2019
1st fully electric commercial plane, a DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver seaplane, completes test flight in Vancouver.
2016
Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony he does not attend in Stockholm.
2013
Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana.
2009
US President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
1985
“Out of Africa”, based on the book by Isak Dinesen, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1986).
1978
Superman: The Movie, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C..
1971
Lucasfilm Ltd. is founded as a film and television production company by George Lucas in San Francisco, California.
1964
In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1936
Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
1901
The first Nobel prizes were awarded.
1884
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada.
