01/28/1918 Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, author of In Flanders Fields, dies of pneumonia and meningitis while commanding a Canadian General Hospital in France. 01/28/1986 The

01/21/1900 A second contingent of Canadian troops is bound for South Africa and the Boer War. 01/21/1949 A Royal Canadian Air Force plane is forced

01/14/1974 Jules Leger is sworn in as Canada’s Governor General. 01/14/1976 The T. Eaton Company announces it will stop publishing its catalogue. 01/15/1964 Prime Minister

01/7/1948 First flight in Canada of the Royal Canadian Air Force Vampire III. 01/7/1955 Canadian Parliament’s opening ceremonies and Speech from the Throne are broadcast

12/31/1943 The Royal Canadian Air Force is at its peak with 215,000 people, including 15,000 members of the Women’s Division. 12/31/1999 Russian President Boris Yeltsin

12/24/1944 The Canadian minesweeper Clayoquot is torpedoed by U-806 off Halifax. Seventy-six survive. Eight perish. 12/24/1968 Apollo 8 safely orbits the moon. 12/25/1941 Hong Kong