On this day in history
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781: The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji.
1613: Samuel de Champlain and Nicholas de Vignau start their exploration of the Ottawa River.
1790: The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1832: Lt Col John By inaugurates the 200-kilometre long Rideau Canal from Kingston to Ottawa.
1914: Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence with loss of 1,024 lives.
1917: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
1950: Henry Larsen arrives in Halifax; first ship to circumnavigate North America.
1964: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen.
1987: Founding of the Reform Party of Canada, with Preston Manning as the leader.
