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henric
10-01-2013, 10:34 PM
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Events:C/P.

1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1470 – A rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal, Quebec is located.
1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1780 – John Andr้, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1814 – Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemarํa Escrivแ.
1937 – Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Cura็ao, off the coast of Ireland.
1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1979 – Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War
1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
1992 – The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in Sใo Paulo, Brazil.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 – Aeroper๚ Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

henric
10-01-2013, 10:37 PM
Today's Canadian Headline....


1758 CANADA'S FIRST ELECTED PARLIAMENT MEETS
Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence convenes the first meeting of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the Halifax Court House; this is the first elected Parliament in Canadian history.

1604

Dochet Island Maine - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives back at Ste-Croix with Jean Ralluau after exploring the coast of Maine; they have a hard winter with de Monts and 77 others, and the following Spring move across the Bay of Fundy to found Port Royal on the Annapolis Basin.

1535
Lachine Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 arrives at the Iroquois village of Hochelaga; names Mont Royal [Mont R้al]; visits rapids at the head of navigation and calls them La Chine [China]; local natives tell him of rapids and rivers to the west, and of mines of gold and copper; a priest blesses the Indian sick.


In Other Events....

1995 New York City - Alanis Morissette's debut album 'Jagged Little Pill' reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in its 15th week; first chart topper for Maverick label, founded by Madonna.
1995 London England - Paul Reichmann leads investment group in regaining ownership of Canary Wharf, office complex that brought down his Olympia & York Developments Ltd. real estate empire 3 years earlier; Canadian developer.
1991 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays clinch American League East title and become first team in sports history to draw four million fans in one season.
1991 Regina Saskatchewan - Hazen Argue dies at age 70; Senator; first elected 1945 at age 24 for the CCF; jumped to Liberals in 1961; Canada's longest serving parliamentarian.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Gilles Loiselle legislates Public Service Alliance of Canada strikers back to work, after talks break down Sept 27; Treasury Board President.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- says he will unilaterally patriate constitution, and amend it by adding Charter of Rights; debate starts in House of Commons Oct. 6.
1973 Red Deer, Alberta - Gas main ruptures near Red Deer Lake, forcing evacuation of 500 people from three Alberta towns.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Andrei Gromyko Soviet Foreign Minister starts two-day visit; first Foreign Minister of USSR to visit Canada.
1968 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Jacques Bertrand 1916-1973 appointed Premier of Quebec after death of Union Nationale leader Daniel Johnson.
1952 Vancouver BC - Riot broke out at the Oakalla Prison Farm in Vancouver.
1948 Winnipeg Manitoba - George Alexander Drew 1894-1973 chosen as party leader on first ballot by Progressive Conservative Party, replacing John Bracken; 827 votes, to J.G. Diefenbaker (311), Donald Fleming (104).
1944 Antwerp Netherlands - First Canadian Army drives to clear Scheldt estuary and open port of Antwerp to shipping.
1915 Ottawa Ontario - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 appointed Borden's Solicitor General; drafts Conscription Bill and Wartime Elections Act.
1914 Toronto Ontario - William Howard Hearst sworn in as Premier of Ontario.
1895 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up northern districts of Yukon, Ungava, Mackenzie, and Franklin, under the administrative control of the north West Territories government at Regina; enlarges Athabasca District eastward; Yukon becomes a territory in 1897; others divided into the districts of Mackenzie, Keewatin and Franklin in 1918.
1887 Vancouver BC - Fraser River fisherman nets a 12 foot sturgeon, weighing 822 pounds.
1883 Kingston Ontario - Dr. Jennie Trout opens a women's medical college at Queen's University in Kingston.
1871 PEI - Start of construction of Prince Edward Island Railroad.
1861 London England - Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck 1819-1894 appointed administrator of Canada; serves from Oct. 25 to Nov. 28, 1861.
1847 Quebec Quebec - Montreal Telegraph Company opens line into Quebec; three years after Samuel Morse invents telegraph.
1754 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Opening session of first Supreme Court in English-speaking Canada held at Halifax.
1744 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 ends siege of Annapolis Royal, when he gets order to withdraw to winter quarters at Minas.

End of C/P.