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henric
03-02-2015, 11:34 PM
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Events:C/P.

473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1575 – Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1865 – Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its premiθre at the Opιra-Comique in Paris.
1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
1918 – Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1924 – The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatόrk.
1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy.
1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1938 – The Mallard the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England
1939 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest at the autocratic rule in India.
1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleε, Sweden.
1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
1945 – World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1958 – Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1972 – Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1985 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck the Valparaνso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
1991 – United Airlines Flight 585 crashes on approach into Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 25.
1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
2005 – Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
2009 – The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
2012 – Two trains crash in the small Polish town of Szczekociny near Zawiercie, with 16 people killed and up to 58 people injured.
2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.

henric
03-02-2015, 11:36 PM
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Today's Canadian Headline...

1994 THE EAGLE IS BANDED
Boston Massachusetts - Alan Eagleson indicted on 32 counts of embezzlement, fraud and racketeering; former head of the NHL Players Association and Toronto hockey lawyer refuses to go to the US to face the grand jury; beginning of three years of legal wrangling.

1975
Yellowknife NWT - Thomas Berger 1933- starts public hearings into social and environmental costs of planned 4,184 km pipeline; Justice of the BC Supreme Court. Here he is consulting with a Dene group.


In Other Events...

1995 Toronto Ontario - For the second time in the 1990s, real estate developer Bramalea Inc. seeks court protection from its creditors.
1991 Vancouver BC - Celine Dion wins Juno Awards for Best Album and Best Female Vocalist; George Fox wins Best Male Country Vocalist; Colin James wins Best Single and Top Male Vocalist; Rita McNeil wins Best Female Country Vocalist; Prairie Oyster win Best Country Group; Blue Rodeo win Best Group; Tragically Hip win Entertainer of the Year.
1984 Toronto Ontario - New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Toronto Maple Leafs (6).
1982 Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada confirms that Canada entered a recession in 1982.
1981 Edmonton Alberta - NY Islanders and Edmonton Oilers skate to an 8-8 tie.
1980 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- succeeds Joe Clark as Prime Minister; Clark PM since June 4, 1979.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Keith Spicer 1934- resigns as Official Language Commissioner.
1970 Canada - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts visit to Ottawa and Vancouver with Princess Anne.
1968 Montreal Quebec - Canadien Jean Beliveau scores one goal in a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings; second NHL player to score 1,000 career points.
1965 New York City - Canadian actor Christopher Plummer stars as Count von Trapp in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, The Sound of Music, opening on this day; his co-stars are Julie Andrews and Eleanor Parker.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament approves change of name of Trans-Canada Air Lines to Air Canada; to take effect January 1, 1965.
1962 Ottawa Ontario - Cairine Wilson dies at age 77; Canada's first woman senator, Canada's first woman delegate to the United Nations
1953 Karachi, Pakistan - Canadian Pacific Comet jet crashes with 11 fatalities; world's first commercial jet crash.
1942 England - First combat flight of the Canadian-built Avro Lancaster bomber.
1921 Toronto Ontario - University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team's discovery of insulin.
1920 Canada - Montreal Canadiens score NHL record 16 goals in a 16-3 rout of the Quebec Bulldogs.
1919 Vancouver BC - First international airmail delivered, in a flight from Vancouver to Seattle, Washington.
1887 Washington DC - US Congress passes Fisheries Retaliation Act; bans Canadian vessels from US waters; stopped imports of Canadian fish.
1875 Montreal Quebec - First recorded hockey game using roughly modern rules.
1871 Ottawa Ontario - House of Commons approves British Columbia's terms to join Canada; negotiated by George-Etienne Cartier.
1870 Winnipeg Manitoba - Ambroise-Dydime Lepine l834-1923, heading the Metis Provisional Government court-martial, sentences Thomas Scott to death; Charles Arkoll Boulton 1841-1899 sentenced to death but his life is spared.
1841 Montreal Quebec - Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, starts a 20 month-long round the world trip.
1838 Pelee Island Ontario - John Maitland routs Van Rensselaer and supporters of Upper Canadian rebels who captured Pelee Island on February 2; routed by regulars of 32nd and 83rd Regiments and the Essex Militia.
1722 Quebec Quebec - Council divides New France into parishes; Quebec has 41, Three Rivers 13 and Montreal 28.
1655 Montreal Quebec - Montreal physician offers first medical insurance.

End of C/P.