TODAY IN HISTORY: The Titanic is finally located

In 1904, Montreal policeman Etienne Desmarteau became the first individual Olympic champion to represent Canada when he won the 56-pound weight throw in St. Louis. Desmarteau was fired for going to the Games, but reinstated when he returned with the gold medal. He died of typhoid the next year at age 32. Ontario's George Orton had won the 2,500metre steeplechase at the 1900 Games in Paris, but competed for the U.S. because Canada did not send a team.

In 1905, Alberta and Saskatchewan entered Confederation as Canada's eighth and ninth provinces.

In 1917, The Canadian Press was formed as a co-operative to exchange news among Canadian newspapers. The service is still used today by The Penticton Herald and Kelowna Daily Courier, among other daily newspapers.

In 1956, Elvis Presley bought his mother a pink Cadillac.

In 1967, guitarist and vocalist Boz Scaggs joined "The Steve Miller Band." Scaggs and Miller had played together in a high school group in Dallas. Scaggs would leave for a solo career in 1969.

In 1985, a joint American-French expedition found the wreckage of the British luxury liner Titanic about 900 kilometres off Newfoundland. The wreckage was located by a robot submarine four kilometres down in an ocean canyon.She had sunk in April 1912.

In 1995, Paul Bernardo was convicted of first-degree murder in the sex-slayings of Ontario schoolgirls Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. A jury also found him guilty of seven other charges, including kidnapping and sexual assault. He was sentenced to life in prison.

In 2003, the Netherlands became the first country to make marijuana available as a prescription drug, allowing pharmacies to sell it to chronically ill patients.