Category: Éphémérides (anglais)

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.

WHO announced that COVID-19 was now sufficiently under control to lift the maximum alert level after more than three years of a pandemic that has claimed “at least 20 million” lives.

Canada is the first country to authorize the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 12-15 year olds.

Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product.

Fort McMurray wildfires: Canadian province of Alberta declares a state of emergency as evacuation of 80,000 people continues.

“Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast.

Milwaukee Bucks sign #1 NBA Draft pick, star UCLA center Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

West Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks.

Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight.

Elvis Presley scored his first US No.1 single and album when ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ went to the top of the charts. ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ became his first million-seller, and was the best-selling single of 1956.

Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx).

Perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel.

Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the avenue, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena, where he had been in exile.

Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica on his second trip to the Western Hemisphere. He named the island Santa Gloria.

Malian woman Halima Cisse gives birth to nonuplets (nine babies) in Morocco, in only third known case worldwide.

Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as an SF Giant. Bonds is first player with 400 homers for one team and 100 with another (Pirates).

Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The 1st Grammy Awards are held.

Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man & The Sea”.

Plane carrying the entire Torino Serie A soccer squad crashes on the outskirts of Turin, Italy; 31 killed; Torino awarded League title at the request of their rivals.

The Battle of Alcatraz, 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay.

Al Capone entered the Atlanta Penitentiary federal prison for income-tax evasion.

VIII Summer Olympic Games open at Olympic Stadium of Colombes, Paris, France.

The Royal Canadian Navy is created by Wilfrid Laurier.

Thomas Edison’s Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House in San Francisco.

A French manufacturer debuted the first folding umbrella.

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan becomes NFL’s first $30m per season player after agreeing to $150m contract extension.

“Spider-Man”, starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin, premieres.

Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue.

After the general election, Margaret Thatcher forms her first government as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as “spam”) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world’s tallest building.

Beatification of Mother Marguerite d’Youville, founder of the Sisters of Charity; first Canadian to be beatified; canonized by Pope John Paul Dec. 9, 1990.

NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio (far left) makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits.

Creation of radio station CKAC, the first in Quebec; starts broadcasting officially in October.