Today is also Thomas Jefferson Day, and Baby Massage Day!
Here are some interesting things that happened on this day in history:
- As lieutenant to the Sieur de Monts, Samuel de Champlain set out on his third voyage to New France in 1608. He arrived at Tadoussac on 3 June
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the few Canadian politicians to be assassinated, was born at Carlingford, Ireland in 1825
- Margaret Saunders, writer whose book Beautiful Joe was reportedly the first Canadian book to sell more than a million copies, was born at Milton, Nova Scotia in 1861
- Steam power brake was patented by George Westinghouse in 1869
- Sherlock Holmes began his "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" in 1895
- The Royal Flying Corps was formed in 1912 to participate in the expanding field of aviation. It comprised a military wing, a naval wing and a flying school
- British forces kill hundreds of Indian Nationalists in what would be known as the Amritsar Massacre in 1919
- Newfoundland women won the rights to vote and to hold provincial office. in 1925
- The Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) was formed in 1939, with a vow to engage in armed struggle against the British
- Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man on record to pole vault 15 feet in 1940
- The Canadian Army liberated Teuge & Assen Neth from the Nazis in 1945
- France became the 4th nuclear nation after exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara in 1960
- The CBC announced that it was dropping the program Front Page Challenge in 1995, which had been on the air since 1957
- The Nisga'a Treaty was given royal assent by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson in 2000
Stay tuned for our next, "On This Day in History"!
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