Category: BuzzNews (anglais)

San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium while playing against the San Diego Chargers, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US.

Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion.

Papal conclave: Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.

Quebec government adopts Bill 101 (La Charte de la langue française); French becomes the official language of Quebec.

XX Summer Olympic Games open in Munich, West Germany.

Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history.

“Hey Jude” single released by the Beatles (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013).

The International Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto opened.

British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers.

The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.

Montreal Maroons hockey team dropped from the NHL due to financial troubles.

Charles Thurber patents a typewriter.

NASA investigates possibly the 1st crime in space over astronaut Anne McClain illegally accessing bank a/c from space.

Voyager 1 spacecraft, becomes the 1st spacecraft to enter interstellar space (launched in 1977).

Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

Elton John’s 1st US appearance (Los Angeles).

Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship.

XVII Summer Olympic Games open in Rome, Italy.

Momofuku Ando markets the first package of precooked instant noodles (Chikin Ramen).

Ben Hogan won the PGA in Portland, OR. It was his first major golf title.

Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.

The movie “Wizard of Oz” opened around the United States.

Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded.

Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

First documented case of a person being re-infected with COVID-19 a second time, a Hong Kong man four months after first infection.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the 1st time 1 billion people logged into Facebook.

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc., and is succeeded by Tim Cook, as a result of his illness.

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.

Microsoft debuts Windows 95.

Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida, making landfall at Elliott Key and later Homestead; 44 die and $25 billion in damage is recorded.

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party.

Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, was banned from baseball for life after being accused of gambling on baseball.

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon’s murder.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect.

Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal.

Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.

Cornelius Swarthout patents stove-top waffle iron.

1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at Moon’s Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York.

The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.

Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.

Hashtag invented and first used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina.

Fire ignites thousands of litres of oil laced with PCBs at a storage dump in St-Basile-le-Grand, SE of Montreal, forcing 3,000 residents to evacuate for 19 days; local labourer later admits to arson.

Trans Canada Airlines starts transatlantic service; now Air Canada.

Hard D. Weed patented the grip-tread tire chain for cars.

British capture Hong Kong from China.

Habitants of New France required to give 1/26 of their harvest to their seigneur (le dîme).