“No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one,” John F Kennedy said about this image of an elderly Buddhist monk taking his own life, on 11 June 1963, in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s largely Catholic government.
In the early hours of 28 June 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, prompted a spontaneous outburst of resistance that lasted for six days and was a watershed moment for LGBTQ+ rights.
Costco CEO Ron Vachris eats the $1.50 hot hog and when asked the question: “Is the price of the hot dog going up?” he replied “the hot dog price will not change as long as I’m around.”