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henric
11-29-2014, 01:24 AM
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Events:C/P.

561 – King Chlothar I dies at Compiθgne. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons — Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom.
800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
1394 – The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.
1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.
1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.
1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San Josι de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
1830 – November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1847 – The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 – Whitman massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmόtz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
1864 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill – A Confederate advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the Battle of Franklin.
1872 – American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1885 – End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy
1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing dynasty China, after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
1899 – FC Barcelona Association football club is founded.
1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
1943 – World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1944 – The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1944 – World War II: Albania is liberated by partisan forces.
1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
1946 – The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.
1947 – Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
1947 – First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1963 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1972 – Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
1975 – Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with three other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog.
1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai–Burmese border, killing 115.
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.
2009 – Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
2013 – LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashes in Namibia, killing 33 people.

henric
11-29-2014, 01:26 AM
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Today's Canadian Headline...

1963 CANADA'S WORST AIR DISASTER
Ste-Thιrθse de Blainville Quebec - - Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F with 111 passengers and 7 crew crashes in woods north of Montreal 4 minutes after takeoff from Dorval Airport; there are no survivors; no satisfactory explanation to Canada's worst air disaster.

1995
Toronto Ontario - Premier Mike Harris vows to slash $6.2 billion in spending over 3 years and balance the budget by 2000, as part of his Common Sense Revolution; head of Ontario's new Progressive Conservative government.




In Other Events...

1992 Toronto Ontario - Doug Flutie leads Wally Buono's CFL Calgary Stampeders to win over Winnipeg Blue Bombers 24-10 in 80th Grey Cup; 3rd title to Calgary. Pundits say this may be last all-Canadian event if CFL expands to US.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Environment Minister Jean Charest announces $34.9 million program to protect Canadian wildlife; set up national wildlife habitat network; plus $17.7 million for ecology research
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament backs UN resolution allowing the use of military force to end the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. Saddam Hussein will ignore UN deadline of Jan. 15 to withdraw, and Canadian units, including fighters, field hospitals and ships are sent to the Persian Gulf.
1987 Vancouver BC - Joe Faragalli's CFL Edmonton Eskimos defeat Toronto Argonauts 38-36 in 75th Grey Cup game.
1983 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Kanchan Stott, age 37, reaches Halifax 207 days after leaving Victoria, BC; first cross-Canada run by a woman; longest recorded run (6688 km) by a woman .
1983 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa suspends enforcement of metric measurement after adverse court ruling; need to rewrite and clarify law.
1982 Vancouver BC - Percy Williams 1908-1982 dies; runner, born at Vancouver May 19, 1908; 1928 won gold medals in the 100 and 200 m sprints at the Amsterdam Olympics.
1977 Montreal Quebec - Quebec establishes provincially-owned National Asbestos Corporation.
1976 New York City - Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald stays at #1 on the charts for another week.
1974 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - Naim Djemal hijacks an aircraft over Saskatchewan, assaults a stewardess and orders the pilot to fly to Cyprus; on landing for fuel, he hands a knife to the captain, and is arrested as he walks off the aircraft.
1973 Toronto Ontario - 7,800 Toronto secondary teachers end work-to-rule campaign, sign contract with Metro school board.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa approves $74 million plan to computerize air traffic control; will improve safety and ease airport congestion
1965 Vandenberg AFB California - Thor Agena B launches Canadian communications satellite, Alouette II (mass 145 kg); to continue ionospheric research.
1964 Los Angeles, California - Canadian actor Lorne Greene, Pa Cartwright on the NBC TV show Bonanza, has a # 1 Billboard pop hit with 'Ringo'; second Canadian to have a #1 pop hit in the United States, after Paul Anka.
1962 Toronto Ontario - Severe lakefront fog halts Grey Cup game between Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers with 9:22 left; Bud Grant's Winnipeg team wins Fog Bowl next day by a score of 28-27.
1958 Vancouver BC - Bud Grant's CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger Cats 35-28 in 46th Grey Cup game.
1956 Egypt - Canadians join main body of United Nations Expeditionary Force in Egypt; with Colombians, and troops from four Scandinavian countries
1952 Toronto Ontario - CFL Toronto Argonauts beat Edmonton Eskimos 21-11 in 40th Grey Cup game.
1947 Ottawa Ontario - Proclamation removes ET IND IMP from the obverse legend of Canadian coins; means 'and Empress of India'.
1947 Toronto Ontario - Toronto Argonauts beat Calgary Stampeders 10-9 in 35th Grey Cup game.
1941 Toronto Ontario - Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ottawa Rough Riders 18-16 in 29th Grey Cup game.
1924 Toronto Ontario - Queen's University beats Toronto Balmy Beach 11-3 in the 12th Grey Cup game; before 5,978 fans.
1924 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto 7-1 in the first hockey game played in the new (old) Montreal Forum.
1918 Winnipeg Manitoba - Canadian Council of Agriculture calls for lower tariffs, free trade with Britain and the US; Farmers' Platform
1916 Ottawa Ontario - Founding of the National Research Council of Canada; to further scientific planning and development.
1913 Hamilton Ontario - Hamilton Tigers beat Toronto Parkdale 44-2 in the 5th Grey Cup game; before 2,100 fans.
1899 Cape Town South Africa - William Dillon Otter 1843-1929 arrives in Cape Town with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, to fight in the Boer War.
1855 Brockville Ontario - Grand Trunk Railroad completed west from Montreal to Brockville.
1808 Quebec - Francis Burton 1766-1832 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada; serves until Jan. 27, 1832
1798 Charlottetown PEI - Legislature of Island of St. John votes to change name to Prince Edward Island; takes place June 3, 1799
1784 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Philippe Mariauchau d'Esgly 1710-1788 appointed Bishop of Quebec; first Canadian-born bishop
1760 Detroit Michigan - Major Robert Rogers 1731-1795 gets surrender of French at Fort Detroit; when the British refuse to lower prices on trade goods and furnish them with ammunition, the Native Americans grow restive, stirred up by the Delaware prophet and his disciple Pontiac c1720-69, chief of the Ottawa.
1745 Saratoga, New York - French burn Saratoga and later Albany, to retaliate for the efforts of Mohawk Valley Indian trader William Johnson to get the Iroquois on the warpath; part of King George's War (War of the Austrian Succession) 1744-1748.
1698 Quebec Quebec - Louis-Hector de Calliθres 1648-1703 appointed administrator of New France after Frontenac's death; serves until September 13, 1699

End of C/P.