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1980 Cable News Network (CNN) debuts
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2003 The European Space Agency launches the Mars Express probe
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1880 Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first wireless phone message
1989 The SkyDome in Toronto opens
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1838 The first recorded North American baseball game is played in Beachville, ON
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World Environment Day
1977 The first personal computer, the Apple II , is sold
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1933 The first drive-in movie theater opens
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1991 Mount Pinatubo explodes producing a 7 km high ash column
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1993 Ballard Power Systems unveils the first bus to run on a hydrogen cell
World Ocean Day - Celebration Ideas
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1822 Charles Graham receives the first patent for false teeth
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1943 The ball point pen is patented
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1910 Jacques Cousteau is born
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1979 The Gossamer Albatross flies across the English Channel powered solely by human power
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1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system
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Canadian Rivers Day
1951 Univac I , the first commercial computer, is unveiled
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1844 Charles Goodyear is granted a patent for rubber vulcanization
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1972 Churchill Falls power project, the largest single-site hydro electric project in the world, opens
1963 Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
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1928 Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman
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1983 Dr. Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
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1980 Dinosaur Provincial Park is declared a United Nations World Heritage site - Directory of Online Dinosaur Resources
1984 Science North opens to the public
1914 Hillcrest Mine Disaster , Canada's worst coal mining disaster, occurs
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1908 Murray Llewellyn Barr , discoverer of sex chromatin, is born in Belmont, ON
Father's Day
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National Aboriginal Day
First Day of Summer - Tracking the Summer Solstice
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1874 Dr. Andrew Still founds the practice of osteopathy
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1868 C.L. Sholes receives a patent for the typewriter
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1880 "O Canada" is sung for the first time. It wasn't proclaimed Canada's national anthem until July 1, 1980
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1951 The first commercial colour TV program is transmitted
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1976 The CN tower opens to the public
1930 Ethnobotanist Walter Lewis is born near Ottawa, ON
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1954 Obinsk Nuclear Power Plant , the world's first nuclear power plant, begins operation
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1992 Doctors perform the first successful transplant of an animal organ (baboon's liver) into a human being
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1995 Atlantis and Mir dock to form the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit earth
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1971 A Soviet space mission ends in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 are found dead at re-entry
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