2016
Morocco’s Mohammed VI switches on world’s largest solar plant near Ouarzazate. Planned to power 1 million homes when fully completed 2018.
2004
Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
1997
A civil jury in California found O.J. Simpson liable in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
1988
Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US federal grand jury for drug trafficking and racketeering.
1977
“Rumours” 11th studio album by Fleetwood Mac is released (Grammy Album of the Year)
1976
XII Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
1970
“Patton” directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1971).
1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II.
1932
III Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York.
1924
First Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix. The Toronto Granite Club hockey team brings home the Gold Medal for Canada in ice hockey.
1789
Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1783
Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.