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1993 JAYS REPEAT WORLD SERIES WIN
Toronto Ontario - Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter hits a three-run homer in the bottom of the 9th inning to give Toronto an 8-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series; defending champions take the Series 4-2; first team to win the World Series on Canadian soil.

1837
St-Charles Quebec - Wolfred Nelson 1791-1863 leads 5,000 Patriotes in the two-day Grand Assembly of the Six Counties at St-Charles in the Richelieu Valley; claims that 'the time has come to melt our spoons into bullets'; at the instigation of their leader, Louis-Joseph Papineau (in the picture), the conference delegates approve Thirteen Resolutions based on the Rights of Man adopted during the French Revolution; the young Sons of Liberty erect a Column of Liberty in the square.

In Other Events....

1996 Montreal Quebec - Commission of Enquiry starts sitting to examine police practices in Montreal and Quebec.
1995 Quebec - Advance poll for the Parizeau Referendum sees 320,954 voters turn out.
1995 Canada - Referendum jitters send Canadian dollar and country's stock markets plunging.
1991 Calgary Alberta - Bob Blair announces $325 million sale of Nova's share of Husky Oil to Li Ka-shing and Hong Kong group; Li interest from 52 to 95% of Husky.
1990 Hollywood California - Canadian heavy metal group Rush release their 'Chronicles' video.
1988 Montreal Quebec - Expos sign Tim Raines to a three-year $6.3 million deal.
1987 New York City - New York Stock Exchange cuts trading day by two hours; restores order & rationality after crash; Toronto and Montreal exchanges follow for three weeks.
1986 Quebec - Strike continues at Quebec's CÉGEPs and universities.
1985 Quebec Quebec - Pierre-Marc Johnson sworn in as 24th Premier of Quebec, replacing René Lévesque; calls election for Dec. 2; son of former Union Nationale Premier Daniel Johnson Sr.
1981 Winnipeg Manitoba - Pearl McGonigal 1930- takes office as first female Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba; second in Canada.
1980 Montreal Quebec - Anik-III used by Globe and Mail to send computerized microwave signals of pages; from Toronto to Montreal; later to Calgary and Vancouver; Canada's first newspaper to use satellite technology.
1978 Zuma Beach, California - Toronto rocker Neil Young's beach house burns to the ground in a forest fire.
1971 New York City - The Stampeders' 'Sweet City Woman' peaks at #8 on the Billboard pop singles chart.
1975 Whitehorse Yukon - Paul Lucier 1923- Mayor of Whitehorse named first Senator from the Yukon.
1969 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Faulty bearing causes explosion in engine room of destroyer HMCS 'Kootenay', kills two sailors.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of 2nd session of the 28th Parliament; until Oct. 7, 1970.
1969 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Government brings in Bill 63, to promote the teaching of the French language in Quebec; gives parents the choice of the language of instruction for their children, but requires some French language instruction for anglophones and immigrants.
1967 Fredericton, New Brunswick - Brenda Robertson first woman elected to New Brunswick legislature.
1966 Ottawa Ontario - Prime Minister Lester Pearson says that Ottawa will pay 50% of the cost of higher education.
1965 Montreal Quebec - FLQ terrorists break into the offices of the Parti National Démocratique de Montréal.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Birth of Michael Turner, son of politician and later Prime Minister John Turner.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Government shows plans for new National Museum in Ottawa.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Maritime Transportation Unions Trustee Act; puts unions under control of 3 trustee.
1961 Montreal Quebec - Opening of five-day Resources for Tomorrow Conference; discusses use of forest, water, fisheries.
1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Underground coal gas explosion and rock surge in the Number Two Cumberland mine traps 174 miners; rescue workers bring 81 men out the first day, 12 more found alive on Oct. 30, 7 more on Nov. 1; 74 die in the deepest coal mine in North America; last body recovered Nov. 6.
1952 Korea - Canadian troops fight in battle of 'Little Gibraltar Hill', their heaviest engagement of the Korean War.
1949 Ottawa Ontario - Indian Prime Minister Jahwharlal Nehru starts visit to Canada.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Government ends wartime control of meat prices.
1947 Montreal Quebec - End of strike at Canada Packers meat curing plant in Montreal.
1946 Santa Fe, New Mexico - Ernest Thompson Seton 1860-1946, author, naturalist, dies at age 86; born Ernest Seton Thompson at Shields, England, Aug 14, 1860, and grew up in Toronto; homesteaded in Manitoba and, in 1892, was appointed naturalist for the Manitoba government; in 1902, organized the Woodcraft Indians (later the Woodcraft League), and helped found the Boy Scouts of America; wrote and illustrated over 40 children's books on nature and woodcraft, including Wild Animals I Have Known (1898), and his autobiography, The Trail of an Artist-Naturalist (1940).
1945 Brooklyn, New York - Brooklyn Dodgers announce that Jackie Robinson will play for their farm club, the Montreal Royals; first black baseball player hired by a major league team..
1942 Preissac Quebec - Molybdenum discovery at Preissac; used in steel alloy.
1940 Atlantic - Canadian destroyer 'Margaree' sunk in collision.
1938 Canada - Canadian singers and orchestras produce 'A Musical Portrait of Canada'; first major Canadian broadcast heard round the world.
1935 Ottawa Ontario - Charles Avery Dunning 1885-1958 becomes Minister of Finance replacing Rhodes; until Sept 5, 1939; replaced by Ralston.
1935 Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 sworn in as Prime Minister succeeding Bennett ; until Nov. 15, 1948; Bennett PM since Aug. 7, 1930; appoints his chief Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe as Justice Minister.
1929 Canada - New York Stock Exchange crash spreads to Toronto and Montreal; Montreal Exchange trades record 400,000 shares.
1925 Montreal Quebec - Poet Emile Nelligan interned in l'Hôpital St-Jean-de-Dieu after a breakdown.
1924 Ontario - Ontarians vote, by a narrow margin, to maintain prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the province; law lasts from 1916 until 1927.
1918 Juneau Alaska - CPR steamer 'Princess Sophia' hits submerged rock; bound from Skagway, Alaska to Vancouver; sinks the following day with great loss of life.
1917 Montreal Quebec - Canadian Railway War Board holds its first meeting in the Canadian Pacific Boardroom in Windsor Station, Montreal; origin of the Railway Association of Canada, 1919.
1884 Moosomin Saskatchewan - Moosomin newspaper reports first shipment of four railroad cars of buffalo bones to the US; used as fertilizer, and burned to make carbon black; 20,000 tons of this prairie cash crop will be shipped out before 1897.
1874 Montreal Quebec - Harvard beats McGill in the first intercollegiate football game in Canada.
1874 Montreal Quebec - Oyster opening contest held in Montreal; winner shucks 300 in 30 minutes.
1873 Ottawa Ontario - Second session of second Parliament opens; receives Report of the special Enquiry on the Pacific Scandal; meets until November 7.
1864 Montreal Quebec - Canadian militia and police arrest 14 escaped Confederate Civil War fugitives four days after they robbed three banks in St. Albans, Vermont, killed one person and got away with $200,000, before heading back to Montreal, where they had been hiding out; brought before a Montreal Police magistrate, they are released on a technicality; only $19,000 of the stolen money is ever recovered.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Opening of first telegraph service to New York via Albany.
1847 London Ontario - Construction of Great Western Railway begins in London.
1847 Grosse-Île, Quebec - 65 more immigrants die of cholera and typhus in one week; almost 10,000 during whole of 1847.
1839 Quebec Quebec - John Colborne, Baron Seaton 1778-1863 leaves Quebec after being replaced by Lord Sydenham as Governor.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Mgr. Lartigue asks the people of Lower Canada to obey the lawful authority.
1837 Montreal Quebec - Loyalist Assembly take place in Montreal; opposing the demands of the Patriotes.
1812 St. Regis, Quebec - American invaders win skirmish at St. Regis.
1786 Fredericton New Brunswick - Government of New Brunswick moves from Saint John to Anne's Point (Fredericton).
1735 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Founding of new company to operate the Forges de St-Maurice iron smelter.
1697 Trois-Rivières, Quebec - Arrival of the first Ursulines (Soeurs grises) at Trois-Rivières.
1672 Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 sworn in as Governor of New France.
1672 Quebec Quebec - Opening of first States General of New France.

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