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1921 |
OTTAWA WINS STANLEY CUP
Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires 3 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup. |
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1918 |
Also On This Day...
Bertangles France - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen 1881-1918 shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Captain Roy Brown 1893-1944 of Carleton Place, Ontario, a flight leader in the 209th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps [In the picture, Brown is in the rear trailing the Baron]. It is likely that Australian ground fire downed the Red Baron, victor over 80 Allied planes. The tail of von Richthofen's plane is on display at Toronto's Royal Military Institute.
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1964 |
And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Alex 'Sasha' Baumann 1964-
swimmer, coach, was born on this day at Prague, Czech Republic in 1964; moved with his parents to Canada at age 9 and settled in Sudbury, where he was coached. By age seventeen in 1981 he held 51 provincial and 38 national records, and was swimming 14 km daily in training. At age 18, he set a world record in the 200m Individual Medley. Forced out of competition for ten months with a pulled shoulder, he was back at the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982, where he again won the 200m IM in world record time. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Baumann won the first swimming golds for Canada in seventy-two years, setting world records in the 200m IM [2:01.42] and 400m IM [4:17.41]. Following the Olympics, he took up coaching in Australia.
Also Keith Davey 1926-
Senator, was born on this day in 1926. Davey became a Young Liberal organizer after the Party's defeat at the hands of John Diefenbaker. In 1961 he was National Campaign Director, and helped Lester Pearson come to power in 1963. Nicknamed The Rainmaker for his ability to win elections, he was made a Senator in 1966, and chaired a Committee looking at Canada's mass media. He was often relied on during the Trudeau years, but had a painful experience managing John Turner's campaign against Brian Mulroney.
Also Queen Elizabeth II 1926-
was born on this day in 1926.
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| In Other Events... |
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1991 |
Montreal Quebec - Jean Chrétien 1934- urges a referendum in early 1992; suggests giving veto to four regions - Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and the West - and the allocation of power to the government that can handle it best. |
| 1991 | Toronto Ontario - Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts sign Heisman Trophy winner and expected number one pick of the Dallas Cowboys, Rocket Ismail, to a $26 million contract. |
| 1986 | PEI - Joe Ghiz leads Prince Edward Island's Liberal Party to win 21 of 32 seats in the provincial election, ending the 7-year government of the Conservatives. |
| 1984 | Montreal Quebec - Montreal Expo David Palmer is pitching a perfect game against the St. Louis Cardinals when the home plate umpire calls the game in five innings on account of rain. Palmer had made 57 pitches and was leading the Cards 4-0; the fourth shortened, perfect game in major-league baseball history. |
| 1985 | Toronto Ontario - Foster Hewitt dies; radio and television voice of NHL games for over 50 years. |
| 1977 | New York City - Billy Martin's Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-6; Martin pulled the Yankee line-up out of a hat. |
| 1972 | Quebec Quebec - Over 200,000 Quebec public service workers end their ten day strike. |
| 1961 | Quebec Quebec - Premier Jean Lesage institutes the Parent Commission on education in Quebec; influenced by Les Insolences du frère Untel by Jean-Paul Desbiens, a critique of religious control over education in the province. |
| 1960 | Ottawa Ontario - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 leaves for Mexico City for talks with President Lopez Mateos. |
| 1956 | Toronto Ontario - Canadian Labour Congress formed from a merger of the Canadian Congress of Labour and the Trades and Labour Congress. |
| 1951 | Toronto Ontario - Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 1 for the Stanley Cup. |
| 1948 | Ottawa Ontario - William Lyon Mackenzie King sets record 20 years, 10 months and 10 days of service as a Commonwealth prime minister. |
| 1908 | NWT - Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940 claims to have reached the North Pole on this date, ahead of US Admiral Peary; first man to do so; claim rejected in 1909; still a controversy, although in actual fact neither reached the Pole at all. |
| 1906 | Washington DC - Britain and US sign convention fixing the Canada-Alaska boundary at the 141st meridian. |
| 1873 | Ottawa Ontario - Oaths Act gives CPR select committee power to question witnesses under oath; declared unconstitutional that July. |
| 1821 | Toronto Ontario - Bank of Upper Canada incorporated. |
| 1806 | St-Boniface Manitoba - Marie-Anne Gaboury marries Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière; the first white woman to live in Western Canada, Gaboury is Louis Riel's grandmother. |
| 1785 | Quebec Quebec - Trial by jury begins in Canada with the adoption of British common law. |
| 1664 | Quebec Quebec - Governor bans the littering of streets with 'straw, manure or anything else'; first hygiene regulations in New France. |
Bertangles France - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen 1881-1918 shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight with Captain Roy Brown 1893-1944 of Carleton Place, Ontario, a flight leader in the 209th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps [In the picture, Brown is in the rear trailing the Baron]. It is likely that Australian ground fire downed the Red Baron, victor over 80 Allied planes. The tail of von Richthofen's plane is on display at Toronto's Royal Military Institute.