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It happened on a… March 12
2020
NHL announces the pausing of the 2019-20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Hunger Games” directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence premieres in Los Angeles. A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.
Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
Animated film “Ice Age” directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, with voices by Denis Leary and John Leguizamo premieres. “Wonder Woman” debuted on ABC-TV. The show later went to CBS-TV.
The comic strip “Dennis the Menace” appeared for the first time in newspapers across the country.
Ghandi began his 300 km march to the sea that symbolized his defiance of British rule over India. Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.
Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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It happened on a… April 1
2017
Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm.
Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail. The Canadian territory of Nunavut was created. It was carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories and covered about 772,000 square miles.
New York Islander Mike Bossy became the first NHL player to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons.
New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy becomes first NHL rookie to score 50 goals in a season. Apple Computer began operations.
Quebec legalizes civil marriages.
Nescafé introduces their flagship brand in Switzerland The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, NY.
“The Blue Angel” starring Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role premieres in Germany.
The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. “SOS” first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government
French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti.
British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die. Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.
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We know the verdict in Gwyneth Paltrow’s case and it’s the end of a bizarre saga
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