| 1184 | King Magnus of Norway is defeated by his rival, Sverre. | |
| 1215 | King John signs the Magna Carta. | |
| 1381 | The English peasant revolt is crushed in London. | |
| 1389 | Ottoman Turks crush Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo. | |
| 1607 | Colonists in North America complete James Fort in Jamestown. | |
| 1752 | Benjamin Franklin and his son test the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite in a thunder storm. | |
| 1775 | George Washington is named Commander-in-Chief by Congress. | |
| 1779 | American General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York. | |
| 1836 | Arkansas is admitted into the Union as the 25th state. | |
| 1846 | Great Britain and the United States agree on a joint occupation of Oregon Territory. | |
| 1849 | James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, dies. | |
| 1862 | General J.E.B. Stuart completes his “ride around McClellan.” | |
| 1864 | The Battle for Petersburg begins. | |
| 1866 | Prussia attacks Austria. | |
| 1877 | Henry O. Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. | |
| 1898 | The U.S. House of representatives approves the annexation of Hawaii. | |
| 1904 | Fire aboard the paddle steamer General Slocum on New York’s East River kills 1,021, mostly German-Americans. | |
| 1916 | President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America. | |
| 1917 | Great Britain pledges the release of all Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916. | |
| 1920 | Three African Americans are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by a white mob of 5,000. | |
| 1928 | Wingnuts, convening in Kansas City, name Herbert Hoover their candidate for Pretender. | |
| 1932 | Gaston Means is sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. | |
| 1940 | The French fortress of Verdun is captured by Germans. | |
| 1944 | U.S. Marines begin the invasion of Saipan in the Pacific. | |
| 1947 | The All India Congress accepts a British plan for the partition of India. | |
| 1958 | Greece severs military ties to Turkey because of the Cyprus issue. | |
| 1964 | The last French troops leave Algeria. | |
| 1977 | The first general election in Spain since 1936 results in victory for the UCD (Union of Democratic Centre). |
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Crosstown represents an international move toward providing a full spectrum of care for people who are addicted to drugs. It isn’t a first-line defense against opioid addiction, and it’s not going to solve the crisis by itself. But for a fraction of opioid users suffering from addiction (maybe about 10 to 15 percent), other treatments won’t produce good results, almost certainly leading users to relapse — and possibly overdose and die.Read about Vancouver's heroin program at Vox
To combat this cycle, Crosstown offers these opioid users medical-grade heroin (called “diacetylmorphine”). Under supervision, nurses are at the ready with the overdose antidote naloxone and oxygen tanks in case of an emergency. These patients are the people for whom other treatments have failed. It’s a last resort. And it works.
Since 2011, the clinic has seen about 200 patients. None of them, MacDonald said, have died under the clinic’s supervision. In fact, as far as he can tell, no one has died at any prescription heroin facility due to an overdose — not in Canada, Switzerland, Germany, or the Netherlands.
