2014
Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
1987
Hartford center Doug Jarvis ends his career having played an NHL record 964 consecutive games as the Whalers lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers.
1979
Nordiques’ Réal Cloutier scores three goals in his first NHL game; first game hat trick sets NHL record.
1970
Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte kidnapped by FLQ cell while playing football with his son outside his suburban home in St-Hubert.
1966
The Beach Boys release their influential single “Good Vibrations”.
1964
XVIII Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo, Japan.
Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Quebec marred by demonstrations; police wield nightsticks to break up crowds; called ‘le Samedi de la Matraque’.
1959
Pan Am begins regular flights around the world.
Inauguration of the Autoroute des Laurentides.
1956
“Giant”, directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean in his last role, premieres in NYC.
1865
The billiard ball was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.
