TODAY IN HISTORY: Manhunt for Luka Magnotta ends

In 1896, Henry Ford took his first automobile for a test run in Detroit.

In 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from the French port of Dunkirk came to an end. About 337,000 troops were safely transported to British ports as the German army completed its conquest of France during the Second World War.

In 1942, the Battle of Midway began as Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. fortress on the strategic Pacific island. The American victory was a turning point in the War in the Pacific.

In 1967, The Monkees TV show won an Emmy award for outstanding comedy series.

In 1973, Murray Wilson, father of three of The Beach Boys, died of a heart attack at age 55. He managed the band in their early years and negotiated their first contract with Capitol Records in 1962. Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson later accused their father of verbal and physical abuse.

In 1976, the Canadian government announced it was extending its 12-nautical-mile coastal fishing zone to 200 miles. Canada made the change in part because fish stocks were being depleted by new technologies aboard modern fishing vessels, including fish-finding sonar and freezing facilities which allowed the ships to stay at sea longer. By 1976, mature northern cod were estimated at 75 million, down from 900 million in 1962.

In 1979, Joe Clark became Canada’s youngest prime minister when he was sworn in one day before his 40th birthday. Lincoln Alexander was also sworn in as the first black federal cabinet minister, and Perrin Beatty, 29, as the youngest federal minister.

In 1984, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band released their Born in the U.S.A. album. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts, spawned seven top10 singles and was nominated for the Grammy for Album of the Year.

In 1989, hundreds died when Chinese troops stormed Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to crush a prodemocracy protest. Tanks rumbled through the streets of the capital and the military randomly fired on unarmed protesters. The ferocity of the attack was condemned around the world. No official tally of the dead was released and estimates of the death toll range from the hundreds to as high as 2,000.

In 2003, Martha Stewart was indicted on nine criminal charges stemming from an investigation of alleged illegal stock trades. She stepped down as head of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and was convicted the following year of lying to investigators about a stock sale. She served five months in a West Virginia prison camp and began a successful effort to return her media empire to profitability after her release.

In 2009, Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine, 72, was found hanging in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room.

In 2012, Luka Rocco Magnotta, wanted in Montreal for the brutal slaying and dismemberment of Concordia University foreign student Jun Lin, was arrested in Berlin less than a week after international police launched a worldwide manhunt.

In 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said new federal modelling showed that COVID-19 was in decline across Canada, but the country was not out of the woods. He said the country would have to do better at testing and contact-tracing to stamp out flare-ups.