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− | | | + | ! style="background:#9BCD9B; border:1px solid green"| <div style="float:right"><small><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[June 19|more]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></small></div>What else happened today |
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+ | * [[1866]] — Timothy O'Hea puts out a fire on a Grand Trunk train at Danville, Quebec, Canada, loaded with 95 barrels of [[gunpowder]]. He saves passengers and troops and receives first and only Victoria Cross awarded for valor inside Canada. | ||
+ | * [[1903]] — The US military officially adopts the [[M1903 Springfield]] as its standard [[service rifle]]. It would not be replaced until [[1936]], by the faster-firing, [[semi-automatic]] [[M1 Garand]]. | ||
+ | * [[1918]] — [[Canadian]] air ace Billy Bishop shoots down five German planes in his last dogfight, bringing his total enemy kills to 72. | ||
+ | * [[2000]] — The [[Violence Policy Center]] made headlines when it issued a press release stating that its website was the victim of a hacking attack that wiped out their data. | ||
+ | * [[2006]] — [[Bill C-21]], an early attempt by the Conservative Party of Canada to put the [[Canadian gun registry]] out of everyone else's misery, received first reading in the House of Commons. | ||
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+ | ==Today in pictures== | ||
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+ | File:F88 Austeyr Navy.jpg|[[2005]]: instruction on the F88 Austeyr Individual Weapon in Shoalwater Bay, Australia. | ||
+ | </gallery> | ||
+ | ===Picture of the day=== | ||
+ | {{POTD:June 19}} | ||
+ | [[category:Dates]] [[category:AOTDs needed]]</noinclude> |