November 9th 2014 - This Date in History.

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694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 – At the Battle of Posada, the Wallachian Voivode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1494 – The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba.
1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1880 – A large earthquake strikes Zagreb and causes many casualties. One of them is the Zagreb Cathedral.
1883 – The Royal Winnipeg Rifles of the Canadian Forces (known then as the "90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles") is founded.
1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 – Mary Jane Kelly is murdered in London, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).
1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1965 – The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.
1993 – Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
2012 – A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Burma, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.

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Today's Canadian Headline...

1965 NIAGARA BLOWS A FUSE
Niagara Falls Ontario - At 5:16 pm at Ontario Hydro Queenston, a relay switch fails, causing a power outage in western New York State which reaches New York City by 5:27 pm, plunging the city into darkness at the height of rush hour. A series of major electric power blackouts lasts for up to 13 1/2 hours in over 200,000 sq km of Ontario, Quebec and the Northeastern US. It is the largest power failure in North American history, and over 30 million people in Ontario, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire lose power for most of the night.

1967
Montreal Quebec - Cardinal Paul-Emile Leger 1904- resigns post to work as missionary with lepers in Africa.



In Other Events...

1989 Ottawa Ontario - Conference of first ministers fails to resolve opposition to Meech Lake raised by Manitoba and Newfoundland, where former Trudeau adviser Clyde Wells has led the Liberals back to power, threatens to rescind his province's ratification unless the accord is altered to protect Newfoundland's ability to get transfer payments.
1986 New York City - Jean Doré elected Mayor of Montreal with 68% of the votes counted.
1985 New York City - Bryan Adams' 'One Night Love Affair' peaks at #13 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1984 Space - Shuttle Discovery flight STS-51A deploys Canada's Anik-D2 comsat into geosynchronous orbit (mass 1,100 kg).
1982 New York City - Yves Langlois returns to Quebec from exile; former FLQ leader.
1974 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's 'Carefree Highway' peaks at #10 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1974 New York City - Winnipeg group Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' peaks at #1 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1972 Cape Canaveral, Florida - Canada's Anik I domestic communications satellite launched by Delta rocket; world's first geostationery comsat (mass 557 kg); designed, built and operated by Telesat Canada to improve telephone and radio service; Anik an Inuit word for brother.
1971 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific withdraws liner Empress of Canada from transatlantic route; end of regular passenger service due to cheaper airline flights.
1965 Vandenberg AFB, California - Canadian satellite Alouette II launched by NASA.
1961 Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 announces Canadian Museum of History; to be completed by July 1, 1967
1956 St Louis, Missouri - Lou Thesz beats Toronto's Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA champ.
1953 Montreal Quebec - Canadiens' Maurice Richard scoring his 325th career goal, setting set a National Hockey League record; sends puck to Queen Elizabeth.
1943 Washington DC - Canada signs United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agreement; (UNRRA).
1942 Oran Algeria - Capt. Frederick Peters 1889-1943 a Canadian serving with the Royal Navy, leads the Walney into Oran Harbour under heavy fire during Operation Torch, the Allied landings on the North African Coast; both Walney and her sister ship the Hartland sunk by enemy shells; the only man on the bridge to survive, Peters will be awarded the Victoria Cross.
1942 New Carlisle, Quebec - German secret agent Werner Janowski dropped ashore at Gaspé town of New Carlisle by submarine U-518; arrested a day later by RCMP; becomes double agent.
1942 Ottawa Ontario - Canada cuts all diplomatic ties with Nazi puppet state of Vichy France.
1937 Montreal Quebec - Quebec Police undertake first action to uphold Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis' Padlock Law (Act Respecting Communistic Propaganda) against subversive organizations, locking the doors of the Communist newspaper 'Clarté'. Statute let attorney general close any building used for propagating 'communism or bolshevism'; Act will be declared unconstitutional, as an invasion of the federal field of criminal law, by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1957.
1928 London England - Privy Council rules that gold and silver on Hudson's Bay company lands belongs to Crown; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
1907 Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club plays its first game, losing to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Exhibition Grounds.
1905 Alberta - Alexander Rutherford elected as Alberta's first Premier, winning 22 of 25 seats for the Liberal Party; campaign bitterly fought on issues such as religious schools and control over the province's natural resources.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Medical commission, created to examine Riel's mental condition, submits its report to the Prime Minister. The Commission is divided on question of Riel's sanity. Cabinet decides to proceed with death penalty; carried out on the 16th.
1883 Winnipeg Manitoba - Royal Winnipeg Rifles 90th Battalion organized.
1877 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Graham Bell's Bell Telephone Company leases first phones to Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie; but backdates lease to September 21.
1872 Halifax, Nova Scotia - First Intercolonial Railway train reaches Halifax from Saint John, New Brunswick; remainder of line completed in 1876, connecting Truro, Nova Scotia, with Rivière du Loup, giving Quebec access to ice-free Atlantic ports; became part of the Canadian National Railway in 1923.
1872 Winnipeg Manitoba - Founding of the Manitoba Free Press (later the Winnipeg Free Press).
1861 Toronto Ontario - First documented Canadian football game played, at the University of Toronto.
1860 Brantford Ontario - John A. Macdonald starts speaking tour in western Ontario; a first in Canadian politics.
1849 Halifax Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia Government Telegraph completed.
1838 Odelltown Quebec - Robert Nelson 1794-1873 mounts another raid on Lacolle from Vermont with Cyrille Côté; the Republican Hunters Lodges (Frères Chasseurs) are again dispersed at Odelltown after a two hour battle when British troops led by Charles Taylor arrive, and Nelson and his rebels flee to the US.
1789 Quebec - Order-in-Council gives every son of a loyalist 200 acres, every daughter 200 acres when married; descendants of loyalists can put letters U.E. (United Empire) after names
1775 Levis Quebec - Benedict Arnold 1738-1789 arrives at Point-Lévis across from Quebec; leading American invasion army.

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