Good morning everyone! Today in 2001, Lorne Calvert was elected leader of the Saskatchewan NDP and premier, replacing Roy Romanow. Also today in 1916 Manitoba became the first province to grant women the right to vote, two years after suffragette leader Nellie McClung staged a mock parliament in which men had to ask women for the right to vote; and in 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland, where the Nazis had murdered 1.5 million people.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:30:00 +0000
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