Author: Martin D'Anjou

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, the first Chinese president to visit North Korea in 14 years

The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Premier René Lévesque announces he will resign as leader of the Parti Quebecois

The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two countries.

Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.

The University of Oxford, England, receives its charter.

Felipe VI ascends to the Spanish throne after the abdication of his father King Juan Carlos I.

Garfield was in newspapers around the U.S. for the first time.

The stage production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” opened in London.

Gordie Howe left the NHL to join his sons Mark and Marty in the WHA (World Hockey League).

Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) and her 21-year-old neighbor Jimmy Dougherty were married. They were divorced in June of 1946.

The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

Jean de Brébeuf arrives in New France; build habitation on the St. Charles River; first Jesuit missionaries in Canada.

King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates the Spanish throne to make way for his son Felipe VI.

“The Fast and the Furious” film directed by Rob Cohen starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez premieres.

100th US Open Men’s Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Tiger Woods wins his first US Open by a major championship record-setting 15 strokes over Ernie Els and Miguel Ángel Jiménez.

Walt Disney’s “Tarzan” opened.

Expo’s Dennis Martinez wins his 200th game; 92nd major league pitcher to reach that mark.

National Gallery opens exhibition of 203 Group of Seven paintings; to commemorate 50th anniversary of Group’s founding.

French invasion of Algeria.

At the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon was defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington. Napoleon abdicated on June 22.

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi dies after collapsing during a court appearance in Cairo.

NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000.

Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Yank, a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, began publication. The term “G.I. Joe” was first used in a comic strip by Dave Breger.

Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison

The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.

End of the American invasion of Quebec as the last troops of the Army of the Continental Congress start leaving the province.

World Cup: Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is used for the first time, awarding France a penalty in 2-1 win over Australia in Kazan

Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.

The film adaptation of “Grease” premiered in New York City.

IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

Ford Motor Company was incorporated.

François de Laval 1623-1688 arrives in Canada as Vicar Apostolic of New France; becomes first Bishop of Quebec in 1674.

Physicist Stephen Hawking’s ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey, London, between the remains of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.

Fire kills 35 elderly persons at l’Hospice Ste-Cunégond.

Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.

Colonists in North America completed James Fort in Jamestown, VA.

Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the Falkland Islands.

The Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.

German troops entered Paris. As Paris became occupied loud speakers announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for 8 p.m.

The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.

The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the “Stars and Stripes” as the national flag of the United States.

NBA Finals: Toronto Raptors beat defending champion Golden State Warriors, 114-110 to win franchise’s first Championship; last game at Oracle Arena, Oakland; Kawhi Leonard MVP

A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

“Jagged Little Pill” 3rd studio album by Alanis Morissette is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1996).

“The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles’ last US Number 1 song.

Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.

Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi.

Fire wipes out much of Vancouver, destroying nearly 1,000 buildings; 50 people killed, and only 4 houses left standing.

Singapore Summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.

World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer.

Jacques Parizeau sets up Common Front for the Referendum with Lucien Bouchard of the Bloc Quebecois and Mario Dumont of the Parti de l’Action Democratique.

Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

“Cleopatra” starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.

Fire in a Montreal theatre kills 200 people.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces plan to ban single-use plastics by 2021.

The World Health Organization declares H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada’s First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jurassic Park” opened.

Steven Spielberg’s movie “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” opened.

Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.

Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.