1657 - Marguerite Bourgeoys starts teaching in Montreal; the following year she will open Montreal's first school in a converted stable

1716 - First lion exhibited in America, in Boston

1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)

1810 - Opening of first regular steam boat service from Montreal to Quebec

1832 - First streetcar railway in America starts operating in NY City

1851 - George Williams founds a branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in St Helen's Baptist Church in Montreal; first YMCA in North America

1857 - Streetsville, Ontario was incorporated as a village

1865 - Alice in Wonderland published

1878 - Abigail Becker single-handedly rescues the captain and seven crew members of the overloaded schooner Conductor, foundered on a sandbar off Long Point on Lake Erie. The 'Heroine of Long Point' later rescued 6 other mariners from another wreck

1885 - Canadian government establishes Rocky Mountains Park at "Siding 29" on the CPR, 3 km from present-day Banff, which was relocated 3 years later to be near the local hot springs

1917 - Frank Calder is elected President of the new National Hockey League, founded on this day. The new League replaces the National Hockey Association, and consists of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs. Quebec did not to operate that first season. Seven years later, the Boston Bruins became the first US club to get a franchise

1922 - In Egypt's Valley of the Kings, British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen's tomb in more than 3,000 years

1926 - Vincent Massey was appointed as the first Canadian minister to the US

1939 - James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies

1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France

1965 - France successfully launches the Diamant-A rocket into space, becoming the world's third space power after the Soviet Union and the United States

1969 - Creams' final concert, at Royal Albert Hall

1971 - CRTC grants a broadcasting licence to Toronto's Channel 79 (CITY-TV); Canada's first commercial UHF television station

1975 - The Canadian Radio-Television Commission orders Canadian TV cable companies to black out identical US programs available on Canadian television at the same time

1976 - René Lévesque sworn in as Premier of Quebec, replacing Robert Bourassa; first separatist government

1982 - Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch

1984 - Guy Lafleur announces he will retire from hockey; after 518 goals and 14 years of service with the Montreal Canadiens

1989 - Earthquake centered near Chicoutimi hits eastern Canada; measures almost 6.0 on the Richter scale

1991 - Goalie Manon Rhéaume 1972- plays one game for the QMJHL Trois-Rivières Draveurs; the first woman to play on a major junior A hockey team

 

Birthdays

1731 - William Cowper, England - poet: His Task
1876 - Willis Haviland Carrier, Angola, N.Y. - inventor: developed air-conditioning equipment
1889 - F.H. 'Frank' Underhill, Stouffville Ontario - historian: first president of the League for Social Reconstruction; main author of the 1933 Regina Manifesto of the CCF
1894 - James Charles McGuigan, Hunter River PEI - Roman Catholic Cardinal: Canada's first non-French Cardinal
1902 - Eddie Shore, Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan - NHL hockey defenceman/coach
1904 - Armand Frappier, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Quebec - physician/microbiologist: founded l' Institut de microbiologie et d'hygiène de Montréal, today's Institut Armand-Frappier
1909 - Eugene Ionesco, Slatina Romania - dramatist: Rhinoceros, The Hermit
1910 - James Simpkins, Winnipeg - cartoonist: created the Jasper cartoon that appeared in Maclean's for 24 years
1912 - Eric Sevareid, Velva North Dakota - newscaster: CBS Weekend News
1918 - Beland Honderich, Kitchener, Ontario - newspaper owner: Toronto Star
1920 - Daniel Petrie, Glace Bay NS - director/actor: A Raisin in the Sun, The Bay Boy
1922 - Charles Monroe Schulz, Minneapolis Minnesota - cartoonist: Peanuts
1925 - Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ - actress: Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado
1933 - Robert Goulet, Lawrence MA - singer/actor: Camelot, Naked Gun 2
1938 - Rich Little, Ottawa Ontario - impressionist/actor: Love on a Rooftop
1939 - Tina Turner [Anna Mae Bullock] Brownsville Texas - singer: Proud Mary, Private Dancer
1943 - Jan Stenerud, Norway - NFL place kicker: Kansas City Chiefs
1945 - John McVie - musician: Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk
1959 - Jamie Rose, NY City - actress: Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest
1961 - Marcy Walker - actress: All My Children, Eden-Santa Barbara
1963 - Allyson Rice-Taylor - actress: Connor-As the World Turns
1972 - Chris Osgood, Peace River Alberta - NHL player: Detroit Red Wings

 

 

Things to Think About

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

 

Anyone who thinks old age is golden must not have had a very exciting youth.

 

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

 

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

 

No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.

 

There are no new sins....the old ones just get more publicity.

 

There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM.  It could be a right number!!!

 

Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.

 

One of the quickest ways for a young man to fail in life is to work so hard the boss will think he's after his job.

 

If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all.