This Date In History

henric · May 16, 2015

May 17th,2015 - This Date in History.

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1395 – Battle of Rovine, Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army.
1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
1536 – George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage.
1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de MontrÃ©al.
1673 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.
1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
1805 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and Crown Prince Christian Frederick of Denmark is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
1849 – A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
1863 – RosalÃa de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.
1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
1940 – World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
1943 – World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1967 – Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
1974 – The Troubles: Thirty-three civilians are killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonates four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. It is the deadliest attack of the Troubles and the deadliest terrorist attack in the Republic's history. There are allegations that British state forces were involved.
1974 – Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
1995 – Shawn Nelson steals a tank from a military installation and goes on a rampage in San Diego resulting in a 25 minute police chase. Nelson is killed by an officer after the tank got stuck on a concrete barrier and tried to break free.
1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2000 – Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
2007 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
2013 – Two Metro-North commuter trains collide near Bridgeport, Connecticut injuring at least 72 people.
2014 – A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1939 FIRST ROYAL TOUR OF CANADA
Quebec Quebec - King George VI 1895-1952 and Queen Elizabeth disembark at Wolfe's Cove from the CP ship Empress of Australia to start a month-long royal visit to Canada; the first by a reigning British monarch; addresses citizens of Quebec in fluent French. The tour is designed to repair and enhance British-Canadian relations, as war clouds again gather in Europe.

1642
Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve 1612-1676 and Jeanne Mance arrive on Montreal Island with Mme de La Peltrie, Charlotte BarrÃ© and other colonists backed by La SociÃ©tÃ© Notre-Dame; after a thanksgiving mass they start building a fort on the site of Place Royale; found a settlement they call Ville Marie de MontrÃ©al.

1963
Montreal Quebec - Canadian Army engineer Sergeant-Major Walter Leja is seriously injured when bomb he is trying to dismantle blows up in his hands; one of a series of six FLQ terrorist bombs that explode in Westmount mailboxes starting at 3 am (five more are disarmed, another 5 are carried away and blown up safely). Three days later, police arrest 20 members of the Front de liberation Quebecois; 21 year old Mario Bachand will be sentenced to four years in jail for planting bombs.

In Other Events...

1996 Cannes France - Toronto director David Cronenberg's film Crash has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival; audiences are scandalized by the portrayal of characters sexually aroused by traffic accidents.
1995 Montreal Quebec - Hockey legend Hector 'Toe' Blake dies at 82; born at Victoria Mines, NS on Aug 21, 1912, Blake played left wing for the Montreal Canadiens, and was the Hart Trophy regular season MVP in 1939. He led the team to 2 Stanley Cups as a player and 8 more as coach; his eight Stanley Cup championships in 13 seasons as coach of the Canadiens is an NHL record.
1993 Fredericton New Brunswick - Country singer Stompin' Tom Connors awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from St. Thomas University. Born in Saint John Feb. 3, 1936, he moved to PEI as a boy and only reached Grade 9 in school. The writer of Bud the Spud and other ditties, Connors started singing for a living in 1964, when he found himself broke at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays pass the one million attendance mark in only 21 dates, earlier than any team in major league baseball history.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Department of National Defence says it is canceling orders for $900 million worth of military equipment and cutting almost 1,000 jobs at Ottawa NDHQ; due to the easing of Cold War tensions.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Rogers Communications Inc. to acquire Skyline Cablevision Ltd. of Ottawa for $70 million; plus $5 million for French language community channel.
1990 St. Andrews New Brunswick - Star-Kist Canada to close down tuna plant, throwing 250 people out of work; slumping prices to blame; plant closed due to tainted tuna scandal from 1985-88.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Charest's Commons committee unanimously recommends approving Meech Lake by June 23; says Ottawa should promote the two official languages, recognize the distinct society clause, and reform the Senate.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Former CFRB journalist and broadcaster Gordon Sinclair 1900-1984 dies after a heart attack.
1983 Edmonton Alberta - New York Islanders win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup, beating the Oilers 4- 2 in game 4.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Robert B. Bryce 1910-sees no need to screen mergers, in his report of the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration.
1975 Aylmer Ontario - Ten policewomen start training to be OPP constables at the Ontario Police College, ending 65 years of male-only service in the Ontario Provincial Police.
1974 Vancouver BC - Joe Morris 1913- elected president of the Canadian Labour Congress at Vancouver convention.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Gerald LeDain issues his LeDain Commission Report Part Two, recommending abolition of penalties for possession of cannabis.
1971 Moscow Russia - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts ten-day trip to Soviet Union.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Chicago Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1968 Antigonish Nova Scotia - Mike McIntosh appointed to the Board of Governors of St. Francis Xavier University; first undergraduate on a Canadian university Board.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the Man and his World fair on the former Expo '67 site on Ile Ste-Helene and Ile Notre-Dame.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Construction begins on the National Library and Public Archives Building on Wellington Street in Ottawa.
1957 Cornwall Ontario - Canadian National Railways opens a 40 mile diversion of its Montreal to Toronto main line to avoid construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government grants full diplomatic recognition to the State of Israel, founded May 14, 1948.
1943 England - Only 8 of the 17 British and Canadian Lancasters of the Dambusters Squadron return from breaching the Mohne and the Eder dams in Germany's industrial Ruhr basin; 30 RCAF airmen part of the Squadron; 13 of the 53 dead are Canadians.
1928 Amsterdam Netherlands - Canadian athletes join 44 other nations and a total of 3,014 competitors at the opening of the ninth modern Olympic games. Canada will win four gold medals, two by Percy Williams (100m and 200m dash) and two by Ethel Catherwood (high jump and 4x100m relay).
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Citizens' Committee of One Thousand organized to counteract Winnipeg General Strike; provide essential public services.
1882 Kingston Ontario - Queen's College in Kingston given university powers; now Queen's University.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - Thomas Edison demonstrates his new invention, the phonograph, to Governor-General and Lady Dufferin.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 moves resolution to bring Prince Edward Island into Confederation.
1871 Fredericton New Brunswick - Common Schools Act sets up separate schools in New Brunswick.
1855 Charlottetown PEI - Charlottetown incorporated as a city.
1851 Saint John New Brunswick - Launch of the sailing ship Marco Polo; reputed to be the fastest ship in the world.
1849 Red River Manitoba - Metis leaders James Sinclair and Louis Riel Senior intimidate the General Quarterly Court of Assiniboia during the trial of Guillaume Sayer for unlicensed fur trading; Sayer found guilty, but the court rules for mercy, saying that Sayer did not know that the Metis were not permitted to trade freely; illegal trading continues, threatening the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1841 Quebec Quebec - Landslide kills 32 die at Citadel Rock, Quebec City.
1793 Alberta - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sights the Rockies.
1790 Quebec - Government bans export of wheat, oats, and flour to cut high prices.
1775 Philadelphia Pennsylvania- US Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1757 Quebec Quebec - War speculators raise the prices of bread and meat by 1000%; 4 oz. of bread the daily ration in Quebec.
1689 Europe - Beginning of King William's War with France; to Sept. 20 1697.
1673 Sault Ste Marie Ontario - Fathers Marquette and Joliet leave Sault Ste Marie and paddle south across Lake Michigan to rediscover and claim Mississippi River for Louis XlV; they will reach south as far as the Arkansas River.
1657 France - Gabriel ThubiÃ¨res de LÃ©vy de Queylus 1612-1677 leaves from France with Sulpician priests Gabriel Souart, Dominique Galinier, and Antoine d'Allet; appointed Vicar-General by la SocietÃ© des PrÃªtres de Sainte-Sulpice, the seigneurs of Montreal.
1656 Quebec Quebec - Zacharie Dupuy c1608-1676 leaves with a group of French to establish a settlement among the Onondagas; military commander of Quebec.

End of C/P.

henric · May 17, 2015

May 18th,2015 - This Date in History.

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332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
1096 – First Crusade: around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany
1152 – Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.
1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land
1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
1388 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu led a Chinese army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of TÃ¶gÃ¼s TemÃ¼r, the Khan of Northern Yuan.
1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from CÃ¡diz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
1565 – The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
1565 – The Royal Audiencia of ConcepciÃ³n is created by a decree of Philip II of Spain.
1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
1763 – Fire destroys a large part of Montreal
1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
1803 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the RÃo de la Plata in Uruguay led by JosÃ© Artigas.
1812 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
1843 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
1912 – The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai.
1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
1927 – The Bath School disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
1956 – First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
1959 – Launch of the National Liberation Committee of CÃ´te d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
1974 – Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
1980 – Gwangju Massacre: students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
1983 – In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
1993 – Riots in NÃ¸rrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
2011 – Twenty-two people are killed when Sol LÃneas AÃ©reas Flight 5428 crashes in southern Argentina.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1982 BOMBARDIER WINS BIG IN NY
New York City - Bombardier Inc. wins $1 billion contract to build 825 subway cars for New York; largest-ever export contract for a Canadian manufacturer.

1783
Saint John New Brunswick - First of 7,000 United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown at the mouth of the St. John River to found a settlement. Two years later, on this date, Parrtown is incorporated and renamed Saint John; first city incorporated in Canada.

1917
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden's Union Government announces it will bring in compulsory conscription; offers a coalition to Opposition leader Wilfrid Laurier, but he refuses, saying French Canadians will never accept a pro-conscription coalition, but back Henri Bourassa.

In Other Events...

1991 Montreal Quebec - Unity portion of the federal leaders' french debate resumes; Radio Canada journalist Claire Lamarche had fainted during the original debate May 13.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Gerald Schwartz's Onex Corp. launches hostile $2.3-billion takeover bid for 148-year-old brewing giant John Labatt Ltd..
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Lowell Murray begins meeting Premiers individually to lobby for passage of Meech Lake Accord; as Prime Minister Mulroney's emissary.
1989 Stratford, Ontario - Stratford Festival makes two cuts in its production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice after meeting with officials of the Canadian Jewish Congress; two anti-semitic references removed.
1973 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Family home of former Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 at Prince Albert donated to the University of Saskatchewan to hold Diefenbaker Archives.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - The Guess Who's hit American Woman/No Sugar Tonight stays at #1 on the Billboard Top 100 for the third week in a row; Winnipeg-based group.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Pacific Airlines presents reconstructed Fairchild Model 82 to Canadian Aviation Museum.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Paul-Joseph Chartier 1921-1966 killed in Parliament Buildings washroom by a bomb he intended to throw into the House of Commons.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Quebec offers $50,000 reward for information leading to convictions for terrorist acts; Montreal police set up 200-man anti-terrorist unit.
1944 Rogers Dry Lake, California - Jacqueline Cochran pilots a North American F-86 Canadair over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour, becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier.
1944 Cassino Italy - Germans evacuate Monte Cassino in face of Canadian and British attacks, after a four-month struggle that claimed about 20,000 lives.
1939 Quebec Quebec - King George VI 1895-1952, Queen Elizabeth and the royal party board a 12 car train, (five from CP, five from CN and the two vice-regal cars), and depart for Montreal. The royal train is painted in royal blue and aluminum, and royal crowns are affixed to the running boards of both locomotives. A pilot train, carrying officials and the press, precedes the royal train by an hour and no other trains are permitted to travel within this period.
1873 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary.
1861 Ottawa Ontario - College of Bytown becomes College of Ottawa; today the University of Ottawa.
1846 Kingston Ontario - Kingston incorporated as a city.
1837 Quebec - Lower Canada banks suspend payment until June 23, 1838; due to civil strife.
1824 Queenston Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 publishes last issue of The Colonial Advocate at Queenston; will move the newspaper to York in November; future rebel leader, Mayor of Toronto.
1814 Michilimackinac Michigan - Robert McDouall reinforces Michilimackinac against Americans with two dozen seamen and a company of Newfoundland regulars; also a company of loyal Michigan Fencibles under William McKay.
1785 Quebec Quebec - Ordinance bans imports from the US by sea.
1765 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys one quarter of the town of Montreal.
1677 Paris France - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 ordered by Jean-Baptiste Colbert to live amicably with New France Intendant Duchesneau.
1675 Lake Michigan - Jacques Marquette 1637-1675 dies on trip back to St-Ignace mission at Sault Ste. Marie.

End of C/P.

henric · May 18, 2015

May 19th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Tai zong at Jiucheng Palace.
715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
1051 – Henry I of France is married to Anne of Kiev.
1445 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1542 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma.
1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
1649 – An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1655 – The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1743 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
1780 – New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
1845 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
1848 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
1911 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
1917 – the Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK was founded.
1919 – Mustafa Kemal AtatÃ¼rk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
1921 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
1922 – The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.
1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'Ã©tat and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
1941 – The Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng Province, Vietnam.
1942 – World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
1943 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1961 – At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, drafted shortly after his arrest on April 12 during the Birmingham campaign advocating for civil rights and an end to segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter was in response to "A Call for Unity": A statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen against King and his methods, following his arrest, and became one of the most-anthologized statements of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
1984 – Michael Larson, a contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck exploits a bug in the prize board, and wins over US$110,000.
1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
1997 – The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1845 FRANKLIN SAILS TO HIS DOOM
London England - John Franklin 1786-1847 departs for the Arctic on the Royal Navy ships Erebus and Terror to find the Northwest Passage; his vessels have steam engines and ice-breaking bows, and carry enough food for three years. The entire expedition will be lost.

1984
Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky and the Oilers beat the New York Islanders 5-2 to win the Stanley Cup 4 games to 1; end Islanders' four-year domination of the NHL and start a dynasty of their own.

In Other Events...

1996 Cape Canaveral Florida - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Marc Garneau starts his second flight into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-77.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer, head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission urges Canada to allow telephone and cable-television companies to compete head on. CRTC chairman Spicer says, 'We've received a clear message that consumers want greater choice.'
1994 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park brings in legislation to give same-sex couples the same rights as common-law heterosexual couples, including the right to adopt children.
1987 New York City - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a Billboard #1 hit with Heat of the Night.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Air Canada and the union representing 29-hundred striking ticket agents sign deal ending the three-week-old walkout.
1984 Vancouver BC - Newspaper workers end two-month strike at Vancouver Sun and Province.
1976 Moscow Russia - Soviet Union recognizes Canada's proposed 370 km (200 nautical miles) fishing zone.
1973 Boston Massachusetts - Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins 1-0 in Game 6, winning the Stanley Cup series 4 games to 2; first NHL expansion team to win the championship; will repeat in 1975.
1973 Baltimore Maryland - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins the 98th Preakness Stakes in 1:55 by 2 1/2 lengths over Sham; after taking the Kentucky Derby earlier, the pair take the second leg in horse racing's Triple Crown, and will go on to win the third jewel, the Belmont Stakes in New York.
1970 Canada - 5,000 delivery and inside postal workers attend study sessions and start rotating strikes; bring mail delivery to a standstill.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Iranian Shah Reza Pahlevi arrives in Ottawa with Empress Farah for an eight-day state visit.
1958 Colorado Springs Colorado - United States and Canada formally established the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) to coordinate continental defence.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - King George VI 1895-1952 addresses the Canadian Parliament; the first reigning monarch to do so.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Bread and milk delivery resumes during the Winnipeg General Strike.
1876 Victoria BC - British Columbia legislature passes Act to tax males $3 a year for schools.
1859 Fort Garry Manitoba - Steamboat Pioneer arrives at Fort Garry from St. Paul, Minnesota; first steamboat on the Red River.
1855 Toronto Ontario - Government grants charters to Niagara District Bank and Molson's Bank in Montreal.
1824 London England - William Parry 1790-1855 sails on another expedition to the Arctic.
1817 Montreal Quebec - Montreal business leaders adopt articles of association for the Bank of Montreal; officially founded May 23, with a capital of Â£250,000; opens for business on Nov. 3.
1804 Clearwater Rive Saskatchewan - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches mouth of Clearwater River; then heads for Cumberland House.
1781 Michilimackinac Michigan - Chippewas cede Michilimackinac Island to Britain for Â£5,000.
1780 Canada - Complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England states at 2 pm; cause never explained.
1776 Les Cedres Quebec - George Forster, with 40 regulars and 200 Indians, defeats 400 American invaders at the Battle of the Cedars, a rebel outpost 64 km west of Montreal.
1690 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Governor Louis-Alexandre Des Friches de Meneval surrenders Port Royal to Phips; taken to Boston as a prisoner.
1632 Nova Scotia - Isaac de Launoy de Razilly 1587-1635 named Lieutenant-General of New France at Port Royal; granted tract of land at Ste-Croix by the Company of New France.
1604 St. Mary's Bay Nova Scotia - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets off from Port Mouton in a long boat with a small crew to find a temporary winter quarters for the expedition, leaving de Monts and the larger vessel behind; charts coast of present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine with Jean Ralluau for three weeks; enters St. Mary's Bay [called la Baie FranÃ§aise] and travels as far as the future site of Port Royal.
1587 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sets sail on his third voyage to the Arctic with the ships Sunneshine, Elizabeth and Ellen.
1535 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves on second voyage on the Grand Hermine, Petite Hermine and Emerillon with 110 men, including two priests and many of his wife's cousins; they will take 50 days to cross the Atlantic, and winter at Quebec.

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henric · May 19, 2015

May 20th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

325 – The First Council of Nicea: The first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
526 – An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia.
685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
794 – King Ã†thelberht II of East Anglia visits the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls, with a view to marrying princess Ã†lfthryth. He is taken captive and beheaded.
1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of AlcalÃ¡.
1449 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
1520 – The massacre at the festival of TÃ³xcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
1521 – Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1645 – The Manchurian Qing army occupied the city Yangzhou and the residents get massacred for ten days. Hundred thousands of people get killed by the Qing troops.
1775 – Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1875 – Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
1882 – The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
1884 – Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation.
1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1896 – The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. TomÃ¡s Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
1927 – Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1940 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
1948 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China.
1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1964 – Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew.
1967 – The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
1983 – Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
1985 – Radio MartÃ, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
1996 – Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
2006 – Dhaka wildcat strikes: A series of massive strikes begin, involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.
2012 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
2013 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
2014 – More than 118 people are killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1980 QUEBEC SAYS NO
Quebec - Quebec votes No by 59.56% to RenÃ© LÃ©vesque's referendum to get a mandate to negotiate Quebec's sovereignty-association with the rest of Canada; the No forces were led by Claude Ryan; first live coverage of a Canadian referendum; LÃ©vesque says to his supporters: 'If I understand you correctly, what you are telling me is, Next Time!' Trudeau promises 'renewed federalism' even if it means patriating the constitution over the Quebec government's objections.

1948
Rome Italy - George 'Buzz' Beurling killed at age 26 when the Norseman plane he is piloting for the Israeli underground army Haganah blows up at Urbe airport. Canada's top World War II air ace with 31 1/2 kills, Beurling was born on the Miramachi, and brought up in Verdun Quebec; a high school dropout, he hung around airports until he learned to fly, failed to join the RCAF, but got into the RAF; shot down 27 German planes over Malta in a two week period, earning him the DFC, DSO, DFM and Bar He was buried in Rome's English cemetery between the graves of Keats and Shelley, but two years later the grateful state of Israel exhumed his body, laid him in state in Haifa, and buried him at the base of Mount Carmel, near the cave of Elijah the Prophet.

In Other Events...

1996 Cannes France - Toronto director David Cronenberg's film Crash wins the Prix SpŽcial du Jury for daring, originality and audacity; after scandalous reception in France, the film will win two Genies, for best adapted screenplay and best director, in November.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Lucien Bouchard sends telegram of support to the Parti Quebecois National Council meeting at Alma praising those who fought for the Yes side during the 1980 Referendum; many of his fellow Progressive Conservative caucus members are outraged; leads to his resignation from the Party and the Commons May 22.
1990 Alma Quebec - Parti Quebecois National Council issues 46 page pamphlet outlining proposals on achieving Quebec independence; discusses army, passports, common currency with Canada.
1986 Nepal - Sharon Wood and Dwayne Congdon of Canmore, Alberta, reach the summit of Mount Everest; Wood the first North American woman to climb the world's highest peak.
1984 Victoria BC - Robert Skelly 1943- elected leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Willie Stargell hits 535-foot home run off Wayne Twitchell to lead the Pirates' to a 6-0 win over the Expos; longest home run ever in the Olympic Stadium.
1977 Toronto Ontario - J. Pearce Bunting replaces Jack Kimber as President and CEO of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa approves 840 km Inter-provincial Pipeline extension from Sarnia to Montreal.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada upholds right of citizens to challenge provincial movie censorship laws.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Francis Simard sentenced to life imprisonment for the October 17, 1970 murder of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte.
1970 New York City - The Guess Who's American Woman/No Sugar Tonight stays at #1 on the Billboard pop chart; Winnipeg based group.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Air Canada DC-8 crashes near Ottawa on training flight, killing three veteran pilots.
1963 Montreal Quebec - RCMP arrest 20 young FLQ members for terrorist acts; Mario Bachand later sentenced to four years in jail for planting post box bombs in Westmount, including the one that maimed Canadian Army engineer Sergeant-Major Walter Leja.
1938 Vancouver BC - 500 unemployed members of Relief Project Worker's Union start sit-down strike in Hotel Georgia; paid $500 to leave; strikers stay in Art Gallery.
1932 St. John's Newfoundland - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland for Ireland; will became the first woman to make a solo plane flight across the Atlantic.
1923 London England - New Brunswick-born British Prime Minister Bonar Law resigns due to ill health; replaced by Stanley Baldwin.
1900 Paris France - Opening of the second modern Olympic Games in Paris, with 22 nations and 1330 competitors; will last five months, until Oct. 28. Canada does not send an official team, but Canadian George Orton, running for the US, will take the gold medal in the 2500m steeplechase.
1882 Brandon Manitoba - Brandon incorporated as a city.
1879 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 first director of the new Department of Railroads and Canals; a Minister will now have jurisdiction over all railways pertaining to the Dominion Government; previously under Public Works.
1870 Ottawa Ontario - Adams George Archibald 1814-1892 appointed first Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and North West Territory; serves until Dec. 1, 1872.
1862 Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 sees his Militia Bill defeated; Macdonald Cartier government resigns.
1859 Nanaimo BC - George Barstow elected Mayor of Nanaimo with only one vote cast.
1851 Kingston Ontario - Province of Canada issues its first postage stamps.
1851 Kingston Ontario - Opening of fourth session of third Parliament of Canada; meets until Aug. 30; normal school in Canada East; medical schools in Montreal and Toronto.
1836 Toronto Ontario - City of Toronto & Lake Huron Railway Company incorporated.
1814 Sackett's Harbour New York - James Yeo 1782-1818 blockades Sackett's Harbour for three weeks during the War of 1812.
1806 BC - John Stuart 1779-1847 journeys up the Peace River with Simon Fraser; Stuart the uncle of Donald A. Smith, later Lord Strathcona.
1803 Montreal Quebec - Chief Justice William Osgoode declares slavery to be inconsistent with the laws of Canada.
1786 PEI - St. John Island separates from Nova Scotia; later named Prince Edward Island.
1776 London England - Mariot Arbuthnot 1711-1794 appointed Lieutenant Governor and administrator of Nova Scotia; serves from May 13, 1776 to Aug. 17, 1778.
1776 Vaudreuil Quebec - British defeat American invasion force in skirmish at Vaudreuil.
1774 London England - Parliament passes the Quebec Act, extending the boundaries of the province northwards to Hudson's Bay and as far south as the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
1760 Montreal Quebec - FranÃ§ois, Duc de LÃ©vis sets out from Montreal with his 7,000 strong army to retake Quebec from the British.
1751 Toronto Ontario - Pierre Robineau de Portneuf 1708-1761 orders trader Joseph Dufeaux to build a larger post, Fort RouillÃ©, to the east of Fort Toronto; on the site of the CNE.
1668 Quebec Quebec - Jacques Marquette 1637-1675 starts upriver to join Father Claude Dablon and open a mission at Sault Ste-Marie that will serve 2,000 Algonkians.
1616 Midland Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Huronia to visit the Nipissing tribe after wintering with the Hurons.
1497 Bristol England - John Cabot [Giovanni Caboto Montecataluna] c1450-1498 departs Bristol on the Matthew with a crew of about 20; his second voyage to the new world.

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henric · May 20, 2015

May 21st,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1085 – The Swedish town of Helsingborg is founded.
1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
1403 – Henry III of Castile sends Ruy GonzÃ¡les de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire.
1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer JoÃ£o da Nova.
1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England.
1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russian–Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1864 – The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1904 – The FÃ©dÃ©ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1911 – President of Mexico Porfirio DÃaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad JuÃ¡rez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1917 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1972 – Michelangelo's PietÃ in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1976 – The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California. Twenty-nine are killed making it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1981 – Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
1992 – After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
1996 – The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead.
1998 – In Miami, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 – President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2003 – An earthquake hits northern Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
2011 – Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
2012 – A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
2012 – A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sana'a, Yemen.
2014 – A knife attack on a Taipei Metro train leaves four people dead and almost two dozen others injured.
2014 – The National September 11 Museum opens to the public.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1920 MONTREAL STATION A RADIO FIRST
Montreal Quebec - Radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.

1914
Vancouver BC - Ship Komagata Maru arrives in Vancouver with 396 Sikh immigrants aboard; not allowed to land under Canadian immigration laws; sails away on July 23.

In Other Events...

1993 New York City - Former prime minister Joe Clark named a special UN envoy to find a peace settlement for Cyprus.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Barbara McDougall says Canada opening diplomatic relations with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; former USSR republics.
1986 Washington DC - Canadian negotiator Simon Riesman starts Canada-US free-trade talks with American counterparts.
1986 Toronto Ontario - Keith Alexander sentenced to jail by a Canadian court for dumping toxic contaminants into Toronto sewers; president of Jetco Manufacturing Ltd. the first corporate executive sent to jail for pollution-related offenses.
1981 Vancouver BC - Sculptor George Pratt starts work on a statue of Marathon of Hope runner Terry Fox.
1981 Minneapolis Minnesota - New York Islanders win their second straight Stanley Cup, beating the Minnesota North Stars 4 games to 1.
1979 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens down the New York Rangers 4-1 to win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup title.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Bryce Mackasey 1921-Postmaster-General raises first class letter rates on Sept. 1, 1976 and March 1, 1977.
1969 Gaspe Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec jointly create Forillon Park in Gaspe region; first national park in Quebec.
1965 Guelph Ontario - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 installed as first Chancellor of University of Guelph; former Ontario Premier.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Ontario's flag proclaimed; the provincial crest on a red ensign.
1953 Sarnia Ontario - Tornado flattens downtown Sarnia, doing $4 million in damage and killing 5 people.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - King George VI 1895-1952 unveils the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
1923 PEI - Prohibition comes into effect in Prince Edward Island.
1901 Victoria BC - John Claus Voss sails west in his Nootka Indian canoe, the Tilikum; reaches England Sept. 2, 1904, after taking three years, three months and 12 days to navigate the 65,000 km, via Australia and New Zealand; Tilikum on display at Thunderbird Park in Victoria.
1871 Toronto Ontario - Alexander Muir's The Maple Leaf Forever sung in public for the first time.
1862 Ottawa Ontario - Macdonald-Cartier Ministry resigns after defeat on Cartier's Militia Bill.
1856 Kingston Ontario - Allan MacNab forced to resign when all Ministers from Canada West resign.
1832 Montreal Quebec - British Army opens fire on a crowd of election rioters, killing three partisans..
1832 Quebec - Cholera brought by Irish immigrants will kill 6000 across Lower Canada this year.
1826 Winnipeg Manitoba - Red River reaches a level twice that of the disastrous 1950 flood.
1821 Toronto Ontario - William Allan gets charter for Bank of Upper Canada, and 10 year monopoly on banknotes; with J.G. Chewitt, son of Governor Simcoe's paymaster.
1816 Saint John New Brunswick - Steamboat 'General Smythe' begins operating on the Saint John River; first in the Maritimes.
1806 St-Boniface Manitoba - Marie-Anne Gaboury 1780-1875 marries Jean-Baptiste LagimodiÃ¨re; first white woman to live in western Canada; grandmother of Louis Riel.
1803 Quebec Quebec - William Osgoode 1754-1824 declares slavery 'inconsistent' with the laws of Canada; will become Chief Justice of Upper Canada.
1785 Quebec - First trial by jury in Canada under British common law.
1765 Windsor Nova Scotia - Founding of the Windsor fair; the first regular agricultural exhibition in North America and Canada's first farm fair.
1690 Annapolis Nova Scotia - William Phips 1651-1695 captures Port Royal with Massachusetts militia.
1613 Mount Desert Maine - RenÃ© Le Coq de La Saussaye withdraws Biard and MassÃ© from Port-Royal, then sails to Frenchman's Bay in Maine; builds settlement of St. Sauveur on Mount Desert Island.
1611 Montreal Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Quebec from France; travels upriver to Lachine Rapids; chooses Pointe CalliÃ¨res as site for future trading post.

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henric · May 21, 2015

May 22nd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.
1254 – Serbian King Stephen Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of LÃ¼beck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.

Trevi Fountain
1762 – Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clemens XIII.
1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1807 – Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire.
1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
1812 – Action of 22 May 1812: A small French two-frigate squadron comprising Ariane and Andromaque, returning from a commerce raiding campaign in the Atlantic, meets the 74-gun HMS Northumberland while trying the slip to Lorient through the British blockade.
1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England, on June 20.
1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1840 – The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas").
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson: Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends with the Union unable to achieve any of its objectives.
1871 – The U.S. Army issues an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
1872 – Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1885 – Prior to burial in the PanthÃ©on, the body of Victor Hugo was exposed under the Arc de Triomphe during the night.
1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
1903 – Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.
1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang, China.
1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1942 – Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
1942 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.
1945 – Operation Paperclip: United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
1947 – Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, the U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
1958 – Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils.
1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1961 – An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
1963 – An assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis, who will die five days later.
1964 – The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
1967 – The L'Innovation department store in the center of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
1967 – Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre.
1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1969 – Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1980 – Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
1987 – Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.
1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
1997 – Kelly Flinn, the US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court-martial.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: A federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
2002 – In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
2002 – American civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
2003 – In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika SÃ¶renstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
2004 – The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) which kills one resident, and becomes the widest tornado on record at 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide; a record that wouldn't be broken until a the El Reno tornado on May 31, 2013.
2005 – A Presidential election is held in Mongolia; the result is a victory for Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP).
2008 – The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes strike 19 states and one Canadian province.
2009 – The Credit CARD Act of 2009 was signed into U.S. law by the President, Barack Obama.
2010 – An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.
2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
2012 – Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. It is the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
2014 – General Prayuth Chan-ocha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup d'Ã©tat, following six months of political turmoil.
2014 – An explosion occurs in the city of ÃœrÃ¼mqi, the capital of China's far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1893 MONTREAL CAPTURES FIRST STANLEY CUP
Montreal Quebec - The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (AAAs) beats the Ottawa Generals 2-1, in the first Stanley Cup Game, played for a silver bowl donated by Lord Stanley of Preston; his sons enjoyed playing the game on the Rideau Hall rink while he was serving as Governor General.

1867
London England - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act; decrees that the Dominion of Canada should come into being on July 1; BNA Act provides for Senate of 72 life members; 24 each for Ontario and Quebec; 12 each for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

1979
Canada - Joe Clark 1939- defeats Pierre Trudeau's Liberals in general election 136 seats to 114; with 26 NDP; 6 Social Credit; 76% turnout; Canada's youngest prime minister has only two members from Quebec, says he will govern as if he had a minority; defeated in November on a non-confidence vote, he will lose to Trudeau in the election of Feb. 16, 1980.

In Other Events...

1997 Montreal Quebec - Federal Conservative leader Jean Charest says that if he were Prime Minister, his government would recognize the independence of Quebec only if the referendum question were absolutely clear.
1991 United Nations New York - UN Development Program 1991 report finds Canada second best place to live after Japan; praises education and health systems.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard resigns from Cabinet and PC caucus with several other members after sending a telegram to a PQ meeting in Alma, Que., encouraging separatism; says he will not support Charest Committee changes to Meech Lake Accord, because they dilute Quebec's five minimal conditions to accept the constitution; says 'this country doesn't work any more.'
1990 Brussels Belgium - NATO scraps plans for low level flight training centre at Goose Bay, Labrador;cites $500 million cost, plus reduction in east-west tensions.
1987 Vancouver BC - 29-year-old Rick Hansen ends his heroic Man in Motion tour; raises at least $15 million for spinal cord research and the disabled; Hansen pumped his wheelchair 3,600 times an hour for 26 months, travelling 40,000 km through 34 countries.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit home run.
1975 Ontario - Arthur Maloney 1919- former Progressive Conservative MPP appointed first Ombudsman of Ontario.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canada suspends shipments of all nuclear equipment to India after that country detonated a nuclear device using Canadian materials on May 18.
1972 Seattle Washington - The Guess Who record their Live at the Paramount album.
1971 Vancouver BC - Norwegian cruise vessel Meteor catches fire in Strait of Georgia; 70 passengers saved, 32 crew members killed.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Ontario Place on shore of Lake Ontario by Exhibition Place; $23 million amusement showcase.
1970 New York City - Burton Cummings and The Guess Who from Winnipeg earn their first of three gold records for both the album and single, American Woman; other hits on the album include, These Eyes, Laughing, and No Sugar Tonight. The group, which dates back to 1963, will disband in 1975. Randy Bachman played lead guitar before leaving the group in August, 1970 to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Cummings joined the group in 1966.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Radio-Television Commission (CRTC) introduces 50% Canadian content program rules for radio and TV; CanCon requirements effective Sept. 1971 for private sector.
1966 Hollywood California - BC-born actor Raymond Burr 1917-1993 performs in the last original Perry Mason episode titled The Case Of The Final Fade-Out; features writer Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the fictional lawyer, as the judge.
1965 Omaha Nebraska - Quebec's Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic to become the National Wrestling Association champion.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - NATO ministerial conference approves in principle the formation of a nuclear strike force under NATO direction.
1945 Vancouver BC - Canadian government announces that Japanese incendiary 'balloon bombs' designed to start forest fires have been found in western Canada.
1944 Atlantic - Two new RCN torpedo boat flotillas start operating off coast of France.
1943 Brest France - German Admiral Karl Doenitz withdraws his U-boats from the North Atlantic after mounting losses.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - C.G. 'Chubby' Power named Air Minister.
1939 Ottawa Ontario - Royal standard waves over the Peace Tower for the first time during George VI's visit to Canada.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill prohibiting Canadians from accepting foreign hereditary titles.
1902 Fernie BC - Earth tremor causes explosion at Coal Creek mine, 8 km from Fernie, killing 128 miners.
1893 London England - John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, Lord Aberdeen 1847-1934 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from September 18,1893 to November 12,1898.
1872 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Hastings Doyle 1804-1883 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until June 24.
1872 London England - Frederick Temple Hamilton, Lord Dufferin 1826-1902 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from June 25, 1872 to Nov. 14, 1878.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Minister of Militia and Defense George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 gets Royal Assent for first Canadian Militia Bill; first active units not mustered for three years.
1853 Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto vests teaching powers in new University College; University now limited to examination and degree granting.
1850 New York City - Henry Grinnell 1799-1874 finances American expedition in search of the lost Franklin expedition; two ships commanded by Edwin De Haven (1816-1865) will enter Wellington Channel in August; find some Franklin relics.
1848 King William Island NWT - Group of 105 Franklin expedition survivors abandon Erebus and Terror 25 km off Victory Point on NE of King William Island; start trek via the Back River toward the Hudson's Bay Company posts on Great Slave Lake.
1844 Ottawa Ontario - William Harris founds the Bytown Packet newspaper; now the Ottawa Citizen.
1838 Verdun Quebec - Col. Robert Sweeny kills Major Henry Warde in a duel on the Montreal race track; Warde had sent a love letter to Sweeny's wife; last fatal duel in Canada.
1820 Halifax Nova Scotia - George Ramsay, Lord Dalhousie 1770-1838 lays the cornerstone of Dalhousie University in Halifax.
1786 Canada - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 appointed Governor-in-Chief of British North America (Quebec and Maritimes); serves from Oct. 23,1786 to Dec. 15, 1796.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Olivier Briand 1715-1794 Bishop of Quebec orders loyalty to Britain; forbids Canadian women to marry soldiers in the invading American army.
1633 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Quebec with Jean de BrÃ©beuf 1593-1649 and fathers MassÃ©, Daniel, and Davost, who take over the Recollet missions; determines to rebuild colony with help of Jesuit Order.
1616 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 departs to visit the Nipissing tribe up the Ottawa River.
1611 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Biencourt arrives at Port Royal with the first Jesuits in New France.

End of C/P.

henric · May 22, 2015

May 23rd,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

844 – Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Asturians and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.
1430 – Siege of CompiÃ¨gne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve CompiÃ¨gne.
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1568 – The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.
1609 – Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.
1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London, England.
1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal FranÃ§ois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi.
1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
1844 – Declaration of the BÃ¡b the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the BahÃ¡'Ã Faith, and BahÃ¡'Ãs celebrate the day as a holy day.
1846 – Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
1932 – In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator GetÃºlio Vargas, which occurred in the city of SÃ£o Paulo. Their names and surnames were used to form the MMDC, a revolutionary group that would act against the dictatorial government, especially in the Constitutionalist Revolution ("RevoluÃ§Ã£o Constitucionalista", in Portuguese), the major uprising in Brazil during the 20th century.
1934 – The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1934 – The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melÃ©e between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
1945 – World War II: The Flensburg Government under ReichsprÃ¤sident Karl DÃ¶nitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
1958 – The satellite Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping.
1970 – Robert Stephenson's pioneering Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait is catastrophically damaged by fire after standing for 120 years.
1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2004 – Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.
2008 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
2009 – Former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, jumping from a 45-meter cliff in Bongha, Gimhae, South Korea.
2010 – Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.
2012 – Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, with his album Trespassing.
2013 – The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
2014 – Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 13 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1885 POUNDMAKER ENDS REBELLION
Fort Pitt Saskatchewan - Poundmaker 1826-1886 surrenders with his Cree warriors and 150 Metis on hearing of Riel's defeat; will be sentenced to three years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary; end of North West Rebellion.

1873
Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes a bill creating the North-West Mounted Police; a military police like Royal Irish Constabulary, to patrol border and keep peace between Indians and traders; merged with the Dominion Police in 1920 to form the RCMP.

1886
Vancouver BC - Canadian Pacific Railway Engine 374, hauling the first transcontinental passenger train, steams into the new West Coast terminal at Vancouver harbour; Vancouver had been destroyed by fire in June 1885, and the railway would help the city grow and recover.

In Other Events...

1986 Washington DC - US imposes 35% tariff on imported Canadian cedar shakes and shingles.
1982 Vatican City - Pope John Paul beatifies Canadians Brother AndrÃ© Bessette and Mother Marie Rose; first steps toward sainthood.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Canada's Wonderland amusement park opens north of the city, just west of Maple.
1975 Cannes France - Michel Brault 1928- co-winner of Best Direction award at Cannes Film Festival for film Les Ordres; feature about the 1970 October Crisis.
1974 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick first province with a common law background to draft statutes in both official languages.
1968 London England - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 invited by British Broadcasting Corporation to give the BBC Reith Lectures for this year.
1967 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Government's GO Transit inaugurated; commuter rail service between Pickering, Toronto, Oakville and Hamilton under an operating agreement with Canadian National.
1962 Montreal Quebec - Engineers start drilling first stretch of tunnel for Montreal's new Metro subway system.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Arthur J. Trebilcock appointed first full time President of the Toronto Stock Exchange; former Secretary of the Standard Exchange; J.G.K. Strathy fills new post of TSE Chairman.
1944 Pontecorvo Italy - First Canadian Corps starts breaking through Hitler Line across Liri Valley, near Monte Cassino; British and Canadians occupy Pontecorvo.
1943 Vancouver BC - William Aberhart dies; radio evangelist, founding leader of Alberta's Social Credit Party.
1933 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canadian National-Canadian Pacific Act; directing the two companies to cooperate during the Depression.
1929 Regina Saskatchewan - Canada's first airborne wedding takes place in a bi-plane over Regina.
1929 Edmonton Alberta - First non-stop Winnipeg-to-Edmonton flight made in six hours and 48 minutes.
1888 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns from Commons to return to Canadian High Commission in London; serves until Jan 14, 1896.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Canadian Steam Navigation Company, to offer transatlantic service to Britain.
1842 Toronto Ontario - Architect Barlow Cumberland lays the cornerstone of King's College; now University College of the University of Toronto.
1819 London England - John Franklin 1786-1847 sails on the Prince of Wales to explore the Arctic coast from mouth of Coppermine River to Repulse Bay; with Robert Hood, George Back and Dr. John Richardson. [recounted in Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1820].
1766 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Benjamin Green 1713-1772 appointed administrator of Nova Scotia; serves until Aug. 22, 1766.
1541 St-Malo France - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves on his third voyage, with five ships and 1500 men, including Guyon, Vicomte de BeauprÃ©; drinking water runs out on a miserable three month crossing.
1633 Paris France - Samuel de Champlain appointed Governor of New France.

End of C/P.

henric · May 23, 2015

May 24th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 – Magnus LadulÃ¥s is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1607 – One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.
1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1813 – South American independence leader SimÃ³n BolÃvar enters MÃ©rida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio JosÃ© de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland, and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1901 – Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
1939 – First issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana.
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in CoyoacÃ¡n, Mexico.
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, CordÃ³n Caulle begins to erupt.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1963 – Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1976 – The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins.
1976 – The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime RoldÃ³s Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 – Mountain climbing: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200.
2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1918 WOMEN GET FEDERAL VOTE
Ottawa Ontario - Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 passes Canada Elections Act; gives all Canadian women over 21, the right to vote in federal elections only. Manitoba the first province to grant women the vote, in 1916; the other provinces follow suit between 1918 and 1922, except Quebec, a hold out until 1940.

1779
Montreal Quebec -
Fur traders Benjamin and Joseph Frobisher, John Ross and Peter Pond join with Montreal merchants Isaac Todd, James McGill, Simon McTavish, James McBeath and Lawrence Ermatinger to found the North West Company, with 16 shares held by 9 different partnerships; the company will let the partners spread their risk to do battle with the Hudson's Bay Company in the far west.

In Other Events...

1996 Los Angeles California - Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen's espionage spoof Spy Hard is released.
1995 Toronto Ontario - $1.2-billion (Canadian) issue of Suncor Inc. shares snapped up by investors in minutes.
1995 Cambridge Ontario - Toyota's car assembly plant in Cambridge, Ont. named top North American auto plant in J. D. Power and Associates quality survey..
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- announces Canada withdrawing Ambassador to Belgrade and expelling Yugoslavian diplomats; to force Serbs to agree to a cease-fire in Bosnia.
1991 Bloomington, Minnesota- Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Stars 8-0 to win their first Stanley Cup, four games to two.
1991 Washington DC - George Bush gets US Senate to approve 'fast track' talks for North American Free Trade accord; can deal without amendments from Congress.
1990 Quebec Quebec - Konrad Sioui, a Huron from Ancienne-Lorette, is acquitted on a charge of violating Quebec provincial park laws against hunting and tree cutting; under the 1760 Hurons and British conquerors treaty.
1990 Canada - Edmonton Oilers take Stanley Cup for the fifth time in 7 years, beating Boston in 5 games; only 2 years after losing Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings.
1988 Boston Massachusetts - Boston Gardens power failure forces first suspension of a Stanley Cup playoff game; Boston and Edmonton tied 3-3 near the end of the second period, in the fourth game of the final series, with Edmonton leading three games to none. The entire game is replayed.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames 4-3 to win the series 4 games to 1, and to take home their 23rd Stanley Cup; most championships won by any North American professional sports team.
1980 New York City - Bobby Nystrom scores in overtime goal giving the New York Islanders a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers and taking the series 4 games to 2; first NHL Stanley Cup for the Islanders.
1977 Canada - Liberal Party wins five of six federal by-elections.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Kurt Waldheim, United Nations Secretary-General, starts two-day visit to Canada.
1968 Montreal Quebec - CBC/Radio-Canada starts building new Montreal headquarters called Maison de Radio-Canada, to be finished by April of 1972.
1968 Quebec Quebec - FLQ terrorists bomb the US Consulate in Quebec City, damaging the building.
1967 Rocky Mt. House Alberta - Start of Voyageur canoe pageant, with eight provincial teams, two from Yukon and NWT; Centennial canoeists will arrive at Expo '67 in Montreal Sept. 4.
1967 Kingston Ontario - John A. Macdonald's Kingston home, Bellevue House, opened as a museum by Parks Canada.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Security guards lock Centre Block doors for first time as over 10,000 Ontario and Quebec dairy farmers protest on Parliament Hill for higher milk prices.
1967 Montreal Quebec - Wilder Penfield, founder of the Montreal Neurological Institute, awarded the first Royal Bank Centennial Medal.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, starts four-day visit to Canada.
1955 Montreal Quebec - CPR and CNR cut Montreal-Vancouver travel time on passenger trains by 14 to 16 hours.
1959 London England - Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day.
1940 Halifax Nova Scotia - Four Canadian destroyers sent to Britain.
1936 Sarnia Ontario - Norman Red Ryan 1895-1936 shot and killed by police in gun fight while trying to rob liquor store; notorious bank robber.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes bill establishing a national broadcasting system for Canada - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ottawa orders postal workers back to work during Winnipeg General Strike.
1918 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, now Statistics Canada.
1912 Vancouver BC - Charles Saunders the first Canadian to make a parachute jump in Canada from a plane.
1902 Canada - Victoria Day first observed throughout Canada 16 months after Queen Victoria's death. Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier had designated the public holiday to fall on May 24, the Queen's birthday; in 1952, the date was changed to the first Monday preceding May 25th.
1901 Hamilton Ontario - Clementina Fessenden originates a public holiday called Victoria Day to honour the Empire by celebrating Queen's birthday; a schoolteacher, she is the mother of radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden.
1897 Quebec - FÃ©lix-Gabriel Marchand becomes Liberal Premier of Quebec.
1888 Niagara Falls Ontario - Opening of Queen Victoria Park at Niagara Falls.
1881 London Ontario - Excursion steamer Victoria, a flat-bottomed stern-wheeler, sinks in the Thames River near Riverside Park in London, with the loss of 181 lives.
1876 Regina Saskatchewan - NWMP (RCMP) band first plays in public.
1875 Swan River Saskatchewan - NWMP stages snake-killing meet at Swan River post; 1,100 serpents killed.
1873 Toronto Ontario - John Wilson Bengough 1851-1923 founds satirical weekly Grip with his own cartoons; published until Dec. 29, 1894.
1862 Kingston Ontario - John Sandfield Macdonald 1812-1872 and Louis-Victor Sicotte 1812-1889 form new Liberal Ministry.
1860 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Plate horse race run for the first time; the oldest continuously run stakes race in North America.
1856 Ontario - John A. Macdonald and E-P TachÃ© form a new Ministry; all previous Ministers back in office except Allan MacNab and Lewis Drummond.
1851 Charlottetown PEI - Reform Party leader George Coles 1810-1875 asked by Lieutenant-Governor to form a government; Prince Edward Island obtains responsible government.
1847 King William Island NWT - Graham Gore sets out from icebound Franklin ships to find Northwest Passage; likely crosses ice to southern end of King William Island and finds passage.
1846 Fort William Ontario - Paul Kane 1810-1871 sets out from Fort William with the Hudson's Bay Company spring brigade; will sketch a Metis buffalo hunt and cross the Rockies.
1833 Montreal Quebec - William Logie the first medical student to graduate in Canada, earning his degree from McGill University.
1744 Canso Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 captures Canseau fishing station with troops from Louisbourg; Canso the closest British settlement to Louisbourg.
1650 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Charles Menou d'Aulnay 1604-1650 drowns in Port Royal basin when his canoe overturns; he hangs on for an hour and a half, but dies of exposure.
1607 Port Royal Nova Scotia - Pierre de Gua de Monts c1558-1628 orders colony to return to France when the ship Jonas arrives with the news that his trade license has been revoked; French concern about Dutch competition in the St. Lawrence led to a rethinking about colonization in Acadia.
1603 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 anchors at the mouth of the Saguenay River with GravÃ© du Pont and Pierre de Monts on de Chaste's Bonne Renomme; his first landing in Canada.

End of C/P.

henric · May 24, 2015

May 25th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the South American Wars of Independence.
1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
1914 – The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
1950 – Public Transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
1961 – Apollo program: The U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 – The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 – The first prominent dÃ zÃ¬bÃ o during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
1968 – Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
1973 – HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
1977 – Star Wars is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 – Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1986 – Hands Across America takes place.
1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 – The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1987 FILION WINS HIS 10,000TH RACE
Yonkers, NY - New Brunswick jockey HervÃ© Filion drives Commander Bond to victory in the third race at Yonkers Raceway, becoming the first harness racing driver to win 10,000 races.

1982
Detroit Michigan - Chatham Ontario's Ferguson Jenkins strikes out his 3,000th batter; Fergie becomes only the seventh major league pitcher to accomplish that feat.

In Other Events...

1997 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Jean ChrÃ©tien affirms that he would not recognize any referendum result of 50.1%, saying 'That's not reasonable.'
1993 Nova Scotia - Dr. John Savage wins a majority for the Liberals in the provincial election, ending 15 years of Tory rule.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Retired restaurateur Imre Finta acquitted on all counts of confinement, kidnapping, robbery and manslaughter in the 1944 deportation of 8,617 Jews while in the Hungarian police; Canada's first war crimes trial under 1987 law.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- begins meeting Premiers individually over three days to lobby for passage of the Meech Lake Accord.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Dr. Jamie Astaphan takes the stand at the Dubin Inquiry into drug use in amateur sport. Ben Johnson's personal physician admits he gave steroids to Johnson.
1989 Montreal Quebec - Calgary Flames beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 in Game 6 to win their first Stanley Cup, four games to two.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 in the sixth game to win the Stanley Cup, 4 games to 2.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Paul Hellyer launches his Action Canada political movement to pressure Ottawa on tax cuts, unemployment and wage and price controls; former Liberal MP, Cabinet Minister.
1967 Montreal Quebec - US President Lyndon Johnson unveils the United States' Centennial gift to Canada at Expo '67, a crystal and steel sculpture called The Great Ring of Canada.
1958 Toronto Ontario - Toronto gets Canada's first direct distance dialing (DDD) system.
1953 Charlottetown PEI - Alexander W. Matheson 1903- new Liberal Premier of Prince Edward Island.
1953 New York City - Canadian orchestra leader Percy Faith's The Percy Faith Orchestra has a number one dance hit with Song from Moulin Rouge.
1944 Melfa River Italy - Canadian Army Major J. K. Mahony wins VC for holding bridgehead over Melfa River.
1927 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian government cuts trade ties with the new Soviet Union.
1914 Rome Italy - Archbishop Louis-Nazaire BÃ©gin 1840-1925 elected a Cardinal.
1905 Peterborough Ontario - Peterborough incorporated as a city.
1885 Quebec Quebec - Frederick Charles Denison 1846-1896 and his Nile Voyageurs arrive back in Canada.
1882 Ottawa Ontario - First meeting of Royal Society of Canada, founded to promote a national science and literature.
1870 Eccles Hill Quebec - Canadian militia commander Osborne Smith disperses a Fenian raiding party led by O'Neill and Spier back across the border; has no casualties; Fenian leaders arrested in the US; last raid on Canada.
1858 Victoria BC - First shipload of gold miners from California arrives in British Columbia.
1717 Annapolis Nova Scotia - John Doucelte d1726 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Annapolis Royal and administrator of Nova Scotia; serves until 1726.
1660 Quebec Quebec - Parisian lawyer/accountant Jean Peronne Dumesnil dc1667 examines all fur-trading transactions of the bankrupt Company of New France since 1645.
1615 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Tadoussac; learns of new Iroquois aggression.

End of C/P.

henric · May 25, 2015

May 26th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

47 BC – Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.
17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity.
946 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.
1135 – Alfonso VII of LeÃ³n and Castile is crowned in LeÃ³n Cathedral as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of all of Spain".
1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1328 – William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1573 – The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.
1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under the English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.
1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
1736 – Battle of Ackia
1770 – The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
1805 – NapolÃ©on Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan Cathedral, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1821 – Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.
1822 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
1864 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 – American Civil War: the Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1896 – Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1897 – Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
1900 – Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1908 – At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
1917 – Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1923 – 24 Hours of Le Mans, was first held, and has since been run annually in June.
1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 – World War II: Operation Dynamo – In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1940 – World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
1972 – Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
1983 – A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004, a Boeing 767, crashes in an area of western Thailand after a thrust reverser malfunction. All 223 people aboard are killed.
1992 – The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken. Following this, the siege of Dubrovnik ends in the next months.
1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
1998 – The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
2002 – The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
2004 – United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2008 – Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1988 ANOTHER GRETZKY RECORD
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins 6-3, completing a four game sweep, to win their fourth Stanley Cup in five years; MVP Wayne Gretzky has 31 assists, setting a playoff record.

1887
Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific Railway 4,700 km main line opens for public traffic, 18 months after the last spike at Craigellachie, BC. Trains have been running across Canada for a year, but passengers can now ride directly to Vancouver.

In Other Events...

1997 Canada - Controversial Reform Party TV election ad shows black and white images of Jean Charest et Jean ChrÃ©tien alongside the 1995 referendum result, with the voice over saying 'Last time, these men almost lost our country.' Then it shows Lucien Bouchard and Gilles Duceppe, and asks for a voice for all Canadians, not just politicians from Quebec.
1981 Vancouver BC - Canada and US sign Pacific coast fishery treaty; each can fish for albacore tuna in other's waters; each can enter 4 Canadian or US ports.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Lawren Harris' South Shore, Baffin Island sells for $240,000, record for Canadian painting; Group of Seven member.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston 4-1 to win their 21st Stanley Cup.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa adds over 2,900 km of Prairie rail to network protected from abandonment.
1970 New York City - The Guess Who's American Woman/No Sugar Tonight still the #1 Billboard hit after four weeks on the charts; Winnipeg band with lead singer Burton Cummings.
1969 Montreal Quebec - John Lennon and Yoko Ono start their second Bed-In for Peace in a room at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; during the event, they recorded the song, Give Peace a Chance.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - U Thant ,United Nations Secretary-General, addresses a joint sitting of the Commons and Senate.
1943 Quebec Quebec - Quebec passes a law requiring free and compulsory education in the province.
1940 Dunkirk France - Start of the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Bennett government passes the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act; to supervise all public and private broadcasting; sets up publicly-owned radio network broadcasting in English and French.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942 leads socialist Labour MPs and the League for Social Reconstruction to found the Commonwealth Party; will join that August in a new party called the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
1906 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Saskatoon incorporated as a city.
1898 London England - Judicial Committee of Imperial Privy Council rules the Ottawa has sole power to regulate ocean fisheries.
1896 Victoria BC - Bridge collapses in Victoria, killing 55 occupants of a streetcar.
1887 London England - Canada given the power to negotiate commercial treaties with foreign countries.
1874 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Dominion Elections Act bringing in the secret ballot; elections to be held simultaneously; abolishes property qualifications for MPs.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Victoria 1819-1901 approves design for the Great Seal of Canada, with arms of the four provinces.
1850 Toronto Ontario - Armand-FranÃ§ois-Marie de Charbonnel 1802-1891 consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto.
1848 Montreal Island NWT - Last members of Franklin expedition die on Montreal Island; evidence of cannibalism later found.
1846 St. John's Newfoundland - Citizens of St. John's petition the Governor for responsible government in Newfoundland.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 meets Canadian Assembly in Kingston for first time as Governor General.
1826 Toronto Ontario - Former US citizens and naturalized residents of Upper Canada given the right to vote and stand for election to the Assembly.
1793 Vancouver Island BC - George Vancouver explores Pacific Coast; circumnavigates island bearing his name; just misses meeting Alexander Mackenzie who had come overland; leaves September 20.
1703 Quebec Quebec - Governor Louis-Hector de CalliÃ¨res 1648-1703 dies.
1603 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 lands at Tadoussac on de Chaste's Bonne RenommÃ© with GravÃ© du Pont and Pierre de Monts; witnesses Montagnais 'tabagies' or feasts; gives them religious teaching.

End of C/P.

henric · May 26, 2015

Events:C/P.

927 – Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199 – John is crowned King of England.
1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 USD).
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
1908 – Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
1941 – World War II: The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1968 – The meeting of the Union Nationale des Ã‰tudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1968 – Major League Baseball's National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1975 – Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1986 – Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 – First Chechnya War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 – The unusual tornado outbreak in Jarrell, Texas.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1813 US INVADERS TAKE FORT GEORGE
Burlington Ontario - General John Vincent 1765- 1848 retreats to Burlington Heights from Niagara with the rest of his 1,400 British and Canadian militia after two days of bombardment with fire shells, and losing Fort George to American General Henry Dearborn, Winfield Scott and Isaac Chauncey and their force of 7,000 men; War of 1812.

1968
Montreal Quebec -
Montreal Expos are awarded a National League baseball franchise 30 years ago today, after several years of promotion from Montreal city councilor Gerry Snyder and a near loss of the team when Blue Bonnets owner Jean-Louis Levesque withdrew, but distillery magnate Charles Bronfman agreed to back the team, with fellow investors Paul and Charlemagne Beaudry, Lorne Webster, Hugh Hallward and Sydney Maislin. The Expos are major league baseball's first expansion outside the US, and it causes an outcry in the US Congress; under first manager Gene Mauch, the Expos will play their first home game at Jarry Park on April 14, 1969; the San Diego Padres will be the other new NL team to play.

In Other Events...

1993 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes legislation bringing Canada into the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1992 Queensland Australia - Leneen Forde appointed Governor of Queensland; first woman governor of an Australian state; born in Ottawa in 1935.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Trudeau attacks Meech Lake Accord in the media; abandons low profile he has kept since leaving public office.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Summer in the Arctic by Frederick H. Varley sells for $170,000; record for a Canadian painting; $1,1 million in sales and 10 price records broken at Sotheby Parke Bernet auction.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- agrees to separation with wife Margaret; retains custody of three children.
1977 Cannes France - Monique Mercure 1950- named co-winner of the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival; for her role in J A. Martin, Photographe, produced by the National Film Board.
1975 Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Flyers beat the Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to acquire DeHavilland Aircraft of Canada and Canadair, then find Canadian investors for shares; both foreign-owned companies.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau promises in an election speech to introduce a bill to make French an official language in federal courts and departments.
1967 Egypt - Egypt demands immediate withdrawal of Canadian peace-keeping troops; Canadians airlifted out within 48 hours.
1965 Carillon Ontario - Ontario and Quebec plan $10 million provincial park along Ottawa River from Carillon to Hull, Quebec; federal-provincial Centennial project.
1963 Edmonton Alberta - Opening of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Closing of Her Majesty's Theatre; open since 1898.
1949 Newfoundland - Joseph Roberts 'Joey' Smallwood 1900-1992 wins Liberal majority in first Newfoundland provincial election as a Canadian province; first Premier; will govern until January, 1972 and stay in the legislature until retiring in 1977.
1949 Canada - Louis St. Laurent 1882-1973 wins federal election with 49.5% of popular vote; takes 193 seats to 41 for George Drew's Conservatives; 13 CCF; 10 Social Credit; 5 others.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Government nationalizes the Bank of Canada three years after opening.
1898 Dawson Yukon - First edition of the Klondike Nugget, the Yukon's first regular newspaper.
1885 Frenchman Butte Saskatchewan - Big Bear and his Cree warriors escape north after artillery attack by General Thomas Strange, who then retreats to Fort Pitt; last native battle in Canada.
1873 Prince Edward Island - PEI votes for union with Canada; the province is bankrupt due to railway speculation.
1863 Cape Race Newfoundland - Sailing ship Anglo Saxon wrecked off Cape Race, with a loss of 237 lives.
1846 Montreal Quebec - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 makes first speech in Parliament; advocates repeal of usury laws.
1838 London England - Britain appoints John George Lambton, Lord Durham as Governor of Canada, with a mandate to examine and recommend the form and future government of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.
1818 London England - British government declares Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be free ports.
1798 Turtle Lake Minnesota - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches Turtle Lake; thinks it is the source of the Mississippi.
1763 Sandusky Ohio - Pontiac holds council of war to raise western tribes against Britain.
1613 Renfrew Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sets out with de Vignau up the Ottawa River.
1534 Belle Isle Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 enters the Baie des Chateaux - the Strait of Belle Isle - then follows the south coast of Labrador; may have been there already with Verrazano; his second voyage to Canada.

End of C/P.

henric · May 27, 2015

May 28th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gao Zu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui Dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang Dynasty.
1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a papal bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)
1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1871 – Fall of the Paris Commune.
1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1900 – Gare d'Orsay railway station is inaugurated in Paris.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1926 – 28 May 1926 coup d'Ã©tat: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1936 – Klaipėda Radio Station begins regular broadcasting.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1937 – Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
1948 – Daniel FranÃ§ois Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
1951 – The British radio comedy program The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
1952 – The women of Greece are granted the right to vote.
1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2010 – In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce.
2012 – The discovery of Flame, a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1985 PETERSON TAKES DOWN BIG BLUE MACHINE
Ontario - David Peterson 1943- wins minority in Ontario election; signs pact with NDP leader Bob Rae to bring down Frank Miller's Tories after 42 year rule.

1778
Nootka Sound BC - James Cook 1728-1779 anchors ship Resolution in Resolution Cove, Nootka Sound; begins to chart the coast of British Columbia along with Captain George Vancouver 1757-1798.

In Other Events...
1992 Toronto Ontario - Dave Steen named to Canadian Sports Hall of Fame; won bronze medal in decathlon at 1988 Seoul Olympics.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Mel Hurtig sells Hurtig Publishing Ltd. of Edmonton, with a 100 book backlist including the Canadian Encyclopedia, to Avie Bennett's McClelland & Stewart; Hurtig firm started in 1972.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar thanks Canada for support of United Nations; discusses security issues with Mulroney, who signs UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian aerosol industry says it will ban ozone-depleting CFCs (chloro-fluorocarbons) from spray cans.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Ontario brings in measures to allow it to censor, classify or ban commercially-distributed videotape.
1980 St. John's Nfld. - Newfoundland adopts its provincial flag.
1969 Grande Prairie Alberta - Alberta Premier Harry Strom 1914- opens the Alberta Resources Railway, a 378 km line north from Grande Prairie.
1965 Prestwick Scotland - Thomas Scheer, 42, of Langley, BC, and three other Canadians make first unescorted transatlantic helicopter flight; 6,400 km 15 day journey from Stratford, Connecticut in 26-seat, amphibian Sikorsky; longest single hop was 640 km, from Greenland to Reykjavik Iceland.
1962 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ottawa and Manitoba sign agreement for construction of $63.2 million Greater Winnipeg Floodway; later nicknamed Duff's Ditch after Premier Duff Roblin.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Theodor Hess President of Federal Republic of Germany starts one-week visit to Canada.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Dominion-Provincial Taxation Agreement Act; formalizes 1941 budget arrangements.
1927 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves Old Age Pension Plan for those over 70 with demonstrable need; means test; Ottawa's first major venture into public welfare; will first get approval from the provinces.
1900 Ottawa Ontario - Berliner Gramophone Co. of Montreal registers the famous dog and gramophone symbol, His Master's Voice as the company's Canadian trademark.
1892 New York City - Cobourg Ontario comedienne Marie Dressler makes her New York singing debut in the comic opera, The Robber of the Rhine.
1886 Windsor Ontario - Canada's first commercial electric railway starts operating in Windsor.
1885 Frenchman's Butte Alberta - Thomas Bland Strange 1831-1925 drives Big Bear off Frenchman's Butte and pursues him for a month.
1884 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns from the House of Commons to become Canada's first High Commissioner to Britain.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Henry Sherwood 1807-1855 becomes Attorney-General for Canada West on Draper's retirement.
1845 Quebec Quebec - Quebec fire destroys two-thirds of the city plus the suburbs of St-Roch and St-Jean; 1,500 houses destroyed.
1813 Burlington Ontario - General John Vincent 1765- 1848 ends his retreat to Burlington Heights after losing Fort George; Americans now control Niagara Peninsula.
1812 Quebec Quebec - Lower Canada passes general order to raise four regiments of militia.
1808 Prince George BC - Simon Fraser 1776-1862 leaves Fort George with Jules Quesnel 1786-1842 to travel in wooden dugout canoes down the river that will one day bear his name.
1801 Toronto Ontario - First session of third Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 9; regulation of militia; founding of market in Kingston.
1763 Point Pelee Ontario - Pontiac leads Wyandots in defeat of Lt Cuyler at Point Pelee.
1760 Sainte-Foy Quebec - James Murray leads 3,900 men against de LÃ©vis' 5,000 on the Plains of Abraham; British heavily mauled in a two-hour battle, but successfully retreat behind the walls of Quebec.
1754 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville 1718-1754 killed with nine other Canadians during defeat by Major George Washington and Tanaghrisson at the Battle of the Great Meadows; outbreak of French-Indian War.
1664 Paris France - French West India Company gets royal grant of all French colonies in North America; monopoly of trade in exchange for a royalty to the King.

End of C/P.

henric · May 28, 2015

May 29th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
1108 – Battle of UclÃ©s: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and LeÃ³n alliance under the command of Prince Sancho AlfÃ³nsez.
1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1414 – Council of Constance.
1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
1727 – Peter II becomes Czar of Russia.
1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1807 – Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1852 – Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
1861 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Ã‰mile Gentil.
1903 – In the May coup d'Ã©tat, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.
1931 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
1932 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1935 – First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
1939 – The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra record Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the best-selling single in history.
1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1948 – Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1969 – General strike in CÃ³rdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1989 – Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1993 – The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
1999 – Charlotte Perrelli representing Sweden wins Eurovision Song Contest 1999 in Jerusalem with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.
2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2008 – A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
2012 – A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
2014 – Ignatius Aphrem II is enthroned as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1987 REFORM PARTY FOUNDING CONVENTION
Vancouver BC - Founding of the Reform Party of Canada, with Preston Manning as leader; Deborah Grey will become the party's first MP when she wins the 1989 Beaver River Alberta by-election; The Party will take 52 seats in 1993 election, decimating the Tories, and 60 seats in 1997, taking away Official Opposition status from the Bloc Quebecois.

1914
Rimouski Quebec - Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland outbound from Quebec is hit by a Norwegian collier ship Storstad at 1:55 am in Gulf or St. Lawrence; three minutes later water reaches the dynamos, dousing power and light, and the ship sinks in 11 minutes later when Storstad backs out of the hole in the hull; 1,024 lives are lost, 464 saved; $1 million in silver bars later recovered by divers. For more on Canada's worst and the Atlantic's third largest maritime disaster after the Titanic and Lusitania.

1950
Halifax Nova Scotia - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 sails RCMP patrol ship St. Roch to Halifax after passing through the Panama Canal from Vancouver; first ship to circumnavigate the North American continent.

In Other Events...

1995 Victoria BC - Scientific panel's report on Clayoquot Sound offers more than 100 recommendations for logging in area on west coast of Vancouver Island.
1993 Toronto Ontario - Wayne Gretzky scores three goals, for a record eighth time in his playoff career, to lead the Los Angeles Kings to a 5-4 victory over the Maple Leafs in Game 7 of the Campbell Conference final; Kings advance to the Stanley Cup final.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visits Canada en route to his Washington summit with President Bush.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Oakland's Rickey Henderson gets his major league record-setting 893rd stolen base in the sixth inning, breaking Ty Cobb's 62-year-old American League record, but Toronto Blue Jays still beat the Athletics 2-1; Henderson will later play a year for the Jays.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes Bill C-43 by 140-131; allows abortions at all stages of pregnancy, as long as a doctor believes the physical or mental health of the woman is endangered.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Global TV reporter Doug Small and five others charged by RCMP with releasing confidential budget details; budget leaked on April 26.
1985 Victoria BC - Amputee Steve Fonyo, 19, completes a cross-Canada marathon started 14 months earlier in Newfoundland, by dipping his artificial left leg into the Pacific at Mile Zero of the Trans-Canada Highway; officially completing his Journey for Lives run; inspired by Terry Fox, Fonyo raises almost $9 million in donations for cancer research.
1979 Santa Monica California - Silent film star and movie producer Mary Pickford dies of a stroke at 86; America's Sweetheart was born in Toronto Apr 8, 1893; started in the theater at age 6 as 'Baby Gladys Smith' (her real name), and she toured into the US with her family in a number of theater companies. In 1907, she adopted the family name Pickford and joined the David Belasco troupe, acting in the long running 'The Warrens of Virginia'. She started in films in 1909 with D.W. Griffith's Biograph Company, and in 1920 was a co-founder of United Artists with her husband Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes 138-114 in favor of extending a partial ban hanging for five more years; capital punishment only for murderers of policemen and prison guards.
1973 Vietnam - Canada announces it will withdraw from International Control Commission (ICCS) truce observance force in Vietnam by July 31, two months after the end of the initial 60-day period.
1972 Quebec Quebec - Quebec bans commercial salmon fishing off Gaspe Peninsula because of depleted stocks.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Hudson's Bay Company moves its head office from London, England to Winnipeg.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves increase in the federal minimum wage from $1.25 an hour to $1.65. Provinces set their own minimum wages, with a high of $1.55 in Alberta and a low of 90Â¢ for Nova Scotia women..
1968 Appin Ontario - Presbyterian Church in Canada ordains its first female minister.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - National Museum of Canada opens its Hall of the Canadian Eskimos exhibit.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes $700 million War Appropriations Act, authorizing two more Army divisions.
1934 Corbeil Ontario - Allan Roy Dafoe 1883-1943 delivers the last of the Dionne Quintuplets: Annette, Emilie (d1954), Yvonne, Cecile and Marie (d1970).
1849 London England - David Anderson 1814-1885 appointed first Anglican Bishop of Rupert's Land; arrives in Red River Oct. 3.
1838 Wellesley Island Ontario - Pirate Bill Johnston 1782-1870 attacks and burns the Canadian steamer Sir Robert Peel off Wellesley Island in the Thousand Islands.
1838 Quebec Quebec - John George Lambton, Lord Durham, lands at Quebec; appointed Governor by British Prime Minister Lord Melbourne to investigate colonial grievances after the rebellions of 1837.
1832 Ottawa Ontario - Steamboat Pumper arrives at Bytown from Kingston; first vessel through the Rideau Canal.
1815 London England - British government opens Canadian commerce to US citizens after the War of 1812 ends.
1813 Sackett's Harbour New York - James Yeo 1782-1818 raids Isaac Chauncey's naval base at Sackett's Harbour with Roger Sheaffe; forced to withdraw by Brigadier Jacob Brown; new Commodore of Provincial Marine based in Kingston; War of 1812.
1792 Vancouver BC - George Vancouver's ship Discovery visits Vancouver Harbour, as he circumnavigates Vancouver Island, and charts the Juan de Fuca Strait, Puget Sound, Howe Sound, Jarvis Inlet and the Strait of Georgia.
1733 Quebec Quebec - Gilles Hocquart 1694-1783, Intendant of New France, upholds the right of Canadians to have Indians as slaves and to sell them.
1690 Portneuf Quebec - Casco takes Portneuf.
1673 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 issues proclamation giving the RÃ©collet fathers land on the St. Charles River.
1667 Thunder Bay Ontario - Claude Allouez 1622-1689 celebrates first mass west of Sault with Nipissing tribe members who fled Iroquois.

End of C/P.

henric · May 29, 2015

May 30th,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

70 Â– Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
1381 Â– Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
1416 Â– The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 Â– Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
1434 Â– Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by DiviÂš Bořek of MiletÃnek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
1510 Â– During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming Dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
1536 Â– King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 Â– In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1574 Â– Henry III becomes King of France.
1588 Â– The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1631 Â– Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
1635 Â– Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
1642 Â– From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
1806 Â– Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles ****inson in a duel after ****inson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1814 Â– Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: The Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I is exiled to Elba.
1815 Â– The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
1832 Â– End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
1832 Â– The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1834 Â– Joaquim AntÃ³nio de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders" in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
1842 Â– John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
1845 Â– The Fatel Razack land in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first East Indian to the country.
1854 Â– The KansasÂ–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
1868 Â– Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
1876 Â– Ottoman sultan AbdÃ¼laziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
1883 Â– In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
1899 Â– Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1911 Â– At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1913 Â– First Balkan War: The Treaty of London (1913), is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
1914 Â– The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York, New York.
1917 Â– Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
1922 Â– The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1925 Â– May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
1932 Â– The National Theatre of Greece is founded.
1937 Â– Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
1941 Â– World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
1942 Â– World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1948 Â– A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1958 Â– Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1959 Â– The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
1961 Â– The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1963 Â– A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1966 Â– The former Congolese Prime Minister, Ã‰variste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1966 Â– Launch of Surveyor 1, the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
1967 Â– The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1968 Â– Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Ã‰lysÃ©es in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
1971 Â– Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1972 Â– The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
1972 Â– In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1974 Â– The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
1989 Â– Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1998 Â– A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
1998 Â– Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
2003 Â– Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
2005 Â– American student Natalee Holloway disappears while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, and caused a media sensation in the United States.
2012 Â– Former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2013 Â– Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1985 OILERS REPEAT CUP WIN
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers win second consecutive Stanley Cup, beating the Philadelphia Flyers four games to one.

1905
London England - King Edward VIII grants Prince Edward island Its Coat of Arms; also on this day, in 1907, he grants Alberta its Coat of Arms.

In Other Events...

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Constitutional reform talks break up with distinct society clause for Quebec, native self-government agreed on; also more provincial powers in immigration, job training and culture.
1992 United Nations New York - Canada backs UN sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro; oil imports, air flights, all trade except food and medicine.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Minister Kim Campbell introduces new gun control legislation, boosting penalties for some firearms offences while exempting competition shooters.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says Unemployment Insurance payouts up 34.3% from April 1990; 1.22 million Canadians get benefits; 10.2% unemployed.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Mikhail Gorbachev visits Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Mulroney; discuss unified Germany in NATO, USSR security concerns and Moscow's sanctions against Lithuania.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian country performer Joe Brown dies; founder of the Family Brown.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament raises number of Senate seats from 102 to 104; adds 1 new seat each for Yukon and NWT.
1968 Longueuil Quebec - Venetia Barrette wins first $100,000 grand prize in Montreal's voluntary tax lottery scheme.
1966 PEI - Alexander Bradshaw Campbell 1933- leads Liberals to win in PEI provincial election.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Rioting breaks out around Allan Gardens after 5,000 people protest against neo-Nazi rally.
1961 Buffalo Gap Saskatchewan - Torrential storm drops 25 centimetres of rain in one hour; one of Canada's most intense rainstorms on record.
1942 Cologne Germany - British and Canadian planes ravage Cologne in first thousand-plane bomber raid; over 500 Canadians involved in first saturation attack aimed at crippling Nazi war production.
1940 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange declines 25% after German victories in Europe.
1938 Toronto Ontario - Lawyer and financier Charles Vance Miller dies, ending the stork derby; willed estate to the Toronto woman who gave birth to most children in 10 years following his death; four mothers each will have nine children and each will receive $100,000.
1913 Ottawa Ontario - Senate rejects by a vote of 51 to 24 a bill to create a Canadian Navy.
1897 Saskatchewan - Almighty Voice 1874-1897 surrounded and shot to death after two year search; Cree desperado first arrested for killing a cow; he escaped and shot a NWMP sergeant.
1883 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Tupper 1821-1915 resigns as an MP to serve as Canadian High Commissioner in London; takes office in 1884 replacing Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt.
1876 Montreal Quebec - Fire in Montreal destroys 411 homes.
1864 BC - Chilcotin Indians massacre group of road builders.
1864 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island Legislature appoints delegates to Charlottetown conference on Maritime Union.
1858 London England - British Parliament revokes charter of Hudson's Bay Company to the mainland of British Columbia.
1855 Hamilton Ontario - Founding of the Hamilton & South Western Railroad.
1853 Baffin Bay NWT - Elisha Kent Kane 1820-1857 commands the second Grinnell expedition in the Advance to Baffin Bay, through Smith Sound to Kane Basin; winters at Rensselaer Bay, Greenland.
1851 St. Andrews New Brunswick - Opening of telegraph line from Saint John to St. Andrew's and the US border.
1849 Toronto Ontario - King's College chartered as the University of Toronto; effective Jan. 1, 1850.
1849 Montreal Quebec - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 again attacked by mob; Tory violence continues through into the summer.
1849 Quebec Quebec - Assembly authorizes the Chambly ship canal from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence River.
1848 Fredericton New Brunswick - Fredericton gets city charter.
1838 London England - Queen Victoria grants extension of the monopoly held by the Hudson's Bay Company; renewal of charter for another 21 years.
1832 Ottawa Ontario - Rideau Canal officially opened to traffic, with 47 locks linking the Ottawa River at Ottawa with Lake Ontario at Kingston; first proposed as a military route between the two cities; 50 dams built to control water levels along the route.
1814 Sackett's Harbour New York - British seamen ambushed in Sandy Creek, near Sackett's Harbour; War of 1812.
1718 Churchill Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 made Governor of all Hudson Bay settlements; until 1722.
1675 Paris France - Jacques de La DoussiniÃ¨re et d'Ambua Duchesneau d1696 appointed Intendant of New France; serves from Sept. 16 until 1682.
1574 France - King Henri III 1551-1589 starts reign; to 1589; on death of Charles IX.

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henric · May 30, 2015

May 31st,2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
526 – A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch killing 250,000.
1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich in England to Frobisher Bay in Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
1790 – Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1795 – French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1805 – French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock.
1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1854 – The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
1862 – American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks): Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade.
1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of nine dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
1879 – Gilmores Garden in New York, New York, is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1884 – The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1902 – Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
1910 – The creation of the Union of South Africa.
1911 – The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
1911 – The President of Mexico Porfirio DÃaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet under the command of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty engage the Imperial German Navy under the command of Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Beijing government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
1935 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
1941 – A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
1941 – Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
1961 – The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
1961 – In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1970 – The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
1981 – The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
1985 – United States–Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1989 – A group of six members of the guerrilla group TÃºpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
1991 – Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
2010 – In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.

Today's Canadian Headline...

1578 STREETS OF LONDON PAVED WITH GOLD
Harwich England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sails with fleet of 15 ships to build a settlement at Frobisher Bay and mine the 'gold' ore found a year earlier; will discover Hudson Strait; the 2,000 tons of 'gold' ore he mines will prove to be worthless pyrites, and used to pave the streets of London.

1866
Fort Erie Ontario - John O'Neill 1834-1878 leads about 800 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo to threaten Canadian garrisons, occupy Fort Erie, capture the Buffalo & Lake Huron Railroad and cut telegraph lines. The Fenians were dedicated to freeing Ireland from the English, by force if necessary;

In Other Events...

1991 Oka Quebec - Chief George Martin of Kahnesatake Mohawk Reserve fails to block members from voting 526-21 for direct election of a new band council.
1990 Edmonton Alberta - Premier Don Getty announces that Alberta will privatize 50% of $3 billion giant, Alberta Government Telephones (AGT); Albertans given first right to buy shares.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Assembly of First Nations Chief George Erasmus says First Nations pleased with Supreme Court ruling requiring governments to bargain on native rights and land claims, and not ignore treaty obligations.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- invites Premiers to Ottawa June 3 to try and save the Meech Lake Accord; refuses full First Ministers Conference; says Senate reform main obstacle.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Superior Court convicts two Columbians and a New Yorker of attempting to smuggle and traffic $200 million of cocaine through New Brunswick in April 1988; given 10-25 year sentences.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes one bill giving all federal employees the right to a smoke-free workplace, and another banning virtually all tobacco advertising, effective Jan 1, 1989.
1987 Edmonton Alberta - Oilers beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1985 Ontario - Tornadoes hit central Ontario communities of Barrie, Grand Valley, Orangeville, and Tottenham, killing 12, injuring hundreds and damaging or destroying at least 1,000 buildings.
1977 Beijing China - Canadian Wheat Board sells China 3 million tonnes (110 million bushels) of wheat; valued at $330 million.
1976 Quebec - Ottawa averts national strike by 2,200 controllers over use of French in Quebec air traffic control.
1975 Orillia Ontario - Raynell Andreychuck the first woman appointed President of the National Council of the YMCA.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- announces new awards for bravery and merit for civilians and members of the Armed Forces; plus new level to the Order of Canada.
1971 Halifax Nova Scotia - Sandra Oxner, age 29, appointed first female judge of Nova Scotia Magistrate's Court.
1970 Quebec - 2,500 employees in 54 Quebec private hospitals strike for higher wages.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- officially opens the National Arts Centre on Confederation Square.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Grondin 1925- heads 27 member surgical team at the Montreal Heart Institute in performing Canada's first heart transplant, and the world's 18th, on Albert Murphy, a 58-year-old retired butcher; died 46 hours after start of operation.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of Sir John Carling Building, new Department of Agriculture headquarters.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- gives twelve white swans to the City of Ottawa as her Confederation gift; flown from England to Canada.
1964 Moscow Russia - Canadian Press sends its first resident correspondent to Soviet Union.
1962 Peterborough Ontario - Queen's Park announces plans for building Trent University at Peterborough; Ontario's 14th university slated to open Sept, 1964.
1954 Winnipeg Manitoba - CBWT-TV Winnipeg goes on the air; first prairie television station.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - Emergency Powers Act expires; gave Cabinet wide control over Canadian economy; later replaced by War Measures Act.
1943 Edmonton Alberta - Ernest Charles Manning 1908- succeeds William Aberhart as Social Credit Premier of Alberta.
1928 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia abolishes its Legislative Council; Quebec now the only province with an upper house.
1902 Vereeniging South Africa - Treaty of Vereeniging ends Boer War; cost Canada almost $3 million; 7,368 Canadians served with British forces.
1877 Brantford Ontario - Brantford incorporated as a city.
1877 London England - Canadian medical degrees became acceptable to Britain.
1862 Victoria BC - Incorporation of the Bank of British Columbia.
1831 Bellot Strait NWT - James Ross discovers Bellot Strait dividing Somerset Island from mainland of Boothia Peninsula; the northernmost point of the North American continent.
1794 Ontario - Upper Canada passes Alien Act, to guard against anti-British sentiment.
1793 Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes Act making it possible for public servants to perform marriages.
1790 BC - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca; claims area for Spain on Aug. 1.
1577 Harwich England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sets sail from Harwich on the Gabriel (20 tons), Michael (25 tons) and Ayde (a 10 ton pinnace); will reach Labrador coast July 28, then Frobisher Bay.

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henric · May 31, 2015

June 1st, 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P

193 – The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.
1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile and LeÃ³n.
1298 – Residents of Riga and Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis.
1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War.
1649 – Start of the Sumuroy Revolt: Filipinos in Northern Samar led by Agustin Sumuroy revolt against Spanish colonial authorities.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
1679 – The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog.
1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
1794 – The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
1815 – Napoleon promulgates a revised Constitution after it passes a plebiscite.
1831 – James Clark Ross discovers the Magnetic North Pole.
1855 – The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua.
1857 – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
1861 – American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861): the first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate combat casualty.
1862 – American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign: the Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff.
1913 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
1916 – Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
1929 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
1939 – First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bomber airplane.
1941 – World War II: the Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing the actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that its shooting down was an attempt to kill the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War II, is executed.
1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
1962 – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
1967 – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles is released.
1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1978 – The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: 13 are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.
1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 – The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
2014 – A bombing at a football field in Mubi, Nigeria, kills at least 40 people.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1997 CHRETIEN TO PRESIDE OVER PIZZA PARLIAMENT
Canada -Jean ChrÃ©tien wins re-election for the Liberals with 155 seats, to 60 Reform, 44 Bloc Quebecois, 21 NDP, 20 PC and 1 Independent; major bloc voting and the regionalization of parties sees the Liberals strong in Ontario and West Quebec, and Reform in Western Canada. Preston Manning's Reform Party will form the Official Opposition in the so-called Pizza Parliament.

1917
Germany - William Avery 'Billy' Bishop 1894-1956 seriously damages a German aerodrome and airfield and destroys three German planes far behind enemy lines, an action that wins him the Victoria Cross; most successful Canadian airman in the Royal Flying Corps, with 72 kills.

In Other Events....

1991 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP unfurls its official flag.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney hosts all-night negotiations to iron out the remaining Meech Lake wrinkles; first ministers agree unanimously to present the Accord to their legislatures.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - The 10 premiers agree that Ottawa can carry on free trade-talks with the US without direct participation by the provinces.
1984 New York City - NBC-TV special Welcome To The Fun Zone stars Canadians Howie Mandel and John Candy.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec raises provincial minimum wage from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour; highest in Canada.
1970 Peru - Canada gives $1 million in emergency relief assistance to Peruvian earthquake victims; sends aircraft to ferry services, tents, and flour.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government sets retirement age for Senators at 75.
1953 London England Britain - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- crowned in Westminster Abbey 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI; marked by official ceremonies across Canada; first coronation to be televised.
1952 Montreal Quebec - TV broadcasting starts in Canada when Radio Canada's Channel 2 shows a test pattern.
1929 Guelph Ontario - Severe tornado hits Guelph, knocking out some city services for almost three years.
1925 Saskatchewan - Charles Avery Dunning 1885-1958 leads Liberals to re-election victory in Saskatchewan provincial election.
1916 Mount Sorrel France - Canadian troops see action at Mount Sorrel; to June 13.
1913 Canada - Trade agreement with British West Indies comes into effect; about 50 Canadian products get 20% tariff reduction.
1889 Portland Maine - CPR opens Short Line Railroad through Maine to connect Montreal with Saint John.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 resigns as leader of Liberal opposition in Parliament; replaced by Laurier on June 7.
1886 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes an Act establishing the Dominion Experimental Farm.
1866 Fort Erie Ontario - John O'Neill 1834-1878 leads 700 Fenians against raw Canadian militia at the Battle of Ridgeway; militia units panic, but stout defense eventually turns Fenians back.
1855 Fort Resolution NWT - James Anderson & James Stewart leave Fort Resolution to confirm Rae's report on Franklin; find articles from Franklin's ships at Back River, more relics at Montreal River.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Opening of third session of second Parliament of Canada; meets until July 28; control of Post Office; duties lowered on American imports; British imports raised to uniform 7.5%.
1847 Montreal Quebec - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 enters cabinet for the first time as Receiver-General.
1800 Trinity, Newfoundland - John Clinch administers the first smallpox vaccination in North America.
1800 Toronto Ontario - Fourth session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 4; introduction of British criminal law into the Canadas.
1794 Toronto Ontario - Third session of first Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 9; sets up Court of King's Bench; passes Act restraining domestic animals.
1776 Chambly Quebec - John Thomas 1725-1776 dies of smallpox which is ravaging the invading American army; succeeded by John Sullivan.
1763 Michilimackinac Michigan - Pontiac takes Fort Michilimackinac.
1755 Fort Beausejour Nova Scotia - Robert Monckton 1726-1782 lands over 2,000 troops at mouth of Missaguash River in Acadia; attacks Vergor at Fort Beausejour.
1671 Montreal Quebec - Daniel de RÃ©my de Courcelle 1626-1698 leaves Montreal on peace mission to the Iroquois on Lake Ontario.
1615 Quebec Quebec - First RÃ©collet missionaries arrive from Rouen (Fathers Denis Jamet, Jean Dolbeau and Joseph Le Caron, with Brother Pacifique Duplessis); build first monastery and chapel.

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henric · Jun 1, 2015

June 2nd, 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1010 – The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Cordoba.
1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1615 – The first RÃ©collet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1793 – French Revolution: FranÃ§ois Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1866 – Fenian raids: The Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1886 – The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with six deaths.
1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was executed four years later.
1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
2014 – Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1997 CHRETIEN TO PRESIDE OVER PIZZA PARLIAMENT
Canada -Jean ChrÃ©tien wins re-election for the Liberals with 155 seats, to 60 Reform, 44 Bloc Quebecois, 21 NDP, 20 PC and 1 Independent; major bloc voting and the regionalization of parties sees the Liberals strong in Ontario and West Quebec, and Reform in Western Canada. Preston Manning's Reform Party will form the Official Opposition in the so-called Pizza Parliament.

1917
Germany - William Avery 'Billy' Bishop 1894-1956 seriously damages a German aerodrome and airfield and destroys three German planes far behind enemy lines, an action that wins him the Victoria Cross; most successful Canadian airman in the Royal Flying Corps, with 72 kills.

In Other Events....

1991 Ottawa Ontario - RCMP unfurls its official flag.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney hosts all-night negotiations to iron out the remaining Meech Lake wrinkles; first ministers agree unanimously to present the Accord to their legislatures.
1986 Ottawa Ontario - The 10 premiers agree that Ottawa can carry on free trade-talks with the US without direct participation by the provinces.
1984 New York City - NBC-TV special Welcome To The Fun Zone stars Canadians Howie Mandel and John Candy.
1977 Quebec Quebec - Quebec raises provincial minimum wage from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour; highest in Canada.
1970 Peru - Canada gives $1 million in emergency relief assistance to Peruvian earthquake victims; sends aircraft to ferry services, tents, and flour.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Government sets retirement age for Senators at 75.
1953 London England Britain - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- crowned in Westminster Abbey 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI; marked by official ceremonies across Canada; first coronation to be televised.
1952 Montreal Quebec - TV broadcasting starts in Canada when Radio Canada's Channel 2 shows a test pattern.
1929 Guelph Ontario - Severe tornado hits Guelph, knocking out some city services for almost three years.
1925 Saskatchewan - Charles Avery Dunning 1885-1958 leads Liberals to re-election victory in Saskatchewan provincial election.
1916 Mount Sorrel France - Canadian troops see action at Mount Sorrel; to June 13.
1913 Canada - Trade agreement with British West Indies comes into effect; about 50 Canadian products get 20% tariff reduction.
1889 Portland Maine - CPR opens Short Line Railroad through Maine to connect Montreal with Saint John.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 resigns as leader of Liberal opposition in Parliament; replaced by Laurier on June 7.
1886 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes an Act establishing the Dominion Experimental Farm.
1866 Fort Erie Ontario - John O'Neill 1834-1878 leads 700 Fenians against raw Canadian militia at the Battle of Ridgeway; militia units panic, but stout defense eventually turns Fenians back.
1855 Fort Resolution NWT - James Anderson & James Stewart leave Fort Resolution to confirm Rae's report on Franklin; find articles from Franklin's ships at Back River, more relics at Montreal River.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Opening of third session of second Parliament of Canada; meets until July 28; control of Post Office; duties lowered on American imports; British imports raised to uniform 7.5%.
1847 Montreal Quebec - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 enters cabinet for the first time as Receiver-General.
1800 Trinity, Newfoundland - John Clinch administers the first smallpox vaccination in North America.
1800 Toronto Ontario - Fourth session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 4; introduction of British criminal law into the Canadas.
1794 Toronto Ontario - Third session of first Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 9; sets up Court of King's Bench; passes Act restraining domestic animals.
1776 Chambly Quebec - John Thomas 1725-1776 dies of smallpox which is ravaging the invading American army; succeeded by John Sullivan.
1763 Michilimackinac Michigan - Pontiac takes Fort Michilimackinac.
1755 Fort Beausejour Nova Scotia - Robert Monckton 1726-1782 lands over 2,000 troops at mouth of Missaguash River in Acadia; attacks Vergor at Fort Beausejour.
1671 Montreal Quebec - Daniel de RÃ©my de Courcelle 1626-1698 leaves Montreal on peace mission to the Iroquois on Lake Ontario.
1615 Quebec Quebec - First RÃ©collet missionaries arrive from Rouen (Fathers Denis Jamet, Jean Dolbeau and Joseph Le Caron, with Brother Pacifique Duplessis); build first monastery and chapel.

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henric · Jun 2, 2015

June 3rd, 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.
1140 – The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 – The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1539 – Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.
1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1621 – The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.
1658 – Pope Alexander VII appoints FranÃ§ois de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.
1839 – In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsÃ¼ destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.
1862 – A 3000-strong riot occurred at Wardsend Cemetery in the Sheffield, England, against rumours of bodysnatching from the grounds.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
1866 – The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
1888 – The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1889 – The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
1940 – Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
1942 – World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
1950 – The first successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; the summit of Annapurna is reached by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.
1959 – Singapore was declared a self-governing state even though it was still a part of the British Empire.
1962 – At Paris Orly Airport, an Air France Boeing 707 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.
1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
1968 – Valerie Solanas, the author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1969 – Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
1980 – The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, which take five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and cause $300 million in damages all told, according to statistics compiled on the deadly storm by the National Weather Service and the American Red Cross.
1982 – The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1987 – The Vanuatu Labour Party is founded.
1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1992 – Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Eddie Mabo.
2006 – The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2013 – The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1987 MULRONEY AND PREMIERS INK DEAL
Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- and the 10 provincial premiers initial the Meech Lake Accord constitutional deal after an all-night meeting in the Langevin Block; if approved by Parliament and all 10 provincial legislatures within three years, it will give Quebec special status within Canada and increase the powers of the provinces.

1668
Gravesend England - Medart Chouart des Groseilliers 1618-1690 sets sail on the ketch Nonsuch on a trade voyage to Hudson Bay, after convincing a group of London merchants to back him; the trading voyage will be a success, leading to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670.

In Other Events....

1995 New York City -Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has a #1 pop chart hit with his Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
1994 London England - Queen Elizabeth unveils war memorial in Green Park to honour Canadians who fought and died in both world wars.
1990 Hull Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- meets Premiers over dinner at the Canadian Museum of Civilization to discuss the Meech Lake Accord; meeting stretches to week long closed-door conference, but Newfoundland and Manitoba will be unable to keep their part of the bargain.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Official opening of SkyDome, Toronto's $500 million domed stadium; 50,000 baseball fans soaked by rain when retractable roof opens.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises Petroleum Compensation Charge by $1.25 per barrel; to offset drop in value of Canadian dollar; Lougheed levy raised $1.10.
1972 New York City - Toronto rocker Neil Young's Old Man peaks at #31 on the pop singles chart.
1972 Vancouver BC - Mob of 2,000 fans fail to crash a Rolling Stones rock concert; 31 policemen injured before crowd dispersed.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Ontario stops construction of Spadina Expressway in Toronto, after strong civic opposition; construction started in 1964.
1970 Romania - Canada grants up to $7.5 million in relief assistance to flood victims in Romania.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Mint to replace silver in coins with a nickel alloy, beginning in August.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares 12 Mile Limit; (19.3 km) exclusive fisheries zone off the Canadian coast; effective May, 1964.
1961 Regina Saskatchewan - Temperatures soar above 32 degrees to start 10 day Prairie heat wave.
1959 Washington DC - US President Eisenhower bounces a message off the moon to Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker.
1955 Vancouver BC - CP Airlines starts first Vancouver-Amsterdam service over North Pole.
1954 Ottawa Ontario - Haile Selassie I Emperor of Ethiopia starts four-day visit to Canada.
1953 London England - Louis Stephen St. Laurent 1882-1973 attends six-day meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers.
1948 Newfoundland - First Newfoundland referendum returns 69,000 votes for self-government, 64,000 for union with Canada; 22,000 for no change (colonial status).
1935 Vancouver BC - 1,000 unemployed men board freight cars in Vancouver to begin the On to Ottawa protest trek.
1934 London England - Dr. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, knighted by King George V.
1922 Niagara Falls Ontario - Lt.-Gov. Harold Cockshutt unveils the Memorial Tower, designed by architect Charles Wilmott, to honor Niagara residents killed during the First World War.
1918 Quebec - Post office starts new airmail service linking Montreal and Quebec City with Boston and New York.
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet sets up Board of Pension Commissioners to administer naval and military pensions.
1909 Ottawa Ontario - W.L. Mackenzie King sworn in as first Canada's Deputy Minister of Labour.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa carpenters go on strike for higher wages and union certification.
1889 Saint John New Brunswick - First Canadian Pacific train beyond Montreal arrives in the ice-free port of Saint John, marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a coast to coast railway.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier elected Leader of the Liberal Party.
1885 Steele Narrows Saskatchewan - Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 leads the NWMP detachment against Big Bear, but the Cree leader again escapes; last military engagement fought on Canadian soil.
1876 London England - Montreal team introduces the sport of lacrosse to Britain.
1866 Fort Erie Ontario - George Peacocke leads British regulars and Canadian militia to relieve Fort Erie; O'Neill's Fenians escape across the border, meeting a heroes' welcome.
1856 Windsor Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia government opens the Windsor Branch Railway from Windsor to Windsor Junction; oldest constituent of the Dominion Atlantic Railway.
1813 Kingston Ontario - James Yeo 1782-1818 leaves for Niagara with reinforcements, stores and 300 soldiers.
1799 PEI Canada - Island of St. John officially proclaimed as Prince Edward Island.
1789 Fort Chipewyan NWT - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 sets out from Fort Chipewyan down the Slave River, to find a way to ship furs to the west coast; the Yellowknife Indians will tell him of a river flowing northwest from Great Slave Lake, and he will travel down the Mackenzie River, reaching the Arctic Delta on July 10; a North West Company partner.
1778 Montreal Quebec - First issue of the Literary Gazette (Gazette LittÃ©raire) published; will become the Montreal Gazette.
1753 Montreal Quebec - Louis La Corne 1703-1761 sets out to command western fur trading posts; builds Fort St-Louis on the Saskatchewan.
1753 Montreal Quebec - Marie-Marguerite Dufrost de Lajemmerais Youville 1701-1771 gets the administration of 'HÃ´pital GÃ©nÃ©ral de MontrÃ©al transferred permanently to the Grey Nuns.
1658 France - FranÃ§ois de Laval 1623-1688 appointed vicar apostolic in New France by the Pope.
1620 Quebec Quebec - RÃ©collets lay cornerstone of Notre-Dame-des-Anges; both a church and a monastery, it is today the oldest stone church in French North America.
1613 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 reaches site of Ottawa.
1608 Tadoussac Quebec Canada - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at Tadoussac with Etienne BrulÃ© his third voyage to New France.

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henric · Jun 3, 2015

June 4th, 2015 - This Date in History.

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1039 – Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1647 – Canonicus Grand Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Indian Tribe dies. He was Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Tribe (rivals to the Wampanoag) at the time of the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth.
1745 – Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfiÃ¨re (hot air balloon).
1784 – Ã‰lisabeth Thible bocomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers 4 kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1794 – British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
1802 – Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1825 – General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
1859 – Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1878 – Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies four days later.
1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1932 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'etat establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
1939 – Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
1943 – A military coup in Argentina ousts RamÃ³n Castillo.
1944 – World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 – the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944 – World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
1961 – In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
1965 – Duane Earl Pope robs the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution-style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime later puts Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.
1970 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.
1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead.
1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
1989 – Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2001 – Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
2012 – The Diamond Jubilee Concert is held outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall, London.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1976 CANADA TAKES CHARGE OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF
Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares 370 km (200 nautical mile) offshore fisheries jurisdiction zone, effective Jan 1, 1977; Canada to set numbers of fish harvested and quotas for foreign fleets.

1979
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- takes office as Canada's 16th Prime Minister one day before his 40th birthday; succeeds Pierre Trudeau, PM since April 20, 1968. Canada's youngest PM, and the first native westerner to serve as Prime Minister, Clark includes in his cabinet the first black minister (Lincoln Alexander) and the youngest ever cabinet minister (Perrin Beatty, 29).

In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark's Referendum Bill passed by the Commons; most NDP and Bloc Quebecois opposed; says he will prefer to get provincial agreement instead.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Diane Francis appointed Editor of the Financial Post, replacing John Godfrey.
1990 Moncton New Brunswick - Daniel Maston charged with spiking a lunch room cooler with radioactive heavy water; exposing 8 co-workers to high radiation when they drank the water.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney calls first ministers conference in final push to get unanimous support for Meech Lake Accord before June 23 deadline for ratification.
1989 Boston Massachusetts - Red Sox leading Blue Jays 10-0 in the seventh inning, Jays take the game 12-11 in the 12th; their 12th consecutive victory at Fenway Park.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Prince Edward arrives in Canada for a week-long visit.
1988 Saskatchewan/ Manitoba - Start of week-long, record-breaking heatwave on the Prairies.
1984 Alliston Ontario - Honda Canada Inc. starts building $100 million factory in Alliston; to produce 40,000 cars annually.
1983 Cincinnati Ohio USA - Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers one of 19 Canadians killed as Air Canada DC-9, flying from Texas to Toronto, catches fire and has an emergency landing; 23 of 46 passengers and crew die of smoke and flames due to a fire caused by smoking in a washroom.
1980 Hartford Connecticut - Gordie Howe announced his retirement as a player at age 52.
1979 Sudbury Ontario - 12,000 Inco workers at Sudbury end 12-month strike; accept three-year contract.
1975 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick Supreme Court overturns monopoly convictions against K. C. Irving Ltd. and others.
1969 Quebec City/Toronto - Ontario and Quebec form permanent Commission for Ontario-Quebec Co-operation.
1965 Quebec Quebec - Attorney General Claude Wagner sworn in as Quebec's first Minister of Justice.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Achmed Sukarno President of Indonesia, starts two-day visit to Ottawa.
1944 France - Bomber Command starts operations against railheads and coastal batteries as a prelude to D-Day.
1940 London England - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill says Britain will 'fight on alone' if necessary; with the Commonwealth.
1940 France - RAF's 242 'Canadian' Squadron posted to France.
1940 Dunkirk France - Dunkirk evacuation completed; 340,000 Allied troops get safely to Britain; Canadians recross Channel with only six men missing.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Mayor of Winnipeg mobilizes protest against Winnipeg General Strike.
1907 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Lt.-Gov. Sir William Mortimer Clark opens the Memorial Hall at Niagara; first building in Ontario constructed for use solely as an historical museum.
1906 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Fitzpatrick 1853-1942 appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1868 London England - British government tells Canada it will not let Nova Scotia withdraw from Confederation.
1851 Prince Regent's NWT - William Kennedy and Joseph-RenÃ© Bellot sail the Prince Regent to Prince Regent's Inlet to search for Franklin; Bellot a French naval officer.
1843 Victoria BC - Founding of the town of Victoria, British Columbia.
1812 Washington DC - Congress votes for war against Britain; the War of 1812 begins June 18, when President James Madison officially proclaims the U.S. to be at war.
1792 Washington USA - Capt. George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
1765 Mackinaw Michigan - Alexander Henry 1739-1824 appointed Captain of western trading posts, with headquarters at Michilimackinac.
1763 Mackinaw Michigan - Chippewas captured Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1760 Nova Scotia - Twenty-two ships carrying New England planters arrive in Nova Scotia to take land forcibly vacated by the Acadians.
1742 Quebec Quebec - Le Canada launched; first French warship built in Canada sails for Rochefort, France.
1671 Sault Ste Marie Ontario - Simon-FranÃ§ois Daumont de Saint-Lusson d1677 takes possession of lands around Sault Ste. Marie and claims Huron and Superior areas for France; sent by Jean Talon to do a survey of the area.
1534 PEI - Prince Edward Island sighted by Jacques Cartier.

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henric · Jun 4, 2015

June 5th, 2015 - This Date in History.

Events:C/P.

70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
754 – Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia.
1257 – KrakÃ³w, in Poland, receives city rights.
1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salermo.
1625 – The city of Breda surrenders to the Spanish tercios under general Ambrosio Spinola.
1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.
1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
1940 – World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
1941 – World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
1942 – World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
1944 – World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
1963 – The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1967 – The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 – The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
1976 – The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
1977 – A coup takes place in Seychelles.
1981 – The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1984 – The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1993 – Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
1995 – The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
2000 – The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50Â°C (122Â°F) in the region.
2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.

Today's Canadian Headline....

1895 DAVIN PROPOSES VOTE FOR WOMEN
Ottawa Ontario - Regina MP Nicholas Flood Davin 1843-1901 introduces a motion in the House of Commons giving women the vote; it is soundly defeated.

1813
Stoney Creek Ontario - John Harvey 1778-1852 makes surprise attack with 700 British regulars of the 8th and 49th Regiments and some Canadian militia against 2,000 strong American force under Brigadiers William Winder and John Chandler at Stoney Creek; Americans withdraw toward Forty Mile Creek after midnight; War of 1812.

In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization says cod stocks at lowest level ever; suggests cutting catch to 50,000 tonnes; half caught already.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company to change 8 remaining Simpsons stores to Bay, selling 5 others to Sears; store founded in 1872 in Toronto.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays lose 5-3 against the Milwaukee Brewers in their first game in the SkyDome; first pitch by Jimmy Key to Paul Molitor a curve-ball strike (ball sent to the Baseball Hall Of Fame).
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Government tables white paper calling for 15 year expenditure of $200 billion on defence, including ten nuclear submarines.
1984 Lloydminster Saskatchewan - Husky Oil Ltd. starts $3.2 billion heavy oil upgrader backed by Ottawa, Alberta and Saskatchewan; largest energy project since 1978 slow in getting off the ground.
1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Federal and provincial Finance Ministers start two-day meeting; agree to limit inflation; more funds to poorer provinces.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting dimes and quarters to pure nickel as soon as possible; to head off silver speculators and hoarding.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Edwin Godfrey Newman first native Indian appointed a magistrate.
1966 Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 leads Union Nationale to victory in Quebec provincial election; will only serve two years of the mandate before his death.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald's home Earnscliffe declared a National Historic Site; residence of British High Commissioner.
1944 Normandy France - D-DAY-1; Soldiers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, part of British 6th Airborne Division's 3rd brigade make advance overnight landing before D-Day; "C" company lands in the most easterly drop-zone near Varville, blows up a bridge across the Divette River, destroying a German strong-point and then moves back four miles to the village of le Mesnil.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet declares 16 Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal under wartime emergency legislation; jails leaders.
1897 Quebec Quebec - Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier sails to England to attend Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; he will return knighted as Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
1884 Montana - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906, accompanied by with Michel Dumas, Moise Ouelette, and James Isbister, visits Louis Riel in Montana, where he is teaching; after several days of discussion, he agrees to return to help the Metis protect their rights.
1876 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada holds its first sitting; presiding is William Richards, first chief justice, appointed Oct. 1875.
1854 Washington DC - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 signs Reciprocity Treaty with US negotiator William Marcy; opens U.S. to natural produce only in return for freedom of operation on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; begins Oct 15; leads to great prosperity in the Canadas, until it is canceled by the Americans in March 1866.
1817 Kingston Ontario - Launching of steamship Frontenac; first steamer on the Great Lakes makes its inaugural trip west to the town of York.
1798 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Second session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 5; sets up county system; makes valid marriages performed by non-Anglicans.
1741 Siberia - Vitus Jonassen Bering 1681-1741 sails from Kamchatka Peninsula to explore Alaska.
1673 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 requires coureurs de bois to give notice if they leave settlement to trade for more than two days; royal decree to control independent traders makes them divert trade south.
1613 Cobden Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 loses his astrolabe near Lac des Chats on the Ottawa River; one such instrument, supposedly found on June 7, 1867, is not old enough to be Champlain's.

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