Category: BuzzNews (anglais)

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.