This Day In History
January 30
|
Year |
Month |
Start Date |
Event |
|
1785 |
January |
30 |
Born
- January 30: Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, colonial
administrator (d.1846) |
|
1847 |
January |
30 |
January 30 - Lord Elgin, Governor, arrives at Montreal. |
|
1847 |
January |
30 |
Lord
Elgin, Governor, arrives at Montreal. |
|
1858 |
January |
30 |
First ship from sea in port of Montreal |
|
1871 |
January |
30 |
Born
- January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor, film director and
screenwriter (d.1940) |
|
1883 |
January |
30 |
Born
- January 30 - Mountenay Du Val, conservationist |
|
1919 |
January |
30 |
Died
- January 30 - Sam Steele, soldier and member of the North-West
Mounted Police (b.1849) |
|
1927 |
January |
30 |
Born
- January 30 - Sterling Lyon, politician and 17th Premier of
Manitoba (d.2010) |
|
1931 |
January |
30 |
Born
- January 30 - John Crosbie, politician and Minister |
|
1942 |
January |
30 |
Died
- January 30 - Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, politician and 1st
Premier of the Northwest Territories (born 1857) |
|
1966 |
January |
30 |
Born
- January 30 – Doug Wood, pole vaulter |
|
1972 |
January |
30 |
Born
-January 30 - Jennifer Hale, actress and singer |
|
1985 |
January |
30 |
Died
- January 30 - F. R. Scott, poet, intellectual and
constitutional expert (b.1899) |
|
1985 |
January |
30 |
January 30 - The federal government relaxes laws requiring
businesses to use the metric system |
|
1989 |
January |
30 |
January 30: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney shuffles his cabinet,
appointing 6 new ministers and re-assigning the responsibilities
of 19 others. |
|
1991 |
January |
30 |
January 30 - Gulf War: A Canadian CF-18 Hornet attacks and
causes irreparable damage to an Iraqi warship. |
|
2001 |
January |
30 |
January 30 - An envelope mailed to Citizenship and Immigration
Minister Elinor Caplan containing a mysterious blue powder
caused the Immigration Canada building to be sealed off. A
Winnipeg laboratory on February 1 said the powder posed no
health risk. |
|
2001 |
January |
30 |
January 30 - Governor General Adrienne Clarkson reads the Speech
from the Throne at the beginning of the 37th Canadian
parliament. [1] |
|
2004 |
January |
30 |
January 30 - The Supreme Court of Canada upholds a law allowing
parents to spank their children within "reasonable limits". |
|
2005 |
January |
30 |
Died
- January 30 - Martyn Bennett, musician (born 1971) |