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    306 – Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
    1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 formally begins with the proclamation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor at Didymoteicho.
    1597 – Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
    1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
    1689 – General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
    1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
    1775 – King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
    1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
    1811 – The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
    1813 – War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of the Chateauguay.
    1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
    1859 – The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
    1860 – Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
    1861 – The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
    1863 – The Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, is formed in London.
    1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
    1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
    1909 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
    1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
    1917 – World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommel captures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians.
    1917 – World War I: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
    1918 – Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
    1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.
    1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
    1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
    1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
    1943 – World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
    1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
    1947 – The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
    1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
    1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
    1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
    1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
    1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
    1968 – Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
    1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops rash in Merca district, Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
    1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-gyu. Choi Kyu-hah becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
    1984 – "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
    1985 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
    1992 – The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
    1992 – The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
    1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
    1995 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
    1999 – Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
    2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.
    2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
    2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
    2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.


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    Today's Canadian Headline....

    1992 CHARLOTTETOWN ACCORD IS HISTORY
    Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939- says Charlottetown Accord is 'history' after voters reject deal by margin of 54.4% to 44.6%; Yes side wins in Newfoundland, PEI, New Brunswick, and only barely in Ontario; total of 74.9% of 18,517,982 eligible Canadians vote; almost 83% of eligible Quebeckers; Prime Minister says he is disappointed but vows to respect verdict, and turn attention to shoring up weak Canadian economy.

    1908
    Canada - Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 wins the Eleventh Canadian federal general election 135 seats to 85; defeats Robert Borden with 50.4% of popular vote; increase in Commons representation to 218 seats. Two future Prime Ministers are also elected for the first time - William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 (Liberal - York North) and Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 (Conservative - Portage La Prairie).

    1813
    Chateauguay Quebec - Lieutenant-Colonel Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry 1778-1829, leading 1,600 French Canadian Voltigeurs (light militia), turns back Gen. Wade Hampton and 3,000 Americans after four hours of fighting at a ford over the Châteauguay River, 56 km southwest of Montreal; 300 front line militia blow hunting horns in the woods, making the Americans think they are facing a larger force; de Salaberry set up a barricade after learning of Hampton's invasion Oct. 21.



    In Other Events....

    1995 Quebec Quebec - Quebec Cree and Inuit First Nations hold a referendum and reject Quebec sovereignty.
    1990 Kingston Ontario - Michael Davies sells Kingston Whig-Standard to Southam Press; daily circulation of 37,000; founded 1834, daily since 1849.
    1990 Winnipeg Manitoba - Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings scores his 2,000 career NHL point with an assist against the Jets; see also 1997.
    1990 Montreal Quebec - Montreal Metro (CTCUM) bans panhandlers and beggars.
    1988 Quebec - Students at 23 Quebec CÉGEPs start 3 day strike.
    1987 Quebec - Robert Toupin resigns from NPD-Québec, member of the Assembly for the provincial New Democratic Party.
    1987 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa adopts the Meech Lake Accord.
    1985 Montreal Quebec - Policewoman Jacinthe Fyfe, age 25, shot to death by robbers; Montreal Police (CUM) constable the first female police officer killed on duty in Canada.
    1984 Saint John, New Brunswick - NB Premier Richard Hatfield charged with possession of 26.5 grams of marijuana. His Progressive Conservative Party will be wiped out in the following election.
    1983 Manitoba - Plebiscites to expand bilingual services defeated in all 20 Manitoba communities where they are held.
    1982 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament renames Dominion Day (July l) Canada Day.
    1982 Toronto Ontario - Founding of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, to be situated in St. Mary's, near Stratford; about 160 Canadians are known to have played major league baseball.
    1978 Ottawa Ontario - Anne Murray's single 'You Needed Me' certified Gold.
    1976 Ottawa Ontario - Gordon Lightfoot's 'Summertime Dream' album certified Gold.
    1974 Toronto Ontario - Henry Moore Henry Moore Centre opens at Art Gallery of Ontario.
    1969 Saskatoon Saskatchewan - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 former Prime Minister installed as Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan.
    1968 Vancouver BC - Opening of Centennial Museum-MacMillan Planetarium in Vancouver.
    1968 Montreal Quebec - Last congress of the RIN - Rassemblement pour l';indépendence nationale; most join the Parti québécois.
    1956 New York City - United Nations sets up International Atomic Energy Agency; Canada a member.
    1950 Washington DC - Canada signs six-point agreement with US for joint defence production; free trade in arms and equipment.
    1950 Alberta - La Société Radio-Canada extends French programming as far west as Calgary and Edmonton.
    1943 Lethbridge, Alberta - Two Jehovah's Witnesses children expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag during patriotic exercises; parents believed in paying homage only to God, not to material objects; children stood at attention during the salute but this was not enough.
    1943 Atlantic - RCAF sinks fourth U-boat in seven weeks.
    1942 Montreal Quebec - RAF ferry bomber crashes at Dorval Airport, killing 16.
    1940 Atlantic - Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain is torpedoed and sunk, with child evacuees bound for Canada; the ship was bombed two days earlier.
    1934 Ottawa Ontario - Henry Herbert Stevens 1878-1973 resigns from R. B. Bennett government to found Reconstruction Party; small business-oriented and conservative.
    1917 Passchendaele Belgium - Sir Arthur Currie's Canadian Corps starts its first action against well entrenched Germans, taking over where the Anzac troops left off, to capture the Belgian town of Passchendaele. The Flanders bloodbath lasts until Nov. 30. In total, 2,834 Canadian lives are lost and casualties reach 16,000, to win just five square km of muddy quagmire. Canadians win two Victoria Crosses the first day of the battle.
    1908 York County, Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie W. L. M. King 1874-1950 first elected to the House of Commons for the riding of York North.
    1908 Portage La Prairies, Manitoba - Arthur Meighen 1874-1960 first elected to the House of Commons; re-elected 1911, 1913, 1917, 1922, 1925; Canada's 9th PM; called to Manitoba Bar in 1902; practiced in Portage La Prairie.
    1892 Quebec Quebec - Honoré Mercier 1840-1894 trial begins; after four years as Quebec Premier, Mercier was dismissed on Dec. 17, 1891 by the Lieutenant Governor for alleged misuse of public funds in the Baie des Chaleurs Railway scandal; re-elected in 1892 provincial elections, but his party was soundly defeated; will be acquitted of all charges Nov. 04, 1892.
    1887 Regina Saskatchewan - Peter Lamont opens Saskatchewan's first telephone exchange in a bookstore.
    1884 Cairo Egypt - Canadian Nile Voyageurs begin their mission to rescue Kitchener of Khartoum.
    1876 St-François-Xavier, Manitoba - Metis songwriter Pierre Falcon dies at age 83; known as Pierriche or Pierre the Rhymer, born at Elbow Fort near Swan River June 4, 1793, son of a North West Company employee and a Cree woman; educated in Montreal, then worked as a clerk for the NWC and the Hudson's Bay Company; retired to Grantown, on the White Horse Plain, where he farmed and served as a magistrate; wrote rousing songs about his work, daily life and major Metis events; best known work is La Chanson de la Grenouillère, about the battle of Seven Oaks.
    1852 London England - Sir John Franklin promoted to Rear-Admiral more than five years after his death in the Arctic; fate of the expedition unknown until 1854; in 1859, Francis Leopold McClintock will find two notes confirming that he died June 11, 1847.
    1850 NWT - Sir Robert McClure aboard HMS Investigator completes crossing of North West Passage via Prince of Wales Strait or around Banks Island; will return by ship in 1854 after travelling on foot over the ice to Beechey Island.
    1848 Ottawa Ontario - Opening of the College of Bytown; forerunner of Ottawa University.
    1838 Bermuda - Eight Lower Canada Patriotes exiled to Bermuda in 1838 set free.
    1830 Quebec - Augustin-Norbert Morin elected to the Assembly of Lower Canada; later co-Premier of the Union.
    1830 Albany, New York - New York Governor De Witt Clinton opens the $7,602,000 Erie Canal joining the Hudson River with Lake Erie; 585 km route built in eight years; allows traffic to bypass British-controlled lower St. Lawrence, but also gives Upper Canada another outlet for produce and a longer shipping season.
    1792 Quebec Quebec - Mgr. Hubert complains of undesirable books - 'des mauvais livres' - circulating in Quebec.
    1775 Longueuil Quebec - American invaders under Richard Montgomery 1736-1775 defeat Sir Guy Carleton in a skirmish at Longueuil.
    1774 New York City - The Continental Congress writes an open letter to the inhabitants of Canada and Nova Scotia, inviting them to join the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution.
    1768 Quebec Quebec - Guy Carleton, Baron Dorchester 1724-1808 appointed Governor of Canada; serves to June 27, 1778.
    1760 London England - George III crowned King.
    1756 Montereau, France - Roland-Michel Barrin, Marquis de La Galissonière dies; Lieutenant General of French naval forces, Commandant General of New France, who advocated a line of garrisoned forts down the Ohio Valley to hold the back English colonies along the coast; wrote a report on the potential riches of Canada in Mémoires des commissaires du roi (1755-57).
    1678 Quebec Quebec - 'Brandy Parliament' votes 15-5 to open up liquor trade to Indians; no restrictions placed on liquor trade in New France.
    1670 Quebec Quebec - Louis Gaboury jailed for eating meat during Lent.

    End of C/P.


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