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Grande roue de Montréal opens

La Grande roue de Montréal is a Ferris wheel built at the Old Port of Montreal for the festivities for the 375th anniversary of the city. It is the tallest Ferris wheel in Canada. The axis of the wheel is anchored on anti-seismic foundations that allow it to withstand winds of 240 kilometres per hour.

Maas' 'Queen of Shadows' is published

Stronger than ever, Aelin Galathynius returns to Adarlan, but this time she is free. She teams up with Chaol and Arobynn Hamel, determined to get her revenge for over ten years of pain. Manon is forced to use her witches to produce evil monsters as weapons. She befriends Elide Lochan, a servant girl who is the rightful lady of Perranth.

The West End's longest-ever running revival closes

Chicago is an American musical based on a 1926 play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins. It is a satire story on corruption, actual criminals, and crimes. During its revival in London’s West End, it ran at the Adelphi Theatre for 9 years, later being transferred to the Cambridge Theatre for additional 6 before it ended.

Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' is published

The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. It tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba.

George Bernard Shaw introduces his play 'Androcles and the Lion'

George Bernard Shaw has written the play at the time when the Christian Church was an important influence on society. His characters represented different types of believers. It shows a character of Androcles being captured and sent to the Colosseum to be killed. The play is set in the Ancient Rome, during the persecution of Christians.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1996

Zendaya

born 1950

Phil McGraw

born 1939

Lily Tomlin

died 1981

Albert Speer