January 14: Kilgour Block burns; Eatons Catalogue disappears; Seven Oaks' first patient.

Source: Winnipeg Fire Museum

January 14, 1911 - The Kelly Block at 181 Bannatyne, between Main and Rorie Streets, burns. Temperatures in the -40s hampered firefighters and the building was completely gutted.

Source: Virtual Heritage Winnipeg

Built in 1904 for Thomas Kelly and Joseph Maw, it was renovated back to health in 1911 and is now called the Kilgour Block. Today itis the Lofts on Bannatyne condos.

January 14, 1976 - The T. Eaton Company announces that the iconic Eaton’s Catalogue will be discontinued. The first edition was printed in 1884, the final one in 1976.

January 14, 1981 – The first patient is admitted to the Seven Oaks Hospital.

March 27 1973, Winnipeg Free Press

January 14, 1981 – The first patient is admitted to the Seven Oaks Hospital. First proposed in 1969 the facility got bogged down in a debate over whether it should be a hospital of a health clinic. In 1977 construction finally began on the $32 million, 336 bed facility.

September 18, 1980, Winnipeg Free Press

It was officially opened in September 1980 with over 300 staff but a series of delays in equipment installation and receiving basic supplies such as scalpels pushed back the admission of patients.

Source: U of M Archives, Tribune Collection

January 14, 1975 – The official opening of the Winnipeg Convention Centre.

January 14, 1965 - The first Guess Who released "Shakin' All Over."

January 14, 1943 – Hon. Stuart Garson (Liberal-Progressive) becomes Premier of Manitoba. He served until November 1948.