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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Louis St. Laurent, Canada’s 12th Prime Minister
1897 – Lady Aberdeen moves forward with creation of Victorian Order of Nurses
1968 – Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President
2005 – Ernie Eves resigns seat in Ontario legislature
2013 – John Kerry becomes US Secretary of State
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1897 – Lady Aberdeen begins to organize Victorian Order of Nurses
1942 – Arthur Meighen loses by-election, resigns as Conservative leader
1948 – Harry Truman urges civil rights program
1954 – Dwight Eisenhower reports detonation of first hydrogen bomb (in 1952)
1955 – Dwight Eisenhower holds first news conference on network TV
2001 – Ernie Eves becomes vice-president at Credit Suisse-First Boston
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1932 – Arthur Meighen appointed to the Senate
1962 – John Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba
1966 – Lester Pearson bans imports and exports with Rhodesia
1966 – Lester Pearson announces formation of Royal Commission on the Status of Women
1976 – Pierre Trudeau visits with Fidel Castro in Cuba
1978 – Jimmy Carter meets with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat to discuss Middle East peace
1986 – Ronald Reagan creates commission to investigate Challenger accident
1994 – Bill Clinton lifts trade embargo against Vietnam
2016 – Barack Obama visits his first US Mosque
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Cairine Wilson, Canada’s first female Senator
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dan Quayle, 44th US Vice-President
1789 – Electoral College picks George Washington as first US President
1839 – Lord Durham hands in his Report on the Affairs of British North America
1932 – Franklin Roosevelt opens the Olympic Games at Lake Placid
1945 – Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill & Joseph Stalin meet in Yalta
1963 – John Diefenbaker’s defence minister resigns over refusal to accept nuclear warheads
1987 – Ronald Reagan’s veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
1999 – Jean Chretien signs Social Accord with 9 provinces over social programs
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Adlai Stevenson, 31st Governor of Illinois
1836 – Francis Bond Head informs Colonial Office that Reformers interested in government for self gain
1901 – Sir Charles Tupper retires as leader of the opposition
1937 – Franklin Roosevelt proposes enlarging the Supreme Court
1963 – John Diefenbaker’s government falls over nuclear weapons policy
1981 – Pierre Trudeau inducts Joni Mitchell into Juno Hall of Fame
2001 – Jean Chretien becomes first visitor to new US President
2001 – George W. Bush receives his first foreign leader, the Prime Minister of Canada
2013 – Barack Obama calls for release of 3 Al Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ronald Reagan, 40th US President
1836 – Sir John A. Macdonald called to the Bar of Upper Canada
1865 – Sir John A. Macdonald opens Quebec Conference with prayer to unite Canada
1901 – Sir Robert Borden chosen as leader of Conservative Party
1968 – Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole in one
1974 – House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Richard Nixon
1975 – Peter Lougheed cuts personal income tax, making Alberta lowest in Canada
1977 – Rene Levesque runs over and kills a homeless man lying on a Montreal street
1978 – Muriel Humphrey assumes her late husband’s Senate seat
1998 – Washington National Airport becomes Ronald Reagan National Airport
2006 – Stephen Harper sworn in as Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister
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1891 – Sir John A. Macdonald declares, “A British subject I was born, a British subject I will die”
1945 – Harry Truman appoints Irwin Mollison judge of US Customs Court
1962 – John Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1976 – Joe Clark elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
1982 – Bob Rae elected leader of Ontario New Democratic Party
1990 – John Turner resigns as leader of Liberal Party of Canada
1996 – Bob Rae announces retirement from Ontario politics
2012 – Stephen Harper begins tour of China
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1942 – Franklin Roosevelt advised that Japanese Americans should be locked up
1985 – Frank Miller sworn in as Ontario Premier
1990 – Jean Chretien announces candidacy for leadership of Liberal Party of Canada
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tom Wappel, Former MP
1825 – John Quincy Adams elected President by House of Representatives
1943 – Franklin Roosevelt authorizes 48 hour work week in war industries
1983 – Erik Neilsen chosen as interim leader of Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
1991 – Donald Cameron chosen as new Nova Scotia Premier
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1897 – Lady Aberdeen convenes meeting as Rideau Hall to create organization to relieve nursing shortage
1897 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier offers motion creating Victorian Order of Nurses
1899 – Herbert Hoover marries Lou Henry
1922 – William Lyon Mackenzie King appoints benefactor Peter Larkin as High Commissioner to Britain
1954 – Dwight Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1989 – Brian Mulroney hosts US President
1989 – George H. W. Bush visits Canadian Prime Minister
2005 – Paul Martin testifies at Gomery Inquiry
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lloyd Bentsen, former US Senator
1839 – Lord Durham presents his Report on the Affairs of British North America to Parliament
1861 – Abraham Lincoln takes train from Springfield, IL to Washington, DC
1869 – Patrick James Whelan hanged for murder of Thomas D’Arcy McGee
1874 – George Walkem selected Premier of British Columbia
1901 – William Lyon Mackenzie King issues first Report of the Bureau of Labour
1940 – John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, passed away
1943 – Dwight Eisenhower selected to head Allied forces in Europe
1945 – Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill & Joseph Stalin sign Yalta Agreement
1953 – Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency to Rosenbergs
1974 – Richard Nixon’s 7 point energy plan “Project Independence” is unveiled
1985 – Brian Mulroney signs Atlantic Accord with Newfoundland
1993 – Bill Clinton selects Janet Reno as first female US Attorney General
2004 – Paul Martin orders Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities
2010 – Stephen Harper addresses British Columbia Legislature in advance of Olympic Games
2010 – Heward Grafftey passed away
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
1850 – George Washington’s farewell address manuscript sells for $2300
1902 – Lord Dufferin passed away
1906 – “George Washington”, a musical by George Cohan, premiers in NYC
1914 – Abraham Lincoln Memorial dedicated in Washington DC
1917 – Sir Robert Borden joins British Imperial War Cabinet
1943 – Dwight Eisenhower leaves Algiers for Tebessa
1944 – Wendell Wilkie enters presidential race
1955 – Dwight Eisenhower sends first advisers to Vietnam
1976 – John Turner resigns seat in House of Commons
1999 – Bill Clinton acquitted by Senate in impeachment trial
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Gerald Regan, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia
1861 – Abraham Lincoln declared President
1943 – Dwight Eisenhower visits the front
1963 – John Robarts charters Brock University
1971 – Bill Davis chosen as Ontario PC leader
1971 – Spiro Agnew hits two tee shots into crowd, injuring two
1985 – Joe Clark named acting Minister of National Defense
1988 – Jeanne Sauve opens the Calgary Olympics
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1954 – John Kennedy appeared on Meet the Press
1971 – Richard Nixon installs recording system in White House
1973 – Pierre Trudeau agrees to Committee on Native Land Claims in Yukon
1984 – Pierre Trudeau attends funeral of Yuri Andropov
2005 – Paul Martin signs revenue sharing deal with Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY William Hearst, 7th Premier of Ontario
HAPPY BIRTHDAY John Anderson, independent Presidential candidate
1926 – William Lyon Mackenzie King wins by-election
1930 – Cairine Wilson appointed as Canada’s first woman Senator
1933 – Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1946 – William Lyon Mackenzie King reveals Gouzenko spy probe
1973 – Lester Pearson College of the Pacific is announced
1991 – George H. W. Bush calls Saddam Hussein’s offer to withdraw from Kuwait a “cruel hoax”
1996 – Jean Chretien applies the “Shawinigan Handshake” to protester at Flag Day event
2012 – Stephen Harper abolishes the long gun registry
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1867 – Sir John A. Macdonald marries Susan Agnes Bernard
1881 – Sir Charles Tupper signs papers creating 3rd incarnation of the Canadian Pacific Railway
1896 – Lady Aberdeen hosts a Canadian History costume ball in the Senate chamber
1971 – Pierre Trudeau says “fuddle duddle” in the House of Commons
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1919 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier passed away
1960 – John Diefenbaker opens National Gallery of Canada
1960 – Richard Nixon opens the Squaw Valley Olympics
1965 – Lester Pearson lowers old age pension age to 65
1972 – Richard Nixon leaves Washington for China
2014 – John Kerry says that climate change requires urgent action
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican Presidential nominee
1970 – Richard Nixon launches the “Nixon Doctrine”
1980 – Pierre Trudeau wins general election
1997 – Paul Martin brings down a budget
2005 – Jean Charest shuffles his cabinet
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1942 – Franklin Roosevelt orders internment of Japanese-Americans
1963 – John Kennedy informed by USSR that troops withdrawing from Cuba
1968 – Lester Pearson loses vote on tax bill
1983 – Joe Clark resigns as PC Party leader
1987 – Ronald Reagan lifts trade ban on Poland
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1959 – John Diefenbaker’s Government announces cancelling of Avro Arrow
1962 – John Glenn becomes first American launched in Earth’s orbit
1963 – John Diefenbaker meets with US President in Washington
1963 – John Kennedy meets with Canadian Prime Minister in Washington
1969 – John Munro announces formation of Hockey Canada
1990 – Michael Wilson brings in deficit trimming budget
1992 – Ross Perot announces he will run for president on Larry King Show
1993 – Joe Clark announces he will not seek re-election
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tricia Nixon Cox, first daughter
1885 – The George Washington Monument is dedicated
1972 – Richard Nixon becomes first President to visit China
1980 – Joe Clark submits resignation as Prime Minister
1982 – David Peterson becomes leader Ontario Liberal Party
2014 – Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY George Washington, first US President
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Edward “Ted” Kennedy, former US Senator
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Shawn Graham, 31st New Brunswick Premier
1819 – John Quincy Adams signs Treaty of Florida Blanca
1887 – Sir John A. Macdonald wins federal election
1942 – Franklin Roosevelt orders Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines
1972 – Richard Nixon meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai
1976 – Joe Clark wins leadership of PC Party
1977 – Pierre Trudeau gives first speech by Prime Minister to US Congress
1991 – George H. W. Bush gives Iraq 24 hours to leave Kuwait
1994 – Paul Martin tables first budget
1995 – Lucien Bouchard returns to House of Commons after battling flesh eating disease
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY G. Mennen Williams, 41st Michigan Governor
1848 – John Quincy Adams passes away
1947 – Dwight Eisenhower opens drive to raise funds for European Jews
1979 – W. A. C. Bennett passes away
1990 – Kim Campbell appointed Canada’s first female Minister of Justice
1995 – Bill Clinton addresses Canadian Parliament
2005 – George W. Bush attends Slovakia Summit
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Erik Nielsen, former Deputy Prime Minister
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Joe Lieberman, former US Senator
1942 – Louis St. Laurent is empowered to evacuate Japanese to places of internment
1977 – Jimmy Carter announces foreign aid will consider human rights
1986 – Tommy Douglas passed away
1993 – Brian Mulroney announces his resignation
2006 – Stephen Harper nominates Marshall Rothstein to the Supreme Court
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Camille Theriault, 29th Premier of New Brunswick
1793 – George Washington hosts first cabinet meeting at his home
1862 – Abraham Lincoln introduces paper currency in the US
1941 – William Lyon Mackenzie King announces Japanese Canadians to be forcibly moved
1962 – Robert Kennedy visits the Netherlands
1966 – Lester Pearson cuts ribbon opening east-west Toronto subway
1990 – Robert Bourassa sets up group to study Meech Lake Accord
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1857 – George-Etienne Cartier passes bill requesting Queen Victoria pick a permanent capital for Canada
1863 – Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act
1968 – Mitchell Sharp repatriates funds from IMF to support Canadian dollar
1984 – Jesse Jackson acknowledges calling New York City “hymietown”
2016 – Don Getty passed away
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY John Connally, 39th Governor of Texas, navy & treasury secretary
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ralph Nader, former Green Party presidential candidate
1860 – Abraham Lincoln gives speech in Cooper Union in NY
1922 – Hebert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
1969 – Richard Nixon visits West Berlin
1972 – Richard Nixon and Chou En-lai issue communique of cooperation
1976 – Richard Nixon meets with Mao Zedong for the final time
1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge passed away
1991 – George H. W. Bush says “Kuwait is liberated”
1995 – Paul Martin tables second budget
2011 – Stephen Harper announces new sanctions against Libya
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1961 – John Kennedy appoints Henry Kissinger as a special advisor
1968 – Lester Pearson survives non-confidence motion
1972 – Richard Nixon ends week long visit to China
1975 – Pierre Trudeau began 16 day European tour
1984 – Pierre Trudeau went for a walk in the snow