- 1371 King Robert II of Scotland (1371-90) becomes the first monarch of the House of Stewart
- 1784 Empress of China, the first US ship to trade with China, sails from New York
- 1888 “Father of American Golf” John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends
1909 Great White Fleet, the first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia
- 1928 First solo flight from England to Australia lands in Darwin 15½ days after takeoff, piloted by Australian aviator Bert Hinkler
It Happened One Night
1934 "It Happened One Night" directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall (Academy Awards Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay 1935)
- 1963 The Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
- 1989 NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
- 1989 Pepsi-Cola airs its first Spanish commercial on network TV during the Grammy Awards broadcast on CBS
- 1995 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
- 1997 Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal, producing Dolly the sheep, born on 5 July 1996 (d. 2003)
- 2017 Apple's new campus is named Apple Park in Culpertino, California, nicknamed 'the spaceship', designed with Foster + Partners, the first of 12,000 employees to move in, in April [1]
- 2017 Discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting star TRAPPIST-1 announced in journal "Nature" raises possibility of alien life
- 2018 Neanderthals, not humans, were the first artists on Earth, producing red cave paintings 65,000 years ago in Spain, according to new research published in "Science"
- 2023 Astronomers reveal Webb telescope data is upending existing theories of how early galaxies were formed, after finding six massive galaxies 100x larger than expected soon after the Big Bang [1]
- 2024 Odysseus is the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon, albeit on its side, and it is the first US Moon landing since 1972 [1]
