Category: BuzzNews (anglais)

Former US President Donald Trump acquitted in second Senate impeachment trial on charge of incitement of insurrection.

NASA confirms Mars Opportunity rover’s mission has ended after 15 years due to a sandstorm damaging its communications.

Adele won all six categories she was nominated for at this years Grammy Awards. The British singer won song of the year for ‘Rolling In the Deep’,

The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

Calgary plays host to over 1,800 athletes from 57 countries as the 15th Winter Olympics opening ceremonies take place in Olympic Plaza.

Denis Lortie found guilty of first-degree murder of 3 Quebec National Assembly workers in his machine gun attack of May, 1984; the Canadian Armed Forces corporal sprayed the chamber with bullets before being calmed.

Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side of the Moon” marks 402 weeks in the album charts.

XIII Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York.

XI Winter Olympic Games close at Sapporo, Japan.

First Barbie Doll goes on sale.

Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy.

Jesse James holds up his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri.

Abraham Lincoln declared US President in Washington, D.C..

Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán found guilty of all 10 federal crimes against him in New York after 200 hours of testimony.

XXI Winter Olympic Games open in Vancouver, Canada.

Mattel announced that “Barbie” and “Ken” were breaking up. The dolls had met on the set of their first television commercial together in 1961.

The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion.

US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial.

XVII Winter Olympic Games opens in Lillehammer, Norway.

The Police recorded their first single, ‘Fall Out’ for £150 ($255) at Pathway Studios, London, England.

Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Christian Dior unveils a “New Look”, helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.

The first artificial ice rink opened in North America. It was at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY.

Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher’s mask.