October Crisis
1970 · Event
FLQ cells kidnap a British diplomat and murder a Quebec minister; Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act and tanks roll in Montreal — Canada's brush with political terror.
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More from Canada
- Canadian Confederation (1867)
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759)
- Champlain founds Quebec (1608)
- New France (1608)
- Cartier claims Canada for France (1534)
- Constitution patriated with the Charter (1982)
- John Cabot reaches North America (1497)
- Hudson's Bay Company chartered (1670)
Around 1970
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Beatles (1960)