1994 … Acting commissioner of baseball Bud Selig announced that the remainder of the 1994 major league baseball season, including the World Series, would be canceled. Players and owners had failed to reach a settlement of the players’ strike begun in August.
1907 … Jasper Forest Reserve, which covers 13,000 square kilometers in the Alberta Rockies, is established. In 1930, Jasper will become a national park under the National Parks Act.
1847 … U.S. General Winfield Scott’s advance on Mexico City was marked by an unbroken series of victories that culminated this day in 1847, when he entered Mexico City and ended the military phase of the Mexican-American War.
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