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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA, Greatest Country in the World
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Stephen Juba, 41st Winnipeg Mayor
1867 – Sir John A. Macdonald sworn in as Canada’s first Prime Minister
1867 – Sir Charles Tupper conferred the Companionship of the Bath
1867 – Sir George-Etienne Cartier conferred the Companionship of the Bath
1870 – Sir George-Etienne Cartier commits to start building the Canadian Pacific Railway within two years
1916 – Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary Geneva Doud
1926 – Arthur Meighen takes Canada back to the gold standard
1927 – William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicates Peace Tower Carillon in first Trans-Canada Radio broadcast
1932 – Franklin Roosevelt nominated for President by Democratic Party
1944 – Dwight Eisenhower visits front in Normandy
1960 – John Diefenbaker grants Treaty Indians and registered native Canadians the right to vote
1962 – The Sir John A. Macdonald statue in Dominion Square is vandalized by separatists
1963 – John Kennedy arrives in Rome
1968 – Statue of William Lyon Mackenzie King is unveiled on Parliament Hill
1970 – Pierre Trudeau in confrontation with heckler over unsold grain
1971 – Pierre Trudeau opens museum for aboriginal artifacts on University of British Columbia campus
1978 – Richard Nixon gives first speech since resignatio
1980 – Ed Schreyer proclaims Act Respecting the National Anthem making O Canada officially the national anthem
1989 – Brian Mulroney names non-politicians to the Privy Council
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sir Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada
1862 – Abraham Lincoln signs act providing land for state agricultural colleges
1867 – Sir John A. Macdonald’s coalition cabinet is sworn in
1872 – Sir Charles Tupper named Minister of Inland Revenue
1926 – Arthur Meighen’s government loses non-confidence vote
1932 – Franklin Roosevelt makes the first presidential nomination convention acceptance speech
1964 – Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act & the Voting Rights Act
1992 – John Crosbie orders northern cod fisheries shut down for two years
2001 – George W. Bush seeks to allow oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Richard Bennett, Canada’s 11th Prime Minister
1754 – George Washington surrenders to French at Fort Necessity
1775 – George Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge
1938 – Franklin Roosevelt dedicates Eternal Light Peace Memorial at Gettysburg
1986 – Ronald Reagan presides over relighting of Statue of Liberty
1991 – Brian Mulroney begins process of privatizing Petro Canada
1992 – Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Malia Obama, former first daughter
1754 – George Washington retreats from Fort Necessity with remains of his army
1789 – George Washington signs first US Tariff Act
1867 – Sir Charles Tupper’s last day as Premier of Nova Scotia
1884 – Sir John A. Macdonald appoints commission to investigate Chinese immigration in British Columbia
1950 – Harry Truman signs public law 600 allowing Puerto Ricans to write their own constitution
1966 – Lyndon Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act
1980 – Pierre Trudeau criticizes Provincial Premiers for opposing Charter of Rights and Freedoms
1991 – Grant Devine brings in Gross Revenue Insurance Plan
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pierre-Marc Johnson, 24th Quebec Premier
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., former US Senator, VP candidate
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Julie Nixon Eisenhower, former first daughter
1935 – Franklin Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act
1967 – Queen Elizabeth II invests Roland Michener with the first ribbon and pendant star of the Order of Canada
1975 – Joey Smallwood elected leader of Liberal Reform Party
1977 – Pierre Trudeau sets up Task Force on Canadian Unity
1977 – John Robarts announced as co-chair of Task Force on Canadian Unity
1986 – Nancy Reagan cuts red, white and blue ribbon to reopen Statue of Liberty
1991 – Joe Clark accepts parallel constitutional reform process run by First Nations
2016 – FBI releases report calling Hillary Clinton careless in handling classified emails
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Brian Pallister, 22nd Manitoba Premier
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nancy Reagan, former first lady
1896 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier enlarges the boundaries of Quebec
1945 – Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1957 – Harry S. Truman Library forms in Independence, MO
1966 – Lester Pearson announces loans and grants for Caribbean Commonwealth countries
2006 – Stephen Harper makes first official visit to Washington
2006 – George W. Bush hosts new Canadian Prime Minister
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1865 – 4 conspirators in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination are hanged
1898 – William McKinley signs the Orange Act, which annexes Hawaii
1930 – Construction begins on Hoover Dam
1946 – Jimmy Carter marries Rosalynn Smith
1958 – Dwight Eisenhower signs bill approving Alaskan statehood
1969 – Pierre Trudeau passes the Official Languages Act
1975 – Ed Broadbent elected leader of the New Democratic Party
1992 – Joe Clark reaches agreement with 9 provinces on constitutional package
1992 – Robert Bourassa sent constitutional package agreed to by Provincial Premiers
1993 – Bob Rae passes the Social Contract
2003 – Ralph Klein hit in the face with cream pie during his annual Stampede breakfast
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nelson Rockefeller, 49th New York Governor, 41st US Vice-President
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Phil Gramm, former US Senator
1778 – George Washington headquarters at West Point with Continental Army
1891 – Warren Harding marries Florence DeWolfe
1896 – Sir Charles Tupper’s last day as Prime Minister
1915 – Germany responds to one of the points in Woodrow Wilson’s second Lusitania note
1919 – Woodrow Wilson returns to the US from the Versailles Peace Conference
1923 – Warren Harding becomes first sitting President to visit Alaska
1958 – Dwight Eisenhower begins three day visit to Ottawa
1974 – Pierre Trudeau and the Liberal Party win federal election
1975 – Gerald Ford announces he will seek Republican Presidential nomination
2000 – Preston Manning loses leadership of Canadian Alliance
2009 – Stephen Harper attends G8 Summit
2011 – Betty Ford passed away
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Earl of Minto, 8th Governor General of Canada
1776 – Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington’s troops in New York
1951 – Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1974 – Earl Warren passed away
1984 – John Turner calls a federal election
1991 – Brian Mulroney attends baseball game with US President in Toronto
1991 – George H. W. Bush attends baseball game with Canadian Prime Minister in Toronto
1991 – Joe Clark announces he will release federal position on constitution by September
2010 – David Johnston announced as new Governor General
2010 – Stephen Harper announces new Governor General
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1861 – Abraham Lincoln tells Kentucky Militia that Union troops will not enter state
1919 – Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate
1920 – Robert Borden steps down as Prime Minister
1920 – Arthur Meighen sworn in as Canada’s 9th Prime Minister
1934 – Mitch Hepburn sworn in as Ontario’s 11th Premier
1934 – Franklin Roosevelt becomes first sitting president to visit South America (Columbia)
1944 – Tommy Douglas sworn in as Saskatchewan’s 7th Premier
1958 – John Diefenbaker and US President sign agreement for joint Canada-US defence
1958 – Dwight Eisenhower and Canadian Prime Minister sign agreement for joint US-Canada defence
1991 – Kim Campbell introduces draft new extradition law
1991 – Jean Charest orders environmental assessment of Great Whale hydro project
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY John Quincy Adams, 6th US President
1862 – Abraham Lincoln appoints General Halleck as general-in-chief
1896 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as Canada’s 7th Prime Minister
1934 – Franklin Roosevelt becomes first President to travel through Panama Canal
1944 – Franklin Roosevelt announces he will seek a 4th term as President
1952 – Dwight Eisenhower nominated for President by Republican Party
1979 – Claude Wagner passed away
1989 – Ronald Reagan sportscasts the Major League Baseball All Star Game
1992 – Ross Perot, in speech to NAACP, refers to attendees as, “you people”
2007 – Lady Bird Johnson passed away
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1954 – Dwight Eisenhower presents plan for interstate highway system
1957 – Dwight Eisenhower becomes first President to fly in a helicopter
1972 – George McGovern nominated for President by Democratic Party
1984 – Geraldine Ferraro becomes first woman nominated for vice-president by a major party
1985 – A cancerous growth is found on Ronald Reagan’s colon
1998 – Russell MacLellan elected leader of Nova Scotia Liberal Party and Premier
2016 – Bernie Sanders endorses Hillary Clinton for President
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mila Mulroney, former first lady of Canada
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jack Kemp, 9th HUD Secretary, former Representative
1896 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier forms first ministry
1960 – John Kennedy nominated for President by Democratic Party
2009 – Queen Elizabeth II appoints Jean Chretien to Order of Merit
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Gerald Ford, 38th US President
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Robert Bourassa, 22nd Quebec Premier
1870 – Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension
1915 – Sir Robert Borden attends British Cabinet meeting
1965 – Adlai Stevenson passed away
1976 – Jimmy Carter wins Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination
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1838 – Lord Durham meets with Robert Baldwin and William Baldwin
1870 – George-Etienne Cartier’s Manitoba Act is passed
1932 – Herbert Hoover cuts his own salary by 15%
1948 – Harry Truman nominated for President by Democratic Party
1958 – Dwight Eisenhower sends troops to Lebanon
1964 – Barry Goldwater nominated for President by Republican Party
1969 – Ed Schreyer sworn in as Manitoba Premier
1971 – Richard Nixon announces he will visit People’s Republic of China
2013 – Stephen Harper shuffles cabinet
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1882 – Mary Todd Lincoln passed away
1957 – John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record
1958 – Duff Roblin sworn in as Premier of Manitoba
1980 – Ronald Reagan nominated for President by Republican Party
2009 – Peter MacKay announces plan to purchase 65 C-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets
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1820 – A young boy named John Alexander Macdonald arrived in Kingston from Scotland with his family
1838 – Lord Durham reviews 43rd Regiment and other regulars at Niagara
1945 – Harry Truman has first meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin at Potsdam
1968 – Lester Pearson appointed President of Institute for Strategic Studies
1969 – Pierre Trudeau asks western farmers, “Why should I sell your wheat?”
1974 – Ed Broadbent selected as interim leader of the New Democratic Party
1980 – Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican Party’s Presidential nomination
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jack Layton, former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
HAPPY BIRTHDAY John Glenn, former US Senator
1864 – Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service
1940 – Franklin Roosevelt nominated for President by Democratic Party for third time
1947 – Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1958 – William Bennett announces British Columbia Ferry Authority will take over passenger service
1984 – Walter Mondale wins Democratic Party presidential nomination
1991 – Brian Mulroney tells Mikhail Gorbachev that Canada will lift freeze on food credits
1995 – Barack Obama’s book, “Dreams of My Father” is published
1997 – Russell MacLellan sworn in as Nova Scotia’s 24th Premier
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dalton McGuinty, 24th Ontario Premier
HAPPY BIRTHDAY George McGovern, former US Senator
1941 – Franklin Roosevelt appoints Fair Employment Practice Committee
1948 – John Bracken resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
1969 – Pierre Trudeau announces interest free cash advance for Western grain farmers
1984 – Geraldine Ferraro wins Democratic Vice-Presidential nomination
1990 – Peter Pocklington sells Palm Dairies
1990 – Richard Nixon Library opens
1993 – Bill Clinton fires FBI Director William Sessions
2017 – John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jim Prentice, 16th Alberta Premier, former Conservative minister
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jack Horner, former Liberal Minister
1871 – Sir George-Etienne Cartier’s British Columbia Act comes into effect
1872 – Sir John A. Macdonald calls a federal election
1896 – Sir William Fielding’s last day as Nova Scotia Premier
1944 – Dwight Eisenhower visits Bernard Montgomery’s headquarters in Normandy
1944 – Franklin Roosevelt nominated for President for a fourth time by the Democratic Party
1965 – Lester Pearson outlines medicare proposals to federal-provincial conference
1965 – Judy LaMarsh and provincial colleagues identify problems with national medicare proposals
1981 – Pierre Trudeau hosts G7 economic summit in Montebello, Quebec
1988 – Michael Dukakis nominated for President by Democratic Party
2004 – Paul Martin’s cabinet sworn in
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1961 – John Diefenbaker opens the town of Inuvik
1974 – House Judiciary Committee approves 2 articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon
1986 – John Buchanan hosts banquet to honour Hank Snow
1988 – Brian Mulroney passes Emergencies Act, replacing War Measures Act
1988 – Brian Mulroney passes Canadian Multiculturalism Act
1988 – Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination
2000 – Frank Miller passed away
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1898 – Lord Minto takes up post as Governor General of Canada
1941 – William Lyon Mackenzie King passes bill authorizing conscription, but, not overseas
1959 – Richard Nixon begins tour of USSR
1973 – Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes
1974 – John Diefenbaker sworn in as a Member of Parliament for a record 12th time
1980 – Jimmy Carter designates River of No Return Wilderness Area
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1758 – George Washington admitted into Virginia House of Burgess
1917 – Sir Robert Borden passes the Military Service Bill bringing in conscription
1929 – Herbert Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact, which bans war
1941 – Franklin Roosevelt demands Japanese troops leave Indochina
1952 – Harry Truman settles 53 day steel strike
1959 – Richard Nixon gets into “kitchen debate” with Nikita Khrushchev
1974 – Supreme Court rules Richard Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1979 – Jimmy Carter names Paul Volcker Chairman of the Federal Reserve
2015 – Barack Obama begins 2 day visit to Kenya
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Gilbert Parent, 33rd Speaker of the House of Commons
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Frank Church, former US Senator
1941- Franklin Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1961 – John Kennedy announces that an attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO
1969 – Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of an accident
1973 – Louis St. Laurent passed away
1988 – John Kerry and Julia Stimson divorce
1990 – Lucien Bouchard announces the formation of the Bloc Quebecois
2011 – Jack Layton takes a medical leave of absence as Leader of the Opposition
2014 – Israel and Hamas review John Kerry’s proposal for a ceasefire
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Peter Lougheed, Alberta’s 10th Premier
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Marc Lalonde, former Liberal Minister
1797 – John Quincy Adams marries Louisa Johnson
1880 – Sir John A. Macdonald leaves on a trip to London
1946 – Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1947 – Harry Truman signs National Security Act
1948 – Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9981 directing equality of treatment & opportunity in US armed forces
1990 – George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
2015 – Flora Macdonald passed away
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1942 – William Lyon Mackenzie King says it is not the time to proclaim a national anthem for Canada
1950 – Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1960 – Richard Nixon nominated for President by Republican Party
1965 – Lyndon Johnson signs bill requiring health warnings on cigarette packaging
1967 – Lyndon Johnson sets up commission on causes of urban violence
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 in favour of impeaching Richard Nixon
1992 – Kim Campbell unveils new firearms regulations
1999 – John Hamm and the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party win election
2014 – Barack Obama reaffirms Israel’s right to defend itself
2017 – Boy Scouts of America apologize for political remarks made by Donald Trump at Scouts rally
2017 – Donald Trump’s chief of staff resigns
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1840 – Lord Durham passed away
1858 – Sir John A. Macdonald’s government falls over resolution naming Ottawa as Canada’s capital
1915 – On orders from Woodrow Wilson, US Marines go ashore in Haiti, beginning a 19 year occupation
1930 – Richard Bennett and his Conservative Party win general election
1932 – Herbert Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
1943 – Franklin Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing
1948 – Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale win re-election
1965 – Lyndon Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam
2014 – Israel criticizes John Kerry’s proposed ceasefire
2017 – John McCain casts deciding vote against repeal of Affordable Care Act
2017 – Donald Trump appoints John Kelly as new chief of staff
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1941 – William Lyon Mackenzie King tells cabinet he would rather resign than support conscription
1958 – Dwight Eisenhower signs National Aeronautics and Space Act
1974 – House Judiciary Committee adopts second article of impeachment against Richard Nixon
1975 – Gerald Ford visits Auschwitz
1988 – Joe Clark announces Canada will deny visas to South African athletes to combat apartheid
2016 – Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bill Davis, 18th Ontario Premier
1863 – Abraham Lincoln gives order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot
1942 – Franklin Roosevelt signs bill creating Women’s Navy Auxiliary Agency
1962 – John Diefenbaker opens the Trans-Canada Highway to traffic
1965 – Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare bill
1986 – Bill Vander Zalm elected leader of British Columbia Social Credit Party
2002 – George W. Bush signs The Sarbanes Oxley Act, a change to accounting laws
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Charles Dunning, 3rd Saskatchewan Premier, former Liberal Minister
1867 – George-Etienne Cartier says he was the man to make Confederation and that Sir John A. Macdonald had nothing to do with it
1868 – George-Etienne Cartier passes his Rupert’s Land Act
1932 – George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1948 – Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field in New York
1972 – Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate