If you're visiting during this season, it's in your best interest to book at least several weeks early to ensure hotel availability and decent room rates. Key Events: 1  Formula One: Grand Prix of Canada (June). 2  Montreal International Jazz Festival (June-July).
On October 25, 1865, the legendary SS Republic sank 1,700 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic. With Odysseyâs 2003 discovery of the SS Republic, the shipâs remarkable legacy lives on as her story is chronicled in publications, television documentaries and exhibits.
PT-109 sinks; Lieutenant Kennedy is instrumental in saving crew. On this day in 1943, a Japanese destroyer rams an American PT (patrol torpedo) boat, No. 109, slicing it in two. The destruction is so massive other American PT boats in the area assume the crew is dead. Two crewmen were, in fact, killed, but 11 survived, including Lt. John F. Kennedy. Japanese aircraft had been on a PT boat hunt in the Solomon Islands, bombing the PT base at Rendova Island.