Canada Day

Wartime Sugar Rationing Began (1942)

Amelia Earhart Disappeared (1937)

Fishing Factories Closed (1992)

Compliment Your Mirror Day

Nunavut Midnight Sun Marathon

Stay Out of the Sun Day

Pugwash Conference (1957)

U.S. Independence Day

Yellow Grass Reached Highest Temperature (1937)

First Cloned Sheep Born (1996)

Huge Hailstone Fell (1975)

Chocolate Day

Pinocchio First Printed (1883)

Terrorist Bombing in London Killed 52 (2005)

Running of the Bulls (Spain)

Vermont Abolished Slavery (1777)

Great Fire in St. John's (1892)

Nat'l Sugar Cookie Day

Boy Went over Niagara Falls (1960)

Don't Step on a Bee Day

First Home Phones Went on Sale (1877)

World Population Day

Wilfred Laurier Sworn in (1896)

Babe Ruth Debuted in Major League Baseball (1914)

Americans Invaded Canada (1812)

Author Pierre Berton's Birthday (1920)

First World Cup Soccer Tournament (1930)

Montreal Hosted First All-Star Baseball Game (1982)

Bastille Day (French)

Nazis Became Sole Political Party in Germany (1933)

Howard Hughes Set New Speed Record (1938)

Death Penalty Abolished in Canada (1976)

Cow Appreciation Day

First Int'l Manned Spaceflight (1975)

First Canadian Woman Doctor (1880)

135 Whales Died on Newfoundland Shore (1979)

Yoho Park Named World Heritage Site (1981)

Canada Parks Day

Potsdam Conference (1945)

Disneyland Opened (1955)

Montreal Olympics Opened (1976)

Mein Kampf Published (1925)

Author Margaret Laurence's Birthday (1926)

Gymnast Nadia Comaneci Scored First Perfect 10 (1976)

Bank Offered First Bilingual Currency (1937)

First East to West Atlantic Rowing (1969)

First Special Olympics (1968)

First Moon Landing (1969)

Canadian Multicultural Act (1988)

Fergie Jenkins Became First Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer (1991)

Pied Piper Arrived in Hamelin (1264)

Wiley Post Made First Solo Flight Around the World (1933)

Back to Batoche Days

Pneumatic Tires Invented (1888)

Hale-Bopp Comet Discovered (1995)

9-year-old Flew Across Canada (1988)

Lance Armstrong Won Seventh Tour de France (2005)

Parents' Day

First Test-Tube Baby Born (1978)

Vimy Ridge Monument Unveiled (1935)

Bugs Bunny Debuted (1940)

Beatrix Potter's Birthday (1866)

Terry Fox's Birthday (1958)

NASA Established (1958)

Bluenose II Given to Nova Scotia (1971)

Prince Charles Married Lady Diana Spencer (1981)

Emily Brontë's Birthday (1818)

Henry Ford's Birthday (1863)

Rolling Stones Hosted SARS Concert (2003)

Columbus Arrived in Trinidad (1498)

J.K. Rowling's Birthday (1965)