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03-10-2015, 10:28 PM
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222 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
1387 – Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
1641 – Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit Reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.
1649 – The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
1702 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1784 – The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
1811 – During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 – The Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
1867 – The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom
1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1916 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy "super-dreadnought".
1917 – World War I:Mesopotamian Campaign — Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1931 – Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1932 – Boomming Ben, the last Heath Hen was seen for the final time.
1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur flees Corregidor.
1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1945 – World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Ban Me Thuot commune from the South Vietnamese army.
1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2004 – Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2007 – Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
2009 – Winnenden school shooting: 16 are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
2010 – Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
2012 – A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
2014 – Russia annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Getting 2014 Crimean crisis and 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

henric
03-10-2015, 10:30 PM
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Today's Canadian Headline...

1996 LAST GAME IN THE OLD FORUM
Montreal Quebec - NHL Canadiens beat Dallas Stars 4-1 in the last game played in the 72-year-old Montreal Forum.



In Other Canadian Events...

1992
Ottawa Ontario - Environment Canada starts issuing weekly ozone warnings.
1991
Orillia Ontario - Health Minister Perrin Beatty announces $275 million six year program to improve drinking water and sewage treatment on Indian reserves.
1987
Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney holds private meeting with the premiers to brief them on plans to seek a free-trade deal with the US; rejects demands for formal ratification by provinces.
1987
Los Angeles California - LA Kings Wayne Gretsky scores his 1,500th NHL point.
1986
Uniondale New York - New York Islander Mike Bossy, a native of Montreal, becomes the first NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons.
1984
Magdalen Islands Quebec - Magdalen Islands seal hunter damage helicopter chartered by International Fund for Animal Welfare protesters.
1981
Ottawa Ontario - US President Ronald Reagan visits Ottawa; US agrees to ease social security eligibility claims, for those who have worked in both countries
1978
Winnipeg Manitoba - Bobby Hull of the WHL Winnipeg Jets joins Gordie Howe by getting career point number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.
1961
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks run up NHL record 40 penalties, 20 each
1949
Brussels Belgium - Canada helps draft North Atlantic Security Treaty with Britain, USA, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Norway; leads to creation of NATO.
1947
Toronto Ontario - Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold.
1943
Ottawa Ontario - W. A. Mackintosh chairs new Sub-Committee on Postwar Reconstruction; with Bob Bryce, Louis Rasminsky , J. J. Deutsch (EA), O. E. Skelton (Bank), Baldwin (PCO)
1935
Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada starts operations under Governor Graham Towers; has mandate to issue currency and regulate money supply; government-owned central bank.
1931
Quebec Quebec - Province of Quebec extends civil rights to women, but still withholds the right to vote.
1912
Quebec Quebec - Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep Stanley Cup; first Stanley Cup game to be played in three 20-minute periods; formerly in 30-minute halves
1905
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage (Kenora) Thistles for the Stanley Cup.
1904
Ottawa Ontario- Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1892
Springfield Massachusetts - James Naismith, from Almonte, Ontario, organizes the world's first public game of his new invention - basketball; at the YMCA training college.
1908
Ottawa Ontario - Laurier government creates National Battlefields Commission; partly to save Quebec's Plains of Abraham from property development.
1885
Fort Carlton Saskatchewan - Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier 1847-1901 warns Ottawa of danger of rebellion in Saskatchewan; NWMP Superintendent at Fort Carlton
1879
Guelph Ontario - Guelph incorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt.
1865
Quebec Quebec - Assembly of Canada votes 91-33 to proceed with Confederation.
1850
Victoria BC - Richard Blanshard arrives at Fort Victoria; reads proclamation establishing the new colony of Vancouver Island, with himself as the first Governor.
1835
Toronto Ontario - George Kingsmill sets up first formal police force in Canada; High Constable of Toronto
1617
Honfleur France - Louis Hebert c1575-1627 coaxed back to New France from Honfleur with wife Marie Rollet and three children.

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