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

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29 June 1534
Jacques Cartier reaches Prince Edward Island.

 

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30 June 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

 

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July 1st, 1867: Canada becomes a country.

 

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July 2, 1871
Rome is liberated from the Papacy by Vittorio Emanuele II

 

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3 July 1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard_(locomotive)

 

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4 July 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.

 

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5 July 1833 – Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1833)

 

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6 July 1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster.

 

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7 July 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.

 

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8 July 1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island.

 

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9 July 1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.

 

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10 July 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Northampton_(1460)

 

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11 July 1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jay's-treaty.jpg

 

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12 July 1690 – Battle of the Boyne – The armies of King William III defeat those of the former King James II.

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

 

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13 July 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R34_(airship)

 

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14 July 1913 – Birth of Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States.

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

 

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July 15
1099 - Inhabitants of Jerusalem fail in their attempts to repel the First Crusade

1799 - Napoleon's army takes possession of the Rosetta Stone; egyptian hieroglyphs can begin to be understood.

1870 - Government of Canada assumes control of Rupertsland, previously owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, and making room for an expanding country.

 

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16 July 1951 – King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I.

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

 

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17 July 1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost.

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

 

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18 July 1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisha_B'Av
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England