- 1691 Thomas Neale granted English patent for American postal service
The Decline and Fall of Roman Empire
1776 First volume of Edward Gibbon's seminal work "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is published
- 1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents the "draisine," an early bicycle
- 1876 Sardines first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine
- 1883 Arthur Ashwell patents 'vacant/engaged' toilet lock in London, England
The Yellow Kid
1895 US newspaper comic strip, Richard Felton Outcault's "The Yellow Kid," makes first appearance in William Randolph Hearst’s "New York Journal" [1]
- 1933 First issue of American news magazine "Newsweek" is published
- 1936 The world's first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee Falk, makes his first appearance in comics
- 1998 NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft overtakes Pioneer 10 to become the farthest object from earth in space
If I Ain't Got You
2004 "If I Ain't Got You" single released by Alicia Keys (Grammy Award Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 2005, Billboard Song of the Year 2004)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" premieres on NBC
- 2016 Oldest known case of human-Neanderthal sex (100,000 years ago) is revealed by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig when a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal woman's remains from the Altai Mountains show traces of Homo sapien DNA
- 2022 28,000 women apply for 30 jobs driving trains after they are advertised for women in Saudi Arabia for the first time [1]
- 2022 Alexandra Trusova becomes the first female figure skater to land four and five quadruple jumps in the free skate at the Beijing Winter Olympics, winning the silver medal [1]
