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News In Review!

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1900’s

1900 – Canadian makes first wireless radio

1902 – Foster Hewitt was born.

1910’s

1916 – Parliament Buildings destroyed by fire

 1917 – Tom Thomson last seen alive

1920’s

1929 – Women become persons

1925 – Winnie the Pooh makes his literary debut

1930’s

1934 – Birth of Dionne quintuplets

1938 – Superman is born

1940’s

1947 – Introduction of mobile phone

1948 – Invention of margarine

1950’s

1959 – St. Lawrence Seaway completed

1957 – Pugwash Conference

1960’s

1964 – Tsunami in B.C.

1968 – First Canadian Heart Transplant

1970’s

1979 – Invention of Trivial Pursuit

1975 – 29 die in sinking of Edmund Fitzgerald

1980’s

1987 – Rick Hansen completed Man in Motion Tour

1989 – Canada ’s first female fighter pilots

1990’s

1991 – Ferguson Jenkins inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

1999 – Nunavut becomes a territory

2000’s

2000 – Love Bug virus cripples computers

2003 – Great North American Black Out