- 1500 Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot in Brazil
- 1808 Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia
Eiffel Tower Constructions Begins
1887 Ground is broken and construction begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
- 1911 Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, in San Diego, California [1]
1st Public TV Demonstration
1926 John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television in his laboratory in London
- 1939 Filming begins on the film adaptation of "Gone with the Wind"
- 1954 Groundbreaking begins on Disneyland
- 1970 "Bridge Over Troubled Water", the 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971)
- 1972 Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives a 10,160m fall without a parachute, the world's highest fall without a parachute
Sinatra Sings to 175,000
1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro
Phantom of the Opera
1988 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart's musical "Phantom of the Opera", directed by Hal Prince and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, opens at Majestic Theater, NYC ; runs for 13,981 performances, winning 7 Tony Awards, and becoming Broadway's longest-running shows
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 American late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" debuts on ABC-TV
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
2005 Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold the post
Blame It
2009 "Blame It (On the Alcohol)" single released by Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain (Billboard Song of the Year 2009)
- 2015 Libby Lane is ordained as the first female bishop of the Church of England
