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All Clips from "On This Day"

In this section you can find out what happened on a particular day in Canadian history. We're always adding more content if there is no information for the day you're searching. View all clips arranged by category

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 1964 Mitchell Sharp in the Seven Days Hot Seat 1984 Nova Scotia's 'Wizard of Oz' election 1936 CBC Radio takes to the air 1994 The first Giller Prize is awarded 1958 Canada broadcasts behind the Iron Curtain 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1985 Red Cross begins testing donations for HIV antibodies 1939 The beginning of the long dash... 1917 The Battle of Passchendaele 1967 NWT man jailed for being gay 1982 Dictionary of Newfoundland English 1991 Gordon Lightfoot and the folk revival 1965 The 1965 'Great Northeastern Blackout' 1975 29 die in the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1944 Remembrance Day, 1944 2004 Yasser Arafat: Controversial Palestinian defender 1992 Inuit vote for new territory of Nunavut 1997 Larry Walker makes baseball history 1989 Railways reduce caboose use 1976 Levesque is Canada's 1st separatist premier 1990 Remembering Northern Dancer 1994 Somalia Inquiry 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1980 Mourning 'The Major' of the Maple Leafs 1967 Deconstructing Woody 1981 Natives fight for constitutional protection 1942 Opening day for the Alcan Highway 1902 He shoots, he scores! 1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated 2006 Remembering Canada's 'godfather' of Celtic music 1962 Country legend Hank Snow tops the charts 1944 91 die in sinking of HMCS Shawinigan 1968 Znaimer 'irons out' a few things with Gloria Steinem 25 26 27 28 29 30 1997 Protest and pepper spray at APEC Conference 1976 Canadian dollar slides down below parity with $1 US 1997 Krever Report on tainted blood lays blame 1989 Notorious Mount Cashel orphanage to close 1983 Trudeau on Peking peace mission 1963 Trans-Canada Air Lines crash kills 118 2004 Pierre Berton: icon and iconoclast