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| 1) 1831 James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole. | ||||||
| 2) 2003 The European Space Agency launches the Mars Express probe | 3) Canada Environment Week 1989 The SkyDome , now known as the Rogers Centre, in Toronto opens. | 4) 1973 A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain. | 5) 1977 The first personal computer, the Apple II , is sold | 6) 1933 Richard Milton Hollingshead, Jr opens the first drive-in theater in New Jersey, USA. | 7) 1991 Mount Pinatubo explodes, producing a 7 km high ash column. | 8) 1993 Ballard Power Systems unveils the first bus to run on a hydrogen cell. World Oceans Day |
| 9) 1934 Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen. | 10) Canadian Rivers Day 2002 Kevin Warwick conducts the first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans. | 11) 1939 Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. | 12) 1979 The Gossamer Albatross flies across the English Channel powered solely by human power. | 13) 1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. | 14) 1951 Univac I , the first commercial computer, is unveiled | 15) 763 BC Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. |
| 16) 1972 Churchill Falls power project, the largest single-site hydro electric project in the world, opens. | 17) 1928 Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman | 18) 1178 Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. | Today 19 ) 1984 Science North opens to the public 1914 Hillcrest Mine Disaster , Canada's worst coal mining disaster, occurs. | 20) 1840 Samuel Morse , receives the patent for the telegraph. | 21) First Day of Summer - Tracking the Summer Solstice | 22) 2003 The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Nebraska, USA. Animation of hailstone formation |
| 23) 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty – take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane. | 24) 109 Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana , an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres north-west of Rome. | 25) 1967 Broadcast of the first live global satellite television program : Our World. | 26) 1948 William Shockley files the original patent for the the grown junction transistor , the first bipolar junction transistor. | 27) 1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refuelingin a DH-4B biplane. | 28) 1846 The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France. | 29) 1927 First test ofWallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller. |
| 30) 1971 A Soviet space mission ends in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 are found dead at re-entry |