Today in history: Young lives lost
In 1910, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador to the U.S. pioneered smoking by women in public at a White House reception.
In 1912, the first issue of "The Financial Post” was published by John Bayne Maclean, who also founded “Maclean's” magazine. “The Financial Post” is now part of the “National Post” newspaper.
In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
In 1916, a government order-in-council boosted the number of Canadian soldiers committed to the First World War to 500,000.
In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, after serving out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
In 1935, Amelia Earhart Putnam set a record of 18 hours, 16 minutes on a solo flight of 3,860 kilometres, from Honolulu to California.
In 1951, Albert Guay of Quebec City was hanged in Montreal for murder. Guay planted a time bomb aboard a Canadian Pacific Airways plane that killed 23 people, including his wife. Two accomplices were also eventually hanged.
In 1984, a snow storm in southern Ontario created a massive 200-car pileup on the Queen Elizabeth Way, which skirts the western end of Lake Ontario. The storms caused 89 injuries and $1 million in damage.
In 1991, In 1991, Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” became the first album to generate seven top-5 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 when “Love Will Never Do (Without You)” reached No. 4. It would rise to No. 1 the following week. (“Escapade,” and “Black Cat,” from the same album, also reached No. 1.)
In 2000, Justice Beverley McLachlin was sworn in as the first female chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
In 2002, Elvis Stojko regained the men’s title at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Hamilton.
In 2011, “Santana” cancelled their first show in 40 years. Carlos Santana and members of the band had the flu.
In 2008, seven teenagers, all members of a Bathurst, N.B., high school basketball team, and their coach’s wife — a local teacher — were killed when the van bringing them home from a game in Moncton collided with a truck on an icy road just outside Bathurst.