Watt's Rotative Steam Engine
1782 Engineer James Watt's patent for a rotary motion for the steam engine (his sun-and-planet gear) is granted
- 1874 Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game he calls "sphairistike," now known as lawn tennis
- 1886 The Times of London newspaper publishes the world's first classified ad
- 1904 Fiordland National Park in New Zealand is created, home to the Milford Track and at 4,600 square miles (12,000 square km), one of the world's largest
- 1916 US Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
- 1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio" released
- 1941 Plutonium is first produced and isolated by American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg at Berkeley
Film & TV History
1997 NBC TV shows "Schindler's List" completely uncensored and without commercial interruptions; 65 million watch [1]
The Slim Shady LP
1999 Hip Hop artist Eminem releases his first major record album "The Slim Shady LP" (Grammy 2000 - Rap album)
- 2002 Sky Disc of Nebra, world's oldest map of the stars at 3,600 years old, recovered in police sting operation in Basal, Switzerland after being illegally excavated in Germany [1]
- 2018 Study suggests earliest European Palaeolithic artwork in Spain made by Neanderthals not humans in "Science Journal"
- 2021 Discovery of oldest Australian rock art, a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo in Kimberley region, Western Australia, published in "Nature Human Behaviour" [1]
