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2018

Pope Francis publishes a letter to all Catholics condemning the atrocities of sexual abuse covered up by the clergy. “We have shown no care for the most vulnerable; we have abandoned them.”

2009

At the 12th World Championships in Athletics, Usain Bolt wins the 200-meter race and sets a new world record of 19.19 seconds.

2000

Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Ben Hogan (1953) to win three major tournaments in the same year with his victory at the PGA Championship.

1998

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec cannot secede from Canada without the federal government’s consent.

1987

The Canadian government bans smoking in all public offices across Canada.

1968

250,000 Soviet and Polish soldiers invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring.

1965

The Rolling Stones release the song “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (
their first No. 1 in the U.S.) in the United Kingdom.

1940

France falls to the German invaders during World War II.

1920

The American Professional Football Association is founded. It will later become the National Football League (NFL).

1914

German forces capture Brussels during World War I.

1896

The first rotary-dial telephone is invented.

1858

Charles Darwin publishes his theory of evolution and natural selection.

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