STAO Calendar

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				1) 1960 NASA launches TIROS-1 the first weather satellite April Fool's Day	2) 1975 After 40 months of construction, the CN tower is completed 1897 Alfred L. Cralle patents the ice cream scoop Good Friday (Western and Eastern)	3) 1974 Killer tornado hits Windsor, ON - Tornado in a Bottle Activity - Environment Canada
4) World Rat Day 1983 The Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space Easter Sunday (Western and Eastern)	5) 1971 Canadian Fran Phipps becomes the first woman to reach the North Pole Easter Monday (Western and Eastern)	6) 1980 Post-it notes are introduced	7) World Health Day 1977 Toronto Blue Jays first game - Science of Baseball	8) 1917 World- famous Down Syndrome researcher and cytogeneticist Irene Uchidais is born in Vancouver, BC	9) 1959 NASA announces the selection of their first astronauts - Mercury 7	10) 1865 Birth of Jack Miner who established one of the first migratory bird sanctuaries in North America in 1908 2000 The world's oldest mouse "Yoda" is born (lived 4 years and 12 days equivalent to 136 human years)
11) 1970 Apollo 13 is launched from Cape Canaveral	12) National Wildlife Week - 20 Things You Can Do For Wildlife 1961 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person human in space 1980 Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope in St. John's NL	13) 1899 Alfred Butts inventor of the board game Scrabble is born Baisakha	14) 1828 Webster's Dictionary is first published	15) 1912 Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland	16) 1999 Wayne Gretzky announces his retirement	17) 1851 The world's fastest clipper, Marco Polo , is launched from Saint John, NB Good Friday (Eastern)
18) 1793 The Upper Canada Gazette (first newspaper in what is now Ontario) is published	19) 1975 India launches its first satellite - India in Space	20) 1968 Bombardier becomes the first Canadian to reach the North Pole	21) 1994 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan	22) Earth Day - Cross-Curricular Activities and Resources 1970 The first Earth Day is observed	23) World Book Day Canada Book Day 1984 Scientist finds the AIDS virus	24) 1990 The space shuttle Discovery blasts off with the Hubble Space Telescope
25) 1953 James D. Watson and Francis F.C. Crick debut the double helix model of DNA	26) 1932 Nobel Prize (1993) Biochemist Michael Smith's birthday	27) Astronomy Week 1970 The discovery of hahnium (element 105) is announced	28) 2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist	29) 1903 A rockslide from Turtle Mountain kills 70 people in the town of Frank, AB	30) 1971 Plans to build an enormous hydro-electric power project in James Bay region are unveiled