On this date: October 2016
1 OCTOBER 1916
The Battle of Ancre Heights begins.
2 OCTOBER 1952
Three are killed, 10 wounded when the HMCS Iroquois is hit by a shore battery in North Korea.
3 OCTOBER 1927
Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King chats with the British PM, inaugurating Canadian transatlantic telephone service.
4 OCTOBER 1914
The SS Florizel, carrying the Newfoundland Regiment’s First 500, joins the armada carrying the first Canadian contingent to the First World War.
5 OCTOBER 1984
Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
6-7 OCTOBER 1944
RCAF No. 6 Group commits 293 aircraft to a bombing raid in Germany’s industrial Ruhr Valley.
7 OCTOBER 1918
The first of Canada’s 50,000 Spanish flu victims dies in Montreal.
8-10 OCTOBER 1918
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