1947 HAPPY NEW YEAR, YOU'RE A CANADIAN
Ottawa Ontario - Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect, officially creating Canadian citizens; Canadian citizenship is paramount to being a British subject.

1899 Also On This Day...
London England - Canada agrees on Imperial Penny Postage; letter delivered anywhere within British Empire for 2 cents; the stamp was designed by Postmaster General Sir William Mulock.


1882 Also On This Day...
Montreal Quebec - William Cornelius Van Horne 1843-1915 appointed first General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway; the ex Illinois Central manager will finish the line far ahead of schedule.


And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Jackie Parker 1932-
CFL football quarterback, born on this day in 1932. Parker joined the Edmonton Eskimos in 1954, and led them to a Grey Cup victory his first season, repeating the feat in 1955. In 1956 he played halfback as the Eskimos won their third consecutive national title. Parker retired to coach after several seasons with the Toronto Argonauts and one with the BC Lions.

Also Michael Hanson 1963-
Rock & Roll drummer, of Glass Tiger, born on this day in 1963.

Also John C. Garand 1888-1974
firearms engineer, was born on this day in 1915 at St-Rémi, Quebec; died in Springfield, Massachusetts Feb. 16, 1974. Garand invented the M1 semiautomatic rifle, used by the US infantry in World War II and the Korean War.

In Other Events... (past 30 Years)
1994 Canada - North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA) goes into effect, creating a potential tariff free zone in Canada, the US and Mexico.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Federal 7% Goods and Services Tax (GST) comes into effect. Brian Mulroney created 8 Senate seats to pass the legislation, after it stalled in a Senate filibuster.
1990 Ottawa Ontario - MPs get pay raise to minimum $82,700, plus $20,000 tax free allowance; Prime Minister's salary to $153,700.
1989 Ottawa Ontario - Canada-U-S free-trade agreement takes effect; to cut or eliminate tariffs on trade over a 10-year period; sets up dispute settlement mechanism.
1987 Ontario - Ontario lawyers allowed to advertise their services by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Post office raises first class mail rates from 17¢ to 30¢.
1981 Chapais Quebec - Fire in a recreation club kills 48 New Year's Eve celebrants in the northern Quebec mining town of Chapais.
1980 Europe - Ottawa ski jumper Horst Bulau wins world cup 90 Metre ski jumping event.

And In World History....
1801 - The Kingdom of Ireland merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain, adding St. Patrick's saltire to the Union Flag.
1818 - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, a novel by Mary Shelley, was first published in London.
1901 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federated as the Commonwealth of Australia.
1959 - Cuban Revolution: President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba fled to the Dominican Republic as forces under Fidel Castro took control of Havana.
1999 - The Euro, the official currency of the European Union, was introduced.

Courtsey of Wikipedia & Sympatico News

The Euro's birthday. I had no idea.

'It' only became legal tender in 2002. (They were made up in 1999 to allow Stock Exchanges to adapt)

That that it came into circulation in 2002. I was here at the time. Most Euro-zone countries, Portugal one of them, had a phase-in period where both native currency and Euros circulated simultaneously. Germany I think was the exception, they went directly from Marks to Euros on Jan 1st 2002.

1983 JOE CLARK RESIGNS
Ottawa Ontario - Joe Clark 1939- resigns as Leader of the Opposition after getting support of only 2/3 of delegates at Winnipeg; Erik Neilsen interim leader; calls leadership convention.

1929 Also On This Day...
Edmonton Alberta - World War I ace Wop May takes off with fellow bush pilot Vic Horner to deliver diphtheria vaccine to Fort Vermilion, Alberta, 1600 km north. The pilots make the trip in an open aircraft, with oil burners to keep the vaccine from freezing. A crowd of 10.000 greet the heroes on their return. Here he is with one of his Northwest Aero planes, used to open up the north.


And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Frederick Horsman Varley 1881-1969
painter, born on this day at Sheffield England in 1881; dies in Toronto in 1969. A founding member of the Group of Seven, Varley studied at the Sheffield School of Art and the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. In 1912, he met his friend Arthur Lismer, who had returned briefly to Sheffield to be married, and Lismer convinced him to move to Toronto, where he landed a job at the design firm Grip Limited. He became an official World War I war artist, and painted battlefields and cemeteries. During the late 1920s he painted landscapes, then expressionistic portraits such as this one entitled Vera, now in the National Gallery. In 1926, he became the head of the Department of Drawing and Painting, School of Decorative and Applied Arts, Vancouver, and during that period he sketched in the Arctic and Russia. In 1933 he moved to Toronto where he spent the last 25 years of his life. Find out more at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection .



Also George Hungerford 1944-rower, was born on this day in 1944. Hungerford was a member of the Canadian eights rowing team headed for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, but he was dropped from the events 5 weeks prior to the games when he developed mononucleosis. To keep in shape, he teamed with Roger Jackson to row pairs, but with good practice results the coach entered them in the Doubles Without Cox event, that they won by three quarters of a length over the highly favoured Dutch crew.

In Other Events...(past 30 years)
1988 Washington DC - Brian Mulroney 1939- signs free trade accord with Ronald Reagan.
1983 Asia - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- starts 18-day mission to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines; returns Jan. 19

And in World History.....
366 - The Alamanni crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers to invade the Roman Empire.
533 - Mercurius became Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
1492 - Reconquista: Catholic Monarchs expelled Boabdil of Granada, the last of the Moorish rulers, from the Iberian Peninsula.
1949 - Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
1959 - Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon, was launched by the Soviet Union.

Courtsey of Sympatico and Wikipedia

Ah yes the great Joe Clark. 66% wasn't enough for him. :lol:

1992 LAST MISS CANADA PAGEANT
Toronto Ontario - Miss Canada Pageant scrapped after 45 years, due to changing tastes and politics; Nicole Dunsdon, crowned Oct 1991, the last Miss Canada.

1863 Also On This Day...
Halifax Nova Scotia - Covered skating rink opens in Halifax; first covered skating rink in Canada. Up to this time, skating was all done out of doors, such as in this early version of hockey - lacrosse on ice.


1939 And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Robert Marvin 'Bobby' Hull 1939-
hockey player, born on this day at Point Anne, Ontario in 1939. Hull started skating at age 3. He played for the NHL Chicago Black Hawks for 16 seasons, from 1957-72. In 1962 he joined Rocket Richard and Bernie Geoffrion as the only NHLers to score 50 goals in a season (54), a feat he achieved four more times, and was the first player to record more than 50 goals a season. Hull revived hockey in Chicago and led his team to the 1961 Stanley Cup. With his blistering slap shot - one was measured at 118.3 mph, 35 mph above the NHL average - he won the Art Ross Trophy leading the NHL in scoring 3 times, was 2-time Hart Memorial Trophy MVP (1965, 1966), and was an NHL first team all-star 10 times. The Golden Jet jumped to the Winnipeg Jets of the WHA in 1972, giving that League instant credibility, and was 2-time MVP there (1973, 1975), playing with Swedish stars Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson. Hull scored a lifetime 913 goals with 895 assists in both leagues. He won the Lady Byng Trophy for good sportsmanship in 1965, and spoke out often against hockey violence. When he retired in 1980 the Chicago and Winnipeg teams both retired his #9 sweater. Hull is the father of Brett Hull of the St. Louis Blues.



Also Graydon (Blondie) Robinson 1928-
bowler, was born on this day in 1928. Robinson won the World 10-Pin Bowling Championships in Tokyo at age 41.

In Other Events... (Past 30 years)
1990 Toronto Ontario - Merrill Lynch Canada sells retail arm to Wood Gundy Inc.
1985 Toronto Ontario - Justice Samuel Grange releases 224 page report on baby deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children; says 8 of 36 babies who died between June 1980 and March 1981 were given deliberate overdoses of digoxin, a heart drug; recommends province pay legal fees of Belleville nurse Susan Nelles, charged with four of the deaths, whose case was thrown out for lack of evidence.

On This Day in World History...

1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church after Luther refused to retract 41 of his 95 theses.
1749 - Benning Wentworth began to issue the New Hampshire Grants on land which was also claimed by New York, and is now Vermont.
1958 - Ten former British colonies in the Caribbean joined to form a new self-governing West Indies Federation.
1973 - George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees for US$8.7 million.
1990 - United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrendered.

Noriega. I was only 9 at the time, but I remember that very well.

1983 CRIMINAL CODE SEXUAL ASSAULT REFORMS
Ottawa Ontario - Criminal Code changes replace rape with 3 categories of sexual assault; equal protection to men and women; women allowed to charge their husbands with sexual assault.

1908 Also On This Day...
Toronto Ontario - Edward 'Ned' Hanlan 1855-1908 dies. Rower Hanlan was Canada's first world sporting champion. The Toronto-born sculler won the Ontario championship in 1873, and four years later, the Dominion cup. In 1878, he took the American title, and the following year the World Rowing Championship, which he held for five years. He is memorialized by a statue on Toronto's waterfront and Hanlan's Point on the Toronto Islands.


And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Matt Frewer 1958-
actor, born on this day at Washington DC to a Canadian Navy father. Frewer has played in Kissinger and Nixon (General Alexander Haig), National Lampoon's Senior Trip (Principal Todd Moss), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Big Russ Thompson), Speed Zone, Supergirl, Doctor, Doctor (Dr. Mike Stratford); and as a cartoon voice in the Pink Panther and as The Exterminator in Itsy Bitsy Spider. On TV he has starred as Rasmussen in in Star Trek: The Next Generation; in Stephen King's The Stand (Trashcan Man), as Shaky Ground's Bob Moody; and his most famous role, as reporter Edison Carter and his alter ego Max Headroom in Max Headroom (1987 - picture)



Also Dr. John Emery 1932-
plastic surgeon, bobsledder, was born on this day in 1932. In 1957 Emery teamed with brother Victor and formed the Laurentian Bobsledding Association. At the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics, they teamed with Peter Kirby and Doug Anakin to win Canada's first ever Bobsled Gold Medal.

In Other Events... (past 30 Years)
1995 Quebec Quebec - Denis Lortie released on parole after serving 10 years in prison for 1984 shooting in the Quebec legislature, where he killed three people.
1993 Toronto Ontario - Manufacturers Life opens 14 Manulife Bank branches; converted out of smaller trust companies; first banks owned by insurance and trust companies under new financial rules.
1990 Europe - Canada defeats Czechoslovakia 2-1 to win World Junior Hockey title.
1984 Edmonton Alberta - Oiler Wayne Gretsky scores eight points in a night for the second time in his NHL career as Edmonton defeats the Minnesota North Stars, 12-8. Gretsky had four goals and four assists.
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Criminal Code changes replace rape with 3 categories of sexual assault; equal protection to men and women; women allowed to charge their husbands with sexual assault.

And in World History...

1698 - Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, was destroyed by fire.
1884 - The Fabian Society, a socialist intellectual movement, was founded in London.
1936 - Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade.
1948 - Thakin Nu of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League presided over the independence of Burma (now Myanmar) from the British Empire.
2004 - The NASA Mars Rover Spirit landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

Today's Canadian Headline...
1910 MONTREAL CANADIENS PLAY FIRST GAME
Montreal Quebec - Le club athlétique Canadien hockey team play their first game, seven years before the founding of the NHL Their owner is J. Ambrose O'Brien and they are composed entirely of francophones until the 1911-12 season.

1987 Also On This Day...
Lakefield Ontario - Canadian author Margaret Laurence dies at age 60, losing a battle with cancer; best known for her novels The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), The Fire Dwellers (1969) and The Diviners (1974).


And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919
soldier, policeman, was born on this day in 1849 at Purbrooke, Ontario; dies in London England Jan 30, 1919. Sam Steele joined the Canadian militia during the Fenian invasions in 1866, and went west in 1870 as a Private with the Red River Expedition. The following year he joined the permanent force, and in 1873 the new North West Mounted Police, as a Sergeant-Major. In 1879 he was put in charge of Fort Qu'Appelle, where he protected the CPR construction program, and in 1885 he was promoted to Superintendent. In 1898 he led the Yukon Field Force to Dawson and the Klondike gold fields, and then pulled together Lord Strathcona's Horse for service in the Boer War. He retired in 1918 after leading the Second Canadian contingent to World War I



Also Myrtle Cook 1902-1985
track and field athlete, was born on this day in 1901; died Mar 18, 1985. Cook held the Canadian titles in the 60, 100 and 400 relay metre distances in the late 1920s. At the 1928 Olympiad she was the anchor leg of Canada's gold medal winning 400m. relay. She had previously set the world record for the 100 Metre Sprint at the Canadian Olympic trials in Halifax, but false starts put her out of contention in Amsterdam.

In Other Events... (Past 30 years)
1995 Toronto Ontario - Rogers Cablesystems President Colin Watson says 'We now know we have made a mistake,' as consumer revolt forces company to withdraw its negative option billing for seven new specialty cable-television channels; unless customers told Rogers they didn't want the channels, they would be automatically billed for them.
1990 St. John's Newfoundland - Victor Young, President of Fishery Products International, says the company will have to close its Grand Bank, Gaultois & Trepassy fish plants; Premier Wells announces $12 million subsidy; until 1991, saving 1300 jobs and 13 trawlers.
1986 Edmonton Alberta - Oilers star Wayne Gretzky becomes the first NHL player to score 100 or more points in seven consecutive seasons.
1983 Vancouver BC - Roman Catholic Bishops of Canada release New Year's message attacking government economic policy.
1982 Hamilton Ontario - Elizabeth Bagshaw dies at age 100; one of Canada's first female doctors, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1905, and practiced medicine for over 60 years.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa bans hiring skilled foreign workers in several mining, manufacturing and construction sectors; to protect Canadian jobs
1979 Edmonton Alberta - Opening of new dinosaur gallery at the Alberta Museum in Edmonton; houses three skeletons from Drumheller

An in World Events....
1477 - Charles the Bold (pictured) died at the Battle of Nancy, leading to the annexation of Burgundy by France.
1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning.
1968 - Alexander Dubèek came to power in Czechoslovakia, beginning a political reform known as "Socialism with a human face".
2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, was discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken in 2003 at the Palomar Observatory.

sorry for not being here on Saturday

January 6th

1920 FARMERS' GROUPS ESTABLISH THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY
Winnipeg Manitoba - T. A. Crerar chairs a meeting of Ontario and Prairie farmers' organizations to establish the National Progressive Party; he had resigned from Borden's Union cabinet in 1919 to protest the high tariff. The Progressive Party will elect 65 members to Parliament in the election of Dec. 1921.

1643 Also On This Day...
Montreal Quebec - Paul de Chomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve, plants a cross at Ville Marie to offer thanks to God for saving the community from flooding.


1786 Also On This Day...
Saint John New Brunswick - First sitting of the NB legislature takes place at Saint John.


And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Ian Millar 1947-
equestrian, born on this day in 1947. Millar has represented Canada in 5 Olympic Games, three with his partner Big Ben, acquired in 1983. In 1987 Millar was the first Canadian ranked #1 in the World by the International Equestrian Federation. Big Ben retired in 1994.


Also Dickie Moore 1931-
NHL player, Montreal Canadiens, was born on this day in 1931. Moore holds the Stanley Cup Individual Record for points scored in a period - 4, on March 25, 1954.

In Other Events... (past 30 years)
1992 Quebec Quebec - Quebec judge rules that a 25-year- old paralyzed woman, 'Nancy B,' suffering from a rare neurological disorder and on life support, has no hope of recovery and has the right to die. Doctors will remove her life support on February 13, after a 30 day appeal period lapses.

World History

1661 - Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London from the newly restored government of Charles II.
1838 - Samuel Morse successfully tested the electrical telegraph for the first time.
1907 - Maria Montessori opened her first school and day care center for working class children in Rome.
1929 - King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes abolished his country's constitution and introduced a dictatorship.
1995 - A suspicious fire in a Manila flat led to the foiling of Oplan Bojinka, a precursor to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

January 7th

1955 TV CAMERAS FIRST ENTER PARLIAMENT
Ottawa Ontario - The Speech from the Throne and the opening ceremonies of the Canadian Parliament are broadcast live on television for the first time.

1691 Also On This Day...
Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 is forced to issue card money to pay the troops in the Quebec garrison, due to the non-arrival of a supply ship.


And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Sanford Fleming 1827-1915
civil engineer, born on this day at Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland in 1827; dies in Halifax Nova Scotia July 22, 1915. Fleming came to Canada in 1845 and became one of North America's greatest railway surveyors and engineers. He also developed the concept of international standard time, which was adopted in 1884. As well, Fleming designed the first Canadian postage stamp, the Three Penny Beaver, first issued in 1851.



Also Jules Huot 1908-
golfer, was born on this day at Montreal in 1908. Huot was the top Canadian at the Canadian Open in 1931 and 1935, won the CPGA championship in 1934, 1939 and 1946, and in 1937 became the first Canadian to win a USPGA-sanctioned tournament at Fonthill Ontario. He also played in the first ever Masters Tournament. Huot's book Le Golf went through three printings.

In Other Events... (past 30 years)
1996 Ontario - Blizzard kills two Ontario men in separate traffic accidents; two-day storm blamed for at least 100 deaths in north-eastern US, worst to hit the region in 70 years.
1986 Kingston Ontario - Chris Clifford of the Kingston Canadians the first goalie in the Ontario Hockey League to score a goal; in 53 year history of the OHL.
1984 Medicine Hat Alberta - Train wreck near Medicine Hat releases dangerous gases, forcing evacuation of 800 people.
1983 Toronto Ontario - Ontario seizes assets of Greymac Trust Company, Crown Trust Company, and Seaway Trust Company, owned by Leonard Rosenberg.
1981 Los Angeles California - Marcel Dionne of the NHL Kings scores his 1,000th point with a goal in a 5-3 victory over the Hartford Whalers.

In World History...

1558 - Francis, Duke of Guise retook Calais, England's last continental possession, for France.
1610 - Galileo Galilei first observed the Jovian satellites Io, Europa and Callisto through his telescope.
1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries became the first to cross the English Channel by balloon.
1975 - OPEC raised the price of crude oil by 10 percent.
1979 - Phnom Penh fell to the People's Army of Vietnam, effectively ending the Democratic Kampuchea regime.

The Montesorri schools are 100 years old today? Them and their poshness ¬¬


Don't worry about it OO, you've provided enough reading and doughnuts to fill any absence.

1941 OTTAWA TO REGISTER JAPANESE CANADIANS
Vancouver BC - Federal Minister Ian Mackenzie announces that the RCMP will be registering all Japanese Canadians in British Columbia; a national security matter under the War Measures Act. They are later moved inland to detention camps.

1948 Also On This Day...
Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sets record as longest serving Prime Minister in the Commonwealth, with 7,825 days in office; Canada's 10th Prime Minister.


1853 And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Samuel Hughes 1853-1921
politician, soldier, educator, journalist, born on this day at Darlington Ontario in 1853; dies in Lindsay, Ontario Aug 24, 1921. Hughes served as Minister of Militia and Defense from 1911 to 1916, and was responsible for moving Canadian troops to Europe at the beginning of World War I.



Also Mike Reno 1955-
rock singer, musician, is born on this day in 1955. Reno becomes a member of the group Loverboy.

In Other Events... (Past 30 Years)
1996 Toronto Ontario - Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin announces he is quitting federal politics to run for the job of provincial Liberal leader and Premier of Newfoundland. He will be the only candidate to replace Clyde Wells.
1991 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer's federally-funded Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future launches its first satellite town hall meeting, people from Vancouver to Saint John, New Brunswick commenting.
1990 Caracas Venezuela - Canada formally joins the Organization of American States (OAS) as its 33rd member.
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate at 987,000 or 8.6% of the work force; highest since figures first taken in 1946

World History....

1198 - Lotario de Conti became Pope Innocent III. His first act was the restoration of the papal power in Rome.
1815 - War of 1812: The United States Army led by Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans two weeks after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.
1889 - Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
1989 - British Midland Flight 92 crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway in the Kegworth air disaster.
2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest ocean liner ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

I Really hate to do this but this is the link to find all history on this day in Canada.
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World History...

1768 - Philip Astley staged the first modern circus in London.
1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announced the Daguerreotype photographic process, named after its inventor, Louis Daguerre.
1878 - Humbert the Good became King of Italy.
1916 - World War I: In Gallipoli, the Ottoman Empire was victorious in the Battle of Çanakkale.
1964 - Martyrs' Day in Panama: A four-day riot erupted over sovereignty of the Canal Zone.

Once again I'm very Busy...

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World History...

1475 - In the Battle of Vaslui, Stephen the Great and his Moldavian forces successfully repelled an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia.
1776 - Thomas Paine published Common Sense, which galvanized the American Revolution among the populace.
1810 - Napoleon, childless after 14 years of marriage, divorced his first wife Empress Joséphine.
1927 - The film Metropolis was released. It was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark to make.
1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations opened in London's Westminster Central Hall. Fifty-one member states were represented.

1922 CANADIAN BOY THE FIRST TO BEAT DIABETES
Toronto Ontario - Leonard Thompson, a 14 year old Canadian, is the first person to have his diabetes successfully treated, with Banting and Best's new discovery, insulin.

1815 And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891
politician, born on this day at Glasgow, Scotland in 1815, the son of Hugh Macdonald and Helen Shaw; died in Ottawa June 6, 1891, Ontario in 1938. Macdonald moved to Kingston, Ontario with his parents at the age of five. He was to become the first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (1867-73, 1878-91). (His birth is marked on this day; in actual fact, he was born late on the 10th,, and his birth registered the following day.)


And in Other Canadian Birthdays...
Jean Chrétien 1934-
lawyer, politician, born on this day at Shawinigan, Quebec in 1934. Chrétien got his law degree from Laval in 1958, and practiced until 1963, when he won election to the House of Commons as a Liberal. He served in the Pearson Cabinet as Minister of National Revenue, and under Trudeau had the portfolios of Indian Affairs, Treasury Board, Industry, Finance, Justice and Energy. He ran second to John Turner in the 1984 Liberal leadership race, but took the leadership and a federal seat in Beauséjours NB in 1990. In the 1993 election, he defeated Kim Campbell with a clear majority to become Prime Minister of Canada, a position he retained after the 1997 election.



Also Anne Heggtveit 1939-
skier, was born on this day at Ottawa in 1939. Heggtveit Learned to ski at Camp Fortune in Chelsea Quebec. In 1954, at age 15, she won the 1954 Holmenkollen Giant Slalom event in Norway, the youngest winner in the event's 50 year history. Her Gold Medal in the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics was Canada's first ever Olympic Skiing Gold. In 1960 she won the FIS giant slalom and combined women's alpine titles, the first time these championships had been won by a non-European.

Also Gus Ryder 1899-1991
swim coach, was born on this day in 1899; died May 23 1991. Ryder established the Lakeshore Swimming Club, and coached distance swimmers Marilyn Bell and Cliff Lumsden. He also spent much of his time teaching physically handicapped children to swim.

Also William (Samuel) Stephenson 1896-1989
industrialist, intelligence chief, was born on this day in 1896 at Point Douglas, Manitoba; died in Paget, Bermuda Jan 31, 1989. Stephenson perfected the process of sending photos by wire in the 1920s. His role as Britain's intelligence chief in the US, and Churchill's confidential liaison with Roosevelt in World War II was chronicled in A Man Called Intrepid (1979).

In Other Events... (past 30 years)

1996 Quebec Quebec - Bloc Quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard appointed Premier designate of Quebec by the Parti Quebecois.
1994 Quebec Quebec - Robert Bourassa retires as Premier of Quebec; succeeded by Daniel Johnson, Quebec's 30th Premier.
1995 Toronto Ontario - Dylex Ltd., Canada's largest clothing retailer seeks court protection from its creditors and says it will shut 200 stores, eliminating 1,800 jobs.
1995 North America - NHL players and owners come to an agreement; 103-day National Hockey League lockout ends.
1993 Montreal Quebec - Henry Birks and Sons jewelry chain files for bankruptcy protection; closes 34 stores, then sells remaining 39 stores to Italian group.
1982 Toronto Ontario - CBC moves national news to 10 pm and introduces a new public affairs program The Journal, hosted by Barbara Frum, which will last for a decade.
1980 Toronto Ontario - Thomson Newspapers Ltd. of Toronto acquires control of FP Publications Ltd., owner of 8 papers; including Toronto Globe & Mail

In World History...

1787 - William Herschel discovered the Uranian moons Titania and Oberon.
1879 - The Anglo-Zulu War broke out.
1922 - Insulin was first administered to a human patient with diabetes in Toronto, Canada.
1923 - Troops from France and Belgium invaded the Ruhr Area to force the German Weimar Republic to pay its reparation payments in the aftermath of World War I.
1964 - In a landmark report, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry issued the warning that smoking may be hazardous for one's health.

Sir John Eh and the Kretch born on the same day. Who would have thunk it.

Once again I'm very Busy...

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World History...

1842 - William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
1898 - Émile Zola published "J'accuse" to expose the Dreyfus Affair, and accused the French government of anti-Semitism.
1968 - American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California.
1986 - A month-long violent struggle began in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

Just A strait up big sorry I haven't been around too often that is because my job has been very demanding for the last weekish.

1874 MACKENZIE THRASHES SIR JOHN A.
Canada - Liberal Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 defeats John A. Macdonald in the second Canadian general election, 138 seats to 67; of a total 206 seats. Macdonald suffered from the Pacific Scandal revelations.

1992 Also On This Day...
Cape Canaveral Florida -
Roberta Bondar, a Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, blasts into Space from the Kennedy Space Center on an eight-day flight aboard the shuttle Discovery with six other astronauts. Here she is performing some on-board experiments. Bondar, an MD in Neurology and a PhD in Astrophysics, is Canada's first woman astronaut.



1874 Also On This Day...
Provencher Manitoba - Louis Riel 1844-1885 elected as the member of Parliament for Provencher in Manitoba. He will be prevented from taking his seat by a warrant for his arrest sworn in Ontario.

Roberta Bondar going into space. I remember that.

ME too (Wasn't too Old)

Their's a school named after her in Brampton

Today's Canadian Headline...
1995 MILITARY GET BLACK EYE
Ottawa Ontario - Defence Minister David Collenette disbands the Canadian Airborne Regiment; after some of its soldiers were found to be involved in the death of a Somali boy during a UN mission, and revelations of illegal hazing rituals.

1836 Also On This Day...
Toronto Ontario - Francis Bond Head 1793-1875 arrives in Toronto to replace Colborne as Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; he appoints Reformers Baldwin, Rolph and Dunn to the Executive Council in an effort to quell potential rebellion. Colborne moves to Montreal to take command of the military in the Canadas.


John C. Polanyi 1929-
chemist, professor, born on this day at Berlin, Germany in 1929. Polanyi came to Canada as a young boy; he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1986 with Dudley R. Herschbach and Yuan T. Lee for their contribution to the field of chemical-reaction dynamics.

Today's Canadian Headline...
1978 SOVIET SATELLITE FIREBALL OVER NWT
NWT - Nuclear-powered USSR satellite Cosmos 954 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates over the Northwest Territories, scattering radiation; Canadian Armed Forces launches large operation to recover debris.

1984 Also On This Day...Calgary Alberta - ABC network agrees to pay $386 million for US TV rights to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics; a record sum to that date.


1952 Also On This Day...
Ottawa Ontario - Charles Vincent Massey 1887-1967 appointed Governor General; first Canadian-born; serves from February 28, 1952 to September 15, 1959.

1932 GG MAKES FIRST TRANS CANADA PHONE CALLS
Ottawa Ontario - Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough speaks to the Lieutenant Governor of each province, to inaugurate the Trans-Canada telephone system.

1870 Also On This Day...
Winnipeg Manitoba - Louis Riel leads two week convention to consider the Canadian proposals put forward by Donald Alexander Smith, later Lord Strathcona 1820-1914.



And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
William McDougall 1822-1905
hockey player, born on this day at York County in 1822; dies in Ottawa May 29, 1905. McDougall founded the Toronto newspaper The North American, and was one of the fathers of Confederation. He was appointed lieutenant governor of the Northwest Territories in 1869, but was prevented from taking his post by the Red River Insurrection.

And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Wayne Gretzky 1961- hockey player, born on this day at Brantford, Ontario in 1961. Gretzky, also known as The Great One, began his pro career with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association in 1978 and was then acquired by the NHL Edmonton Oilers. He became the youngest player to score 50 or more goals and 100 or more points in a season, with 212 points in 1982. He led the Oilers to four Stanley Cup championships (1984, 85, 87, 88), and during the 1988-89 season became the highest scorer in the history of the NHL. On Aug. 9, 1988 Edmonton owner Peter Pocklington traded him to the Los Angeles Kings. Gretzky won the Art Ross Trophy for leading the NHL in scoring nine times (1981-87, 1990-91), and the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player nine times (1979-87, 1989). Gretzky is the all-time points leader (goals and assists combined) in the NHL for both the regular season and the playoffs. On Mar. 23, 1994 he surpassed his hero Gordie Howe by setting a new record for the most career goals in the NHL - 802. He was traded to the St. Louis Blues in 1996, and is currently with the New York Rangers.


Hans Selye 1907-1982
endocrinologist, born on this day at Vienna Austria in 1907; died in Montreal Oct 16, 1982. Selye is famous for his studies of the effects of stress on the human body. After medical training in Prague, Paris and Rome, Selye moved to Canada in 1932, and taught at McGill University. In 1945 he was lured to the Université de Montréal to head its Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, where he developed his General Adaptation Syndrome about the effects of stimuli or strain on the human body - alarm, resistance and exhaustion - and the role of stress in disease. His major popular works are the Stress of Life (1956) and Stress Without Distress (1974).


FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY:


1880 Douglas MacArthur, World War II general (Little Rock, AR; died 1964)
1913 Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter (Syracuse, NY; died 1990)
1925 Paul Newman, actor/director (Cleveland, OH)
1928 Roger Vadim, filmmaker (Paris, France; died 2000))
1929 Jules Feiffer, cartoonist (New York, NY)
1935 Bob Uecker, baseball player and sportscaster (Milwaukee, WI)
1942 Scott Glenn, actor (Pittsburgh, PA)
1944 Angela Davis, political activist (Birmingham, AL)
1946 Gene Siskel, film critic (Chicago, IL; died 1999)
1950 David Strathairn, actor (San Francisco, CA)
1957 Eddie Van Halen, musician (Nijmegan, Netherlands)
1958 Anita Baker, singer (Toledo, OH)
1958 Ellen DeGeneres, actress (Metairie, LA)
1961 Wayne Gretzky, hockey player (Brantford, Ontario, Canada)


Ellen DeGeneres Was Born On This Day

1859
Ottawa Ontario - George-Etienne Cartier 1814-1873 proclaims Ottawa the capital of the Canadas. As co-Premier, he had strenuously lobbied for Ottawa as the Queen's choice, against Montreal, Kingston and Toronto, as a place where French Canadians could feel at home.


And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Mordecai Richler 1931-
writer, born on this day at Montreal in 1931. Richler grew up in the working class area near St. Urbain Street. He attended Sir George Williams (Concordia) University, but left before finishing his degree. He started writing novels, then lived for a time in Paris, then London, England (1959-72), where he worked as a freelance journalist and wrote TV and film scripts, before returning to Canada. His novels include The Acrobats (1954), Son of a Smaller Hero (1955), A Choice of Enemies (1957), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959 - filmed in 1974, and directed by Ted Kotcheff), The Incomparable Atuk (1963), Cocksure (1968 - Governor General's Award), St. Urbain's Horseman (1971 - Governor General's Award), Joshua Then and Now (1980 - filmed in 1985) and Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989). His children's books include Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975 - filmed in 1977). Richler has also written an autobiography, Home Sweet Home (1985). Today he lives in Westmount, Quebec, and remains a lively commentator on the political and cultural scene. 'No matter how long I live abroad,' he has written, 'I do feel forever rooted in St. Urbain Street. That was my time, my place, and I have elected myself to get it right.'

Richler! :hail:

If your wondering why there was no post yesterday it was because the site was down.

1946 Also On This Day...
Haiti - Racing schooner Bluenose sinks after striking a reef off Haiti; built by Smith and Rhulandat at Lunenburg, and launched March 26th, 1921, the ship was invincible in races. She was sold as a Caribbean cargo ship in 1938. Here is a MacCaskall photo of her in her glory, signed by her captain Angus Walters.



1897 Also On This Day...
Ottawa Ontario - Ishbel, Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Governor General, helps found the Victorian Order of Nurses at the request of the National Council of Women; name chosen to recognize Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Here she is (centre, book) with her husband and the Council in 1898.


ESS' BIRTHDAY - HAPPY BIRTHDAY ESS

There is a raging debate over whether Bluenose was the reason Angus Walters became so successful, or if Angus Walters was the reason that Bluenose was never beat...He was a hard case at sea but at home the finest gentleman you could find...

He seemed timid in the town but a lion out at sea
As brash and bold as any there was no in between
Blessed with heart and courage and a will like iron too
There was no situation that he wouldn’t make it through

Maybe slight in stature but a giant of a man
Ask any of the sailors that alongside him did stand
He could cut you down to pieces or build you up sky high
He wouldn’t ask of any what he himself would not try

They say Walters was the reason Bluenose was the best
Or Bluenose was the reason that Walters beat the rest
Whichever you believe they were soul mates on the sea
They inspired one and other to surpass and to succeed

As a sailor and a fisher he was unmatched in his time
As a racer he’d the knowledge to make his Bluenose fly
He understood the weather, the wind and sky and sea
He turned a small town lady into the Grand Banks Queen

He could surely raise your ire and make your blood just boil
He’d set your soul on fire when darkness played the foil
He’d shelter you when it seemed that the end was nigh
Praise you to the heavens when it was justified

If you love him or you hate him there is one thing that is clear
Captain Angus Walters was the best of any here
And though he had to leave us for that big race in the sky
When a vessel leaves this harbour he keeps a watchful eye

They say Walters was the reason Bluenose was the best
Or Bluenose was the reason that Walters beat the rest
Whichever you believe they were soul mates on the sea
They inspired one and other to surpass and to succeed

1920 JOE MALONE SCORES RECORD SEVEN GOALS
Quebec City - Quebec Bulldogs' Joe 'The Phantom' Malone 1890-1969 sets NHL record of 7 goals in one game against Toronto. He had previously scored nine goals in a Stanley Cup game against Sydney in 1913, and eight against the NHA Montreal Wanderers in 1917. In his first NHL season he scored 44 goals in only 20 games, and had 146 goals in only 125 games.

1948 Also On This Day...
St Moritz Switzerland - Canadian team attend opening of the fifth Winter Olympic games in St Moritz. Among those attending is Barbara Ann Scott, who will win the Gold in Figure Skating, and the RCAF Flyers ice hockey team, who will also take home the gold.


1856 Also On This Day...
Guelph Ontario - First Grand Trunk train arrives in Guelph from Toronto. On this day 67 years later the Grand Trunk is absorbed into Canadian National Railways. Here's one of the first GTR engines.

1839
London England - John 'Radical Jack' Lambton, Lord Durham 1792-1840 hands his 'Report on the Affairs of British North America' to British Prime Minister. The former Governor of the colony blames the power of the Family Compact and Chateau Clique for the 1837 rebellions, and recommends uniting the Canadas under one responsible government, with English the only official language, so as to assimilate the French Canadians.

Scott began skating at a very young age and was only eleven years old when she won her first Canadian national junior title. Two years later, in 1942, the thirteen-year-old became the first female to ever land a double lutz in competition.

From 1945 to 1948, she won the North American Figure Skating Championships. In 1947 she became the first North American to win the European and World Figure Skating Championships, making her a Canadian national heroine. Subsequent to her victory, her hometown of Ottawa gave her a new convertible automobile but she had to turn down the gift in order to retain her amateur status so as to be able to compete in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. In the Winter Games she became the first Canadian to win the figure skating gold medal

I probably would of took the convertible and rode off into the sunset :lol:

:lol:

1916
Ottawa Ontario - Fire destroys the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, killing seven. The gothic Parliamentary Library is saved by a quick thinking clerk, who closes the iron doors. The tragedy is widely blamed on German wartime saboteurs. The building, containing the Commons and Senate, will be rebuilt in the Gothic revival style, and completed in 1920.

1924 CANADA'S FIRST WINTER OLYMPIC GOLD
Chamonix France - First Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix. The Toronto Granite Club hockey team brings home the Gold Medal for Canada in ice hockey.

1963
Ottawa Ontario - John Diefenbaker's minority government is defeated 142-111 in House of Commons in two non-confidence motions over nuclear weapons policy, and Defence Minister Harkness' resignation; Dief resigns, and will be beaten by Lester Pearson in the federal general election.

1952
London England - King George VI dies in his sleep; born Dec. 14, 1895; his eldest daughter Princess Elizabeth accedes to the Throne as Queen Elizabeth II. The stamp was issued to commemorate her wedding to Prince Philip a year earlier.

I've always liked Diefenbaker. Probably my favourite Conservative PM of Canada.

1976
Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leaf Captain Darryl Sittler, centering a line with Lanny McDonald and Errol Thompson, scores 6 goals on Boston Bruins goalie Dave Reece. He adds 4 assists, in the 11-4 victory, for a record 10 points in one game, a feat unequaled in NHL history (even by Wayne Gretzky). Sittler wound up the season with 100 points, the first player in Leaf history to reach that plateau.


1891 Also On This Day...
Ottawa Ontario - John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 declares 'A British Subject I was born, a British subject I will die' during his final speech in the House of Commons, before entering his last election campaign.

1879
Toronto Ontario - Sanford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time, by dividing the world into 24 equal time zones, with standard time within each zone; in lecture at the Canadian Institute in Toronto. Idea adopted by North American railways four years later.