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EVENTS

March 31 - Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec .

's Liberals win a sixth consecutive majority.

ARTS AND LITERATURE

BIRTHS

April 20 - Maurice Duplessis , Premier of Quebec

March 21 - Norman Hipel , politician

March 24 - Agnes Macphail , politician

March 27 - John Horne Blackmore , politician

March 30 - Norman Bethune , surgeon

May 4 - Franklin Carmichael , painter

May 17 - Lionel FitzGerald , artist

May 30 - John Stuart Foster , physicist

July 27 - Ian Alistair Mackenzie , politician

August 10 - Angus L. Macdonald , Premier of Nova Scotia

September 20 - Kathleen Parlow , violinist

October 9 - Aimee Semple McPherson , evangelist

October 28 - Louis Orville Breithaupt , Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

December 10 - Byron Ingemar Johnson , Premier of British Columbia

DEATHS

April 25 - Crowfoot , Blackfoot leader

December 15 - Sitting Bull , Sioux leader