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Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to a spike in COVID-19 cases with 10,040 cases and 630 deaths.

Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak

Terry Fox 1958-1981 loses right leg above the knee to cancer; fitted with artificial leg; learns to walk, drive a car, play golf.

Production began on the first Ford Mustang.

Mattel introduced Barbie at the annual Toy Fair in New York.

Adolf Hitler publicly announces the creation of a new air force, the Luftwaffe.

Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.

The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

Italy announces it is locking down northern region of Lombardy, including Milan, with 16 million people, as COVID-19 cases reach 5,800 with 233 deaths.

Asia-Pacific trade deal signed in Santiago, Chile by 11 countries including Canada.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries.

First flight of the Goodyear blimp.

Joe Frazier of Philadelphia wins decision in Madison Square Gardens over Muhammad Ali for Heavyweight Boxing Championship; Frazier and Ali collect $2,5 million apiece for the bout.

Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.

International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.

The New York Stock Exchange is founded.

Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova reveals failed drug test for meldonium at Australian Open in January, subsequently suspended for 15 months

Song We Are the World first played on radio; music by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson, from the USA for Africa album to aid famine victims produced by Quincy Jones.

Russia appeared for the first time in ice-hockey competition. Russia defeated Canada 7-2 to win the world ice-hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden.

Glamour magazine begins publishing.

Université of Montréal chartered.

Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.

The last episode of “The Cosby Show” aired. The show had been on since September of 1984.

Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to “Muhammad Ali”, calling his former title a “slave name”.

The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.

Real Madrid C.F. was foundered.

Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.

Giuseppe Verdi’s Opera “La Traviata” premieres in Venice.

Louis Hébert signs agreement to become the first colonist of New France; he is a farmer and apothecary, and will provide herbal medicines to the inhabitants.

Bugatti announces the most expensive new car ever made – the La Voiture Noire costing $19 million, only one will be made

Harrison Ford crash-lands his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR aeroplane in California

American reality TV program The Osbournes” featuring family of Ozzy Osbourne premieres on MTV.

Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.

Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) became the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons.

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

The Soviets moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.

Stapler patented in England by C H Gould.

Piano company Steinway & Sons founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City

Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.

The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI.

Canada banned human embryo cloning but permitted government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.

The Louvre Pyramid designed by I. M. Pei is inaugurated by French President Francois Mitterrand.

Canadien Guy Lafleur scores his 1000th NHL Point.

John Lennon says the Beatles are more popular than Jesus.

Walt Disney’s “Cinderella” was released across the U.S.

1st vampire film Nosferatu premieres at the Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany, an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.

Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19.

The Alberto Giacometti sculpture L’Homme qui marche sold for $103.7 million.

Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted.

Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.

Canadien Jean Beliveau scores one goal in a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings; second NHL player to score 1,000 career points.

Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of US House of Representatives).

University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team’s discovery of insulin.

In Ottawa, Canada’s original parliament buildings burned down.

American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates.

1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)

Georges Bizet premieres his opera Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris France.