1824 - Incorporation of the Welland Canal Company

1825 - Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans

1829 - Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1" premieres

1843 - Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy opens at Sackville, New Brunswick; now Mount Allison University

1853 - Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premieres, in Rome

1901 - Government of Canada purchases the Plains of Abraham battlefield; to be maintained as a national park

1903 - New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced

1915 - The electric neon sign was patented by George Claude of Paris, France

1915 - Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German zeppelins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn on the eastern coast of England

1932 - Charlie Conacher becomes the first Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, the 1st coming at 7 seconds of the game

1938 - GM began mass production of diesel engines

1943 - Princess Margriet born to Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in a room in the Ottawa Civic hospital declared to be Dutch territory. The Dutch royal family live in Ottawa as exiles during World War II

1950 - Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane

1953 - Lucy Ricardo gave birth to baby Ricky on I Love Lucy. More people tuned in to watch the show than the inauguration of President Eisenhower

1955 - "The Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS

1955 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the first president to hold news conferences to be filmed by TV and newsreels

1955 - "Scrabble" debuts on board game market

1958 - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League

1961 - First episode for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed

1966 - Indira Gandhi, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, becomes head of the Congress Party and thus prime minister of India; India's first female head of government

1971 - NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association

1980 - William O Douglas, member US Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81

1983 - Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief of Lyons, France, during the German occupation, is arrested in Bolivia for his crimes against humanity four decades earlier

1988 - "48 Hours" premieres on CBS-TV

1989 - Canadian Airlines International acquires Wardair, Canada's third largest carrier, for $250 million

1993 - Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo

1996 - NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix

1997 - Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron for the first time in 30 years, as Israel hands over control of the West Bank city to Palestinians

 

Birthdays

0570 - Mohammed - Islamic prophet
1736 - James Watt, Greenock, Scotland - engineer/inventor: rotary engine for driving various types of machinery; the double-action engine, in which steam is admitted alternately into both ends of the cylinder; and the steam indicator, which records the steam pressure in the engine
1807 - Robert Edward Lee, Stratford Virginia - General-in-Chief of the Confederacy
1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, Boston Massachusetts - author: Pit & the Pendulum
1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer - engineer/inventor: Bessemer engine
1839 - Paul Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence France - impressionist painter: Bathers
1914 - Lester Flatt - musician: Flatt & Scruggs -Ballad of Jed Clampett, Rocky Top
1917 - John Raitt - singer/actor:Pajama Game; Bonnie Raitt's father
1919 - Anthony Dexter [Walter Fleischmann] NB - actor: Valentino
1919 - Paul Perron, Riviere du Loup Quebec - painter: created "mouvementisme" in landscape painting; restored artwork of Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal
1921 - Patricia Highsmith, Fort Worth Texas - author: Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley
1922 - Guy Madison [Robert Moseley] Bakersfield California - actor: Wild Bill Hickok
1922 - Ken Hughes, Liverpool England - director: Casino Royale
1923 - Jean Stapleton, NY City - actress: Damn Yankees, Klute, All in the Family, You've Got Mail
1926 - Fritz Weaver, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - actor: Josef -Holocaust, Day of the Dolphin
1928 - Tippi Hedren, Minnesota - actress: The Birds, Marnie, Bold & Beautiful
1931 - Robert MacNeil, Halifax NS - news anchor: NBC Weekend News, MacNeil-Lehrer Report
1932 - Richard Lester - director: Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia
1936 - Ursula Andress, Switzerland - actress: She
1939 - Phil Everly, Brownie Kentucky - singer: Everly Bros -Wake Up Little Susie
1942 - Michael Crawford, England - Broadway singer: Phantom of the Opera
1942 - Shelly Fabares, Santa Monica California - actress: Donna Reed Show, Coach
1943 - Janis Joplin, Port Arthur Texas - singer: Down on Me, Piece of my Heart
1944 - Richard [Erskine Frere] Leakey, Nairobi Kenya - anthropologist; Olduvai Gorge
1946 - Dolly Rebecca Parton, Locust Ridge Tennessee - singer/actress: Dolly, 9 to 5, Coat of Many Colors
1949 - Robert Palmer, Batley England - singer: Addicted to Love, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley
1951 - Dewey Bunnell, Yorkshire England - guitarist: America -Daisy Jane, Sister Golden Hair
1951 - Martha Davis - singer: Motels -Only the Lonely
1951 - Linda Hayden, Middlesex England - actress: Blood on Satan's Claw, Shattered
1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr, Los Angeles California - actor: Craig -Here's Lucy, Fakeout, Joyride
1954 - Steve DeBerg - NFL quarterback: Broncos, Chiefs, Bucs, 49ers
1954 - Katey Sagal, Los Angeles California - actress: Peg Bundy -Married with Children
1961 - William Ragsdale, Alaska - actor: Fright Night, Mannequin 2, Smooth Talk
1962 - Anthony Edwards, Santa Barbara California - actor: Mike Monroe -Northern Exposure
1962 - Chris Sabo, Detroit Michigan - baseball pitcher: Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles
1966 - Stefan Edberg, Sweden - professional tennis player
1969 - Orlando Palmeiro, Hoboken NJ - baseball outfielder: California Angels
1973 - Chris Stynes, Queens NY - baseball infielder: Kansas City Royals
1974 - Amaury Telemaco, Higuey Dominican Republic - baseball pitcher: Chicago Cubs

 

 

Some of the artists of the 60's are revising their hits with new lyrics to accommodate aging baby boomers.
 
They include:

Bobby Darin  ---  
Splish, Splash, I Was Havin' a Flash.

 

Herman's  Hermits  ---
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Walker .

 

Ringo Starr  ---  
I Get By With a Little Help From My Depends.

 

The Bee Gees  -- -  
How Can You Mend a Broken Hip.

 

Roberta Flack---  
The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.

 

Johnny Nash  ---  
I Can't See Clearly Now.

 

Paul  Simon ---  
Fifty Ways  to Lose Your Liver 

 

The Commodores  ---
Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.

 

Marvin Gaye  ---  
Heard It Through the Grape Nuts.
 
Procol Harem---  
A Whiter Shade of Hair.

 

Leo Sayer  ---  
You Make Me Feel Like Napping.

 

The Temptations  ---  
Papa's Got a Kidney Stone.

 

Abba ---  
Denture Queen.

 

Tony Orlando ---
Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall.

 

Helen Reddy  ---
I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore.

 

Leslie Gore---
It's My Procedure, and I'll Cry If I Want To.

 

And Last but NOT least

 

Willie Nelson  ---   On the Commode Again