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Controversial Kerch bridge linking Russia and annexed Crimea opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin. At 19km the longest bridge in Europe.

“The Artist” directed by Michel Hazanavicius and starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo premieres at the Cannes Film festival (Best Picture 2012).

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.

Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub.

Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.

Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.

Mickey Mouse makes his 1st ever appearance in silent film “Plane Crazy”.

The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.

Las Vegas founded in Nevada.

Canadian Métis insurgent Louis Riel captured in the aftermath of the Battle of Batoche in Saskatchewan

Founding of l’Université de Montréal; a branch of Laval.

Samuel de Champlain sails from France on his first voyage to Canada.

Dan Brown’s fourth novel starring Robert Langdon (The Da Vinci Code), titled “Inferno”, is released and instantly becomes a bestseller.

The final episode of the TV series “Seinfeld” aired after nine years on NBC.

Final TV episode of “Family Ties” airs on NBC with a 36 million audience.

Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank’s complete diary.

Jeanne Sauvé sworn in as Canada’s first female Governor General after recovery from a battle with cancer.

Skylab launched, 1st Space Station.

Last Chevrolet Corvair built.

Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada.

The name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough.

First ship of the season arrives at the Grosse Ile quarantine station near the port of Quebec; beginning of the most terrible summer of its 105-year history, as the Irish famine reaches its peak, and over 100 000 immigrants, many infected with typhus, arrive in a single season.

Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4.

Henry IV of France is assassinated by fanatical Catholic François Ravaillac who stabs him to death in the streets of Paris.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield departs the International Space Station to return to Earth.

The final episode of “Frasier” on NBC is watched by 33 million people.

Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times.

Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.

Rolling Stones record “Satisfaction”.

The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.

Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.

The first Giro d’Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s first opera “Apollo et Hyacinthus”, written when he was 11 years old, premieres in Salzburg.

Jamestown, Virginia, was settled as a colony of England.

For the first time, astronomers reveal an image of the black hole located at the center of our galaxy. Known as Sagittarius A. The image shows the shadow of the black hole surrounded by a bright ring. The black hole is 4 million times more massive than our sun.

Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.

“Pulp Fiction”, directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson premieres at the Cannes Film Festival (Palme d’Or 1994).

Canada’s largest charter airline, Nationair, declares bankruptcy.

Canadian Olympian Ben Johnson admits to Dubin Inquiry that he has used anabolic steroids to enhance performance.

South African prisoner Nelson Mandela saw his wife for the first time in 22 years.

US Football League forms.

“Are You Experienced” album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience first released .

US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

Coronation of King George VI of Great Britain (and his other realms and territories beyond the sea) at Westminster Abbey, London.

In the Battle of Batoche (Saskatchewan), French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.

1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0.

Manitoba becomes a province of Canada.

Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented.

Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso’s The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York.

A French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency. The coin is known as the euro.

Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats” (based on poetry by T. S. Eliot) directed by Trevor Nunn first premieres in the West End, London.

The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.

Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

Founding of the Canadian commercial exchange; forerunner of the Montreal Stock Exchange.

“The Diamond Sutra”, the world’s oldest surviving and dated printed book is printed in Chinese and made into a scroll.

NBC says it will not televise the 2022 Golden Globes because of criticism of its lack of diversity.

Taxi service Uber becomes a public company opening on the New York Stock Exchange.

Rafael Nadal breaks John McEnroe’s record for successive set wins on a single surface (49 on carpet) with 6-3, 6-4 win over Diego Schwartzman at the Madrid Open (clay).

59th Eurovision Song Contest: Conchita Wurst for Austria wins singing “Rise Like a Phoenix” in Copenhagen.

The Freedom Tower becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema.

The National and American Football Leagues announced their plans to merge for the 1970-71 season.

Marvel Comics published the first issue of “The Incredible Hulk.”

Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

Germany invaded Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

Capital of Canada moves from Montreal to Kingston after years of petitions; until Nov. 14, 1849.

Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan court house after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. The jury awarded her $5 million in damages for her battery and defamation claims.

Pope Francis introduces new rules on reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, criticized for not going far enough.

Accra Sports Stadium Disaster: 129 Ghanaian football fans die in a stampede caused by the firing of teargas by police following a decision by the referee in a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.

Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa’s first black president.

Slasher horror film “Friday the 13th” is released in cinemas.

Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

The Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Parlophone.

US becomes the first country to legalize the birth control pill.

Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock has world premiere in San Francisco.

Prince Rainier III becomes monarch of Monaco.

Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle.

President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a four year prison sentence for fraud.

The new Canadian War Museum opens in Ottawa.

Canadian Army Corporal Denis Lortie 1959- sprays the Quebec National Assembly with sub-machine gun fire, killing 3 and wounding 13; on leave from his base, he tells his captors he wanted to destroy the Parti Quebecois.

Gilles Villeneuve, from Berthierville, Que. dies in a 225 KPH accident while qualifying for the 1982 F1 Belgian Grand Prix.

Beatles release “Let it Be” album.

Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army

Oskar Schindler and his wife Emilie Schindler are honored for saving 1200 Jews during WWII,.

German General Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin.

Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called “Coca-Cola.”

1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines.

The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.

The World Health Organization approves the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm, its first made by a non-western country.

Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin “magic mushrooms”.

Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years.

Emmanuel Macron wins France’s presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen.

“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”, directed by Rob Marshall, starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, premieres in – opening weekend makes $350.6m.

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

Three employees at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first “fast-food murder” in Canada.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission.

U.S. President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War.

Mamas & Papas “Monday Monday” hits #1.

Film and television production and distribution studio Paramount Pictures is founded.

Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby places the St Edward’s Crown onto the head of Britain’s King Charles III during the Coronation Ceremony inside Westminster Abbey in central London. Camilla, his second wife, will be crowned queen alongside him and be known as Queen Camilla after the ceremony. Charles became King in September 2022 when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died at 96. She was the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory.

François Hollande elected 24th President of France.

TV sitcom “Friends” airs season finale in 10th and final season.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk founds SpaceX.

“Spider-Man” became the first movie to make more than $100 million in its first weekend.

Michael Jackson & Bee Gees inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa’s first post apartheid election.

Channel tunnel linking England & France officially opens.

U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage”.

German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground.

Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox.

George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers.

The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, France, marking the dedication of the Eiffel Tower. Also at the exposition was the first automobile in Paris, the Mercedes-Benz.

World’s first adhesive postage stamp, the “Penny Black”, is first used in Great Britain.

Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.