Paris St Germain's Marquinhos lifts the trophy as he celebrates with teammates after winning the Champions League on May 31.Fans got overly excited.
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An octopus pupil is rectangular.
1903 The most famous cycling race, the Tour de France starts.
1907 The Orange River Colony, known as the Orange Free State, is granted self-government by the British. Today it’s just Free State.
1908 SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1910 The Union of South Africa becomes a dominion (with a degree of self governance).
1916 On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 19 000 British soldiers are killed.
1944 At least 2 500 people are said to have been killed in London and south-east England by flying bombs (V1 rockets, or ‘doodlebugs’).
1947 The passenger ship Willem Ruys, which would be renamed the Achille Lauro – familiar with many South Africans – is launched.
1963 Britain admits their diplomat Kim Philby was a Soviet agent against his homeland.
1970 British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling visits Northern Ireland and is reported as saying: “For God’s sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!”
1979 Sony introduced the Walkman, the first portable cassette player, which – like the iPod – revolutionises how we listen to music.
1997 The Nevada Athletic Commission suspends boxer Mike ‘Iron’ Tyson – AKA, ‘The Baddest Man On the Planet – indefinitely and withholds his $20m purse because he bit off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear during their heavyweight title fight five days previously.
2002 The International Criminal Court is set up to prosecute people for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression.
2017 Mexican police kill 19 gunmen in a drug-related shoot-out in Sinaloa state.
2020 A world-record 14 tons of amphetamines is seized by Italian police in Salerno.
2025 Freedom Flotilla ship Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza, Palestine, sets sail with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan, and 10 other volunteers.
2025 Paris Saint-Germain football club fans cause chaos across France following the club’s victory in the Champions League; two people die, 201 are injured, four stores are looted, hundreds are arrested in clashes with riot police, and one police officer is left in a coma.
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