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Today in history: The first motel, first golf tee patent and first Katzenjammer Kids

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In 1783 , New Brunswick’s first newspaper, the Royal Saint John Gazette and Nova Scotian Intelligencer , was published.

Pennsylvania became the second U.S. state in the United States in 1787 .

In 1894 , Canada 's fourth prime minister, Sir John Thompson , died in England of a heart attack at age 49 .

In 2003 , Paul Martin was sworn in as Canada ’s 21st prime minister.

In 2007 , the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal sentenced former Bosnian Serb general Dragomir Milosevic to 33 years in prison for the shelling and sniping of civilians in Sarajevo in the mid-1990s .

Canada was among 193 countries to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change.

In 2019 , British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ’s Conservatives secured a majority of 80 seats in the House of Commons .

In 2020 , a trio of private citizens cracked the code and revealed a half-century-long mystery linked to the “ Zodiac ” killer.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers won the 108th Grey Cup in Hamilton .

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