2021
Cristiano Ronaldo breaks world record for goals scored in men’s international football; hits his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Republic of Ireland in Faro.
2020
BTS become the 1st all-Korean pop act to top the Billboard 100 singles chart with “Dynamite”
1999
1995
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio.
1985
1980
Terry Fox abandons Marathon of Hope 135 days and over 5,000 km after it started at St. John’s, Newfoundland, on April 12; cancer has returned and spread to his lungs; hospitalized in Vancouver where he dies the following year.
1978
Last broadcast of “Columbo” starring Peter Falk on NBC.
1969
1945
1941
1939
1923
1905
1889
1752
1715
King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.