BC Place is a large covered stadium in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, built when the city was preparing for the Expo 86 world fair. It opened with an air-supported fabric roof, the largest in the world at the time, which required constant air pressure and deflated after a tear in 2007. The stadium was later rebuilt with a retractable roof supported by cables, and it reopened after this renovation in 2011. BC Place is the home of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and of the football team Vancouver Whitecaps. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final, and matches of the 2026 World Cup.
Before and after
- 26 January 1983Launch of IRAS
- 4 April 1983First flight of Challenger
- 18 April 1983Founding of Disney Channel
- from 5 June 1983 to 9 January 2005Second Sudanese Civil War
- 19 June 1983Construction of BC Place
- 21 June 1983Birth of Edward Snowden
- 15 July 1983Orly Airport attack
- from 23 July 1983 to 29 July 1987Eelam War I
- from 23 July 1983 to 18 May 2009Sri Lankan civil war
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