2019
Mexican-American boxer Andy Ruiz Jr produces a huge upset when he stops English champion Anthony Joshua in 7 at Madison Square Garden; wins IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA world heavyweight titles.
2017
US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.
2016
Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel is completed – world’s longest at 57km and most expensive tunnel costing €11bn.
2009
General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.
1980
Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
1975
Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist.
1973
Paul McCartney & Wings release “Live & Let Die”.
1944
Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.
1880
The first pay telephone service in the world is installed in New Haven, Connecticut.
1858
Quebec is the first Province of Canada coins minted: pennies, nickels, dimes and 20 cent pieces.
1857
Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is published.
1495
First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller.