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| 1915 | IN FLANDERS FIELDS Ypres Belgium - Lt.-Col. John McCrae 1872-1918 composes his poem 'In |
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| 1892 | And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...Jacob Viner 1892-1970 Also Matt Baldwin 1926- |
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| 1991 | Charlottetown PEI - Brian Mulroney 1939- promises 500-job GST processing centre for Summerside to help community hard hit by closing of Canadian Forces Base. |
| 1990 | Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada unanimously rules that Angelique Lyn Lavallee of Winnipeg was acting in self defence when she shot her husband to death after years of beatings; women can use battered wife syndrome as defence against murder charge. |
| 1989 | Ottawa Ontario - John Napier Turner 1929- announces resignation as Liberal leader as soon as a leadership convention date is set. |
| 1987 | Europe - Sweden defeats Canada 9-0 to win World Hockey Championship; first in 25 years. |
| 1980 | Montreal Quebec - Giants first baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st and final career home run off Montreal's Scott Sanderson, tying him with Ted Williams on the all-time HR list; McCovey will retire June 6. |
| 1979 | Dawson City Yukon - Yukon River submerges Dawson under more than two metres of water; downtown declared a disaster area. |
| 1971 | Victoria BC - Queen Elizabeth II 1926- starts one-week visit to British Columbia for the province's centennial, with Prince Philip and Princess Anne. |
| 1969 | Toronto Ontario - Rock star Jimi Hendrix arrested for heroin possession at Toronto International Airport; released on $10,000 bail. |
| 1963 | Hay River NWT - Over 1,600 residents of Hay River and Fort Simpson airlifted to safety after towns struck by flooding. |
| 1963 | London England - Lester B. Pearson 1897-1972 visits London for talks with British Prime Minister Macmillan; received by Queen Elizabeth and appointed to the Privy Council. |
| 1961 | China - Canada sells $362 million of grain to People's Republic of China. |
| 1960 | London England - John G. Diefenbaker 1895-1979 attends Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference; proposes Colombo Plan for aid to Africa. |
| 1959 | Vatican City - Beatification of Mother Marguerite d'Youville, founder of the Sisters of Charity; first Canadian to be beatified; canonized by Pope John Paul Dec. 9, 1990. |
| 1958 | Brockville, Ontario - Trust company at Brockville robbed of $3.3 million dollars in bonds and securities. |
| 1945 | Wismar Germany - First Canadian Army takes Oldenburg, and Canadian paratroopers link up with Russians in Wismar. |
| 1922 | Charlottetown PEI- Women in Prince Edward Island win the right to vote. |
| 1922 | Montreal Quebec - Creation of radio station CKAC, the first in Quebec; starts broadcasting officially in October. |
| 1887 | Nanaimo BC - Coal mine explosion at Nanaimo kills 150. |
| 1886 | Vancouver BC- M.A. Maclean elected first mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia. |
| 1871 | St. Boniface Manitoba - Collè St-Boniface gets provincial charter. |
| 1867 | Victoria BC - Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island. |
| 1850 | London England - Horatio Austin 1801-1865 sails with fleet of four ships to search Wellington Channel for signs of the Franklin expedition. |
| 1835 | Halifax Nova Scotia - Joseph Howe 1804-1873, editor of The Novascotian, acquitted of charges of libel against a group of Halifax magistrates. |
| 1811 | London England - Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 purchases 300,000 sq km of Manitoba from the Hudson's Bay Company for a Red River colony named to be named Assiniboia. |
| 1744 | Canso Nova Scotia - Joseph Du Pont Duvivier 1707-1760 appointed by Duquesnel, Commandant of Louisbourg, to capture British fishing station at Canseau; closest British settlement to Louisbourg. |
| 1699 | Biloxi Mississippi - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 leaves Louisiana for France, puts colonists under command of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville 1680-1767 and Ensign Sauvole (d1701). |
| 1536 | Quebec Quebec - Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 discovers threat of Iroquois rebellion; captures chief Donnacona as hostage during a religious ceremony; promises to bring him back from France in ten moons. |
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