On This Day In Canadian History....

1957 - Canada and the United States form North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) to coordinate air defence of the Continent, based in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado

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2001 - Among the 2,997 victims of the terrorists who perpetrated the horror that was 9/11, were 25 Canadians who perished in the attacks, fire and subsequent collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers....

Michael Arczynski (Montreal)    
Garnet Bailey (Lloydminster)
David Barkway (Toronto)
Ken Basnicki (Toronto)
Joseph Collison (Toronto)
Cynthia Connolly (Montreal)
Arron Dack (Toronto)
Frank Doyle (Ste. Adele, QC)
Michael Egan (Winnipeg)
Christine Egan (Winnipeg)
Albert Elmarry (Toronto)
Meredith Ewart (Montreal)
Peter Feidelberg (Montreal)
Alexander Filipov (Regina)
Ralph Gerhardt (Toronto)
Stuart Lee (Toronto)
Mark Ludvigsen (New Brunswick)
Bernard Mascarenhas (Newmarket)
Colin McArthur (Montreal)
Michel Pelletier (Montreal)
Donald Robson (Toronto)
Ruffino Santos (Vancouver)
Vladimir Tomasevic (Toronto)
Chantal Vincelli (Toronto)
Deborah Williams (Montreal) 


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1966 - Montreal-born actor William Shatner as Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise start their mission as the crew of Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi space epic Star Trek on NBC TV; first episode called The Man Trap; NBC will cancel the show Sept 2, 1969; Shatner will also play in the 1973 cartoon version, as well as in film spinoffs.


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1980 - Terry Fox national telethon supporting his Marathon of Hope raises over $10 million for cancer research.


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1952 - Canada's first television station, CBFT in Montreal (part of CBC French network Radio-Canada) starts transmitting with a broadcast of Jean Cocteau's drama Oedipus Rex; English-language CBLT in Toronto starts operations two days later.


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1979 - Canadian gold Maple Leaf coin goes on sale in Canada, the US and Europe; Canada's first gold bullion coin a runaway success for the Royal Canadian Mint.


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1879 - Springhill (Nova Scotia) mine workers organize Provincial Workmen's Association, after wage cuts; first trade union to be legalized for Canadian coal mines.


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1987 - Quatre Saisons network launches La Maison Deschênes; 30 minute drama Canada's first daily TV soap opera.

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1611 - Newly appointed Governor John Guy issues Newfoundland's first laws; to protect forests and harbours and regulate the fishery. 

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1907 - South cantilever arm of the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River collapses during construction; over 65 workers killed, 11 injured in Canada's worst bridge disaster. The bridge is rebuilt in 1916 but the centre span falls into the river, killing another 13 people. When it is finally completed in September 1917, the Quebec Bridge is the world's longest cantilever bridge, and the largest bridge in the world.

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1941 - Dominion Observatory time becomes Canada's official time at 1 pm on this day.

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1785 - Fleury Mesplet publishes the first issue of 'The Montreal Gazette /Le Gazette de Montréal'; the oldest newspaper still in existence in Canada.

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1814 - Major-General Robert Ross leads 4,000 troops in attack on Washington; British burn the Capitol, White House, National Library and other government buildings; to retaliate for the American burning of York (Toronto) and Newark (Niagara) earlier in the War of 1812. 

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1797 - Emanuel Allen sold at public auction in Montreal; last slave transaction in Canada

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1952 - A CBC tele-cine projectionist inserts a slide upside down; Canada's first known TV gaffe.

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1862 - Billy Barker discovers gold in creeks running into the Quesnel River in the town of Barkerville, BC, the find sparks a massive gold rush

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1833 - Steamship 'Royal William' leaves Pictou, Nova Scotia; will arrive in Gravesend, England Sept 11; first vessel to cross the Atlantic under steam power.

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1965 - Beatles play Maple Leaf Gardens; Toronto Telegram reviewer says, 'The Beatles whipped Toronto's teens into ecstatic frenzy last night in two wild 30 minute performances.'Admission ticket price $4.00

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1827 - Admiral John Franklin lays first stone of Rideau Canal locks; on his return down the Ottawa River from the Arctic. 

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1866 - Ottawa College chartered as the University of Ottawa; largest bilingual university in North America.

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1934 - Millionaire brewer John Labatt abducted at gunpoint by three men, who asked for a ransom of $150,000, which the kidnappers never received; released unharmed three days later; first recorded kidnapping for ransom in Canada.

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1906 - Pedestrian killed in first recorded fatal automobile accident in Montreal.

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1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first long-distance call from Brantford to the Bell homestead in Paris, Ontario; using a 13 km long line strung from Brantford.

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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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1991 - Ron Joyce sells Tim Horton's, Canada's No. 1 doughnut chain to Wendy's International Inc.; $300-million deal makes Tim Horton's co-founder the U.S. burger giant's largest single shareholder.

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