2006
“New Moon” second book in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight Saga” is published by Little Brown.
1997
The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
1995
Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig’s record, plays in 2,131 straight games.
1991
The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1975
Martina Navratilova requested political asylum while in New York for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.
1968
Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.
1963
Official opening of the Place des Arts.
1957
Elvis Presley records “White Christmas”, “Silent Night” & “Here Comes Santa Claus”.
1952
CBFT in Montreal starts transmitting with a broadcast of Jean Cocteau’s drama Oedipus Rex; Canada’s first television station.
1941
Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word “Jew” inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6.
1916
1st true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee.
