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henric
06-19-2013, 09:13 AM
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1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 – Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1913 – Natives' Land Act in South Africa implemented.
1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
1982 – The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
2007 – The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others.
2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

henric
06-19-2013, 09:15 AM
Today's Canadian Headline....


1973 HOWE TO PLAY WITH HIS SONS IN WHA
Houston Texas - Retired Detroit Red Wings star Gordie Howe jumps to the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association to join his sons, Mark and Marty; gets a $1 million, four year contract; Houston will win the WHA title and Gordie his seventh MVP title.

1973
Moscow Russia - National Ballet of Canada stars Karen Kain 1951- and Frank Augustyn 1953- win first prize for duet ensemble at International Ballet Competition, attracting drew 75 contestants from 23 countries; perform the Bluebird Pas de Deux from Sleeping Beauty; Kain also wins women's silver medal.

1816
Fort Douglas Manitoba - Rupert's Land Governor Robert Semple 1777-1816 intercepts Cuthbert Grant and Metis party transporting pemmican; killed with 19 of his men in Seven Oaks Massacre on the Frog Plain near Fort Douglas; the Metis encouraged by Nor'Westers who wanted to drive out the Hudson's Bay Company.
1996 Montreal Quebec -Boston Bruins defenseman Ray Bourque named to the NHL's first all-star team for the 12th time, tying Gordie Howe's record for most career first-team selections. Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux wins Art Ross Trophy as League's leading scorer.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Boris Yeltsin visits Ottawa; signs $200 m wheat deal to tide Russia over until fall harvest; Russian President tells Canada's Parliament his country has let go of totalitarianism to embrace democracy.
1992 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta francophones win right to control own school boards and set curriculum; after 10 year battle; 1990 Supreme Court ruling 'where numbers warrant'.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian sprinter Brian Morison banned from competition for two years by Athletics Canada for steroid use.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Jean Pelletier replaces Michel Fournier as Liberal Leader Jean Chretien's chief of staff; former Quebec City mayor.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Petro-Canada public issue of 39.5 million shares almost sold out in one day; Ottawa to distribute 19.5% of Petro-Canada.
1991 Kitimat BC - Ottawa required to conduct environmental review of Alcan's Kemano II hydro dam in northern BC; Ottawa to appeal ruling.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Super-committee on the Constitution set up; 20 MPs and 10 senators to travel across Canada; to present federal proposals to provinces, interest groups.
1988 Toronto Ontario - Opening of annual Group of Seven summit; leaders agree on tougher action to fight illegal drug trade, forgive some African debt and endorse Canada-US Free Trade Agreement.
1983 Vancouver BC - opening of BC Place, 60,000 seat domed stadium; cost $126 million to build.
1978 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans import and sale of cut-rate US editions of Canadian books; dumped products competing with higher priced Canadian editions.
1975 Mexico Mexico - Canadian delegation attends opening of World Conference on International Women's Year.
1974 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Nuclear Association to award named for Dr. W. Bennett; to recognize accomplishments of a Canadian in nuclear science and engineering.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Airline Pilots Association joins international 24-hour strike to protest against hijacking; 2,000 members demand better airport security.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up Prices and Incomes Commission to study causes and effects of inflation.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves Canada's participation in NORAD - the joint North American Air Defence Command.
1956 Ottawa Ontario - Canada recognizes independence of former French North African colonies of Morocco and Tunisia.
1940 London England - Britain organizes to evacuate children to Canada.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Canada and Britain plan steps to be taken if the Royal Navy is forced to withdraw to Canada.
1938 Vancouver BC Canada - RCMP and Vancouver police use tear gas and clubs to remove strikers from Art Gallery and Post Office; Vancouver's 'Bloody Sunday'.
1934 Saskatchewan Canada - James Garfield Gardiner 1883-1962 leads Liberals to victory in provincial election.
1934 Ontario - Mitchell Frederick 'Mitch' Hepburn 1896-1953 leads Liberals to victory in provincial election.
1930 Alberta - John Edward Brownlee 1884-1961 leads United Farmers of Alberta to victory in provincial election; UFA in power since 1924.
1924 Canada - Postal workers strike until June 29.
1918 France - Canadian air ace Billy Bishop shoots down five German planes in his last dogfight, bringing his total enemy kills to 72.
1917 France - Arthur William Currie 1875-1933 succeeds Englishman Julian Byng as commander of the Canadian Corps.
1915 Edmonton Alberta - Graduates of the McDougall Commercial High School start the Commercial Graduates Basketball Club, later the Edmonton Grads; they will win 502.in 522 games over 25 years including several world championships.
1914 Crows Nest Pass Alberta - Hillcrest coal mine explosion and fire kills 188 miners.
1903 Regina Saskatchewan - Barr colonists incorporate Regina as a city.
1874 Pembina Manitoba - 200 new NWMP recruits arrive at Fort Dufferin.
1866 Sherbrooke Quebec - Timothy O'Hea puts out fire in Grand Trunk train loaded with 95 barrels of gunpowder; saves passengers and troops; awarded first and only Victoria Cross for valor inside Canada.
1837 Toronto Ontario - Opening of second session of thirteenth Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until July 11.
1813 Ontario - Francis, Baron de Rottenburg 1757-1832 appointed to command of British forces in Upper Canada as Sheaffe is transferred to Montreal; also appointed President of Council and administrator of Upper Canada; serving until Dec. 13, 1813
1793 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Upper Canada Assembly passes act prohibiting importation of slaves into the colony; first such law in British empire.
1791 Ontario/Quebec - British establish provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada out of Province of Quebec; under the Constitution Act.
1776 Chambly Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 gives Sir John Johnson a Royal Warrant to raise a regiment of American loyalists in Canada; called the 1st King's Royal Regiment of New York.
1758 Louisbourg Nova Scotia - James Wolfe 1727-1759 opens fire on Louisbourg's Island battery from Lighthouse Point on this night; takes until the 25th to silence the battery.
1721 Montreal Quebec - Fire destroys 138 houses, about half the town of Montreal.
1687 Kingston Ontario - Jean Bochart de Champigny c1645-1720 seizes a group of Iroquois at Fort Frontenac; sends them to France as galley slaves.
1644 Quebec - Jesuit priest François-Joseph Bressani 1612-1672 tortured by Iroquois, then given to old woman to care for to replace a dead relative.
1625 Quebec Quebec - Jean de Brébeuf 1593-1649 arrives in New France with Charles Lalement, Enémond Masse, François Charton, Gilbert Burel; build habitation on the St. Charles River; first Jesuit missionaries in Canada.
1610 Sorel Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 again defeats the Iroquois in a battle near the mouth of the Richelieu River.

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