2019
Britain’s Prince Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties after outcry from disastrous interview on his friendship with Jeffry Epstein
2015
“25” 3rd studio album by Adele is released (Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2017, 2016 Billboard Album of the Year).
1998
First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
1995
Princess Diana admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview
1985
Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1969
Brazilian soccer icon Pele scores his 1,000th goal.
1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.
1947
Britain’s Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.
1945
24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
1928
Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0, in the first NHL game played in the Boston Gardens.
1917
1st successful tank (Mark IV) use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines.
1902
Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race.
1886
Sherlock Holmes’s first story “A Study in Scarlet” is accepted by publisher Ward and Lock with payment of £25.
1805
Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio”, his only opera, premieres in Vienna.