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Vasco da Gama, the Beatles' First Meeting & Sliced Bread | Jul 6–12
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This week in history spans five centuries of turning points: Vasco da Gama sets sail for India, Althea Gibson breaks Wimbledon's colour barrier, John Lennon meets Paul McCartney at a church fete, and the world gets its first communications satellite. Eight remarkable historical events, one unforgettable week.
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On August seventeenth, eighteen oh seven, on the Hudson River in New York, Robert Fulton pointed his North River Steamboat north and let the engine do what sails and oars had always done before. The vessel departed New York City bound for Albany, churning upstream under its own mechanical power.
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