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14: Police say a white gunman’s attack in a supermarket in a Black area of Buffalo, N.Y., that left 10 people dead, was racially motivated. Payton Gendron, 18, is accused of the crime. 17: An historic U.S. Congressional hearing is held on sightings of UFOs, though no definite source of the mysterious craft is revealed.
21: A violent thunderstorm sweeps across southern Ontario and into Quebec, leaving 11 people dead, considerable property damage and lengthy power outages in its wake.People react outside the Sgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a mass shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022.24: Nineteen children and two teachers are shot to death at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
30: The Trudeau government tables firearms control legislation that would freeze the purchase and transfer of handguns in Canada and the buyback of so-called assault-style weapons.Article content 14: Climate change is cited for infrastructure damage caused by flooding from torrential rains and rapid snow melt that shuts down Yellowstone National Park in Montana.Article content
22: Canada’s inflation rate for May hits 7.7 per cent compared to a year ago — the highest it’s been since 1983. 24: Following a series of high-profile mass shootings, the U.S. Congress passes a modest but rare gun control bill that hikes background checks.Article content 28: Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse young girls, is sentenced to 20 years in prison.
28: Twin brother bank robbers with apparent ties to far right-wing extremism wound six police officers in a shootout in Saanich, B.C., before being shot dead.4: America’s mass shooting epidemic strikes the nation’s birthday celebrations when a July 4 parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park is attacked by a gunman who kills seven people and wounds nearly 40.
The first full-colour image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, in a composite made from images at different wavelengths taken with a Near-Infrared Camera and released July 11, 2022.12: NASA releases the first images from its James Webb Space Telescope providing views of the cosmos of unprecedented depth and clarity.
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