2020
2010
The Alberto Giacometti sculpture L’Homme qui marche sold for $103.7 million.
1991
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1968
1923
1921
University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team’s discovery of insulin.
1916
In Ottawa, Canada’s original parliament buildings burned down.
1885
American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates.
1875
Georges Bizet premieres his opera Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris France.