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henric
03-06-2015, 01:52 AM
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Events:C/P.

12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
845 – Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra
961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 – York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1902 – Real Madrid C.F. was founded.
1912 – Italian forces became the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1968 – The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
1968 – Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

henric
03-06-2015, 01:55 AM
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Today's Canadian Headline...

1834 TORONTO'S BIRTHDAY
Toronto Ontario - City of Toronto, formerly York, incorporated; population now 10,000; first municipal election to be held March 27th.

1617
Quebec Quebec - Louis Hébert signs agreement to become the first colonist of New France; he is a farmer and apothecary, and will provide herbal medicines to the inhabitants.

1880
Ottawa Ontario - Governor General John Douglas Sutherland, Marquis of Lorne 1845-1914 helps found the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.



In Other Events...

1997 Nakina Ontario - Students at Nakina Public School, 100 km east of Lake Nipigon, exchange email with Queen Elizabeth, as she launches her official royal website from Buckingham Palace.
1995 Regina Saskatchewan - Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. agrees to pay US$810 million for Texasgulf Inc of North Carolina.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 papers and memorabilia displayed at the National Library in Ottawa; first exhibit of its kind in Canada
1962 Riondel BC - Sons of Freedom Doukhobors bomb electric power pylon near Riondel.
1957 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada nullifies Quebec 'Padlock Law' of 1937; says jurisdiction federal and not provincial.
1940 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the wartime Agricultural Supplies Board.
1925 Truro Nova Scotia - 12,000 Nova Scotia coal miners go on strike until August 6.
1909 Hamilton Ontario - Samuel Carter appointed first President of Co-operative Union of Canada, an insurance company founded at Gore Park in Hamilton; native of Guelph; origin of The Cooperators.
1901 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa increases Pacific Cable subsidy to $2 million.
1889 Toronto Ontario - Emile Zola's novels seized and destroyed by customs officers after they are ruled obscene.
1884 Toronto Ontario - Opening of free public library in Toronto; today's Toronto Public Library.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 appointed Leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing George Brown.
1852 Newfoundland - Newfoundland Electric Telegraph completed between St. John's and Carbonear.
1852 Toronto Ontario - Group of Toronto brokers frame 'a code of Rules and Regulations' for Toronto Stock Exchange
1837 London England - British Parliament passes Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions; the Governor of Lower Canada can now pay salaries of officials; without approval of the Assembly, who are refusing to vote funds.
1834 Toronto Ontario - Incorporation of London and Gore (later Great Western) Railroad between Hamilton and London; first railway incorporated in Upper Canada.
1645 Paris France - Founding of la Compagnie des Habitants; gets trade and colonization rights to New France; succeeds Company of New France.

End of C/P.