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1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
1789 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1864 Battle of Cold Harbour continues
1885 In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police
1889 The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed
1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
1934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1940 The Luftwaffe bombs Paris
1940 The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat
1941 The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground
1942 Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island
1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
1976 Queen's Bhoemian Rhapsody goes gold 1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
1621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands"
1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
1789 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1864 Battle of Cold Harbour continues
1885 In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police
1889 The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed
1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
1934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1940 The Luftwaffe bombs Paris
1940 The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat
1941 The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground
1942 Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island
1966 Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
1976 Queen's Bhoemian Rhapsody goes gold 1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing