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henric
06-30-2013, 09:41 AM
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350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
1917 – World War I: Greece declares war on the Central Powers.
1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both planes. It is the worst-ever aviation disaster at that point in time.
1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1991 – 32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
1991 – Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, starts "The Great Gage Park Decency Drive" picketing the park, starting their notorious picketing campaign that would later include funerals of AIDS victims and fallen American military.
1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

henric
06-30-2013, 09:43 AM
Today's Canadian Headline....



1992 CANADIAN CONVOY TO SARAJEVO
Croatia - Canadian peacekeepers start trek to Sarajevo, Bosnia; 800 troops in armored vehicle convoy move to keep airport open as part of international relief effort to bring in food and medicine.

1965
Toronto Ontario - Rex Woods starts project to duplicate Robert Harris painting of the Quebec Conference of 1864, that was burned during the fire of 1917; to be presented to Canada by Confederation Life. Here's the result.

1948
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 delivers his last speech to the House of Commons before his retirement.
1996 Space - Canadian Space Agency astronaut and NASA Payload Specialist Dr. Robert Thirsk, on Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-78 holds a press conference with Toronto journalists; tells how their research will not only benefit astronauts as they conduct long-term space missions, but also people on Earth; some research will aid studies on osteoporosis and the affects steroids have on bones, and also may help doctors on Earth develop treatments for muscle diseases like muscular dystrophy.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- unveils equestrian statue of herself on Parliament Hill; by BC sculptor Jack Harman.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Chief Justice Brian Dickson retires from the Supreme Court of Canada; served as justice since 1973; replaced Bora Laskin in April 1984.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada stops issuing one-dollar bills, and starts replacing them with the dollar coins that come to be known as loonies.
1987 Ottawa Ontario - Thomas Hockin starts first stage of financial deregulation by opening ownership of securities industry; with Monte Kwinter, his Queen's Park counterpart.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- sworn in as Canada's 17th Prime Minister, replacing Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919-; PM until Sept 17.
1983 Toronto Ontario - C-Channel pay TV arts network goes off the air; operating only since Feb. 1.
1983 Calgary Alberta - Ottawa and Alberta agree to set Canadian oil at $29.75 per barrel, or 75% of world price; producers get world price for oil discovered 1974-80.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - National Research Council timekeepers join international colleagues in adding a leap second to the last minute of June, to keep atomic time in tune with solar time; same process followed Dec. 1989.
1983 Canada - Simpson-Sears retailing chain fined $1 million for misleading advertising; largest such fine in Canadian history.
1982 Montreal Quebec - NHL decides Eric Lindros will go to the Flyers instead of the Rangers; New Jersey's new NHL franchise also officially named the Devils after fan balloting.
1981 Canada - Canadian postal workers start 42-day strike.
1976 Victoria BC - British Columbia Court of Appeal rules that the province owns seabed mineral resources between Vancouver Island and the mainland; rejects federal claims.
1976 Goose Bay Newfoundland - US Air Force closes base at Goose Bay, Labrador, when lease expires.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Canada Post bans open-window envelopes since they snag in letter sorting machines.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Opening of Canada's first National Lesbian conference.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark marries Maureen McTeer, a researcher in the Progressive Conservative Party office in Ottawa.
1972 Dorchester Ontario - Billy Joe Booth killed in an aircraft explosion; nine year defensive linesman with Ottawa Rough Riders.
1972 Vancouver BC - Rolling Stones open their seventh American/Canadian tour; will hit San Diego, Tucson, Albuquerque, Washington, Montreal and New York.
1972 Revelstoke BC - A record 963.2 inches of snowfall falls in one season on Mt. Copeland; since July 1 of the previous year.
1967 Bell Island Newfoundland - Dosco Industries Ltd. closes Bell Island iron mine after 72 years of operation.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Zakir Husain President of India starts two-day visit to Canada.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens new Ottawa International Airport.
1952 Ottawa Ontario - Canada asks International Joint Commission for approval to build St. Lawrence hydro plants; in international rapids section.
1945 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Star-Phoenix publishes classified ad reading: FOR SALE. one homemade coffin. Never used. Reason for selling: Improved health; fit 6' 2''.
1944 Off the Shetlands, Scotland - Flight Lt. David Hornell VC scores U-boat kill; one of four by RCAF 162 Squadron this June.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act to establish a Department of Reconstruction.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Mackenzie King government brings in Bill 80, sanctioning his promise not to bring in conscription for overseas service; passes July 23 by 141-45.
1930 Rome Italy - Archbishop Forbes of Ottawa holds a Pontifical Mass at the Vatican to celebrate the first Catholic canonization of North Americans, the Jesuit martyrs.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Army sets up Hospital Commission to provide treatment for wounded; name changed to Military Hospitals Commission in October.
1912 Regina Saskatchewan - Tornado roars through the downtown core of Regina in five minute rampage at 4:50 pm, killing 28, and damaging or destroying three churches, the new Carnegie Library, commercial buildings and homes; 2,500 left homeless. Mayor Peter McAra cancels Dominion Day celebrations.
1866 Fredericton New Brunswick - New Brunswick approves Confederation; votes funds for Intercolonial Railroad.
1864 Canada - Christopher Dunkin 1812-1881 passes the Canada Temperance Act, regulating local option laws passed in Canada West in 1853 and Canada East in 1855; the so-called Dunkin Act.
1859 Niagara Falls Ontario - Charles Blondin (Jean-François Cravelet) crosses Niagara by tightrope before a crowd of 25,000; drinks champagne; does a back somersault; recrosses blindfolded, on a bicycle, on stilts, pushing a wheelbarrow while carrying a man on his back; the so-called 'Prince of Manila'.
1858 Victoria BC - First Chinese colonists reach Victoria.
1851 Toronto Ontario - Robert Baldwin retires from public life.
1848 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Schools closed for a year because city council refuses to raise funding from £500 to £2,000 per annum.
1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 helps found the Committee of Vigilance of Upper Canada; to form a provisional revolutionary government for Upper Canada.
1812 Toronto Ontario - Upper Canada gives US citizens 14 days to leave the province.
1777 Ticonderoga New York - John Burgoyne 1722-1792 reaches Fort Ticonderoga; starts week-long siege.
1772 Churchill Manitoba - Samuel Hearne 1745-1792 arrives back at Fort Prince of Wales from the Arctic, proving that no water route exists across North America; he writes up account of journey; first to describe Inuit life in Coppermine area.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Aemilius Paulus Irving 1714-1796 appointed administrator of Canada; serves until Sept. 24, 1766.
1759 Lévis Quebec - Brigadier General Robert Monckton captures Point Lévis after a short fight; sets up camp and moves artillery into position to start firing on Quebec, less than a kilometre away. Montcalm sends Abenaki warriors to harass the English.
1690 Manitoba Canada - Henry Kelsey c1667- 1724 travels up the Hayes and Fox Rivers to Moose Lake.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Henri de Chastelard de Salières arrives in New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment, 100 officers and 1,000 men; begins forts at Sorel, St-Louis, Ste-Thérèse, Ste-Anne and St-Jean.
1665 Quebec Quebec - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy c1596-1670 arrives in New France with the Carignan-Salières Regiment to do battle with the Iroquois.
1578 Greenland - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 takes possession of Greenland for Elizabeth I; calls it West England.
1398 Guysborough Nova Scotia - Legend has it that Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, lands at Guysborough on this day, and visits the sites of Pictou and Stellarton.

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