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henric
03-31-2015, 01:05 AM
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307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
627 – Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V้zelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1561 – The city of San Crist๓bal, Tแchira is founded.
1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eug่ne Delacroix.
1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaํso, Chile.
1877 – The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
1885 – The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1899 – Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
1901 – 1901 Black Sea earthquake.
1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
1913 – The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
1931 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 – A coup d'้tat in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1990 – Approximately 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1994 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1995 – End of the US military campaign in Somalia
2004 – Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.

henric
03-31-2015, 01:06 AM
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Today's Canadian Headline...

1958 DIEF WINS LANDSLIDE
Canada - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 wins biggest victory to date in Canada's 24th general election; takes 208 seats to 49 for the Liberals under St-Laurent; 8 CCF; a majority of 151, with 50 Quebec seats; gets 53.6% of popular vote; serves as Prime Minister to April 22, 1963.

1949
St. John's Newfoundland - Newfoundland joins Confederation as Canada's 10th province; oldest Dominion in the British Commonwealth joins 82 years after Confederation; Joey Smallwood first Premier, until 1972; here he is signing the agreement.



In Other Events...

1987 New York City - Canadian Matt Frewer stars in science fiction adventure Max Headroom, making its debut on ABC-TV.
1984 St. John's Newfoundland - One-legged runner Steve Fonyo dips his artificial leg in St. John's Harbour to start run across Canada to raise money for cancer research, and to honour the memory of his friend Terry Fox; his 7,294 km run will be successful.
1982 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Canada's first fibre optics cable manufacturing plant opens in Saskatoon.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Biochemist Charles Best dies at age 79; co-discoverer of insulin, used to treat diabetes.
1978 Toronto Ontario - Queen's Park passes Ontario law reform providing for equal division of family assets following marriage break-up.
1975 Toronto Ontario - CN Tower reaches 555.35 metres in height, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure; the giant communications mast cost $44 million, uses 145,000 tonnes of concrete and steel.
1974 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Northmen of the fledgling WFL sign Miami Dolphins Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick, and Paul Warfield; the league goes nowhere.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - University of Toronto historian Donald Grant Creighton 1902-1978 first recipient of Canada Council's Molson Prize; with Quebec poet Alain Grandbois.
1964 Quebec Quebec - Ottawa and provinces start four-day conference in Quebec City; discuss Canada Pension Plan, tax equalization.
1962 Brockville Ontario - Brockville incorporated as a city.
1943 Ottawa Ontario - Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley announces that wartime meat rationing by coupon will begin in early May.
1937 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Stock Exchange closes at 193.6; up 200% in since 1932
1923 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton Eskimos in 2 for the Stanley Cup; second of 1923
1914 Newfoundland - Seventy-eight hunters die, many crippled by frostbite, in a two day long storm when their sealing steamer, the Newfoundland, fails to pick them up due to mistaken orders.
1914 Ottawa Ontario - Canada now has 3,000 officers and men in the Permanent Force; 5,615 officers and 68,991 men in the militia.
1906 London England - King Edward VII grants British Columbia's Coat-of-Arms.
1890 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba legislature passes the Manitoba School Act, abolishing separate schools for Catholics and Protestants, effective May 1; non-sectarian system of public education.
1885 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa disallows BC's Chinese Restriction Act.
1854 Rae Isthmus NWT - John Rae 1813-1893 sets out across Rae Isthmus for Pelly Bay; meets Inuit who saw Europeans on the west coast of King William Island, and found graves on the mainland near mouth of Back River; he buys silver spoons belonging to the Franklin expedition.
1831 Montreal Quebec - Montreal incorporated as a city; no longer an out-port of Quebec.
1831 Quebec Quebec - Quebec incorporated as a city.
1821 Montreal Quebec - McGill University granted Royal charter.
1713 Utrecht Netherlands - Treaty of Utrecht returns Nova Scotia to Britain; France keeps Ile Royale (Cape Breton) and Ile St-Jean (PEI).
1547 Paris France - King Henri II 1519-1559 starts reign; to 1559; on death of Fran็ois I.

End of C/P.