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The military history of Canada entails millennia of armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, and the role of the Canadian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide. For at least 10,000 years, the area that would become Canada was the site of intertribal wars among First Nation groups. Beginning in the 10th century, the arrival of Europeans led to conflicts with the Natives and among the colonizing Europeans in the New World... full article...

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1642: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman reached Tasmania. He named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt.
1859: The Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin (pictured) was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
1963: On live television, Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
1971: After collecting a ransom payout of US$200,000, "D. B. Cooper" leaped out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked and disappeared.