Richard Cobden, British advocate of free trade, born. Britain informs Canada that it will not allow Nova Scotia to withdraw from Confederation. To avoid the regulations they simply trade with the English. Adam Smith, author of Wealth of Nations, and earliest free market economist, born. Canadian Parliament passes a resolution for a bilingual federal public service by 1978.
Civil war exists.
Toronto City Council will supply government-funded birth control pills to any woman on welfare who wants them. 11 Ontario Supreme Court upholds a covenant that forbids Jews and Negroes from owning property in a section of Grand Bend. Chicago Times edition for this day seized and destroyed by General Burnside because of Times criticism of Civil War. 12 The Living and Learning report on the Ontario educational system recommends the abolition of grades, percentage marks and corporal punishment. Rhode Island outlaws importation and sale of slaves, and declares that any slave found in Newport will be considered a free man.