October 4th 2013 - This Date in History.

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23 – Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
610 – Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1597 – The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1725 – Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1777 – Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 – Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands.
1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
1917 – The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007.
1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1940 – Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
1943 – World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
1963 – Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1965 – Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
1976 – Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
1985 – Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
1988 – U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
1992 – El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2001 – NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.

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Today's Canadian Headline....


1982 CANADIAN REACHES PEAK OF CLIMBING CAREER
Nepal - Laurie Skreslet 1950- reaches the top of 8,848 m (29,002 ft) Mt. Everest; Calgary native the first Canadian to achieve this goal.

1873
Gimli Manitoba - Sigtryggur Jonasson leads first Icelander group to found a new settlement on Lake Winnipeg; they name it 'Gimli,' which means 'Paradise,' or 'The Great Hall of Heaven' in Icelandic. The settlers arrive in 1875; here they are unloading their flat bottomed boats at Willow Point.

In Other Events....

1996 New York City- Céline Dion's album 'Falling Into You' is certified Multi Platinum 5.00; her single, 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' is also certified Gold and Platinum.
1995 New York City - Ottawa rock singer Alanis Morissette appears on the covers of both Rolling Stone and Spin magazines.
1994 Switzerland - Bodies of 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple found in a burned-out farmhouse and three chalets in Switzerland; following discovery of two bodies of cult members at a burned-out condominium north of Montreal.
1993 Clayoquot Sound, BC - Clayoquot Sound environmental activists close down their anti-logging protest camp on Vancouver Island for the winter; over 700 arrested during 3 months of demonstrations.
1991 New York City - NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier.
1988 Washington DC - Nine Canadians victimized by CIA brainwashing experiments at McGill University in the 1950s reach out-of-court settlement, sharing $750,000 award.
1987 Detroit Michigan - Frank Tanana outduels Jimmy Key as Detroit Tigers beat second-place Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 at Tiger Stadium on Larry Herndon's second-inning home run, to win the AL East title; were one game behind the Jays entering their 3-game season-ending showdown, and won each game by a single run (4-3, 3-2, and 1-0); Blue Jays lost their final 7 games allowing Tigers to beat them in the division.
1987 Winnipeg Manitoba - Blue Bomber James Jefferson scores 2 touchdowns on interception returns without making an interception - by scoring on laterals.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays clinch first eastern division baseball pennant.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Canadian pianist Glenn Gould 1932-1982 dies of a stroke at age 50; possibly complicated by addiction to medication.
1975 Quebec Quebec - 750 Americans in colonial costumes re-enact 1775 American attack on Quebec City; part of the US Bicentennial celebrations.
1973 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta raises royalties on gas and oil production, based on wellhead prices.
1971 Sable Island Nova Scotia - Oil and natural gas discovered under Sable Island, 280 km south of Halifax.
1965 Montreal Quebec - Court fines Hilton of Canada for discriminating against black job applicant at Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
1964 Toronto Ontario - Patrick Watson and Laurier LaPierre host first broadcast of CBC TV public affairs program 'This Hour Has Seven Days'; controversial show discontinued May 8, 1966.
1963 Montreal Quebec - 3,800 longshoremen strike at three St. Lawrence ports; delays shipment of wheat to Soviet Union.
1957 Toronto Ontario - First Avro Arrow rolls out at A.V. Roe's Malton plant; built by head designer James C. Floyd with a team of aeronautical scientists, some of whom would later play a key role in the Apollo project to put a man on the moon; the plane will be test flown on March 25, 1958.
1950 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Premier Ernest Manning officially opens the Edmonton-Regina section of the Trans Canada Pipeline, Canada's first major oil pipeline; will be built into Ontario.
1936 Quebec Quebec - Historian Abbé Lionel Groulx proposes the creation of a separate French state in North America.
1927 Winnipeg Manitoba - Western Canada Airways starts Canada's first official Royal Mail airmail service to northern mining communities.
1922 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates Canadian National Railway Company as a corporate entity (Order in council P.C. 2094); government consolidates separate CNR lines into one system; appoints board of directors.
1922 Haileybury Ontario - Great Haileybury fire kills 41 people; leaves 10,000 homeless.
1920 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - Wing Commander Robert Leckie takes off from Dartmouth to begin the first flight across Canada; he arrives in Winnipeg Oct. 11. From Winnipeg Air Commodore A.K. Tylee and three other pilots fly to Vancouver, arriving Oct. 17. The Total elapsed time is 45 hours and 20 minutes for a flight of 5,488 km.
1917 Quebec - Quebeckers vote for prohibition of alcoholic beverages by a close 43,000 vote margin; decision too narrow to proceed.
1909 Red Deer, Alberta - End of disastrous prairie fire around Red Deer; 5 million acres burned, several people killed, homes and livestock destroyed.
1909 Regina Saskatchewan - Cornerstone of the Saskatchewan Legislature laid.
1909 Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier lays the first stone of École Technique in Montreal.
1907 Calgary Alberta - English author Rudyard Kipling takes brief tour of Calgary, after a CPR stop in Medicine Hat.
1873 Ontario/Quebec - Grand Trunk Railway finishes converting its tracks between Stratford and Montreal from 5' 6" to the 4' 8 1/2" standard gauge; work of 421 miles plus 60 miles of sidings completed in 24 hours; only 16 hours interruption on the main line.
1864 Montreal Quebec - Joe Montferrand dies in Montreal, where he owned a tavern and restaurant; once billed by PT Barnum as the Strongest Man in the World; grew up in the Ottawa Valley where he was known for taking on 20 English troublemakers at once; he is commemorated in the folk song, Mufferaw Joe.
1860 Montreal Quebec - First indoor lacrosse match held in Montreal's Lacrosse Ground.
1851 PEI - Freak gale off coast of Prince Edward Island sinks 100 American fishing vessels and kills at least 130 fishermen.
1813 Moraviantown Ontario - Indian leader Tecumseh tells his fellow warriors, 'We are about to enter an engagement from which I shall not return;' he will be killed by an American bullet Oct. 5 at the Battle of the Thames; end of Indian resistance south of the lakes.
1812 Ogdensburg, New York - Americans repel British attack on Ogdensburg.
1773 London England - Unveiling of a monument to General James Wolfe at Westminster.
1666 Ticonderoga, New York - Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, military governor of New France (1663-67), arrives at south end of Lake Champlain with army of 1000 French regulars, 600 New France militia and 100 Hurons and Algonkians; in 300 boats and canoes; after a rain-soaked march of several days, they will burn Iroquois corn crops and the deserted Mohawk village of Andarague [Oct. 16], as well as three other settlements; expedition ordered by Jean Talon left Quebec Sept. 14 after peace talks failed; Iroquois turn to English for help.
1535 Montreal Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 starts downstream from Hochelaga on board the Émérillon toward Stadacona where he will spend the winter.

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1957 Toronto Ontario - First Avro Arrow rolls out at A.V. Roe's Malton plant; built by head designer James C. Floyd with a team of aeronautical scientists, some of whom would later play a key role in the Apollo project to put a man on the moon; the plane will be test flown on March 25, 1958.

What a deacle that was. One of the best and fastest Fighter Jets of the time. Politics and a bad decision by Jonh Diefenbaker cost the program the plane and many jobs that went south to the benifit the NASA program.