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| | | | 1608: French explorer Samuel de Champlain establishes the first permanent European settlement in Canada, a trading post along the St Lawrence River that becomes the city of Québec.
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1775: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army of the American colonies at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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1962: After a long and brutal colonial war and a vote by Algerians for independence, French president Charles de Gaulle proclaims the independence of Algeria from France.
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1971: American rock singer Jim Morrison, leader of the Doors, dies in Paris of a drug overdose.
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