April 23rd 2014 - This Date in History.

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215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
711 – Dagobert III is crowned King of the Franks
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England,
1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
1516 – The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot is signed in Ingolstadt.
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1655 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising: a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1910 – American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
1920 – The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara.
1927 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
1929 – Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children's Day as a national holiday.[1]
1932 – The 153-year-old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1945 – World War II Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: Forty-two villagers are killed.

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Today's Canadian Headline...

1915 FIRST VC FOR THE CANADIAN ARMY
St. Julien, Belgium - Canadian 13th Battalion Quebec Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada) moves up reserves to plug a gap in the line at Ypres. Lance-Corporal Frederick Fisher goes forward with his company machine-gun under heavy fire, and covers the retreat of a battery, losing four of his gun team. He then obtains four more men, and moves forward again to the firing line, but is killed while bringing his machine-gun into action under very heavy fire. For his bravery, Fisher is awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously on June 23, the first Canadian-born man to win the VC while serving in the Canadian Army.

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Quebec Quebec - Civil engineer Sandford Fleming 1827-1915 designs the red Three-Pence Beaver stamp issued this day; the Province of Canada's first regular postage stamp. In 1849, Fleming rescued the portrait of Queen Victoria from the burning Parliament Buildings in Montreal; he will later serve as Engineer-in-Chief of the Intercolonial and Canadian Pacific railways.


In Other Events...

1997 Toronto Ontario - Ted England, head trader at Peters & Co. Ltd., purchases 100 shares of Bell Canada, the last trade ever made on the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange, as the TSE closes its floor after 145 years and moves to computer trading.
1991 Quebec Quebec - Daniel Johnson convinces Quebec civil servants to take 6 month pay freeze; Treasury Board President in the Bourassa government.
1989 St. John's Newfoundland - Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland sets up a five-member panel to inquire into the sexual abuse of children during the 1970's at the Mount Cashel Orphanage.
1981 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves the final draft of Canada's proposed new constitution.
1979 PEI - John Angus MacLean 1914- leads Progressive Conservatives to victory over Bennett Campbell's Liberals in Prince Edward Island election.
1974 Sudbury Ontario - Ontario Ministry of the Environment temporarily closes Falconbridge Nickel; air pollution index 102; first industrial closure in Ontario for this reason.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - First public hearings of the CRTC held in the Chateau Laurier Hotel.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Robert Taschereau appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
1950 Detroit Michigan - Detroit Red Wings beat the NY Rangers 4 games to 3 for the Stanley Cup.
1928 Ontario - William H. Clark appointed first British High Commissioner to Canada; takes office September 22.
1924 Canada - Canadians hear radio broadcast of the voice of King George V opening the Empire Exhibition at Wembley.
1906 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta Legislature sets the provincial speed limit at 10 mph in the city and 20 mph in the country.
1887 Toronto Ontario - Founding of McMaster University in Toronto as a union of Woodstock College and the Toronto Baptist College; moved from Hamilton, the college will again move back to Hamilton and the Bloor St. building becomes the Royal Conservatory of Music of the University of Toronto.
1879 Guelph Ontario - Guelph incorporated as a city.
1830 PEI -Catholic Emancipation Act gives Catholics in Prince Edward Island the right to vote.
1827 Halifax Nova Scotia - Digging starts on the Shubenacadie Canal, to connect Halifax with the Bay of Fundy.

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