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International Year of Astronomy - Canadian Space Agency Grade 6 Astronomy Unit
1902 Nathan Stubblefield of Murray, Kentucky gives the first demonstration of radio broadcasting in the United States
New Year’s Day
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1920 Isaac Asimov’s birthday
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1970 Oklahoma Meteorite -The fireball was visible over a large area of the U.S. Midwest – Meteorite Mysteries
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1998 The Ice Storm of the Century hits Eastern Canada
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1892 First successful auroral photograph is made by German physicist Martin Brendel - Photographing the Aurora
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1838 First public telegraph demonstration
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1610 Galileo dates his first letter describing telescopic observations in which he saw the moon’s cratered surface Astronomy and the Universe
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1942 Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is born
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1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the moon
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1949 The first 33 1/3 rpm and 45 rpm records are introduced
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1922, Leonard Thompson (1908-35), age 14, was the very first person to receive an injection of insulin as a treatment for diabetes. He weighed only 65 pounds and was about to slip into a coma and die.
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1882 The Holborn Viaduct Central Electric Light Station in London begins the first commercial production of electricity - The Fusebox Teacher Zone
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1976 Raymond Kurzwell demonstrates a reading machine that reads printed material aloud
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1957 The Wham-O Company develops the first Frisbee Frisbee Flight Grade 6
1950 A North Star aircraft based in Rockliffe, ON completes the first non-stop trans-Canada flight
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1861 E.G. Otis patents the safety elevator
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1932 Dian Fossey is born - American zoologist who for years made a daily study of the mountain forest gorillas of Rwanda , central Africa. Dian Fossey and Gorilla Unit – Junior/Intermediate
1915 Harold Copp , discoverer of calcitonin, is born in Toronto, Ontario
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1706 Sir Benjamin Franklin is born: Proposed a kite experiment to prove that lightning is electricity
Grade 3 - 5 Resources
Grade 6 - 8 Resources
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1896 First demonstration of an x-ray machine in the U.S. (New York City, NY)
World Religion Day
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1925 John David Jackson , author of “Classical Electrodynamics” is born in London, ON
1473 Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus‘s birthday
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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1885 La La Marcus A. Thompson of Coney Island patents the roller coaster
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1954 First atomic submarine USS Nautilus is launched in the Thames River
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End of Extended Mission to Venus by the European satellite Venus Express
1992 Astronaut Roberta Bondar becomes the second Canadian, and first Canadian woman, in space aboard Discovery (STS-42)
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1929 Nobel Prize (1986) chemist John Polanyi is born
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1978 Nuclear powered USSR Satellite Cosmos 954 re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrates over Canada’s NWT
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1973 The freighter Irish Stardust runs aground north of Vancouver Island, spilling 378, 000 L of fuel oil - Student Q&A about oil spills
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1907 Canadian endocrinologist Hans H.B. Selye is born
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Family Literacy Day
John Logier Baird demonstrates television for the first time in London, England
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1934, The first ski tow rope built by Robert Royce (using pulleys), was used for the first time.
Pulleys and Gears Grade 4
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy
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1978 Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer.
What is damaging the ozone layer?
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1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King
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1922 Joseph-Armand Bombardier test drives the first motorized snow vehicle The First Snowmobile
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