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1945 CANADIANS CEASE FIRE IN EUROPE
Europe - Fighting stops in the Canadian sector near Wilhelmshaven, Aurich, and Emden; German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agreed to surrender to Canadian commanders.

1958
New York City - Canadian comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster make their first of a record 67 appearances on TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

In Other Events...

1992 NWT - Residents of the Northwest Territories vote to partition the territories into two sections Canada's new Inuit territory - an area over 5 times the size of Alberta - will be called Nunavut.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Hundreds riot for four hours on Yonge Street strip after peaceful rally to protest the recent police shooting of black man.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company buys 5 Robinsons stores in Ottawa and Southern Ontario; will switch them to Bay or Zellers outlets.
1989 Toronto Ontario - Junior Felix of Toronto Blue Jays becomes 53rd major league baseball player to hit a home run at his first at bat.
1976 Canberra, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says that Waltzing Matilda will be his country's national anthem at the upcoming Montreal Summer Olympic Games.
1976 Toronto Ontario - Ontario to raise fees for foreign students at Ontario universities from $585 to $1,500.
1973 Toronto Ontario - Anglican Church of Canada decides to allow women to become ordained ministers.
1971 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up 37 bilingual districts; government services now available in both official languages.
1971 St-Jean Vianney Quebec - Mud slide buries part of St. Jean Vianney, killing 31 people; $1 million damage.
1969 St. Louis Missouri - Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for the Stanley Cup.
1969 Placentia Bay Newfoundland - Ottawa bans fishing in Placentia Bay because of pollution.
1967 Ottawa Ontario - Steven Truscott's appeal rejected by Supreme Court; eventually paroled in 1969.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Dr. Jean Sutherland Boggs 1922- appointed first woman Director of the National Art Gallery of Canada; first woman to head an agency with the status of deputy minister.
1961 Halifax Nova Scotia - Launch of Federal Maple; first of two passenger-cargo ships presented to Federation of West Indies under Canada-West Indies Aid Program.
1951 Europe - National Defence forms 27th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group for service in Europe with NATO forces.
1949 Toronto Ontario - Leslie Miscampbell Frost 1895-1975 succeeds Thomas L. Kennedy as Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario.
1944 Atlantic - RCAF kills three U-boats in under a month.
1938 Ottawa Ontario - Justice Turgeon presents Report of Royal Grain Enquiry; prospects and future policy.
1924 Paris France - Canada joins 43 other nations and a total of 3,092 competitors at the opening of the eighth Olympic Games; to July 27.
1910 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament votes to create a Royal Canadian Navy.
1907 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa hit by 19.1 cm snowfall; city's greatest one day May snowfall.
1892 Spray, North Carolina - Canadian Thomas I. 'Carbide' Willson develops first manufacturing process to create acetylene gas; already developed on a laboratory scale; sells process to Union Carbide; builds a calcium carbide plant on Victoria Island in the Ottawa River in 1896, a mansion in Ottawa with a lab in the basement, and a summer home and hydro dam on Meech Lake.
1891 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Ontario Bureau of Mines.
1880 Ottawa Ontario - Edward Blake 1833-1912 chosen as party leader by the Liberal Party, replacing Alexander Mackenzie; serves as leader to June 2, 1887.
1859 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Western Canada and La Banque Nationale incorporated.
1852 Halifax Nova Scotia - William Walsh 1804-1858 appointed first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Halifax.
1836 London England - Hudson's Bay Company acquires the Red River Colony from the sixth Earl of Selkirk for £15,000.
1836 Montreal Quebec - Delivery of Canada's first railway locomotive, the Iron Kitten.
1783 Nova Scotia - First United Empire Loyalists settle in the Maritimes.
1752 London England - Peregrine Thomas Hopson d1759 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; serves from August 3 to January 7, 1756.
1639 Quebec Quebec - Barthelémy Vimont 1594-1667, new Superior of the Jesuits in Canada, arrives with Joseph-Antoine Poncet de La Rivière and Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot.
1639 Quebec Quebec - Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de La Peltrie 1603-1671 brings three Ursuline nuns including Marie Guyart (Marie de I'lncarnation).
1493 Rome Italy - Pope Alexandre VI, by his Bull Inter C¾tera, divides up the New World between Spain and Portugal and forbids further exploration; France respects the ban, but England sends off John Cabot to stake claims in defiance of the order.

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