1891    John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister.

1926    Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

1948    Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.

2005    Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.

2006    The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada.