On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1872: First issue of Toronto Mail published; part of today's Globe and Mail.
1909: The Queensboro Bridge in New York opens. It is the first double decker bridge and links Manhattan and Queens.
1916: Mexican bandit Pancho Villa kills 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico.
1946: The Allies seize 1,000 Nazis attempting to revive the Nazi party in Frankfurt.
1954: Toronto Transit Commission opens Yonge Street subway from Union Station to Eglinton; first line in Canada.
1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in Washington, D.C. by John W. Hinckley Jr.
1982: Bertha Wilson sworn in as first woman justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
1987: Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers is bought for $39.85 million.
