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It happened on a… October 1

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2018

New trade deal announced between United States, Canada and Mexico (USMCA), replacing NAFTA.

2017

Former NFL star O.J. Simpson is released from Nevada’s Lovelock Prison after less than 9 years of detention of his 33 year sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping.

Amid a deepening constitutional crisis, Catalonia holds an independence referendum on seceding from Spain.

1999

Edmonton Oilers retire Wayne Gretzky’s #99 in a pre-game ceremony before a 1-1 tie v NY Rangers, the last team for which ‘The Great One’ suited up in an NHL game.

1994

The National Hockey League (NHL) team owners began a lockout of the players that lasted 103 days.

1990

Ottawa to privatize Petro-Canada; $6.8b assets.

1988

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, effectively head of state of the Soviet Union.

1982

Marvin Gaye releases his last studio album “Midnight Love” featuring single “Sexual Healing”.

The Sony CDP-101, world’s first commercially released Compact Disc player released in Japan for 168,000 yen ($730).

EPCOT Center opens in Orlando, Florida.

1977

Brazilian soccer great Pelé plays his final game for the New York Cosmos in an exhibition against Santos in front of 75,000 at Giants Stadium; 1,281 goals in 1,363 games.

1971

Walt Disney World opens in Bay Lake (Orlando), Florida.

1969

Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier.

1962

Johnny Carson hosts his 1st “The Tonight Show”, Joan Crawford guests.

1961

The Beach Boys record their debut single “Surfin”, introducing a new musical style.

1933

Babe Ruth makes his final pitching appearance in MLB; pitches all 9 innings in a season ending 6-5 win v Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium; hits his 34th home run of the season in 5th inning.

1914

The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth.

1908

The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

1880

Thomas Edison began the commercial production of electric lamps.

1869

1st postcards are issued (Vienna, Austria).

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It happened on a… September 30

Today (Friday July 17, 2020) British Airways announces that its fleet of Boeing 747 aircraft, fondly known as ‘The Queen of the Skies’, are likely to have flown their last scheduled commercial service. After nearly five decades of service and millions of miles flown around the globe, it is proposed that the airline’s remaining fleet of 31 747-400 aircraft will be retired with immediate effect as a result of the devasting impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the airline and the aviation sector, which is not predicted to recover to 2019 levels until 2023/24. Just a year ago, British Airways lovingly re-painted four of its jumbo jets in heritage colours to mark the company’s centenary. The BOAC jet put in a guest appearance with the Red Arrows much to the delight of spectators at the Royal International Air Tattoo, and sadly the aircraft will shortly be heading towards its final resting place alongside 30 others. The fuel-hungry aircraft were slowly being phased out by British Airways as they reached the end of their working life in order to help meet the company’s commitment to net zero by 2050. The airline has invested heavily in new, modern long-haul aircraft including six A350s and 32 787s which are around 25 per cent more fuel-efficient than the 747. As part of the airline’s £6.5 billion injection into customer experience in recent years, existing aircraft have been refurbished and the brand new arrivals have come into the British Airways’ fleet complete with a luxurious business class Club Suite product. Alex Cruz, British Airways’ Chairman and CEO, said: “This is not how we wanted or expected to have to say goodbye to our incredible fleet of 747 aircraft. It is a heart-breaking decision to have to make. So many people, including many thousands of our colleagues past and present, have spent countless hours on and with these wonderful planes – they have been at the centre of so many memories, including my very first long-haul flight. They will always hold a special place in our hearts at British Airways. “We have committed to making our fleet more environmentally friendly as we look to reduce the size of our business to reflect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on aviation. As painful as it is, this is the most logical thing for us to propose. The retirement of the jumbo jet will be felt by many people across Britain, as well as by all of us at British Airways. It is sadly another difficult but necessary step as we prepare for a very different future.” BOAC operated its first 747 London to New York service on 14th April 1971 and in July 1989 the first British Airways 747-400, the aircraft type the airline still flies today, took to the skies. Plane spotters who lined Heathrow’s perimeter fences would watch as the magnificent 747-400 would typically take off at 180mph and reach cruising speeds in the sky of up to 565mph. For the next decade the airline took delivery of 56 more of the aircraft, with its final plane delivered in April 1989. At the time, it was the largest commercial aircraft in the world, and it remained so until the Airbus A380 first took to the skies in 2007. At one point British Airways operated 57 747-400 aircraft. The original aircraft featured 27 First Class seats and 292 Economy seats. Initially, the upper deck, widely described as the bubble, contained a lounge, with lounge chair seating. It was known as the ‘club in the sky’ and the aircraft also played host to the world’s very first flat bed seat which British Airways pioneered in 1999. Today’s aircraft can seat up to 345 customers in four classes – First, Club World (Business), World Traveller Plus (Premium Economy) and World Traveller (Economy). British Airways recently refreshed the interiors of a number of its 747 aircraft which were expected to remain in service for several years to come. The airline’s jumbo jets are currently grounded at various locations in the UK and are now only expected to reach heights of 35,000 feet as they make their final journeys. When: 17 Jul 2020 Credit: British Airways/Cover Images **EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH BRITISH AIRWAYS.**

1990

The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa.

1968

1st Boeing 747 rolls out

1960

“The Flintstones” the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera premieres on ABC in the US.

1955

Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.

1947

The World Series was televised for the first time. The sponsors only paid $65,000 for the entire series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees.

1898

City of NY established.

1846

Dr. William Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient.

1841

Samuel Slocum patented the stapler.

1791

The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

1399

Henry Bolingbroke became the King of England as Henry IV.

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Arrestation in the Tupac murder case, Las Vegas police confirms

A new search had recently been carried out.

An arrest has been made in connection with the Tupac Shakur murder case, the Associated Press reports.

Las Vegas police have arrested at least one person in connection with Tupac’s death.

A new search was recently carried out by police in a residence considered key in the case.

Tupac Shakur, then at the height of his fame, was shot dead in 1996 in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.

The case has never been solved, much to the dismay of the rapper’s family and his millions of fans around the world.

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It happened on a… September 29

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2021

Britney Spears’ father Jamie Spears suspended as her conservator by a judge in Los Angeles after claims of abuse.

2017

Mysterious sonic attacks on US diplomats prompt US to warn citizens not to travel to Cuba and pull some embassy staff.

2008

Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

1985

“MacGyver” starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV.

1982

1st broadcast of comedy “Cheers” on NBC-TV starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long.

1979

“Message In A Bottle” by Police peaks at #1 in UK.

1967

Gladys Knight & Pips releases “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”.

1966

The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.

1964

The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.

1963

Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros).

1962

Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.

1950

Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories.

1916

American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world’s first billionaire.

1665

Germain Morin 1642-1702 ordained at Quebec; first Canadian born priest.

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Dumbledore is dead, millions of Harry Potter fans in mourning

Michael Gambon, one of the stars of the Harry Potter saga, has died.

The actor who played Dumbledore in several of the Harry Potter films has died, his family has confirmed to NBC.

Gambon had come to replace actor Richard Harris.

The latter had first played the role of Dumbledore in the franchise before he passed away in 2002.

The entire Harry Potter family, including fans and colleagues, have joined with the actor’s loved ones since this morning (September 28) to pay tribute to him.

Michael Gambon was 82 years old.

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It happened on a… September 28

*NOTE* There are seven known strains of human coronaviruses – these are previously known examples. These picture do not show the Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV , China Virus). PICTURE SHOWS: Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this highly magnified, digitally colorized transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image, reveals ultrastructural details exhibited by a single, spherical shaped, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) virion. STORY: Novel coronavirus, denoted 2019-nCoV by the WHO and also known as Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus and Wuhan pneumonia, is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA coronavirus first reported in 2019. The virus was genomically sequenced after nucleic acid testing on a positive patient sample in a patient with pneumonia during the 2019–2020 Wuhan pneumonia outbreak. On 20 January 2020, human-to-human transmission was confirmed in Guangdong province, China, according to Zhong Nanshan, head of the health commission team investigating the outbreak.[7] No specific treatment for the new virus is currently available, but existing anti-virals could be repurposed. The virus has spread to Bangkok, Tokyo, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong Province, Taiwan, and Washington State in the United States. When: 22 Jan 2020 Credit: NIAID/Cover Images **Editorial use only**

2020

COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins).

2019

SpaceX unveils spacecraft Starship, designed to travel to Mars and the solar system and land back on earth.

2015

NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water on Mars.

2008

SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

1987

“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” starring Patrick Stewart debuts on syndicated TV.

1981

“Physical” single released by Olivia Newton-John (Billboard Song of the Year 1982).

1976

“Songs in the Key of Life” 18th studio album by Stevie Wonder is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1977).

1972

Paul Henderson scores on Vladislav Tretiak with 34 seconds remaining in regulation time, giving Team Canada a 6-5 victory over the USSR hockey all-stars, and a 4-3-1 victory in the eight game Summit Series.

1968

Beatles’ “Hey Jude” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks.

1928

Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

1924

The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.

1867

Toronto becomes capital of Ontario

1685

Smallpox epidemic breaks out in New France.

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Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani

U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is suing Rudy Giuliani in civil court and Robert Costello, his former attorney, claiming that they violated federal and state computer privacy laws by attempting to hack into his laptop and caused the “total annihilation” of his digital privacy.

According to a source close to Hunter Biden to CNN: “Everyone involved in stealing and manipulating Hunter’s data should be hearing footsteps right about now”, suggesting that others could also be sued in civil court by Hunter Biden’s legal team.

Hunter Biden accuses Giuliani and Costello of hacking, falsifying, manipulating, copying, disseminating and generally obsessing over the data on his stolen laptop.

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The civil suit against Giuliani joins two other lawsuits filed by Hunter Biden in recent weeks, when he filed a civil suit, also in connection with his laptop, against Garrett Ziegler, Trump’s former White House aide, and he also sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that his tax information had been illegally disclosed and his private records had not been properly protected.

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Remember that this whole story about Hunter Biden’s laptop refers to a controversial story that emerged during the 2020 US presidential election, when a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of then Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, was discovered.

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The laptop was reportedly left at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019, and John Paul Mac Isaac, the store’s owner, claimed to have discovered emails and other data on the laptop there that raised questions about Hunter Biden’s business dealings, in particular with a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma Holdings.

Mac Isaac claimed to have several copies of Biden’s illegally obtained laptop data, which he then sent to Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer.

While the son of the US President is still under investigation for his business dealings, he was indicted on federal firearms charges on September 14.

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He is accused of lying about his drug use when he purchased a firearm in October 2018. During that time, Hunter Biden allegedly admitted to suffering from a crack addiction, according to the indictment filed in Delaware federal court.

The indictment against him comes just weeks after a failed plea bargain that would have allowed the president’s son to avoid a trial.

While Hunter Biden reportedly intends to plead not guilty to this charge, his run-ins with the law are far from over!

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It happened on a… September 27

2013

Lorde releases her debut studio album “Pure Heroine”.

1998

The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.

Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.

1977

Gilles Villeneuve signs a 2 year contract to drive Formula One with Ferrari.

1973

“The Way We Were” single released by Barbra Streisand (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)

1923

NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs

1922

Radio station CKAC starts broadcasting at Montreal.

1908

Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

1905

The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².

1898

Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.

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Beloved 8 Mile star dies at 46

Nashawn Breedlove, rapper and actor, has died.

Famous for his role as Lotto in 8 Mile alongside Eminem, Breedlove was found dead in his New Jersey home, according to NME.

The cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but several fellow rappers and those close to him were quick to pay tribute, highlighting his determination and innate talent.

Nashawn Breedlove was 46 years old.

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Britney Spears dances with kitchen knives half-naked in bizarre video

Britney Spears fans, though accustomed to the star’s Instagram videos, this time seemed rather worried by the singer’s latest publication, in which she was seen dancing half-naked… with two huge kitchen knives.

“I started playing in the kitchen with knives today 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️!!!” she wrote in her message, with the comments later blocked.

In the video, Spears is seen doing her usual dances… but with gigantic butcher knives in her hands! She spins at full speed, making very dangerous movements with the knives, which of course worried many!

However, the star tried to reassure everyone by editing her publication:

“Don’t worry, these are NOT real knives!!!! Halloween is soon 🙈🙈🙈!!!”

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But it’s easy to see from the video that the knives look too realistic to be fakes, and according to TMZ, the star has long been fascinated by knives!

October will be a big month for Spears, with the release of her biography The Woman In Me on October 23!