On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1867: Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act.
1903: American side of Niagara Falls runs short of water because of a drought.
1904: The first color photograph is published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.
1919: The first international airline service is inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.
1935: Persia is renamed Iran.
1946: First U.S. built rocket to leave the Earth’s atmosphere reaches a 50-mile height.
1954: The London gold market reopens for the first time since 1939.
1974: The Viet Cong propose a new truce with the United States and South Vietnam, which includes general elections.
1978: Three prisoners emerge from St. Jerome prison with their six hostages after a two-week standoff, ending Canada's longest hostage-taking.
1990: A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, finds Captain Hazelwood not guilty in the Valdez oil spill.
