2021
Unesco says Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be put on list of World Heritage Sites that are “in danger”.
2016
NHL owners meeting unanimously approves the Las Vegas expansion bid to start play in the 2017-18 season.
2009
Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
1991
NHL Draft: Oshawa Generals center Eric Lindros first pick by Quebec Nordiques.
1963
“Little” Stevie Wonder aged 13 releases his first single “Fingertips”.
1960
Jean Lesage and his Liberal Party defeat Maurice Duplessis’ Union Nationale Party to win their first election in 16 years; beginning of the ‘Quiet Revolution.’
1937
Joe Louis KOs James J Braddock in 8 for his first heavyweight boxing title in significant moment in African American sporting history.
1914
Diving operations start to sunken Empress of Ireland to recover bodies and valuables from the wreck.
1911
King George V crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea.
1815
Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1603
Samuel de Champlain lands at site of Quebec; no sign of Jacques Cartier’s Iroquois village of Stadacona.