On this day

Originally posted by @shallow-blue
Hardly. He was trying to establish a Papocracy.

Feb1
February is Black History Month in Canada. Today's Features:
1849 - William Lyon Mackenzie returns to Toronto from exile in New York.
1870 - Founding of the Québec Provincial Police force; la Sûreté du Québec (SQ).
1920 - Founding of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a merger of the RNWMP and Dominion Police.
1955 - Bank of Toronto and Dominion Bank merge to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

100 years ago
The SS Tuscania is torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland.
The first US troop carrying ship to suffer such a fate.

February 4, 1858 - Gold is discovered along British Columbia's Fraser River; leads to gold rush. Langley, BC

February 6, 1990 - Hockey - Brett Hull becomes the First son of an NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby Hull) to score 50 goals himself. Chicago, Illinois

100 years ago British women got the vote

Originally posted by @the-gravedigger
100 years ago British women got the vote

300 years ago today David Garrick was born (d. 20 Jan 1779)
(theatre manager & actor)

Henry Bessemer, famous engineer (invention of the Bessemer process) died 1898

1st April

700 years ago today.

Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by Scotland from England.

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
1st April

700 years ago today.

Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by Scotland from England.

50 years ago today

Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election,
and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.

LEST WE FORGET

75 years ago today.

UKRAINE
Germans order 1,100 Jews In Terebovlia to undress, and march them naked
through the city to a nearby village where they are shot and buried in ditches.

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
LEST WE FORGET

75 years ago today.

UKRAINE
Germans order 1,100 Jews In Terebovlia to undress, and march them naked
through the city to a nearby village where they are shot and buried in ditches.

10th April

20 years ago today the Good Friday Agreement was signed.