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1988 |
LEWIS AND WALDO WIN GOLDS (HER SECOND)
Seoul Korea - At the 24th Olympiad, Canadian super-heavyweight Lennox Lewis defeats Riddick Bowe to win Canada's first Olympic Boxing gold medal in 56 years. In the pool, Carolyn Waldo wins her second gold medal in synchronized swimming, in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian woman to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition. |
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1848 |
 Also On This Day...
Toronto Ontario - Paul Kane 1810-1871 returns from his wanderings on the prairies and Pacific coast of North America with over 700 sketches of life in the west; he starts to paint canvases of his subjects during this winter. Here is a self portrait from this date. |
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1919 |
Also On This Day...
London Ontario - Canadian Army vaudeville troupe the Dumbells, who first performed at Vimy Ridge in 1917, premiere their musical review in London. They follow up with rave reviews at the Grand Theatre in Toronto, and opened a new variety show at the Ambassador Theatre in New York two years later, becoming the first Canadian musical on Broadway. The Dumbells disbanded in 1929.
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1928 |
And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
James Allen 'Jimmy' Pattison 1928 businessman and entrepreneur, was born on this day at Saskatoon in 1928. Pattison was raised in Vancouver, where he built up the largest car dealership in Western Canada. In 1967 he purchased Claude Neon signs, the first of his Pattison Group's over 50 acquisitions. He also managed the Expo 86 World's Fair, making it a great success.
Also Angèle Arsenault 1943- folk singer, songwriter, was born on this day at Abrams, PEI in 1943. Arsenault is known for collecting and performing of Acadian folk songs.
Also Ben Wickes 1926- cartoonist, was born on this day at London, England in 1926. Wickes came to Canada in 1957, and started out in Calgary as a milkman and musician in the local militia band. Selling his first newspaper cartoons to the Calgary Herald, Wickes moved to Toronto in 1966 to join the Telegram, and started syndicating his cartoons, particularly his political series The Outcasts, and his single frame gags.
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| In Other Events.... |
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1992 |
Montreal Quebec - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- comes out strongly against Charlottetown Accord; will weaken Ottawa and create hierarchy of rights; Quebeckers at the top, individuals Canadians at the bottom. |
| 1992 | Indian Brook Nova Scotia - Reg Maloney Micmac chief gets right to try some native court cases on 1,200 member reserve; minor criminal cases. |
| 1992 | Ottawa Ontario - Statistics Canada says first-time bride aged 26 in 1990, 22.6 in 1971; groom 27.9, 24.9; first marriages 77%, 90% in 1971; 7.1/1000 people; 7.9 in 1921. |
| 1991 | Ottawa Ontario - Raymond Protti named head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, replacing Reed Morden; former Deputy Minister of Labour. |
| 1990 | Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa to privatize Petro-Canada; 3,300 outlets, $6.8b assets; limits foreign ownership to 25%; no one investor to own more than 10% of the company. |
| 1986 | Ottawa Ontario - Hon. John Fraser was elected speaker of the House of Commons; had resigned as a Minister after tainted tuna scandal. |
| 1981 | Vancouver BC - Anik satellite used to extend national edition of Globe and Mail to Vancouver. |
| 1976 | Toronto Ontario - Provincial Premiers meet in Toronto; again fail to reach agreement on amending formula for BNA Act. |
| 1970 | BC - Soviet vessels banned from fishing in Big Bank region off the west coast of Vancouver Island; after collisions between Soviet and Canadian ships. |
| 1966 | Montreal Quebec - CBC starts first colour television broadcasting. |
| 1961 | Paris France - Donald Methuen Fleming 1905- elected Chairman of new Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Canadian Finance Minister. |
| 1960 | Toronto Ontario - Opening of O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts (now the Hummingbird Centre), with the premiere of Lerner and Loewe's musical Camelot, with Canada's Robert Goulet in the role of Sir Lancelot. |
| 1959 | PEI - Federal-provincial hospital plan goes into effect in PEI. |
| 1958 | New York New York - Sidney Earle Smith 1897-1959 Canadian External Affairs Minister opens Canada House in New York City; with Mayor Robert Wagner. |
| 1951 | Ottawa Ontario - Charlotte Whitton becomes Mayor of Ottawa on death of incumbent. She is Canada's first woman mayor. |
| 1947 | Ottawa Ontario - Governor-General becomes independent; given authority to exercise all Royal powers and executive authority of the Crown in relation to Canada. |
| 1944 | Calais France - Canadians take Calais, overrun flying bomb sites; end campaign to clear Channel ports. |
| 1944 | Antwerp Netherlands - Second Canadian Division crosses Antwerp Canal to begin freeing of Scheldt estuary. |
| 1943 | Naples Italy - Allies capture Naples. |
| 1941 | Ottawa Ontario - Agricultural Supplies Board given power to fix prices. |
| 1938 | Ottawa Ontario - Robert B. Bryce begins work in Department of Finance; a disciple of Keynes. |
| 1932 | Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators readmitted to NHL, which drops Pittsburgh; financially troubled team unable to make a profit during Depression, and goes out of business. |
| 1916 | Ottawa Ontario - Second Canadian War Loan of $100 million oversubscribed. |
| 1899 | Quebec Quebec - Diomede Falconio 1842- arrives in Quebec as first permanent Apostolic Delegate to Canada. |
| 1898 | Dawson Yukon - T. D. Evans Dawson detachment of Yukon Field Force reaches Klondike gold fields. |
| 1876 | Ontario - first western Canadian wheat shipped to Ontario. |
| 1853 | Toronto Ontario - George Brown 1818-1880 first issues his 'Globe' newspaper as a daily. |
| 1846 | London England - James Bruce, Lord Elgin 1786-1857 appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from Jan. 30,1847 to Dec. 19, 1854. |
| 1674 | Quebec Quebec - François de Laval 1623-1688 appointed first Bishop of Quebec by Pope Clement X. |
| 1674 | Rome Italy - Pope Clement X creates bishopric of Quebec; appoints Laval first Bishop of Quebec. |
| 1669 | Hamilton Ontario - François Dollier de Casson 1636-1701 reaches Tinaouataoua with La Salle and fellow Sulpician Galinée; winter on north shore of Lake Erie; La Salle leaves them to continue exploration. |
| 1665 | Lake Superior - Claude Allouez 1622-1689 founds mission in birch-bark chapel at Pointe du Saint Esprit; begins missionary work into Illinois; Jesuit priest. |
| 1578 | London England - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 and his ships all return to England safely; worthless pyrites used to pave London streets; giving rise to the saying that the streets of London were paved with gold. |