Category: Éphémérides (anglais)

Canadian government inquiry find deaths of over 1,000 indigenous women and girls over decades who have been murdered or are missing a “national genocide”.

Jay-Z named the world’s first billionaire rapper by Forbes magazine.

Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupts killing at least 110, with 332 missing and forcing the evacuation of over 3,100.

Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world’s first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital.

Lorde releases her debut single “Royals” (2014 Grammy Song of the Year).

TV drama “Six Feet Under” created by Alan Ball, starring Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy premieres on HBO.

Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing.

Official opening of SkyDome, Toronto’s $500 million domed stadium; 50,000 baseball fans soaked by rain when retractable roof opens.

“Larry King Live” debuts on CNN.

The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.

The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.

Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine.

The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms.

Queen Elizabeth II stands on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, surrounded by her successors to the throne, during the Trooping the Colour parade in London. This event marks the diamond jubilee of the sovereign, 70 years of reign.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation, 5 days after his re-election, amid FIFA’s involvement in a bribery scandal.

The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.

Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

The National Arts Center in Canada opened its doors to the public.

Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.

George Herman “Babe” Ruth announced that he was retiring from baseball.

Kraft rolls out Velveeta cheese.

Construction begins on Clay St (San Francisco) for world’s 1st cable railroad.

Mexican-American boxer Andy Ruiz Jr produces a huge upset when he stops English champion Anthony Joshua in 7 at Madison Square Garden; wins IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA world heavyweight titles.

US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel is completed – world’s longest at 57km and most expensive tunnel costing €11bn.

General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.

Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.

Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stone guitarist.

Paul McCartney & Wings release “Live & Let Die”.

Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico.

The first pay telephone service in the world is installed in New Haven, Connecticut.

Quebec is the first Province of Canada coins minted: pennies, nickels, dimes and 20 cent pieces.

Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is published.

First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller.

China’s ruling Communist Party announces it will allow married couples to have three children, in effort to boost falling birthrates.

Psy’s “Gangnam Style” becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube.

British children’s cartoon “Peppa Pig” created by Astley Baker Davies premieres.

“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, the 3rd film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono record “Give Peace a Chance”.

The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, “The Karnival Kid”, is released.

Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet which killed 8,645.

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented “flaked cereal.”

1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.

E.J. DeSemdt patented asphalt.

In London, Big Ben went into operation.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying the Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station. First private company to launch astronauts into space.

Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

“Finding Nemo”, directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres is released.

Former Montreal Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs.

Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Robert “Evel” Knievel’s motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles in Gardena, California.

Babe Ruth’s final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies.

At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.

The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.

Publication of La Gazette, the first French newspaper.

Hundred Years’ War: in Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization.

ABC TV network cancels TV comedy “Roseanne” after its star Roseanne Barr posts a racist tweet.

Tiger Woods is arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida.

Heat wave in India centered in Telengana and Andhra Pradesh states is reported to have killed 1800 people in a week.

Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.

Space Shuttle STS 77 Endeavour 11, lands with astronaut Marc Garneau.

Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic.

Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year

Charles de Gaulle forms French government.

Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, the best-selling Christmas single in history.

Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland outbound from Quebec is hit by a Norwegian collier ship Storstad in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives are lost, 464 saved.

The Pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in The Atlanta Journal.

Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Mehmed II; ends the Byzantine Empire.

Discovery of a mass grave with the remains of 215 children from Kamloops Indian Residential School announced by First Nation in British Columbia.

Tom Dumoulin wins the 100th Giro d’Italia in Milan, 1st Dutchman to win.

Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth on the MLB all-time list.

Indianapolis 500: Jacques Villeneuve wins in 3:15:17.561 (247.221 km/h).

29th Cannes Film Festival: “Taxi Driver” directed by Martin Scorsese, with Robert De Niro, wins the Palme d’Or.

Amnesty International, a human rights organization, was founded.

Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer was founded.

The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

Warner Brothers debuted “On With The Show” in New York City. It was the first all-color-talking picture.

Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.

Édouard and André Michelin incorporate the Michelin tyre company.

Fire in Quebec, Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed.

1st indoor swimming pool, the Bagnio, opens (Goodman’s Fields, London)

“Friends” reunion screens, 17 years after the TV sitcom series ended.

America’s COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 equal to number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan put together.

South Korean boy band BTS are the first K-pop group to top the Billboard 200 with their album “Love Yourself: Tear”.

DreamWorks releases computer-animated film “Madagascar” with voices by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

In Charlottesville, VA, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a jumping event.

The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen”, sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC

Pierre Elliott Trudeau agrees to separation with wife Margaret; retains custody of three children.

Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.

Major League Baseball’s National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)

Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Huis Clos” premieres in Paris.

British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII.

Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to pedestrians.

RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage.

Walt Disney’s short film “3 Little Pigs” released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934).

Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great.

Twitter adds warning labels to warn about inaccuracies in US President Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time

The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.

The European Community adopts the European flag.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono start their second Bed-In for Peace in a room at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel; during the event, they recorded the song, Give Peace a Chance.

EMI releases “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” a few days early in the UK; it would go to number one for 15 weeks in the US and 22 weeks in the UK.

Quebec passes a law requiring free and compulsory education in the province.

Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford.

24 Hours of Le Mans, was first held, and has since been run annually in June.

Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

Last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned.

George Floyd dies in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, video of his arrest and being violently restrained ignites widespread condemnation and protest. Four police officers involved fired.

72nd Cannes Film Festival: Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean film “Parasite” wins the Palme d’Or.

“Wonder Woman” directed by Patty Jenkins, starring Gal Gadot premieres in Los Angeles – 1st superhero film directed by a woman.

Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Jay Leno becomes permanent host of “The Tonight Show”

Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4-2 to win series 4 games to 2; Flames’ first SC title.

“Return of the Jedi” (Star Wars Part VI), produced by George Lucas first released

“Alien”, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver is released.

Star Wars (retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1981) is released in theatres.

America was asked by U.S. President Kennedy to work toward putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

Legendary American athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 4 world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan; remembered as “the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport”.

The gasoline engine was patented by Stuart Perry.