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    70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
    754 – Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia.
    1257 – Krakσw, in Poland, receives city rights.
    1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salermo.
    1625 – The city of Breda surrenders to the Spanish tercios under general Ambrosio Spinola.
    1798 – The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
    1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
    1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
    1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.
    1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
    1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
    1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
    1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
    1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
    1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
    1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
    1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
    1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
    1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
    1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
    1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
    1940 – World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
    1941 – World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
    1942 – World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
    1944 – World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
    1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
    1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
    1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
    1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
    1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
    1959 – The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
    1963 – The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
    1963 – Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
    1964 – DSV Alvin is commissioned.
    1967 – The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
    1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
    1969 – The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
    1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
    1975 – The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
    1976 – The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
    1977 – A coup takes place in Seychelles.
    1981 – The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
    1984 – The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
    1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
    1993 – Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire, England, fall into the sea following a landslide.
    1995 – The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
    1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
    2000 – The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
    2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
    2003 – A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
    2006 – Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
    2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.


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    Today's Canadian Headline....

    1895 DAVIN PROPOSES VOTE FOR WOMEN
    Ottawa Ontario - Regina MP Nicholas Flood Davin 1843-1901 introduces a motion in the House of Commons giving women the vote; it is soundly defeated.

    1813
    Stoney Creek Ontario - John Harvey 1778-1852 makes surprise attack with 700 British regulars of the 8th and 49th Regiments and some Canadian militia against 2,000 strong American force under Brigadiers William Winder and John Chandler at Stoney Creek; Americans withdraw toward Forty Mile Creek after midnight; War of 1812.




    In Other Events....

    1992 Ottawa Ontario - Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization says cod stocks at lowest level ever; suggests cutting catch to 50,000 tonnes; half caught already.
    1991 Toronto Ontario - Hudson's Bay Company to change 8 remaining Simpsons stores to Bay, selling 5 others to Sears; store founded in 1872 in Toronto.
    1989 Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays lose 5-3 against the Milwaukee Brewers in their first game in the SkyDome; first pitch by Jimmy Key to Paul Molitor a curve-ball strike (ball sent to the Baseball Hall Of Fame).
    1987 Ottawa Ontario - Government tables white paper calling for 15 year expenditure of $200 billion on defence, including ten nuclear submarines.
    1984 Lloydminster Saskatchewan - Husky Oil Ltd. starts $3.2 billion heavy oil upgrader backed by Ottawa, Alberta and Saskatchewan; largest energy project since 1978 slow in getting off the ground.
    1970 Winnipeg Manitoba - Federal and provincial Finance Ministers start two-day meeting; agree to limit inflation; more funds to poorer provinces.
    1967 Ottawa Ontario - Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting dimes and quarters to pure nickel as soon as possible; to head off silver speculators and hoarding.
    1966 Ottawa Ontario - Edwin Godfrey Newman first native Indian appointed a magistrate.
    1966 Quebec - Daniel Johnson 1915-1968 leads Union Nationale to victory in Quebec provincial election; will only serve two years of the mandate before his death.
    1961 Ottawa Ontario - John A. Macdonald's home Earnscliffe declared a National Historic Site; residence of British High Commissioner.
    1944 Normandy France - D-DAY-1; Soldiers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, part of British 6th Airborne Division's 3rd brigade make advance overnight landing before D-Day; "C" company lands in the most easterly drop-zone near Varville, blows up a bridge across the Divette River, destroying a German strong-point and then moves back four miles to the village of le Mesnil.
    1940 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet declares 16 Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations illegal under wartime emergency legislation; jails leaders.
    1897 Quebec Quebec - Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier sails to England to attend Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; he will return knighted as Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
    1884 Montana - Gabriel Dumont 1838-1906, accompanied by with Michel Dumas, Moise Ouelette, and James Isbister, visits Louis Riel in Montana, where he is teaching; after several days of discussion, he agrees to return to help the Metis protect their rights.
    1876 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada holds its first sitting; presiding is William Richards, first chief justice, appointed Oct. 1875.
    1854 Washington DC - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 signs Reciprocity Treaty with US negotiator William Marcy; opens U.S. to natural produce only in return for freedom of operation on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River; begins Oct 15; leads to great prosperity in the Canadas, until it is canceled by the Americans in March 1866.
    1817 Kingston Ontario - Launching of steamship Frontenac; first steamer on the Great Lakes makes its inaugural trip west to the town of York.
    1798 Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario - Second session of second Parliament of Upper Canada meets until July 5; sets up county system; makes valid marriages performed by non-Anglicans.
    1741 Siberia - Vitus Jonassen Bering 1681-1741 sails from Kamchatka Peninsula to explore Alaska.
    1673 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 requires coureurs de bois to give notice if they leave settlement to trade for more than two days; royal decree to control independent traders makes them divert trade south.
    1613 Cobden Ontario - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 loses his astrolabe near Lac des Chats on the Ottawa River; one such instrument, supposedly found on June 7, 1867, is not old enough to be Champlain's.

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