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henric
11-13-2013, 12:22 AM
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1002 – English king Ζthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal, Quebec.
1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
1864 – The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
1914 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1965 – The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
1970 – Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster.
1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 – Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
1986 – The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
1989 – Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
1992 – The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
1994 – In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
1995 – A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2001 – War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
2007 – Russia officially withdraws from the Soviet-era Batumi military base, Georgia.

henric
11-13-2013, 12:24 AM
Today's Canadian Headline...


1991 CARDINAL LEGER DIES
Montreal Quebec - Paul-Emile Lιger 1904-1991 dies in hospital at age 87; 1950 Archbishop of Montreal; 1952 Cardinal; 1967 missionary in Cameroons; 1979 returned to Montreal and set up a relief agency; brother of former Governor General Jules Lιger.

1637
St. John's Newfoundland - David Kirke, the first Governor of Newfoundland; brings out the first 100 colonists from England. He builds forts at Ferryland and St. John's to control the Grand Banks fishery. He is co-proprietor of the Colony with the Marquis of Hamilton and Earls Pembroke & Holland.


In Other Events...

1997 Denver Colorado - Maple Ridge, BC, baseball outfielder Larry Walker chosen as most valuable player in the National League, with 22 of 28 first-place votes by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America; Colorado Rockies star the first Canadian to win MVP (no Canadian has won the award in the American League); led the NL with 49 home runs in 1997, placed third in RBIs with 130 and second to Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres in batting race with a .366 average; led the major leagues with a .720 slugging percentage and had 409 total bases, more than anyone in baseball since Stan Musial had 429 in 1948. Walker broke into the majors with the Montreal Expos; according to Felipe Alou, Walker's winning means the book is now almost closed on the 1994 Expos team that was in first place at the time of the players strike before being dismantled in a spring-training fire sale.
1995 Vancouver BC - Izzy Asper's Can West Global Communications Corp. launches $636-million takeover bid for WlC Western International Communications Ltd.; attempt to form Canada's third national television network.
1992 Hollywood California - Winnipeg's Keanu Reeves stars in Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola; with Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins.
1992 Montreal Quebec - Benoit Bouchard announces $2.5 m funding for 5 university research centres to study family violence and child abuse; at site of University of Montreal massacre in 1989.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Jack Major appointed to Supreme Court of Canada replacing fellow Albertan William Stevenson; 61 year old ex partner of Premier Lougheed; from Alberta Court of Appeal.
1990 Montreal Quebec - Montreal invests $15 million to save the Expos baseball team.
1988 Quebec - CEGEP students end strike in Quebec community colleges.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - National Research Council develops world's first microwave oven for thawing plasma; in collaboration with the Red Cross.
1985 Burbank California - Andrι-Philippe Gagnon appears on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, doing his imitations.
1984 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Trudeau receives the $50,000 Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1981 Space - Canadarm remote manipulator performs flawlessly in four hours of tests on board the space shuttle Columbia STS-2; Canada's $100 million robot arm made by Spar Aerospace in Toronto; tests include manual and automatic modes of operation, ease of control, operation of joints and positioning accuracy; its wrist-mounted camera also put through its paces.
1979 Yellowknife NWT - Radio station CJCD goes on the air in Yellowknife; first private radio station in the North West Territories.
1976 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald' peaks at #1 on the Billboard hit singles chart.
1976 Edmonton Alberta - The Citadel opens the first phase of its new theatre complex, with its Shoctor, Rice and Zeidler theatres; founded in 1965 by Joseph Shoctor in the old Salvation Army Citadel; in 1984, Citadel Phase II will open, with the Maclab, a 700-seat thrust theatre, the Tucker, a 150-seat open-air amphitheatre, and 3 other theatres linked by an indoor tropical garden and waterfall.
1974 Montreal Quebec - Mario Tremblay plays his first NHL game in a Canadiens uniform.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park cancels contract with West German Kraus-Maffei firm for $25 million urban transit system.
1973 Montreal Quebec - Henry Morgentaler 1923- acquitted in Montreal of having performed an illegal abortion; despite admitting carrying out 6,000 other abortions.
1968 Montreal Quebec - FLQ bomb explodes at Domtar factory.
1965 Grand Rapids Manitoba - Manitoba Hydro opens generating station at Grand Rapids.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Canada ratifies International Labour Organization Convention against job discrimination; on grounds of colour, race, religion, sex, politics, nationality.
1950 Grenoble, France - Canadian Curtiss-Reid DC 4 crashes, killing all 58 passengers.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - William C. Ives chairs Royal Commission on Taxation of Annuities and Family Corporations; reports March 29, 1945.
1939 London England - Lt. Gen. Henry Duncan Graham Crerar 1888-1965 sets up Canadian Military HQ in London; to coordinate move of First Canadian Division to Britain.
1871 Victoria BC - John Foster McCreight sworn in as first Premier of the Province of British Columbia; replaced by Amor de Cosmos Dec. 23, 1872.
1838 Boucherville Quebec - Boucherville rebels disperse on the arrival of the militia.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Louis-Joseph Papineau flees Montreal in disguise after a warrant is issued for his arrest.
1775 Montreal Quebec - American Revolutionary General Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 enters Montreal through the Recollets Gates.
1775 Quebec Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 arrives before QuŽbec with only 700 of his original troop of 1100 men, after a hard trip from New England via the Kennebec and Chaudiθre Rivers; crosses St. Lawrence to Plains of Abraham; repulsed at St Louis Gate; waits for Richard Montgomery to join him.
1760 St-Malo, France - Some Montreal militia delivered in transport ships to St-Malo after the fall of New France.
1757 New Brunswick/Nova Scotia - Some Acadians go into exile in Quebec.
1673 Quebec Quebec - First suggestion of the beaver as an emblem of Canada.
1613 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Samuel Argall c1572-c1641 leaves Port-Royal after putting French settlements in Acadia to the torch.
1612 Paris France - Henri de Bourbon, prince de Condι, named Viceroy of New France.

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