Romeo and Juliet
1595 William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is thought to have been first performed; officially published early 1597
The Raven
1845 American writer Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" is first published in The Evening Mirror newspaper (New York City)
- 1892 The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia
- 1896 American Emile Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
First Native American Senator
1907 Republican Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American US Senator
Disney Starts Work
1920 Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week
- 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
- 1964 The Beatles record German language versions of their hits "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" ("I Want to Hold Your Hand") and "Sie Liebt Dich" ("She Loves You") at EMI's Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris, France
- 1964 Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
- 1975 First American Annual Comedy Awards, hosted by Alan King
- 1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hits #1 on UK pop chart
Oxford Refuses Thatcher
1985 Oxford University refuses to award Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher an honorary degree
- 1996 The 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing the record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
Hattie McDaniel Stamp
2006 US Postal Service releases 39-cent stamp featuring Hattie McDaniel in the dress she wore in 1940 when she became the 1st African-American actress to accept an Academy Award
- 2014 Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
Ronaldo Captains Real Madrid
2014 Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the 1st non-Spanish player to captain Real Madrid, making his 500th appearance for the club
- 2014 Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice
- 2024 "Suits" was the most-streamed show in 2023 with 57.7 billion minutes, followed by "Bluey" then "NCIS" according to Nielsen [1]
- 2024 Elmo the Muppet posts "Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?" on X and receives thousands of brutally honest replies [1]
Brain-Reading Device
2024 Elon Musk tweets his company Neuralink has implanted a ‘brain-reading’ device into a person for the first time [1]
