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E.B
10/9/2020 05:25:35 am
Fay Wray
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On March 27, 1929, Capone was arrested by FBI agents as he left a Chicago courtroom after testifying to a grand jury that was investigating violations of federal prohibition laws. He was charged with contempt of court for feigning illness to avoid an earlier appearance.
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H.V
10/9/2020 05:48:56 am
Lionel Pretoria Conacher, MP, nicknamed "The Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championships in numerous sports. His first passion was football; he was a member of the 1921 Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts. The Toronto native didn't start skating until he was 16 years old, but he made up for lost time, refining his game with the Toronto Century Rovers and the Aura Lee Athletic Club before joining the Toronto Canoe Club juniors in 1919-20. In 1922-23, Conacher played hockey for the North Toronto Seniors and he was on hand when they played Midland on February 8, 1923, in the first match ever broadcast on radio.
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S.A
10/9/2020 05:49:25 am
Louis Armstrong was a musician from the 1920's to the 1960’s from New Orleans who mainly played the trumpet. He was named the first great jazz soloist, and was a great influence on others to pursue jazz music. ‘What a Wonderful World’ was his greatest hit, and His stage/nickname was Satchmo. He also acted in a movie called ‘High Society’ and created soundtracks for many more such as ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’. He moved to Chicago and New York in the early 20’s and was one of the most sought out musicians.
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Babe Ruth, also known as the "Sultan of Swat" was the greatest homer runner in the 1920's. Babe played 21 seasons from 1914 - 1935 and was known for how well he could hit home runs. He set four records for home runs per season and beat all of them, 29 in 1919, 54 in 1920, 59 in 1921, and 60 in 1927. However, after his career he also set another record with 714 home runs in his whole career! But people thought that he was one of the best pitchers of his era and could have made the Hall of Fame if he chose to only pitch.
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J.L
10/9/2020 05:58:28 am
Mary Pickford was born April 8, 1892 in Toronto. She was married three different times to Owen Moore (1911–1920), Douglas Fairbanks (1920–1936), and Charles Rogers (1937–1979), she also had two children with Charles Rogers. Mary Pickford was a very popular Canadian actress at the time. She was also the first Canadian to win an Oscar and the second to win best actress and the first to get a role in a film with sound. During the silent film, she was the highest paid woman in the world. On May 29, 1979, Mary passed away at the hospital in Santa Monica, California, from a cerebral hemorrhage she suffered the week before.
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H.F
10/9/2020 05:58:37 am
Levi General is also known as Deskaheh was born on March 15, 1873, he was the chief of the Haudenosaunee tribe. Levi General was the speaker for his people and he is most famous for bringing Iroquois concerns before the League of Nations. In Levi General’s early life he was raised and educated about his traditions, He practiced longhouse ceremonies a lot, and his first language, Cayuga. In 1917, General became hereditary chief of the Cayuga with the title Deskaheh, the general traveled to London in August 1921 with attorney George P. Decker who was hired by the six nations as counsel. during the final months of pneumonia that followed a bad cold, he had contracted in Europe and Levi General tried to get his medicine man to come to London but he wasn’t allowed to come because he couldn’t speak English so Levi General passed away on June 27, 1925.
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V.R
10/9/2020 06:04:09 am
Nellie McClung was a teacher from the age of 16 until when she got married which was 23. After that she started to pursue her dream as a writer. She went around to people's homes to get the stories of women's lives and she frequently ran into women who were struggling to survive. She then found a church group who was trying to ban alcohol and she joined their group and the group realized that banning alcohol wasn't the only thing they wanted. They wanted equality. When Nellie joined the group everyone wanted to hear her. She was one of the first women to speak up for women’s rights and equality.
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J.T
10/9/2020 06:05:28 am
The Dionne Quintuplets Yvonne Édouard Marie Dionne, Annette Lilianna Marie Allard, Cécile Marie Émilda Langlois, Emilie Marie Jeanne Dionne and Marie Reine Alma Houle were born on May 28,1934. It was the first time in 500 years that something like this happened, once everyone found out this surprising news thousands wanted to see these children. Approximately 4 months after the Dionne Quintuplets were born they were taken away from their family and home while custody was signed over to the Red Cross who paid for their care and oversaw the building of a mansion and hospital for the sisters where they were put on display for thousands of people to see them everyday.
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A.A
10/9/2020 06:25:13 am
Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16,1889 in Woolworth, London, United Kingdom.Charlie had to learn to survive on his own before he reached the age of ten because of the death of his father and the illness of his mother which made it necessary for Charlie and his brother Sydney to fend for themselves.Having inherited natural talents from their parents they took to the stage as the best opportunity for a career. Charlie made his professional debut as a member of a juvenile group called “The Eight Lancashire Lads” and rapidly won popular favor as an outstanding tap dancer.When he was about twelve he got his first chance to act in a legitimate stage show, and appeared as “Billy” the page boy.When his contract with Mutual expired in 1917 Charlie decided to become an independent producer in a desire for more freedom in making his movies.He busied himself with the construction of his own studios. This plant was situated in the heart of the residential section of Hollywood at La Brea Avenue.His next commercial venture was the production of a comedy dealing with the war. “Shoulder Arms”, released in 1918 . Which added more to Chaplin’s popularity. Charlie got married in 1918 then got remarried in 1924 and then again in 1936 and then a fourth time in 1943 to Oona O'Neil he had a happy marriage and had 8 children. Charlie continued making movies such as "modern times" and "Great Dictator" which ridiculed the governments of Hitler. In 1975 Chaplin was knighted by queen Elizabeth.Chaplin died on Christmas on 25 December 1977 in Switzerland. He died of a stroke in his sleep at the age of 88.
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L.L
10/9/2020 06:25:58 am
The famous five
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CL
10/9/2020 06:30:22 am
Stephan Leacock
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K.O
10/9/2020 06:53:05 am
Pier 21 is located in Halifax, its The National Museum of Immigration or also called “Gateway to Canada,” which started in March 1928. Between the time of 1928 and 1971 over 1.5 million immigrants came through Pier 21. Downstairs of Pier 21 there is a research centre where lots of people go to find out more about their family history and to help piece pieces of events that brought their family to Canada. In 1939, Pier 21 was taken over by the Department of National Defence, becoming a departure point for about 500 000 Canadian servicemen and women for World War 2. Pier 21 is still open today and people go there for history.
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E.C
10/21/2020 07:03:28 am
Bobbie Rosenfeld was born December 28th 1904, Katrinosalov, Russia and died November 13th 1969. She was an exceptional athlete who excelled in many sports, including basketball, hockey, softball and track. Rosenfeld is best known for her medal-winning performances on the track at the 1928 Olympic Summer Games in Amsterdam. After retiring from competition, she became a well known sportswriter. Her column “Sports Reel” ran for 20 years in The Globe and Mail.
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S.D
10/21/2020 07:05:50 am
Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McLung, Louise Crummy McKimmy, and Irene Parlby were known as the 'famous five' were women who advocated for female rights and children. They thought women should be present at all stages of the legislative process, Canadian women were allowed to vote for the first time in the 1920 election. These women asked the supreme court of Canada if the word 'persons' included women, and after 5 weeks of debate the courts decided that it does not include women. In1929 it was final that women were considered people.
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S.J.P
10/21/2020 07:06:24 am
The Edmonton Grads was an outstandingly successful women's basketball team in Edmonton, Alberta. This team was coached and formed by John Percy Page in 1915 for 25 years. The main reason this team is so known is for their great success being national and world champions with a 95% success rate. The Grads had even won the Underwood International Trophy for 17 years in a row (1923-1940). These girls had a phenomenal record of 502 wins and only 20 loses.
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10/21/2020 07:12:15 am
Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. He was raised by his mother MaryAnn in a neighborhood so dangerous it was called “The Battlefield.” He only had a fifth-grade education, dropping out of school early to go to work. An early job working for the Jewish Karnofsky family allowed Armstrong to make enough money to purchase his first cornet. On New Year’s Eve 1912, he was arrested and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There he learned how to properly play the cornet, eventually becoming the leader of the Waif’s Home Brass Band. In 1914, Armstrong set his sights on becoming a professional musician from the Waif's home. He was mentored by the city’s top cornetist, Joe King Oliver Armstrong and soon became one of the most in-demand cornetists in town, eventually working steadily on Mississippi riverboats.
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N.L
10/21/2020 03:37:42 pm
Frederick Banting, born November 14 1891 in Alliston New Tecumseth, was an exceptional Canadian Scientist. Frederick Banting became the first individual to isolate the secretions from the islet cells and tout them as a potential treatment for diabetes. He observed that other scientists might have failed to find insulin because digestive enzymes had destroyed the insulin before anyone could extract it. When he made this discovery with his colleague (Charles Best) , he was awarded a Nobel Prize and to this this day he still remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the area of Physiology/Medicine. In 1934 he was knighted by King George V, for the work he had done.
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