
2017

2012
François Hollande elected 24th President of France.

2004
TV sitcom “Friends” airs season finale in 10th and final season.

2002

“Spider-Man” became the first movie to make more than $100 million in its first weekend.

1997

1994
Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa’s first post apartheid election.


1957
U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage”.

1937

1915

1910

1903

1889

1840
World’s first adhesive postage stamp, the “Penny Black”, is first used in Great Britain.

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