July 24th 2014 - This Date in History.

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1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. <br />
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. <br />
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Today's Canadian Headline....


1984 LEADERS SPAR IN FIRST FRENCH TV DEBATE
Montreal Quebec - Federal party leaders Ed Broadbent, Brian Mulroney & John Turner meet in the first French-language television debate.

1534
Penouille Point Quebec -
Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 lands at rocky Penouille Point on the Gaspé coast; erects 10 metre high cross, bearing fleur-de-lys and motto 'Vive le Roy de France'; takes possession of the mainland of Canada in the name of François I; Donnacona, the Iroquois chief at Stadacona (Quebec) will later protest against Cartier's declaration.



In Other Events....

1996 Atlanta Georgia - Canada's Marianne Limpert wins Olympic silver in the 200M individual medley.
1995 New York City - Regina filling station attendant Dick Assman (pronounced OSS-man) appears to great hilarity on CBS's Late Show With David Letterman, introducing a dumb ad segment; Assman works at the Petro-Canada at the corner of Victoria and Fleet.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Defense Minister Marcel Masse announces 13 year $4.4 billion purchase of new EH-101 military helicopters to replace aging Sea Kings.
1991 Sept-Isles, Quebec - Quebec police find over 270 barrels of hashish floating in the St. Lawrence, after smugglers try to transfer the drugs from a tug onto life rafts; over 25 people from Vermont, Holland and the Philippines are later arrested.
1991 Lac Ste Anne Alberta - Douglas Crosby asks forgiveness for abuse suffered by native children in 60 Oblate schools since 1880s; President of Oblate Conference of Canada.
1988 St. John's Newfoundland - Emma Houlston lands single engine plane; youngest person to fly across Canada; nine year old from Medicine Hat, Alberta; took off from Victoria July 10; her father the navigator and official pilot-in-command.
1988 Edmonton Alberta - Group of thirsty Edmontonians whip up the world's largest milk shake ever; weighing 54,914 pounds, 13 ounces, the shake uses 44,689 lb, 8 oz of ice cream, 9,688 lb, 2 oz of syrup, and 537 lb, 3 oz of topping
1984 Montreal Quebec - Party leaders John Turner, Brian Mulroney & Ed Broadbent meet in a French-language television debate; first time in Canadian history.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to undertake national survey of 4 hazardous pollutants: lead, beryllium, mercury, asbestos.
1967 Montreal Ontario - General Charles de Gaulle shouts the separatist slogan 'Vive le Quebec libre' from the balcony of Montreal's City Hall; French President touches off a diplomatic row as PM Pearson protests the remarks; two days later, de Gaulle abruptly cancels his official visit to Ottawa and returns to France.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - First reporter from the New China News Agency arrives in Canada.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - Louis Rasminsky 1908- appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada.
1958 Winnipeg Manitoba - CCF convention accepts a Canadian Labour Congress proposal to found a 'people's political movement' to be called the New Democratic Party.
1943 Hamburg Germany - Bomber Command launches week-long Operation Gomorrah on German port of Hamburg; using new device called 'Window' to counter Nazi radar; concentrated heavy bombing by the RAF and RCAF leaves 20,000 dead.
1941 Arvida Quebec - Workers go on strike at the Aluminium Company's plant at Arvida.
1940 Winnipeg Manitoba - Fall of France causes 30¢ drop in Winnipeg wheat price.
1917 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons gives third reading to Conscription Act.
1895 Fort Constantine Yukon - NWMP constable Charles Constantine builds Fort Constantine at junction of Forty-mile Creek and Yukon River.
1885 Regina Saskatchewan - William Henry Jackson found not guilty of treason by reason of insanity for involvement in North West Rebellion; sent to a lunatic asylum in Manitoba.
1862 Edmonton Alberta - Party of 150 men and one woman arrive in Fort Edmonton on the way to travel overland to the Cariboo gold fields in BC; the Overlanders note the scarcity of buffalo on the plains, and find more beef than pemmican available in the Hudson's Bay Company store.
1860 St. John's, Newfoundland - Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, arrives in Newfoundland to begin his North American visit; later King Edward VII.
1846 Toronto Ontario - First Canadian demonstration of the electric telegraph at Toronto city hall.
1814 Niagara Falls, Ontario - General Phineas Riall advances by night toward Niagara with 1,000 men to hold back Jacob Brown's American invaders; he is greatly outnumbered and waits for reinforcements from Kingston under General Sir Gordon Drummond 1771-1854.
1790 Nootka Sound BC - Spanish agree to compensate Britain for ships seized in Nootka Sound.
1788 Kingston Ontario - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 divides Upper Canada into four judicial districts: Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nassau, and Hesse; judge and sheriff appointed for each.
1775 Montreal Quebec - Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester 1724-1808 conscripts 6,000 French Canadians to fight off the potential American invasion.
1766 Oswego New York - Pontiac makes peace with Sir William Johnson at the Treaty of Oswego.
1759 La Belle Famille, Quebec - William Johnson defeats François de Lignery, coming to aid Niagara, at La Belle Famille; de Lignery dies of his wounds four days later.
1759 Youngstown, New York: - Lieutenant Colonel Massey arrives outside French Fort Niagara with extra troops; the incoming French reinforcements will be stopped by a volley of musket fire, and attacked by Johnson's Indian allies; Pierre Pouchot will surrender the French garrison the following day.
1759 Quebec Quebec - Over 15,000 cannon balls have hit Quebec from the English forces across the St. Lawrence at Lévis.
1749 Montreal Quebec - Swedish naturalist Pierre Kalm arrives at Montreal.
1701 Detroit Michigan - Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac 1658-1730 builds Fort Detroit; new settlement becomes main commercial crossroad of the Great Lakes.
1629 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Quebec for England, a prisoner of the Kirke brothers; next day, the Kirkes capture Emery de Caen's supply ship.
1578 Frobisher Bay NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 assembles fleet back in Frobisher Bay, which he calls Countess of Warwick Sound.

End of C/P.