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Events:C/P.
1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2009 – The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
Today's Canadian Headline...
1763 FRANCE GIVES UP CANADA
Paris France - France signs Peace of Paris ending the Seven Years War. France gives up Canada, keeping only St. Pierre and Miquelon and part of Louisiana; Spain cedes claims in the northwest, gets California.
1991 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Cameron chosen as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and new Premier of Nova Scotia.
1983 Washington DC - Canada signs agreement allowing US testing of military equipment in Canada, including cruise missiles.
1982 Bromont, Quebec - Group of 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands; to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $18 million for underwater electrical cable from New Brunswick to PEI.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa limits seal catch in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Newfoundland and Labrador.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 3-day constitutional conference; Premiers agree to more study of constitutional reform.
1965 Vancouver BC - Lumber magnate H. R. MacMillan donates $8.2 million to the University of British Columbia for postgraduate education.
1956 Quebec Quebec - Wilbert Coffin hanged for murder of three American hunters, killed in the Gaspé in 1953; many insist the Gaspé prospector was innocent.
1947 Paris France - Canada signs mop-up peace treaties with former Axis powers Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland.
1942 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian corvette Spikenard.
1922 London England - Peter Charles Larkin 1856-1930 appointed High Commissioner for Canada in Britain; wealthy tea merchant and benefactor of Mackenzie King
1906 Prince Rupert BC - Prince Rupert chosen as the name of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's terminus. Fifteen thousand people entered the $250 contest to choose a name - Eleanor Macdonald of Winnipeg was the winner.
1906 London England - Canadian Tommy Burns knocks out Jack Palmer in the fourth round to defend his world heavyweight title.
1892 Washington DC - Canadian and US negotiators fail to reach decision on reciprocity after five days of talk.
1876 St. Catharines Ontario - St. Catharines incorporated as a city.
1876 Toronto Ontario - Crooks Act takes power to grant tavern licences away from Ontario municipalities; now under provincial board.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 organizes second Provisional Government of Red River.
1841 Kingston Ontario - The Act of Union comes into effect; uniting Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with Kingston as its capital; Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 appointed first Governor-General of United Canada; until his death on Sept. 19, 1841.
1838 Quebec Quebec - Constitution of Lower Canada suspended as of March 27; Special Council proclaimed March 29.
1829 Fredericton New Brunswick - College of New Brunswick gets Royal Charter as King's College, Fredericton; today the University of New Brunswick.
1802 London England - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being first to cross the North American continent by land.
1638 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 grants Charles La Tour the rest of Nova Scotia, plus Cap de Sable and Fort La Tour on the Saint John River; Charles d'Aulnay, cousin of Razilly, is appointed Lieutenant-General of Acadia; hostility arises between La Tour and d'Aulnay.
In World Events...
1994 Cape Canaveral Florida - Five Shuttle astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth aboard Discovery; first joint US-Russian shuttle mission.
1990 South Africa - Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela freed by President de Klerk after serving 27 years in prison.
1975 Blackpool England - Margaret Thatcher elected leader of the Conservative Party; first female leader of a British political party.
1929 Rome Italy - Signing of the Lateran Treaty, establishing an independent Vatican State in Rome.
1906 Glasgow Scotland - HMS Dreadnought launched; first modern battleship, with fast turbine engines and large guns.
1858 Lourdes France - Marie-Bernarde Soubirous first sees a vision of the Virgin Mary in a grotto; today the shrine of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.
1840 London England - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1573 Chile - English explorer Francis Drake first sees the Pacific Ocean.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
1355 – The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1798 – Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
1920 – Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 – Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2009 – The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
Today's Canadian Headline...
1763 FRANCE GIVES UP CANADA
Paris France - France signs Peace of Paris ending the Seven Years War. France gives up Canada, keeping only St. Pierre and Miquelon and part of Louisiana; Spain cedes claims in the northwest, gets California.
1991 Halifax Nova Scotia - Donald Cameron chosen as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and new Premier of Nova Scotia.
1983 Washington DC - Canada signs agreement allowing US testing of military equipment in Canada, including cruise missiles.
1982 Bromont, Quebec - Group of 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands; to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa grants $18 million for underwater electrical cable from New Brunswick to PEI.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa limits seal catch in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Newfoundland and Labrador.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 3-day constitutional conference; Premiers agree to more study of constitutional reform.
1965 Vancouver BC - Lumber magnate H. R. MacMillan donates $8.2 million to the University of British Columbia for postgraduate education.
1956 Quebec Quebec - Wilbert Coffin hanged for murder of three American hunters, killed in the Gaspé in 1953; many insist the Gaspé prospector was innocent.
1947 Paris France - Canada signs mop-up peace treaties with former Axis powers Italy, Romania, Hungary and Finland.
1942 Atlantic - German U-boat torpedoes Canadian corvette Spikenard.
1922 London England - Peter Charles Larkin 1856-1930 appointed High Commissioner for Canada in Britain; wealthy tea merchant and benefactor of Mackenzie King
1906 Prince Rupert BC - Prince Rupert chosen as the name of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's terminus. Fifteen thousand people entered the $250 contest to choose a name - Eleanor Macdonald of Winnipeg was the winner.
1906 London England - Canadian Tommy Burns knocks out Jack Palmer in the fourth round to defend his world heavyweight title.
1892 Washington DC - Canadian and US negotiators fail to reach decision on reciprocity after five days of talk.
1876 St. Catharines Ontario - St. Catharines incorporated as a city.
1876 Toronto Ontario - Crooks Act takes power to grant tavern licences away from Ontario municipalities; now under provincial board.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 organizes second Provisional Government of Red River.
1841 Kingston Ontario - The Act of Union comes into effect; uniting Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, with Kingston as its capital; Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 appointed first Governor-General of United Canada; until his death on Sept. 19, 1841.
1838 Quebec Quebec - Constitution of Lower Canada suspended as of March 27; Special Council proclaimed March 29.
1829 Fredericton New Brunswick - College of New Brunswick gets Royal Charter as King's College, Fredericton; today the University of New Brunswick.
1802 London England - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being first to cross the North American continent by land.
1638 Paris France - King Louis XIII 1601-1643 grants Charles La Tour the rest of Nova Scotia, plus Cap de Sable and Fort La Tour on the Saint John River; Charles d'Aulnay, cousin of Razilly, is appointed Lieutenant-General of Acadia; hostility arises between La Tour and d'Aulnay.
In World Events...
1994 Cape Canaveral Florida - Five Shuttle astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth aboard Discovery; first joint US-Russian shuttle mission.
1990 South Africa - Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela freed by President de Klerk after serving 27 years in prison.
1975 Blackpool England - Margaret Thatcher elected leader of the Conservative Party; first female leader of a British political party.
1929 Rome Italy - Signing of the Lateran Treaty, establishing an independent Vatican State in Rome.
1906 Glasgow Scotland - HMS Dreadnought launched; first modern battleship, with fast turbine engines and large guns.
1858 Lourdes France - Marie-Bernarde Soubirous first sees a vision of the Virgin Mary in a grotto; today the shrine of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.
1840 London England - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1573 Chile - English explorer Francis Drake first sees the Pacific Ocean.
End of C/P.