2017
US President Donald Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, announcing plans to move US embassy there.
2006
NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2001
The Canadian province of » is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador
1990
Bruce Firestone heads group awarded new National Hockey League franchise, Ottawa Senators, for 1992-93 season; an original NHL team, the Senators started operating in 1917; but moved to St. Louis as the Eagles in 1934.
1921
Agnes McPhail 1890-1954 is elected to the House of Commons for the United Farmers of Ontario in the first election in which all Canadian women exercise their right to vote.
1917
More than 1,600 people died when two munitions ships collided in the harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1897
London becomes the world’s first city to host licenced taxicabs.
1865
13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery
1735
First recorded appendectomy performed by Claudius Amyand at St George’s Hospital in London.
