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2019

Britain’s Prince Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties after outcry from disastrous interview on his friendship with Jeffry Epstein

2015

“25” 3rd studio album by Adele is released (Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2017, 2016 Billboard Album of the Year).

1998

First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

1995

Princess Diana admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview

1985

Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1969

Brazilian soccer icon Pele scores his 1,000th goal.

1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.

1947

Britain’s Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.

1945

24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

1928

Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0, in the first NHL game played in the Boston Gardens.

1917

1st successful tank (Mark IV) use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines.

1902

Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race.

1886

Sherlock Holmes’s first story “A Study in Scarlet” is accepted by publisher Ward and Lock with payment of £25.

1805

Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio”, his only opera, premieres in Vienna.