On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1614: Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1843: Queen Victoria proclaims Hong Kong a British crown colony.
1858: Washington Atlee Burpee, founder of the world's largest mail-order seed company.
1871: Prince Edward Island Assembly authorizes the building of a railway across the province; the near bankruptcy of the line will force the province into Confederation two years later.
1908: First dial telephones in Canada for general use put into service in Edmonton.
1914: Last spike driven in Grand Trunk Pacific at Finmoore, British Columbia.
1930: Mahatma Gandhi defies British law by making salt in India instead of buying it from the British.
1951: Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage.
1955: Winston Churchill resigns as British prime minister.
1971: Gentilly-1 experimental nuclear power station starts operations near Trois-Rivières; the first CANDU reactor is also the world's first to be fueled by natural uranium, and cooled by ordinary water.
1986: A bomb explodes in a West Berlin disco packed with American soldiers.
