Canada's 1929 killer tsunami: 95 years ago today in Newfoundland

In 1095 , Pope Urban II asked Europe to recapture Holy Land from the Turks .

In 1626 , the newly rebuilt Basilica of St. Peter was consecrated in Vatican City , Rome .

In 1791 , the Constitutional Act , creating the jurisdictions of Upper and Lower Canada , was proclaimed.

In 1883 , the first operation of Standard Time in North America began at midnight in eastern Nova Scotia .

In 1999 , a traditional pre-football game bonfire at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas , toppled, crushing 11 students to death.

In 2002 , Comcast Corp. became the world’s largest cable company.

In 2009 , a methane blast ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine , killing 101 miners.

In 2010 , General Motors returned to life as a public company in North America's largest initial public offering.

PJ Akeeagok, 37 , is from Nunavut ’s most northern community of Grise Fiord and represents an Iqaluit constituency in the legislative assembly.

In 2021 , the winner of the 57th Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild was Helen Mirren .