And the next date in the calendar is....

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May 20, 1980
Canada avoids splitting apart; Quebec Referendum on Separation.

the CBC archives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Quebec_referendum

Trudeau's speech.

 

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21 May 1991 – Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

 

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22 May 1960
the Great Chilean Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.

 

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23 May 1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi.

 

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24 May 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.

 

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25 May 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.

 

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26 May 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

 

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27 May 1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia

 

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28 May 1660 – Birth of the future King George I of Great Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain

 

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29 May 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

 

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30 May 1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Seymour

 

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31 May 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.

 

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1 June 1812 – War of 1812: US President James Madison asks the Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

 

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2 June 1886 – US President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.

 

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3 June 1665 – James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.

 

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4 June 1738 – Birth of King George III of the United Kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom

 

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5 June 1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of King Louis-Philippe I.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Philippe

 

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6 June 1934 – Birth of King Albert II of Belgium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_II_of_Belgium

 

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7 June 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.

 

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8 June 1405 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on King Henry IV's orders.