2021
The World Health Organization approves the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine Sinopharm, its first made by a non-western country.
2019
Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin “magic mushrooms”.
2018
Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years.
2017
Emmanuel Macron wins France’s presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen.
2011
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”, directed by Rob Marshall, starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, premieres in – opening weekend makes $350.6m.
1998
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1992
Three employees at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first “fast-food murder” in Canada.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission.
1975
U.S. President Ford declared an end to the Vietnam War.
1966
Mamas & Papas “Monday Monday” hits #1.
1912
Film and television production and distribution studio Paramount Pictures is founded.
1867
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England.
1824
Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna.
