TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1881, the Gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone, Ariz. Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holliday shot it out with Ike Clanton’s gang. Three members of Clanton’s gang, including his brother, were killed, and Earp’s brothers were wounded.

In 1970, the comic “Doonesbury’’ by Garry Trudeau premiered.

In 1982, the Senate passed legislation renaming the July 1st holiday Canada Day. The legislation capped Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s plan to give Canada an independent identity complete with its own Constitution, which had been repatriated in April.

In 1992, the Charlottetown Accord, which would have drastically altered the Constitution, was defeated in a national referendum. Canada-wide, the “No’’ vote garnered 54 per cent, compared with a 45 per cent “Yes’’ vote.

In 2001, U.S. President Bush signed the ``Patriot Act,’’ giving authorities the unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists.

In 2014, the CBC abruptly severed ties with “Q’’ radio host Jian Ghomeshi, who acknowledged he engaged in rough sex but said it was always consensual. In the following weeks, as many as nine women alleged they were victims of non-consensual violence during, or leading up to, sexual encounters with Ghomeshi. (In 2016, a judge acquitted him on all four charges of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking.)