- 1735 First opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, South Carolina
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1885 Mark Twain publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US
- 1896 Cave of the Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for the first time in 50 years
- 1911 The first official flight with airmail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away
Event of Interest
1913 French modernist painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Marcel Duchamp causes an uproar when shown in New York
- 1930 American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers the dwarf planet Pluto
- 1930 Cow is flown and milked, milk is sealed in paper containers and parachuted
- 1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California
- 1968 Britain commences a trial of year-round daylight saving time (BST - British Standard Time, one hour ahead of GMT)
- 1977 Space Shuttle Enterprise takes its maiden flight affixed atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Aircraft Carrier
- 1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert
A Better Man
1989 "A Better Man" single released by Clint Black (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
- 2013 $50 million worth of diamonds is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport, Belgium
- 2024 Singaporean chess prodigy Ashwath Kaushik at eight years old is the youngest player to defeat a grandmaster in a classic tournament game at the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open, Switzerland [1]
- 2025 The royal tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose II (reigning from about 1493 to 1479 BC) is discovered west of the Valley of the Kings, the first tomb of a pharaoh found since Tutankhamun in 1922 [1]
