July
9
Alberta almanac
On this day in Alberta
11 moments and Albertans connected to 9 July, spanning 1903 to 2016.
- 6 born
- 4 died
- 1 founded
1918
First airmail in western Canada
Aviator Katherine Stinson flew a mailbag of 259 letters from Calgary to Edmonton in her Curtiss Special — western Canada's first airmail delivery — overcoming a forced landing near the site of today's Calgary airport and arriving to a cheering crowd just after 8 p.m.
Alberta Aviation Museum ↗
- 1982
Also on this date
- 1930Bob WoodBorn
Canadian ice hockey defenceman (1930-2007)
Read on Wikipediasource data96 years ago today
- 1947
- 1947
- 1953
- 1965Yvonne VisserBorn
Canadian biathlete and biathlon trainer
Read on Wikipediasource data61 years ago today
- 1985
- 1903
- 2005
- 2008
- 2016
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