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2021

Lytton, British Columbia, recorded the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada—49.6 °C—before being destroyed by a wildfire the following day.

The Beijing Times reports that 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and the theft of bricks.

Financier Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme.

Thomas Beatie, the first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter.

Apple Inc. launches its first cell phone, the iPhone.

Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects while on tour in Canada with the Bolshoi Ballet.

The Beatles’ very first song, “From Me to You,” enters the UK charts.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier invents his B-7 snowmobile.

Pope Pius XI canonizes Jean de Brébeuf and seven other Jesuit martyrs. They become the first North American saints.

France donates a 1-square-kilometer plot of land on Vimy Ridge—the site of fierce fighting during World War I—to the Canadian government.

Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Island in Canada.

It happened on… June 29