Good morning everyone! Today in 1989, the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa bought a Victoria Cross for about $79,000 in an auction in London, England. The medal had been posthumously awarded to Pte. William Milne, a Scot who moved to Saskatchewan to work on a farm. It was one of five awarded to Canadians for the 1917 battle of Vimy Ridge. Also today in 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle delivered his Vive le Quebec Libre! speech from the balcony of Montreal city hall to a crowd of 10,000 gathered to hear his address and in 1974, U.S. President Richard Nixon was ordered by the Supreme Court to surrender the Watergate tapes, leading to his resignation two weeks later.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:45:01 +0000