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henric
08-01-2014, 11:31 PM
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Events:C/P.

338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
1343 – Olivier de Clisson is found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris. As a result, his wife, Jeanne de Clisson, sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate to seek revenge against the French King and nobility.
1377 – Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River.
1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1790 – The first United States Census is conducted.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
1869 – Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship ******** da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Fόhrer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939 – Albert Einstein and Leσ Szilαrd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 – Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1944 – ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
1947 – A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found for over 50 years.
1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.
1968 – An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1973 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1998 – The Second Congo War begins.
2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

henric
08-01-2014, 11:36 PM
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Today's Canadian Headline....

1610 HUDSON ENTERS THE BAY
NWT/Quebec - Dutch navigator Henry Hudson, in the employ of the English, enters the inland sea now known as Hudson Bay, but thinks he has found the Pacific Ocean.

1922
Baddeck Nova Scotia - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 dies at his Beinn Bhreagh home on Cape Breton Island; audiologist known as the inventor of the telephone (1876); to mark his death, all telephone service in Canada is halted for 80 seconds on Aug 4, starting at 6:25 pm



In Other Events...



1995 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces it will close 150 Canada Employment Centres.
1995 Quebec Quebec - Louise Beaudoin named Quebec's Minister of Culture.
1991 Anse Aux Meadows Newfoundland - Viking replica 'Gaia' reaches Norse settlement site for 1,000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's landing; Vinland Revisited expedition left Norway May 17.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Lotta Hitschmanova 1910-1990 dies at age 80; founder of Unitarian Service Committee in 1945 to help European refugees; fled her native Czechoslovakia in 1938.
1988 Toronto Ontario - External Affairs Minister Joe Clark joins six other Commonwealth foreign ministers in lighting a 1 1/2-metre candle for the Rekindle the Light Festival to protest against South African apartheid; Canadian musician David Foster plays to an audience of more than 8,000.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Reichmann brothers acquire control of Gulf Canada for $2.8 billion.
1974 Edmonton Alberta - Alberta acquires control of Pacific Western Airlines.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act makes ship and cargo owners fully liable for pollution.
1970 BC - BC ferry 'Queen of Victoria' and Soviet freighter 'Sergey Yesinen' collide in the Active Pass.
1970 Manseau Quebec - Start of disastrous three-day Manseau Pop Festival, held on a farm 80 km southwest of Quebec City; only 10,000 fans turned out in the torrential rain; New Orleans rocker Dr. John shows up; Jimi Hendrix, Allman Brothers and Little Richard stay away because they are not paid in advance.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa announces new international airport near Montreal, and expansion of Toronto International.
1965 Canada- Mrs. Frank Walton Killam leaves estate to University of Alberta ($6 million), Dalhousie ($10 million), UBC ($4 million); also Halifax Children's Hospital and Montreal Neurological Institute.
1963 China- China makes second $300 million wheat purchase.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - John J. Deutsch 1919- chairs new Economic Council of Canada.
1963 Welland Ontario- Engineers make start on twinning of locks of Welland Canal; to be completed by 1968.
1962 Regina Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan passes final amendments satisfactory to both sides in Medicare plan.
1961 Toronto Ontario - Ontario Premier Leslie Miscampbell Frost 1895-1975 resigns.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Princess Margaret cuts ribbon to open the Ottawa City Hall on Green Island at the mouth of the Rideau River.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes the Family Allowance Act.
1940 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Mayor Camillien Houde 1889-1958 attacks national registration for home defence; advises Quebec men not to take part in national registration; arrested for sedition Aug. 5.
1932 Gimli Manitoba - Icelanders at Gimli host first annual Icelandic Festival (Islendingadagurinn) to celebrate their culture and honour their pioneers; settlement of New Iceland formed in 1875; became part of Manitoba in 1881.
1921 London England - General Julian Hedworth George Byng Byng of Vimy 1862-1935 appointed Governor-General of Canada, serving from August 11, 1921 to September 29, 1926.
1909 Pembroke Ontario - First passenger flight in Canada made in the Silver Dart at Camp Petawawa in an evaluation by the Canadian Army; original plane built by the Aerial Experiment Association formed by Alexander Graham Bell; made first controlled powered flight in Canada Feb. 23, 1909 off the ice at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, by designer J.A.D. McCurdy; apparently the plane had poor control characteristics.
1878 Ottawa Ontario - John Lorn McDougall 1838-1909 appointed first Auditor-General of Canada.
1877 Victoria BC - Sir James Douglas dies; former Governor of Vancouver Island and the founder of British Columbia.
1862 Victoria BC - Victoria incorporated as a city.
1858 London England - British government makes a separate Crown Colony of British Columbia; includes the mainland (named New Caledonia by Simon Fraser) and the Queen Charlotte Islands; united with Vancouver Island in 1866.
1858 Toronto Ontario - George Brown & A. A. Dorion take office; coalition of True Grits and Dorion's Rouges; the so-called 'Short Ministry' only lasts four days, the shortest Canadian Ministry on record.
1851 Toronto Ontario - Trinity College gets university charter; now part of the University of Toronto.
1851 Montreal Quebec - opening of St. Mary's College at Montreal.
1837 Toronto Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 publishes the 'Declaration of the Reformers of Toronto' in newspaper 'The Constitution'.
1812 Amherstburg Ontario- Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 helps persuade Wyandots (Hurons) to switch allegiance to British.
1803 Quebec- Fourth session of third Parliament of Lower Canada meets until Aug. 11; renewal of Alien Act, due to war between Britain and France.
1786 Vancouver Island BC - James Strange claims Vancouver Island for Britain.
1763 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Pontiac's allies maul Bouquet and his troops at Bushy Run as they are marching to the relief of Ft. Pitt; Bouquet relieves the fort Aug. 10.
1642 Trois-Riviθres Quebec - Jesuits Isaac Jogues & Rene Goupil kidnapped by Iroquois, travelling from Ste-Marie to Quebec; Goupil killed, Jogues escapes; later rescued by Dutch traders.
1589 Paris France - King Henri IV 1553-1610 starts reign on death of Henri III; to 1610, when he is assassinated.

End of C/P.