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The 2004 Nunavut general election was the second general election held in the Canadian territory. It was held on February 16, 2004, to elect the 19 members of the 2nd Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. Premier Paul Okalik asked for the five-year-old territory's first parliament to be dissolved on January 16. The territory operates on a consensus government system with no political parties; the premier is subsequently chosen by and from the MLAs. There were 11,285 registered voters at the time of the election call. Issues. Issues at the election included: Results. Elections were held in 18 of the 19 electoral districts. Rankin Inlet North acclaimed its MLA. The following is a list of the districts with their candidates. Source: Results (CBC News) In the main, Nunavummiut decided to stay with their present legislature. The premier, four cabinet ministers, and three other MLAs were re-elected; five incumbents were defeated, including former speaker of the house Kevin O'Brien. Only two women were elected to the 19-seat legislature. Premier Paul Okalik was given a firm endorsement by the voters in his riding. He faced a strong challenge for the premier's job from Tagak Curley, who was acclaimed to his seat. However, Okalik was returned to the premiership on March 5, 2004, by the new legislature.
This is a list of elections in Canada in 2006. Included are provincial, municipal and federal elections, by-elections on any level, referendums, and party leadership races at any level.
The Canadian province of Saskatchewan held municipal elections in its municipalities on October 28, 2009. Listed are the results of selected municipal mayoral races in the province.
The 1994 Guelph municipal election was held on November 14, 1994, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, to elect the Mayor of Guelph, Guelph City Council and the Guelph members of the Upper Grand District School Board (Public) and Wellington Catholic District School Board. The election was one of many races across the province of Ontario. Results. Names in bold denotes elected candidates.  (X) denotes incumbent. Mayor. Mayoral race Ward 1. Ward 1 Councillor, 2 To Be Elected Ward 2. Ward 2 Councillor, 2 To Be Elected Ward 3. Ward 3 Councillor, 2 To Be Elected Ward 4. Ward 4 Councillor, 2 To Be Elected Ward 5. Ward 5 Councillor, 2 To Be Elected Ward 6. Ward 6 Councillor, 2 To Be Elected References. Guelph City Clerk, Cumulative totals with 164 polls reporting, November 14, 1994
The 1992 municipal election was held October 22, 1992 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, nine trustees to sit on the public school board, and seven trustees to sit on the separate school board. Edmontonians also decided one plebiscite question. Voter turnout. There were 215,556 ballots cast out of 417,271 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 51.7%. Results. Public school trustees. One trustee is elected from each ward. Additional trustees are elected by taking the non-victorious candidate with the most votes between each of Wards 1 and 4, Wards 2 and 3, and Ward 5 and 6. Ward 2. Rose Rosenberger was acclaimed. Separate (Catholic) school trustees. One trustee is elected from each ward, and the non-victorious candidate with the most total votes is also elected. Municipal Airport Plebiscite. Are you in favour of bylaw No. 10,205 The Edmonton Municipal Airport Referendum bylaw? References. City of Edmonton: Edmonton Elections
By-elections to the 35th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 1993 federal election and the 1997 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the entirety of the 35th Canadian Parliament, with little change from by-elections. Fourteen seats became vacant during the life of the Parliament. Ten of these vacancies were filled through by-elections, and four seats remained vacant when the 1997 federal election was called. &lt;onlyinclude&gt; &lt;/onlyinclude&gt;
The 1997 Canadian federal election was held on June 2 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 36th Parliament of Canada. Results. ! style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party ! style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Party Leader ! style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|Candidates ! style="text-align:center;" colspan="4"|Seats ! style="text-align:center;" colspan="3"|Popular vote Notes: x: Less than 0.005% of the popular vote Vote and seat summaries. Results by province. Source: Elections Canada
The 1997 Alberta general election was the twenty-fourth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on March 11, 1997, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Results. Notes: x – less than 0.005% of the popular vote Members elected. For complete electoral history, see individual districts Note:
By-elections to the 36th Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 1997 federal election and the 2000 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the entirety of the 36th Canadian Parliament, with increases from by-elections. Ten seats became vacant during the life of the Parliament. All of these vacancies were filled through by-elections. &lt;onlyinclude&gt; &lt;/onlyinclude&gt;
The 1999 Nova Scotia general election was held on July 27, 1999, to elect members of the 58th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Nominated candidates. Cape Breton. Stemer MacLeod
The 1980 Canadian federal election was held on February 18, 1980, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 32nd Parliament of Canada. National results. Notes: "% change" refers to change from previous election. Changes to party standings from previous election: Social Credit MP Richard Janelle crossed the floor to join the PC Party. PC MP John Diefenbaker died during the parliamentary session. A New Democrat was elected in the subsequent by-election. Results by province. xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote.
By-elections to the 32nd Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 1980 federal election and the 1984 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the entirety of the 32nd Canadian Parliament, though their number did decrease from by-elections. 27 seats became vacant during the life of the Parliament. 12 of these vacancies were filled through by-elections, and 15 seats remained vacant when the 1984 federal election was called. &lt;onlyinclude&gt; &lt;/onlyinclude&gt;
The 1982 Alberta general election was the twentieth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on November 2, 1982, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Results. Overall voter turnout was 66.00%. Note: Members elected. For complete electoral history, see individual districts.
The 1984 Canadian federal election was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 33rd Parliament of Canada.  "All numerical results from Elections Canada's Official Report on the Thirty-Third Election." Notes: "% change" refers to change from previous election. x – less than 0.05% of the popular vote. 1 Tony Roman was elected in the Toronto-area riding of York North as a "coalition candidate", defeating incumbent PC MP John Gamble. Roman drew support from Progressive Conservatives who were upset by Gamble's extreme right-wing views. 2 Results of the Parti nationaliste du Québec are compared to those of the Union Populaire in the 1980 election. The Revolutionary Workers League fielded five candidates: Michel Dugré, Katy Le Rougetel, Larry Johnston, Bonnie Geddes and Bill Burgess. All appeared on the ballot as independent or non-affiliated candidates, as the party was unregistered.
The 1988 Canadian federal election was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 34th Parliament of Canada. National results. For a complete list of MPs elected in the 1988 election see 34th Canadian Parliament. Note: "% change" refers to change from previous election Results by province.   xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote. Note: Parties that captured less than 1% of the vote in a province are not recorded.
The 1988 Nova Scotia general election was held on September 6, 1988 to elect members of the 55th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party. John Dunsworth, who would later gain fame for playing alcoholic trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey on the TV series Trailer Park Boys, stood as the NDP candidate in Halifax Bedford Basin. He finished in third place with a little over 19% of the vote. His underdog campaign was later the subject of a short documentary.
Ishi (c. 1861 – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. Ishi lived most of his life isolated from modern American culture. In 1911, aged 50, he came out near the foothills of Lassen Peak in Northern California. "Ishi", which means "man" in the Yana language, is an adopted name. The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave him this name because in the Yahi culture, tradition demanded that he not speak his own name until formally introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me," meaning that there was no other Yahi to speak his name for him. Ishi was taken in by anthropologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who both studied him and hired him as a janitor. He lived most of his remaining five years in a university building in San Francisco. His life was shown and discussed in many films and books. A popular biography was "Ishi in Two Worlds" published by Theodora Kroeber in 1961. Biography. Early life. In 1865, Ishi and his family were attacked in the Three Knolls Massacre, in which 40 of their tribesmen were killed. Although 33 Yahi survived to escape, cattlemen killed about half of the survivors. The last survivors, including Ishi and his family, went into hiding for the next 44 years. Their tribe was believed to be extinct. Prior to the California Gold Rush of 1848–1855, the Yahi population numbered 404 in California, but the total Yana in the larger region numbered 2,997. The gold rush brought tens of thousands of miners and settlers to northern California, putting pressure on native populations. Gold mining polluted the water and killed fish. Deer left the area. The settlers brought new infectious diseases such as smallpox
Bhumi is the goddess of earth in Hinduism. She is shown as a beautiful woman sitting on a lotus. She has an owl as her vahana or vehicle . She plays major role in the Hindu epics "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata". She is always regarded as an equivalent to Leimarel Sidabi, her Meitei counterpart. In "Ramayana", she is the mother of the goddess Sita, wife of lord Rama. After Sita is sent to the forest, she gives birth to the twins Lava and Kusha. Later at the end, when she is asked to return to Ayodhya, she seeks refuge in her mother, the goddess Bhumi. In "Mahabharata", she incarnates herself as lord Krishna's wife Satyabhama. She kills the asura (demon) Narakasura. In some South Indian traditions, she is depicted as a wife of Vishnu, Bhumi. She is considered as an expansion of lordess Lakshmi. Bhumi is known for her patience and virtue.
Raymond Corley Fisher (July 12, 1939 – February 29, 2020) was an American judge. He served as a judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1999 until his death in 2020. He was also the United States Associate Attorney General from 1997 to 1999. He was a Democrat. Fisher was born in Oakland, California. He died of cancer on February 29, 2020 in Sherman Oaks, California. He was 80.
Min Yoon-gi (; born March 9, 1993), better known by his stage names Suga and Agust D, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is also a member of the group BTS. Life. Min Yoon-ki was born on March 9, 1993 in Daegu, South Korea. His mother dreamed of a pumpkin coming through a window and spent her childhood in Daegu to Taejeon Elementary School and Gwaneum Middle School in Daegu. Suga started writing music lyrics at age 13 and learned about MIDI. Suga worked part-time at a record studio until he was 17. In 2010, during his second year of high school, he proudly passed the first national audition for HIT IT, which recruited a new member of BTS from Big Hit Entertainment, and transferred to Apgujeong High School and moved to Seoul. It is said that the reason for joining Big Hit was that he applied for both the composer and rapper auditions and passed in the summer of 2010. In the early days of joining the company, he dreamed of becoming a rapper while focusing on production rather than becoming an idol. Prior to joining Big Hit, Suga was an underground rapper under the name Gloss. Although he wanted to be a songwriter, Bang Si-hyuk wanted to raise him as an idol, and Bang persuaded him that he only needed to rap without choreography, like the hip-hop group One Time, so he eventually became a member of BTS. In 2016, he released his first solo mixtape, August D. Name. The stage name Suga () comes from the first syllables of the term shooting guard (). It is the position he played in basketball as a student. He adopted the alias Agust D in 2016 for his mixtape. It was from his initials DT. In short for his birthplace, Daegu Town, and "Suga" spelled backwards. Career. Suga is responsible for writing, composing, arranging, mixing, and mastering his materials. Over 70 registered songs are credited to him by the Korea Music Copyright Association.  He is
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (30 October 1857 – 26 May 1904) was a French medical doctor. He was a neurologist, but the field did not exist during his time. His main work in medicine were in the fields of hypnotism and hysteria. He is the namesake of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition identified by physical and verbal tics. By 1885, Gilles de la Tourette published nine cases with similar symptoms. His mentor, Jean-Martin Charcot, renamed the syndrome "Gilles de la Tourette's illness" in his honour. Gilles de la Tourette was born in Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, Vienne. He married his cousin Marie Detrois (1867–1922) in 1887. The couple had four children, one of whom died in childhood of meningitis. In 1893, a former female patient shot Gilles de la Tourette in the head. She claimed that he had hypnotised her against her will. He soon began to have mood swings between depression and hypomania. Around 1901–02, his condition became worse. On 26 May 1904, he died at a psychiatric hospital in Prilly, Lausanne, Switzerland. He was 46.
John Albert Nordberg (June 18, 1926 – March 12 2021) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was made a judge in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan. Nordberg was born in Evanston, Illinois. Nordberg died at his home in Glenview, Illinois on March 12, 2021 from Alzheimer's disease-related problems, aged 94.
Michel Leplay (22 February 1927 – 26 February 2020) was a French Protestant pastor. He was the director of the weekly newspaper "Réforme". Leplay was honored with the Amitié judéo-chrétienne de France prize in 2017. Leplay became a pastor at the Reformed Church of France (ERF) in Monoblet, where he stayed for eight years and raised three children with his wife, Laurette. He was President of the Conseil régional d’Île-de-France de l’ERF from 1950 to 1990, and was President of the Commission of Ministers of ERF in 1968. Leplay died on 26 February 2020 at the age of 92.
The United States Capitol shooting incident of 1954 was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists; they shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols from the "Ladies' Gallery" (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol. They did this to support Puerto Rican independence from American rule. The people responsible for the attack were Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez. The shooting began at Representatives in the 83rd Congress, who were debating an immigration bill. Five Representatives were wounded, one seriously, but all recovered. The assailants were arrested, tried and convicted in federal court, and given long sentences. In 1978 and 1979, they were pardoned by President Jimmy Carter; all four returned to Puerto Rico.
Lolita Lebrón (November 19, 1919 – August 1, 2010) was a Puerto Rican nationalist. She was  convicted of attempted murder and other crimes after leading an assault on the United States House of Representatives in 1954, resulting in the wounding of five members of the United States Congress.  She was freed from prison in 1979 after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter. Lebrón died on August 1, 2010 in San Juan, Puerto Rico from myocarditis and a respiratory tract infection at the age of 90.
Rafael Cancel Miranda (July 18, 1930 – March 2, 2020) was a poet, political activist, member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and an supporter of Puerto Rican independence.  Career. On March 1, 1954, Robert together with fellow Nationalists Lolita Lebrón, Andrés Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez entered the United States Capitol building armed with automatic pistols and fired 30 shots. Five congressmen were hit.  Cancel Miranda was the only Nationalist out of the four to have been jailed in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a Federal Bureau of Prisons federal prison. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter pardoned Cancel Miranda, Lolita Lebrón and Irving Flores Rodríguez after they had served 25 years in prison. Cancel Miranda died on March 2, 2020 at his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico of congestive heart failure at the age of 89.
Vladimir Mikhailovich Shuralyov (; 3 April 1935 – 2 March 2020) was a Soviet-Russian military officer. He was an army general.  From 1989 he was representative of the commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact armed forces in the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic, and in 1990 became a Deputy Minister of Defence and Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Defence. His final active role was to command the Vystrel higher officer courses, before his retirement in 1992. Shuralyov was hit by a van outside his home in Moscow on 1 March 2020. He died the next day from his injuries, aged 84.
Marina Abramović (, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Yugoslav-born Serbian-American performance artist and art filmmaker. Her work are about body art, endurance art and feminist art, the relationship between performer and audience. Her career began in the 1970s. Abramović calls herself the "grandmother of performance art". Abramović was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She was known for having a relationship with artist Ulay. She lives in New York City.
Coronavirus disease 2019 or (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This virus is kind of like the older SARS virus. The virus SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. People who catch COVID-19 may get a fever, dry cough, fatigue, (extreme tiredness) loss of taste or smell, or trouble breathing. Sore throat, runny nose, and cough are also common. COVID-19 has killed more than six million people around the world.  5 to 50 percent of people who get the disease, COVID-19, will get Long COVID. The COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, goes from one person to another by droplets. It can also go from one person to another by small airborne particles. Droplets and particles are made when a person breathes, sneezes, or talks. Symptoms. A person with COVID-19 can have these signs and symptoms: The United States Center for Disease Control says COVID-19 makes people feel sick in a lot of ways. The biggest bad changes can be felt in the lungs. People cough and have problems breathing. They often have a fever, feel cold, have a headache, pain in their muscles, or have problems tasting or smelling things. An April 2020 scientific study by the American Gastroenterological Association said that COVID-19 can made sick people throw up or have diarrhea. Both are not seen often. They said about 7.7% of COVID-19 patients threw up, about 7.8% had diarrhea, and about 3.6% had pain in their stomach. Name. On February 2020, the World Health Organization said they had chosen a name for the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. They changed it to COVID-19 from the earlier name "2019-nCoV." "Co" is for "corona," "Vi" for "virus," and "D" for "disease," and "19" for the year 2019. They said they did not want the name to have any person
Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan (24 May 1934 – 17 July 2024) was an Indian cardiac surgeon. He was a President of the Indian National Science Academy and National Research Professor of the Government of India. He was awarded the Padma Vibushan in 2005. Valiathan was a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, India, National Academy of Medical Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, The World Academy of Sciences, American College of Cardiology, the Royal College of Physicians of London and the International Union of Societies of Biomaterials and Engineering. Valiathan died on 17 July 2024 at a hospital in Manipal, India at the age of 90.
Seyyed Mohammad Mirmohammadi (‎; 1948 – 2 March 2020) was an Iranian politician. He served as the senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. He was a member of Expediency Discernment Council from 2018 until his death in 2020. He served as a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly from 2001 to 2005. He was also a member of the central council of the Islamic Republic Party, presidential chief of staff during the presidencies of Ali Khamenei and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and secretary general of the Islamic Civilization Party. Mirmohammadi was born in Qom. On 2 March 2020, Mirmohammadi died in Tehran due to COVID-19 during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. He was 71.
The Lawrence blockhouses were blockhouses built in the spring of 1864 in Lawrence, Kansas. They were built provide defensive buildings in case of attack by Confederate guerrillas. On August 21, 1863, William C. Quantrill led a group of 400 guerrillas and Confederate Army to attack Lawrence. Lawrence had few defenses. Much of the town was destroyed. About 180 men and boys were killed. A militia became active by spring 1864 to prevent another attack. Five blockhouses were built by May 1864. One militia group was assigned to stay at each blockhouse. Each blockhouse was built out of logs. They had port holes to be used to aim rifles outside. It is unknown where all the blockhouses were at. One was somewhere in west Lawrence, and two may have been far from town. One was at the intersection of Massachusetts and Winthrop streets; another was at the intersection of Massachusetts and Berkley streets. The exact places are known for only two of the blockhouses. These are: Both Cordley and Ridenour said some people from the militia were assigned to stay at each blockhouse every night. In late October 1864, towns in Kansas were worried when Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price came close to Kansas City from the east. On October 22, three of the five Lawrence militia groups were sent to the front. This left the other two to stay at the blockhouses and guard Lawrence. On October 23, the people of Lawrence heard that the Union army attacking Price were defeated. There was nothing that could stop the Confederates from coming to Lawrence. However, on October 23, it was learned Price's men had been hurt, and they were going south. The two militia groups continued to stay at the blockhouses for about two weeks. The other three groups were busy with following the retreating Confederates. The nightly guard duty and the use of the blockhouses continued until the end of the Civil War. After that time, nothing more was mentioned of the blockhouses.