On This Day In Canadian History.... 1945 - Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper HMCS Esquimalt while conducting anti-submarine patrols in the approaches to Halifax Harbour is torpedoed and sunk off Chebucto Head by German U-Boat U-190, becoming the last RCN warship lost to enemy action in World War II.
On This Day In Canadian History.... 1912 - RMS Titanic, after hitting an iceberg hours previous, sends out it's final distress calls before it sinks into the inky black, frigid North Atlantic, off the coast of Newfoundland....
* 12:50 am EST: The wireless operator of the Virginian, 200 miles away, reports that they have been trying to reach the White Star liner, but have lost communication with the Titanic and that the last signals, at 12:27 am, were "blurred and ended abruptly."
* 2:00 am: Hunston and Goodwin get their first request for information from New York; according to Hunston, "this is followed by 300 more chiefly from newspapers to many ships asking for news." Hunston refuses because wireless communications are confidential.
* 6:00 am: "After daylight news commences to arrive from ships stating Carpathia picked up 20 boats of people. No word of any more being saved."
Only 711 survive out of a total of 2,224 passengers and crew; 209 bodies are taken to Halifax, and 150 of them are buried in a Halifax cemetery.
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1912 - Two young wireless radio operators, Robert Hunston and James Goodwin, hear the first distress call from the luxury liner RMS Titanic, en route to New York south of the Grand Banks. An iceberg has grazed the ship's side, popping iron rivets and shearing off a fatal number of hull plates below the waterline.
* 10:25 pm: According to Hunston's first entry in the log, Goodwin "hears the Titanic calling C.Q.D. [Come Quickly, Danger - the precursor to S.O.S.], giving position." * 10:35 pm: Titanic calls that they have moved five or six miles and "Have struck iceberg." * 10:40 pm: They hear Titanic call the nearest ship, the Carpathia, saying "We require immediate assistance." * 10:58 pm: They hear the terrible news: "Have struck iceberg and sinking." * 11:36 pm: They hear another ship, the Olympic, asking the Titanic where it is steering; Titanic replies "We are putting women off in boats."
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1877 - A US newspaper, the Fort Benton Record, of Fort Benton, Montana coins a slogan for the RCMP - 'They always get their man.'
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1980 - Terry Fox dips his artificial leg into the Atlantic to start his cross-country 'Marathon of Hope', backed by the Canadian Cancer Society, to raise money for cancer research. Fox is a victim of osteogenic sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. He will end his run on Sept.1 in Thunder Bay Ont when cancer is discovered in his lungs. He will cover 5373 km at a pace of nearly 40 km per day and will raise $1.7 million. Terry Fox will end his battle with cancer on June 28, 1981.
Poll results for "Should Elizabeth May, The Leader of The Green Party, Be Allowed To Be Part of The Election Debate?", based on 71 responces.... 49 votes(69%)......Yes 22 votes(30%)......No
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1713 - Treaty of Utrecht ends War of Spanish Succession; France cedes Acadia and Newfoundland to Britain, but keeps fishing rights; recognizes British title to Hudson Bay.
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1937 - Act of Parliament creates Trans-Canada Airlines, now Air Canada; company will have two passenger planes and a biplane by September launch.
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