A LOOK BACK AT LIFE ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

— In 1097, the Crusaders recaptured the ancient Christian city of Antioch, in present-day Turkey, from the Muslims. — In 1621, the Dutch West Indies Co. was founded to promote trade and colonization in the Americas. —In 1668, French explorer and fur trader Medard Chouart des Groseilliers sailed from England on a voyage that led to the forming of the Hudson’s Bay Co. — In 1789, fur trader Alexander Mackenzie left Fort Chipewyan in northern Canada on a trip that saw him discover the Mackenzie River. — In 1799, the Island of St. John was proclaimed as Prince Edward Island. — In 1888, Ernest Thayer's poem, Casey at the Bat, was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner. — In 1909, future prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King became Canada's first labour minister. — In 1924, Czech writer Franz Kafka died at age 40. — In 1934, Canadian Dr. Frederick Banting, a codiscoverer of insulin, was knighted by King George V. — In 1935, during the Great Depression, about 1,000 unemployed men from Western Canada began their On to Ottawa Trek to confront Prime Minister R.B. Bennett over his government’s operation of relief camps. — In 1937, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson were married in southern France. The former King Edward VIII abdicated the British throne six months. — In 1947, Britain said it planned to partition India into Muslim and Hindu states, which became Pakistan and India later that year. — In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol was shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, known as The Factory, by Valerie Solanas, an actress and self-styled militant feminist. — In 1968, the Royal Canadian Mint announced that nickel would replace silver in Canada's coins. — In 1982, Israel's ambassador to Britain was critically wounded by a would-be assassin in London. The shooting of Shlomo Argov triggered Israel's invasion of Lebanon. — In 1987, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the 10 premiers signed the Meech Lake constitutional accord. It called for Quebec to have special status within Canada, plus more powers for the other provinces. But the deal died in June 1990.