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1969 First supersonic flight of the Concorde
1908 The Ford Model T car , the first car to be made on an assembly line, is introduced for a price of $825
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World Smile Day - Smile and say cheese - all grades
1925 John Logie Baird performs the first test of the working television system
1866 The first tin can with a key opener is patented
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1899 The motor-driven vacuum cleaner is patented as a "pneumatic carpet renovator"
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World Space Week
1957 Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to successfully orbit the Earth
1946 Tak Wah Mak discoverer of the T-cell receptor (1983), is born
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World Teachers' Day
1984 Astronaut Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space aboard Challenger (STS-41G)
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Fire Prevention Week
1866 Inventor and "The Father of Radio Broadcasting" Reginald Fessenden is born in Quebec
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1931 The first infrared photograph is taken
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1871 The Great Fire of Chicago started
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1876 Alexander Graham Bell achieves the first two-way telephone conversation over outdoor wires
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1892 Earle Dickson , inventor of BAND-AIDS is born
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Earth Science Week
1968 The first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7 is launched
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1964 Voskhod 1 the world's first multi-manned spacecraft is launched by the USSR
Thanksgiving - History of Canada's Thanksgiving - All Grades
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1884 Greenwich is adopted as the universal meridian
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1947 Chuck Yeager becomes the first pilot to break the sound barrier
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1954 Hurricane Hazel dumps 300 million tons of rain on Toronto (81 people die)
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1982 Halley's Comet makes its 30th recorded visit to Earth
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National Chemistry Week - National Chemistry Week Elementary School Experiments
1989 A San Francisco earthquake measuring 7.1 in magnitude kills 67 and injures over 3,000
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Galileo , an unmanned spacecraft, was sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons
1962 Watson, Crick and Wilkins win the Nobel Prize for their double-helix model of DNA
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Waste Reduction Week
1752 Benjamin Franklin with the aid of his kite proves that lightning is electricity
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1983 The length of the meter is redefined
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1833 Swedish chemist and creator of the annual prizes that bear his name, Alfred Bernhard Nobel is born
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1946 Inventor Chester Carlson introduces the process that leads to today's photocopiers
1846 The first telegraph company in Canada is established
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National Mole Day
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United Nations Day
1908 John Tuzo Wilson known for his explanation of plate tectonics is born in Ottawa, Ontario
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1955 World's first domestic microwave oven is sold
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1825 The Erie Canal opens
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1856 Opening of the railway between Montreal and Toronto
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1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin which is granted the following March
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1958 The first pacemaker is implanted. The first pacemaker was made by a Canadian engineer (but not the implanted one)
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1888 The ballpoint pen is patented
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1950 The 1770 km oil pipeline from Edmonton to the Great Lakes is completed, linking Canada's gas fields with the markets of Central Canada
Halloween - History of Halloween/Halloween activities -All Grades
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