On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1603: Samuel de Champlain lands at site of Québec for the first time, as geographer for the Pontgrave expedition.
1772: Slavery is outlawed in England.
1813: Laura Secord, overhearing American plans about a surprise attack on the British post at Beaver Dams, steals away to warn the British.
1873: Prince Edward Island Assembly agrees to petition Britain to allow the province to join Confederation.
1910: German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
1911: King George V of England is crowned.
1933: Adolf Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
1938: Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium.
1941: Under the code-name Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1944: President Franklin Roosevelt signs the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1956: The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in The Casbah are blown up.
1973: Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1976: House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty with a six-vote majority.
1980: The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981: Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
1995: Nigeria's former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sani Abacha's military government.
2015: Six ex-employees of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway charged under the Railway Safety Act and Fisheries Act for their negligence in the oil train crash, derailment and fire of July 6, 2013 that killed 47 people in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Québec.
