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2007

Premiere of the reality series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” featuring Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney Kardashian, on the E! network.

The Philadelphia Flyers begin their 35-game winning streak by defeating Toronto 4-2.

Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scores his first career goal in the NHL.

The Montreal Metro opens. Twenty-six stations are put into service by the Société de Transport de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal (STCUM).

Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

A U.S. U-2 aircraft photographs a Soviet missile launch site in Cuba.

Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Canadian Parliament by delivering the Speech from the Throne.

A.A. Milne’s book Winnie-the-Pooh is published.

First PGA Championship at Siwanoy CC, Bronxville, NY. England’s Jim Barnes defeats Jock Hutchison by one stroke after 36 holes.

Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of 12 stories originally serialized in The Strand Magazine.

George Eastman invents photographic film.

Molière’s Les Fourberies de Scapin is performed for the first time in Montreal.

It happened on… October 14