2020
NASA launches to Mars its Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter aboard a V 541 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2003
In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagon Beetle rolled off an assembly line.
1991
Heavy metal band Metallica release their single “Enter Sandman”.
1990
The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1984
Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV.
1974
Quebec National Assembly passes Bill 22, making French the province’s official language, and setting up la Régie de la Langue Française.
1971
US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon.
1962
The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1932
X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, USA.
Walt Disney’s “Flowers and Trees” premiered. It was the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor.
1930
In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1909
French chemist Eugène Schueller founds L’Oréal with his new range of hair dyes.