...1998, in the Quebec Secession Case, the Canadian Supreme Court applied international norms relating to self-determination of peoples to hold unanimously that people with in the predominantly French-speaking province of Québec (flag at right) had no right under either international or domestic law to secede; rather, they were expected to achieve self-determination within the framework of the state of Canada (flag at left). The decision has become a landmark judicial examination of secession and self-determination.
...1966, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) was born in Miami.
