1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France 1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots 1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming's South Pass 1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas 1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF begins bombing Hamburg (till 3rd August), creating a firestorm and killing 42,600 people 1982 Single "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor from "Rocky III" soundtrack starts 6-week run at No. 1 on US charts (Grammy for Best Rock Performance) 2019 Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals "Nature" and "Nature Geoscience" | 
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