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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jimmy Carter, 39th US President
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sam Yorty, 37th Los Angeles Mayor
1864 – Abraham Lincoln substitute, John Staples, paid $500
1869 – George Desbarats accepts Sir John A. Macdonald’s offer to become first Queen’s Printer of Canada
1909 – Earl Grey lays cornerstone of Alberta’s legislature
1974 – Watergate cover-up trial begins
1986 – Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Library & Museum dedicated in Atlanta
1990 – Bob Rae sworn in as Ontario’s 21st Premier
1990 – George H. W. Bush condemns Iraq’s takeover of Kuwait at United Nations
1992 – Pierre Trudeau comes out against the Charlottetown Accord
1992 – Ross Perot re-enters presidential race
2010 – David Johnston installed as Canada’s 28th Governor General
2011 – Barack Obama appoints Martin Dempsey US Joints Chief of Staff
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sir James Whitney, Ontario’s 6th Premier
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dave Barrett, British Columbia’s 26th Premier
1789 – George Washington transmits first 10 amendments to constitution to the states
1914 – Sir William Hearst sworn in as Ontario’s 7th Premier
1915 – Arthur Meighen appointed Solicitor General of Canada
1919 – Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
1937 – Franklin Roosevelt visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site
1948 – George Drew elected leader PC Party of Canada
1958 – Charles Dunning passes away
1980 – Pierre Trudeau says he will unilaterally patriate the constitution
1996 – Robert Bourassa passes away
2003 – Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario Liberal party win election
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1789 – George Washington proclaims 1st National Thanksgiving for November 26
1863 – Abraham Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1874 – Edward Blake makes “Aurora Speech” defining new Canadian nationalism
1913 – Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Income Tax into law
1927 – William Lyon Mackenzie King makes first transatlantic phone call
1941 – William Lyon Mackenzie King questions price freeze proposed to cabinet
1942 – Franklin Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization
1985 – Pierre-Marc Johnson sworn in as Quebec’s 28th Premier
1992 – Barack Obama marries Michelle Robinson
2000 – Pierre Trudeau’s state funeral
2006 – Shawn Graham sworn in as New Brunswick’s 31st Premier
2008 – George W. Bush signs bailout bill for US financial system
2009 – Stephen Harper performs Beatles songs with Yo Yo Ma at National Arts Centre
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1777 – George Washington loses battle of Germantown
1854 – Abraham Lincoln makes first political speech at Illinois State Fair
1909 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier lays first stone at Ecole Technique
1909 – Early Grey lays cornerstone of Saskatchewan legislature
1925 – Earl Warren marries Nina Elisabeth Palmquist
1939 – During election, Maurice Duplessis declares vote for Union National a vote for autonomy against conscription
2000 – Jean Chretien renames Canada’s highest peak as Mount Pierre Elliott Trudeau
2004 – Paul Martin’s minority government sworn in
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1878 – Lord Lorne appointed Governor General of Canada
1947 – Harry Truman gives first televised address from White House
1953 – Earl Warren sworn in as 14th US Chief Justice
1954 – Louis St. Laurent meets with Quebec Premier to discuss taxation
1954 – Maurice Duplessis meets with Prime Minister to discuss taxation
1970 5:00 PM – October Crises – Pierre Trudeau meets with his cabinet
1970 5:00 PM – October Crises – Robert Bourassa meets with his cabinet
1978 – John Buchanan and the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party win election
1992 – George H. W. Bush veto overturned for the first time
2001 – George W. Bush appoints Tom Ridge as first Homeland Security Advisor
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1911 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier resigns as Prime Minister after election defeat
1937 – Mitch Hepburn and the Ontario Liberal Party win re-election
1945 – Dwight Eisenhower welcomed in Hague
1946 – Harry Truman questions British Jews about Palestine
1949 – Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act
1959 – John Diefenbaker announces relief for Japanese typhoon victims
1961 – John Diefenbaker receives petition from Canadian Committee for Control of Radiation Hazards
1961 – John Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1964 – Louis St. Laurent has Mount St. Laurent named after him
1970 – Mitchell Sharp announces that the government won’t meet the FLQ’s demands
1976 – Gerald Ford claims “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe
1980 – Pierre Trudeau announces plans to unilaterally patriate the constitution
1983 – Dave Barrett ejected from legislature for defying speaker
2011 – Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario Liberal Party win re-election
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1963 – John Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1975 – Dave Barrett forces striking forest, propane, railway and food workers back to work
1992 – Michael Wilson initials the North American Free Trade Agreement for Canada
1996 – Robert Bourassa’s funeral is held
1997 – RCMP ordered to pay $2 million in reparations to Brian Mulroney
1997 – Frank McKenna retires as Premier of New Brunswick
2015 – Barack Obama apologizes to Doctors Without Borders for bombing of a hospital
2016 – Video released of Donald Trump claiming to have groped and kissed women without consent
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jesse Jackson, candidate for President
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dennis Kucinich, former member US House of Representatives
1846 – Charles Tupper marries Frances Amelia Morse
1944 – Wendell Willkie passes away
1945 – Harry Truman says he will share secrets of atomic bomb with Britain & Canada
1974 – Paul Martin Sr. appointed Canadian High Commissioner to Britain
1981 – Ronald Reagan greets predecessors before sending them to Anwar Sadat’s funeral
1984 – Bill Davis announces he will retire as Ontario Premier
1999 – Bill Clinton dedicates US Embassy in Ottawa
2001 – George W. Bush announces creation of Department of Homeland Security
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1838 – Lord Durham publishes his resignation in Quebec newspapers
1878 – Sir John A. Macdonald sworn in as Prime Minister
1915 – Woodrow Wilson becomes first President to attend World Series game
1936 – Herbert Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1963 – Lester Pearson announces that Canada will allow US to place defensive nuclear weapons in Canada
1991 – George H. W. Bush declares “total confidence” in Clarence Thomas
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1886 – Sir John A. Macdonald establishes Yoho National Park & Glacier National Park
1911 – Sir Robert Borden sworn in as Canada’s 8th Prime Minister
1957 – Dwight Eisenhower apologizes to Ghana’s President Komla Agbeli Gbdemah
1973 – Pierre Trudeau begins 6 day tour of China
1973 – Spiro Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns as Vice-President
1992 – Legal text of Charlottetown Accord released
2004 – Paul Martin begins 2 day visit to Russia
2007 – Dalton McGuinty and the Ontario Liberal Party win re-election
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1927 – Richard Bennett elected leader of Conservative Party of Canada
1939 – Franklin Roosevelt informed by Albert Einstein about possibility of nuclear weapons
1970 12:00 PM – October Crises – Robert Bourassa meets with Cabinet
1970 9:45 PM – October Crises – Robert Bourassa agrees to negotiate to free hostages
1975 – Bill Clinton marries Hillary Rodham
1977 – Sterling Lyon and the Manitoba PC party win election
1985 – Ronald Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands into the US
1986 – Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev open talks in Reykjavik, Iceland
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1868 – Sir George-Etienne Cartier arrives in London to secure loans for railways
1872 – Sir John A. Macdonald wins federal election
1917 – Sir Robert Borden sworn in as Unionist Prime Minister
1953 – Statue of Sir Wilfrid Laurier unveiled in Montreal’s Dominion Square
1957 – Lester Pearson awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1968 – Rene Levesque elected President of the new Parti Quebecois
1970 – October Crises – Pierre Trudeau orders troops to Ottawa
1973 – Richard Nixon nominates a new Vice-President
1973 – Gerald Ford nominated to be Vice-President
1980 – Peter Lougheed announces Alberta will curtail oil production by 25%
1982 – Richard Hatfield and the New Brunswick PC Party win election
1987 – Alf Landon passes away
2007 – Stephen Harper appoints John Manley as chair of panel on Afghan mission
2010 – Jim Flaherty announces 2009 deficit of $55.6 billion, largest in Canadian history
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Edward Blake, 2nd Ontario Premier
1792 – George Washington lays cornerstone on White House
1917 – Sir Robert Borden publicly announces formation of Union Government
1961 – Tommy Douglas introduces Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Bill providing universal health care
1968 – Rene Levesque leads Mouvement Souveraineté-Association
1970 – Gerald Regan and the Nova Scotia Liberals win election
1970 – October Crisis – When asked how far he would go, Pierre Trudeau responds, “Just watch me”
1975 – Pierre Trudeau imposes 6 & 5 wage and price control program
1978 – Jimmy Carter answers caller’s questions on National Public Radio
1982 – Bill Davis announces Ontario Government purchasing shares in Suncor
1985 – Don Getty elected leader of Alberta Progressive Conservative Party
1987 – Frank McKenna and the New Brunswick Liberal Party win all 58 seats in the election
1992 – Brian Mulroney says no vote on Charlottetown Accord will not mean break up of Canada
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dwight Eisenhower, 34th US President
1844 – John A. Macdonald first elected to Upper Canada Assembly
1935 – William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Liberal Party win election
1947 – Dwight Eisenhower receives Golden Award from Dutch Queen Wilhelmina
1952 – Lester Pearson elected president of 7th session of the United Nations General Assembly
1953 – Dwight Eisenhower vows to fire as “Red” any federal employee pleading 5th Amendment
1960 – John Kennedy first suggest Peace Corps
1965 – Rene Levesque appointed Quebec’s first Minister of Family & Social Services
1967 – Rene Levesque announces resignation from Quebec Liberal Party
1968 – Rene Levesque elected leader of Parti Quebecois
1970 – October Crises – Robert Bourassa replies to claims by FLQ that talks have broken down
1975 – Gerald Ford’s limousine is hit broadside
1980 – Provincial Premiers meet to challenge Pierre Trudeau’s constitutional proposals
1980 – Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to the Supreme Court
1982 – Ronald Reagan declares a war on drugs
1995 – Alexa McDonough wins NDP leadership
1999 – Bill Bennett signs settlement agreement with BC Securities Commission over insider trading
2008 – Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party win election
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1789 – George Washington makes first ever Presidential tour in New England
1849 – George-Etienne Cartier responds to the Annexation Manifesto
1860 – 11 year old Grace Bedell writes Abraham Lincoln and tells him to grow a beard
1932 – Richard Bennett opens the Winnipeg Auditorium
1948 – Gerald Ford marries Elizabeth (Betty) Bloomer Warren
1966 – Lyndon Johnson signs bill creating US Department of Transportation
1967 – Rene Levesque cites rejection of separation as reason for leaving Quebec Liberal Party
1968 – Rene Levesque chosen as president of new Parti Quebecois
1969 – Herb Grey appointed as Canada’s first Jewish cabinet minister
1970 – October Crisis – Pierre Trudeau orders troops into Montreal
1970 – October Crisis – Robert Bourassa rejects FLQ demands
1983 – Robert Bourassa re-gains leadership of Quebec Liberal Party
1985 – Jean Chretien publishes “Dans la Fosse aux Lion”
1986 – Rene Levesque publishes “Attendez que je me Souvienne”
1993 – Jean Chretien’s facial features target of attack ad by PC Party
2012 – Dalton McGuinty announces his intention to resign
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1781 – George Washington takes Yorktown
1962 – Cuban Missile Crises – John Kennedy learns of Soviet missiles in Cuba
1970 4:00 am – October Crises – Pierre Trudeau imposes War Measures Act
1970 5:00 pm – October Crises – Robert Bourassa approves declaration of emergency
1970 10:15 pm – October Crises – Pierre Trudeau addresses the nation
1986 – US Government shuts down due to dispute between Ronald Reagan and House
1992 – Federal Court rejects appeal by Native Women’s Association of Canada to cancel Charlottetown Accord referendum
2001 – Mike Harris announces he will be resigning as Ontario Premier
2003 – Peter MacKay and the Canadian Alliance leader agree in principle to unite their parties
2003 – Stephen Harper and the leader of the PC Party leader agree in principle to unite their parties
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1878 – Sir John A. Macdonald sworn in as Prime Minister for a second time
1978 – Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring citizenship to Jefferson Davis
1979 – Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
1987 – Nancy Reagan undergoes modified radical mastectomy
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pierre Trudeau, Canada’s 15th Prime Minister
1941 – William Lyon Mackenzie King brings in wage and price controls
1944 – Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery confer in Brussels
1962 – John Kennedy meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
1974 – Paul Martin Sr. appointed Canadian High Commissioner to London
1976 – Pierre Trudeau brings in conflict of interest guidelines for Ministers
1978 – Allan Blakeney and the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party win re-election
1978 – Former US First Daughter Susan Ford announces engagement to Charles Vance
1982 – John Robarts passes away
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1781 – Charles Cornwallis surrenders British garrison to George Washington
1926 – William Lyon Mackenzie King attends imperial conference in London
1927 – William Lyon Mackenzie King sends the petition of the Famous Five to the Supreme Court
1951 – Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1956 – Maurice Duplessis rejects offer from Ottawa for funding to Quebec universities
1973 – Pierre Trudeau meets with Mao Tse Tung in China
1976 – Gerald Ford signs 1st major revision to copyright law since 1909
2015 – Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party win election
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tommy Douglas, Saskatchewan’s 7th Premier & former NDP leader
1864 – Abraham Lincoln officially establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
1865 – George-Etienne Cartier recommends Queen Victoria proclaim Ottawa as Canada’s seat of government
1887 – Sir John A. Macdonald refuses to attend first Premiers Conference
1960 – John Diefenbaker opens Sir John A. Macdonald Hall at Queen’s University
1965 – John Robarts lays cornerstone for Champlain College at Trent University
1970 – Ted Kennedy calls for withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland
1973 – Richard Nixon fires Archibald Cox
1976 – Pierre Trudeau begins 6 day trip to Japan
1979 – John Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
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1880 – Sir John A. Macdonald signs final Canadian Pacific Railway contract
1899 – Sir George Ross sworn in as Ontario’s 5th Premier
1945 – William Lyon Mackenzie King & Shirley Temple kick off 9th Victory Loan drive
1968 – Pierre Trudeau dances with actress Louise Marleau after a gala
1971 – Bill Davis and the Ontario PC Party win 8th straight election
1971 – Richard Nixon nominates William Rehnquist & Lewis Powell to Supreme Court
1974 – Pierre Trudeau begins two day visit to France
1980 – Pierre Trudeau wins NDP support for constitutional proposals
1991 – Roy Romanow and the Saskatchewan NDP win election
2012 – George McGovern passes away
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1928 – Herbert Hoover speaks of “American spirit of rugged individualism”
1945 – William Lyon Mackenzie King brings in the Canadian Citizenship Act
1962 – Cuban Missile Crises – John Kennedy addresses nation about missiles in Cuba
1962 – Cuban Missile Crises – John Kennedy imposes naval blockade on Cuba
1962 – John Kennedy hosts Ugandan Premier Milton Obote
1970 – Richard Hatfield and the New Brunswick PC Party win election
1970 – Lester Pearson named first chairman of International Development Research Centre
1986 – Bill Vander Zalm leads British Columbia Social Credit to re-election win
1988 – Don Getty and Lubicon Chief Bernard Ominayak agree to set aside land for Cree reserve
1990 – Brian Mulroney’s bill overhauling Unemployment Insurance Fund passes Senate
1995 – Jean Chretien in New York for 3 days to celebrate UN’s 50th birthday
2000 – Jean Chretien calls an election
2015 – Gilles Duceppe resigns as leader of Bloc Quebecois
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Michael Turner, son of Canada’s 17th Prime Minister
1935 – William Lyon Mackenzie King sworn in as Prime Minister for a third time
1935 – Charles Dunning becomes Canada’s Minister of Finance
1962 – Cuban Missile Crises – Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations
1966 – Lester Pearson commits Ottawa to covering 50% of cost of higher education
1973 – Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tapes to Judge Sirica
1985 – Pierre-Marc Johnson sworn in as Quebec’s 24th Premier
1995 – Advance polls close in Quebec Referendum, 320 954 people vote
2003 – Dalton McGuinty sworn in as Ontario’s 24th Premier
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1850 – Earl Grey receives memo criticising new Canadian Currency Act
1903 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier passes the National Transcontinental Railway Act
1931 – George Washington Bridge linking New York and New Jersey is dedicated
1954 – Dwight Eisenhower pledges US support for South Vietnam
1961 – John Diefenbaker leaves on 6 day visit to Japan
1962 – Cuban Missile Crises – John Diefenbaker puts Canadian defences on high alert
1981 – Pierre Trudeau co-chairs conference of 22 world leaders on economic disparity
1992 – Preston Manning lays out economic platform at Reform Party’s Winnipeg convention
2009 – Stephen Harper attends unveiling of monument to hockey pioneer James Creighton
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1850 – Earl Grey informs Lord Elgin that Canada’s currency act should be disallowed
1943 – Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill invite Canada to join Combined Food Board
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis – John Diefenbaker refuses to put Canadian Forces on alert
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis – John Kennedy angered over Canada’s failure to put forces on alert
1962 – Adlai Stevenson demands USSR Ambassador at UN answer questions about Cuban missile sites
1963 – Anti John Kennedy pamphlets scattered around in Dallas
1976 – George Wallace pardons Clarence Norris, convicted of 1931 rape
1993 – Jean Chretien and the Liberal Party win election
1996 – Ontario Federation of Labour organize a day of action against Mike Harris
2004 – Ralph Klein calls an election in Alberta
2005 – Dalton McGuinty orders evacuation of over half of Kashechewan’s population
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Hillary Rodham Clinton, former first lady, senator, secretary of state
1908 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party win election
1908 – William Lyon Mackenzie King elected for the first time
1908 – Arthur Meighen elected for the first time
1919 – Woodrow Wilson’s veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
1949 – Harry Truman raises federal minimum wage to $0.75/hour
1962 – Cuban Missile Crises – John Kennedy warns that Russian missiles cannot stay in Cuba
1962 – Cuban Missile Crises – John Kennedy receives offer from Khrushchev
1968 – Rudy Giuliani marries Regina Peruggi
1969 – John Diefenbaker named Chancellor of University of Saskatchewan
1973 – Richard Nixon releases first White House tapes
1984 – Richard Hatfield charged with possession of marijuana
1988 – Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2 million for 4 months advisory service
1992 – Brian Mulroney declares Charlottetown Accord history after referendum defeat
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1878 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier loses seat in House of Commons by 29 votes
1883 – Sir John A. Macdonald asks Parliament for more aid to the CPR
1893 – Lady Aberdeen chairs first meeting of National Council of Women of Canada
1913 – Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country
1954 – Dwight Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnamese Prime Minister
1969 – Ralph Nader sets up consumer group Nader’s Raiders
1978 – Jimmy Carter signs Hawkins Humphrey full employment bill
1979 – Rene Levesque flips switch on generator of La Grande River second dam
1980 – Judy LaMarsh passes away
1980 – Robert Bourassa dam opens
1983 – Pierre Trudeau leaves on peace mission to world capitals
1987 – Frank McKenna sworn in as New Brunswick’s 27th Premier
1992 – Tipper Gore admits to covering clock on VCR to avoid seeing it blink
1995 – Jean Chretien addresses 40,000 at rally 3 days before Quebec Referendum vote
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1776 – George Washington retreats to New Jersey
1919 – The Volstead Act establishes prohibition over Woodrow Wilson’s veto
1936 – Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty
1956 – Rene Levesque’s show, Point de Mire, premiers
1958 – John Diefenbaker begins tour of European and Commonwealth countries
1962 – Cuban Missile Crises – John Kennedy receives letter from Nikita Khrushchev suggesting agreement
1970 – Gerald Regan and Nova Scotia Liberal Party win election
1977 – Pierre Trudeau confirms RCMP broke into office to copy list of Parti Quebecois members
1980 – Pierre Trudeau brings in the National Energy Program
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1901 – Leon Czolcosz, assassin of William McKinley, is electrocuted
1925 – William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Liberal Party win second highest number of seats in election
1925 – Arthur Meighen and the Conservative Party win most seats in election
1925 – William Lyon Mackenzie King loses own seat in federal election
1936 – John Diefenbaker chosen as leader of Saskatchewan Conservative Party
1955 – HMCS St. Laurent commissioned by Royal Canadian Navy
1973 – Robert Bourassa and the Quebec Liberal Party win election
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off with 77 year old John Glenn
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1915 – Sir Charles Tupper passes away
1956 – Robert Stanfield and the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party win election
1972 – Pierre Trudeau and the Liberal Party win election
1974 – Pierre Trudeau holds one day conference with Provincial Premiers on inflation
1995 – Jacques Parizeau loses referendum on independence
2007 – Jim Flaherty cuts GST to 5%
2009 – Jim Prentice signs polar bear conservation agreement with Nunavut and Greenland
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1963 – John Kennedy’s last meeting with J. Edgar Hoover
1968 – Lyndon Johnson orders halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1987 – Preston Manning founds the Reform Party
1995 – Jacques Parizeau announces he will resign as Premier at the end of the year