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Timeline and SUNshine Girls
1971 -- First Sun rolls off the press -- Pierre's wife, Maggie Trudeau, gives birth to the first of two Christmas babies -- Argos lose Grey Cup to Calgary -- Feds adopt multiculturalism
-- Team Canada defeats Soviets in hockey summit -- Break-in at Watergate Hotel -- David Crombie elected mayor of Toronto -- 70 nations sign pact to ban stockpiling of biological weapons
-- 12 die in accident on Hwy. 400 -- Separatist Parti Quebecois becomes the opposition in Quebec -- Yom Kippur War -- Spiro Agnew, U.S. V.P.,resigns in disgrace
-- Cindy Nicholas, 16, swims Lake Ontario, first to do so since Marilyn Bell in 1954 -- China launches Cultural Revolution -- Richard Nixon resigns
-- CN Tower topped -- 8 killed in GO train/bus accident in Scarborough -- U.S. evacuates as North Vietnam seizes Saigon
-- Darryl Sittler has a 10-point night -- Joe (Who?) Clark wins Tory leadership campaign -- Montreal hosts the Summer Olympics -- no gold for Canada
-- Elvis Presley dies -- Blue Jays play first-ever game on snowy April day in Toronto -- Toronto's loss of innocence: Emanuel Jaques is murdered on Yonge St. strip
-- Pope John Paul I dies -- Air Canada jet crashes at Pearson, killing two -- First non-Italian elected Pope in centuries -- John Paul II, a Pole
-- Ayatollah Khomeini overthrows the Shah of Iran -- Mississauga evacuated after train derailment -- Steep oil price increases cause world-wide high inflation |
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