TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1648, Jacques Boisdon opened Canada’s first tavern in Quebec City.

In 1893, New Zealand became the first country to give women the vote.

In 1928, Mickey Mouse made his debut in Walt Disney’s cartoon feature “Steamboat Willie.”

In 1945, Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce, known as “Lord HawHaw,” was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a British court.

In 1968, physicist Chester Carlson, inventor of the Xerox copying process, died. He was 62.

In 1980, Marathon of Hope runner Terry Fox, 22, was made the youngest companion of the Order of Canada.

In 1985, the Canadian government ordered the seizure of a million cans of tainted tuna. Grocery store chains began removing cans of tuna from shelves amid mounting consumer fears that some cans contained rancid and decomposing fish. Fisheries Minister John Fraser, who had earlier refused to recall the product, resigned on Sept. 23.

In 1986, American officials announced that an experimental drug had prolonged the lives of some people with AIDS. The drug, azidothymidine or AZT, had first been synthesized in the 1960s, when it was hoped to be used to fight cancer.

In 1988, the American Senate ratified the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement by a vote of 83-to-9. The vote marked the last step in the American legislative approval process. The agreement, aimed at eliminating trade barriers, began taking effect the following January.

In 2007, Canada formalized a landmark $1.9-billion compensation deal for an estimated 80,000 former students of 130 residential schools run by churches and funded by the federal government from the 1870s until the mid-1970s, for the sexual, physical and psychological abuse they endured.