Jacques Plante dons the goalie mask
1959 · Event
Cut in the face at Madison Square Garden, Montreal's goaltender returns wearing his own mask and refuses to play bare-faced again — changing hockey for good.
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- 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)
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- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)