This Day in History
March 31
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Year |
Month |
Start Date |
Event |
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1782 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31: Jesse Ketchum, tanner, politician, and
philanthropist (d.1867) |
|
1821 |
March |
31 |
McGill University established by Royal Charter. |
|
1853 |
March |
31 |
Died
- March 31 - William Crane, merchant, justice of the peace,
judge, and politician (born 1785) |
|
1864 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31 - J. J. Kelso, journalist and social activist (died
1935) |
|
1867 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31 – Noah Timmins, mining developer and executive (died
1936) |
|
1870 |
March |
31 |
Died
- March 31 - Thomas Cooke, missionary, and the first Bishop of
Trois Rivières (b.1792) |
|
1872 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - The first issue of the Toronto Mail, which would
later be merged into the Globe and Mail, is published |
|
1886 |
March |
31 |
Died
- March 31 - Amos Wright, farmer and politician (b.1809) |
|
1890 |
March |
31 |
March 31 — Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public
funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec. |
|
1906 |
March |
31 |
Died
- March 31 - James McIntyre, poet (b.1828) |
|
1928 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player |
|
1948 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31 - Gary Doer, politician and 20th Premier of Manitoba |
|
1949 |
March |
31 |
The
Dominion of Newfoundland and its dependency of Labrador joined
as the tenth province, named Newfoundland as proclaimed by the
British North America Act 1949. |
|
1949 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province at a
fraction of a second from April 1, April Fools' Day. |
|
1951 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31 – Lawrence O'Brien, politician (d.2004) |
|
1954 |
March |
31 |
Died
- March 31 – John Walter Jones, politician and Premier of Prince
Edward Island (b.1878) |
|
1958 |
March |
31 |
March 31 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative
Party of Canada to a massive election victory. |
|
1966 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31 – Nathalie Gosselin, judoka |
|
1971 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - FLQ terrorist Paul Rose is sentenced to life in
prison |
|
1973 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31 - Ian Goldberg, cryptographer and cypherpunk |
|
1978 |
March |
31 |
Died
- March 31 - Charles Best, medical scientist, co-discoverer of
insulin (b.1899) |
|
1980 |
March |
31 |
Born
- March 31 - Michael Ryder, ice hockey player |
|
1995 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - Perrin Beatty appointed head of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) |
|
2003 |
March |
31 |
Died
- March 31 - Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer (born
1907) |
|
2004 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - Saskatchewan government releases 2004 budget, raising
the Provincial Sales Taxes from 6% to 7%. |
|
2004 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - 170 people, including 29 Canadians, arrested in drug
bust across Canada and the United States. |
|
2004 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - Colin Thatcher is denied early parole. |
|
2004 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - Discovery finds that million flag promise in 1996 by
Sheila Copps was organized by Groupaction. |
|
2004 |
March |
31 |
March 31 - Federal Court of Canada rejects Canadian Recording
Industry Association request to obtain names of music
fileswappers, making the sharing legal. |