TODAY IN HISTORY: Senate doesn’t convict Clinton

In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, who had been queen of England for nine days, was beheaded after being charged with high treason.

In 1793, Spain agreed to pay compensation for the seizure of British ships at Nootka, B.C.

In 1912, Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.

In 1917, Prime Minister Robert Borden arrived in London to sit as a member of the British war cabinet.

In 1949, Ottawa announced a vast radar network would be built across Northern Canada. It led to the creation of the Distant Early Warning Line — or DEW Line.

In 1954, the operations of a black-market baby ring were disclosed by Montreal police. More than 1,000 illegitimate babies were said to have been smuggled to the United States for adoption.

In 1954, the first suggestion cancer could be linked to smoking was put forward by a British government advisory panel.

In 1970, a three-month-old baby was the recipient of Canada's first successful liver transplant, at Montreal's Notre-Dame Hospital.

In 1990, Quebec elected its first New Democrat MP when consumer advocate Phil Edmonston won a byelection in the riding of Chambly.

In 1990, hundreds of homes were evacuated in

Hagersville, Ont., when a massive fire started at a tire dump.

In 1993, the murder of two-year-old British toddler James Bulger shocked the world. He was lured away from his mother at a Liverpool shopping mall and beaten to death on nearby railway tracks. Two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, were convicted. They were released from prison in June 2001 and given new identities and moved to secret locations.

In 1999, the U.S. Senate declined to remove President Bill Clinton from office. Following a trial, the Senate rejected one article of impeachment and split evenly on the second.