It happened on a… August 22

Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

« The Scream » (1910 painted version) and « Madonna », two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman.

Beatles give their first Canadian concert in Empire Stadium before 20,000 fans.

Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup.

Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

The American colonies were proclaimed to be in a state of open rebellion by England’s King George III.

St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness.