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Today's Canadian Headline....

1935 KING BEATS BENNETT IN DEPRESSION LANDSLIDE
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 defeats R. B. Bennett in the 18th federal general election; wins 171 of the 245 Commons seats, to 40 Conservatives, 17 Social Credit; 7 CCF, 1 Independent; takes 44.8% of the popular vote for the largest majority since Confederation. King will remain prime minister until 1948. Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 becomes Senate Opposition leader on King's victory; only person to lead government and opposition in both houses. In other results, Henri Bourassa loses his Labelle seat.

1641
Montreal Quebec - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 takes formal possession of Montreal Island for Sieur de Maisonneuve's colonizing company.

1944
Ottawa Ontario - Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe 1886-1960 becomes Minister of Reconstruction as well as Munitions and Supply; lures away Mackintosh and a brain trust of economists from Finance to assist him. Here he is at the wheel of the 500,000th military vehicle produced by war plants in Canada

In Other Events....

1996 Montreal Quebec- First World Conservation Congress held in Montreal.
1995 Ottawa Ontario - Alexa McDonough wins the federal NDP leadership race, succeeding Audrey McLaughlin; former social worker headed the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party 1980-94; frontrunner Svend Robinson drops out after leading on the first ballot.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Juan Guzman pitches Toronto Blue Jays to 9-2 win in 6th game against Oakland Athletics; Joe Carter and Candy Maldonado hit homers; first American League pennant after attempts in 1985, 1989, 1991; first Canadian baseball team to reach the World Series.
1992 Stockholm Sweden - Rudolph Marcus wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to theory of electron transfer reactions; 69 year old Montreal-born scientist researching at Caltech.
1982 Toronto Ontario - Car-bomb explosion damages Litton Systems plant in Toronto; injures 7, including 3 police officers; plant produces guidance system for US cruise missiles.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Provincial Premiers start constitutional conference; only Ontario and New Brunswick support Ottawa; rest to challenge Trudeau's patriation proposals in court.
1979 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores his first NHL goal; will eventually become the League's greatest scorer.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Darryl Stiller of the Maple Leafs notches seven assists in a 10-7 victory over the New York Islanders.
1978 Fiji - Cathy Sherk wins women's world amateur golf championship in Fiji; native of Fonthill, Ontario.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts her Silver Jubilee visit to Canada; will open a session of Parliament; see 1957.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Over 1 million Canadian Labour Congress members participate in 'Day of Protest' on Parliament Hill against federal wage and price controls.
1975 Asbestos Quebec - 3,500 asbestos workers end strike.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Jean-Luc Pepin 1924- chairs new Anti-lnflation Board to administer wage and price controls; assisted by Beryl Plumptre 1927-, the former Mayor of Rockcliffe.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa cuts personal income taxes 3%, and corporate taxes 7%, retroactive from July 1 to Dec. 31; unemployment now at highest level in a decade.
1969 Ontario/Quebec - 14,500 Stelco workers end 75-day walkout.
1970 Montreal Quebec - October Crisis continues. Chronology of the day: 5:30 am - FLQ lawyer/spokesman Robert Lemieux issues a statement on the breakdown of talks to free Laporte and Cross; 8:00 pm - Robert Bourassa replies to Lemieux; it is later revealed that the FLQ has 22 cells and 130 hard core members.
1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists explode two bombs in Montreal.
1968 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque elected leader of the Parti Quebecois by 2,000 separatist supporters; Jacques Parizeau a key strategist; Quebec's withdrawal from Confederation seen as the primary goal.
1965 Montreal Quebec - René Lévesque announces he is resigning from the Quebec Liberal Party.
1969 Moncton New Brunswick - Ottawa and New Brunswick agree to establish Kouchibouguac National Park; new national park north of Moncton.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Air Canada presents CF-TCA No. 1112 to National Aviation Museum; first aircraft owned by Trans-Canada Air Lines in 1937.
1966 Montreal Quebec - Montreal's new Metro subway goes into operation; 26 stations operated by la Société de Transport de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal (STCUM).
1965 Quebec Quebec - René Lévesque appointed first Minister of Family and Social Services (Ministère de la Famille et du Bien-Etre Social).
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Start of federal-provincial constitutional conference; some agreement on amending formula.
1961 North America - Canada and US test North American air defence in a NORAD simulated nuclear attack.
1960 Havana Cuba - Fidel Castro's government nationalizes all foreign banks except Bank of Nova Scotia and Royal Bank of Canada.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- opens first session of 23rd Parliament; first time opened by reigning monarch; meets until February 1, 1958.
1952 United Nations New York - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 elected President at opening of 7th session of United Nations General Assembly.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister James L. Ralston 1881-1948 returns from Europe; makes speech urging conscription for service overseas.
1944 Duisburg Germany - RCAF's No. 6 Group attacks Duisburg twice in 16 hours; total of 501 bombers.
1943 - King George VI 1895-1952 approves Canada Medal on recommendation of Canadian Cabinet; first distinctly Canadian decoration; medal never awarded.
1943 Campobasso Italy - First Canadian Brigade push north to Potenza; occupy Campobasso, turning it into a 'Canada Town' recreation centre.
1942 Port-au-Basques, Newfoundland - German U-boat torpedoes Newfoundland Railway Fleet steamship 'Caribou' in the Cabot Strait on the North Sydney-Port-au-Basques route; 137 lives lost. In spite of this the Battle of St. Lawrence is rapidly ending after taking 700 lives, 23 ships.
1942 Valetta Malta - RCAF ace George 'Buzz' Beurling 1921-1948 wounded and shot down over Malta.
1941 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet decides on complete freeze of wages and prices as of December 1; under Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
1914 Plymouth England - First Canadian Contingent arrives at Plymouth with 33,000 men, 7,000 horses and 144 pieces of artillery travelling in 32 ships; convoy escorted by 10 British warships was the largest armed force ever to cross the Atlantic by that date; troops soon move to camps on Salisbury Plain before seeing action in World War I.
1909 Quebec Quebec - Empress of Ireland liner punctures her hull after hitting submerged object on the St. Lawrence River; able to reach port safely. On May 29, 1914, the ship will collide with a Norwegian freighter off Ste-Luce-Sur-Mer, and sink with the loss of 1,014 lives
1886 Quebec - Quebec provincial vote sees the election of 31 Liberals, 27 Conservatives and 6 Nationalists.
1885 Alberta - First Mormon settlers drive their wagon trains into Southern Alberta.
1874 Fort Macleod, Alberta - North West Mounted Police start building a post on the Old Man River named after Assistant NWMP Commissioner James F. Macleod; first police post in Alberta made of cottonwood logs plastered with clay; with barracks, stables, a hospital and a smithy.
1873 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the first YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) building in Montreal.
1866 St-Roch Quebec - Fire in St-Roch and St-Sauveur suburbs of Quebec destroys over 2,000 homes.
1866 Quebec Quebec - Grand ball held to fete the delegates at the Quebec Conference; 800 persons attend.
1844 Kingston Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 elected to Upper Canada Assembly to represent Kingston; re-elected in 1848, 1851, 1854, 1857, 1861, 1863.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Royal charter awarded to Queen's College at Kingston as a Presbyterian institution; today's Queen's University.
1815 Montreal Quebec - First presentation of a Moliere play, 'Les Fourberies de Scapin' in Montreal.
1754 Red Deer, Alberta - Anthony Henday shares a pipe and a meal with a Blackfoot chief; fails to persuade him to send his young men to York Factory on Hudson Bay to trade for guns, blankets and beads directly instead of through Cree middlemen; the chief says his young men cannot leave their horses, and have no experience with boats and paddles; besides, the Blackfoot get all they need from the buffalo.
1752 Quebec Quebec - Pierre Reverd hanged at Quebec for counterfeiting.
1698 Quebec Quebec - New France census shows the following tallies: 32,524 arpents under cultivation, with 994 sheep, 5,147 pigs, 684 horses, 10,209 cattle; 2,310 houses (211 in Trois-Rivières, 1,460 in Québec, 639 in Montréal); population includes 7,391 males, 6,424 females; settlements include Batiscan with 422 inhabitants, Beauport with 444, Château-Richer with 373, L'Ancienne-Lorette with 68, L'Ile d'Orléans with 1,472, Longueuil with 223, Montréal with 1,185, Québec with 1,988, Rivière-du-Loup with 22, Sorel with 59, Ste-Anne de Beaupré with 222.
1690 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 reaches Quebec with 3,000 men two days before arrival of English.
1654 Quebec Quebec - Start of construction of a new hospital in Quebec.
1652 Montreal Quebec - Major Lambert Closse mobilizes inhabitants of Montreal, alerted by barking dogs, against a force of invading Iroquois; will beat back the Iroquois in a two day battle near Montreal.
1598 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Trois-Rivières numbers 358 inhabitants.

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