On this day in history
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0069: Vespasian, a Roman army leader, is hailed as a Roman emperor by the Egyptian legions.
1543: England and Scotland sign the Peace of Greenwich.
1777: British troops depart from their base at the Bouquet River to head toward Ticonderoga, New York.
1798: Napoleon Bonaparte takes Alexandria, Egypt.
1821: North West Company merges with the Hudson's Bay Company; to operate for the next 21 years under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1838: Charles Darwin presents a paper on his theory of evolution to the Linnean Society in London.
1867: Canada, by the terms of the British North America Act, becomes an independent dominion.
1871: Library of Parliament founded.
1873: Prince Edward Island officially enters Confederation as a province of Canada.
1909: Governor General Earl Grey donates the Grey Cup for the best amateur rugby football team in Canada.
1916: The Battle of the Somme begins. Approximately 30,000 men are killed on the first day, two-thirds of them British.
1942: Axis troops capture Sevastopol, Crimea, in the Soviet Union.
1945: The New York State Commission Against Discrimination is established — the first such agency in the United States.
1950: American ground troops arrive in South Korea to halt the advancing North Korean army.
1961: British troops land in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.
1963: The U.S. postmaster introduces the ZIP code.
1966: The U.S. Marines launch Operation Holt in an attempt to finish off a Vietcong battalion in Thua Thien Province in Vietnam.
