It happenned on a… 11 July

Last models of Volkswagen’s Beetle car are produced in Pueblo, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years.

Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house.

David Bowie releases the single “Space Oddity” 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon.

Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox.

Founding of the Canadian Professional Golfers Association.

Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire.