In 1911, the Indianapolis 500 car race was inaugurated.
This ad from the Calgary Herald on July 28, 1911, indicated a picture made about the Indianapolis 500 car race was showing at a local theatre.
In 1958, unidentified American service members killed in the Second World War and the Korean War were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.In 1961, in one of Canada’s most intense rainstorms, 25 cm fell in one hour at Buffalo Gap, Sask.In 1992, the UN Security Council voted to isolate Serbia and Montenegro, the only republics left in Yugoslavia’s federation, with a trade ban and oil embargo.
In 2007, Master Cpl. Darrell Jason Priede, 30, of Burlington, Ont., was among seven NATO soldiers killed when a Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban near Kandahar, Afghanistan.Article content In 2010, former Manitoba premier Duff Roblin died at age 92. He was premier from 1958-67 and his enduring legacy is the Winnipeg floodway, also known as Duff’s Ditch.
In 2014, a Brampton, Ont., court found Mohamed Hassan Hersi, 28, guilty of attempting to participate in the activities of a terrorist group, the first conviction under an anti-terrorist law that was passed in 2001. Hersi was arrested in 2011 at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport allegedly on his way to Somalia to join Al-Shabab, a Somali terrorist group. He was sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison.
In 2019, Leon Redbone, the acclaimed singer and guitarist who performed jazz, ragtime and Tin Pan Alley-style songs, died. No details about his death were provided. Redbone’s career got a boost in the early 1970s when Bob Dylan met him at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Ontario. He released his debut album, On the Track, in 1975, and dropped 16 albums throughout his career. Redbone retired from performing in 2015 because of health reasons.
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