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


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    Today's Canadian Headline....

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

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



    In Other Events....

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

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