Kellogg's Founded
1906 Will Keith Kellogg joins Charles D. Bolin in founding the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's, after falling out with his brother over development credit and wanting to add sugar to cereal
- 1913 First prize is inserted into a Cracker Jack box
- 1922 Ed Wynn becomes the first talent to sign as a radio entertainer
- 1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in two days on Ramree Island, Burma
First Triple Jump
1952 American defending champion Dick Button becomes 1st figure-skater to land a triple jump in competition; performs triple loop in Olympic free skate in Oslo; wins gold medal ahead of Austria’s Helmut Seibt
The Feminine Mystique
1963 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published
- 1970 Pop singer-songwriter duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart guest star in "Serena Stops the Show" episode of American TV sitcom "Bewitched"
Blinded By The Light
1977 Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of Bruce Springsteen's song "Blinded By The Light" goes to #1
- 1977 Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its first test flight atop a 747 jetliner
- 1985 British soap opera "EastEnders" premieres on the BBC
- 1985 Canned and bottled Cherry Coke is introduced by Coca-Cola
- 1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China
- 1993 "Happy Nation" debut studio album by Swedish pop group Ace of Base is released
- 2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system
- 2007 Blogging website Tumblr is founded by David Karp in New York
- 2008 Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video format, ending the format war with Sony's Blu-ray Disc
- 2024 Brightest known object in the universe identified as a quasar, 500 trillion x brighter than the sun, powered by a supermassive black hole that devours a sun-sized mass every day [1]
