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    421 – Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia. The wedding was celebrated at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).
    1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
    1420 – Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchal State of Friuli.
    1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
    1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
    1654 – Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
    1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, was hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people were killed and 3,000 were seriously injured.
    1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence.
    1788 – French Revolution: Day of the Tiles — civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
    1800 – David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
    1810 – The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
    1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
    1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
    1863 – During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
    1866 – 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
    1880 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaρa del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
    1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
    1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
    1893 – Mohandas Gandhi commits his first act of civil disobedience.
    1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
    1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
    1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
    1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
    1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied soldiers detonate ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
    1919 – Sette giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta.
    1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
    1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president.
    1938 – The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
    1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed.
    1940 – King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leaves Tromsψ and goes into exile in London. They return exactly five years later
    1942 – World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
    1942 – World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
    1944 – World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
    1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
    1948 – Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
    1955 – Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
    1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
    1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
    1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
    1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup began in England.
    1977 – 500 million people watched the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
    1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
    1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.
    1990 – Universal Studios Florida opens in Orlando, FL.
    1991 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
    1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
    2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.


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    Today's Canadian Headline....

    1944 PANZER SS SHOOT CANADIAN POWS IN COLD BLOOD
    Normandy France - D-DAY + 1; the 3rd Canadian Division, 9th Canadian Brigade, North Novas with the Sherbrooke tanks for support, and some Cameron Highlander machine-gunners, push through Buron and Authie toward Capriquet airport, 3 miles west of Caen; lose naval gunfire support, pass out of range of Canadian artillery, and lose contact with a British brigade ordered elsewhere; Lt Col Petch decides to withdraw to higher ground, but C company attacked by the German 12th SS Panzer at Authie, just North of Caen-Bayeux road; 250 North Nova Scotia Highlanders and 60 Sherbrooke Fusilier tankmen are killed or captured; 23 Canadian POWs are executed that night by the Panzers.

    1866
    Frelighsburg Quebec - Fenian leader Spier leads 1,800 raiders across the border; they loot around Pigeon Hill; plunder St-Armand and Frelighsburg, then retreat when the Canadian militia cavalry arrive and attack them ; US troops later seize their supplies at St. Alban's, and they retreat south.



    In Other Events....

    1996 Quebec Quebec - Quebec's Chief Electoral Officer charges 11 business and student organizations, some in Ontario, with violating the referendum law.
    1991 Ottawa Ontario - Benoit Bouchard announces $435,000 aid program for Oka to help rebuild battered economy after 78 day standoff with the Mohawks.
    1989 Edmonton Alberta - Wayne Gretzky wins his ninth NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years.
    1989 Toronto Ontario - Ernie Whitt has three hits and drives in three runs as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 in their first game in the SkyDome, before a crowd of more than 45-thousand; first game in major league history played indoors and outdoors in the same day; with rain threatening in the fifth inning, operators start closing the $100 million retractable roof at 8:48 pm, finishing 34 minutes later, too late to prevent a short game delay.
    1962 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- arrives in Canada with Queen Mother for l0-day visit.
    1956 Niagara Falls Ontario - Two-thirds of an Ontario Hydro power generating station collapses into the Niagara River gorge, about a kilometre below the Falls.
    1950 New York City - Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo and his orchestra have a #1 hit with their recording of The Third Man Theme.
    1939 Niagara Falls Ontario - King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, leave Canada after their Royal Tour and make the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
    1909 New York City - Toronto born actress Mary Pickford makes her motion picture debut in The Violin Maker of Cremona.
    1904 Ottawa Ontario - Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton, Earl Dundonald 1852-1935 dismissed as Commander-in-Chief of military forces in Canada for criticizing the Minister of Militia; end of practice of Imperial officers commanding the forces in Canada.
    1887 Ottawa Ontario - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 elected leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing Edward Blake; later Canada's 7th Prime Minister.
    1886 Rome Italy - Montreal Bishop Elzιar-Alexandre Taschereau 1820-1898 created Canada's first Roman Catholic cardinal by Pope Leo XIII.
    1862 Washington DC - United States and Britain sign a mutual treaty to suppress the slave trade..
    1834 Back River NWT - George Back descends the Back River to Chantry Inlet on the Arctic coast, then returns to Fort Reliance; learns of Ross' safe return to England.
    1832 Quebec Quebec - Irish Immigrants arrive aboard the sailing ship Carrick from Dublin; a government inspector lets the vessel leave the quarantine station, but some of the Irish have Asian cholera, which soon spreads in Quebec and Montreal; the resulting epidemic kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
    1829 Montreal Quebec - Dedication of Notre-Dame Church on the Place d'Armes.
    1824 Quebec Quebec - Francis Burton appointed administrator of Lower Canada; serves until Sept. 16, 1825.
    1819 Toronto Ontario - Opening of fourth session of seventh Parliament of Upper Canada; meets until July 12; authorizes land grants to war veterans.
    1816 British Columbia - James Keith 1784-1851 put in charge of the North West Company's Fort George and coastal district, as the NWC divides the Columbia district in two; Donald McKenzie 1783-1851 put in charge of the inland district.
    1800 Manitoba - David Thompson 1770-1857 reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River.
    1776 Trois Riviθres Quebec - Arthur St. Clair 1734-1818 skirmishes with the British at Three Rivers; the American invaders are beaten back the next day by Simon Fraser and the 24th Regiment.
    1689 Paris France - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 reappointed Governor of New France, with instructions to capture Hudson Bay and New York; recalled seven years earlier.
    1677 Ontario - Olivier Morel de La Durantaye 1640-1716 claims the Lake Erie-Huron area for France.
    1654 Paris France - Louis XIV crowned King of France.
    1586 North Atlantic - John Davis c1543-1605 sends the Sunneshine and North Starre to look for a passage between Iceland and Greenland.
    1585 Dartmouth England - John Davis c1543-1605 sails on the Sunneshine and Mooneshine, with Queen Elizabeth's royal patent to discover the North West Passage.
    1576 Bristol England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sails on the Gabriel and Michael to search for the North West Passage; licensed by the Muscovy Company; backed by Elizabeth I and London merchants; will sight Greenland, and name Frobisher Bay after himself.

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