Category: BuzzNews (anglais)

“A Star is Born” film remake directed by and starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga premieres at the Venice Film Festival.

The Walt Disney Company announces it will acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion

Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” is recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition.

62nd Venice Film Festival: “Brokeback Mountain” directed by Ang Lee wins Golden Lion.

Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.

Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov.

Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM.

East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems.

Great Britain’s Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old.

Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope [kinetographic camera], a device which produces moving pictures.

German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.

Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.

Global cases of COVID-19 pass 25 million with death toll at 843,000.

Film “Roma” directed and written by Alfonso Cuarón, (Best Director 2019 Academy Awards) starring Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira premieres at the Venice Film Festival.

“Late Show with David Letterman” debuts on CBS, from the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC; Bill Murray is his first guest, Billy Joel performs.

150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower.

The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono played Madison Square Gardens to raise money for the One to One charity. Stevie Wonder, Sha Na Na and Roberta Flack also appeared at the event. Several of the performances were later included on Lennon’s, Live in New York City album.

1st record released on Apple label in UK is The Beatles single “Hey Jude”.

The “Hotline” between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation.

End of Montreal streetcar service.

Air France forms from five French airlines.

Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.

Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner.

The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles.

Cristiano Ronaldo makes his debut for Real Madrid, scoring a penalty in their 3-2 win over Deportivo La Coruña.

Hurricane Katrina makes 2nd and 3rd landfall as a category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage.

Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business.

Mario Lemieux announced that he would be taking a medical leave of absence due to fatigue, an aftereffect of his 1993 radiation treatments. He would sit out the National Hockey Leagues (NHL) 1994-95 season.

The Beatles’ last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco).

George Harrison joins The Quarrymen (John Lennon-Paul McCartney-Peter Best-Stuart Sutcliffe).

During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.

South cantilever arm of the Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River collapses during construction; over 65 workers killed, 11 injured in Canada’s worst bridge disaster.

The Goodyear tire company is founded.

First Salvation Army service in Canada held at London, On.

Mohawk Indians win first white-Indian lacrosse game in Montreal.

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage.

Kenya brings in world’s toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail.

A divorce decree was issued for Britain’s Charles and Princess Diana. This was the official end to the 15-year marriage.

Michel Tremblay premieres ‘Les Belles-soeurs’; one of first artistic uses of Quebecois French slang – ‘joual’.

1st Subway sandwich shop opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, DC. More than 200,000 people attended.

“American Messenger Company” was started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The company’s name was later changed to “United Parcel Service.”

Mgr. Bourget announces the building of a Roman Catholic Cathedral de Montréal.

Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce.

Britain’s Prince Andrew served with a US federal lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a teenager 20 years ago.

Former five-weight world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his debut match in the 10th round in Las Vegas.

“Birdman” directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Michael Keaton and Zach Galifianakis premieres at the Venice Film Festival (Best Picture 2015).

Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed when the helicopter he was flying in, hit a man-made ski slope while trying to navigate through dense fog. Vaughan had played a show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin.

Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock’s mark.

Walt Disney’s “Mary Poppins” directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke premieres in Los Angeles.

“Guinness Book of World Records” 1st published.

First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.

The shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.

Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.