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Reminiscences on Andrew Mynarski

On the night of June 12, 1944 a few days after D-Day, the Lanc and its crew took off on their thirteenth sortie for the railway yard at Cambrai in an attempt to disrupt German supply lines...

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Sylvie Fréchette

Although the favourite to win, a judging error placed synchronized swimmer Sylvie Fréchette second at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
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1886 - The first scheduled CPR transcontinental passenger train reached Port Moody, after travelling "from sea to sea" for 5 days, 19 hours.
"Once in every generation we've had to conquer our fate over again."
   - A.R. M. Lower
The first person to report seeing a UFO in North America was Canadian Simeon Perkins, a Nova Scotian shipbuilder whose 12 October 1976 diary entry reported seeing "strange ships in the air."