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2015

“The Sun” newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933.

2013

The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

2012

Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army.

1996

Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec’s costliest natural disasters ever: the Saguenay Flood.

1968

Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

1932

The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.

1925

Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”).

1892

First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Huffkine risks his life by testing it on himself.

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