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2003

The Concorde makes its final flight to London.

Céline Dion and Peabo Bryson release the song “Beauty and the Beast,” the title track of a new Disney film.

Steffi Graf plays her first professional tennis match.

Keith Richards is arrested for heroin possession in Toronto.

The first Toronto International Film Festival opens.

John Lennon sues the U.S. government and the FBI for wiretapping him.

Jean Drapeau is re-elected mayor of Montreal.

The United Nations is officially established less than a month after the end of World War II.

Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.

Harry Houdini gives his final public performance at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.

The very first soccer club is founded in England: Sheffield F.C.,

It happened on… October 24