2018
Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Caroline Wozniacki beats Simona Halep 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 to win her first Grand Slam title.
2010
Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPad.
1984
Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial.
LA Kings end Wayne Gretzky’s NHL-record 51-game scoring streak.
1967
A fire in the Apollo 1 Command Module kills astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee during a launch rehearsal.
1961
Montreal starts to build subway, at estimated cost of $300 million; Quebec agrees to help with financing.
1956
“Heartbreak Hotel” single released by Elvis Presley, his first million-selling single.
1944
Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Wehrmacht after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed.
1926
John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television.
1918
“Tarzan of the Apes”, 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater.
1880
Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp.
1721
First regular mail coach service starts between Quebec and Montreal.