** Royal Canadian Mounted Police — accorded the status of a regiment of Dragoons in 1921 and remained so until 1937.

** Commodore ( Canada ), in the Canadian Forces

** Canadian House of Commons Page Program

** Canadian Senate Page Program

** Progressive Canadian Party, Canada's new progressive conservative party

** Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Alberta

** Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a now-defunct Canadian centre-right conservative political party

** Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, a conservative political party of the Canadian province of Ontario

** Prism ( Prism album ), the debut album of the Canadian band

** The Record ( magazine ), a former trade magazine of the Canadian music industry

** The Canadian Football League scrapped all games for the ensuing week.

** These benthic and limnetic species even display their mating preferences when presented with sticklebacks from Japanese lakes ; that is, a Canadian benthic prefers a Japanese benthic over its close limnetic cousin from its own lake.

** Quarter ( Canadian coin )

** CKO ( a now-defunct Canadian all news radio network ) begins broadcasting.

** Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, opens the 3rd session of the 30th Canadian Parliament.

** Santino Marella, Canadian wrestler

** Jason Greeley, Canadian singer

** Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player

** Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player

** Shane Meier, Canadian actor

** Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player

** Peter Schaefer, Canadian ice hockey player

** Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player

** Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player

** Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian latex model

** Pacific: Chile, Ecuador and Peru

** international: satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( 1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean )

** Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

** Pacific Team Lotus, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995

** Californian tribes ( Northern ): Yok-Utian, Pacific Coast Athabaskan, Coast Miwok, Yurok, Palaihnihan, Chumashan, Uto-Aztecan

** Pacific Northwest Coast: Pacific Coast Athabaskan, Coast Salish

** other Pacific Islander 26 %

** Nauruan ( official, a distinct Pacific Island language )

** Pacific burrfish, Chilomycterus affinis

** Record ( magazine ), the official church paper of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists

** international: country code-82 ; 10 fiber-optic submarine cables-1 Korea-Russia-Japan, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong, 3 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-China-Europe, 1 Korea-Japan-China-US-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( 1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean ) and 3 Inmarsat ( 1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean )

** 901, 525 in East Asia and the Pacific

** Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs

** Region V South-West Pacific

** Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.

** Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard ; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.

** The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.

** Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.

** Albert Guay affair: A dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec.

** Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.

** Gavin MacLeod, American actor and Mayor of Pacific Palisades ( The Mary Tyler Moore and The Love Boat )

** Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot ; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.