"Mary Had a Little Lamb" Published (1830)

Germany Invaded Poland, Starting WWII (1939)

Titanic Wreckage Located (1985)

Oka Crisis Stare-Off (1992)

Nat'l Blueberry Popsicle Day

Great Fire of London (1666)

Wizard of Oz Published (1900)

First Pictures Taken of Mars's Surface (1976)

Multicultural TV Went on Air (1979)

Newspaper Carrier Day

Largest Art Theft in Canadian History (1972)

Gouzenko Exposed Soviet Spy Ring (1945)

Tragedy at Munich Summer Olympics (1972)

Labour Day

Read a Book Day

Yellow Star of David Required for All German Jews (1941)

Star Trek Debuted on TV (1966)

World's First Submarine Attack (1776)

Rosh Hashanah Begins at Sundown

Int'l Literacy Day

CBC Made Its Television Debut (1952)

Good Neighbour Day

Teddy Bear Day

First Person to Swim Across Lake Ontario (1954)

Swap Ideas Day

Rickshaw Invented (1869)

Canada Declared War on Germany (1939)

Coptic New Year

Massive Terrorist Attack on Three American Cities (2001)

Grandparents Day

Olympian Jesse Owens Birthday (1913)

28 Million Rotten Eggs Destroyed (1974)

First African-American Woman in Space (1992)

Int'l Chocolate Day

Milton Hershey's Birthday (1857)

Ivan Pavlov's Birthday (1849)

Baseball Season Cancelled Due to Players' Strike (1994)

Make a Hat Day

Agatha Christie's Birthday (1890)

The Nuremberg Law Enacted in Germany (1935)

Greenpeace Founded (1996)

Int'l Day for Preservation of Ozone Layer

Stepfamily Day

General Motors Founded (1908)

First Women Appointed RCMP Officers (1972)

Yom Kippur Begins at Sundown

Mulroney Took Office (1984)

First Deaf Miss America Crowned (1994)

Nat'l Play-Doh^® Day

First Issue of The New York Times Published (1851)

Int'l Talk Like a Pirate Day

Some Women Given the Right to Vote (1917)

Hockey Player Guy Lafleur's Birthday (1951)

The Pope Traveled North as Promised (1987)

Int'l Day of Peace

"Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus" Editorial Published (1897)

Stephen King's Birthday (1947)

Toonie Debuted (1995)

Autumn Begins

Elephant Appreciation Day

Iran-Iraq War Erupted (1980)

Apology to Japanese Canadians (1988)

Neptune Discovered (1846)

Nintendo Founded (1889)

First Woman to Play Pro Hockey (1992)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Birthday (1896)

Canada Lifted Sanctions on South Africa (1993)

Balboa Discovered Pacific Ocean (1513)

Pianist Glenn Gould's Birthday (1932)

Last Streetcar in Winnipeg (1955)

Peace/Police Officers' Memorial Day

National Postal Museum Opened (1974)

Ancestor Appreciation Day

World's First Railway Opened (1825)

Alexander Fleming Discovered Penicillin (1928)

Blue Sun Shined Over England (1950)

Team Canada Beat Soviet Union in Hockey (1972)

Final Game for Expos In Montreal (2004)

Int'l Translation Day

Nuremberg Trials Found 22 Guilty (1946)