2021
Billionaire Richard Branson flies to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane in space tourism test.
2019
Last models of Volkswagen’s Beetle car are produced in Pueblo, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years.
2015
Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house.
1990
Corporal Marcel Lemay, a 31 year old constable, killed during gun battle as 100 members of La Sûreté du Québec attack Mohawk barricades, put up in March to block expansion of a golf course on land they claim was never signed away.
1969
David Bowie releases the single “Space Oddity” 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon.
1962
Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
1914
Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox.
1911
Founding of the Canadian Professional Golfers Association.
1895
Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
1750
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire.