TODAY IN HISTORY: Sally Ride makes U.S. space history

In 1815, deposed French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by British and Prussian troops.

In 1873, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, N.Y., of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. She never paid her $100 fine.

In 1928, Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen died after a flying accident in the North Sea.

In 1940, during the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, "This was their finest hour."

In 1962, a federal election left the Conservatives under John Diefenbaker with a minority government after they lost 100 seats from their 1958 landslide. The Tories were defeated in both the Commons and a general election the following year.

In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the shuttle Challenger. The mission included the deployment of Canada’s Anik C2 communications satellite.

In 1985, an Ontario election led to the end of 42 years of Conservative rule in the province. David Peterson's Liberals took power through an alliance with the New Democrats.

In 1988, Sallie Martin, “the mother of gospel music,” died in Chicago at age 92. She teamed up with the Reverend Thomas Dorsey in 1932, and together they performed throughout the American South.

In 1996, 47-year-old Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as Israel's youngest prime minister after he formed a six-party governing coalition.

In 1999, Adam Leboucan became Canada's youngest dangerous offender when a B.C. judge sentenced the 17-year-old to an indefinite prison term for the brutal sexual assault of an infant.

In 2000, Tiger Woods romped to a record 15-stroke victory in the U.S. Open golf championship at Pebble Beach, Calif.

In 2002, a joint U.S.-Canadian military inquiry found that American pilot Maj. Harry Schmidt mistakenly dropped a bomb on Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, killing four and wounding eight because he did not take time to properly assess the threat.

In 2010, the inquiry report into the death of Robert Dziekanski concluded that RCMP officers were not justified in using their Taser on him at Vancouver's airport in October 2007, and that their explanations of the events that unfolded the night he died were “patently unbelievable.”

In 2013, country singer Slim Whitman, famous for his signature yodel, died of heart failure at age 89.

In 2015, Manitoba became the first province to formally apologize for the '60s Scoop, when child-welfare agents removed aboriginal children from their families and placed them for adoption in nonIndigenous homes. A few days later, Alberta also apologized.

In 2017, 19-year-old Canadian Brooke Henderson won the Meijer LPGA Classic for her fourth LPGA Tour title.

In 2020, Canada officially recorded more than 100,000 cases of COVID-19 over the pandemic.

In 2021, Canada reached a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic with the death toll climbing to 25,000. The country's first COVID-19 death was recorded on March 9th of 2020.