On this day in history
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1832: Lt. Col. John By inaugurates the 200-km Rideau Canal from Kingston to Ottawa.
1886: Pharmacist John Pemberton places his first ad for his invention, Coca-Cola, in The Atlanta Journal.
1919: Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested and later confirmed.
1934: Doctor Allan Roy Dafoe delivers the last of the Dionne Quintuplets.
1950: Henry Larsen arrives in Halifax on St. Roch. It is the first ship to circumnavigate North America.
1953: Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Norgay's 39th birthday.
1970: Hudson's Bay Company moves its head office from London, England to Winnipeg, after more than 300 years in London.
1987: Founding of the Reform Party of Canada, with Preston Manning as leader.
1990: The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president.
1999: Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
