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2014

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Hartford Whalers center Doug Jarvis retires after playing a record 964 consecutive games.

Réal Cloutier of the Quebec Nordiques sets a record by scoring a hat trick in his first NHL game.

Labor Minister Pierre Laporte is kidnapped from his home by members of the FLQ.

The Beach Boys release their song “Good Vibrations.”

The XVIII Summer Olympic Games open in Tokyo, Japan.

Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to the National Assembly of Quebec triggers a riot that is severely suppressed, known as “Truncheon Saturday.”

Pan Am begins its round-the-world flights.

The Laurentian Highway is inaugurated in St-Jovite.

The film “Giant,” directed by George Stevens and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean in his final role, premieres in New York.

The first billiards ball is invented by John Wesley Hyatt.

It happened on… October 10