Category: BuzzNews (anglais)

President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a four year prison sentence for fraud.

The new Canadian War Museum opens in Ottawa.

Canadian Army Corporal Denis Lortie 1959- sprays the Quebec National Assembly with sub-machine gun fire, killing 3 and wounding 13; on leave from his base, he tells his captors he wanted to destroy the Parti Quebecois.

Gilles Villeneuve, from Berthierville, Que. dies in a 225 KPH accident while qualifying for the 1982 F1 Belgian Grand Prix.

Beatles release “Let it Be” album.

Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army

Oskar Schindler and his wife Emilie Schindler are honored for saving 1200 Jews during WWII,.

German General Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin.

Gandhi began a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.

Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called “Coca-Cola.”

1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines.

The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson.

The World Health Organization approves the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm, its first made by a non-western country.

Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin “magic mushrooms”.

Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years.

Emmanuel Macron wins France’s presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen.

“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”, directed by Rob Marshall, starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, premieres in – opening weekend makes $350.6m.

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

Three employees at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first “fast-food murder” in Canada.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission.

U.S. President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War.

Mamas & Papas “Monday Monday” hits #1.

Film and television production and distribution studio Paramount Pictures is founded.

Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby places the St Edward’s Crown onto the head of Britain’s King Charles III during the Coronation Ceremony inside Westminster Abbey in central London. Camilla, his second wife, will be crowned queen alongside him and be known as Queen Camilla after the ceremony. Charles became King in September 2022 when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died at 96. She was the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory.

François Hollande elected 24th President of France.

TV sitcom “Friends” airs season finale in 10th and final season.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk founds SpaceX.

“Spider-Man” became the first movie to make more than $100 million in its first weekend.

Michael Jackson & Bee Gees inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa’s first post apartheid election.

Channel tunnel linking England & France officially opens.

U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage”.

German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground.

Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox.

George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers.

The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, France, marking the dedication of the Eiffel Tower. Also at the exposition was the first automobile in Paris, the Mercedes-Benz.

World’s first adhesive postage stamp, the “Penny Black”, is first used in Great Britain.

Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.

WHO announced that COVID-19 was now sufficiently under control to lift the maximum alert level after more than three years of a pandemic that has claimed “at least 20 million” lives.

Canada is the first country to authorize the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 12-15 year olds.

Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product.

Fort McMurray wildfires: Canadian province of Alberta declares a state of emergency as evacuation of 80,000 people continues.

“Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast.

Milwaukee Bucks sign #1 NBA Draft pick, star UCLA center Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

West Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks.

Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight.

Elvis Presley scored his first US No.1 single and album when ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ went to the top of the charts. ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ became his first million-seller, and was the best-selling single of 1956.

Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx).

Perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel.

Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the avenue, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena, where he had been in exile.

Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica on his second trip to the Western Hemisphere. He named the island Santa Gloria.