On This Day In Canadian History....
1906 - Pedestrian killed in first recorded fatal automobile accident in Montreal.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
On This Day In Canadian History....
1945 - Lt. Robert Hampton Gray shot down and killed in a bombing raid over Onagawa Bay, as he sinks a Japanese destroyer. Royal Navy pilot Gray was the last Canadian known to have died in World War II; awarded a posthumous VC. In 1989, in Sakiyami Park, Japan, Gray became the first member of the Allied Forces honored by the Japanese with a memorial.
1945 - Lt. Robert Hampton Gray shot down and killed in a bombing raid over Onagawa Bay, as he sinks a Japanese destroyer. Royal Navy pilot Gray was the last Canadian known to have died in World War II; awarded a posthumous VC. In 1989, in Sakiyami Park, Japan, Gray became the first member of the Allied Forces honored by the Japanese with a memorial.
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