It happened on a… March 13

2020

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates steps down from the company’s board to focus on philanthropic activities.

US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type’s second crash in Ethiopia.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, directed by Joe Johnston, starring Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, premieres in Los Angeles.

Pope Francis is elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.

Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Tosca”.

FLQ terrorist Paul Rose given a life sentence for the non-capital murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis of 1970.

Manitoba the first province to vote for prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

Cambridge College renamed Harvard in honour of clergyman John Harvard.

First meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of Valentin Conrart.