- 1642 Georgeana (York) in Maine becomes the first incorporated American city
- 1864 Rebecca Lee in the US becomes the first African American woman to receive a medical degree
- 1869 US postage stamps featuring scenes are issued for the first time, depicting a post horse and rider, a locomotive, a shield, an eagle, and a ship, the Adriatic
- 1872 Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park
Sherlock Holmes
1890 First US edition of Sherlock Holmes' first story "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle is published
- 1912 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs first (attached-type) parachute jump from an airplane
- 1937 First permanent automobile license plates are issued in Connecticut
Captain America
1941 Captain America, created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, is first published by Timely Comics (premiere issue released on December 20, 1940)
- 1956 "Crazy Arms" single released by Ray Price - his 1st No.1 (Billboard Song of the Year 1956)
- 1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1968 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" first performed as a 15-minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London
Dark Side of the Moon
1973 Harvest (UK) and Capitol Records (US) release Pink Floyd's 8th studio album "The Dark Side of the Moon"; it stays on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart for most of the next 14 years, selling over 50 million copies worldwide
Black hole explosions
1974 Physicist Stephen Hawking publishes his landmark paper "Black hole explosions" introducing idea of 'Hawking radiation' the idea black holes are not truly black because they omit heat [1]
Film & TV History
1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery in an extortion plot
Sports History
1997 Canadian Elvis Stojko hits the first quad-triple combination jump in the history of figure-skating competition to win the Championship Series final in Hamilton, Ontario
- 2011 Tomb of a 700 year old female mummy, discovered by road workers, opened in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China
Event of Interest
2016 Forbes Richest List released, Bill Gates No. 1 with $75 billion, number of world's billionaires shrinks to 1,810
- 2016 South Korean opposition MPs set a world record for longest filibuster - 9 days (192 hours) trying to block anti-terror bill
- 2018 Earliest evidence for figural tattoos (bull and sheep) on two naturally mummified bodies from Egypt’s predynastic period (3351-3017BC) published in "Journal of Archaeological Science"
