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    68 – The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
    218 – Battle of Antioch: with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
    632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
    793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
    1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
    1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
    1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
    1690 – Yadi Sakat, a Siddi general, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
    1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
    1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
    1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
    1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
    1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
    1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
    1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
    1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
    1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
    1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
    1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
    1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
    1940 – World War II: the completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
    1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
    1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
    1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
    1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
    1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
    1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
    1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
    1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
    1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
    1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
    1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
    1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
    1967 – Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
    1968 – Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
    1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
    1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
    1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
    1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
    1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    1995 – The downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
    2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
    2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
    2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
    2013 – The Wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill takes place in Stockholm, Sweden.


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    Today's Canadian Headline....

    1944 D-DAY+2 - MORE MURDERS OF CANADIAN POWS
    Caen France -Canadians move inland from Juno beach; Rommel orders Kurt Meyer's 12th SS Panzer Grenadiers to attack the Canadian 7th Brigade at Putot-en-Basin (8 kms west of Caen). They cross the railway and outflank the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, destroying the three forward companies; the rest withdraw, leaving their wounded behind; the Canadian Scottish, Canscots and 1st Hussars then use an artillery barrage from the 12th and 13th field regiments to retake Putot, but Meyer counter-attacks with 22 Panther tanks, the Regina Rifles fight a night-long battle, and hold. During these fights, the SS murder several Canadian POWs, including six Winnipeg Rifles, and a Red Cross stretcher-bearer, who are ordered into a wood and shot in the temple; 13 more Canadians are executed within 100 yards of the Command post; the bodies of 7 more are found near-by, all shot in the head with small arms; finally, 40 Winnipegs and Cameron Highlanders are marched into a field, ordered to sit together with the wounded at their centre, and machine gunned; 5 escape.

    1685
    Quebec Quebec - Jacques de Meulles d1703 uses card money to pay soldiers during a coin shortage; the playing cards are used whole, or cut into halves and quarters; redeemed in 1718, but in common use until the inflations of the 1750s.

    1995
    Ontario - Mike Harris wins Ontario election for the Progressive Conservatives, defeating Bob Rae of the NDP, in power since 1990; takes 82 out of 130 seats.



    In Other Events....

    1992 Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Space Agency chooses 4 new astronauts from 5,300 applicants; Chris Hadfield, aviation systems specialist, Air Force Major, age 32; Julie Payette, computer engineer with Bell-Northern Research; Montreal native, age 28; Robert Stewart, geophysicist with University of Calgary; Calgary native, age 37; Dafydd Williams, Toronto physician, age 37.
    1991 Calgary Alberta - Jack Pierce dies at 67 during a cattle roundup at his Turner Valley ranch; founder of Ranger Oil in the 1950s.
    1979 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa starts two-month public service hiring freeze.
    1977 Toronto Ontario - Gilbert LaBine dies, discoverer of pitchblende at Great Bear Lake, and developer of what is now the Eldorado refinery at Port Hope, Ont., where the U-235 for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was made.
    1976 Inuvik NWT - Thomas Berger 1933- ends hearings into social and environmental effects of the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline; Justice of the BC Supreme Court.
    1974 Ottawa Ontario - Jules Leger 1913-1980 suffers a stroke; administrative duties taken by Chief Justice.
    1972 London England - Lester Bowles Pearson 1897-1972 receives Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth; former Prime Minister.
    1968 Orillia Ontario - Former residence of Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 at Brewery Bay near Orillia designated a national monument.
    1968 London England - James Earl Ray suspected assassin of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. arrested four days after the murder traveling with two forged Canadian passports.
    1964 Ottawa Ontario - Ludwig Erhard Chancellor of West Germany arrives in Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Pearson.
    1944 Atlantic - Flight Officer K. O. Moore, piloting a Canadian Liberator bomber, destroys two German U-Boats in 22 minutes.
    1940 Montreal Quebec - RCAF's No. 1 Fighter Squadron leaves for Britain.
    1927 Ontario - Canada protests immigration quotas applied to Canadians crossing border to take US jobs.
    1917 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet creates office of Dominion Fuel Controller.
    1900 Charlottetown PEI - Prince Edward Island passes Canada's first prohibition law.
    1893 Victoria BC - Steamship Miowera arrives in Victoria from Sydney, Australia; first steamer of the Canadian Australian Line.
    1886 Montreal Quebec - Édouard-Charles Fabre 1827-1896 appointed first Archbishop of Montreal.
    1881 Montreal Quebec - Montreal fire destroys 642 houses.
    1866 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the fifth session of the eighth Parliament of Canada; meets until Aug. 15; last session as the Province of Canada.
    1866 Ottawa Ontario - Cabinet suspends writ of Habeas Corpus for one year; to capture persons suspected of complicity in Fenian invasions.
    1859 Victoria BC - British Columbia establishes the BC Supreme Court.
    1843 Toronto Ontario - John Strachan 1778-1867 enrolls first students in King's College, predecessor of the University of Toronto; first President; later founds Trinity College.
    1826 Toronto Ontario - Tory youths dump printing press of William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861 into Toronto Bay; he had angered the Family Compact with articles in his newspaper, the Colonial Advocate.
    1824 Quebec Quebec - Noah Cushing receives a patent for a washing and fulling machine; first patent issued in Canada.
    1813 Stoney Creek Ontario - James Yeo 1782-1818 arrives off Forty Mile Creek with a fleet from Kingston with reinforcements after the Battle of Stoney Creek; American invaders under Winder and Chandler retreat toward Niagara.
    1790 Windsor Nova Scotia - King's College opens at Windsor, Nova Scotia; founded by a group of Loyalist scholars from what is now Columbia University in New York; gets Royal Charter in 1802; later moves to Halifax.
    1776 Trois Rivières Quebec - Simon Fraser leads 24th Regiment in beating back St. Clair's American invaders at Three Rivers.
    1736 Lake of the Woods Ontario - Jean-Baptiste Gaultier de La Vérendrye 1714-1736 and 20 of his men are massacred by a Sioux raiding party near Fort St. Charles in the Lake of the Woods; son of Pierre; dead include Father Jean-Pierre Aulneau (1705-1736).
    1731 Montreal Quebec - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Vérendrye 1685-1749 leaves Montreal with three sons Jean-Baptiste, Pierre, and François and 50 men to explore and trade in the west; with nephew Christophe Dufrost de La Jemerais (1708-1736).
    1542 St. John's Newfoundland - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves Charlesbourg after a difficult winter; 35 Frenchmen may have been killed by Iroquois; meets Roberval in Nfld.; refuses order to join him and returns to France.

    End of C/P.


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