Twelfth Night
1602 First recorded performance of William Shakespeare's comedy play "Twelfth Night", to celebrate Candelmas in the Middle Temple Hall, London (diary of John Manningham)
- 1802 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents)
- 1852 1st British public men's toilet opens in Fleet St, London
- 1887 First Groundhog Day observed at Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
- 1892 Bottle cap for beverages is patented by US inventor William Painter and is still used today [1]
- 1913 NYC's Grand Central Terminal train station opens [1]
Ulysses
1922 James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" is first published by Sylvia Beach in Paris (1,000 copies)
- 1926 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours
- 1984 1st Soap Opera Digest Awards; "Days of Our Lives" wins
Music History
1993 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to singer-songwriter Tom Waits for using his distinctive voice song style in radio advertisement
- 2003 Russian pop girl duo Tatu start a four-week run at #1 on the UK singles chart with "All The Things She Said"
RuPaul's Drag Race" Premieres
2009 "RuPaul's Drag Race" hosted by RuPaul premieres on Logo TV
- 2019 More than 40 mummies from 323-30 BC found at a burial site at Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site south of Cairo, Egypt
- 2020 Palindrome Day: the date 02022020 reads the same forward and backward including in the US and China (last one like this 11 November 1111)
