History Lesson...

• 1993 - Toronto Ontario - Justice Horace Krever starts his public hearings into Canada's blood supply, and the AIDS tainted blood and blood products given to Canadians in the 1980's, before the Canadian Red Cross began testing for HIV.
• 1963 - Toronto Ontario - John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination leads to closing of Toronto Stock Exchange in mid session for first time.
• 1943 - England - RAF and RCAF crews start air bombing of Berlin.
• 1594 - London England - Martin Frobisher dies; Arctic explorer, discoverer of Frobisher Bay for England.
• 1957 - Cornwall Ontario - First ship passes through Iroquois Lock, first lock of new St. Lawrence Seaway.