It happened on a… August 14

2018

Italy’s Morandi Bridge collapses in Genoa, taking 30 vehicles with it and killing 43.

2016

Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt wins coveted 100m Olympic 100m gold medal in 9.81 at Rio de Janeiro Olympics – first man to win the event 3 times.

1968

Montreal awarded National League baseball franchise; birth of the Expos.

1958

CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos 29-21 in first Canadian Football League game.

1945

V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II.

1943

Mackenzie King opens Quebec Conference attended by Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt; start to discussion and planning of the invasions of Italy and Europe.

1920

VII Summer Olympic Games open in Antwerp, Belgium; first time Olympic Oath voiced, doves released to symbolise peace.

1899

Bell Telephone Company installs first push-button pay phone in a Montreal drugstore; connections made only after 5¢ deposit; made by Northern Electric, today’s Nortel.