Britain OKs daylight time

In 1630, the belts of the planet Jupiter were first observed.

In 1756, the Seven Year’s War began when Britain declared war on France. The war resulted in the British conquest of New France. In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was founded. In 1814, Norway’s constitution was signed, providing for a limited monarchy. In 1855, the city of Charlottetown was incorporated. In 1861, the first package vacation for a popular market was arranged by Thomas Cook. The Whitsuntide Working Men’s Excursion left London that day for a sixday trip to Paris.

In 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in Louisville. The winner was “Aristides.”

In 1878, Canada’s governor general and his wife, Lord and Lady Dufferin, were treated to a demonstration of Thomas Edison’s recent invention, the phonograph, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

In 1916, the world’s first daylight savings act was passed in Britain. Clocks were moved forward one hour the following Sunday.

In 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived in Quebec City for the first visit to Canada by a reigning British sovereign.

In 1940, the German army occupied Brussels during the Second World War. In 1948, the Soviet Union recognized Israel. In 1949, the Canadian government granted full recognition to the state of Israel.

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously outlawed racial segregation in American public schools.

In 1963, Sgt.-Maj. Walter Leja, a Canadian army engineer, was seriously injured when a terrorist bomb blew up in his hands in Montreal. Three days later, police arrested 20 young members of the FLQ. Mario Bachand, 21, was sentenced to four years in prison for placing the bomb in a mailbox.

In 1973, the U.S. Senate Watergate committee began its hearings.

In 1975, 10 women broke the gender barrier in the Ontario Provincial Police force. They became the first women to begin training in the OPP’s 65-year history.

In 1978, police in Lausanne, Switzerland, retrieved the body of comic actor Charlie Chaplin and charged two men with extortion. The body had been stolen from a graveyard 11 weeks earlier.

In 1982, negotiations resumed at the UN aimed at ending the fighting between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands.

In 1987, a missile from an Iraqi warplane killed 37 sailors on the “USS Stark,” a guided-missile frigate in the Persian Gulf. Iraq said it was an accident. But the U.S. blamed Iran because it refused to negotiate an end to its war with Iraq.

In 1995, Hockey Hall of Fame player and coach Hector “Toe” Blake died in Montreal at age 82.

In 1999, David Milgaard accepted a $10 million compensation package from the Saskatchewan government for his wrongful conviction in the 1969 murder of a Saskatoon nursing aide. Milgaard, who spent more than two decades in prison, received the largest criminal compensation package in Canadian history.