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2020
Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi scores his 644th goal for FC Barcelona during 3-0 win over Real Valladolid to break Pele’s record for most goals for one club; Pele, 643 goals for Santos 1956-74.
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1997
Scotty Bowman’s Red Wings beat the Boston Bruins, 4-2 giving him 200 wins with Detroit, and making him the first NHL coach to record 200 wins with 3 different teams; also Montreal and Buffalo
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1996
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1990
Lech Walesa was sworn in as Poland’s first popularly elected president.
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1989
Romania’s hard-line Communist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, was overthrown in a popular uprising.
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1984
Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” single goes #1 for 6 weeks.
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1932
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 1st joint movie “Flying Down to Rio,” directed by Thornton Freeland, premieres in NYC.
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1895
German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife’s hand.
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1894
Claude Debussy’s first orchestral masterpiece “Prélude à l’apres-midi d’un faune” premieres in Paris
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1882
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1877
Formerly a branch of the Université Laval de Québec, the Université de Montréal officially opened its door.
1808
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1666
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