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| | | | 1858: Queen Victoria proclaims Ottawa as Canada’s capital.
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1941: Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet, novelist, and visionary, dies at the age of 80.
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1942: US Marines land on Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, in the first of the amphibious assaults against Japanese-held positions in the Pacific Ocean.
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1947: Hoping to prove that Native South Americans could have migrated to Pacific islands, Thor Heyerdahl lands the Kon-Tiki, on Polynesia after a 6,920-km (4,300-mi) journey from Peru. {Learn more about Thor Heyerdahl.]
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov completes 17 orbits of the Earth in 25.5 hours in Vostok 2, becoming the first person to spend more than a day in space.
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| | | | Who am I? I was born on this day in 1876. Accused of spying, I was executed by the French during World War I.
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