TODAY IN HISTORY: Elvis found dead in Graceland

In 1750, 300 German settlers arrived at Lunenburg, N.S.

In 1784, New Brunswick was established as a separate colony from Nova Scotia with a nominated council and elected assembly.

In 1812, British forces under General Isaac Brock captured Detroit during the opening phase of the War of 1812.

In 1827, the first stone of one of the Rideau Canal locks was laid by Capt. John Franklin, the Arctic explorer.

In 1846, the precursor of the Canadian National Exhibition, was established in the city of Toronto.

In 1858, the first message over the Atlantic cable was sent by Queen Victoria to U.S. President James Buchanan via Newfoundland.

In 1951, T.C. Davis became Canada’s ambassador to West Germany, marking the resumption of diplomatic relations after the Second World War.

In 1963, a Canadian-United States agreement on nuclear warhead storage was announced.

In 1965, Canadian jockey Johnny Longden, 58, won his 6,000th race, riding “Prince Scorpion” at Vancouver’s Exhibition Park.

In 1969, the first Canada Summer Games opened in Halifax.

In 1972, the Canadian National Exhibition opened in Toronto with the first Western exhibit from the Peoples’ Republic of China.

In 1974, Cindy Nicholas, 16, of Toronto swam Lake Ontario in 15 hours, 18 minutes, breaking the record by almost three hours.

In 1977, the King of Rock N’ Roll, Elvis Presley, was found dead at his Graceland mansion

In 1979, former prime minister John Diefenbaker died in Ottawa at age 83. Diefenbaker and the Tories won an upset victory over Louis St. Laurent’s Liberals in 1957 and held power until 1963.

In 1980, Rev. Lois Wilson became the first woman moderator of the United Church of Canada when she was elected at the church’s general council in Halifax.

In 1994, the Canadian Medical Association rejected euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

In 1996, Lunenburg, N.S., was designated a world heritage site.

In 2011, Ottawa restored the historic names of the Canadian Forces to Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Land Force Command was renamed the Canadian Army.

In 2016, Mauril Belanger, a Liberal Member of Parliament for more than two decades and a lifelong advocate for francophone rights in English Canada, died after a very public battle with the neurodegenerative disease ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

In 2018, Natan Obed, 42, was re-elected leader of Canada’s 60,000 Inuit.

In 2018, the RCMP arrested protesters as officers enforced a court injunction to dismantle a protest camp and snuff out a sacred fire at a site where the Trans Mountain pipeline ends in Burnaby, B.C.