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Vancouver Sun consumer columnist Penny Wise lost a bet to sports columnist Dick Beddoes in a competition to raise funds to send aid workers to Ghana.
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Vancouver Sun consumer columnist Penny Wise lost a bet to sports columnist Dick Beddoes in a competition to raise funds to send aid workers to Ghana.
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by Steve July 12 100 b.C. - Roman leader Julius Caesar [microbadge=8140](maybe the 13th)1817 - American writer Henry David Thoreau [microbadge=22063]1854 - Photography pioneer Ge...
1613-Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London burns down during a performance of "Henry VIII" 1900-The Imperial Chinese Court issues what is essentially a declaration of war against f...
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1633-Galileo Galilei recants his "heretical" position that the Earth orbiting the Sun is at odds with the Bible and church teaching (Vatican apologizes in 1992 for how it handled t...
626-Incident at Xuanwu Gate: Prince Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rivals, the brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng, sons of Emperor Gaozu; he then forces the emperor to name him...
1348-Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death states Jews are not to blame and encourages their protection 1775-Congress issues the "Declaration of the Causes an...
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1520-Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many sol...
1401-Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000 people 1790-King Gustav III leads Swedish naval forces to victory over the Russian Baltic fleet during th...
1536-Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason 1643-Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticu...
1792-Mount Unzen on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula erupts, creating a tsunami and killing about 15,000 people in the country's deadliest volcanic eruption 1832-First U.S. Democratic N...
Renewed U.S.-Iran strikes, a stalled bipartisan housing bill, a Cassidy-Trump shouting match, and Mamdani-backed primary wins dominated this week's Sunday political shows. Here's w...
1772-Captain James Cook begins his second voyage to the South Seas aboard HMS Resolution to search for Terra Australis (Southern Continent) 1832-Source of Mississippi River discove...
1779-Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of France and the USA, starting the Great Siege of Gibraltar, which lasts 3 years, 7 months, and 2 weeks 1858-Abraham Lincoln sa...
Wrestling promoter Emil Klank presided over an 'Era of Wonderful Nonsense' in Vancouver
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