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It happened on a… June 29

2021

Lytton, British Columbia, records Canada’s highest-ever temperature of 49.6C (121.3F), before being destroyed by a wildfire the next day.

2015

Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing of bricks.

2009

Financier Bernard Madoff sentenced to 150 years in prison, US maximum, for conducting massive Ponzi scheme.

2008

Thomas Beatie, the world’s first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.

1974

Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from Soviet Union while on tour in Canada with the Bolshoi Ballet.

1963

Beatles’ 1st song “From Me to You” hits UK charts.

1937

Joseph-Armand Bombardier patents his Bombardier B-7 Snow Tractor.

1930

Pope Pius XI canonizes Jean de Brébeuf and 7 other Jesuits martyred in the 1600s; the first North American saints.

1922

France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge “freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes ».

1534

Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada.

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