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2021

Billionaire Richard Branson takes off toward the edge of space aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket for a space tourism test flight.

Volkswagen produces its last Beetle in Pueblo, Mexico, bringing an end to 80 years of production of this model.

Drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is recaptured after escaping from the Altiplano maximum-security prison in Mexico. He had built a 1.5-km tunnel.

During a Sûreté du Québec operation in Kanesetake near Montreal, Corporal Marcel Lemay, 31, is killed in an exchange of gunfire with the Mohawks.

David Bowie releases the song “Space Oddity,” nine days before the Apollo 11 launch to the Moon.

At a press conference, NASA announced that it would send astronauts to the Moon and bring them back to Earth.

Babe Ruth makes his major league baseball debut with the Boston Red Sox.

The Canadian Golf Professionals Association is founded.

The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière present the technology used to create a film to scientists.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire.

It happened on… July 11