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2020
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2018
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2008
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1997
Quebec police arrest Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang chief Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher on suspicion of the murder of two prison guards; fail to get a conviction one year later.
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1993
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1983
Roberta Bondar, Marc Garneau, Steven Maclean, Kenneth Money, Robert Thirsk and Bjarni Tryggvason chosen as Canada’s first six astronauts for Space Shuttle work.
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1970
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1955
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1933
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1830
Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonique Fantastique” premieres in Paris.
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1792
The trial of France’s King Louis XVI began.
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1492
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