TODAY IN HISTORY: Kilt-wearing rules revised
In 100, B.C., Julius Caesar, the most famous general in Roman history, was born.
In 1762, Czar Peter III of Russia was dethroned in a coup.
In 1789, the British ship "Princess Royal" was seized by Spaniards at Nootka, B.C.
In 1793, the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later.
In 1837, Queen Victoria became the first monarch to move into Buckingham Palace.
In 1863, the Scottish Reform Act required Scotsmen to wear something under their kilts. In 1865, a large wooden conduit into the Ottawa River, designed to supply government buildings on Parliament Hill with water, was completed.
In 1930, the first World Cup soccer tournament began in Uruguay.
In 1934, Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 700th home run. He finished his career with 714.
In 1934, German dictator Adolf Hitler declared his right to kill without benefit of law.
In 1942, a German submarine sank three vessels in the St. Lawrence River.
In 1947, Europe accepted the "Marshall Plan," a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of western and southern European nations after the Second World War.
In 1949, the first provincial legislature of Newfoundland opened at St. John's.
In 1953, the first Stratford Festival was launched at Stratford, Ont.
In 1961, James Coyne resigned as governor of the Bank of Canada because his refusal to adopt the Diefenbaker government's fiscal policy. Coyne would not implement the government's expansionist monetary policies and resigned after the Senate blocked a government bill to fire him.
In 1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II. He moved on to revive the Chrysler Corp. as president and CEO until his retirement in 1992.
In 1982, Major League Baseball's All-Star Game was played outside the United States for the first time -- at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.
In 1991, an Inuit land claim in the Yukon's Mackenzie River delta was settled after 20 years of negotiations.
In 1993, Germany held a farewell ceremony for Canadian soldiers, marking an end of the stationing of Canadian troops in Germany after 42 years of NATO service.
In 1994, Transport Minister Douglas Young unveiled proposals to lease 21 major Canadian airports to local authorities and cut off subsidies to more than 100 smaller regional airports.
In 1999, in the first such prosecution in U.S. history, Florida charged former Valujet maintenance company SabreTech Inc. with murder and manslaughter of 110 people in the 1996 crash of a Valujet DC-9 in the Everglades. Three company employees were indicted on federal charges of conspiracy, making false statements and mislabelling and mishandling hazardous material.
In 2000, the last of the political hostages in the Fijian parliament in Suva, including Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, were freed after 55 days in confinement.
In 2005, NHL players and owners reached an agreement in principle to end the 301-day NHL lockout, the longest labour dispute in professional sports history. It officially ended on July 2 with the players agreeing to a salary cap.