2021
“Friends” reunion screens, 17 years after the TV sitcom series ended.
2020
America’s COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 equal to number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan put together.
2018
South Korean boy band BTS are the first K-pop group to top the Billboard 200 with their album “Love Yourself: Tear”.
2005
DreamWorks releases computer-animated film “Madagascar” with voices by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
1999
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
1995
In Charlottesville, VA, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a jumping event.
1977
The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen”, sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC
Pierre Elliott Trudeau agrees to separation with wife Margaret; retains custody of three children.
1969
Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.
1968
Major League Baseball’s National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)
1944
Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Huis Clos” premieres in Paris.
1940
British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII.
1937
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to pedestrians.
1936
RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage.
1933
Walt Disney’s short film “3 Little Pigs” released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934).
1703
Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great.