2021
“Friends” reunion screens, 17 years after the TV sitcom series ended.
2020
America’s COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 equal to number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan put together.
2018
South Korean boy band BTS are the first K-pop group to top the Billboard 200 with their album “Love Yourself: Tear”.
2005
DreamWorks releases computer-animated film “Madagascar” with voices by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
1999
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
1995
1977
The Sex Pistols release “God Save the Queen”, sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC
1969
1968
Major League Baseball’s National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)
1944
Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Huis Clos” premieres in Paris.
1940
1937
1936
1933
Walt Disney’s short film “3 Little Pigs” released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934).