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henric
03-14-2013, 08:42 AM
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Events:C/P.

44 BC – Casca, Cicero and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 – The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1903 – The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
1903 – Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Rνo Virilla between Heredia and Tibαs, 248 killed and 93 wounded.
1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, is released.
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 – World War II – The Krakσw Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
1945 – World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
1978 – The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 – In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fιin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'ιtat attempt.
2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
2012 – The International Criminal Court in The Hague issues its first verdict in the case of Prosecutor vs. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. At issue was the military use of children. Unanimously, the Trial Chamber, led by Sir Adrian Fulford, found Lubanga guilty of the war crime of conscripting and enlisting children under the age of 15 and using them in his rebel army The Union of Congolese Patriots.

henric
03-14-2013, 08:47 AM
Today's Canadian Headline...


1923 WORLD'S FIRST HOCKEY BROADCAST
75 YEARS AGO TODAY
Regina Saskatchewan - Pete Parker, of CKCK Radio Regina, does the world's first play-by-play radio broadcast of a professional hockey game, as Edmonton beats Regina 1-0.

1997 Quebec Quebec - Quebec City Chamber of Commerce spends $500,000 for 20-room house formerly used by ex-Premier Jacques Parizeau as an official residence; Lucien Bouchard refused to move in.

1991 Munich Germany - Kurt Browning wins third consecutive World Figure Skating title over Victor Petrenko of Soviet Union; from Caroline, Alberta

1984 Ottawa Ontario - Marc Garneau 1949- named first Canadian to go into space; member of the Canadian Space Agency's Canadian Astronaut Program.

1979 Edmonton Alberta - Peter Lougheed 1928- wins third term in provincial election.

1978 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports unemployment passed the 1,000,000 mark in February for the first time.

1974 Quebec Quebec - Quebec to make French the official language of the province.

1970 Montreal Quebec - Eight Trinidad students convicted of conspiracy to obstruct computer centre at Sir George Williams University [now part of Concordia]; fined a total of $32,500 or up to four years in prison; ordered deported.

1969 Mill Village Nova Scotia - Canada opens second satellite-tracking ground station at Mill Village.

1966 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Wishart Flett Spence chairs Royal Commission to investigate Gerda Munsinger case and security risk; reports September, 1966.

1962 Detroit Michigan - Red Wings Gordie Howe the second NHLer to score 500 goals, after Maurice Richard.

1961 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Massey College, centre for graduate studies at the University of Toronto; Robertson Davies will be appointed Master.

1959 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister John Diefenbaker rejects Newfoundland Premier Joey Smallwood's request for a royal commission on Newfoundland labor problems.

1946 Montreal Quebec - Labor-Progressive MP Fred Rose arrested for conspiracy to transmit wartime secrets to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 6 years in prison for spying; result of Gouzenko revelations.

1916 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan gives women the provincial vote.

1907 Quebec - Quebec government opens technical schools at Montreal and Quebec.

1903 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage (Kenora) Thistles for Stanley Cup.

1899 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Shamrocks beat Queens University (Kingston) for the Stanley Cup.

1892 Ottawa Ontario - Government appoints Royal Commission to investigate the sale of liquor.

1879 Ottawa Ontario - Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 brings in average 25% tariff on US goods; if US repeals or lowers duties, Canada will match them. This is the Conservative Party's National Policy of Protection.

1843 Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 lands at Clover Point on Vancouver Island with 15 men to build new Hudson's Bay Company Fort Camosun (later Victoria); moving HBC trade headquarters from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State)

1808 Quebec Quebec - Lower Canada House of Assembly expels Jewish member, Ezekiel Hart, for invalidating his oath by substituting the word 'Jewish' for 'Christian'.

1782 Quebec Quebec - John Johnson 1742-1830 named Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.

1746 London England - Charles Knowles 1704-1777 appointed Governor of Cape Breton Island, serves from June 2, 1746 to November 30, 1747.

End of C/P.

BPG
03-14-2013, 10:00 AM
On march 14, 1879 Albert Einstein was born and on March 14, 1950 the FBI debuts their 10 Most Wanted List