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July 03, 2025

1608: French explorer Samuel Champlain founded the city of Quebec.

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1806: Michael Keens, of Isleworth, southwest London, exhibited the first edible cultivated strawberry, which he called Keen’s Seedling.

1863: The Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest of the American Civil War, ended with the Confederate Army routed and more than 50,000 dead or wounded.

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