The Edinburgh Fringe Turns 80

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• Movie09/21/2026@FilmDesk

  Cannes Opens Its 80th Festival

  Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, FranceFestival de Cannes

  

  05/11/2027 - 05/22/2027SCHEDULED83% CONFIDENCEin 230 daysScreen reports the festival has confirmed its 2027 dates: the 80th edition runs from Tuesday 11 May to Saturday 22 May 2027. The pin's exclusive end is the following midnight UTC.^[1]

  The Cannes Film Festival runs 11-22 May 2027 at the Palais des Festivals, its 80th edition.

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Theatercaféen Opens Opposite the National Theatre

  Theatercaféen, Klingenberggata, Vika, Sentrum, Oslo 0161, NorwayTheatercaféen

  

  Starts 12/31/1900ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE125.7 years agoThe article states "Theatercaféen opened in 1900" without a month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]

  Theatercaféen opened in 1900 across the street from Oslo's National Theatre and became the room where Norwegian actors, writers and politicians ate after curtain - a Viennese-style café with a gallery, caricatures of its regulars on the walls and live music from a balcony.

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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Olympia Opens to the Public After Its Kensington Rebuild

  Olympia, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London, EnglandYoo Capital

  

  Starts 06/15/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE100 days agoOlympia's^[1] own press release, headed "The all-new Olympia opens", gives 15 June 2026 as the opening day of the transformed destination.

  The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.

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• Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk

  How Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao Changed Architecture Forever

  Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Bizkaia, SpainGuggenheim Museum Bilbao

  

  Starts 10/18/1997CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE28.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "the Guggenheim^[3] Museum Bilbao was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain."

  Frank Gehry's titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in October 1997, reviving a struggling industrial city and popularizing the aircraft-design software that made its curved form buildable.

  $100M

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• Health09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Children and Young People Finally Opens

  50 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, United KingdomBrookfield Multiplex

  

  Starts 03/23/2021DELAYED68% CONFIDENCE5.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The hospital was officially opened on 23 March 2021".

  Edinburgh's £150M Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, designed by HLM Architects and built by Brookfield Multiplex, opened to patients after ventilation and drainage faults forced repeated delays.

  £150M

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• Food09/22/2026FoodDesk

  Barberian's Steak House Opens on Elm Street

  7 Elm Street, Yonge-Bay Corridor, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaBarberian's Steak House

  

  Starts 12/31/1959ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE66.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - opened 1959 - with no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.^[1]

  Harry Barberian opened his steak house on Elm Street in 1959, in a row of Victorian houses behind Yonge Street, and it has outlasted most of what grew up around it - a dark room of oil paintings and charcoal-grilled beef with one of the deepest wine cellars in Canada dug out beneath it.

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• Aerospace09/21/2026@BuildDesk

  The Paris Air Show Returns to Le Bourget

  Paris–Le Bourget Airport, Le Bourget, FranceGIFAS

  

  06/14/2027 - 06/20/2027SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 264 daysStated as fixed, per siae.fr^[1]: the show’s own site gives its dates as "14•20 JUNE 2027".

  The largest aerospace exhibition in the world, held in odd years at Paris–Le Bourget since 1953 and first staged in 1909, runs 14 to 20 June 2027 – four days for professionals, then three open to the public.

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• Architecture09/22/2026@BuildDesk

  Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens on Saadiyat Island

  Solomon R. Guggenheim FoundationCulture District, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

  Starts 12/11/2026CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysAbu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism named 11 December 2026 in a joint announcement with the Guggenheim^[1] Foundation in late July 2026; the foundation's own press release carries the date.

  Twenty years after it was announced, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opens on 11 December 2026 as the largest museum in the Guggenheim family - about 80,000 square metres, against roughly a quarter of that in New York. Frank Gehry arranged it around a single tall atrium with galleries threaded between ten sculptural cones, nine sheathed in stainless steel mesh and one in onyx and glass, so the roofline reads as a cluster of towers from across the Culture District.

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• Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk

  86 EIGHTY-SIX Premieres

  Suginami, Tokyo, JapanA-1 Pictures

  

  Starts 04/11/2021CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE83%23 episodes5.4 years agoBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.

  A-1 Pictures' 86 EIGHTY-SIX begins airing, a mecha war drama adapting Asato Asato's light novels about the Eighty-Six, a persecuted people secretly forced to pilot the Republic of San Magnolia's supposedly unmanned combat drones.

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• Movie09/20/2026@OddsDesk

  99th Academy Awards Crown the Best Picture of 2026

  Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

  

  Starts 03/14/2027 11:00PMSCHEDULED82% CONFIDENCEin 172 daysThe Academy announced March 14, 2027 for the 99th ceremony, starting at 4 p.m. Pacific (23:00 UTC, PDT having begun that morning).^[1]

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  The 99th Academy Awards air live from the Dolby Theatre on March 14, 2027, hosted by Conan O'Brien, and the ceremony's biggest prize is Best Picture. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi had The Odyssey at 52%, well ahead of The Black Ball at 16% and Dune: Part Three at 11%.

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• Science09/22/2026@ScienceDesk

  The 1919 Eclipse Results Confirm General Relativity

  Royal Astronomical Society, Piccadilly, St. James's, Westminster, Mayfair, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, W1J 0PA, United KingdomRoyal Astronomical Society

  

  Starts 11/06/1919CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE106.9 years agoWikipedia's^[1][2][3] Eddington experiment article dates the session: "The presentation of the results at the joint 6 November 1919 session of Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society led to intensive press coverage first in Great Britain and a few days later in the US press". The eclipse itself was on 29 May 1919; this pin is the announcement, which is what made Einstein famous.

  Arthur Eddington presents the results of the May 1919 eclipse expeditions to Principe and Sobral at a joint session of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society at Burlington House. The measured deflection of starlight matches Einstein's prediction, and the meeting accepts it.

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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  New Ontario Science Centre Opens at Ontario Place

  Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaOntario Science Centre

  

  Starts 12/31/2029DELAYED12 months late40% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsGlobal News^[1] reports that "the new building is expected to open in 2029", a year rather than a fixed day, so the pin sits at the end of 2029.

  The 400,000-square-foot replacement for the Don Mills science centre is rising on Toronto's waterfront, pairing a mainland building with an integrated pod complex and a restored Cinesphere. Ontario's auditor general costed the move at roughly $1.4 billion against $1.3 billion to keep the old building, and shovels went in the ground in May 2026.

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