September 23rd 2013 - This Date in History.

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1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun.
1409 – Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming China by the Mongols since 1368.
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1568 – Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.
1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1899 – American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean(from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1936 – First ascent of Siniolchu by a German team.
1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
1941 – World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
1943 – World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 the first US friendly-fire incident on British Military personnel since World War II occurred.
1952 – Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
1959 – Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
1959 – The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
1983 – Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1988 – José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40–40 club.
1992 – A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.
1999 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
2004 – Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.

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1973 CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS WIN PAY PARITY
Windsor Ontario - United Auto Workers and Chrysler sign a contract giving Canadian auto workers wage parity with the US for the first time.

1787
Toronto Ontario - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester purchases the site of Toronto from three Mississauga Indian chiefs in a meeting near the site of the old French Fort Rouillé. The Toronto Purchase costs the British Crown £1,700 in cash and trade goods; the land is surveyed a year later, but not settled for another six years.

1912
New York New York -
Richmond, Quebec-born Mack Sennett releases his first Keystone Comedy movie, financed by two of his bookie friends. He is already a silent screen veteran, acting with fellow Canadians Marie Dressler and Mary Pickford. In 1914, he directed 35 comedies featuring his new star Charles Chaplin. In 1935, after directing a Buster Keaton movie, he went bust, and returned to Canada a pauper. Here he is with Chaplin at D. W. Griffith's funeral in Hollywood in 1948.


In Other Events....

1992 Tampa Florida - Quebec hockey player Manon Rhéaume plays in goal for Tampa Bay Lightning, giving up 2 goals on 9 shots in 1 period; first woman to play in a NHL exhibition game, and on one of the 4 major professional sports teams.
1992 Vancouver BC - Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions football team from the CFL.
1991 Fredericton, New Brunswick - Frank McKenna wins New Brunswick election with 46 seats, down from 58 seat sweep; anti-bilingual Confederation of Regions Party forms official opposition; CoR wins 8 seats; 3 PC, 1 NDP.
1991 Toronto Ontario - NY Islanders Mike Bossy & Denis Potvin inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- appoints five new senators: James Kelleher, Trevor Eyton, Claude Castonguay, John Lynch-Staunton, Mabel DeWare; brings Senate up to strength.
1988 Seoul, South Korea - Canadian Ben Johnson sets world record in the 100 metre sprint at the Summer Olympic Games in 9.79 seconds against arch-rival, American Carl Lewis; later stripped of gold medal after testing positive for banned anabolic steroids.
1986 Canada - Gordie Drillon 1913-1986 dies; born Oct. 23 1913. Drillon was called up from the Syracuse Stars to the Toronto Maple Leafs to replace ailing Charlie Conacher; he played with Toronto until 1942, and was the last Leaf to win the NHL scoring title (1938).
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Fisheries Minister John Fraser resigned over the 'tuna affair'; in 1986 he will be elected Speaker of the House of Commons.
1985 Montreal Quebec - Guy Lafleur dismissed from public relations post with Montreal Canadiens.
1971 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorist Bernard Lortie found guilty of the 1970 kidnapping of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Holyoake Prime Minister of New Zealand starts visit to Canada.
1961 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968, père, elected leader of the Union Nationale Party.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Connie-Gail Feller dethroned after less than 6 weeks as Miss Canada because she returned home for a religious holiday without permission from officials; Feller, the first Ottawan to wear the crown, replaced by runner-up Miss Victoria.
1957 United Nations, New York - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 addresses UN General Assembly for first time.
1956 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the first Portuguese-Canada Club.
1925 Quebec Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King addresses the Liberal party conference in Quebec.
1915 France - Quebecker Joseph Tremblay the first Canadian soldier to dies at the front in World War I.
1908 Edmonton Alberta - Forty-five students attend first classes of the University of Alberta held on the top floor of an elementary school in Strathcona.
1907 Ottawa Ontario - Proclamation sets the fineness and weight of the silver and bronze coins of Canada.
1904 Fullerton NWT - Royal North West Mounted Police found post at Fullerton on Hudson Bay near Chesterfield Inlet.
1893 Eganville Ontario - Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway opens extension to Madawaska; will reach Depot Harbour at Parry Sound on Georgian Bay on Dec. 1, 1896.
1877 Blackfoot Crossing, Alberta - Crowfoot (Sahpo-Muxica) 1936-1890 signs Treaty #7 with other Blackfoot, Blood, Piegan, Sarcee and Stony chiefs, and Commissioner David Laird and Lt-Col James MacLeod of the NWMP. Gets 69,039 sq km; $12 per Indian; schools; farm instruction; acreage; Canada's last major first nations treaty.
1874 Toronto Ontario - Toronto's Grand Opera House opens with a performance of Sheridan's Restoration comedy The School of Scandal.
1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ambroise-Dydime Lépine l834-1923 arrested for treason; president of the court-martial which condemned Thomas Scott in 1870.
1873 Toronto Ontario - Founding of Canadian Labour Union as central organization representing 31 unions; first convention of organized labour; membership fees at five cents every three months; disbanded in 1878 after failing to become a national federation.
1871 Montebello Quebec - Louis-Joseph Papineau dies at his seigneury of Montebello.
1844 Montreal Quebec - Charles Metcalfe, Baron Metcalfe 1785-1846 dissolves Parliament and forces an election.
1675 Kingston Ontario - René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle 1643-1687 becomes the proprietor of Fort Frontenac, after being given letters of nobility and the seigneury of Cataraqui; will settle the site and use the fort as a base for western exploration.
1644 Quebec Quebec - Governor Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 lays the cornerstone of the church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix; with Father Lalemont.
1578 Bristol England - Humphrey Gilbert c1539-1583 sets sail on his first trip to North America for Queen Elizabeth; will be turned back at Cape Verde by the Spaniards.
1577 Gravesend England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 returns to England from his second voyage to the Arctic with 200 tons of ore as ballast; his three kidnapped Inuit, a man, woman and child, die a month later of influenza.

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