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2021

PGA Championship: Phil Mickelson becomes the oldest winner of a major tournament in history (age 50); he wins his sixth major title.

The city of Hamburg, Germany, becomes the first to ban diesel vehicles from its roads.

Patrick Roy is named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, the team with which he won his last two Stanley Cups.

Rapper Eminem releases the album “The Marshall Mathers LP,” his biggest hit to date. It will be named Best Rap Album of 2001 at the Grammy Awards.

The film “Pulp Fiction” wins the Palme d’Or at the 47th Cannes Film Festival.

Pope John Paul II beatified Brother André Besette and Mother Marie Rose.

Stanley Kubrick’s horror film “The Shining,” starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall and based on the novel by Stephen King, is released.

The band The Who premieres the rock opera “Tommy.”

The gangsters Bonnie and Clyde are arrested by the police before being shot dead at Black Lake in Louisiana.

The Canadian North-West Mounted Police is established. The organization will change its name in 1920 to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Samuel de Champlain is appointed Governor of New France.

It happened on… May 23