- 600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
- 1659 First known cheque written (£400), now on display at Westminster Abbey
Historic Publication
1741 Benjamin Franklin begins publishing "The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America"
1861 Abraham Lincoln stops his train at Westfield on his way to Washington to thank 11-year-old Grace Bedell in person for her advice to grow a beard to gain more votes [1]
The Yellow Kid
1896 First US newspaper comic strip, Richard Felton Outcault's "The Yellow Kid," is published in William Randolph Hearst’s "New York Journal" [1]
- 1932 1st patent for a tree issued to James Markham for a peach tree
- 1948 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News," shown on NBC
- 1948 Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time
- 1961 NASA's Explorer 9 is the first spacecraft placed in orbit by an all-solid rocket and the first spacecraft successfully launched into orbit from Wallops Island in Virginia
1964 Second appearance of the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show", live from Deauville Hotel in Miami, Florida; broadcast draws about 70 million television viewers
The Apprentice UK
2005 The UK version of "The Apprentice" with British business magnate Alan Sugar premieres on the BBC
- 2021 Athens and parts of Greece covered in unusual heavy snowfall
