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“The Dark Knight” directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, premieres in New York.

Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber.

“Easy Rider”, directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released.

Canadian National Railways opens Central Station in Montreal.

Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel.

Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.

Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.

French Revolution began with Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.

Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by jury in US state of Missouri.

Theresa May is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs.

Duran Duran became the first artists to have a No.1 with a James Bond theme when ‘A View To A Kill’, went to the top of the charts.

The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London, England, United Kingdom and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as other venues such as Sydney, Australia and Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.

Montreal Expos host first All-Star Game played outside the US; the National League defeats the American League 4-1, winning for the 11th consecutive year.

US Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate.

Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut, “Our Love”.

1st-ever football World Cup competition begins in Uruguay.

The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

Opening of fourth modern Olympic games in London; some Canadian athletes attend; women compete in modern Olympic events for the first time.

The first high-resolution images from the James Webb Space Telescope are released. This landscape is the edge of NGC 3324, a young star-forming region in the Carina Nebula.

Sandra Oh is the first woman to be nominated for an Emmy award in a leading role for “Killing Eve”.

The movie “X-Men” premiered in New York.

FIFA World Cup Final, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Zinadine Zidane scores twice as France wins first World Cup beating Brazil, 3-0.

1st “Family Feud” game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson.

The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London, England, United Kingdom.

The Major League Baseball Players Association was organized in Cleveland, OH.

Canada’s first railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence, starts service between Laprairie and St-Jean on the Richelieu.

James Wolfe orders cannon to start firing on Quebec from heights of Lévis.

Billionaire Richard Branson flies to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane in space tourism test.

Last models of Volkswagen’s Beetle car are produced in Pueblo, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years.

Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house.

Corporal Marcel Lemay, a 31 year old constable, killed during gun battle as 100 members of La Sûreté du Québec attack Mohawk barricades, put up in March to block expansion of a golf course on land they claim was never signed away.

David Bowie releases the single “Space Oddity” 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon.

Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox.

Founding of the Canadian Professional Golfers Association.

Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire.

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo joins Italian champions Juventus in a deal worth £99.2m, becoming one of the four most expensive players of all time.

Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album “Scorpion”.

“Orange Is the New Black” premieres on Netflix starring Taylor Schilling.

“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, the 5th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released.

Coldplay release their debut album “Parachutes” (Grammy Award Best Alternative Album 2002).

In Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation.

Playboy (and also Penthouse) publish nude pictures of Madonna.

French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”.

The Beatles release “A Hard Day’s Night”, their 3rd studio album.

Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights as Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown.

Canada’s first drive-in movie theatre opens in Hamilton.

George Eastman first demonstrated color motion pictures.

US coffee company Starbucks announces it will stop using plastic straws by 2020, reducing use of more than 1 billion straws a year.

Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released. The game marks the debut of Nintendo’s future mascot, Mario.

Pierre E. Trudeau’s Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election.

Andy Warhol’s first West Coast gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles.

Dick Clark’s 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand.

Bill Haley & Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” tops the billboards chart, one of the best-selling singles ever.

Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Royal Navy Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, a member of the Greek royal family.

World War II: Battle of Normandy, British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.

Johnny Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 meters freestyle in less than a minute, and actor best known for playing Tarzan in films.

The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.

Elton John performed what he says was the last show on the final tour of his career. The 76-year-old award-winning musician took the stage for purportedly the last time ever as a touring artist in Stockholm, Sweden.

Global known death toll from COVID-19 passes 4 million (equal to all deaths in battle since 1982).

US financier Jeffrey Epstein indicted on further charges of sex trafficking of minors.

South Korean golfer Sei Young Ki breaks LPGA 72-hole scoring record with 31 under-par 257, also first to better -30, in winning Thornberry Creek Classic.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.

J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” was released in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book.

“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” the 3rd book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published by Bloomsbury in the UK.

British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut single “Wannabe” in the UK.

The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game “Twister.”

The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.

The first French settlement at Quebec was established by Samuel de Champlain.

Stanley Cup Finals: The defending champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Montreal Canadiens, 1-0 in game 5 of the series. The Lightning retained their title, 4 wins to 1.

Haiti president Jovenel Moïse (left) assassinated in his home in Pétionville, Haiti, state of emergency declared across the country.

Tesla Motors produces its first mass-market car, the Model 3.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2”, the last Harry Potter film, premieres in London.

Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa.

First Three Tenors concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome – recording of is world’s best-selling classical record.

Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.

House of Commons passes Trudeau’s Official Languages Act, declares French and English to be the official languages of Canada; makes French equal to English in federal institutions; eases francophone access to the federal public service.

Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” is released.

Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right. »

The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln.

Jacques Cartier trades furs with Micmac; first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Mary Simon is named Canada’s first indigenous Governor General by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in sports history, inking a 12-year deal that could end up being worth US$503 million

Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released.

A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town’s central area.

“Forrest Gump”, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995).

John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, 3 years before forming the Beatles.

The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

The first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago. The American League beat the National League 4-2.

V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm, Sweden.

Louis Pasteur successfully tested his anti-rabies vaccine. The child used in the test later became the director of the Pasteur Institute.

Volvo Cars announces all new models by 2019 will be either hybrids or battery powered, 1st automaker to do so.

Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick of the US 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14 for a record 15th Grand Slam singles title.

SARS is declared “contained” by the WHO after affecting 26 countries and resulting in 774 deaths.

Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.

“Seinfield” (originally titled The Seinfeld Chronicles” screens its pilot episode starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards on NBC.

Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title when he defeated Jimmy Connors.

Governor General Roland Michener invested by Queen Elizabeth with the first ribbon and pendant star of the Order of Canada; founding of the Order of Canada.

The bikini bathing suit, created by Louis Reard, made its debut during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. Micheline Bernardini wore the two-piece outfit.

William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London.

Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver, British Columbia)