1701 - The Collegiate School of America, later Yale University, is founded by Congregationalists

1793 - Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to the guillotine

1841 - Queens University in Kingston is chartered

1875 - Ontario wins first Quebec vs. Ontario rugby football game

1901 - Inauguration of the Victoria Bridge in Montreal

1909 - Pittsburgh Pirates catcher George Gibson, from London, Ontario, helps his team clinch the World Series; holds Pirates record for most games played by a catcher (1,203)

1911 - Winnipeg receives first electric power

1923 - Disney Co founded

1934 - The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight, known as Ch'ang Cheng--the "Long March"--the retreat lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles

1940 - The Pope names eight Jesuit martyrs as the first North American Saints, the Patron Saints of Canada

1946 - Gordie Howe plays in his first NHL game, and scores his first goal as a Detroit Red Wing against the Toronto Maple Leafs

1946 - At Nuremberg, Germany, 10 high-ranking Nazi officials are executed by hanging for their crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, and war crimes

1951 - Ferry Thomas Rennie christened; operated by the Toronto Transit Commission between the city and the Toronto Islands

1964 - The People's Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear test

1968 �?Toronto Maple Leaf Jim Dorey gets nine penalties in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins; spends total of 48 minutes in the penalty box, NHL record for most penalties in a single hockey game

1970 - Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau declares 'a state of apprehended insurrection' and imposes the War Measures Act

1976 �?Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds

1981 - Founding of Canada Post Corporation to replace the Post Office

1984 - Dr. Leonard L. Bailey performs the first transplant of a baboon heart into a human at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California

1985 - National and Mercantile Banks merged into the National Bank of Canada

1987 - Baby Paul Holc of South Surrey, BC, receives a donor heart at the Loma Linda University Medical Centre from an Ontario-born baby girl when he is only 3 hours old; world's youngest heart transplant born by caesarean section

1988 - Orel Hirsheiser became first to pitch shutout in playoff & World Series

1989 - Roberta Jamieson is appointed Ontario's new ombudsman; the 37-year-old Mohawk is the first aboriginal Canadian to hold the post

 

Birthdays

1758 - Noah Webster, West Hartford Connecticut �?lexicographer: Webster's Dictionary
1854 - Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin �?author: Picture of Dorian Gray
1863 - Sir Austen Chamberlain - British Foreign Secretary
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland - first PM of Israel (1948-53)
1888 - Eugene O'Neill, NY City �?playwright: The Iceman Cometh; Beyond the Horizon
1870 - Wallace Turnbull, Saint John NB - aeronautical engineer/inventor: developed one of aviation's most significant inventions - the variable-pitch propeller
1888 - Eugene O'Neill, NY City �?playwright: Desire Under the Elms
1921 - Linda Darnell, Dallas Tx �?actress: Unfaithfully Yours, 2nd Chance
1921 - Michael Conrad, Washington Hgts NY �?actor: Delvecchio-Hill St Blues
1922 - Max Bygraves, London England �?actor: Tom Brown's School Days
1925 - Angela Lansbury, London England �?actress: Jessica-Murder She Wrote
1927 - Gunter Grass, Germany �?author: The Tin Drum
1940 - Dave DeBusschere, Detroit - NBA player: NY Knicks
1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball player: NY Mets
1943 - Fred Turner �?singer: Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO)- Taking Care of Business; Let It Ride
1944 - Johnny Washbrook, Toronto �?actor: Ken-My Friend Flicka
1946 - Suzanne Somers[Mahoney], San Bruno California �?actress: 3's Company, Step by Step
1959 - Tim Robbins �?actor: Bull Durham, Cadillac Man
1974 - Paul Kariya, Vancouver BC �?NHL player: Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
1975 - Kellie Martin, Riverside CA - actress: Samantha Kinsey-Mystery Woman

 

 

 

A Priest a Minister and a Rabbi

 

A rabbi and his two friends, a priest and a minister played poker for small stakes once a week. The only problem was that they lived in a very conservative blue-law town. The sheriff raided their game and took all three before the local judge.
 
After listening to the sheriff's story, the judge sternly inquired of the priest: "Were you gambling, Father?"

 

The priest looked toward heaven, whispered, "Oh, Lord, forgive me!"  and then said aloud: "No, your honor, I was not gambling."
 
"Were you gambling, Reverend?" the judge asked the minister.

 

The minister repeated the priest's actions and said, "No, your honor, I was not."
 
Turning to the third clergyman, the judge asked: "Were you gambling, Rabbi?"
 
The rabbi eyed him coolly and replied "With whom?"