- 1807 London's Pall Mall becomes the first street lit by gaslight
Pride and Prejudice
1813 Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is published by Thomas Egerton in the United Kingdom
- 1855 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway
- 1878 George Coy, Herrick Frost, and Walter Lewis open first commercial telephone exchange, in New Haven, Connecticut [1]
- 1878 Yale Daily News is published, the first college daily newspaper
- 1887 During a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported to be 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick
- 1915 The United States Coast Guard is created by merging the US Life Saving Service & the US Revenue Cutter Service
- 1947 "Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000
Elvis's 1st TV Appearance
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on national TV on the Dorsey Brothers's "Stage Show"
Tonight! America After Dark
1957 "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie & Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen & Jack Paar)
- 1960 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington, D.C.
- 1965 "The Who" make their 1st appearance on British television programme "Ready Steady Go!"
- 1979 Charlie Smalls' musical "The Wiz", an updated take on "The Wizard of Oz", starring Stephanie Mills, Stu Gilliam, and Dee Dee Bridgewater, closes at Majestic Theater in NYC, after 1,672 performances, 7 Tony and 6 Drama Desk Awards
- 2013 Iran’s Pishgam rocket successfully completes a return trip of sending a monkey into space
- 2024 100 Ballads names "The Wandering Prince of Troy" the most popular ballad of the 17th century in a project documenting "the earliest form of commercial pop music in England" [1]
