- 1487 Bell chimes invented
Charles I Ransomed
1647 After nine months of negotiations, Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English Parliament for around £100,000
Pirate Attack
1698 English pirate William Kidd takes his greatest prize, the Indian merchant ship Quedagh Merchant, upsetting English trade and causing a global manhunt
- 1790 Lifeboat first tested at sea by Mr. Greathead, the inventor
Library of Congress
1815 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes
Around the World in 80 Days
1873 "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne is published in France by Pierre-Jules Hetzel
- 1922 World Law Day is first celebrated
City Lights
1931 "City Lights", American silent romantic comedy film directed by Charlie Chaplin, starring himself and Virginia Cherrill, premieres at Los Angeles Theater
- 1946 First issue of Franklin D. Roosevelt dime
I Fall to Pieces
1961 "I Fall to Pieces" single released by Patsy Cline (Billboard Song of the Year 1961)
- 1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
- 1969 The Beatles perform their last live gig, a 42-minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London, England
- 1973 Rock band KISS plays its first show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY
Rubik's Cube
1975 Ernő Rubik applies for a patent for his "Magic Cube" invention, later to be known as a Rubik's cube
- 1977 The 8th and final part of "Roots" is the most-watched US entertainment show ever with 100 million viewers
- 1989 Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
- 2007 "Lost Without U" single released by Robin Thicke (Billboard Song of the Year 2007)
The Americans
2013 TV spy drama "The Americans" created by Joe Weisberg, starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys premieres on FX
- 2017 Scientists in central China reveal the oldest known human ancestor, a 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus fossil
- 2019 Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms" sells for $8.2 million at auction in New York
