It happened on a… March 1

2021

Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy is sentenced to three years for trying to bribe a judge.

2006

Animated film “Ice Age: The Meltdown” directed by Carlos Saldanha with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres in Belgium.

1998

Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

1997

Canadian Elvis Stojko hits the first quad-triple combination jump in the history of figure-skating competition to win the Championship Series final in Hamilton, Ontario

1995

Yahoo! was incorporated.

1986

Quebec Nordiques Peter Stastny (right) becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 100 points in each of his first 6 seasons.

1977

Bank of America adopts the name VISA for its credit cards.

1973

Pink Floyd release their album “Dark Side of the Moon”.

1972

Wilt Chamberlain the first NBA player to score 30,000 points.

1965

Gas explosion kills 28, fifteen children, in apartment complex in La Salle, Quebec.

1953

After an all-night movie and dinner session with his top advisers, Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later..

1939

Clarence Decatur C. D. Howe opens first Trans Canada Air Lines transcontinental passenger service from Montreal to Vancouver; Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce.