July 10, 1912 – Famed French aviator Georges Mestache crashes his plane, “The Big Bird”, into a field filled with overflow spectators at the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition.
The horrified audience, including the Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia, were relieved when Mestache regained consciousness a few minutes after being pulled from the wreckage. Nobody on the ground was seriously injured.
July 10, 1944 – Cigarette Week begins in Winnipeg. It was a city-wide effort to raise money to send cigarettes to soldier and prisoners of war.
