Today is the 63rd day of 2014. There are 302 days left in the year.
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT
2005: Flags fly at half-staff as Canadians grapple with the deadliest attack on police officers in 120 years, after four Mounties were slain during a raid on a marijuana farm in a rural western hamlet.
OTHER EVENTS
1681: England's King Charles II grants a charter to William Penn for land that later becomes Pennsylvania.
1789: The Constitution of the United States goes into effect as the first Federal Congress meets in New York City.
1829: An unruly crowd mobs the White House during the inaugural reception for US President Andrew Jackson.
1917: German army begins major withdrawal on Western Front in World War I.
1933: The start of US President Franklin Roosevelt's first administration has the first woman to serve in Cabinet: Labour Secretary Frances Perkins.
1965: Syria orders nationalisation of nine oil companies, including affiliates of two US concerns. more
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