Category: BuzzNews (anglais)

Iran releases 54,000 people from prison to avoid spread of COVID-19.

The Alberto Giacometti sculpture L’Homme qui marche sold for $103.7 million.

Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted.

Pierre Trudeau sworn in, for the second time, as the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.

Canadien Jean Beliveau scores one goal in a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings; second NHL player to score 1,000 career points.

Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of US House of Representatives).

University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team’s discovery of insulin.

In Ottawa, Canada’s original parliament buildings burned down.

American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates.

1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)

Georges Bizet premieres his opera Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris France.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight by distance, Emirates A380 flies 14,200km Dubai to Auckland in 17 hours, 15 minutes.

NFL establishes existence of a bounty program at the New Orleans Saints 2009-11; players given incentives to injure opposition; coach Sean Payton is suspended for 2012 season.

NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that water had existed on Mars in the past.

Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up.

In Toulouse, France, the supersonic transport Concorde made its first test flight.

One of the most popular musical films of all time, “The Sound of Music”, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1966).

Beatles begin filming “A Hard Day’s Night”.

Wilt ‘The Stilt’ Chamberlain scored 100 points against the New York Knicks 169-147. Chamberlain broke several NBA records in the game.

Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam

Canadian budget introduces unique pay-as-you-earn income tax system.

Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII.

The motion picture King Kong had its world premiere in New York.

George Hainsworth becomes first NHL goaltender to record 20 shutouts in one season when the Montreal Canadiens beat the visiting Boston Bruins, 3-0; ends season with 22

Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy is sentenced to three years for trying to bribe a judge.

Animated film “Ice Age: The Meltdown” directed by Carlos Saldanha with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Belgium.

Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

Canadian Elvis Stojko hits the first quad-triple combination jump in the history of figure-skating competition to win the Championship Series final in Hamilton, Ontario

Yahoo! was incorporated.

Quebec Nordiques Peter Stastny (right) becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 100 points in each of his first 6 seasons.

Bank of America adopts the name VISA for its credit cards.

Pink Floyd release their album “Dark Side of the Moon”.

Wilt Chamberlain the first NBA player to score 30,000 points.

Gas explosion kills 28, fifteen children, in apartment complex in La Salle, Quebec.

After an all-night movie and dinner session with his top advisers, Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later..

Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe opens first Trans Canada Air Lines transcontinental passenger service from Montreal to Vancouver; Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce.

Yellowstone becomes the world’s 1st national park.

Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.

Princess Diana agrees to divorce her estranged husband, Prince Charles, calling it the saddest day of her life.

Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait.

losing of the 15th Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. Canada won two Silver Medals, in Singles Figure Skating, as well as Bronze in Ice Dancing, Womens Downhill and Womens Super G.

26th edition of the Grammy Awards: Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys, a record.

Final TV episode of “M*A*S*H” airs (CBS); record 125 million watch in the US.

U2 release their third studio album “War” featuring protest song “Sunday Bloody Sunday”.

Ottawa, Ontario, Parliament creates VIA Rail Canada Inc.; Crown corporation to operate passenger rail service.

Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.

DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.