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1729: King Louis XV authorizes a new issue of playing card money in New France; not enough printed bills or coinage to pay the troops; Governor at Quebec allowed to sign playing cards as specie.
1782: Sir Guy Carleton is appointed commander of British forces in North America. He assumes his new post as the War of Independence (1775-76) is drawing to a close.
1943: Battle of the Bismark Sea rages; Allied planes sink 12 Japanese ships carrying reinforcements to New Guinea, killing nearly 4,000.
1945: Naik (Corporal equivalent) Fazal Din of the 10th Baluch Regiment conducted a lone attack on a Japanese bunker, which was pinning down his section. Having eliminated its defenders, he then attacked a second, from which six Japanese charged forth. A Japanese officer ran his sword through Fazal Din's chest, but as he pulled the blade out, the mortally wounded Naik wrestled it from his grip, and killed the officer with his own sword. He then killed a second Japanese soldier with the sword, as his men advanced to capture the bunker. Fazal Din managed to stagger back to report the success of the attack, before dying from his injuries. He was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.
Elsewhere in Burma, Gian Singh, a Naik of the 15th Punjab Regiment, single-handedly attacked a series of Japanese positions. Despite being wounded, he cleared a series of trenches and a concealed anti-tank gun, then led his section forward to complete the reduction of the enemy position. He received the Victoria Cross.
1949: Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) are redesignated "Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)(2nd Armoured Regiment)."
1951: National Defence publish first Canadian casualty list from Korea; six soldiers killed.
1956: No. 4 Wing air display team "The Sky Lancers" crashes southwest of Strasbourg, Germany. Four of the five Sabre pilots are killed.
1964: 439 Squadron, RCAF, is reformed as a 'reconnaissance/attack' squadron.
1991: The first Canadian troops leave for home at the conclusion of Operation Desert Storm. No Canadians have been killed in the conflict between Iraq and the United Nations and all are relieved to be returning home safe.
1992: MND the Honourable Marcel Masse announces that Canada will send another 100 CF personnel to Cambodia as part of the United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia (UNAMIC).
1782: Sir Guy Carleton is appointed commander of British forces in North America. He assumes his new post as the War of Independence (1775-76) is drawing to a close.
1943: Battle of the Bismark Sea rages; Allied planes sink 12 Japanese ships carrying reinforcements to New Guinea, killing nearly 4,000.
1945: Naik (Corporal equivalent) Fazal Din of the 10th Baluch Regiment conducted a lone attack on a Japanese bunker, which was pinning down his section. Having eliminated its defenders, he then attacked a second, from which six Japanese charged forth. A Japanese officer ran his sword through Fazal Din's chest, but as he pulled the blade out, the mortally wounded Naik wrestled it from his grip, and killed the officer with his own sword. He then killed a second Japanese soldier with the sword, as his men advanced to capture the bunker. Fazal Din managed to stagger back to report the success of the attack, before dying from his injuries. He was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.
Elsewhere in Burma, Gian Singh, a Naik of the 15th Punjab Regiment, single-handedly attacked a series of Japanese positions. Despite being wounded, he cleared a series of trenches and a concealed anti-tank gun, then led his section forward to complete the reduction of the enemy position. He received the Victoria Cross.
1949: Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) are redesignated "Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)(2nd Armoured Regiment)."
1951: National Defence publish first Canadian casualty list from Korea; six soldiers killed.
1956: No. 4 Wing air display team "The Sky Lancers" crashes southwest of Strasbourg, Germany. Four of the five Sabre pilots are killed.
1964: 439 Squadron, RCAF, is reformed as a 'reconnaissance/attack' squadron.
1991: The first Canadian troops leave for home at the conclusion of Operation Desert Storm. No Canadians have been killed in the conflict between Iraq and the United Nations and all are relieved to be returning home safe.
1992: MND the Honourable Marcel Masse announces that Canada will send another 100 CF personnel to Cambodia as part of the United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia (UNAMIC).