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01-05-2015, 11:49 PM
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Events:C/P.

1066 – Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) is crowned King of England.
1118 – Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
1205 – Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
1322 – Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia.
1355 – Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
1449 – Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.
1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
1579 – The Union of Arras is signed.
1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England.
1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
1809 – Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.
1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash.
1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
1921 – Formation of the Iraqi Army.
1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
1951 – Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
1953 – The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.
1960 – The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.
1993 – Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.
1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
2000 – Celia, the last Pyrenean Ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her.
2005 – American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
2005 – A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
2009 – Israel conducts an assault on Gaza. Operation Cast Lead.

henric
01-05-2015, 11:51 PM
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Today's Canadian Headline...

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
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
Saint John New Brunswick - First sitting of the NB legislature takes place at Saint John.




In Other Events...

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.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada to move head office from Montreal to Toronto.
1977 Lakefield Ontario - Prince Andrew starts attending Lakefield College School near Peterborough, for two terms; second in line to the British throne
1975 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba to require disclosure of assets and business interests of legislators and senior officials.
1974 Ontario - Startup of the Global Television network in southern Ontario; Canada's third TV network is now known as CanWest-Global and is controlled by Izzy Asper.
1971 Toronto Ontario - Neil Young returns to Canada for his first concert since pre-stardom days.
1966 NWT - 'The Drum' first issued in English, Inuit, and Loucheux dialect; first newspaper of its kind in the Arctic.
1966 Ontario - Ontario lets federal government take responsibility for Native education, housing, and employment.
1965 Halifax Nova Scotia - Canada part of new NATO anti-submarine destroyer squadron.
1936 Webbwood Ontario - Barbara Hanley elected in the Northern Ontario town of Webbwood; Canada's first woman mayor.
1915 France - Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry go into action in France.
1877 Manitoba - McLean's open the first flour mill in Manitoba; wheat is quickly replacing fur as Manitoba's main product
1845 Stratford Ontario - Protestants and Catholics riot in Stratford following the council election; eighty men fight in the streets
1824 Quebec Quebec - First meeting of Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.
1818 Ontario - Peregrine Maitland 1777-1854 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; serves from Aug. 13, 1818 to Aug. 23, 1828
1789 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 founds an agricultural college at Quebec.

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