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    47 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
    44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
    31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
    421 – Galla Placidia, wife of the Emperor Constantius III, becomes a widow for the second time when he dies suddenly of an illness.
    1192 – The Treaty of Jaffa was signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
    1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
    1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
    1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
    1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
    1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
    1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
    1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
    1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
    1833 – Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
    1856 – The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
    1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
    1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
    1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
    1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
    1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
    1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
    1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
    1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
    1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
    1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
    1939 – World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
    1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
    1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
    1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
    1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
    1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
    1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
    1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
    1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
    1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
    1992 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
    1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
    1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
    2013 – The new eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic, being the widest bridge in the world.


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    Today's Canadian Headline....

    1578 CANADA'S FIRST CHURCH SERVICE
    Iqaluit NWT - Robert Wolfall, Martin Frobisher's chaplain, holds Canada's first recorded Christian services at Frobisher Bay.

    1912
    Calgary Alberta - US rodeo showman Guy Weadick opens the first Calgary Stampede Rodeo - called 'The Last and Best Great West Frontier Days Celebration.'; convinced Pat Burns, A.E. Cross, George Lane, and A.J. McLean to provide financial backing. The six-day rodeo included a bucking horse ride, calf roping, steer wrestling, and trick riding; a highlight was Tom Three Persons' ride on the notorious bronco Cyclone.



    1997 In Other Events...

    Fort McMurray, Alberta - RaiLink takes over the former CN lines in northeastern Alberta from Boyle to Lynton, near Fort McMurray; operations start two days later and formal transfer made Nov. 24.
    1995 Toronto Ontario - British Nimrod plane plunges into Lake Ontario before horrified spectators during the annual airshow at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto; seven RAF crew members killed.
    1992 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada cuts interest rates to 6.25%, the lowest in 21 years.
    1987 Quebec Quebec - Second summit of La Francophonie held at Quebec.
    1986 Los Angeles, California - Canadian Cathy Eveyln Smith sentenced to three years in jail for involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose that killed comedian John Belushi in March 1982.
    1985 North Atlantic - Atlantic US-French expedition discovers the wreckage of the Titanic 900 km off the coast of Newfoundland, 73 years after the White Star liner sank.
    1983 Mirabel Quebec - Ottawa cancels Aeroflot landing rights at Mirabel airport to protest downing of Korean Air 747 Sept 1; killed 269 people, including 10 Canadians.
    1975 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada raises lending rate to 9%.
    1972 Montreal Quebec - Firebomb thrown into Montreal's Blue Bird Cafe killed 42 persons and injured 70-80 others.
    1972 Montreal Quebec - Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and other dignitaries watch the Soviet national team win the opening game of hockey series with an out-of-shape and arrogant Team Canada by a score of 7-3; Canada is leading 2-0 after seven minutes, and will outshoot the USSR selects 32-30, but are stone-walled by goalie Vladislav Tretiak; shocked Forum fans boo the Canadian players. 'We were stunned, absolutely stunned,' said coach Harry Sinden after the game. 'It's the way they won. With speed, finesse, solid checks, outstanding goaltending and, most of all, teamwork. They're good. Just how good remains to be seen. There are still seven games to be played, but it's a real competition now.'
    1961 Toronto Ontario - Shirley Giles and G. Marcellus appointed Canada's first women bank managers.
    1945 Tokyo Japan - Douglas MacArthur takes formal surrender of Japanese on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, brings World War II to an end.
    1945 Tokyo Japan - VJ Day; about 80,000 Canadians had volunteered to go to Pacific to fight Japanese.
    1944 Rimini Italy - General E.L.M. Burns reports that two Canadian brigades have broken the Gothic Line in the Adriatic Sector, but Germans quickly move in divisions from other lines to slow the Canadian advance to Rimini; German 1st Parachute Division heavily defends against forward troops of the 1st Canadian Corps 5 km south of the Conca, and on the Coriano Ridge to the west; it will take three more weeks to take the hill position of San Fortunato blocking the approach to the Po Valley.
    1941 Ottawa Ontario - F. Cyril James establishes Advisory Committee on Reconstruction (James Committee).
    1925 New York City - Operetta Rose Marie opens in New York; featuring a cast of baritone Mounties and the song, Indian Love Call; later filmed, with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald.
    1922 Foss Lake, Ontario - Curtiss HS-2L bush plane G-CAAC crashes into Foss Lake. Built by Glen Curtiss in the US in 1918, first operated by the US Navy as one of 12 planes on anti-submarine patrols out of Dartmouth, NS, then used by Canadian government to patrol for forest fires in northern Ontario and Quebec. This pioneer bush plane also made Canada's first commercial flight in June 1919, doing the first aerial timber survey. In 1968 and 1968, the Canadian Museum of Aviation retrieved the hull and many parts and fittings, and the restored plane is on display at the Museum in Ottawa.
    1918 Belgium - Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps crack Germany's supposedly impregnable Hindenburg Line at two locations.
    1918 Queant-Drocourt Belgium - Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson 1883-1954, an American MD in the 75th Battalion (later the Toronto Scots) performs actions that win him the Victoria Cross. His citation reads, in part: 'For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty... Without hesitation and with utter disregard for personal safety he remained on the field until every wounded man had been attended to. He dressed the wounds of a seriously wounded officer under terrific machine-gun and shell fire, and, with the assistance of prisoners and of his own men, succeeded in evacuating him to safety, despite the fact that the bearer party suffered heavy casualties. Immediately afterwards he rushed forward, in full view of the enemy, under heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, to tend a wounded sergeant, and, having placed him in a shell hole, dressed his wounds.'
    1910 Paris France - Hector Fabre dies in Paris; Canada's diplomatic representative.
    1908 Melbourne Australia - Canadian boxer Tommy Burns knocks out Bill Land in the second round for the world heavyweight championship.
    1901 England - John Claus Voss reaches England in his Nootka Indian sailing canoe, the Tilikum, via Australia and New Zealand; left Victoria, BC, three years, three months and 12 days earlier; 65,000 km journey; Tilikum now on display at Thunderbird Park in Victoria.
    1875 Montreal Quebec - Catholic mob prevents the burial in consecrated ground of the printer Joseph Guibord 1804-1869, a member of l'Institut canadien de Montréal; with the approval of Rome, Bishop Ignace Bourget had forbidden Catholics from becoming members of the Institute on pain of excommunication; Guibord refused, and on his death, was not given the last rites. In 1874, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London ordered his burial in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery. On Nov 16, a military escort will finally escort his body for burial, in an area of the cemetery that Mgr. Bourget will immediately deconsecrate.
    1864 Charlottetown PEI - John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier pronounce themselves in favour of a 'great confederation of all the colonies.'
    1858 Victoria BC - James Douglas 1803-1877 appointed Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia; serves from Nov. 19, 1858 to 1864.
    1842 Montreal Quebec - Opening of the 2nd Session of the 1st Parliament of the Province of Canada.
    1797 Quebec Quebec - Catholic bishops required to swear an oath of allegiance to the British Crown.
    1792 Paris France - Canadian Priest André Grasset sent to the guillotine in the Reign of Terror for refusing to agree to a Church reorganization planned by leaders of the French Revolution.
    1752 Canada - Last day of the Julian calendar in Britain and the Colonies; the Gregorian Calendar designed to correct the extra leap year day problem goes into effect the next day, with tomorrow being September 14, hence 11 days are dropped from the year. Most other countries made the adjustment in 1582.
    1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia - William Tutty c1715-1754 founds St. Paul's Church, Halifax; oldest Anglican church in Canada.
    1750 Quebec Quebec - Shipwreck of the sailing vessel 'L'Orignal' on the day of her launch.
    1748 Quebec Quebec - François Bigot appointed Intendant of New France; last to fill the position.
    1729 Quebec Quebec - Shipwreck of the sailing vessel 'l'Eléphant' near Quebec.
    1726 Quebec Quebec - Charles de Beauharnois 1671-1749 arrives in Quebec as new Governor of New France, with Intendant Claude Thomas Dupuy; to Sept 19, 1747.
    1713 Nova Scotia - France takes possession of Cape Breton island.
    1670 Annapolis, Nova Scotia - Port Royal handed back to the French under the terms of the Treaty of Breda of 1667.
    1654 Penobscot Maine - Robert Sedgwick 1611-1656 captures Fort Pentagouet, on Penobscot River; leaves for England in the Fall with La Tour.
    1651 Quebec Quebec - Martin Boutet named first town crier of Quebec.

    End of C/P.


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