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July 1 1867 |
Canada officially became
an independent country |
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July 2 1578 |
Martin Frobisher discovered
Hudson Strait |
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July 3 1608 |
The city of Quebec was founded
by Samuel de Champlain |
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July 4 1995 |
The bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald
which sank on Nov. 10, 1975, with the loss of 29 lives, was recovered
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July 5 1996 |
First successful clone
- Dolly the Sheep
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July 6 1945 |
Birth of Burt Ward, (Robin
of "Batman and Robin") |
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July 7 1967 |
The Beatles release "All You Need Is Love" |
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July 8 1889 |
The Wall Street Journal
was first published |
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July 9 1962 |
Bob Dylan records "Blowing in
the Wind" |
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July 10 1989 |
Death of Mel Blanc, voice
of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), |
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July 11 1274 |
Birth of Robert the Bruce
Scotland, King (1328-1329) |
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July 12 1543 |
England's King Henry VIII
weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife) |
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July 13 1940 |
Birth of Patrick Stewart
(Capt Picard-starburst Trek Next Generation) |
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July 14 1881 |
Outlaw William H. Bonney
Jr., aka Billy the Kid, was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in
Fort Sumner, N.M |
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July 15 1870 |
Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian
province |
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July 16 1945 |
The United States exploded
its first experimental atomic bomb, in the desert of Alamogordo, N.M
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July 17 1959 |
Dr Leakey discovers oldest
human skull (600,000 years old) |
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July 18 1905 |
The Dominion Act created
the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan effective Sept. 1
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July 19 1965 |
Shooting begins on Star
Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" |
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July 20 1969 |
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the
moon |
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July 21 1899 |
Ernest Hemingway was born
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July 22 1994 |
O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent
to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman
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July 23 1986 |
Britain's Prince Andrew
married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London |
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July 24 1845 |
The English explorer Sir
John Franklin disappeared while on an expedition in the eastern Arctic
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July 25 1956 |
Andrea Doria collided with
MS Stockholm and sank |
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July 26 1964 |
Teamsters president Jimmy
Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling
of a union pension fund |
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July 27 1953 |
The Korean War armistice
was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting |
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July 28 1898 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes
"Adventure of the Retired Colourman" |
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July 29 1890 |
Vincent van Gogh died of
a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France |
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July 30 1962 |
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
officially opened the Trans-Canada Highway |
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July 31 1498 |
During his third voyage
to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the island
of Trinidad |
