New Year's Day

Canadian Citizenship Act Came into Force (1947)

Yellowknife First City in NWT (1970)

NAFTA Came into Effect (1994)

Nat'l Science Fiction Day

Moon First Photographed (1839)

Niagara Falls Preservation Treaty Signed (1929)

J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday (1892)

Hockey Player Bobby Hull's Birthday (1939)

Trivia Day

Jakob Grimm's Birthday (1785)

Louis Braille's Birthday (1809)

Guru Gobind Singh's Birthday (Lunar Calendar) (1666)

X-Ray Discovered (1896)

St. Joan of Arc's Birthday (1412)

Telegraph First Demonstrated (1838)

Canada's First Woman Mayor Elected (1936)

Jupiter's Moons Discovered (1610)

Sir Sandford Fleming's Birthday (1827)

U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Revealed (1953)

Last Battle of the War of 1812 (1815)

Static Electricity Day

Author Catharine Parr Traill's Birthday (1802)

Letter Writing Week

David Thompson Crossed Rockies (1811)

Runner George Orton's Birthday (1873)

Canada Joined League of Nations (1920)

Clean Off Your Desk Day

Sir John A. MacDonald's Birthday (1815)

First Diabetic Patient Treated with Insulin (1922)

Amelia Earhart Flew Solo Across Pacific (1935)

James Wolfe Made Commander in Chief Against Quebec (1759)

Hockey Player Tim Horton's Birthday (1930)

First Black Canadian Appointed to Senate (1984)

Revolutionary War Ended (1784)

Queen Elizabeth I Crowned (1559)

Author Mazo de la Roche's Birthday (1879)

Poet Robert William Service's Birthday (1874)

Joe Shuster's Superman Comic Published (1939)

Raoul Wallenberg Day

World Religions Day

Nat'l Non-Smoking Week

A.A. Milne's Birthday/Winnie the Pooh Day (1882)

Nat'l Popcorn Day

Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday (1809)

Weedless Wednesday

World's First Organized Basketball Game (1892)

Nazis Formulated "Final Solution" (1942)

NWT Radio Broadcasts in English & Inuktitut (1971)

Quebec Flag Day

Calixa Lavallée, Composer of "O Canada" Died (1891)

Louis Riel Elected MP in Manitoba (1874)

500 Russians Killed on "Bloody Sunday" (1905)

Roberta Bondar in Space Onboard Discovery (1992)

First Canadian Novelist Died (1789)

First Montreal Ice Palace Carnival (1883)

Nat'l Compliment Day

Robbie Burns Day/Night

First Transcontinental Phone Call (1915)

First Winter Olympics (1924)

Australia Day

Int'l Customs Day

Wayne Gretzky’s Birthday (1961)

Family Literacy Day

Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day

Nat'l Agriculture Day

Author Mordecai Richler's Birthday (1931)

Manitoba First Province to Grant Women Vote (1916)

Bluenose Sunk (1946)

Maple Leaf Flag Design Adopted (1965)

Challenger Shuttle Exploded (1986)

Yonge St. Officially Opened (1796)

Royal Canadian Navy Created (1911)

Adolf Hitler Named German Chancellor (1933)

Thirteenth Amendment Abolished Slavery (1865)

Bussinessman Timothy Eaton Died (1907)

First Native Senator Appointed (1958)