 – The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
2006 – Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in SÃ£o Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
2006 – Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
2007 – Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1870 BIRTH OF MANITOBA
Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees his Manitoba Act, incorporating most Metis demands, given Royal Assent; the old District of Assiniboia enters Confederation as Canada's fifth province, Manitoba
[the name means 'The Great Spirit Speaks'].

In Other Events...

1997 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Parizeau publishes Pour un QuÃ©bec souverain, stating that within days of a referendum victory, Quebec would have no choice but to declare the sovereignty of Quebec.
1995 New York City - Cineplex Odeon Corp. and Cinemark USA Inc. terminate merger talks that would have created the world's largest movie theatre company..
1992 Montreal Quebec - Canada's largest charter airline, Nationair, declares bankruptcy.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Michael Mike Harris wins Ontario PC Party leadership, defeating Rookie MPP Diane Cunningham of London 7,175 to 5,825 votes; chosen by one-member, one-vote system from 33,000 PC members.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Olympian Ben Johnson admits to Dubin Inquiry that he has used anabolic steroids to enhance performance.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Industry Minister Sinclair Stevens resigns from cabinet while an inquiry looks at a $2.6 million loan to one of his holding companies; denies breaking conflict of interest guidelines.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Ontario begins to extend provincial funding to Roman Catholic High Schools.
1981 Colorado Springs Colorado - North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) changes name to North American Aerospace Defence Command.
1975 Toronto Ontario - Ontario brings in Family Law Reform Bill; to establish equality of both partners in a marriage.
1970 Geneva Switzerland - Montreal awarded the 1976 Summer Olympic Games.
1966 Winnipeg Manitoba - Flag of Manitoba proclaimed; red ensign with provincial crest.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act to establish the Science Council of Canada.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court upholds 1876 treaties with Saskatchewan Indian tribes requiring the Crown to give them free medical care.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 25th Parliament; until September 6.
1955 New York City- Canadian pop star Gisele MacKenzie performs on the NBC-TV's Justice on this Night, singing her song, Hard to Get, that will climb to #4 on the Billboard pop music chart by September.
1937 London England - King George VI's coronation heard throughout the Empire on the first worldwide radio broadcast.
1922 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Navy cuts force to three small ships on each coast as an economy measure.
1903 Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls incorporated as a city.
1890 Ottawa Ontario - Frederick Dobson Middleton 1825-1898 convicted by Parliament of looting furs during command of Northwest Rebellion; will resign his post under censure in June.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 appointed to the Senate; Dean of Law at McGill University, and later Canada's third Prime Minister.
1885 Batoche Saskatchewan - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906 and his Metis warriors run out of ammunition; fire stones and nails before giving up the fight; Dumont flees to US.
1876 Ellesmere Island NWT - British polar expedition stops 650 km short of the North Pole; farthest northern point reached to that date.
1875 Charlottetown PEI - Opening of the Prince Edward Island Railroad.
1867 London England - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees passage of his Canada Railway Loan Act; to approve Â£3 million loan guarantee for Intercolonial Railway from Quebec to Halifax.
1848 London England - James Ross sails with Robert McClure and Francis McClintock on the Enterprise and Investigator; will winter in Leopold Harbour, Somerset Island.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Assembly petitions Queen Victoria for reciprocity - reciprocal free trade with the US .
1820 Quebec Quebec - George Ramsay, Lord Dalhousie 1770-1838 appointed Governor-in-Chief of Lower Canada; serves from June 19, 1820 to Sept. 8, 1828.
1804 Alberta - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches Lake Athabasca.
1802 Windsor Nova Scotia - Royal charter grants university powers to King's College, Windsor.
1776 Ile Ã La Crosse Saskatchewan - Thomas Frobisher starts to build trading post at Ile Ã La Crosse on the Churchill (Misnipi) River.
1775 Crown Point New York - Seth Warner captures Crown Point from British.
1630 Cape Sable Nova Scotia - Charles de St-Etienne de La Tour 1593-1666 fights off father Claude, at Fort Lomeron; also called Fort St. Louis; Claude had joined the English and enrolled his son Charles as a Nova Scotia baronet.

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henric · May 12, 2015

May 13th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
1568 – Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1846 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 – With the passage of the Lei Ãurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of FÃ¡tima in FÃ¡tima, Portugal.
1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 – The trademark Velcro is registered.
1958 – May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1963 – The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
1967 – Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
1969 – Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1972 – The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2005 – The BÃnh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2006 – SÃ£o Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2008 – The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
2011 – Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
2014 – An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.
2014 – Major floods in Southeast Europe kill at least 47 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1898 BIRTH OF THE YUKON
Ottawa Ontario - The Yukon Territory is organized, with Dawson City chosen as the capital.

1606
La Rochelle France - Baron Jean de Poutrincourt 1557-1615 sails for Port Royal on the 150 ton trading vessel Jonas, accompanied by his son Charles de Biencourt, and by Marc Lescarbot, the first historian of New France, Louis HÃ©bert, the first officer of justice, and Jean Ralluau. Poutrincourt is partner in the company of his friend Pierre de Monts, who stays behind in France. The voyage to Acadia will take two and half months. The king of France had given de Monts a monopoly on the fur trade in exchange for colonization of the area..

In Other Events...

1997 Montreal Quebec - Radio Canada journalist Claire Lamarche faints two hours into the French portion of the federal leaders' debate; Jean-FranÃ§ois LÃ©pine had just posed the first question on Canadian unity to Jean ChrÃ©tien: 'Since you declared victory with only 50.6% of the votes in the last referendum, will you recognize a Yes victory with the same proportions?' The debate is cancelled and the unity portion resumed May 18.
1992 Toronto Ontario - CBC VP Public Affairs Trina McQueen moves the network's flagship TV news shows The National and The Journal from 10 pm slot to 9 pm.
1991 Regina Saskatchewan - Baltej Dhillon, a Sikh, becomes the first RCMP officer to wear a turban since the force's creation in 1873.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn delivers Throne Speech; promises Commons-Senate Committee to study the Constitution; education; Aboriginal Affairs; reform of Parliament.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Nolan Ryan pitches his record seventh no-hitter, in a 3-0 win over the Blue Jays, striking out 16 batters.
1989 Saskatchewan - Swift Current defeats Saskatoon 4-3 in overtime to win Memorial Cup; Major Junior A Championship
1985 Los Angeles California - Selma Diamond dies at 64; born in Montreal Aug 5, 1920; actress, scriptwriter, played Too Close For Comfort's Mildred Rafkin, and Night Court's Selma Hacker (1984-85).
1983 Nova Scotia - Nine fishermen charged with piracy after West Pubnico incident.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises prime lending rate to 8.75%.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Ottawa to build Short Take-Off and Landing airport in Montreal; with commuter service to a similar Ottawa and Toronto STOL port.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa borrows $262 million from West German, US, and Italian sources, to increase cash reserves.
1964 Quebec Quebec - National Assembly passes Education Bill 60, establishing the Quebec Department of Education.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to subsidize shipyards; reserves shipments between Canadian Great Lakes ports to Canadian ships only.
1954 Washington DC - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signs bill approving the St. Lawrence Seaway agreement with Canada.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - CNR amalgamates its National Transcontinental Railway Branch Lines Company and 5 other subsidiaries.
1942 Anticosti Island Quebec - Two more Canadian ships lost to German U-Boats in the St. Lawrence.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - R. B. Hanson chosen as interim leader by the Conservative Party, replacing R.J. Manion; serves to Nov. 12, 1941.
1940 The Hague Netherlands - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her daughter Juliana flee to London as the Nazis occupy Holland; Princess Juliana will bring her children to Ottawa for safety.
1930 Fort Radium NWT - Gilbert LaBine discovers pitchblende ore on the shore of Great Bear Lake; will become a chief source of uranium and radium.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Fifty-two unions join the metal trades workers, setting the stage for a strike that will paralyze essential services in the city.
1873 Westville Nova Scotia - Sixty men die in the Westville coal mine, in Canada's first major mine disaster.
1859 Fredericton New Brunswick - King's College at Fredericton gets charter as University of New Brunswick.
1756 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm 1712-1759 arrives in Canada to command the French forces under Governor Pierre de Vaudreuil 1698-1778, a native-born Quebecker; Vaudreuil will not get along with Montcalm, fearing a lack of French commitment to save New France.
1724 Paris France - Louis XV issues a royal edict ordering the building of stone walls to defend Montreal.
1604 Port Mouton Nova Scotia - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 names 'Port-au-Mouton' for a sheep that jumps overboard.

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henric · May 13, 2015

May 14th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
1787 – In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and JosÃ© Gaspar RodrÃguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1889 – The children's charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
1897 – The Stars and Stripes Forever is first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia.
1913 – Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that number.
1931 – Ã…dalen shootings: Five people are killed in Ã…dalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1935 – The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, makes its first flight.
1943 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
1955 – Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in West Germany.
1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
1988 – Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashes near Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, Nepal, after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.
2013 – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa due to the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1946 NOW YOU'RE A REAL CANADIAN
Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes the Canadian Citizenship Act; first nationality statute in Canada to define its people as Canadians; Canadian citizenship to be distinct and primary over being a British subject; to take effect January 1, 1947.

1847
Grosse Ile Quebec - First ship of the season arrives at the Grosse Ile quarantine station near the port of Quebec; beginning of the most terrible summer of its 105-year history, as the Irish famine reaches its peak, and over 100 000 immigrants, many infected with typhus, arrive in a single season. Over 5000 perish at sea, 5424 are buried on Grosse Ile and thousands die in Quebec, Montreal and Kingston.

1874
Cambridge Massachusetts - Harvard beats McGill University 3-0 in the first game of American/Canadian football (a variation of rugby); admission is first charged for a college football game, and the football goal post is also used for the first time at both ends of the playing field. The Harvard soccer team had invited McGill's rugby team to play two games - one under Harvard rules, other under McGill's. Harvard was impressed, and passed the McGill rules to Yale; the first American game followed later that year, McGill thereby introducing football to the United States.

In Other Events...

1992 Plymouth Nova Scotia - Curragh President Clifford Frame calls off search for 11 miners still trapped underground and presumed dead in the Westray Coal Mine.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Gerald Greenwald says Olympia and York developers under bankruptcy protection; $8.4 billion debt in Canada; failed to meet interest payments on First Canadian Place bonds.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Barbara McDougall reprimands External Affairs for letting Mohamed Al-Mashat into Canada on fast track; Iraqi diplomat former Ambassador to the US.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Angry truckers blockade Parliament Hill; can't compete due to higher Canadian taxes than US; diesel fuel also 10-20Â¢ a litre cheaper.
1986 Alberta - May blizzard with 80 kph winds hits southern Alberta, closing highways and toppling power lines.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Jeanne SauvÃ© 1922- sworn in as Canada's first female Governor General after recovery from a battle with cancer.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate to further record high of 18.98%.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Six associations merge to form National Union of Provincial Government Employees; Canada's 5th largest union.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup 4 games to 0.
1970 Los Angeles, California - Toronto rocker Neil Young breaks up with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash after releasing the LP Ohio to commemorate the fatal Kent State University shootings; CSN will regroup several times without Young.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Mies Van Der Rohe architect of new 56-story Toronto-Dominion Centre, opening on this day, tallest building in Canada to that date.
1966 New York City - Canadian rocker Denny Doherty and his group The Mamas & The Papas have a #1 Billboard hit with Monday Monday.
1964 Toronto Ontario - William Grenville Davis 1929- appointed first head of new Ontario Ministry of University Affairs; future Premier.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - RÃ©al Caouette 1917-1976 leads breakaway Creditiste group of Social Credit MPs as Party splits into two wings; other led by national leader Robert Thompson.
1963 India - India purchases 16 Caribou transport aircraft from Canada.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Trade and Commerce Minister C.D. Howe brings in $80 million loan bill for US-owned Trans-Canada Pipe Lines (TCPL); needs loan from government by June 7 to start construction; start of the chaotic Pipeline Debate in the House of Commons.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Library Association established.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - John Diefenbaker first takes his seat in the Commons as MP for Prince Albert; future Progressive Conservative PM.
1920 Toronto Ontario - Frank Underhill 1889-1971 founds the Canadian Forum with C.B. Sissons 1879-1965 and Barker Fairley 1887-1986; magazine with a socialist slant.
1914 Calgary Alberta - Turner Valley oil discoveries lead to founding of Calgary Stock Exchange; now Alberta Stock Exchange; beginning of Alberta's oil industry.
1906 Toronto Ontario - Adam Beck 1857-1925 appointed founding Chairman of the new Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission; first nationalized electrical utility in world.
1904 St. Louis, Missouri - US hosts its first Olympic games; no official Canadian team attends, but Canada will win four golds: Etienne Desmarteaux for weight throwing, George Lyon for golf, the Winnipeg Shamrocks for lacrosse and the Galt Ontario team for soccer.
1886 Ottawa Ontario - The North West Territories are given their first representation in Parliament with a Saskatchewan seat.
1880 Yale BC - Andrew Onderdonk 1848-1905 sets off a dynamite blast to start construction of the British Columbia portion of the CPR.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes the General Charter of the Canadian Pacific Railway; authorizes private construction of a transcontinental railway.
1850 Toronto Ontario - Opening of third session of third Parliament of Canada; meets until Aug. 10; province takes over internal postal system.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Opening of first session of first Parliament of the Province of Canada; after the Act of Union.
1814 Port Dover Ontario - Americans land force of 600 at Port Dover, burn settlements on Lake Erie.
1792 Nova Scotia - John Wentworth 1737-1820 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia; serves until May 12, 1808.
1760 Rimouski Quebec - French fleet arrives in the St. Lawrence from France, but retreats to the Bay of Chaleur when it learns of the fall of Quebec.
1747 Atlantic - New France Governor Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La JonquiÂre 1685-1752 captured by the British at sea and taken to England.
1742 North Dakota - FranÃ§ois and Louis-Joseph de La VÃ©rendrye reach the Mandan villages on the Missouri River, then travel southwesterly through the Badlands of North Dakota.
1643 Paris France - King Louis XIV 1638-1715 becomes the King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII 1601-1643.
1633 Quebec Quebec - Olivier Le Jeune d1654 baptized into the Roman Catholic faith; a slave left in Quebec by the Kirkes, he is the first recorded black in Canada.
1610 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 starts reign; to 1643 after assassination of Henri IV.
1501 Lisbon Portugal - Explorer Gaspar Corte RÃ©al leaves on his second voyage to Newfoundland; never heard from again.

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henric · May 14, 2015

May 15th,2015 - This Date in History.

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495 BC – A newly constructed temple in honour of the god Mercury was dedicated in ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills. To spite the senate and the consuls, the people awarded the dedication to a senior military officer, Marcus Laetorius
392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne.
589 – King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke Garibald I. A Catholic, she has great influence among the Lombard nobility.
1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1525 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas MÃ¼ntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
1602 – Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first recorded European to see Cape Cod.
1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1648 – The Treaty of Westphalia is signed.
1701 – The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
1755 – Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
1776 – American Revolution: The Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
1791 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1792 – War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
1793 – Diego MarÃn Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.
1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
1800 – King George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
1811 – Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1836 – Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1849 – Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
1851 – The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1869 – Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1891 – Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
1905 – Las Vegas, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
1911 – In Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
1911 – Three hundred three Chinese and five Japanese immigrants are killed in the TorreÃ³n massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Francisco I. Madero's brother Emilio Madero take the city of TorreÃ³n from the Federales.
1919 – The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
1919 – Greek invasion of Smyrna. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.
1925 – Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
1929 – A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
1932 – In an attempted coup d'Ã©tat, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is murdered.
1934 – Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
1935 – The Moscow Metro is opened to the public.
1940 – USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1941 – First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
1942 – World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
1943 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
1948 – Following the demise of Mandatory Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1951 – The Polish cultural attachÃ© in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
1953 – Cubmaster Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, in Manhattan Beach, California, by Pack 280c.
1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
1958 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
1960 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1966 – After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General TÃ´n Thất ĐÃnh, forcing him to abandon his command.
1969 – People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
1972 – Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
1974 – Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
1986 – Elio de Angelis, was killed while testing the Brabham BT55 at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet.
1987 – The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
1988 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
1991 – Ã‰dith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
1997 – The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
2006 – Cloud Gate was formally dedicated in Chicago's Millennium Park.
2008 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
2013 – An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1919 START OF WINNIPEG STRIKE
Winnipeg Manitoba - Trades and Labour Councils support metalworkers and building trades, call Winnipeg General Strike; up to 30,000 workers from 52 unions walk off the job, paralyzing the city for 41 days, until June 25. Fearing a Bolshevik-style revolution, the government sends many labour leaders to prison under war emergency sedition laws, which are not repealed until 1936.

1885
Regina Saskatchewan - Louis Riel 1844-1885 surrenders to Middleton's troops; North West Rebellion ends after 100 days; 80 killed on each side; rebellion costs government over $5 million. Here he is under guard shortly after his capture.

1854
Beechey Island NWT - Edward Belcher 1799-1877, searching for the Franklin expedition, is forced to abandon his ships and cross the ice to Beechey Island, where he boards Inglefield's North Star, Phoenix and Talbot; with McClure and men from the Investigator.

In Other Events...

1993 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expos retire their first sweater, the #10 belonging to Rusty Staub ['le Grand Orange'].
1992 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge Kenneth Richard appointed by Premier Cameron to probe Westray Coal Mine disaster that killed 26 miners.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Mulroney government House Leader Harvie Andre brings in bill to allow Ottawa to hold vote on constitutional reform; permits 36 day campaign; groups who spend over $5,000 must register.
1991 Ontario - Angry independent truckers close down 20 km of Highway 401 near Toronto; cause huge traffic jams.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa 1933- puts forward legislation for a Referendum on Quebec sovereignty by October, 1992; will set up two committees to study the potential impact of sovereignty.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Michel Gravel charged with 50 counts of influence peddling, bribery and abuse of public trust Progressive Conservative MP for Gamelin alleged to have corruptly obtained or sought to obtain over $100,000 from individuals or companies doing business with the government.
1981 New York City - SCTV Network 90 variety/comedy show debuts on NBC; sequel to Toronto's Second City Television.
1981 Cleveland Ohio - Len Barker of the Indians pitches a perfect no runs, no hits, no walks 3-0 game against the Toronto Blue Jays; 11th major-league hurler to toss a perfect game; first since 1968.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa agrees to extend natural gas pipeline from Montreal to Quebec City.
1969 Montreal Quebec - Joe 'Phantom' Malone dies at 79; born at Sillery Quebec Feb. 28, 1890. Malone was top scorer in the early years of the NHA and NHL, with 379 goals from 1909-24. He scored 44 goals in a 22 game schedule (1917-1918), and in his eight best seasons, with Quebec Bulldogs (5), Hamilton Tigers (2) and Montreal Canadiens (1), he scored 280 goals in 172 games. In Stanley Cup play, he notched 9 goals in one game against Sydney in 1913, 8 against the Montreal Wanderers in 1917 and NHL record 7 against Toronto in 1920.
1968 Winnipeg Manitoba - Opening of the Centennial Planetarium in Winnipeg.
1965 Omaha, Nebraska - Igor Vodic beats Quebec's Mad Dog Vachon, to become National Wrestling Association champion.
1956 Orleans Ontario - Royal Canadian Air Force plane crashes into the Grey Nuns' Home for the Aged in Orleans, killing 15 people, including 11 nuns.
1952 USA - Alberta jockey Johnny Longden became the second jockey in history, and the first North American, to ride 4,000 winners.
1938 New York City - Canadian bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra record Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride, the group's last side for Victor Records; moves the Royal Canadians over to Decca Records.
1926 Montreal Quebec - NHL awards franchise to the New York Rangers; the Rangers will win their first Stanley Cup two years later.
1912 Ottawa Ontario - Boundaries of Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec extended northward.
1907 Toronto Ontario - Toronto plumbers go on four-month strike.
1894 Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia votes for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1879 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Leonard Tilley's protective tariff is adopted by the Macdonald government as national policy.
1876 Montreal Quebec - Founding of l'UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al; a branch of Laval.
1874 Cambridge Massachusetts - Montreal's McGill University ties Harvard 0-0 in the second of first two football contests for which admission was charged; McGill rules later adopted by American colleges.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Lucius Seth Huntington 1827-1886 accuses Hugh Allan of paying the Macdonald government $360,000 in return for the CPR contract.
1861 Halifax Nova Scotia - Joseph Howe 1804-1873 proposes a resolution for the union of the British North American colonies; passed by the Nova Scotia Legislature sent to the governors of the other provinces on July 6.
1852 London England - Edward Belcher 1799-1877 sets sail to search for Franklin in the vicinity of Melville Island; Henry Kellett his second-in-command.
1851 Fort Confidence NWT - John Rae 1813-1893 sets off to search for Franklin; explores Victoria Island from Wilbank Bay to Cape Back.
1837 Quebec - Meeting of popular assemblies at St-Laurent and St-Marc against Lord Russell's resolutions; Governor Gosford issues a proclamation against the holding of assemblies.
1814 Port Dover Ontario - Party of 500 Americans cross Lake Erie from Erie, Pennsylvania and destroy the town of Port Dover; War of 1812.
1756 London England - England declares war on France to start the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the European counterpart to the French and Indian War (1754-1763); fighting had been going on in North America for two years, but did not go well for England until William Pitt came to power in 1756 and sent troop reinforcements.
1702 London England - The Grand Alliance declares war against France; beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession, also called Queen Anne's War.
1603 Le Havre France - Samuel de Champlain sails from France on his first voyage to Canada.

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henric · May 15, 2015

May 16th,2015 - This Date in History.

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218 – Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
1770 – A 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1811 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
1812 – Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia is annexed by Imperial Russia.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1834 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
1877 – May 1877 political crisis in France.
1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
1914 – The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2–1.
1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
1919 – A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded.
1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1961 – Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'Ã©tat to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
1974 – Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1983 – Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
1988 – A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
2003 – In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.
2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
2014 – Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1943 DAMBUSTERS TAKE OUT THE MOHN AND EDER
Mohne Germany - British and Canadian Lancaster pilots of the Dambusters Squadron succeed in breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin using a bouncing bomb dropped at low level; only 8 of the 17 planes return; 13 of the 53 dead are Canadians.

1806
Hull Quebec - Philemon Wright starts first raft of pine and oak staves down the Ottawa River; reaches Quebec two months later; opens up new timber trade in the Valley, with huge rafts of squared white pine being floated down to Quebec, where they are broken up and loaded into ships bound for Britain.

In Other Events...

1991 Detroit Michigan - Nepean Ontario's Steve Yzerman scores at 1:15 into the second overtime as the Red Wings advance to the Western Conference finals with a 1-0 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 7; second time in NHL history that a Game 7 was scoreless heading into overtime; first in 1950, when Red Wings beat Toronto 1-0 in the semifinals.
1990 St.-Amable Quebec - Fire breaks out at Quebec's largest tire dump (3 million tires) near Montreal; rages for four days before being put out.
1982 Vancouver BC - New York Islanders cap a four game sweep, beating the Canucks 3-1 in game 4 to take their third Stanley Cup in a row; first American NHL team to do so; will make it four in a row in 1983.
1977 Boston Massachusetts - Montreal Canadians win their 20th Stanley Cup, downing Boston 2-1, to sweep the series 4-0.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Emmet Hall issues his Report on Grain Handling and Transportation; recommends formation of Prairie rail authority; also construction of Arctic Railway.
1976 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens win their 19th Stanley Cup with a 5-3 victory over Philadelphia Flyers, to sweep the series 4-0.
1973 Zimbabwe - Zambian troops kill two Canadian women at Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) border; believed they were saboteurs.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Randy Bachman leaves the Guess Who; will found Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts $1 million program to help Indians buy or build homes off reserves and closer to jobs.
1964 Maryland - E.P. Taylor's Northern Dancer, ridden by Bill Hartack, wins the Preakness Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths over The Scoundrel.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 26th Parliament; meets until December 21.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John Fitzgerald Kennedy starts three-day visit to Ottawa.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of first session of 19th Parliament; until Nov 5.
1930 Port Radium NWT - Prospector Gilbert A. Labine starts building a uranium mine on Great Bear Lake; later will open a refinery at Port Hope, Ont. to produce the fuel for the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW II.
1922 Newfoundland - Newfoundland railway workers start general strike.
1885 Thunder Bay Ontario - CPR completes Lake Superior segment to Fort William.
1871 London England - Imperial Order-in-Council lets British Columbia join the Dominion as Canada's sixth province.
1863 Quebec - Antoine-AimÃ© Dorion replaces Sicotte as Attorney-General for Canada East; forms new Liberal Macdonald-Dorion Ministry with John Sandfield Macdonald.
1854 Canada - Reciprocity Treaty between Canada and the US takes effect; US agrees to admit most Canadian products duty free; US fishermen can catch within the three-mile limit, land to cure their fish, and navigate the St. Lawrence River freely.
1853 Aurora Ontario - First train in Ontario runs from Toronto to Aurora on the Ontario Simcoe and Huron Railroad Union Company; name changed to The Northern Railway of Canada on August 16, 1858; became part of the Northern and Northwestern Railway June 6, 1879, now part of CN.
1851 Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 appointed Governor of British Columbia and Vancouver Island; serves from Sept. 1851 to Sept. 1863.
1835 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of Erie & Ontario and Hamilton & Port Dover Railways.
1807 Quebec Quebec - Incorporation of the Quebec Benevolent Society.
1796 Niagara-on-the Lake Ontario - Fifth session of first Parliament of Upper Canada meets until June 3 at Niagara.
1775 St-Jean Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 captures Fort St. John from the British during the American invasion.
1763 Sandusky Ohio - Pontiac sends warriors to take Sandusky.
1762 Maugerville New Brunswick - Captain Peabody leads first permanent British settlers from Massachusetts to New Brunswick.
1760 Quebec Quebec - FranÃ§ois, Duc de LÃ©vis abandons siege of Quebec when a British fleet commanded by Robert Swanton (d.1765) approaches up the St. Lawrence.
1646 Trois-RiviÃ¨res Quebec - Isaac Jogues 1607-1646 leaves Trois-RiviÃ¨res on a successful peace mission to Mohawks with another Jesuit, Jean de La Lande.
1619 Copenhagen Denmark - Jens Eriksen Munk 1519-1628 sets sail to find North West Passage; commissioned by the King of Denmark, he will make the first European discovery of the Missinipi or Churchill River, a gateway into northern Manitoba.
1613 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Rene Le Coq de La Saussaye reaches Acadia to get Biard and Masse to make peace with Poutrincourt; sent by Antoinette de Pons, Marquise de Guercheville.

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