On This Day In Canadian History....
1649 - Jesuit priests Jean de Brébeuf and Jérôme Lalement are tortured by Iroquois invaders; Brébeuf dies at 4 pm, his flesh stripped to the bone and his body burned with pitch and boiling water; Lalement, nephew of Jesuit superior Jérôme Lalement, dies the following day of burns; Brébeuf's skull is preserved in a golden reliquary in the Hotel Dieu at Quebec; he was canonized in 1930.
On This Day In Canadian History....
1943 - Canadian Pacific steamer, Empress of Canada, torpedoed by German U-Boat and sunk off the coast of West Africa, with the loss of 400 lives.
On This Day In Canadian History....
1984 - Marc Garneau named first Canadian to go into space; member of the Canadian Space Agency's Canadian Astronaut Program.
On This Day In Canadian History....
1928 - Eileen Vollick gets pilot's licence; first Canadian woman to be a licensed pilot.
On This Day In Canadian History....
1985 - Security guard Claude Brunelle killed as three Armenian terrorists raid Turkish Embassy
