1853
Canada’s largest stock market, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) opens for business.
18583
W. Waugh Lauder, one of Canada’s best known pianists and who introduced the lecture-recital to North America, is born in Oshawa, Ontario.
1945
Orillia, Ontario-born Franklin Carmichael, a member of the Group of Seven painters, dies at the age of 55.
1990
RCMP uniform regulations allow Indigenous officers to wear their hair in braids for spiritual reasons.
1992
Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series. They are the first team outside of the U.S. to win.