Tag: This day that year

Shimla, March2015American architect and designer Michael Graves, who was one of the principal figures of the postmodernist movement, died at age 80.2009American hedge-fund investment...

2020The World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic.2006Chilean politician Michelle Bachelet became the first woman to serve as the country's...

2010American director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for The Hurt Locker (2008).1999American director and writer...

 American playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote—who evoked American life in beautifully observed minimal stories and was perhaps best known for his adaptation of To...

2009President João Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau was assassinated by government soldiers, following years of unrest between Vieira and the military.1999British singer Dusty Springfield—who made...

2015American actor Leonard Nimoy—who was best known for his portrayal of the stoic, cerebral Mr. Spock in the sci-fi TV and film franchise Star...