TODAY IN HISTORY: War breaks out in Europe

On this date in 1576, Martin Frobisher's expedition reached Labrador.

In 1673, Fort Frontenac was completed. It was built where Kingston, Ont., now stands, to protect Ville-Marie (Montreal).

In 1812, British military commander Isaac Brock asked Upper Canada to impose martial law because of the threat of a U.S. invasion. The legislature refused, not taking the threat seriously.

In 1897, the Canadian government imposed a two per cent royalty on minerals from Canadian mines. It was primarily a tax on Klondike gold to pay for law enforcement in the gold rush region.

In 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia, touching off the First World War. Canadian casualties during the war numbered about 68,000.

In 1914, the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges closed for three months because brokers feared a panic due to the outbreak of war.

In 1950, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (now Statistics Canada) reported

Canada's population was 13,845,000.

In 1958, Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg. He died June 28, 1981.

In 1976, what would turn out to be the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century hit the industrial Chinese city of Tangshan. The Chinese government estimated that 255,000 people had been killed.

In 1981, a 15-minute hailstorm in Calgary caused $100 million in damage.

In 1986, NASA released a transcript of a recording from the doomed space shuttle "Challenger" in which pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh" before the spacecraft exploded the previous January.

In 1994, the Supreme Court of Canada removed the final roadblock to millions of dollars in pension funds for retired NHL players.

In 1995, Mohawk leaders said they burned $10 million worth of marijuana growing on federally owned fields near the native community of Kanesatake to show they could control their own territory.

In 2002, the first wave of Canadian troops returned from Afghanistan.

In 2003, the first tentative land claim agreement in British Columbia's densely populated Lower Mainland was announced with the Tsawwassen band.

In 2003, in a landmark decision, a B.C. Provincial Court judge ruled that nativeonly commercial salmon fisheries contravened the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it discriminates against other fishermen on the basis of race.

In 2010, a B.C. Supreme Court judge sentenced Kenneth Klassen to 11 years in prison in violation of Canada's rarely used sex-tourism law. He had videotaped himself having sex with girls as young as eight in Cambodia and Colombia between December 1998 and March 2002.