06-28-2004, 06:31 PM
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June 29th
1786 ~ Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Highlanders left Scotland to settle in Ontario, Canada.
1850 ~ Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.
1861 ~ Birthday of Dr. William Mayo, surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic.
1895 ~ Doukhobors burned their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1900 ~ Birthday of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Pilot and Writer.
1910 ~ Birthday of Frank Loesser, Composer and Lyricist.
1963 ~ Birthday of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violinist.
1974 ~ Isabel Peron sworn in as President of the Argentine Republic.
1995 ~ The US Space Shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts to the Russian Mir space station.
2003 ~ Death of Katharine Hepburn, Actress.
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