Today in history

In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.

In 1598, the Marquis de La Roche was awarded a fur trading monopoly in the New World by the King of France.

In 1700, Marguerite Bourgeoys, Canada’s first woman saint, died in Montreal.

In 1819, St. Boniface College was founded at Red River in what was to become Manitoba.

In 1842, the first issue of Prince Edward Island’s “The Islander” was published, edited by John Inge.

In 1876, American novelist Jack London was born. He died in 1916.

In 1910, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador to the U.S. pioneered smoking by women in public at a White House reception.

In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.

In 1935, Amelia Earhart Putnam set a record of 18 hours, 16 minutes on a solo flight of 3,860 kilometres, from Honolulu to California.

In 1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt re-established the National War Labor Board.

In 1945, German forces in Belgium retreated during the “Battle of the Bulge” in the Second World War.

In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.