2005
Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
1976
US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing.
1969
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
1968
The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1903
The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1854
Laying of first stone of the Victoria Railway Bridge from Montreal to the south shore of the St. Lawrence.
1620
Samuel de Champlain starts building Fort St. Louis on Cap Diamant; first fort built on the cliff at Quebec.
