2020
World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton wins a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of wins at a single circuit (French GP).
2018
Airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its first flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France.
2017
“Depacito” by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee becomes the most streamed song ever, played 4.6 billion times.
2013
Selena Gomez releases her debut solo studio album “Stars Dance”.
2007
TV drama “Mad Men” debuts starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss and Vincent Kartheiser on cable network AMC.
1996
26th Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia.
1990
Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion.
1980
Canada joins the USA and other nations in protesting the invasion of Afganistan, by boycotting the 22nd Olympiad, opening today in Moscow; 81 other nations and 5,326 competitors attend; until August 3.
1952
XV Summer Olympic Games open in Helsinki, Finland.
1946
Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.
1941
Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in cartoon “The Midnight Snack” by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
1918
Start of Spanish flu epidemic that will kill over 30,000 people in Canada.
1903
Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
1869
Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion.
1821
Start of excavation of the Lachine Canal.