Today's selected anniversaries: 29th June 2024

Today's selected anniversaries: 29th June 2024

1864:

A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway accident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloeil_train_disaster

1889:

Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the United States and the second-largest by population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Township,_Cook_County,_Illinois

1927:

The United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to complete the first transpacific flight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_Paradise_%28aircraft%29

1995:

Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle%E2%80%93Mir_program

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