May 26th,2015 - This Date in History.

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47 BC – Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point. <br />
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1988 ANOTHER GRETZKY RECORD
Edmonton Alberta - Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins 6-3, completing a four game sweep, to win their fourth Stanley Cup in five years; MVP Wayne Gretzky has 31 assists, setting a playoff record.

1887
Montreal Quebec - Canadian Pacific Railway 4,700 km main line opens for public traffic, 18 months after the last spike at Craigellachie, BC. Trains have been running across Canada for a year, but passengers can now ride directly to Vancouver.



In Other Events...

1997 Canada - Controversial Reform Party TV election ad shows black and white images of Jean Charest et Jean Chrétien alongside the 1995 referendum result, with the voice over saying 'Last time, these men almost lost our country.' Then it shows Lucien Bouchard and Gilles Duceppe, and asks for a voice for all Canadians, not just politicians from Quebec.
1981 Vancouver BC - Canada and US sign Pacific coast fishery treaty; each can fish for albacore tuna in other's waters; each can enter 4 Canadian or US ports.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Lawren Harris' South Shore, Baffin Island sells for $240,000, record for Canadian painting; Group of Seven member.
1978 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Canadiens beat Boston 4-1 to win their 21st Stanley Cup.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa adds over 2,900 km of Prairie rail to network protected from abandonment.
1970 New York City - The Guess Who's American Woman/No Sugar Tonight still the #1 Billboard hit after four weeks on the charts; Winnipeg band with lead singer Burton Cummings.
1969 Montreal Quebec - John Lennon and Yoko Ono start their second Bed-In for Peace in a room at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; during the event, they recorded the song, Give Peace a Chance.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - U Thant ,United Nations Secretary-General, addresses a joint sitting of the Commons and Senate.
1943 Quebec Quebec - Quebec passes a law requiring free and compulsory education in the province.
1940 Dunkirk France - Start of the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - Bennett government passes the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act; to supervise all public and private broadcasting; sets up publicly-owned radio network broadcasting in English and French.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - James Shaver Woodsworth 1874-1942 leads socialist Labour MPs and the League for Social Reconstruction to found the Commonwealth Party; will join that August in a new party called the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
1906 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Saskatoon incorporated as a city.
1898 London England - Judicial Committee of Imperial Privy Council rules the Ottawa has sole power to regulate ocean fisheries.
1896 Victoria BC - Bridge collapses in Victoria, killing 55 occupants of a streetcar.
1887 London England - Canada given the power to negotiate commercial treaties with foreign countries.
1874 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Dominion Elections Act bringing in the secret ballot; elections to be held simultaneously; abolishes property qualifications for MPs.
1868 Ottawa Ontario - Queen Victoria 1819-1901 approves design for the Great Seal of Canada, with arms of the four provinces.
1850 Toronto Ontario - Armand-François-Marie de Charbonnel 1802-1891 consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto.
1848 Montreal Island NWT - Last members of Franklin expedition die on Montreal Island; evidence of cannibalism later found.
1846 St. John's Newfoundland - Citizens of St. John's petition the Governor for responsible government in Newfoundland.
1841 Kingston Ontario - Charles Poulett Thomson, Lord Sydenham 1799-1841 meets Canadian Assembly in Kingston for first time as Governor General.
1826 Toronto Ontario - Former US citizens and naturalized residents of Upper Canada given the right to vote and stand for election to the Assembly.
1793 Vancouver Island BC - George Vancouver explores Pacific Coast; circumnavigates island bearing his name; just misses meeting Alexander Mackenzie who had come overland; leaves September 20.
1703 Quebec Quebec - Governor Louis-Hector de Callières 1648-1703 dies.
1603 Tadoussac Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 lands at Tadoussac on de Chaste's Bonne Renommé with Gravé du Pont and Pierre de Monts; witnesses Montagnais 'tabagies' or feasts; gives them religious teaching.

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