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henric
09-04-2014, 12:01 AM
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476 – Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang dynasty of China.
1260 – The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of Manfred, King of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
1479 – The Treaty of Alcáçovas is signed by the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and Afonso V and his son, Prince John of Portugal.
1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
1774 – New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
1797 – Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
1800 – The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate.
1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
1862 – American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
1870 – Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
1882 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
1886 – American Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1912 – Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
1939 – World War II: a Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed.
1941 – World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
1944 – World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
1944 – World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
1949 – The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre took place in San Francisco.
1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
1995 – WCW Monday Nitro makes its debut on TNT.
1996 – War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
2010 – Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.

henric
09-04-2014, 12:04 AM
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Today's Canadian Headline....


1880 MACDONALD SIGNS CPR CONTRACT
Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald 1815-1891 signs provisional agreement with CPR syndicate for building of Canadian Pacific Railway; group consists of Bank of Montreal President George Stephen, US rail financier Duncan Mclntyre, and Ontario-born Minnesota entrepreneur James Jerome Hill; Stephen's cousin Donald Smith of the Hudson's Bay Company, who withdrew support for Macdonald during the Pacific Scandal, lurks in the background.

1984
Canada -
Brian Mulroney 1939- wins the federal election in a landslide against opponents Liberal John Turner and New Democrat Ed Broadbent. His PC Party takes a record 212 of 282 seats, to 40 Liberal; 30 NDP; 1 other, in the biggest majority (seat total) ever won by a federal party in Canadian history; also takes 58 of 75 seats in his home province after promising to reintegrate Quebec into the Canadian family 'with honour and enthusiasm'; Turner suffers crushing defeat nationally, but wins own seat in Vancouver Quadra.

1899
Montreal Quebec - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 funds the Royal Victoria College for Women at McGill University, which opens on this day. Smith, a controlling shareholder of the Bank of Montreal, the Hudson's Bay Company and the CPR, is a strong believer in education for women.


In Other Events....

1997 Detroit Michigan - Gordie Howe, 69, agrees to suit up for the IHL's Detroit Vipers in the team's season opener against the Kansas City Blades on Oct. 3; will become the only professional hockey player to play in six consecutive decades.
1997 Sudbury Ontario - Huron Central Railway, owned by Genessee Rail-One, takes over operation of the former CP line between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury.
1997 Montreal Quebec - Annie Perreault, speedskating champion, has an operation on both her legs.
1986 Montreal Quebec - Claude Brochu appointed CEO of the Expos baseball club.
1985 Ottawa Ontario - Mila Mulroney gives birth to son Daniel Nicholas Dimitri on the first anniversary of her husband's sweep to power.
1972 Toronto Ontario - Team Canada beats the USSR 4-1 in Game 2 of the Super Series/September to Remember, to even out the series against the Soviets; known as Brother Night, because of the goal scoring of Frank and Pete Mahovlich and the goaltending and marksmanship of Tony and Phil Esposito.
1972 Montreal Quebec - Art thieves rob Montreal Museum of Fine Arts of $3 million of paintings and art objects; including $1 million Rembrandt.
1966 Hollywood California - Vancouver-born actor Raymond Burr stars in last episode of CBS-TV legal drama, Perry Mason, broadcast on this day.
1950 St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia - D. McI. Hodgson of St Ann Bay catches a tuna weighing 997 lbs.
1948 Netherlands - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates the Dutch throne in favour of her daughter, Juliana, who spent the war in Ottawa.
1946 Ottawa Ontario - Louis St-Laurent appointed Minister of External Affairs.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Official opening of the Montreal municipal library.
1916 Courcelette France - Canadian Corps take over section of the Somme line; facing village of Courcelette.
1915 Montreal Quebec - Mobilization of the 73rd Infantry Battalion at Montreal.
1909 England - Robert Baden-Powell presides over first Boy Scout rally in England; movement funded in part by Canadian High Commissioner Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914.
1905 Montreal Quebec - Henri Bourassa marries Joséphine Papineau.
1876 Toronto Ontario - Frederic Stupart of the Dominion Meteorological Observatory issues Canada's first prepared storm warning.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Start of special parliamentary inquiry into the awarding of CPR contracts - the Pacific Scandal.
1858 Newfoundland - Atlantic cable breaks.
1821 Moscow Russia - Czar Alexander I forbids non-Russian ships to approach Pacific coast of North America south of 51 degrees north.
1793 Quebec Quebec - Kent Edward, Duke funds first Sunday School at Quebec, a free school.
1760 Montreal Quebec - English troops occupy Ile Perrot; closing in on Montreal.

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