This Date In History

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June 6th, 2015 - This Date in History.


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1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friuli by Venetian troops
1513 – Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
1523 – Gustav Vasa, the Swedish regent, is elected King of Sweden, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union. This is the Swedish national day.
1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.
1644 – The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.
1654 – Queen Christina abdicates the Swedish throne and is succeeded by her cousin Charles X Gustav.
1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, is crowned.
1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
1762 – British forces begin a siege of Havana and temporarily capture the city in the Battle of Havana.
1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.
1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of enlightened absolutism. At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force twice its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
1822 – Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion.
1832 – The June Rebellion in Paris is put down by the National Guard.
1833 – Andrew Jackson becomes the first U.S. President to ride on a train.
1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden–Norway.
1859 – Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed when a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
1892 – The Chicago "L" commuter rail system begins operation
1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1909 РFrench troops capture Ab̩ch̩ (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1918 РWorld War I: Battle of Belleau Wood РThe U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Ch̢teau-Thierry.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1921 – Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4¢/L) sold.
1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1934 – New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the "Missingest Man in New York", is declared legally dead.
1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers.
1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1946 – The National Basketball Association is created with eleven teams.
1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany are terminated. They never resume.
1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party senator from New York and brother of 35th President John F. Kennedy, dies from gunshot wounds inflicted on June 5.
1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 is launched.
1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
1971 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins.
1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1981 – Bihar train disaster: a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the death toll is closer to 1,000.
1982 – The 1982 Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1982 – A British Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter is destroyed in a friendly fire incident, resulting in the loss of four lives.
1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is first released in the USSR.
1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is opened in Embu, Brazil; the exhumed remains are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.
1992 – The Fantoft Stave Church in Norway is destroyed by Varg Vikernes. This was the first in a string of church arsons in the Early Norwegian black metal scene
1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
1997 – Prom Mom incident: While attending her senior prom in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler gives birth in a bathroom stall, leaves the baby to die in a trash can and then returns to the prom.
2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2004 – Tamil is established as a "classical language" by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 – In Gonzales v. Raich, the United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1994 VETS CELEBRATE D-DAY ANNIVERSARY
Normandy France - Canadians join a contingent of 35,000 WW II Allied veterans (and even some Germans) commemorating the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France.

1944
Normandy France - D-DAY: Operation Overlord's 60-mile front opens a new campaign in western Europe as about 14,000 Canadian soldiers join in the landing on Juno beach between Courseulles and St-Aubin-sur-Mer. RCN minesweepers help clear the lanes in, and RCAF bombers and fighters help soften up the German defenses. The main task of the Canadian Army is to push through the gap between Bayeux and Caen. The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion red berets were part of the advance landing during the night, capturing a bridge near Caen with the British. At about 7:40 am, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd and 3rd Armoured, under Major-General R. F. L. Keller, start landing in rough seas. The 8th Brigade capture Bernières-sur-Mer [in the picture] by 9:30 am but mines and German anti-tank guns hold up the advance inland, creating a traffic jam in the village streets; they take Bény by evening. The 7th Brigade captures Courseulles, Ste-Croix and Banville, with heavy losses. The 9th Brigade make it through Bény to Villons-les-Buissons, less than four miles from Caen, and nearly at their goal - Carpiquet airport. Canadian casualties that day are less than expected - 715 wounded, 359 dead.



In Other Events....

1996 Denver Colorado -Peter Forsberg of the Avalanche scores a hat trick in the first period of Colorado's 8-1 win over Florida to take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals; sixth player in Stanley Cup finals history to score three goals in a period. Colorado's Joe Sakic also had three assists in the second period tying a finals record.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Belgian Brewer Omterbrew offers $2.7 billion for John Labatt Ltd., owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Argonauts, the SkyDome and Labatt's brewery.
1993 New York City - Canadian production of Kiss of the Spiderwoman awarded seven Tonys; Brent Carver named best actor in a musical.
1992 Rio de Janeiro Brazil - John Crosbie welcomes 180-nation accord on sustainable fishing on the high seas; at UN Environmental Conference - the Earth Summit.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court rules 6-1 that public servants can work on election campaigns; except for top bureaucrats, who must remain neutral.
1990 Modena Italy - John Ralston Saul wins Italian book award, the Premio Litterario Internazionale Citta di Modena, for his adventure novel The Paradise Eater; published in English in 1988; Ottawa native.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland House of Assembly rescinds approval of the Meech Lake Accord; government of Clyde Wells essentially kills the Accord, which needed unanimous provincial assent.
1979 Vancouver BC - BC Iongshoremen start 13-day strike, disrupting prairie wheat shipments.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Ontario announces plans to examine health hazards in gold and uranium mines.
1973 Alert Bay BC - Raising of the world's tallest totem pole, at 173 feet.
1973 Eastport Maine - Canada bans US oil tankers from Canadian waters to reach planned oil refinery at Eastport, Maine.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts program to help illegal immigrants become Canadian citizens; about 50,000 apply for landed immigrant status before Oct 15 deadline.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes resolution for bilingual federal public service by 1978.
1970 Ottawa Ontario - Black Watch of Canada retired from battle order.
1966 Toronto Ontario - Presbyterian Church in Canada agreed to ordination of women as elders and ministers.
1957 Toronto Ontario - CBC TV program Front Page Challenge first broadcast.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons passes the Trans-Canada pipeline bill.
1945 Montreal Quebec - Provisional civil aviation organization established by 26 UN countries, including Canada.
1929 Ottawa Ontario - CNR takes over Kent Northern; Inverness Ry & Coal Co; Montreal & Southern; Quebec Oriental; Atlantic, Quebec & Western; Saint John and Quebec railways.
1929 Saskatchewan - Conservatives win Saskatchewan provincial election.
1919 Ottawa Ontario - Government incorporates the Canadian National Railways Company; consolidating the Canadian Northern and Canadian Government Railways.
1910 Rome Italy - Canada signs reciprocity agreements with Italy; mutual tariff reductions.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott 1821-1893 takes office on Macdonald's death; a Senator; Prime Minister to Nov. 24, 1892; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister, and first native-born PM.
1891 Cornwall Ontario - Cornwall hit by a tornado that destroys 500 homes.
1879 Toronto Ontario - Northern Railway of Canada becomes part of the Northern and Northwestern Railway, now part of Canadian National.
1861 Niagara Falls Ontario - Maid of the Mist the first vessel to navigate the Niagara River's whirlpool rapids.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Alessandro Gavazzi foments riots in Quebec after lecturing in the Presbyterian Church on the 'errors of Rome'; former Italian priest.
1829 St. John's Newfoundland - Shanawdithit dies; last known survivor of the Beothuk Indians.
1821 Montreal Quebec - Laying of cornerstone of Montreal General Hospital.
1813 Stoney Creek Ontario - Lt.-Col. John Harvey finishes victory over two brigades of invading Americans, who retreat to Fort George by June 8; War of 1812.
1771 Quebec Quebec - Hector Theophilus Cremahé 1720-1788 appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec; serves from Sept. 26, 1771 to May 23,1782.
1707 Annapolis Nova Scotia - John March 1658-1712 attacks Port-Royal; Massachusetts militia colonel.
1543 La Malbaie Quebec - Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval 1500-1560 explores a short distance up the Saguenay River.

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June 7th, 2015 - This Date in History.


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421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli.
1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, was hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people were killed and 3,000 were seriously injured.
1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles — civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1880 РWar of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campa̱a del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1893 – Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.
1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
1919 – Sette giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta.
1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president.
1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsø and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup began in England.
1977 – 500 million people watched the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.
1990 – Universal Studios Florida opens in Orlando, FL.
1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1944 PANZER SS SHOOT CANADIAN POWS IN COLD BLOOD
Normandy France - D-DAY + 1; the 3rd Canadian Division, 9th Canadian Brigade, North Novas with the Sherbrooke tanks for support, and some Cameron Highlander machine-gunners, push through Buron and Authie toward Capriquet airport, 3 miles west of Caen; lose naval gunfire support, pass out of range of Canadian artillery, and lose contact with a British brigade ordered elsewhere; Lt Col Petch decides to withdraw to higher ground, but C company attacked by the German 12th SS Panzer at Authie, just North of Caen-Bayeux road; 250 North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 60 Sherbrooke Fusilier tankmen are killed or captured; 23 Canadian POWs are executed that night by the Panzers.

1866
Frelighsburg Quebec - Fenian leader Spier leads 1,800 raiders across the border; they loot around Pigeon Hill; plunder St-Armand and Frelighsburg, then retreat when the Canadian militia cavalry arrive and attack them ; US troops later seize their supplies at St. Alban's, and they retreat south.



In Other Events....

1996 Quebec Quebec - Quebec's Chief Electoral Officer charges 11 business and student organizations, some in Ontario, with violating the referendum law.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Benoit Bouchard announces $435,000 aid program for Oka to help rebuild battered economy after 78 day standoff with the Mohawks.
1989 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky wins his ninth NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Ernie Whitt has three hits and drives in three runs as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 in their first game in the SkyDome, before a crowd of more than 45-thousand; first game in major league history played indoors and outdoors in the same day; with rain threatening in the fifth inning, operators start closing the $100 million retractable roof at 8:48 pm, finishing 34 minutes later, too late to prevent a short game delay.
1962 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives in Canada with Queen Mother for l0-day visit.
1956 Niagara Falls Ontario - Two-thirds of an Ontario Hydro power generating station collapses into the Niagara River gorge, about a kilometre below the Falls.
1950 New York City - Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo and his orchestra have a #1 hit with their recording of The Third Man Theme.
1939 Niagara Falls Ontario - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, leave Canada after their Royal Tour and make the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
1909 New York City - Toronto born actress Mary Pickford makes her motion picture debut in The Violin Maker of Cremona.
1904 Ottawa Ontario - Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton, Earl Dundonald 1852-1935 dismissed as Commander-in-Chief of military forces in Canada for criticizing the Minister of Militia; end of practice of Imperial officers commanding the forces in Canada.
1887 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 elected leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing Edward Blake; later Canada's 7th Prime Minister.
1886 Rome Italy - Montreal Bishop Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau 1820-1898 created Canada's first Roman Catholic cardinal by Pope Leo XIII.
1862 Washington DC - United States and Britain sign a mutual treaty to suppress the slave trade..
1834 Back River NWT - George Back descends the Back River to Chantry Inlet on the Arctic coast, then returns to Fort Reliance; learns of Ross' safe return to England.
1832 Quebec Quebec - Irish Immigrants arrive aboard the sailing ship Carrick from Dublin; a government inspector lets the vessel leave the quarantine station, but some of the Irish have Asian cholera, which soon spreads in Quebec and Montreal; the resulting epidemic kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Dedication of Notre-Dame Church on the Place d'Armes.
1824 Quebec Quebec - Francis Burton appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves until Sept. 16, 1825.
1819 Toronto Ontario - Opening of fourth session of seventh Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until July 12; authorizes land grants to war veterans.
1816 British Columbia - James Keith 1784-1851 put in charge of the North West Company's Fort George and coastal district, as the NWC divides the Columbia district in two; Donald McKenzie 1783-1851 put in charge of the inland district.
1800 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River.
1776 Trois Rivières Quebec - Arthur St. Clair 1734-1818 skirmishes with the British at Three Rivers; the American invaders are beaten back the next day by Simon Fraser and the 24th Regiment.
1689 Paris France - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 reappointed Governor of New France, with instructions to capture Hudson Bay and New York; recalled seven years earlier.
1677 Ontario - Olivier Morel de La Durantaye 1640-1716 claims the Lake Erie-Huron area for France.
1654 Paris France - Louis XIV crowned King of France.
1586 North Atlantic - John Davis c1543-1605 sends the Sunneshine and North Starre to look for a passage between Iceland and Greenland.
1585 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sails on the Sunneshine and Mooneshine, with Queen Elizabeth's royal patent to discover the North West Passage.
1576 Bristol England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sails on the Gabriel and Michael to search for the North West Passage; licensed by the Muscovy Company; backed by Elizabeth I and London merchants; will sight Greenland, and name Frobisher Bay after himself.

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June 8th, 2015 - This Date in History.


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68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
218 – Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1776 РAmerican Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivi̬res РAmerican attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivi̬res, Quebec.
1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
1940 – World War II: the completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
2013 – The Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill takes place in Stockholm, Sweden.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1944 D-DAY+2 - MORE MURDERS OF CANADIAN POWS
Caen France -Canadians move inland from Juno beach; Rommel orders Kurt Meyer's 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to attack the Canadian 7th Brigade at Putot-en-Basin (8 kms west of Caen). They cross the railway and outflank the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, destroying the three forward companies; the rest withdraw, leaving their wounded behind; the Canadian Scottish, Canscots and 1st Hussars then use an artillery barrage from the 12th and 13th field regiments to retake Putot, but Meyer counter-attacks with 22 Panther tanks, the Regina Rifles fight a night-long battle, and hold. During these fights, the SS murder several Canadian POWs, including six Winnipeg Rifles, and a Red Cross stretcher-bearer, who are ordered into a wood and shot in the temple; 13 more Canadians are executed within 100 yards of the Command post; the bodies of 7 more are found near-by, all shot in the head with small arms; finally, 40 Winnipegs and Cameron Highlanders are marched into a field, ordered to sit together with the wounded at their centre, and machine gunned; 5 escape.

1685
Quebec Quebec - Jacques de Meulles d1703 uses card money to pay soldiers during a coin shortage; the playing cards are used whole, or cut into halves and quarters; redeemed in 1718, but in common use until the inflations of the 1750s.

1995
Ontario - Mike Harris wins Ontario election for the Progressive Conservatives, defeating Bob Rae of the NDP, in power since 1990; takes 82 out of 130 seats.



In Other Events....

1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Space Agency chooses 4 new astronauts from 5,300 applicants; Chris Hadfield, aviation systems specialist, Air Force Major, age 32; Julie Payette, computer engineer with Bell-Northern Research; Montreal native, age 28; Robert Stewart, geophysicist with University of Calgary; Calgary native, age 37; Dafydd Williams, Toronto physician, age 37.
1991 Calgary Alberta - Jack Pierce dies at 67 during a cattle roundup at his Turner Valley ranch; founder of Ranger Oil in the 1950s.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts two-month public service hiring freeze.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Gilbert LaBine dies, discoverer of pitchblende at Great Bear Lake, and developer of what is now the Eldorado refinery at Port Hope, Ont., where the U-235 for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was made.
1976 Inuvik NWT - Thomas Berger 1933- ends hearings into social and environmental effects of the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline; Justice of the BC Supreme Court.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Leger 1913-1980 suffers a stroke; administrative duties taken by Chief Justice.
1972 London England - Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972 receives Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth; former Prime Minister.
1968 Orillia Ontario - Former residence of Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 at Brewery Bay near Orillia designated a national monument.
1968 London England - James Earl Ray suspected assassin of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. arrested four days after the murder traveling with two forged Canadian passports.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Ludwig Erhard Chancellor of West Germany arrives in Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Pearson.
1944 Atlantic - Flight Officer K. O. Moore, piloting a Canadian Liberator bomber, destroys two German U-Boats in 22 minutes.
1940 Montreal Quebec - RCAF's No. 1 Fighter Squadron leaves for Britain.
1927 Ontario - Canada protests immigration quotas applied to Canadians crossing border to take US jobs.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates office of Dominion Fuel Controller.
1900 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island passes Canada's first prohibition law.
1893 Victoria BC - Steamship Miowera arrives in Victoria from Sydney, Australia; first steamer of the Canadian Australian Line.
1886 Montreal Quebec - Édouard-Charles Fabre 1827-1896 appointed first Archbishop of Montreal.
1881 Montreal Quebec - Montreal fire destroys 642 houses.
1866 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the fifth session of the eighth Parliament of Canada; meets until Aug. 15; last session as the Province of Canada.
1866 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet suspends writ of Habeas Corpus for one year; to capture persons suspected of complicity in Fenian invasions.
1859 Victoria BC - British Columbia establishes the BC Supreme Court.
1843 Toronto Ontario - John Strachan 1778-1867 enrolls first students in King's College, predecessor of the University of Toronto; first President; later founds Trinity College.
1826 Toronto Ontario - Tory youths dump printing press of William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 into Toronto Bay; he had angered the Family Compact with articles in his newspaper, the Colonial Advocate.
1824 Quebec Quebec - Noah Cushing receives a patent for a washing and fulling machine; first patent issued in Canada.
1813 Stoney Creek Ontario - James Yeo 1782-1818 arrives off Forty Mile Creek with a fleet from Kingston with reinforcements after the Battle of Stoney Creek; American invaders under Winder and Chandler retreat toward Niagara.
1790 Windsor Nova Scotia - King's College opens at Windsor, Nova Scotia; founded by a group of Loyalist scholars from what is now Columbia University in New York; gets Royal Charter in 1802; later moves to Halifax.
1776 Trois Rivières Quebec - Simon Fraser leads 24th Regiment in beating back St. Clair's American invaders at Three Rivers.
1736 Lake of the Woods Ontario - Jean-Baptiste Gaultier de La Vérendrye 1714-1736 and 20 of his men are massacred by a Sioux raiding party near Fort St. Charles in the Lake of the Woods; son of Pierre; dead include Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau (1705-1736).
1731 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Vérendrye 1685-1749 leaves Montreal with three sons Jean-Baptiste, Pierre, and François and 50 men to explore and trade in the west; with nephew Christophe Dufrost de La Jemerais (1708-1736).
1542 St. John's Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves Charlesbourg after a difficult winter; 35 Frenchmen may have been killed by Iroquois; meets Roberval in Nfld.; refuses order to join him and returns to France.

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411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
53 – The Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
68 – The Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
747 – Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani, Arab military leader, begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
1311 – Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1762 – British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
1772 – The British schooner Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: the new European political situation is set. Also, Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
1856 – 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1873 – Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days.
1885 – Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.
1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in a British prison under mysterious circumstances.
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1946 – King Ananda Mahidol is found shot dead in his bedroom, Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
1953 – Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1957 – First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London's Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
1965 – The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
1973 – In horseracing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
1974 – Portugal and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney (Australia) kills seven.
1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon. He will not be released until 1991.
1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
2006 – 60th Anniversary Celebrations of Bhumibol Adulyadej's Accession.





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1977 JOEY RESIGNS
St. John's Newfoundland -Joey Smallwood resigns from the House of Assembly; Newfoundland Premier 1949-72; brought the province into Confederation in 1949.

1944
Norrey France -D-Day +3; Kurt Meyer withdraws his defeated 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to Rots, then throws his last fresh Panther tank company in broad daylight against the Regina Rifles position at Norrey; but the 17-pounder Sherman Firefly tanks of the 1st Hussars drive him back. Later in the day, the Queens Own Rifles and 1st Hussars capture the village of Le Mesnil-Patry, seven miles forward of Norrey; attacked by 88s, they lose 19 of the Hussar Shermans in fifteen minutes; the Queen's Own Rifles have 87 casualties, the 1st Hussars 60. Later in the day, the SS executes 18 more Canadian POWs at Abbey d'Ardenne, Kurt Meyer's HQ, on his orders.



In Other Events....

1995 Toronto Ontario - Inco Ltd. pays $700 million to buy 30% of Diamond Fields Resources Inc.'s metal deposit at Voisey Bay, Labrador; will eventually acquire control.
1993 Los Angeles California - Alexis Smith 1921-1993 dies; born Gladys Smith at Penticton, BC in 1921; Smith was a leading film actress in the 1940 and 1950s; also won a Tony for her performance in the Sondheim musical Follies (1971); played J. R. Ewing's enemy Lady Jessica Montford on the TV show Dallas from 1984 to 1990.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 to clinch their 24th Stanley Cup title in the 100th anniversary season; goalie Patrick Roy wins Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP.
1990 Hull Quebec - Brian Mulroney 1939- reaches compromise with 10 provincial Premiers over the Meech Lake Accord; series of agreement and add-ons.
1989 Cold Lake Alberta - Jane Foster and Deanna Brasseur pass course to become Canada's first two female fighter pilots available for combat roles; possibly the world's first.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada denies Newfoundland's 12-year quest for a better contract with Quebec for power from the Churchill Falls Hydro project.
1984 Halifax Nova Scotia - Fleet of tall ships arrives at Halifax; celebrating the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's discovery of Quebec; will visit several Canadian cities before arriving at Quebec.
1984 Montreal Quebec - Pittsburgh Penguins pick Mario Lemieux as their number one draft choice in the NHL Entry draft.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- decides with the 10 Premiers that federal-provincial ministers will negotiate a list of 12 items of constitutional change; announces the next day that Ottawa might act unilaterally.
1979 Vancouver BC - Fred (Cyclone) Taylor dies; born at Tara, Ont. June 23, 1885; played for the Ottawa Senators (1908), the Renfrew Millionaires (1909-11) and the Vancouver Millionaires (1913-21), scoring 194 goals in 186 games; elected first living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame at the charter meeting in 1947.
1973 Belmont New York - New Brunswick jockey Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat to victory in the 105th Belmont Stakes in a world record time for a 1 1/2 mile course (2:24) and a record for the largest margin of victory in the Belmont (31 lengths); also takes horse racing's Triple Crown, the first winner in 25 years.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa founds Canada Development Corporation; to help develop Canadian-owned and managed companies.
1969 British Columbia - BC Premier W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 dedicates the Keenleyside Dam on the Columbia River.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Canadian political party leaders debate policy on television for the first time (Pierre Trudeau, Robert Stanfleld, Tommy Douglas and RŽal Caouette).
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends wartime control and rationing of dairy products.
1942 Valetta Malta - George 'Buzz' Beurling 1921-1948 reaches Malta; starts rise to top rank of Canadian fighter pilots; the Montrealer will shoot down 15 enemy aircraft while with the Royal Air Force.
1935 Richmond Hill Ontario - First observations made at the University of Toronto's David Dunlap Observatory.
1919 Winnipeg Manitoba - Winnipeg City Council dismisses Police Force during Winnipeg General Strike.
1900 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island first province to bring in prohibition; not repealed until 1948.
1866 Sherbrooke Quebec - British Army soldier Timothy O'Hea enters a burning Grand Trunk Railway boxcar, rips the lids from munition boxes, and douses the flames with buckets of water; the Irish Private will become the only person to earn the Victoria Cross for an incident In Canada.
1853 Montreal Quebec - Alessandro Gavazzi foments another riot in Montreal; troops fire on crowd, leaving ten dead; former Italian priest.
1846 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton gets city charter.
1846 St. John's Newfoundland - Fire destroys the wharves and most of the houses in St. John's, leaving thousands of people homeless.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 appoints Legislative Council of 24 members, which holds its first meeting on June 11.
1829 Montreal Quebec - Thirty Montrealers 'take the pledge' to abstain from alcohol at first temperance meeting in Canada.
1818 Quebec Quebec - founding of the Bank of Quebec, with £75,000 in capital.
1793 Toronto Ontario - Assembly passes law prohibiting the importation of slaves into Upper Canada.
1790 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 leaves Cumberland House to survey the Saskatchewan River.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 proclaims martial law and calls out militia to augment 800 British regular troops; suspends administration of the Quebec Act to meet the American invasion.
1643 Montreal Quebec - Iroquois ambush and kill five farmers and inhabitants of Montreal.
1537 Rome Italy - Pope Paul III declares in his encyclical Veros homines that 'Indians are human beings, with the qualities and faults of human beings.'
1534 Quebec - Jacques Cartier sails into the mouth of the St. Laurence River; looking for gold and a northwest passage to the Orient; names the river for St. Lawrence on his feast day.

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671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measure time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1329 – The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
1523 – Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
1539 – Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1596 – Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 РSigning of the Treaty of Compi̬gne between France and the Netherlands.
1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1719 – Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1838 – Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1854 – The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for 3 months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.
1898 – Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
1912 – The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa.
1916 – An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia breaks out.
1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1935 – Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1940 – World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 – World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
1963 – Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program
1964 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities
1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
1996 РPeace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn F̩in.
1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2003 – Wicked opens on Broadway, proceeding to win 40 awards just for the Broadway production.







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1996 Miami Florida -Colorado Avalanche goalie Patrick Roy makes 63 saves for his third post season shutout, and Uwe Krupp scores at 4:31 of the third overtime, as the Avs beat the Florida Panthers 1-0 in triple overtime to take their first Stanley Cup with a four-game sweep; third longest game in Stanley Cup finals history.
1992 New York City - International Court of Arbitration gives France control zone of 24 nautical miles around St-Pierre-Miquelon; plus 10.5 mile corridor from sea; only 18% of what France wanted.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - David Croll dies at 91; MPP 1934, MP 1945; Senate 1955; chaired committees on aging, credit and poverty; immigrated from Russia in 1905.
1990 Fredericton New Brunswick - Frank McKenna passes Meech Lake accord in the provincial legislature after his concerns are addressed in a compromise meeting.
1985 London England - Toronto financier Conrad Black acquires 14% of The Daily Telegraph newspaper for $17 million; will later win control.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- returns to Canada after tour of D-Day battlefields in Europe and 3-day Western summit in London.
1982 Montreal Quebec - CFL Montreal Concordes lose to Toronto in their first game; football team will later revert to former name, the Alouettes, but eventually fold.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Dome Petroleum buys Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas.
1979 NWT Canada - Energy, Mines, and Resources dismantles Project Lorex, or the Lomonsov Ridge Experiment; scientific station set up on the Arctic ice to study a submarine ocean range had drifted 240 km across the North Pole since April; Gov. Gen. Ed Schreyer, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made scuba dives from the project.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises export price of natural gas to the US by 21%.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament creates new Department of the Environment under a Minister of State; Canada also agrees in principle on a joint attack with the U.S. on pollution in the Great Lakes.
1966 Vancouver BC - CPR signs deal with National Harbours Board to end 30-year argument over Vancouver waterfront; enables development of waterfront.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Lal Bahadur Shastri Prime Minister of India arrives in Ottawa for a five-day visit.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - US President Harry S. Truman starts two-day visit to Ottawa; first president to pay a state visit to Canada.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King justifies his wartime policy by stating that the best approach is: 'Conscription if necessary but not necessarily conscription.'.
1940 Canada - Defence Minister Norman Rogers killed in a plane crash.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada declares war on Italy; the same day, Italy declares war on France and Britain; World War II.
1930 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the Winnipeg Rugby Football Club; today's Blue Bombers.
1925 Toronto Ontario - United Church of Canada holds first service under its new name; merger of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches.
1884 Montana - Louis Riel leaves his teaching post to return to Canada to lead what was to become the Northwest Rebellion.
1878 Victoria BC - Fort Rod Hill built to protect Esquimalt in the event of a war with Russia.
1857 Kingston Ontario - Canadian Assembly passes bill bringing in the American decimal (dollar) system of currency; goes into effect midnight, Dec. 31.
1857 Quebec - St. Hyacinthe and Trois-Rivières incorporated as cities.
1842 New York City - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 moves his family to New York to try and start a printing business.
1839 Canandaigua New York - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 sentenced to eighteen months in jail for violating US neutrality laws.
1838 Pelham Ontario - James Morreau leads a rebel raiding party across the Niagara River; attacks St. Johns, in Pelham Township June 11; gets as far as Short Hills by June 21.
1817 Toronto Ontario - Samuel Smith 1756-1826 appointed administrator of Upper Canada; serves from June 11, 1817 to Aug. 13, 1818.
1791 London England - Parliament passes the Constitutional Act, providing for the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, each with a separate legislature.
1650 Midland Ontario - Jesuits abandon Ile Saint-Joseph, their last mission in Huronia, established in 1623; return to Quebec carrying the bleached bones of two martyrs, Fathers Jean de Brébeuf and Jérôme Lalement, who had been tortured and killed by the Iroquois; Hurons also flee to Quebec, and settle at Lorette.
1611 Annapolis Nova Scotia - Pierre Biard c1567-1622 writes first recorded letter sent to France from the new world; Jesuit missionary at Port Royal.
1527 Gravesend England - Royal Navy captain John Rut, sent by Henry VIII, leaves on the Mary Guildford and the Samson on an expedition to find a passage to Asia; Samson lost at sea.

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173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle of the rain".
631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
786 – A Hasanid Alid uprising in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh. Idris ibn Abdallah flees to the Maghreb, where he later founds the Idrisid dynasty.
1118 – Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks.
1157 – Albert I of Brandenburg, also called, The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), becomes the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first Margrave.
1345 – The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1488 – Battle of Sauchieburn: fought between rebel Lords and James III of Scotland, resulting in the death of the King.
1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
1594 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1770 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1788 – Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
1825 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
1865 – The Naval Battle of Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1895 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris is sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race".
1898 – Spanish–American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.
1898 – The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.
1901 – The bountaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
1903 – A group of Serbian officers stormed royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife queen Draga.
1907 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 – The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
1942 – World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1942 – Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
1944 – USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1963 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights.
1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1968 – Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens distinguishing cells of different lineages, introducing the concept of cell surface antigens that could differentiate different cell types.
1970 – After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
1971 – The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
1978 – Altaf Hussain founds the students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
1981 – A Richter scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
1982 – The Sentosa Musical Fountain was officially opened as part of the second phase of construction on the island of Sentosa, Singapore.
1987 – Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black Parliamentarians in Great Britain.
1998 – Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2004 – Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.







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1992 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- closes 3 months of constitutional talks; says all except Newfoundland like Senate reform ideas; suggests possible referendum.
1992 Martensville Saskatchewan - Police charge couple Ron and Linda Sterling and son Travis, 6 others with 170 counts of sexual assault, forcibly confining children; operators of unlicensed babysitting service; most charges quashed.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops calls for change to prevent sexual abuse by priests; says dioceses should check allegations, support victims.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- tells Globe & Mail interviewers he intended to stall the first ministers talks until the last minute; says it is important to know 'when to roll all the dice'.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Premier Clyde Wells, who promised only to seek the judgment of the people of Newfoundland on the Meech Lake Accord, concedes there isn't time to arrange a referendum by June 23; told by Ottawa the deadline can't be extended, he opts for a free vote in the House of Assembly.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Stanley Waters named to Senate by P.M. Mulroney; after Don Getty promised no further elections until studies done; Getty held Canada's first Senate election in Oct 1989 to push reform.
1978 Temiskaming Ontario - High waves swamp canoeing expedition from St. John's school in Claremont, Ontario; 12 students and a teacher drowned in Lake Temiskaming on the Ontario-Quebec border.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Electoral boundary changes increase number of seats in House of Commons by 18 to 282; at next general election.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - National Energy Board cuts oil exports to the US by 12%.
1976 Vancouver BC - United Nations Habitat conference on human settlements ends in Vancouver.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $55 million in aid to flood victims on the Ottawa and Gatineau Rivers.
1971 Washington DC - Canada and US agree to pollution control program in the Great Lakes.
1966 San Diego California - Torontonian David Bailey 1945- first Canadian to break four-minute mile (3:59.1).
1964 Hungary - Canada and Hungarian People's Republic sign three-year trade pact; first between two countries in postwar era.
1962 Nelson BC - Start of preliminary hearing against 72 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors for incidents between 1958 and 1961; conspiracy charges will be dismissed August 7.
1945 Canada - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 wins Canada's twentieth federal general election 125 seats to 67; CCF 28; Social Credit 13; Independents 12; defeats John Bracken with 40.9% of popular vote.
1943 Hot Springs Georgia - Canada signs international agreement on post-war relief; origin of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
1941 Ottawa Ontario - DBS issues census results, showing Canada's population has reached 11,506,655.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Princess Juliana of the Netherlands arrives in Canada to seek refuge during the Second World War; will settle in Ottawa.
1936 Quebec Quebec - Joseph-Adélard Godbout becomes Liberal Premier of Quebec.
1934 Flin Flon Manitoba - Miners in Flin Flon go on strike until July 14.
1931 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes to proclaim Remembrance Day, November 11, as a general holiday.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Borden's Union government introduces the Conscription Act in the Commons, then calls an election to get a mandate; election that followed passage of the bill one of the most divisive in Canadian history.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates the Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners, to be established in Regina.
1889 Toronto Ontario - D'Alton McCarthy 1836-1898 founds Equal Rights Association in Toronto to argue for repeal of Quebec's Jesuits Estate Act, claims government let Roman Catholic Church control political decision-making; Conservative MP backed by Orange Order also agitated against Catholic separate schools in Manitoba and the Northwest.
1847 King William Island NWT - Rear Admiral John Franklin 1786-1847 dies in his ice-bound ship; command goes to Francis Crozier; James Fitzjames second-in-Command; 14 others already dead; remainder sick from eating tainted canned rations.
1847 Lapierre House Yukon - Alexander Murray 1818-1874 sets out from Lapierre House on the Bell River to build Fort Yukon for the Hudson's Bay Company.
1782 Halifax Nova Scotia - William Black preaches his first sermon in Canada, as first Canadian Methodist minister.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Royal Highland Regiment soldiers issued two quarts of spruce beer daily.
1638 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Jesuit Relations describe first recorded earthquake in Canada; tremors for six months, from Gaspé to Montreal, but no casualties reported.
1636 Quebec Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 arrives in Quebec as Governor and Lieutenant General of New France; to 1648; first Governor in title; builds upper town; forbids French to sell firearms to Indians.
1611 Hudson Bay, off Northern Quebec - Hendrick Hudson's ship, the Half Moon freed from the ice; heads north for home.
1603 Saguenay Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 explores 56 km up Saguenay River; hears of salt sea to the north, but doesn't believe it is the Pacific.
1583 Plymouth England - Humphrey Gilbert c1537-1583 leaves Plymouth on second voyage with five ships; Delight, Raleigh, Golden Hind, Swallow and Squirrel; chartered to search for the Northwest Passage, and a patent from the English crown to explore and colonize America.

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1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1889 – Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
1899 – New Richmond Tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1932 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
1972 – The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
1987 РThe Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-B̩del Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
1996 – In Philadelphia, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.







Today's Canadian Headline....

1947 ON KING! ON YOU HUSKIES!!
New York City -First broadcast of radio show Sergeant Preston of The Yukon; about a Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King; continued until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958); show created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, originators of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

1758
Louisbourg Nova Scotia -
James Wolfe takes possession of the Light-House Point, destroyed and abandoned by Governor Drucour after the British landing on June 8; at 2 am, Major Scott marches with 500 Light Infantry and Rangers, making a sweep through the woods, in order to take the Light-House battery; Wolfe follows at 5 am, with four companies of Grenadiers, and 1200 men detached from the line; he will secure the area, bring in artillery by sea, and open fire on Louisbourg's Island battery on the night of the 19th.



In Other Events....

1995 Quebec Quebec -Jacques Parizeau sets up Common Front for the Referendum with Lucien Bouchard of the Bloc Quebecois and Mario Dumont of the Liberal splinter group Parti de l'Action Democratique; Quebec Premier wants another sovereignty referendum in the Autumn; Bouchard insists on having a political and economic partnership with Canada as part of the question.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- and his CRTC rule 4-1 to let Unitel, BCRL compete in $7.5 billion long-distance market with phone companies; Chairman of Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.
1991 Toronto Ontario - US Trade Representative Carla Hills opens trilateral talks for North American Free Trade zone; Michael Wilson says culture will not be on the table.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Monique Landry announces $3 million bailout of World University Service of Canada; partly a CIDA loan; WUSC founded 1939 to send teachers to third world.
1991 Winnipeg Manitoba - Cree lawyer Ovide Mercredi beats Phil Fontaine, leader of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, on the fourth ballot, to become the new national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, representing Canada's 500,000 status Indians; replaces George Erasmus in $85,000-a-year post; member of First Nations Circle on the constitution; Manitoba vice-chief since 1989.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Journalist Lise Bissonnette named Director (editor) of the Montreal daily Le Devoir.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper uses rules of procedure to block the introduction of the resolution ratifying the Meech Lake Accord in the Manitoba legislature; a Cree and NDP MLA, Harper forces the legislature to delay opening debate on the constitutional agreement, which eventually dies.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Patricia Starr charged along with the National Council of Jewish Women (Toronto section) of 71 counts of violating Ontario's election spending law; exceeding maximum allowed; former Liberal fund-raiser.
1986 Ontario - Ontario MDs strike to protest a government ban on extra-billing.
1985 Montreal Quebec - National Hockey League Celebration of Excellence awards Wayne Gretsky his sixth Hart Trophy as MVP.
1984 Toronto Ontario - Premier William Davis says Ontario to give Roman Catholic separate schools the same status and funding as Ontario's public education system to Grade 13; previously only to Grade 10.
1983 Hollywood California - Norma Shearer dies at age 80; movie actress, model, born Edith Shearer at Montreal Aug. 10, 1902. Shearer's major role was in The Divorcee; she was the wife of studio executive Irving Thalberg.
1979 Toronto Ontario - Bobby Orr, Harry Howell and Henri Richard named to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts constitutional program entitled 'A Time For Action'; proposes charter of rights; plus repatriation of the constitution and an amending formula.
1969 Toronto Ontario - Canadian Progress Club sponsors 2-day Canadian Special Olympics for handicapped athletes.
1968 Toronto Ontario - Hall & Dennis issue Living and Learning report; suggest abolishing grades, percentage marks, corporal punishment; committee to examine Ontario educational system.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Harold Macmillan British Prime Minister addresses Parliament during visit to Ottawa.
1952 British Columbia - W. A. C. Bennett 1900-1979 invited to form a Social Credit minority government after BC provincial election.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and the U.S. sign two agreements to avoid double taxation of their citizens and to prevent income tax evasion.
1944 France - D-DAY +6; Canadian 3rd Division is withdrawn from battle for three weeks, until July 4, after mauling in Normandy.
1927 London England - Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dismisses appeal by Roman Catholics for separate schools in Ontario.
1903 Niagara Falls Ontario - Niagara Falls incorporated as a city.
1901 Montreal Quebec - City of Montreal passes by-law making indoor toilets compulsory.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Fire in a Montreal theatre kills 200 people.
1811 London England - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 completes purchase of 300-thousand square km of Red River land from the Hudson's Bay Company; at a price of 10 shillings a year rent on the land; five times bigger than his native Scotland.
1799 Toronto Ontario - Third session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until June 29; provisions for education and support of orphans.
1793 Portage Lake BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Continental Divide at Portage Lake; his party first Europeans to cross Divide north of Spanish territories.
1690 Churchill Manitoba - Henry Kelsey c1667-1724 sets out from York Factory with party of Stone and Assiniboine Indians on journey lasting two years; Hudson's Bay Company employee will record first European description of grizzly bears and buffalo.
1670 Ontario - Daniel de Remy de Courcelle 1626-1698 gets Iroquois to stop war against Algonquins.
1647 Quebec Quebec - Jesuits lay cornerstone of College at Quebec.
1611 Hudson Bay NWT - Hendrick Hudson d1611 starts return voyage, but his ship Discovery is again locked in spring ice.

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Events:C/P.

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.
1184 – King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. According to legend, this battle also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world's first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.
1246 – With the death of Duke Frederick II, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria.
1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded.
1312 – At the Battle of Rozgony, King Charles I of Hungary wins a decisive victory over the family of Palatine Amade Aba.
1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
1410 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.
1580 – Philip II of Spain declares William the Silent to be an outlaw.
1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1776 – Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.
1785 РJean-Fran̤ois Pil̢tre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (1783), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.
1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1815 – The Duchess of Richmond's ball is held in Brussels, "the most famous ball in history".
1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1859 – Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
1867 – Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.
1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
1905 – Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
1913 – The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
1920 – Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
1920 – A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1944 – World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
1945 – The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1954 – UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
1970 – Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
1972 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
2001 – Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.









Today's Canadian Headline....

1995 WEBER & MLAKHOV FIRST TO POLE ALONE
NWT -Richard Weber of Chelsea, Quebec and Russian MD Mikhail Mlakhov reach Ward Hunt Island, Canada's northernmost point of land, becoming the first to ski to the North Pole and back without support teams or outside help; started 1500 km trek Feb. 13; proved that Robert Peary could not have reached the Pole.

1944
Regina Saskatchewan - Baptist Minister T.C. Tommy Douglas 1904-1986 takes 47 of 55 seats, to the liberals 5, to win the Saskatchewan election for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation; forms Canada's first socialist (CCF) government; Douglas resigned his Commons seat to run; he will be Premier for the next 17 years, resigning to become first head of the New Democratic Party.



In Other Events....

1995 New York City - Moody's lowers Quebec's credit rating due to political uncertainty and high taxes.
1993 Alberta - Ralph Klein leads provincial Conservatives to 7th majority win in a row; Party trailed in opinion polls under former leader and Premier Don Getty, before electing Klein, a former Liberal, mayor of Calgary.
1992 Sarajevo Bosnia - Lewis MacKenzie Canadian General optimistic about latest ceasefire in capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina; UN Chief of Staff trying to reopen airport to aid flights.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes new sexual assault legislation - the 'no means no' rape law; defines consent by requiring voluntary agreement by the woman; no consent if incapacitated, given by third person, or under abuse of authority.
1991 Fredericton NB - Dennis Cochrane elected Leader of the Progressive Conservatives in New Brunswick, beating Bev Lawrence 955 to 166; replaces Barbara Filliter, who resigned after 17 months in office.
1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Elijah Harper blocks Premier Gary Filmon's attempt to introduce the Meech Lake resolution in the Manitoba Legislature; puts in procedural roadblocks until June 20; says Meech Lake did not address native concerns.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Patrick Nowlan resigns PC caucus to protest Mulroney's 'highly manipulative' handling of Meech Lake negotiations; veteran Nova Scotia MP.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - Canada expels eight Soviet diplomats for industrial espionage; not made public until June 21.
1987 Toronto Ontario - Ontario passes North America's first pay equity legislation.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams has a No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Heaven.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announces temporary closure of the Canadian embassy in Beirut.
1980 Canada - Bob Nolan dies at 72; country singer, poet, songwriter born Robert Clarence Nobles Apr. 1, 1908; of Sons of the Pioneers.
1977 Toronto Ontario - Judy LaMarsh issues Report of the Ontario Royal Commission on Violence in the Media; rejects greater censorship; advises stricter control over print and broadcast media.
1974 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot has a No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit with Sundown.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa restricts export of gasoline and heating oil to slow down increase in export of these products.
1962 Wallops Island Virginia - Canada launches first space vehicle, 11.3 kg non-orbiting instrument package.
1951 Montreal Quebec - Fire kills 35 elderly persons at l'Hospice Ste-Cunégond.
1951 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament amends Northwest Territories Act to provide for partly elective NWT Council.
1944 France - First RCAF fighter wings move into France after D-Day.
1940 France - Canadians withdraw from France over a two day period.
1919 Clifden, County Galway, Ireland - British Army Captain John Alcock and Royal Flying Corps Lt. Arthur Brown make a nose-down landing in a peat bog in their Vickers Vimy bomber, a two-motor biplane, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 16 hours, 20 minutes; they win the £10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail, and are both awarded knighthoods.
1915 Givenchy France - Lt. Frederick William Campbell of the 1st Bn. Western Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force moves two machine-gun detachments forward under heavy fire at Givenchy; reaches the German front line trench with one gun after nearly all his detachment killed or wounded; holds back German counter-attack by advancing further and firing off 1,000 more rounds before getting hit by fire; dies four days later at age 48; awarded Victoria Cross posthumously Aug. 23, 1915.
1905 St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland bans sale of bait and granting of licenses to Canadian and foreign fishing fleets.
1902 Canada - Maritime Provinces switch from Eastern to Atlantic time.
1900 Ottawa Ontario - Manitoba Catholics ask Ottawa for relief from Manitoba law abolishing separate schools.
1900 Victoria BC - James Dunsmuir becomes Premier of British Columbia, succeeding Joseph Martin; serves to Nov. 21, 1902.
1891 Ottawa Ontario - J.J.C. Abbott sworn in as Prime Minister after being chosen leader of Conservative Party.
1887 Niagara Falls Ontario - Carlisle D Graham survives his second ride over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel.
1875 Montreal Quebec - Founding of the Presbyterian Church of Canada.
1873 Cypress Hills Saskatchewan - Renegade American whisky/fur traders massacre Assiniboine Indians in their camp; leads to formation of the North-West Mounted Police.
1863 London England - Robert Benson acquires control of the Hudson's Bay Company for the International Financial Society, a syndicate of bankers.
1859 Washington USA - Hudson Bay Company pig breaks into potato patch of American squatter; nearly triggers British-American war over ownership of one of the San Juan Islands.
1846 Washington DC - U.S. President James Polk signs the Oregon Treaty (Treaty of Washington), declaring the 49th parallel and the Strait of Juan de Fuca the boundary between Oregon and British America; Queen Victoria signs the Treaty two days later. The treaty was a compromise - the British claimed Oregon and the Americans claimed all of the west coast up to the southern limit of the Russian territory of Alaska - 54/40 - the slogan 'Fifty-four forty or fight' was a Democratic Party slogan in the 1844 election.
1815 Red River Manitoba - Most Selkirk settlers, who had grown dependent on buffalo for survival, forced to leave for Upper Canada because of harassment by Metis hunters; North West Company traders wanting to challenge the authority of the Hudson's Bay Company were backing the Metis nationalists; settlement reestablished the following August.
1814 Port Dover Ontario - Major General Jacob Brown leads 500 American raiders across Lake Erie to burn and loot Port Dover and Long Point; War of 1812.
1811 Vancouver Island BC - John Jacob Astor's ship Tonquin attacked by local Nootka who kill the sailors and destroy the ship the next day; end of New York fur trader's hopes for northwest coast trade in competition with North West Company.
1790 Manitoba Canada - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches mouth of Saskatchewan River; travels from Cumberland House.
1776 Montreal Quebec - American General Benedict Arnold orders Montreal burnt as the Army of the Continental Congress retreats south; citizens put the fire out.
1676 Quebec Quebec - Chief citizens of Quebec hold meeting to fix price of bread.
1673 Arkansas USA - Marquette & Joliet arrive at upper reaches of Mississippi, after paddling more than 800 km; explore south; believe Mississippi empties into Gulf of Mexico.
1629 Gaspé Quebec - Brothers David, Lewis and Thomas Kirke reach Gaspé on a second privateering expedition with nine ships; plan to capture Quebec and the St. Lawrence River trade; accompanied by Sir William Alexander, Jr., proprietor of Nova Scotia, who sails directly south for Port Royal, while the Kirkes found a settlement at Port aux Baleines.
1616 Tadoussac Quebec - Récollet friar Pacifique Duplessis opens first school for Indian children at Tadoussac; later Trois-Rivières.
1605 Nova Scotia - Pontgravé arrives at St. Croix.
1534 Cabot Strait Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 steers southward along west coast of Newfoundland to Cabot Strait, then turns west.

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