July 22nd 2014 - This Date in History.

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838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1209 – Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1499 – Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1587 – Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – Outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but The 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
1916 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing ten and injuring 40.
1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1937 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 – Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
1946 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1963 – Sarawak achieve independence.
1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2013 – A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.

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1948 NEWFOUNDLAND VOTES TO JOIN CANADA
Newfoundland - Second Newfoundland referendum in less than two months gives narrow 7,000 majority for union with Canada.

1793
Dean Inlet, BC -
Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 reaches the Pacific Ocean down the Bella Coola River into Dean Channel; mixes some vermilion in melted grease and inscribes and paints on a large rock: 'Alex Mackenzie from Canada by land 22d July 1793.'; first to cross the Great Divide and North America north of Mexico; his party set out in May, and traveled much of the way on foot; when they reached the Bella Coola River, they traded goods for canoes and paddled to the sea; hostile natives made them beat a hasty retreat upriver; back in Montreal, the North West Company can see no practical use for Mackenzie's route, but he will be knighted for his exploit.

1876
Ottawa Ontario -
James Farquharson Macleod 1836-1894 resigns his magistrate's role to return to the North West Mounted Police as to Commissioner; serves with the NWMP until 1880, when he becomes a member of the North West Territories Council, and in 1887 is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the NWT. Macleod served as brigade major with the Wolseley expedition in 1870; he founded Ft Macleod, suppressed the illegal whisky trade and negotiated Treaty No 7 with the Blackfoot.




In Other Events....

1996 Quebec Quebec - Ottawa and Quebec set up $200 million relief fund to help Saguenay flood victims.
1981 Halifax Nova Scotia - Halifax police end 53-day strike, 196 officers accept 3-year contract.
1981 Quebec - Quebec licensed taverns required to post notice saying that women are allowed to enter; end of an old tradition; taverns licensed before 1979 not affected and can still bar women.
1979 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate from 11.25% to 11.75%.
1968 St. Boniface Manitoba - Fire guts historic Basilica of St. Boniface; $2.5 million damage; priceless items of early western history destroyed.
1968 Canada - Canada signs Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty at Moscow, London and Washington.
1965 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Court of Appeal grants citizenship to Dutch immigrants Ernest and Cornelia Bergsma; previously denied because they were atheists.
1965 Canada - 10,000 postal workers in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia strike for better pay; Montreal workers return to work August 7.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - André Laurendeau 1912-1968 and Davidson Dunton 1912- appointed to chair the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, starts visit to Canada.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Act establishing the Department of Industry.
1962 Honolulu Hawaii - Canadian Pacific airliner crashes during an emergency landing at Honolulu, killing 27 people, including 11 Canadians.
1961 Whitehorse Yukon - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens Northwest Telecommunications System; largest single microwave project in Canada.
1959 Saskatchewan - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- opens Queen Elizabeth Generating Station of Saskatchewan Power Corporation.
1953 Ottawa Ontario - National Defense issues final Korean War casualty list, showing 1,500 Canadian soldiers killed or wounded in the UN mandated conflict.
1950 Old Chelsea, Quebec - William Lyon Mackenzie King dies at his Kingsmere estate at age 75; born Dec. 17, 1874, at Berlin (Kitchener), Ontario; educated at the universities of Toronto and Harvard; Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour and editor of the Labour Gazette 1900-1908; Labour consultant, Rockefeller Foundation 1914-1918; Liberal Party Leader 1919-1948; Leader of the Opposition 1919-1921, 1926, 1930-1935; Prime Minister Dec. 29, 1921-June 28, 1926; Sept. 25, 1926-Aug. 7, 1930; Oct. 23, 1935-Nov. 15, 1948.
1947 Chalk River Ontario - Heavy water-cooled NRX (National Research Experimental) reactor starts electricity production at Chalk River.
1944 Halifax Nova Scotia - Henry Asbjorn Larsen 1899-1964 leaves Halifax on the RCMP patrol ship St. Roch to return to Vancouver via Northwest Passage; completes trip 86 days later.
1943 Assoro Italy - Canadians capture Assoro and Leonforte; with three other Italian towns.
1932 Hamilton, Bermuda - Reginald Fessenden dies at 65; born at Milton-Est, Quebec Oct. 6, 1866, inventor, engineer, with 300 radio patents; broadcast the world's first program of voice and music Christmas Eve, 1906.
1917 Ypres Belgium - British and Canadians soften up the German lines at Ypres with a bombardment of 4,250,000 grenades.
1915 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Sir Sandford Fleming dies at 88; born Jan 7, 1827 at Kirkaldy, Scotland; railway engineer, devised a way to divide the world into time zones.
1912 Stockholm Sweden - Close of the fifth Olympic games in Stockholm; attracted 28 nations and 2546 competitors; Canada has three gold medals: George Goulding in the 10 000 metre walk, and George Hodgson in the 400 and 1500 metre swims.
1908 Quebec Quebec - Prince of Wales arrives at Quebec City to celebrate the city's 300th anniversary.
1906 Ontario/Quebec - Grand Trunk Railway changes from left to right hand running on double track sections; the company had to change all its crossovers, switches and semaphore signals.
1893 Stillwall, Orkney, Scotland - John Rae dies at age 79; born Sept. 30, 1813; physician, explorer of the Canadian Arctic who found the first Franklin remains.
1892 St. John's, Newfoundland - Fire destroys a large section of the city of St. John's.
1892 Washington DC - US and Britain sign Boundary Convention on Alaska and Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine.
1884 London England - Imperial Privy Council defines new boundaries of Ontario.
1847 London England - British Act gives Canada power over own taxation; Canada can now raise own duties for revenue.
1811 Oregon - David Thompson 1770-1857 sets off on return trip from the Pacific; will winter in western Manitoba.
1783 Shelburne Nova Scotia - Governor John Parr 1725-1791 names Loyalist settlement of Shelburne.
1778 Labrador - George Cartwright shoots six polar bears, but takes only one skin; describes it as 'the finest sport that man ever had.'.
1773 London, England - Francis Legge c1719-1783 appointed Governor of Nova Scotia; serves from Oct. 8, 1773 to July 29, 1782.
1629 Quebec Quebec - David, Louis and Thomas Kirke raise the English flag over Quebec and take possession of Fort St-Louis and Champlain's Habitation; a year earlier, the Kirke brothers demanded the surrender of the fort, but Champlain drove them off; French will leave Quebec on Sept. 14; some habitants stay behind; four years later, the colony will revert to France.
1629 Quebec Quebec - Olivier le Noir the first black man to arrive at Quebec, with the Kirkes.

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