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1964 - Montreal's Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne, to become National Wrestling Association (NWA) champion.
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1970 - House of Commons approves introduction of the War Measures Act
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1957 - Montreal Herald stops publication after 146 years; Montreal's oldest daily newspaper.
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1910 - H.M.S. Niobe arrives in Halifax to become the first cruiser of the Royal Canadian Navy. She served in the Boer War and was then given to Canada to form part of it's navy as HMCS Niobe. After patrol duties at the beginning of WW1, she became a depot ship in Halifax. Damaged in the 1917 Halifax Explosion, she was scrapped in the 1920s.
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1946 - Floral, Saskatchewan's Gordie Howe plays in his first NHL game, and scores his first goal as a Detroit Red Wing; against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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1909 - Ontario Provincial Police established by Order-in-Council.
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1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson awarded Nobel Peace Prize for his establishment of a United Nations Emergency Force in Egypt to solve the Suez Crisis and halt the Israeli-British-French invasion.
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1972 - First WHA games played; the Québec Nordiques play their first World Hockey Association game, losing 2-0 to the Cleveland Crusaders; takes place in the Québec Colisée arena; the other game, in the Ottawa Civic Centre, the Alberta Oilers win 7-4 over the Ottawa Nationals.
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1903 - Henry Ford starts production at Walkerville, Ontario; makes 117 cars in first year.
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1927 - Canadian born film producers, the Warner Brothers, premiere the world's first talking film, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson; not a true talkie, with only 291 spoken words, but the first to integrate sound and dialogue into a story through the Vitaphone disk process.
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1786 - Prince William IV becomes the first member of the Royal Family to visit Halifax; the 21 year old is known as 'Coconut Head' to his fellow Navy officers; he has a reputation for 'wenching'.
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1982 - Laurie Skreslet reaches the top of 8,848 m (29,002 ft) Mt. Everest; Calgary native the first Canadian to achieve this goal.
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1986 - Ground-breaking ceremonies held for SkyDome, Toronto's 56,000 seat stadium built on vacant railway land on Front Street.
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1758 - Charles Lawrence convenes the first meeting of the Nova Scotia Legislature in the Halifax Court House; this is the first elected Parliament in Canadian history.
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1988 - Carolyn Waldo wins a gold medal in synchronized swimming at the 24th Olympiad in Seoul. Two days later she will wins another gold in the duet competition with Michelle Cameron, becoming the first Canadian female to win two gold medals at a summer Olympics competition.
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1959 - Last regularly scheduled CPR steam train leaves Ottawa's Union Station.
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1990 - Canada Packers (60%) and John Labatt (40%) merge into Maple Leaf-Ogilvie; operate Country Style Doughnuts and Buns Master franchises.
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1904 - Albert Henry George, Earl Grey appointed Governor-General of Canada; serves from December 10, 1904 to October 12, 1911. An MP and former administrator of Rhodesia, Grey was a strong believer in the Empire and promoted imperial loyalty in his speeches. In 1909, he donated the Grey Cup to the championship of Canadian football.
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1956 - Canadian Overseas Telephone Company, the British Post Office and American Telephone & Telegraph open the first direct dial transatlantic calling service with an exchange of greetings between London, Ottawa and New York. The new $42 million cable from Oban, Scotland, jointly owned by the three firms, consists of two lines laid 30 km apart on the ocean floor.
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1967 - Expo 67 breaks attendance record of 42,973,561 set at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
As an aside, in 1979, the aging grounds of Expo 67 and "Man and His World" made an appearance on the science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica", episode, "Greetings From Earth"
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