2009
Financier Bernard Madoff sentenced to 150 years in prison, US maximum, for conducting massive Ponzi scheme.
2007
Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
1974
Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from Soviet Union while on tour in Canada with the Bolshoi Ballet.
1963
Beatles’ 1st song “From Me to You” hits UK charts.
1937
Joseph-Armand Bombardier patents his Bombardier B-7 Snow Tractor.
1930
Pope Pius XI canonizes Jean de Brébeuf and 7 other Jesuits martyred in the 1600s; the first North American saints.
1922
France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge “freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes ».
1534
Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada.
