2020
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates steps down from the company’s board to focus on philanthropic activities.
2019
US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type’s second crash in Ethiopia.
2014
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, directed by Joe Johnston, starring Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, premieres in Los Angeles.
2013
Pope Francis is elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.
2004
Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Tosca”.
1971
FLQ terrorist Paul Rose given a life sentence for the non-capital murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis of 1970.
1916
Manitoba the first province to vote for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
1639
Cambridge College renamed Harvard in honour of clergyman John Harvard.
1634
First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart.
