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1
In 1989 Moscow's May Day parade is a mass display of balloons and ribbons instead of weapons. - Television, 2:34 photo
1989
May Day in the era of perestroika
2
Canadian film industry grows with the creation of the National Film Board. - Television, 4:13 photo
1939
A star is born: The NFB makes its debut
3
Angelique Lavallee's murder acquittal establishes a Canadian precedent. - Television, 3:13 photo
1990
Supreme Court accepts battered wife syndrome defence
4
Sullivan handpicks the "unpolluted humour" of the Canadian comedy kings for his iconic TV show. - Radio, 4:17 photo
1958
Wayne and Shuster debut on the Ed Sullivan Show
5
A potent e-mail worms its way through e-mail inboxes, causing massive damage along the way. - Television, 2:22 photo
2000
The Love Bug virus cripples computers around the globe
6
Young people across Canada protest the chocolate bar price hike from five to eight cents. - Radio, 2:54 photo
1947
'Don't be a sucker! Don't buy 8 cent bars!'
7
Victory flags are flying high, church bells are ringing, and people are celebrating in the streets. It's May 7, 1945, and the Allies have secured victory in Europe. - Radio, 25:28 photo
1945
Canada celebrates victory in Europe
8
A Canadian soldier goes on a shooting spree at the Quebec National Assembly. - Television, 2:54 photo
1984
Gunman kills 3 at Quebec legislature
9
A methane explosion kills 26 miners in Plymouth, N.S. - Radio, 9:07 photo
1992
The Westray mining disaster
10
Chrysler Canada obtains $210 million in loan guarantees. - Television, 3:35 photo
1980
1980: Chrysler Canada saved from bankruptcy
11
America's master songwriter comes to Canada for the revival of his mega-hit musical, Annie Get Your Gun. - Radio, 4:09 photo
1966
Irving Berlin celebrates his 78th birthday, in Toronto
12
Thousands come to mourn the death of legendary Formula One racer Gilles Villeneuve, "the little guy from Berthierville." - Television, 2:08 photo
1982
Funeral for Gilles Villeneuve
13
The attempted assassination of the Pope shocks the world. - Radio, 6:53 photo
1981
Pope John Paul II is shot
14
Montreal stuns the baseball world by landing the first Major League franchise outside the United States. - Radio, 6:08 photo
1968
Montreal snags baseball franchise
15
Political leaders feared the 1919 general strike would bring "a Red government installed on the banks of the Red River." - Radio, 3:11 photo
1919
Remembering the Winnipeg General Strike
16
A crowd of 50,000 welcome U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie to Canada's capital. - Television, 2:10 photo
1961
Camelot comes to Canada
17
The radio host and long-time Front Page Challenge panellist is remembered by his friends for his offbeat and often-abrasive style. - Television, 4:42 photo
1984
Journalist and TV personality Gordon Sinclair dies at 83
18
On May 18, 1974, India explodes an atomic device using plutonium from a Canadian reactor. - Radio, 7:49 photo
1974
Canada blamed for India's 'peaceful' bomb
19
Three hundred chefs. Six restaurants. Forty-two food carts. Millions of empty stomachs. Executive chef Emil Stauber has a mighty culinary mission to complete. - Television, 4:06 photo
1986
Bon appetit at Expo 86
20
An emotional René Lévesque, leader of the separatist Parti Québécois, concedes defeat. - Television, 11:17 photo
1980
'Non' to sovereignty in 1980 Quebec referendum
21
A millionaire CEO in Toronto is sentenced to one year in prison for polluting city sewers. - Television, 2:22 photo
1986
CEO polluter gets jail time
22
After a two-year, 34-country journey, wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen makes a triumphant homecoming in Vancouver. - Television, 3:09 photo
1987
Rick Hansen completes his Man in Motion tour
23
<span>Front Page Challenge discusses the RCMP's Centennial celebrations in 1973.</span> - Television, 7:16 photo
1973
RCMP Centennial
24
Manitobans greet King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with cheers (and song) during their historic cross-country tour. - Radio, 14:12 photo
1939
1939 Royal Tour rolls through Winnipeg
25
Wayne Adams looks back on his historic 1993 political victory. - Radio, 10:44 photo
1993
Nova Scotia elects its first black MLA
26
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono checked in at Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in 1969, it was, in part, due to heat and marijuana. - Television, 11:46 photo
1969
John and Yoko's Montreal bed-in
27
Montreal native Julie Payette becomes the first Canadian to join an International Space Station mission. - Television, 2:41 photo
1999
Julie Payette's historic voyage to space
28
Five identical girls are born to Elzire and Oliva Dionne in Callander, Ontario. Together they weigh less than 14 pounds. Against all expectations, they survive their first weeks. - Radio, 6:43 photo
1934
Birth of the Dionne quintuplets
29
Heavy fog leads to a deadly collision that kills 1,012 people in Canada's worst maritime disaster. - Television, 6:10 photo
1914
Empress of Ireland sinks in the St. Lawrence
30
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is a hit when he mixes with the public on the streets of Ottawa. - Television, 1:56 photo
1990
Gorbachev wows them in Ottawa
31
A 59-year-old father receives a new heart. - Radio, 5:25 photo
1968
Canada's first heart transplant
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