2020
Lockdowns for COVID-19 in Europe saved 3 million lives according to study by Imperial College London.
2018
World’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
2001
Ray Bourque plays the final game in his NHL career
1984
“Ghostbusters”, American supernatural comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murrary and Dan Aykroyd is released.
1972
Vietnam War: The photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
1968
Rolling Stones release “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”.
1953
The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
1949
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1947
“Lassie” debuted on ABC radio. It was a 15-minute show.
1942
Bing Crosby records “Silent Night”.
1869
Ives W. McGaffey received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner.
1824
The first patent of invention was issued by the Province of lower Canada, for a washing and fulling machine in favour of Noah Cushing of Quebec.