Author: Buzznews

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.

“The Hunger Games” directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence premieres in Los Angeles.

A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.

Animated film “Ice Age” directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, with voices by Denis Leary and John Leguizamo premieres.

“Wonder Woman” debuted on ABC-TV. The show later went to CBS-TV.

The comic strip “Dennis the Menace” appeared for the first time in newspapers across the country.

Ghandi began his 300 km march to the sea that symbolized his defiance of British rule over India.

Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.

Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for a criminal sex act and rape in New York.

COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths

9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing 18 079 people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant.

NHL Canadiens beat Dallas Stars 4-1 in the last game played in the 72-year-old Montreal Forum.

Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons.

Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader.

Bobby Hull of the WHL Winnipeg Jets joins Gordie Howe by getting career point number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.

Pink Floyd releases 1st single “Arnold Layne”.

Bank of Canada first opens on Wellington Street, Ottawa.

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Don Carlos” premieres in Paris.

Assembly of Canada votes 91-33 to proceed with Confederation.

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto” premieres in Venice.

Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.

Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000.

The Vatican condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.

“Bette Davis Eyes” single released by Kim Carnes (Billboard Song of the Year 1981).

“The Incredible Hulk”, starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel record ‘The Sounds Of Silence’ as an acoustic duo.

Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.

American B-29 bombers attacked Tokyo, Japan, 100,000 were killed.

The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season.

Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”