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1792 - George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
1838 - Iowa Territory forms
1840 - Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
1898 - Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
1903 - Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1908 – Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC)
RUSSIAN NATIONAL DAY
WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOR

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1231 - Harderwijk (Netherlands) becomes a city
1517 - Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
1578 - England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize North America
1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1838 - Iowa Territory is organized
1891 - Puerto Rican flag adopted
1901 - Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
1955 - 1st magnesium jet airplane flies

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1610 - 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island.
1848 - 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago.
1786 - A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1808 - Friedrich Kaiser, Dutch astronomer.
1973 - NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit.

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1456 - 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River
1781 - George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor (RR locomotive)
1812 - Johann G Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune)
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1956 - Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
1980 - Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth

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1625 - Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn)
1652 - William Dampier, English explorer/pirate
1695 - Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66
1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1949 - Siam changes name to Thailand
1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles
1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1966 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado.
1994 - 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
WORLD OCEANS DAY