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henric
09-21-2013, 12:05 AM
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455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in Battle of Matthew's Day.
1435 – An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years' War.
1745 – Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
1843 – John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government.
1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
1897 – The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.
1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
1933 – Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha Libre
1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynσw and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janσw Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 – The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1953 – LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
1961 – Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 – Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1965 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law.
1976 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.
1977 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.
1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations.
1991 – Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
1999 – Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the September 11 attack victims.
2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

henric
09-21-2013, 12:07 AM
Today's Canadian Headline....



1896 OPENING OF THE NEW OTTAWA EX
Ottawa Ontario - Official opening of the Central Exposition in the new Aberdeen Pavilion in Lansdowne Park grounds; known formerly as the Dominion Industrial Exhibition, now the Central Canada Exhibition, Ottawa's fall fair started in 1879.

1992
Ottawa Ontario - The new Ottawa Senators hockey team play their first home exhibition game in the Civic Centre; lose 4-3 in overtime to the Washington Capitals. Ottawa is finally back in the NHL after 58 years; the old Stanley Cup winning Senators moved to St. Louis in 1934.

In Other Events....

1995 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada strikes down 7-year-old federal ban on tobacco advertising.
1995 Winnipeg Manitoba - Royal Canadian Mint issues first Canadian $2 pieces.
1992 Capilano BC - Brian Mulroney 1939- joins Premier Harcourt & First Nations in deal to set up BC Treaty Commission to broker land claims; to 'fast track' negotiations.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- publishes essay in L'Actualitι and Macleans calling Quebec nationalists 'master blackmailers'; urges 'courage' to resist Quebec's demands, suggests No vote is best.
1990 Sarnia Ontario - Nova Corporation sells Polysar division to Bayer AG of Germany for $1.28 billion; Bayer agrees to protect 1,800 jobs at Sarnia.
1971 Canada - Canadian cigarette manufacturers to end broadcast advertising, effective Jan. 1, 1972.
1967 Waterloo Ontario - Peter van Ginkel appointed 'affiliate artist' at Waterloo Lutheran University (Wilfrid Laurier University); first such appointment in Canada.
1964 Geneva Switzerland - Blanche Margaret Meagher 1911- elected chairman of Board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency; Canadian Ambassador to Austria.
1963 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Place des Arts, despite demonstrations by separatists; new concert hall.
1960 Pakistan - Canada to grant $22,100,000 over 10 years to international fund to develop Indus River in Pakistan.
1957 Hollywood California - Raymond Burr stars in Perry Mason, premiering on CBS-TV; Vancouver-born actor
1944 Rimini Italy - Greeks and First Canadian Corps take Rimini; overall, the Canadians in Italy are bogged down in slow, vicious fighting from one Italian river to another.
1931 London England - Britain goes off the gold standard that Churchill had put them on in 1926; $Canadian hurt; down 25% in New York; TSE & Standard stock exchanges peg share prices.
1929 Calgary Alberta - Gerry Seiberling throws first legal forward pass in Canadian football to Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers in a game against Edmonton.
1928 Ontario - Post office introduces airmail stamps.
1911 Canada -Robert Laird Borden 1854-1937 wins Canada's 12th federal general election 134 seats to 87, upsetting Laurier with 50.9% of popular vote; on issues of reciprocity and Canadian Navy.
1902 Oil City Alberta - Rocky Mountain Development Company strikes oil at 1,020 feet in the Waterton Lakes; the first oil find in Alberta.
1871 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange members regroup & agree on new rules, regulations & meeting room; cost of seat rises to $250; 34 issues listed.
1854 London Ontario - London gets city charter.
1826 Point Franklin Alaska - Frederick Beechey 1796-1856 explores Arctic coast in the Blossom; sails east of Bering Strait, from Icy Cape to Point Franklin.
1826 Return Reef Alaska - John Franklin 1786-1847 cuts short trek at Return Reef, without meeting Beechey and the Blossom; returns to Fort Franklin.
1826 Hull Quebec - John By 1781-1836 starts to build Rideau Canal; with Thomas MacKay contracting; until 1832.
1815 Ontario - Francis Gore 1769-1852 resumes office as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada until Jan. 6, 1818.
1814 Fort Erie Ontario - Gordon Drummond 1771-1854 calls off British attack on Fort Erie, retreats to Chippewa.
1812 Gananoque Ontario - Benjamin Forsyth leads American riflemen in raid on Gananoque.

End of C/P.