TODAY IN HISTORY: Vaccinations cause riot

In 1759, the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British following the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

I n 1762, the French garrison at St. John’s, Nfld., surrendered to the British in the last battle between the French and English in Canada.

In 1851, the New York Times was published for the first time.

In 1875, the Supreme Court of Canada was organized under Chief Justice William Buell Richards. The court did not become Canada’s final court of appeal until 1949.

In 1885, compulsory vaccination caused riots in Montreal.

In 1928, the “Graf Zeppelin,” considered the finest airship ever built, had its first flight. It flew more miles than any airship had done to that time or would in the future.

In 1931, the Japanese army invaded

Manchuria in northern China.

In 1934, the Soviet Union was admitted to the League of Nations.

In 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev proposed at the United Nations that all nations disarm within four years.

In 1961, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and 12 others died in a plane crash near the border between Congo and Rhodesia. He was 56.

In 1975, American newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

In 1984, Team Canada defeated Sweden 6-5 in Edmonton to sweep the Canada Cup hockey tournament final in two games. Canada had knocked off the Soviet Union in a thrilling semifinal on an overtime goal by Mike Bossy.

In 1984, thousands of Indigenous Canadians were disappointed when heavy fog prevented Pope John Paul from visiting them at Fort Simpson, N.W.T. The Pope kept a promise to visit them when he held mass in Fort Simpson on Sept. 20, 1987.

I n 1987, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons from their arsenals.

In 1992, nine miners were killed in an explosion inside the strike-torn Giant gold mine in Yellowknife, N.W.T. RCMP believed the explosion was deliberately set. A miner, Roger Warren, was later convicted of murder.

In 1997, voters in Wales voted 50.3 per cent in favour of setting up their own parliament.

I n 2001, Ernie Coombs, CBC television’s beloved “Mr. Dressup” who retired in 1996 after 31 years on the air, died at age 73.