Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope
1980 · Event
A 21-year-old amputee sets out to run across Canada for cancer research, a marathon a day for 143 days until the cancer returns — his run now repeated yearly in 60 countries.
On these timelines: Canada, Master, Medicine & Public Health
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 1980
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)