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India puts 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19.

Tomb of Jesus reopens after restoration in Jerusalem.

Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.

The National Hockey League (NHL) voted to accept 4 World Hockey Association (WHA) teams, the Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers.

Nicolae Ceausescu is elected General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party

The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom.

1st patent for lasers granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes

“All Shook Up” single released by Elvis Presley.

The first shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan.

The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association win the first Stanley Cup championship game, beating the Ottawa Capitals 3-1.

Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg admits they “made mistakes” after data on 50 million users is harvested by Cambridge Analytica.

Wayne Gretzky tied Gordie Howe’s NHL record of 801 goals.

Steven Spielberg won his first Oscars. They were for best picture and best director for “Schindler’s List.”

Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, CA, closed.

The Beatles’ first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

An earthquake hit Tokyo killing about 107,000.

After 20 years with the New England Patriots, six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady officially agrees to move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a 2-year $50m guaranteed deal.

Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour.

Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party’s first leader..

In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.

Joan Jett & Blackhearts’ “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” goes #1 for 7 weeks.

Quebec, National Assembly approves wording of referendum question on Sovereignty Association.

Hydro Quebec workers on James Bay project riot; destroy millions of dollars of equipment; project closes down.

Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

American fast food restaurant chain “KFC” [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky.

Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

The Sherlock Holmes Adventure, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” began.

After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi’s forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.

Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.

Britain’s Prince Andrew & Sarah, Duchess of York, announce separation.

1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa).

Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs 14-4; score 9 goals in the second period, the most goals in one period by an NHL team; total 31 goals and assists another NHL record.

Quebec brings in free dental care for all children under eight in the province.

Sean Connery’s 1st day of shooting on James Bond film “Goldfinger”.

Over 100 cm of snow falls at Cape Whittle; Quebec’s greatest one-day snowfall.

The 25th Academy Awards aired on television for the first time.

1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí.

Boston, Massachusetts incorporated as a city.

US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agree to close the US-Canada border, the world’s longest, to non-essential travel to curb COVID-19.

Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing Treaty on Accession.

The first free elections took place in East Germany.

Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified.

Maurice “Rocket” Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals.

1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick).

British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience.

Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record.

Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup).

Barnum & Bailey Circus, travelling as “The Greatest Show on Earth”, debuts at (Madison Square Garden, New York City, would last 146 years before closing in 2017

First public bus service begins, promoted by Blaise Pascal, operates in Paris as the “Carosses a Cinq sols” until 1675.

A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.

Jaguar head William Lyons debuts the first E-Type model at the Geneva International Motor Show, creating a sensation

One of the first French New Wave films, “Breathless”, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg is released in France.

The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) fled Tibet and went to India.

Al Capone was released from jail.

Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics.

Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London.

Bishop Patrick, St. Patrick, died in Saul. Ireland celebrates this day in his honor.

Global infections and deaths from COVID-19 overtake those in China for the 1st time, 86,000 vs 80,860 infections, 3,241 vs 3,208 deaths according to John Hopkins Uni.

Montreal Canadien’s 1st game in their new arena (Bell Center).

Chemical attack on Kurdish town of Halabja by Iraqi forces kills 5000 civilians – largest ever chemical weapons attack.

Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign.

General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard of the Montreal Canadiens suspended by NHL President Clarence Campbell (l905-); triggers riot next day at Montreal Forum.

Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.

The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

Jesuit priests Jean de Brébeuf 1593-1649 is tortured by Iroquois invaders at St-Louis; Brébeuf dies at 4 pm, his body burned. He was canonized in 1930.

Beginning of the Syrian civil war.

The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered.

TV comedy “Three’s Company” starring Jack Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC.

“The Godfather”, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1973).

Expo ’70 opens in Osaka, Japan.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton marry for the first time, in a civil ceremony in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel (Montreal, Quebec); her fifth marriage, his second.

Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.

Nicholas II, the last Russian Tsar abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him.

Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins.

Britons Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd

University of Toronto is chartered.

Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 leaves Honfleur with Gravé du Pont and Pierre de Monts on de Chaste’s ship ‘Bonne Renommé’; his first major voyage to Canada.

NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered

Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress.

Quebec to make French the official language of the province.

A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

Red Wings Gordie Howe the second NHLer to score 500 goals, after Maurice Richard.

Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates steps down from the company’s board to focus on philanthropic activities.

US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type’s second crash in Ethiopia.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, directed by Joe Johnston, starring Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, premieres in Los Angeles.

Pope Francis is elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.

Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Tosca”.

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.

Manitoba the first province to vote for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

Cambridge College renamed Harvard in honour of clergyman John Harvard.

First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart.