2020
Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 when world was in lockdown, in study published in “Nature Climate Change”.
2018
American actress Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry at a ceremony in Windsor Castle. Queen Elizabeth II grants the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
2016
EgyptAir flight MS804 goes missing over the Mediterranean on route Paris to Cairo, killing all 56 passengers, 3 security personnel, and 7 crew members on board.
1999
“Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” was released in the U.S.
1962
Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of “Happy Birthday” for U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
1943
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings (“D-Day”).
1817
Montreal business leaders adopt articles of association for the Bank of Montreal; officially founded May 23, with a capital of £250,000; opens for business on Nov. 3.
1535
Jacques Cartier 1491-1557 leaves on second voyage on the Grand Hermine, Petite Hermine and Emerillon with 110 men, including two priests and many of his wife’s cousins; they will take 50 days to cross the Atlantic, and winter at Quebec.
