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1
During the Second World War a Canadian hero captures a German position despite wounds to his head and both legs. - Radio, 2:53 photo
1945
Fred Tilston wins Victoria Cross for attack in Germany
2
Canadian painter, writer and Group of Seven contemporary dies in Victoria, B.C. - Radio, 2:04 photo
1945
Remembering artist Emily Carr
3
Alexander Graham Bell's daughter discusses her father, "the great encourager," on what would have been his 100th birthday. - Radio, 2:25 photo
1947
Bell's daughter, a century after inventor's birth
4
Women's rights groups pop open champagne as Bertha Wilson becomes the first female justice on the Supreme Court of Canada. - Television, 4:15 photo
1982
Finally, a woman on Canada's Supreme Court
5
The Trudeaumania bubble bursts as the eligible bachelor announces his secret marriage to Margaret Sinclair, a woman 30 years younger than him. - Television, 2:25 photo
1971
Trudeau marriage is 'groovy'
6
The Sons of Freedom sect of Doukhobors is suspected when a bomb rocks British Columbia's quiet Kootenays. - Radio, 1:42 photo
1962
Doukhobor bomb blast ignites fear in B.C.
7
The crippling disease that is sweeping Canada reaches the North, where no treatment facilities exist. - Radio, 3:15 photo
1949
1949: Polio epidemic hits Northern Canada
8
Premier Smallwood announces there will be no charge for first-year students at Newfoundland and Labrador's Memorial University in 1965. - Radio, 5:44 photo
1965
Free year of university for Newfoundlanders
9
Health and Welfare Canada bans saccharin when studies link the artificial sweetener to cancer in lab rats. - Television, 2:23 photo
1977
Saccharin banned as a food additive
10
Just over 106 years after Louis Riel was hanged for treason, the House of Commons acknowledges his contribution to Confederation. - Radio, 10:01 photo
1992
Ottawa: Louis Riel a founder of Manitoba
11
Iggy Pop, a singer synonymous with a new musical movement called punk rock, joins CBC host Peter Gzowski for an interview. - Television, 9:26 photo
1977
Gzowski interviews Iggy Pop
12
Armenian revolutionaries storm the Turkish Embassy, taking several hostages and killing a guard. - Television, 3:32 photo
1985
Deadly embassy attack in Ottawa
13
Amidst Cold War frenzy, Lucien Cardin's allegations that Gerda Munsinger, an alleged KGB spy, had relations with government ministers sparked the first political sex scandal in Canadian history. - Radio, 1:58 photo
1966
Searching for sex scandal's Munsinger
14
How does it feel to be picked to be Canada's first astronaut? Marc Garneau shares his excitement shortly after finding out. - Television, 5:47 photo
1984
Marc Garneau chosen as Canada's first astronaut
15
The federal government finally lifts the ban preventing Sikhs in the RCMP from wearing turbans while on duty. - Television, 2:52 photo
1990
Sikh Mounties permitted to wear turbans
16
Many Canadians are angry about mandatory metric, and say they aren't going to take it anymore. - Television, 9:53 photo
1982
Metric rebellion
17
During the Vietnam War, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. speaks to U.S. draft dodgers about their experiences. - Television, 10:03 photo
1968
Sammy Davis Jr. talks to draft dodgers in Canada
18
The tiny U.S. sport fishing town is surrounded by Canada — and they just may have to join us. - Television, 2:55 photo
1998
Minnesota fishing town angling to join Canada
19
The wife of Canada's ambassador to the U.S. sparks a furor when she slaps her social secretary before a swanky Washington, D.C., dinner. - Television, 1:51 photo
1986
Sondra Gotlieb's slap flap
20
An interview with the mother of Steven Truscott prompts an emotional reaction from Laurier LaPierre. - Television, 2:47 photo
1966
Host's on-air tear hastens end of Seven Days
21
"The Ashgrove" is the name of CPR's miniature luxury hotel room on wheels. - Radio, 2:12 photo
1949
CPR unveils its first 'roomette' sleeper cars
22
Minister of National Health and Welfare Brooke Claxton introduces Canadians to the Family Allowance program. - Radio, 2:57 photo
1945
'Baby Bonus' unveiled
23
Five members of the Solar Temple cult take their lives as part of a suicide pact in a small village in Quebec. - Television, 3:01 photo
1997
Solar Temple cult claims five more lives
24
Emergency response to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill is too small and too slow, critics say. - Television, 2:28 photo
1989
Cleaning up after the Exxon Valdez
25
Thirteen-year-old Wayne Gretzky in conversation with CBC's Peter Gzowski. - Radio, 20:19 photo
1974
A rising hockey star
26
Bre-X shareholders are shocked to learn that there may be no gold in the Indonesian deposits that made company stock soar. - Television, 2:43 photo
1997
The Bre-X bubble bursts
27
Residents of Port Alberni, B.C., pick up the pieces after 1964's massive tsunami - Television, 4:11 photo
1964
Tsunami slams B.C. coast
28
Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock lives on in this audio recording. Leacock reads "My Old College," about a man trying to raise three dollars for the McGill Graduates' Society. - Radio, 7:24 photo
1944
Stephen Leacock reads 'My Old College'
29
Canada's man gets his shot at 'The Greatest.' - Radio, 29:04 photo
1966
Chuvalo fights Ali
30
The Canadian navy ends a centuries-old tradition of plying sailors with rum. - Television, 2:15 photo
1972
Yo ho ho... but no bottle of rum
31
Senator Jacques Hébert's 21-day hunger strike has worked, and the Katimavik program for youth will continue. - Television, 2:48 photo
1986
Senator ends Katimavik hunger strike
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