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Today's Canadian Headline....

1914 CANADA GETS AN AIR FORCE
Ottawa Ontario - Sir Sam Hughes sets up the first Canadian military air service, the Canadian Aviation Corps; forerunner of the RCAF.

1939
Halifax Nova Scotia - The first escorted ship convoy leaves Halifax for Britain; in formation to protect against German U-Boat attacks.

In Other Events....

2000 Sydney, Australia - Opening of 27th Olympic games scheduled at Sydney, televised by NBC
1996 Toronto Ontario - Maple Leafs defenceman Borje Salming, Boston Bruins right winger Bobby Bauer, CBC announcer Bob Cole and New York Islanders coach Al Arbour, winner of four consecutive Stanley Cup titles, inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame.
1993 Ottawa Ontario - Government announces inquiry to recommend how to reform the blood system to make it more efficient and safer; day after provinces announce compensation plan for people who contracted HIV through tainted blood products before officials started screening blood for the AIDS virus.
1992 Toronto Ontario - Brian Perry of the Canadian Tax Foundation says taxes increasing; OECD report says Canada's tax revenues up to 39.4% of GNP in 1991; up from 37.1% in 1990 and 34.5% in 1989; versus US rate of under 30%.
1992 Ottawa Ontario - Commons passes bill passed ending Family Allowance baby bonus system; replaced by more support for working poor, and an earned income supplement for those working; benefit shrinks as income rises.
1992 Quebec Quebec - Quebec bureaucrat Diane Wilhelmy sees her taped telephone call released criticizing Premier Robert Bourassa for 'caving in' during talks leading to the Charlottetown Accord.
1991 Hollywood California - Jenny Jones debuts her TV talk show 'The Jenny Jones Show' in syndication; born in London, Ontario, Jones started her career touring Canada and the US as a drummer in a rock band; she then worked as a backup singer/arranger with Wayne Newton in Las Vegas, formed her own band, 'Jenny Jones and Company', worked on the game show and standup comedy circuit, then, after a one-year tour with Englebert Humperdinck, developed a popular comedy show for women called Girls' Night Out, which led to a contract with Warner Brothers, who developed her show.
1987 Montreal Quebec - Opening of Montreal conference sponsored by the UN Environmental Program; 24 countries and the European Community sign Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to protect Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to control and reduce use of cholorfluorocarbons or CFCs by the year 2000; 49 other countries express their approval but for various reasons do not sign the protocol.
1988 Seoul, South Korea - Canadian team attends opening ceremonies of the 24th Olympiad in Seoul; events start the next day.
1984 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pope John Paul II spends the morning in Winnipeg, then flies to Edmonton that evening; first papal visit to Canada.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Federal-provincial conference on the constitution ends in quibbling.
1974 Regina Saskatchewan - Canada's first female RCMP recruits sworn into the force as constables.
1974 Montreal Quebec - Gary Carter plays his first game as a Montreal Expo; in Jarry Park.
1973 Hollywood California - Vancouver-born actor Raymond Burr stars in The New Perry Mason, a CBS revival of his TV crime drama.
1969 Taiwan - Atomic Energy of Canada sells $35 million nuclear research reactor to Taiwan Atomic Energy Council.
1964 Blaine Washington - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 signs Columbia River Treaty with President Lyndon Johnson; after being ratified by both countries.
1963 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canada sells Soviet Union $500 million worth of wheat.
1962 Sudbury Ontario - International Nickel Company grants $2.5 million to Laurentian University in Sudbury.
1960 Ottawa Ontario - J. Grant Glassco chairs Royal Commission to examine role and programs of federal government.
1960 New York City - Canadian diplomat Yves Prévost becomes President of the United Nations General Assembly.
1957 Canada - Canada hit by epidemic of Asian flu.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament publishes a White Paper on the defense of Canada.
1957 Arvida Quebec - 6,500 Aluminum Company of Canada employees at Arvida end four-month strike.
1946 Temiskaming Quebec - Réal Caouette elected MP for the riding of Pontiac; later Créditiste leader.
1945 Hong Kong, China - British accept formal surrender of Hong Kong from the Japanese.
1944 Ottawa Ontario - Canada recognizes provisional government of French Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle.
1943 Salerno Italy - Germans fail to wipe out Salerno beachhead.
1939 Halifax Nova Scotia - First escorted convoy leaves Halifax for Britain.
1918 Vancouver BC - Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1879-1962 returns to Vancouver from his Canadian Arctic Expedition, begun in 1913.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Cardinal Bégin asks Quebeckers to vote for prohibition; they do not.
1916 Courcelette France - John Chipman Kerr 1887-1963 of the 49th Canadian Infantry Battalion, born in Fox River, Nova Scotia, earns a Victoria Cross for his actions at Courcelette during the Somme offensive; during a bombing attack he runs along the parados under heavy fire until he is in close contact with the enemy, and opens fire at point blank range; thinking they are surrounded, 62 Germans surrender; giving up 250 yards of trench; although Private Kerr's fingers have been blown off by a bomb, he escorts the prisoners back under fire with two other men before having his wound dressed.
1916 Ontario - Prohibition goes into effect in Ontario, after a night when liquor stores and saloons sell out all their stocks.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Sir Sam Hughes forms the Canadian Aviation Corps; first Canadian military air service.
1901 Canada - Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visit Canada until October 21; later King George V 1865-1936 and Queen Mary.
1893 Calgary Alberta - Calgary incorporated as Alberta's first city; population has grown to almost 4,000 people in the decade following the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway; only community between Winnipeg and the Pacific with a water works and sewer system.
1891 Edmonton Alberta - First train-load of Austro-Hungarian settlers from the provinces of Galicia and Bukovyna arrive in Alberta; forced to leave because of over-population and crop failures, and attracted to western Canada by the Homestead Act which provided 160 acres for $10.00.
1876 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the railway from Montreal north to St-Jerome.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Alfred Boyd the first Premier of Manitoba as the first Executive Council of the province is organized.
1846 Montreal Quebec - Lord Elgin sworn in as Governor of the province of Canada.
1839 Coppermine NWT - Thomas Simpson reaches Coppermine River with Dease after completing longest voyage by boat on Arctic Ocean.
1825 Quebec Quebec - Governor Dalhousie arrives at Quebec.
1812 Presqu'Ile, Ontario - British victory in a skirmish at Presqu'Ile in the War of 1812.
1791 London England - King George III demands that all French coats of arms be removed from Quebec.
1773 Pictou, Nova Scotia - Ship Hector drops anchor at Brown's Point, and starts landing 182 Scottish Highlanders, mostly tenant farmers fleeing high rents in Loch Broom in Sutherland.
1759 Quebec Quebec - English census shows many French remaining inside the blasted out town of Quebec after its capture, including 2,600 women and children, as well as 1,200 wounded or sick.
1669 Ile d'Orleans, Quebec - François Jarret de Verchères (1641-1700) marries 14 year old Marie Perrot; their daughter is the heroine Madeleine Jarret de Verchères 1678-1747.
1638 Paris France - Prince Louis born in the Palais du Louvre; becomes Louis XIV, King of France, at age 5, and will rule for 72 years; Canada his personal property.

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