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March 1961

The following events occurred in March 1961:

March 1, 1961 (Wednesday)

 * Uganda became self-governing by holding its first general elections a year in advance of full independence. With 90% of the 1.3 million eligible voters participating, the Democratic Party, led by Benedicto Kiwanuka, won 43 of the 81 seats in the National Assembly. The Uganda People's Congress received more votes overall, but won only 35 seats.
 * President of the United States John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by Executive Order 10924.

March 2, 1961 (Thursday)

 * Algerian nationalist leader Ferhat Abbas announced in Rabat, Morocco, that the FLN had agreed to French President Charles de Gaulle's proposal to begin peace talks on Algerian independence. By then, the Algerian War was in its seventh year.
 * At the age of 79, artist Pablo Picasso married 35-year-old Jacqueline Roque. The two would remain together until his death in 1973.
 * Twenty-two coal miners were killed in an underground explosion at the Viking Coal Company near Terre Haute, Indiana.
 * Congolese soldiers killed 44 civilians in the city of Luluabourg (now Kananga), capital of the Kasai province.
 * Died: Olaf Hagerup, 71, Danish botanist

March 3, 1961 (Friday)

 * Elsie May Batten, a 59-year-old shop assistant and wife of sculptor Mark Batten, was found stabbed to death with an antique dagger at the London curiosity shop where she worked. Her killer, Edwin Bush, was the first British murderer to be caught by use of the Identikit facial composite system.
 * Factory roll-out inspection of Atlas launch vehicle No. 100-D was conducted at Convair-Astronautics. This launch vehicle was allocated for the Mercury-Atlas 3 mission.
 * The U.S. Air Force successfully launched the first of its "economy" rockets, the RM-90 Blue Scout II, designed to put payloads into space at a lower cost.
 * Hassan II was formally enthroned as King of Morocco, one week after his father's death.
 * Born: Tom Emmer, Majority Whip for the Democrats in the United States House of Representatives since 2023, after being a U.S. Representative for Minnesota since 2005; in South Bend, Indiana
 * Died: Paul Wittgenstein, 73, Austrian-born pianist

March 4, 1961 (Saturday)

 * The Soviet Union made its first successful test of its V-1000 anti-ballistic missile system, proving that it could intercept an intercontinental ballistic missile. The ICBM, an R-12 Dvina (referred to by NATO as the SS-4), was fired from the Kapustin Yar in southwest Russia. The V-1000 was launched from the Sary Shagan range thousands of miles to the east, and the intercept took place at an altitude of 80,000 ft over the Kazakh SSR.
 * The centennial of the presidential inauguration of Abraham Lincoln was observed with a re-enactment at the east front of the U.S. Capitol. A crowd of 20,000 people watched, twice as many as had witnessed the actual event in 1861.
 * Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower became, once again, a five-star general, as an act of Congress restored him to his former rank of General of the Army.
 * INS Vikrant (1961) was commissioned as the Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier.
 * Born: Ray "Boom-Boom" Mancini, American boxer best remembered for the tragic 1982 bout with Duk Koo Kim (as well as being the WBA lightweight champion form 1982 to 1984); in Youngstown, Ohio
 * Died: Pudge Wyman, 65, American pro football player credited with the first NFL touchdown. Wyman played for the Rock Island Independents in their 45-0 win over the Muncie Flyers on October 3, 1920.

March 5, 1961 (Sunday)

 * At a press conference at Andrews Air Force Base, spokesmen for the U.S. Air Force Research and Development command announced that they had developed an atomic clock "so accurate that its biggest error would not exceed one second in 1271 years", and, at 62 lb, light enough that it could be used on aircraft in place of the existing system of crystal oscillators. Conventional atomic clock units, though more accurate, weighed over 600 lb and were impractical for flight.
 * The crash of a U.S. Air Force Boeing KB-50 refueling plane killed all ten men on board.
 * Born: Marcelo Peralta, Argentinian musician; in Buenos Aires (d. 2020)
 * Died: Kjeld Abell, 59, Danish playwright, shortly after finishing his last work, Skriget (The Scream)

March 6, 1961 (Monday)

 * The phrase "affirmative action" was first used to refer to a governmental requirement to promote equal opportunity by giving preferences in order to remedy prior discrimination. President Kennedy used the term with the issuance of Executive Order 10925. The original context was in Section 301 of the order, providing that federal government contracts include a provision that "The contractor will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."
 * The British soap opera Coronation Street was fully networked by ITV, with a new schedule of Monday and Wednesday evenings at 19:30.
 * Born: Bill Buchanan, Scottish academic, computer scientist, cryptographer, first person to receive an OBE for services to Cyber Security at the 2017 Birthday Honours; in Falkirk, Stirlingshire
 * Died: George Formby, Jr., 56, British singer, comedian and actor; of his second heart attack in two months

March 7, 1961 (Tuesday)

 * The successful test firing of the engines of a Titan I missile, as it stood inside the underground SLTF (Silo Test Launch Facility) at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, demonstrated that a missile could be successfully and safely fired, before launch, within a missile silo. An actual launch from the silo would not take place until May 3.
 * Flying a North American X-15 airplane, U.S. Air Force Captain Robert White became the first person to travel faster than Mach 4, reaching Mach 4.43, or 2650 mph. White would become the first person to break Mach 5 on June 23, and Mach 6 on November 9.
 * Redstone launch vehicle number 5 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Redstone Booster Development flight that would be launched on March 24 as the last space shot before the launch of the first U.S. astronaut, Alan Shepard, on Mercury 3.
 * Spacecraft number 11 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury 4 mission, flown by Gus Grissom, on July 21, 1961.
 * Born: Martina Schettina, Austrian painter; in Vienna
 * Died: Govind Ballabh Pant, 73, Indian statesman, and the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1946 to 1954

March 8, 1961 (Wednesday)

 * The first U.S. Polaris submarines arrived at the new submarine base at Scotland's Holy Loch, as the nuclear missile bearing USS Patrick Henry sailed past protesters and in alongside its tending ship, USS Proteus, to begin a two-year mission.
 * Max Conrad, "the Flying Grandfather", circumnavigated the Earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record for a light airplane, breaking the previous mark, set in 1959, of 25 days.
 * Mercury spacecraft number 10 was accepted and delivered to the McDonnell altitude test facility on March 31, 1961, for an orbital-flight environmental test.
 * Died:
 * Sir Thomas Beecham, 81, English conductor who founded the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras
 * Gala Galaction, 81, Romanian author

March 9, 1961 (Thursday)

 * Sputnik 9 was launched by the USSR from Baikonur LC1, carrying "Ivan Ivanovich" (the nickname for a mannequin cosmonaut), the dog Chernushka, some mice, and a guinea pig. The spaceship made several orbits of the Earth at an average altitude of 135 mi, and then was recovered. NASA spokesman George M. Law said that the test showed that the Russians were "about ready to put a man up" into outer space.
 * An underground fire killed 71 Japanese coal miners at the Ueda Mine Company at Kawara, Fukuoka Prefecture, in Japan's worst coal mine disaster since World War II.
 * Born:
 * Andrei Ivanțoc, Moldovan union leader and presidential candidate; in Opaci, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
 * Rick Steiner (ring name for Robert Rechsteiner), American pro wrestler; in Bay City, Michigan
 * Mike Leach, American college football coach; in Susanville, California

March 10, 1961 (Friday)

 * The first definite proof that a signal could be sent to Venus and returned to Earth, using radar astronomy, was made by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Transmission was sent from the Goldstone Tracking Station in California at a 2,388 megacycle frequency, traveling 35 million miles to Venus and then back to Earth, in a little more than six minutes. Signals had been bounced off of Venus before, but never received back clearly enough to be "immediately detectable".
 * Richard Sullivan, a staffer at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, delivered a feasibility study to the Authority, entitled "A World Trade Center in the Port of New York", outlining the justification for building what would become the Twin Towers and five other buildings in the World Trade Center complex.
 * Born:
 * Laurel Clark, NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist who was killed along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003; in Ames, Iowa
 * Greg Kolodziejzyk, Canadian cyclist and holder of world records on recumbent bicycles; in Fort St. John, British Columbia
 * Mitch Gaylord, first American gymnast to score a 10.00 in Olympic competition (1984); in Van Nuys, California

March 11, 1961 (Saturday)

 * Plans for an invasion of Cuba were presented by CIA official Richard M. Bissell, Jr. for the approval of President Kennedy. In a meeting attended by the President, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, CIA Director Allen Dulles, and General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs, Bissell outlined the proposed "Operation Trinidad", with an invasion force storming the beaches of Trinidad, Cuba by sea and by air. Kennedy rejected the plan as "too spectacular", and directed Bissell to come up with a less obvious placement of troops. Only four days later, Bissell had drawn up a new plan, with the force to strike at the Bay of Pigs within a month. "The Kennedy team was impressed," one historian would say later, "when they should have been incredulous."
 * "Ken", a doll to accompany the popular Barbie that had been brought out by the Mattel toy company introduced on March 9, 1959, was introduced at the annual American International Toy Fair in New York City.
 * Died: William A. Morgan, 33, former American soldier who later became an advisor to Fidel Castro, was executed by a firing squad in Havana after being found guilty of conspiring against the government.

March 12, 1961 (Sunday)

 * Miami mobster John Roselli, who was assisting the CIA in its plans to assassinate Fidel Castro, met with a Cuban contact at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. Roselli would testify before the U.S. Senate, 14 years later, about the delivery of money and poisoned pills for the contact to place in Castro's food. Columnist Jack Anderson would break the story in his column of January 18, 1971. The CIA would acknowledge its involvement 46 years after the fact, with the declassification of documents in 2007.
 * The long-running BBC radio music show Your Hundred Best Tunes moved to the 9–10 p.m. Sunday night timeslot with which it would be associated for the next 45 years.

March 13, 1961 (Monday)

 * One hundred forty-five people in Kiev were killed in the Kurenivka mudslide, after a dam burst on the Dnieper River at the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. The disaster was not reported in the Soviet press until March 31, when it was mentioned in Pravda.
 * The team of Barry Bishop, Mike Ward, Mike Gill, and Wally Romanes made the first ascent of the 22349 ft high Himalayan mountain Ama Dablam.
 * Cyprus joined the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming the first small nation in the British Commonwealth.
 * U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a long-term "Alliance for Progress" between the United States and Latin America.
 * Born: Vasily Ignatenko, Soviet firefighter who was among the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster; in Sperizh'e, Brahin District (d. 1986)

March 14, 1961 (Tuesday)

 * The first phase of the creation of the New English Bible, begun in 1946 by the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible, was completed with the publication of the revised New Testament. Relying on a re-examination of the oldest texts and conveyance of original meanings into modern English, the "new New Testament" was released to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the March 1611 publication of the King James Version of the Bible.
 * A B-52F-70-BW Stratofortress bomber, with two nuclear weapons, crashed 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Yuba City, California after its crew bailed out. The two nuclear bombs were torn from the aircraft on impact, but did not detonate.
 * The patent application for the lifesaving opioid antidote naloxone (more commonly known as Narcan) was filed by Jack Fishman and Mozes J. Lewenstein. U.S. Patent #3,254,088 was granted on May 31, 1966.
 * Atlas launch vehicle 100-D was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Atlas 3 mission.
 * Born: Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research In Motion; in Istanbul

March 15, 1961 (Wednesday)

 * The Union of Peoples of Angola, led by Holden Roberto, crossed over from the Congo into Angola, and murdered European and African residents living near the northern border of the Portuguese colony. Portuguese forces killed tens of thousands of African residents in retaliation and the war continued for 14 years.
 * At a meeting in London of the prime ministers of the British Commonwealth, Hendrik Verwoerd announced that South Africa was withdrawing its membership, due to continued criticism of apartheid, "the racial policy of the Union Government".
 * The World Chess Championship 1961 between former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik and titleholder Mikhail Tal, began in Moscow.
 * Died: Sir Walter Womersley, 1st Baronet, 83, British M.P.; as Minister of Pensions from 1939 to 1945, he was the only British government minister to hold the same post throughout World War II.

March 16, 1961 (Thursday)

 * The Absent-Minded Professor, a Disney comedy science fiction film starring Fred MacMurray, was released nationwide and became one of the most popular movies of the year.
 * The Space Task Group advised the Goddard Space Flight Center that for all Mercury orbital missions, beginning with Mercury-Atlas 3, trajectory data would be required for postflight analysis.
 * Mercury spacecraft No. 10 was withdrawn from the flight program and was allocated to a ground test simulating orbital flight environmental conditions at the McDonnell plant site.
 * The 18th Golden Globe Awards were held. Winners included Burt Lancaster (Best Actor – Drama), Greer Garson (Best Actress – Drama) and Spartacus (Best Film – Drama).
 * The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center was officially dedicated in Greenbelt, Maryland.

March 17, 1961 (Friday)

 * Albert DeSalvo was arrested in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while trying to break into a house. Confessing to be a sexual predator who had been nicknamed "the Measuring Man", DeSalvo spent a year in jail. For 18 months following his release, thirteen local women were sexually assaulted and murdered. DeSalvo, arrested later in 1964, confessed to being the "Boston Strangler".
 * Israel staged a dress rehearsal for a military parade in the Israeli-occupied part of Jerusalem, in which heavy military armament took part. Following a complaint by Jordan about the display of military might, the Mixed Armistice Commission decided that "this act by Israel is a breach of the General Armistice Agreement".
 * Born:
 * Mauricio Pimiento, Colombian politician involved in the Colombian parapolitics scandal; in Bucaramanga
 * Marcus Dillistone, award-winning British film director; in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
 * Died: Susanna M. Salter, 101, first woman mayor in the United States; in 1887, she was elected to a two-year term as mayor of the small town of Argonia, Kansas, after being placed on the ballot as a prank.

March 18, 1961 (Saturday)

 * Little Joe 5A, the sixth in the series of Little Joe missions, was launched from Wallops Island to demonstrate the structural integrity of the spacecraft and escape system during an escape maneuver initiated at the highest dynamic pressure anticipated during an Atlas launch for orbital flight. LJ-5A lifted off normally, but 19 seconds later the escape tower fired prematurely, a situation resembling the Little Joe 5 flight in November 1960. The signal to initiate the abort maneuver was given, and the launch vehicle-adapter clamp ring was released, but the spacecraft remained on the launch vehicle since the escape motor was already expended. The separation was effected by using the retrorockets, but this command was transmitted before the flight had reached its apex, where separation had been planned. Therefore, the separation was rather violent. The parachutes deployed at about 40,000 ft, and after recovery it was found that the spacecraft had incurred only superficial structural damage. This spacecraft was used for the subsequent Little Joe 5B flight test. Test objectives of LJ-5A were not met.
 * "Nous les amoureux", sung by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, lyrics by Maurice Vidalin), won the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 for Luxembourg.

March 19, 1961 (Sunday)

 * Tornadoes swept through four districts of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing more than 250 people. The dead included 32 people who had taken refuge in a Catholic church in Dacca after attending Sunday mass.
 * Died: Ada Cornaro, 79, Argentinian tango dancer and actress

March 20, 1961 (Monday)

 * Phase III of testing of the Mercury spacecraft airdrop program was conducted and lasted for four weeks, until April 13. Primary objectives of the drops were to study further the spacecraft suitability and flotation capability after water impact. Six drops were made, but later (April 24–28, 1961) the tests were extended for two additional drops to monitor hard-surface landing effects.

March 21, 1961 (Tuesday)

 * Ion Gheorghe Maurer, formerly the ceremonial Romanian head of state as President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly, assumed the office of head of government as Prime Minister of Romania, and would remain the premier until 1974. During Maurer's rule, he would serve the General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and later Nicolae Ceaușescu.
 * The Beatles— John, Paul, George and Stu (Stuart Sutcliffe)— began the first of nearly 300 regular performances at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. Sutcliffe left the band three months later. Continuing with Ringo Starr, the group's final appearance at the Cavern Club was on August 3, 1963.
 * The press agency United News of India dispatched its first reports to subscribers.

March 22, 1961 (Wednesday)

 * Dwight D. Eisenhower was restored to the United States Army and to his rank as a five-star General of the Army, two months after completing his term as the 34th President of the United States. General Eisenhower had resigned his commission on July 18, 1952, after accepting the Republican Party nomination for the Presidency.
 * Died: Gideon Mer, 66, Israeli physician and scientist who guided the eradication of malaria in the Jewish state

March 23, 1961 (Thursday)

 * The Soviet Union lifted censorship restrictions for foreign news correspondents that had been in place since 1917. Except for two occasions in 1939 and 1946, non-Soviet reporters had been required to have their dispatches reviewed before transmission. Foreign office press director Mikhail Kharlamov cautioned that, although pre-approval of reports would no longer be required, foreigners were still required to keep copies of all dispatches for future review, and that persons who "circulated unfounded rumors about the Soviet Union" were still subject to expulsion.
 * An American C-47 transport plane with eight men aboard disappeared over the war-torn nation of Laos after taking off from Vientiane toward Saigon. The U.S. Air Force did not announce the incident until two days later. The sole survivor, Major Lawrence R. Bailey, Jr., was captured and became the first American POW of the Vietnam Era. He would be released on August 15, 1962.
 * President John F. Kennedy advised Representative Overton Brooks (D-La.) that he had no intention "to subordinate" the space activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to those of the military.
 * Born: George Weber, American radio personality; in Philadelphia (murdered, 2009)
 * Died:
 * Valentin Bondarenko, 24, Russian cosmonaut, was burned to death in a training accident. His death would be concealed by the Soviet government for more than 25 years, finally being revealed in 1986 in an article in the daily newspaper Izvestia.
 * Heinrich Rau, 61, East German politician and Minister of Foreign Trade

March 24, 1961 (Friday)

 * The Mercury-Redstone BD (Mercury-Redstone Booster Development) rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral on one final test flight to certify its safety for human transport. As with earlier Soviet tests, the American space capsule carried a test dummy. The spacecraft reached an altitude of 115 mi and was recovered in the Atlantic 8 minutes after launch. Stopped by Wernher von Braun from going, Alan Shepard had volunteered to take the flight, and would have become the first human to travel into outer space. Less than three weeks later, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin would reach the milestone on April 12. Shepard would reach space, though not orbit, on May 5.

March 25, 1961 (Saturday)

 * In Kansas City, the University of Cincinnati Bearcats upset the #1 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, 70–65, to win the NCAA basketball championship. Going into the title match, OSU had won 32 consecutive games with a team that included John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas. Future Indiana University coach Bobby Knight had kept OSU from losing in regulation by scoring the basket that tied the game, 61–61.
 * The day after the U.S. launch of a test dummy into space, the Soviets made one final launch of their own Ivan Ivanovich dummy into space, along with the last dog in space, Zvezdochka. Both went up on Korabl-Sputnik 5 (called "Sputnik 10" in the West), which made one orbit and safely returned to Earth.
 * Born: Reginald Fils-Aimé, American businessman best known for being the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, the North American branch of the Japanese video game company Nintendo, from 2006 to 2019; in New York City

March 26, 1961 (Sunday)

 * In rugby union, France defeated Wales 8–6 at the Stade Colombes to assure themselves of overall victory in the 1961 Five Nations Championship.
 * The Lombank Trophy was held at Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit, England, and was won by Jack Brabham in a Cooper T53.
 * Born:
 * William Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, British politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to 2001; in Rotherham, South Yorkshire
 * Leigh Bowery, Australian performance artist; in Melbourne (d. 1994)
 * Billy Warlock, American TV soap opera actor; in Gardena, California
 * Died: Carlos Duarte Costa, 72, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church

March 27, 1961 (Monday)

 * Nine African-American students from Mississippi's Tougaloo College made the first effort of passive resistance to end segregation in the state capital, Jackson, by walking into the whites-only main branch of the municipal public library. After beginning the "read-in", the students declined to leave and were arrested by police. The next day, black students at Jackson State College marched to the city jail to protest the arrest of the "Tougaloo Nine", and more demonstrations followed.
 * In a NASA Headquarters note to editors of magazines and newspapers, procedures and a deadline were established for submitting the applications of accredited correspondents to cover the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission. As of April 24, 1961, the deadline date, 350 correspondents were accredited to cover the launch, the first crewed suborbital flight of Project Mercury.
 * Thunderball, Ian Fleming's ninth James Bond novel, was first published, in a hardback British edition by Jonathan Cape.

March 28, 1961 (Tuesday)

 * U.S. President John F. Kennedy informed Congress that, as part of the proposed $43.8 billion defense budget, he was cancelling the Pye Wacket project, an experimental lenticular-form air-to-air missile, and the B-70 nuclear-powered airplane. Kennedy declared that "As a power which will never strike first, our hopes for anything close to an absolute deterrent must rest on weapons which come from hidden, moving, or invulnerable bases which will not be wiped out by a surprise attack," and lobbied instead for ten additional Polaris nuclear submarines and an increased Minuteman nuclear arsenal.
 * All 52 people aboard ČSA Flight 511, a Czechoslovak State Airlines Ilyushin-18 airplane, died when it crashed near Russelbach in East Germany after an onboard explosion. The flight was on its way from Prague to Bamako, the capital of Mali, taking technicians and their families, half of them from the Soviet Union, to jobs in Africa.
 * Air Afrique was founded by agreement of ten West African nations that had gained independence from France. The airline operated until 2001, when its fleet and routes were acquired by Air France.
 * The Factories Act 1961 was introduced into the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
 * Died:
 * Powel Crosley Jr., 74, American inventor and owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team
 * Chatta Singh, 74, Indian VC recipient

March 29, 1961 (Wednesday)

 * The 23rd Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections. With at least $3/4$ths of the 50 states needed to ratify the amendment New Hampshire became the 37th state to approve the measure at 1:01 p.m. Thirteen minutes later in Topeka, the Kansas House of Representatives, in a hastily called session, made that state the 38th. Arkansas was the only state to reject the proposal, which gave the District 3 electoral votes starting with the 1964 election.
 * Born: Amy Sedaris, American actress, comedienne, and writer; in Endicott, New York

March 30, 1961 (Thursday)

 * Actor Ronald Reagan, in the course of his work as a conservative public relations man for the General Electric Company, first gave "The Speech", officially titled "Encroaching Control". In the address to the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce at the Thunderbird Room of the Hotel Westward Ho, Reagan expressed his concern that socialized medicine, federal aid to education and farm subsidies marked the gradual transition of the United States to socialism. The speech in Arizona attracted the attention of conservative Republican leaders, including U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater. As one historian would note later, "Reagan's skillful presentation of 'the Speech' brought him to the attention of the most conservative officials of the Republican Party and their supporters" who were impressed by "his admirable and unquestioned power of persuasion", and would lead to Reagan's selection to deliver the speech in a 30-minute nationwide broadcast in support of Goldwater's candidacy for U.S. President on October 27, 1964, beginning "the political journey that carried him to two terms as governor of California and, ultimately, to election and reelection as president of the United States."
 * The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was signed at New York City. The pact would enter into force on December 13, 1964, and now applies to 149 nations.
 * Redstone launch vehicle No. 7 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury 3 mission.
 * Died:
 * Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, leader of Iran's Shiite Muslims, died at the age of 86. Borujerdi's death led the way to the ascension of the 58-year-old Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who in 1979 would become the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
 * Former Brigadier General Mengistu Neway, 41, was hanged after the unsuccessful coup attempt against the Ethiopian government in December 1960.
 * Armand Robin, 49, French poet and journalist; three days after his arrest following an altercation in a bar

March 31, 1961 (Friday)

 * NASA's worldwide Mercury tracking network, designed by the Western Electric Company at a cost of $60,000,000 became fully operational. Western Electric would turn over the global network of 18 ground tracking stations to NASA in a formal ceremony later in the year. Electronics on two ships in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were used to close gaps between ground stations.
 * The last train ran on Ireland's Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway.
 * Died: Paul Landowski, 85, French monumental sculptor

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Arizona Railway Museum

The Arizona Railway Museum is a railroad museum located in Chandler, Arizona, United States.

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User:Flcelloguy/2005Predictions

Here's my 2005 NBA Playoffs Predictions! Done before playoffs began.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

(1) Phoenix Suns vs.                    Grizzlies (8) Memphis Grizzlies vs.            Mavericks (4) Dallas Mavericks vs.                    Mavericks (5) Houston Rockets vs.             Spurs (2) San Antonio Spurs vs.                    Spurs (7) Denver Nuggets vs.            Spurs (3) Seattle Supersonics vs.                    Supersonics (6) Sacramento Kings

vs.              Spurs EASTERN CONFERENCE

(1) Miami Heat vs.                    Heat (8) New Jersey Nets vs.            Heat (4) Chicago Bulls vs.                    Bulls (5) Washington Wizards vs.             Heat (2) Detroit Pistons vs.                    Pistons (7) Philadelphia 76ers vs.            Pistons (3) Boston Celtics vs.                    Pacers (6) Indiana Pacers

2005 NBA CHAMPIONS: Spurs

Of course, now I see some of my predictions were wrong... I still think Spurs are going to win it all, though. Feel free to comment below this line.

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Shouldn't this page simply be part of the regular 7-up page? Oracleoftruth

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Syphon Filter 2

Syphon Filter 2 is a 2000 third-person shooter video game developed by Eidetic and published by 989 Studios for PlayStation. It is the second installment in the Syphon Filter franchise and a sequel to 1999's Syphon Filter. In 2022, it was added to the premium collection for PlayStation Plus.

Gameplay
Syphon Filter 2 added multiplayer which features some characters to select from (including deceased characters from Syphon Filter), as well as new maps not found in single player mode.

Plot
Hours after the events of the first game, Gabriel Logan and Lian Xing are enemies of the state to the Agency after uncovering its connection to Syphon Filter, labeled as terrorists to the general public. Agency operative Dillon Morgan captures Lian at the PharCom warehouses, forcing Gabe and the CBDC soldiers to rendezvous with ex-Agency operative Teresa Lipan in Arizona. Simultaneously, the Agency scrambles a squadron of F-22 Raptors to intercept their transport over the Colorado Rockies, so Gabe and CBDC Lieutenant Jason Chance head down the mountain in search of their plane and a box of PharCom data disks. Agency operative Steven Archer attempts to stop them at all costs.

A group of conspirators, including Mara Aramov and Agency director Lyle Stevens, make a deal to deliver the virus to a rogue Chinese general named Shi-Hao. Meanwhile, Lian recovers in a U.S. Air Force base where Morgan, Derek Falkan, and Thomas Holman are working with Dr. Elsa Weissinger of PharCom to extract infected plasma from test subjects. Lian learns that the other subject was PharCom CEO Jonathan Phagan, who survived his gunshot wound long enough for the Agency to take the plasma. Weissinger protests that Phagan is useful and should be kept alive for further research, but Morgan, not intending that the U.S. government find Pharcom's CEO infected with an unknown virus, deactivates his life support, tying up a loose end.

Lian escapes the medical building and interrogates Holman to learn that Morgan is planning another operation to the PharCom Expo Center to find an encryption disk. She leaves the base in a helicopter after killing Falkan and teams up with Gabe to battle Archer's forces. Gabe shoots Archer during his escape, and recovers the PharCom data.

The protagonists follow Holman's lead to the Expo Center and kill Morgan before he can recover the disk he sought. After decrypting the PharCom data, Teresa realises that some information is missing. The other half must be with Russian SVR director Uri Gregorov, who appeared at the warehouses before Gabe left. Since Lian and Uri know each other, they agree to meet in Moscow.

Aramov instigates a gunfight while they meet and Lian pursues Gregorov. Lian later learns he is an impostor working for Mara and trying to find the other half of the data. The man admits that the real Gregorov is in a Russian gulag, Aljir Prison, which once held Lian captive. Gregorov uncovered a plot to sell the virus to Shi-Hao, so Aramov intervened. Lian stops Gregorov's execution, but is almost killed by the virus and collapses. Gabe takes her back to the States, while Gregorov promises to handle Shi-Hao.

Gabe and Teresa arrive back at the Virginia safehouse overseen by Lawrence Mujari, a freelance pathologist. They decide to trade the PharCom data to the Agency for Lian's vaccine. Director Stevens double-crosses Gabe in the Agency's New York City labs, but Logan escapes, downloads all of the Agency's information, and forces Dr. Weissinger to give him the vaccine. Gabe also finds out that Chance survived the mission in Colorado, and sets him free.

Pursued by NYPD SWAT cops and Agency personnel, Gabe hurries back to their helicopter. Along the way, Logan is forced to provide cover for a SWAT officer whose partner is wounded. He does so, but Stevens, who later takes the cop hostage, orders him to drop his weapons. Despite Logan complying in surrender, Stevens kills the officer anyway. Before he can get shot, Gabe is thrown into the sewers by an explosion that Teresa sets off. Gabe assumes that Chance was killed in the labs since Teresa says he never made it to the helicopter. Gabe and Teresa eventually corner Stevens and Gabe shoots him in cold blood.

Gabe and Teresa reach the helicopter to find Chance waiting in impenetrable Agency-issued body armor. He was really working for them, and he shoots Teresa. Gabe suspected it since the Agency always knew where he was in Colorado. Both men fight, and Gabe kills the man he trusted with an assault shotgun that drives Chance into the helicopter blades, decapitating him.

A news report reveals that the Agency's existence is now public, and U.S. Secretary of State Vincent Hadden promises that the government will investigate. Gabe cures Lian and demarcates a grave for Teresa. He, Lian, and Lawrence hold a small memorial and promise to keep fighting, while soldiers watch them from a distance. In a post-credits scene, Hadden and Aramov emerge from a helicopter, with Aramov saying that the Administration will soon fall allowing Hadden to become President. Although a team of soldiers requests for permission to kill Gabe and his team, Hadden calls off the operation, telling Mara he has other plans for Gabe. Aramov laughs as the screen fades to black.

Development
John Garvin stated that, unlike development of the first game, he and co-creator Richard Ham had a complete vision of what the game would be like prior to the development process: "I think I spent a weekend and wrote the entire screenplay. Rich and I got together and he helped revise the second half of the game, introducing all the Moscow stuff, making the end of the story more espionage-like and exciting. When the [development team] came back, we spent the next year building exactly what we had written. That was the first time that we had a vision up front, which we followed until the end." Garvin has expressed pride in his inclusion of a diverse cast of characters, such as the American-Indian Teresa Lipan, African-American Lawrence Mujari and Chinese Lian Xing.

Syphon Filter 2 was added as a part of the premium collection for PlayStation Plus in 2022, with Trophy support added to the game. It is also the first PlayStation Plus Premium game with both 50Hz and 60Hz modes.

Reception
Syphon Filter 2 received favourable reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.

Many reviewers   stated that the game differed little from the original in terms of gameplay and graphics. GameRevolution concluded: "Fans of the original should aim for the head and pull the trigger – this one's a no-brainer." Douglass C. Perry of IGN praised the two-player mode and favourably compared it to similar features in Medal of Honor. Jeff Ludrigan of NextGen said, "If you don't mind a serious challenge, this game will reward your persistence with nail-biting action, excellent graphics, and a well told, memorable story." A less positive review came from Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot, who wrote: "If you were a big fan of Syphon Filter, you may get a kick out of the sequel, but the lackluster mission design and super-convoluted story really cancel out the improvements to the game's control."

While most reviewers praised the game, the voice-acting was panned. Gerstmann stated: "Some of Gabe's lines and vocal inflection really don't fit the current situation, making it sound as if he were lounging by the pool instead of taking heavy fire from entrenched enemies." Perry called the voice acting "truly awful", while Patrick Klepek of Gaming Age called the voice acting "sub-par", continuing: "[...] the accents given to some of the characters are just terrible, though Gabe's voice is probably the worst offender of them all."

Air Hendrix of GamePro said in one review, "When the awesome gameplay, sharp controls, and everything else are added up, Syphon 2 [sic] is destined to be another huge hit. It's one of the PlayStation's best action games—with the PS2 on the horizon, it'll also rank highly among the last great PlayStation games." In another review, The Freshman said that the game's difficulty "may turn off more casual gamers who dislike failing pinpoint twitch-action segments over and over and over, which is a pity, because Syphon 2's [sic] awesome storyline and tense action simply beg to be played. Patient gamers are in for a treat, but this virus might make you lose your hair."

In a retrospective review, AllGame editor Rich Briggs highly praised Syphon Filter 2, referring to it as "a highly entertaining title filled with rock-solid gameplay and continuous action".

As of 2007, Syphon Filter 2 had sold 1.32 million units, earning platinum status.

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Chicoutimi Saguenéens

The Chicoutimi Saguenéens are a Canadian junior ice hockey team which plays in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). The team is based in Chicoutimi, Quebec, and owned by the City of Saguenay. The team plays its home games at the Centre Georges-Vézina.

History
The Chicoutimi Saguenéens franchise was granted for the 1973–74 season. The team's name, Saguenéens, literally means "People from the Saguenay." The current junior team is only the most recent to use the name. The "Sags", as they are popularly nicknamed, have won the President's Cup twice in their history, in 1990–91 and in 1993–94. In both instances they advanced to the Memorial Cup, failing to advance past the round-robin stage on each occasion. The Sags also participated in the 1997 Memorial Cup, as the host Hull Olympiques had won the QMJHL title that year; the Saguenéens also did not advance past the round-robin that year. Finally, the Centre Georges-Vézina hosted Memorial Cup festivities in 1988, but the team did not participate as then-current QMJHL rules forced the host team to make it to at least the President's Cup final, which the Saguenéens did not do in that year.

Yearly results
Legend: OTL = Overtime loss, SL = Shootout loss

NHL alumni

 * Ramzi Abid
 * Frederic Allard
 * Joel Baillargeon
 * Ľuboš Bartečko
 * Marc Bergevin
 * Daniel Berthiaume
 * Nicolas Blanchard
 * Michel Bolduc
 * Pierre-Marc Bouchard
 * François Breault
 * Julien Brouillette
 * Paul Brousseau
 * Marc Bureau
 * Guy Carbonneau
 * Stéphane Charbonneau
 * Denis Chassé
 * Alain Côté
 * Patrick Coulombe
 * Glen Cressman
 * Louis Crevier
 * Laurent Dauphin
 * Gilbert Delorme
 * Marc Denis
 * Nicolas Deschamps
 * David Desharnais
 * Gord Donnelly
 * Daniel Doré
 * Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers
 * Luc Dufour
 * Éric Fichaud
 * Marc Fortier
 * Éric Gélinas
 * Christopher Gibson
 * David Gosselin
 * Denis Hamel
 * Gilles Hamel
 * Alan Haworth
 * Yves Héroux
 * Charles Hudon
 * Chris Langevin
 * Hendrix Lapierre
 * Steve Larouche
 * Raphaël Lavoie
 * Alain Lemieux
 * Normand Léveillé
 * Daniel Marois
 * Stéphane Morin
 * Alain Nasreddine
 * Jean-Gabriel Pageau
 * Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau
 * Félix Potvin
 * Daniel Poulin
 * Yves Preston
 * Jean-Marc Richard
 * Stéphane Richer
 * Antoine Roussel
 * André Roy
 * Nicolas Roy
 * Stéphane Roy
 * German Rubtsov
 * Lukáš Sedlák
 * Louis Sleigher
 * Sam St. Laurent
 * Radoslav Suchý
 * Bob Sullivan
 * Jimmy Waite

Retired numbers

 * 14 – Alain Côté
 * 15 – David Desharnais
 * 16 – Normand Leveille
 * 18 – Sylvain Locas
 * 20 – Marc Fortier
 * 21 – Guy Carbonneau
 * 29 – Félix Potvin

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On Open Source Matters, you use the term "outbreak". Did you mean "spinoff" or "fork" or what? As written this does not seem to em to make much sense. Also, perhaps you could provide info that makes the importance, significance, and notability of this subject clearer. I inserted a more specific stub tag, please mcheck if it is the right one. please try to avoid the feneric stub whenever possible. DES (talk) 18:48, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

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indeed. My english is not the best, so the term "outbreak" was the best that i could come up with. I will also expand it in the future, and i have postet a request for others to follow me on the Open Source Matters forum. Thanks for educating me a bit in wikipedia =) --OverDriv3 19:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

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Corsican Assembly

The Corsican Assembly or Assembly of Corsica (Assemblea di Corsica; Assemblée de Corse) is the unicameral legislative body of the territorial collectivity of Corsica. It has its seat at the Grand Hôtel d'Ajaccio et Continental, in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio. After the 2017 territorial elections, the assembly was expanded from 51 to 63 seats, with the executive council expanding from 9 to 11 members (including the president).

History
Before 1975, Corsica was a département of the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

On 2 March 1982, a law was passed that gave Corsica the status of territorial collectivity (collectivité territoriale), abolishing the Corsican Regional Council which had existed before. Unlike the regional councils, the Corsican Assembly has executive powers over the island.

In 1992, three institutions were formed in the territorial collectivity of Corsica:
 * The Executive Council of Corsica, which exercises the type of executive functions held in other French regions by the Presidents of the Regional Councils. It ensures the stability and consistency needed to manage the affairs of the territory;
 * The Corsican Assembly, a deliberative, unicameral legislative body with greater powers than the regional councils on the mainland;
 * The Economic, Social and Cultural Council of Corsica, an advisory body.

Terminology
Members of the Corsican Assembly were first called "territorial councillors" in reference to Corsica's status as a collectivité territoriale. Members are now called "Councillors of the Corsican Assembly", or in unofficial and everyday speech, just "Councillors".

Powers

 * Economic development
 * Taxation
 * Energy
 * Environment
 * Housing
 * Education and training
 * Language
 * Transport
 * Forestry and agriculture
 * Culture
 * Tourism
 * Sports & youth

Composition
There are 63 members of the Assembly, elected for a six-year term via a closed party list and two rounds of voting. To pass beyond the first round, a candidate requires an absolute majority, whereas in the second round a plurality is sufficient.

The list that wins in the first or second round automatically obtains three seats as a "premium to the majority". The other seats are distributed based on proportional representation.

At the first meeting of Assembly Councillors after an election, the councillors elect an Assembly President in a plurality ballot. This is also a two-round contest, with an absolute majority required to proceed to the second round. At the same time as the election of the President, the Assembly also elects the ten members that will make up the President's Committee (bureau).

In contrast to the executives of the regional councils, Assembly Councillors may not also be members of the Corsican Executive Council. Election to the executive requires resignation from the Assembly.

Presidents of the Corsican Assembly

 * 1974–1979: François Giacobbi
 * 1979–1982: Jean Filippi
 * 1982–1984: Prosper Alfonsi
 * 1984–1998: Jean-Paul de Rocca Serra
 * 1998–2004: José Rossi
 * 2004–2010: Camille de Rocca Serra
 * 2010–2015: Dominique Bucchini
 * 2015-2021: Jean-Guy Talamoni
 * 2021-: Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis

Assembly members
Members since 2015:

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm is an expansion of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon released for the PlayStation 2, Nokia N-Gage, and mobile phones. It contains the content of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder along with eight new single-player missions set in Colombia and additional multiplayer maps.

Taking place just after Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder, the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm campaign is set in Bogotá, Colombia and was written by Richard Dansky.

Plot
The drug cartel that had aided and financed the FDG in their efforts in Cuba, the FARC, has initiated a number of terrorist attacks against the Colombian government who has allied themselves with the United States. After Colombia's call for help following an attack on a US embassy, the US responds by deploying the Ghosts to restore order and put the cartel out of business.

Once deployed, the Ghosts mobilize to face off with a newly formed militia group called the MFLC (Movimiento de las Fuerzas Libres Colombianas), which is basically the southern equivalent of the FARC.

The chaos caused by the MFLC is spreading into Ecuador and Peru, making the peacekeeping effort especially vital. Throughout the campaign, the Ghosts hunt down several of the MFLC's leaders, defend civilian centers spread throughout the region, free civilian prisoners, and cut off the flow of drugs in order to deny the MFLC financial backing. Although the Ghosts cause massive damage to the MFLC's war efforts, the MFLC and the FARC have connections to sleeper cells holed up in democratic Cuba. Unless they are told to hold back their use of force by their commanders in Colombia, they will cause widespread damage to Cuba and its populace.

To prevent this senseless act of violence, the Ghosts assault the last major MFLC campsite in the hills, which surrounds a large radio tower. With the help of UN peacekeepers and captured personnel at the tower, the Ghosts shut down the sleeper cells in Cuba, paving the way for them to strike at the heart of the MFLC and ending their rebellion permanently. The game goes into little detail as to what happens after the MFLC are defeated, but supposedly their defeat shuts down the rebellion put up by the other rebel factions and the FARC across Colombia.

Reception
Combined sales of Jungle Storm and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder reached 1.1 million copies by the end of March 2004.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm received mixed reviews. It has an aggregate score of 70.36% on GameRankings and 70/100 on Metacritic. It received a runner-up placement in GameSpot's 2004 "Best N-Gage Game" award category, losing to Colin McRae Rally 2005.

The game went offline in 2011.

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Talk:2005 New England Patriots Schedule

For a May 2005 deletion debate over this page see Votes for deletion/2005 New England Patriots Schedule

If deleted this article can form a solid base for 2005 New England Patriots Season. The article as it stands will be available at User:McDogm/Pats Schedule, again in case of deletion. Tx. --McDogm 22:12, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

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Quebec Remparts

The Quebec Remparts (Remparts de Québec) are a Canadian junior ice hockey based in Quebec City, Quebec. The team plays in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), and is named after the Ramparts of Quebec City (Remparts de Québec). There have been two franchises named the Quebec Remparts. The first edition played from 1969 to 1985; the current franchise has played since 1997. The current team plays at Videotron Centre.

Original Remparts
The original Quebec Remparts team was founded in 1969 by a group of investors who purchased the assets of the junior Quebec Aces team. Some of the new owners included Paul Dumont, and Gérard Bolduc. The Remparts took up residence in the same arena as the Aces in the Colisée de Québec. The Remparts were finalists for the George Richardson Memorial Trophy in 1969–70, and eastern Canadian champions in 1970–71. It was this team, which featured future Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur, that won a Memorial Cup championship in 1971. The team also won the President's Cup five times. Gilles Courteau was the general manager of the Remparts from 1980 to 1985.

After the 1984–85 season, the team went into dormancy for three seasons before being resurrected. After returning to play, then-sponsored by "Le Collège Français", the team moved to Longueuil to become the Longueuil Collège Français. The team played for three seasons before moving to Verdun in 1991 to become the Verdun Collège Français. The franchise ceased operations in 1994.

Revived Remparts
The current Remparts franchise was granted for the 1990–91 season and was known as the Beauport Harfangs, a suburb in the Quebec City metropolitan area. In 1997 the team moved to Quebec City, playing two seasons at PEPS on the campus of Laval University between 1997 and 1999. In 1999 the team moved into the Colisée de Québec.

On May 28, 2006, the Remparts won the Memorial Cup, beating the Moncton Wildcats 6–2 in the finals. Then-head coach Patrick Roy became the seventh coach to win the Cup in his first year as head coach, and the first to do so since Claude Julien of the Hull Olympiques in 1997. It was also the first time in Memorial Cup history that the finals involved two teams from the QMJHL. Quebec also won the Cup without winning a League championship and without hosting the event, another first in Memorial Cup history.

On November 27, 2014, the Remparts were sold to Quebecor for an estimated price between $20 million and $25 million. The Remparts were chosen to be the host of the 2015 Memorial Cup. They defeated the Rimouski Océanic in tie-breaker 5-2, but were eliminated by the Kelowna Rockets in the semi-finals 9-3. The team moved to Centre Vidéotron on September 12, 2015.

On June 4, 2023, the Remparts won the Memorial Cup, beating the Seattle Thunderbirds 5–0 in the championship game; head coach Patrick Roy had previously announced that this was his last year as head coach, thus completing the book end to his first year Cup win.

NHL alumni
Michel Goulet, and Guy Lafleur have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
 * Original Remparts

 * Pierre Aubry
 * Rick Bowness
 * Stéphane Brochu
 * Mario Brunetta
 * Nelson Burton
 * Guy Chouinard
 * Réal Cloutier
 * Alain Côté
 * Sylvain Côté
 * André Doré
 * Gaétan Duchesne
 * Peter Folco
 * Eddy Godin
 * Michel Goulet
 * Richard Grenier
 * Val James
 * Michel Lachance
 * Pierre Lacroix
 * Guy Lafleur
 * Jean-Marc Lanthier
 * Kevin Lowe
 * Gilles Lupien
 * Mario Marois
 * Pat Mayer
 * Gilles Meloche
 * Rich Nantais
 * Paul Pageau
 * Dave Pichette
 * Jacques Richard
 * Mario Roberge
 * Serge Roberge
 * Normand Rochefort
 * Roberto Romano
 * André Savard
 * Jean Savard
 * Martin Simard
 * Gaston Therrien
 * Vincent Tremblay

 * Modern Remparts

 * Maxim Balmochnykh
 * Eric Chouinard
 * Louis Crevier
 * Jean-Philippe Côté
 * Cédrick Desjardins
 * Louis Domingue
 * Anthony Duclair
 * Gordie Dwyer
 * Adam Erne
 * Simon Gagné
 * Alexandre Grenier
 * Martin Grenier
 * Mikhail Grigorenko
 * Josh Hennessy
 * Aaron Johnson
 * Juraj Kolnik
 * Kristian Kudroc
 * Philipp Kurashev
 * Guillaume Lefebvre
 * Jonathan Marchessault
 * Maxime Ouellet
 * Alexander Radulov
 * Mike Ribeiro
 * Kirill Safronov
 * Timofei Shishkanov
 * Jordan Smotherman
 * Antoine Vermette
 * Marc-Édouard Vlasic

title: Quebec Remparts