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1779 – Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook after he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii. 1990 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured) , a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
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Pennsylvania's most populous city is Philadelphia. Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake. Before that, between 1638 and 1655, a southeast portion of the state was part of New Sweden, a Swedish colony.
(Chisholm, a merchant and founding father of Brampton, had been the Town reeve, then warden of Peel County, then MPP for Brampton and eventually, Registrar of Peel County.) [8] Sir William donated 1.7 acres (0.7 hectares) of the property to the town, with a specific condition that it be made into a park. Citizens donated $1,054 and the town ...
Brampton is a civil parish in Cumbria, England.It contains 84 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, four are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, four are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
The coat of arms of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsilfaani), is a U.S. state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Pennsylvania English or Pennsylvania dialects may refer to: Inland Northern American English , spoken in northeastern Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Dutch English , spoken in southeastern Pennsylvania by some of the Pennsylvania Dutch community