On this day...
-1534, 478th anniversary of French explorers Jacques Cartier's planting of a cross on the Gaspé peninsula (in modern Canada) and claiming it for France.
- 1567, 445th anniversary of 1-year old James VI ascending to the Scottish crown after Mary I abdicates, he would later be English king as well after Elizabeth I dies.
-1910, 102th anniversary of the end of the Albanian revolt, put down by the ottoman empire, the revolt will inspired Albanian independence in 1914.
-1923, 89th anniversary of the treaty of Lausanne, defining the borders of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria.
-1969, Apollo 11 lands in the ocean.
-1977, end of the Libyan-Egyptian war.
-2005, Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France.
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