Category: Éphémérides (anglais)

92nd Academy Awards: “Parasite” 1st non English film to win Best Picture and Best Director Bong Joon-ho.

Deaths from » virus overtake those of Sars (2003) with 813 deaths worldwide, with more than 34,800 known infections.

XXIII Olympic Winter Games open in PyeongChang, South Korea,

Fox cartoon series “Simpsons” airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history.

Madonna’s album “Like a Virgin” goes #1 for 3 weeks.

The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight.

National Hockey League announces it is doubling in size with a new West Division and six new teams – the California Seals, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues. The original teams – Toronto, Montreal, New York, Detroit, Chicago and Boston – will make up the NHL East Division.

The Beatles first appear on the Ed Sullivan Show before 73.7 million TV viewers. They sing She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand.

The Davis Cup competition is established.

Volleyball was invented by W.G. Morgan.

Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe claim gold and silver medals in the moguls freestyle skiing event at the Sochi Winter Olympics; first Canadian sisters to stand together on the podium.

XIX Winter Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

XVI Winter Olympic Games opens in Albertville, France.

XIV Winter Olympic Games open in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period.

“Taxi Driver” directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, is released (Palme d’Or 1976).

Nasdaq Composite stock market index debuts with 50 companies and a starting value of 100

Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.

The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.

Founding of the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood, California.

Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.

LeBron James #6 of the Los Angeles Lakers celebrates with his mom, Gloria James left, and wife Savannah James, center, and daughter Zhuri James along with son Byrce James, right, after breaking Hall of Fame and former Los Angeles Lakers Kareem Abdul Jabbar scoring record (38,387) in the second half of a NBA basketball game against Oklahoma City Thunder at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Tuesday, February 7.

Super Bowl LV: Tampa Bay Buccaneers dominate defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9; MVP: Tom Brady, TB Bucs, QB; Brady’s record 7th SB win.

XXII Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi, Russia.

XVIII Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano, Japan.

The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti’s first democratically elected president.

Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country ending 28 years of family rule.

Pink Floyd premiere their live version of “The Wall” in Los Angeles

Darryl Sittler (Toronto Maple Leafs) set a National Hockey League (NHL) record when he scored 10 points in a game against the Boston Bruins. He scored six goals and four assists.

Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO.

The Beatles pop group arrive in the United States for the first time; mass hysteria greets them at the airport.

Jane Fonda made her acting debut on NBC.

“Pinocchio” world premiered at the Center Theatre in Manhattan.

Academie Française begins Dictionary of French Language.

Tens of thousands are dead after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria on February 6. The quake struck 23 kilometres (14.2 miles) east of Nurdagi, Turkey, the US Geological Survey said. It was one of the strongest earthquakes to hit Turkey in more than 100 years.

US astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest continuous spaceflight by a female astronaut after 328 days on the International Space Station, landing in Kazakhstan.

Quadriga, Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange is unable to get to $145 million of bitcoin assets after its CEO dies with its access passwords.

SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world’s most powerful rocket.

Jay Leno ends his time on “The Tonight Show”.

Brett Hull becomes the first son of an NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50 goals himself.

NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.

X Winter Olympic Games opens in Grenoble, France.

George Harrison joined Liverpool group The Quarrymen. The group who were named after Lennon’s school featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Len Garry, Eric Griffiths and John Lowe.

Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.

Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.

IV Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI.

Bottle opener patented by William Painter.

Pope Francis admits for the first time that clerics have sexually abused nuns.

Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points.

1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs, André the Giant defeats Hulk Hogan.

Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial.

Gordie Howe plays in his 23rd and final NHL all-star game at age 51; Howe, from Floral, Saskatchewan, will retire from the Hartford Whalers at the end of the season.

Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight.

Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.

The Walt Disney’s film “Peter Pan” opened at the Roxy Theatre in New York City.

In New York City, four signs were installed at 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square that told pedestrians “don’t walk.”

“Captain American” serial film premieres starring Dick Purcell, first appearance of a Marvel superhero outside a comic.

“Modern Times”, silent film directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.

Reader’s Digest magazine 1st published.

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Otello” premieres at La Scala in Italy, Verdi’s first new opera for over 15 years.

Charlevoix Earthquake in Quebec, felt strongly in New England.

China welcomes the world at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Charles Hamelin and Marie-Philip Poulin are the Canadian flag bearers during the Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony at the National Stadium in Beijing.

Morocco’s Mohammed VI switches on world’s largest solar plant near Ouarzazate. Planned to power 1 million homes when fully completed 2018.

Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

A civil jury in California found O.J. Simpson liable in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US federal grand jury for drug trafficking and racketeering.

“Rumours” 11th studio album by Fleetwood Mac is released (Grammy Album of the Year)

XII Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.

“Patton” directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1971).

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II.

III Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York.

First Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix. The Toronto Granite Club hockey team brings home the Gold Medal for Canada in ice hockey.

Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.

Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.

Cruise ship Diamond Princess with 3700 passengers quarantined in Yokohama port, Japan after cases of COVID-19 found on board.

Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California.

The first Winter Olympics in Asia were held at Sapporo, Japan.

“Purple Haze” recorded by Jimi Hendrix.

Thermometers in Snag register -64C (-83F), the lowest temperature recorded in Canada; likely the lowest temperature on record in North America.

In Ottawa, fire destroys the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, killing seven.

Edwin Booth opened his new theatre in New York City. The first production was “Romeo and Juliet”.

The world’s first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.

Scotty Bowman becomes first coach in NHL history to win 1,000 games.

Václav Havel becomes the first president of an independent Czech Republic, after the split with Slovakia.

South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela.

Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York City.

Maple Leafs’ Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals in a game against Detroit Red Wings, setting a record for an NHL defenceman.

Playmobil toys debut at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, designed by Hans Beck and produced by the Brandstätter Group

Barbra Streisand’s 1st #1 hit, “The Way We Were”.

The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.

GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy’s toy.

Hubert de Givenchy presents his first collection in Paris.

Frank Sinatra’s singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra).

2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Reichstag (Parliament).

NYC’s Grand Central Terminal opens.

Queen Victoria’s funeral takes place in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.

The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (known as the National League) was formed in New York. The teams included were the Chicago White Stockings, Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Stockings, Hartford Dark Blues, Mutual of New York, St. Louis Brown Stockings, Cincinnati Red Stockings and the Louisville Grays.

On February 1, NFL footballer Tom Brady announces his retirement. No one else has won the Super Bowl seven times and been named player of the game five times. His 35 playoff victories are not only a record, but 16 more than his closest rival, the legendary Joe Montana. Nothing attests to his exceptional longevity better than the fact that he is the only player in NFL history to have won a championship in three different decades.

Archaeologists announce discovery of thousands of undetected structures in Mayan lowland civilisation, Guatemala, using Lidar, suggests population of 10 million.

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning becomes all-time record-holder for MVP trophies, winning his 5th at the NFL Honours in New York.

“House of Cards”, starring Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife, is released on Netflix.

Janet Jackson’s breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.

NASA’s space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.

“Harvest” 4th studio album by Neil Young is released (best selling album US 1972)

1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395).

The Beatles’ 1st #1 hit “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” topped the Hot 100, stays #1 for 7 weeks before being replaced by “She Loves You”.

“The Misfits” premieres in NYC, final movie for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.

Founding of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La Boheme” premiered in Turin.

Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec.

United Kingdom formally withdraws from the European Union (Brexit).

17 year old Lydia Ko of New Zealand becomes the youngest golfer in men’s or women’s golf history to be ranked No. 1 in the world

Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.

Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39).

Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon.

US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1.

Duplessis Bridge over the St. Maurice River collapses, killing four people.

3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.

Quebec Bulldogs’ Joe ‘The Phantom’ Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in one game against Toronto.

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. It was ratified by the necessary number of states on December 6, 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States.