on this Day in Canadian History 1917 - NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands 1981 - 69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23 1998 - 86th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 26-24 2008 - Patrick Roys #33 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens on this Day in History 845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. 1492 - Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Columbuss fleet 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India 1542 - Spain delegates New Laws against slavery in America 1573 - The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded. 1574 - Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. 1794 - Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards 1830 - Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the U K. 1864 - American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties - Union General O Howard orders plunderers be shot to death 1899 - Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) 1900 - Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France 1906 - Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership 1910 - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs 1914 - Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing 1914 - Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia 1918 - Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) 1919 - Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week 1927 - 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc) 1930 - 1st Irish Sweepstake run 1932 - Pump that computes quantity & price delivered patented 1935 - China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight 1941 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis 1941 - NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya 1942 - Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov 1942 - Hitler orders Rommels Africa Korps to fight to last man 1943 - FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan 1943 - France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprison Lebanese government 1943 - RAF begins air bombing of Berlin 1943 - US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island 1944 - Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen 1954 - Humane Society forms 1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1963 - American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas - Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 1968 - Terence ONeill, Northern Ireland Prime Minister, announced reform measures granting concessions to Catholic minority, in response to protests 1971 - A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh 1972 - US ends 22 year travel ban to China 1975 - Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers killed & one captured as Provisional Irish Republican Army attack watchtower South Armagh, North Ireland 1977 - Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins 1982 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas 1985 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C 1990 - Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister 1995 - Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women 1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. 2003 - In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the presidents resignation. 2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections. 2005 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
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