164 BC: Judas Maccabeus restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1784: Thomas Carleton arrives at Parktown as First Governor; proclaims the new Province of New Brunswick.
1877: Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published
1921: King George V proclaims Canada's Coat of Arms, with white and red as the official Canadian colours.
1927: University of Alberta radio station, CKUA, goes on the air; Canada's first public broadcaster.