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Monarchs begin to arrive in Mexico initiating the Mexican celebration "The Day of the Dead"- Mexican Celebrations/Monarch Migration Teacher Guide
Daylight Saving Time ends STRONG>
Diwali
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2000 An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts take up residence in the International Space Station
1929 Nobel Prize (1990) physicist Richard Taylor is born in Medicine Hat, Alberta
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1957 A Russian dog named Laika becomes the first earthling to travel to outer space
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1995 Canada's first Earth Observation satellite RADARSTAT is launched
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2007 China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon
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1942 Biochemist Kelvin Ogilvie is born in Summerville, Nova Scotia
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1885 The last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway is driven
1867 Physicist and chemist Marie Curie's birthday (the first woman to win a Nobel Prize)
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1895 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers x-rays
1656 Astronomer Edmund Halley's birthday
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1976 Smokey the Bear dies
1904 Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II a distance of 3 miles near Dayton, Ohio, the first flight of longer than five minutes
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World Science Day for Peace and Development
1972 Canada's first telecommunications satellite, the Anik A1 is launched
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Remembrance Day - Veterans Affairs Canada - Teacher Resources
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1995 Aboard Atlantis (STS-74), Chris Hadfield becomes the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm and the only Canadian to board the Russian space station Mir
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1981 Launch of Canadarm aboard Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2)
1907 Inventor Paul Cornu makes the first helicopter flight
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1891 Nobel Prize (1923) recipient Sir Frederick Grant Banting is born in Alliston, Ontario
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1887 Granville T. Woods patents the first telegraph system for railroads
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Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia starts shortwave transmission
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1928 Geologist Richard William Hutchinson is born in London, Ontario
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1931 Highest recorded hourly wind speed in Canada (201.1 km/h) - Weather Records
1883 Standard Time , originated by Sandford Fleming, is adopted by Canada
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996 The last component of the Confederation Bridge is placed
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National Child Day
1892 James Bertram Collip , one of the original patentees of insulin, is born in Belleville, ON
1889 Astronomer Edwin Hubble's birthday
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World Hello Day
1783 Physicist Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier, along with the Marquis d'Arlandes, become the first humans to fly in a hot-air balloon
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1957 The first ship passes through Iroquois Lock, the first completed lock in the St. Lawrence Seaway
1927 The first snowmobile patent is issued to Carl J. Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin
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1936 The first issue of Life magazine , featuring a cover photograph of Fort Peck Dam, hits the newsstands
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1948 Sci-Fi author Spider Robinson is born
1859 Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection , is published in England
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1992 Delegates from 87 nations agree to phase out CFC's by 1996
1988 An earthquake centered near Chicoutimi, Quebec, hits eastern Canada; measuring almost 6.0 on the Richter Scale
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2003 Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, England
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1826 Pharmacist John Walker invents the first strike-anywhere, friction match
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1964 The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 launches becoming the first successful mission to Mars
Eid al-Adha
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1965 Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2
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1915 Nobel Prize (1983) chemist Henry Taube is born in Neudorf, SK
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