Fort Erie Ontario - - British and Canadian militia drive back a second American attempt to cross Niagara River at Fort Erie; War of 1812.

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Ottawa Ontario - Canada grants $1 million and free passage to Canada to refugees from Hungarian Revolution against Communist rule. Here is a Hungarian refugee family arriving on a liner in Montreal.

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Quebec Quebec - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698, soldier, Governor of New France, dies in the Château St-Louis at Quebec; born at St-Germain, France May 22, 1622; 1672 obtained governorship of Canada; 1682 recalled to France after quarrel with Intendant Jacques Duchesneau; 1689 reinstated as governor when the Iroquois Confederacy were attacking New France; 1696 commanded punitive expedition to destroy Oneida and Onondaga villages and crops; here he is preparing to go on the warpath; replaced by Louis de Callières.

And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...

Paul Shaffer 1949-
rock & roll keyboardist, actor, comic, band leader, was born at Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1949. Shaffer studied sociology at the University of Toronto while playing in bars and in jazz bands; 1972 musical director for the Toronto production of Godspell; part of the group Northern Lights who sang the song 'Tears Are Not Enough' which was on the We Are The World album.. He was a Saturday Night Live regular 1975-80 aka Don Kirshner; music director of the Blues Brothers; David Letterman's sidekick & bandleader of The World's Most Dangerous Band 1982-93 (NBC), then Paul Shaffer & the Party Boys of Rock 'n Roll / ...& the CBS Orchestra 1993-present.

Also Noël Levasseur 1680-1740
sculptor, was born on this day at Quebec City in 1680; died there Aug. 12, 1740. Levasseur built the balustraded tabernacle at the chapel of the Hôpital-Général in Quebec (1722-23).

Also Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl 1851-1917
diplomat, was born on this day at St James's Palace, London, Nov. 28, 1851; died at Howick, England, Aug. 29, 1917. Grey served as Governor General of Canada, 1904-11; donated the Grey Cup for football supremacy; also inaugurated music and drama festivals.

Also Cal Bricker 1884-
dentist, track athlete, was born on this day in Toronto in 1884. Bricker set a world long jump record of 24' 1.5" at the 1908 Olympic trials, a mark that stood for 27 years; took bronze at the 1908 Games in the long jump and placed fourth in the hop step and jump; 1912 won silver medal in hop step and jump at the Stockholm Olympics, just behind the US Olympic record breaker.

Also Carlyle Clare Agar 1901-1968
helicopter pioneer, founder of Okanagan Air Service, was born on this day at Lion's Head, Ontario, in 1901; died at Victoria BC Jan. 27, 1968. Agar's family moved to Edmonton in 1905; 1940 joined the RCAF; awarded an Air Force Cross for work as a flight teacher; 1947 flew first commercial helicopter to Canada, spraying Okanagan orchards with insecticide; 1949 airlifted construction material, equipment and personnel to the Palisade Lake Dam site; 1951 airlifted material to Aluminium Co of Canada's Kemano dam and Kitimat smelter.

Also Lotta Hitschmanova 1909-
humanitarian, was born on this day at Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1909; founder, in July 1945, of the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada (USC Canada), to help children in postwar Europe.

Also Ken Winters 1929-
music critic, broadcaster, was born on this day at Dauphin, Manitoba, in 1929. Winters has been a baritone soloist, organist, choir director, composer and teacher; 1956-66 music and dance critic of the Winnipeg Free Press; 1966-71 at the Toronto Telegram; 1981 co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada with Helmut Kallmann and Gilles Potvin; has appeared on CBC Radio from 1956 to the present.

Also Ramsay Cook 1931-
historian, was born on this day at Alameda, Saskatchewan, in 1931. Cook studied at the universities of Manitoba, Queen's and Toronto; has taught at U of T and York; currently with U of T Press; works include John W. Dafoe and the Free Press (1963), Canada and the French Canadian Question (1966), The Maple Leaf Forever (1971) and The Regenerators (1985).

Also Ray Perkins 1932-
rhythm and blues Singer, of Crew Cuts, was born on this day in 1932.

Also Kevin Dineen 1963-
NHL right winger, was born on this day at Quebec City, in 1963; selected as an underage junior by the Hartford Whalers in the third round (56th pick overall) of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Philadelphia Flyers to the Hartford Whalers for future considerations on Dec. 28, 1995; currently with Carolina Hurricanes.

Also Benoit Hogue 1966-
NHL right winger, was born on this day at Repentigny, Quebec, in 1966; selected as an underage junior by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round (35th pick overall) of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft; traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs along with Randy Wood to the Dallas Stars for Dave Gagner and a 1996 or 1997 sixth-round draft pick on Jan 28, 1996; signed with Tampa Bay Lightning as free agent, July 29, 1998.