On This Day
March 06
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Today's Canadian Headline... |
| 1834 | TORONTO'S BIRTHDAYToronto Ontario – City of Toronto, formerly York, incorporated; population now 10,000; first municipal election to be held March 27th. |
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And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...Ken Danby 1940- |
| In Other Events… | |
| 1997 | Nakina Ontario – Students at Nakina Public School, 100 km east of Lake Nipigon, exchange email with Queen Elizabeth, as she launches her official royal website from Buckingham Palace. |
| 1995 | Regina Saskatchewan – Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. agrees to pay US$810 million for Texasgulf Inc of North Carolina. |
| 1969 | Ottawa Ontario – Wilfrid Laurier 1841-1919 papers and memorabilia displayed at the National Library in Ottawa; first exhibit of its kind in Canada |
| 1962 | Riondel BC – Sons of Freedom Doukhobors bomb electric power pylon near Riondel. |
| 1957 | Ottawa Ontario – Supreme Court of Canada nullifies Quebec ‘Padlock Law’ of 1937; says jurisdiction federal and not provincial. |
| 1940 | Ottawa Ontario – Founding of the wartime Agricultural Supplies Board. |
| 1925 | Truro Nova Scotia – 12,000 Nova Scotia coal miners go on strike until August 6. |
| 1909 | Hamilton Ontario – Samuel Carter appointed first President of Co-operative Union of Canada, an insurance company founded at Gore Park in Hamilton; native of Guelph; origin of The Cooperators. |
| 1901 | Ottawa Ontario – Ottawa increases Pacific Cable subsidy to $2 million. |
| 1889 | Toronto Ontario – Emile Zola’s novels seized and destroyed by customs officers after they are ruled obscene. |
| 1884 | Toronto Ontario – Opening of free public library in Toronto; today’s Toronto Public Library. |
| 1873 | Ottawa Ontario – Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 appointed Leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition, replacing George Brown. |
| 1852 | Newfoundland – Newfoundland Electric Telegraph completed between St. John’s and Carbonear. |
| 1852 | Toronto Ontario – Group of Toronto brokers frame ‘a code of Rules and Regulations’ for Toronto Stock Exchange |
| 1837 | London England – British Parliament passes Lord John Russell’s Ten Resolutions; the Governor of Lower Canada can now pay salaries of officials; without approval of the Assembly, who are refusing to vote funds. |
| 1834 | Toronto Ontario – Incorporation of London and Gore (later Great Western) Railroad between Hamilton and London; first railway incorporated in Upper Canada. |
| 1645 | Paris France – Founding of la Compagnie des Habitants; gets trade and colonization rights to New France; succeeds Company of New France |
| Today’s World Events … | |
| 1991 | England – George Carey elected Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of world’s 70 million Anglicans. |
| 1990 | USA – Lougheed SR-71 Blackbird sets US transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17. |
| 1987 | Zeebrugge Belgium – Townsend Thoreson ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes while leaving Zeebrugge harbor, drowning 193 people. |
| 1985 | New York City – Yul Brynner, age 64, plays his 4,500th performance as the king in The King and I on Broadway; started in 1951. |
| 1983 | Milwaukee Wisconsin – San Antonio beats Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to score the most points ever scored by two National Basketball Association teams. |
| 1982 | USA – United States Football League starts first season of pro football competition in the spring; folded after two seasons.. |
| 1981 | New York City – Walter Cronkite says ‘And that’s the way it is’ before 17 million viewers, in his last Evening News; replaced by Dan Rather. |
| 1978 | Georgia – Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot and crippled by a sniper. |
| 1976 | USA – Dorothy Hamill wins world figure skating championship. |
| 1974 | Monaco – Italian gambler loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo. |
| 1972 | Miami Florida – Jack Nicklaus wins Doral Eastern Open, passing Arnold Palmer as golf’s all-time money winner with career earnings of $1,477,200. |
| 1967 | New Delhi India – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, requests asylum at the US embassy in New Delhi. |
| 1964 | Greece – King Constantine II of Greece succeeds to the throne after the death of his father, Paul I. |
| 1964 | USA – Elijah Muhammad renames boxer Cassius Clay Muhammad Ali. |
| 1964 | USA – Elizabeth Taylor divorces Eddie Fisher; her 4th. |
| 1957 | Ghana – Ghana becomes independent within the Commonwealth; former Gold Coast. |
| 1953 | Moscow Russia – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. |
| 1946 | Paris France – France recognizes Vietnamese statehood within the Indo-Chinese federation. |
| 1945 | Cologne Germany – Allied tanks and infantry, led by US First Army, drive into Cologne. |
| 1944 | Germany – US bombers start daylight raids on Berlin from bases in Britain. |
| 1900 | Germany – Gottlieb Daimler dies; designed first motorcycle. |
| 1882 | Serbia – Prince Milan IV proclaims himself king of Serbia. |
| 1857 | Washington DC – Dred Scott decision holds the blacks cannot be full US citizens. |
| 1853 | Venice Italy – Giuseppe Verdi premieres his opera La Traviata in Venice. |
| 1836 | Texas – Mexican General Santa Anna and his large army slaughter Davy Crockett and rest of 189 Texas volunteers after 13 day siege. General Sam Houston and his Texans capture Santa Anna 46 days later, with battle cry, Remember the Alamo. |
| 1521 | Pacific – Magellan discovers the island of Guam on his voyage around the world. |
| 1480 | Toledo Spain – Spain and Portugal sign Treaty of Toledo; Spain recognizes Portugal’s conquest of Morocco, Portugal cedes claims to Canary Islands. |
| 1460 | Portugal – Treaty of Alcacovas; Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands in exchange for West Africa. |
| Today’s Global Birthdays… | |
| 1972 | USA – Shaquille O’Neal basketball star: Orlando Magic: NBA Rookie of the Year, 1993. |
| 1959 | Iowa – Tom Arnold, comedian, Roseanne, The Jackie Thomas Show, Tom, True Lies; Mr Roseanne Barr. |
| 1947 | USA – Dick Fosbury, Olympic Gold Medalist and record holder: high jump (7′, 4 1/4″, 1968); first to break 7′ indoors; inventor of the Fosbury Flop high jump technique. |
| 1945 | New York City – Rob Reiner, Emmy Award-winning Best Supporting Actor/Comedy Series: All In the Family (1973-74, 1977-78), Postcards from the Edge, Sleepless in Seattle; director: When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men; Carl’s son. |
| 1944 | Gisborne New Zealand – Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, operatic soprano. |
| 1944 | Detroit Michigan – Mary Wilson, singer: The Supremes: Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Come See About Me, Stop! In the Name of Love, Back in My Arms Again, I Hear a Symphony, Nothing But Heartaches, You Can’t Hurry Love, You Keep Me Hanging On, My World is Empty Without You. |
| 1941 | USA – Willie ‘Pops’ Stargell, baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman; World Series MVP and Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year, 1979. |
| 1937 | Russia – Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva Russian cosmonaut; first woman in space, Vostok 6. |
| 1935 | Ireland – Ronnie Delaney, 1500m runner, Olympic Gold Medal 1956. |
| 1936 | USA – Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC 1979-90; convicted drug felon. |
| 1928 | Colombia – Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, author: A Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera; winner of Nobel Prize for Literature 1982. |
| 1927 | Shawnee Oklahoma – Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, USAF pilot, astronaut, Mercury 9, Gemini 5. |
| 1926 | USA – Alan Greenspan, economist, Chair, US Federal Reserve Board. |
| 1923 | Detroit Michigan – Ed McMahon, radio/TV announcer, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Star Search, The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, Budweiser spots, TV’s Most Hilarious Bloopers. |
| 1906 | Paterson New Jersey – Lou Costello (Cristillo), comedian, actor, Abbott & Costello: ‘Who’s on First?’ |
| 1885 | USA – Ring Lardner, sports reporter, humorist, writer: Alibi Ike, You Know Me Al, Elmer the Great, June Moon. |
| 1844 | Russia – Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer, Flight of the Bumble Bee. |
| 1831 | Albany New York – Philip Henry Sheridan, General, Union Army, US Civil War. |
| 1806 | England – Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton), poet: Sonnets from the Portuguese (How do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways); Robert Browning’s wife. |
| 1619 | France – Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, dramatist, A Voyage to the Moon, The States and Empires of the Sun; subject of Rostand’s famous play about his nose. |
| 1475 | Italy – Michelangelo (de Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), painter: Sistine Chapel ceiling; sculptor: David; architect: St. Peter’s in Rome. |
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