TODAY IN HISTORY: CBC begins colour broadcast

In 1674, Francois de Montmorency-Laval was officially named Bishop of Quebec by Pope Clement X.

In 1764, civil law replaced military rule in Canada.

In 1853, the "Toronto Globe" was issued as a daily newspaper.

In 1876, the first western Canadian wheat was shipped to Ontario.

In 1884, the first women were admitted to University College at the University of Toronto.

In 1946, the World Literature Crusade, now called Every Home for Christ, was founded in Saskatchewan by Rev. Jack McAlister, who served as president from 1946-79.

In 1947, the Governor General was given authority to exercise all royal powers and executive authority of the Crown in relation to Canada.

In 1951, Charlotte Whitton became mayor of Ottawa, Canada's first woman mayor of a major city.

In 1958, Canada House in New York was officially opened.

In 1960, the O'Keefe Centre for the performing arts was opened in Toronto.

In 1961, the CTV was inaugurated with newly licenced stations in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.

In 1966, the CBC began colour television broadcasting.

In 1969, Andrei Gromyko, the first Soviet foreign minister to visit Canada, arrived in Ottawa.

In 1970, Soviet vessels were banned from fishing off the west coast of Vancouver Island after collisions with Canadian ships.

In 1988, super-heavyweight Lennox Lewis won Canada's first Olympic boxing gold medal in 56 years.

In 1994, the NHL postponed the opening of the regular season and locked out its players in a contract dispute.

In 2003, Jay Handel, a former fish farmer from Quatsino, B.C., was found guilty of first-degree murder of all six of his young children and sentenced to six life terms, with no parole for 25 years.

In 2007, Steven Point was sworn in as British Columbia's first aboriginal lieutenant-governor.

In 2010, University of Waterloo academic David Johnston was sworn is as Canada's 28th Governor General, taking over from Michaelle Jean who embarked on a new career as United Nations envoy to Haiti, her earthquake-battered homeland.

In 2011, Alison Redford won the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race, becoming the province's first female premier.

In 2017, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, 58 people were killed -- four of them Canadian -- and nearly 500 were injured after a gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel-casino tower.

In 2017, Ontario NDP deputy leader Jagmeet Singh won the party's federal leadership race in a first ballot vote, becoming the first nonCaucasian leader of a federal political party.

In 2018, the Coalition Avenir Quebec ended a half century of two-party rule in Quebec by winning a majority in the provincial election.

In 2019, Canada's Andre De Grasse won a silver medal in the men's 200 metres at the world track and field championships in Doha, Qatar. It marked the second medal for De Grasse.