2013
Lorde releases her debut studio album “Pure Heroine”.
1998
The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.
1977
Gilles Villeneuve signs a 2 year contract to drive Formula One with Ferrari.
1973
“The Way We Were” single released by Barbra Streisand (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)
1923
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs
1922
Radio station CKAC starts broadcasting at Montreal.
1908
Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1905
The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
1898
Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.
