- 1751 First performing monkey exhibited in New York City, USA (admission 1 cent)
- 1814 Australia's first currency, the holey dollar, is introduced, made from Spanish 'pieces of eight' with the centers stamped out for the colony of New South Wales [1]
1862 First Legal Tender Act of 1862 is passed by US Congress, authorizing the United States note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that is legal tender in America
- 1919 Oregon becomes the first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
That'll Be the Day
1957 Buddy Holly and the Crickets record their smash hit "That'll Be the Day" in Clovis, New Mexico
- 1963 The Beatles release their first US single, "Please Please Me"
- 1987 Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva discovers the royal tombs of Sipán from the Moche culture (A.D. 100 to 800) in northern Peru after a police tip-off, considered the richest archaeological find of the New World [1]
Boiling Point
1999 British chef Gordon Ramsay comes to prominence appearing in the TV documentary "Boiling Point" detailing the opening of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
Stevie Wonder Receives Gershwin Prize
2009 American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder receives Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the White House in Washington, D.C.
- 2018 China briefly bans the letter 'N' as part of widespread censorship efforts [1]
- 2019 Influential film review site Rotten Tomatoes implements changes to its site after internet trolls target "Captain Marvel" film
- 2022 Untitled 1969 painting by Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde sets a new record for the most expensive work of Modern Indian art at 420m rupees (nearly $5m; £3.9m) in Mumbai [1]
Is This What We Want?
2025 A group of 1,000 artists including Annie Lennox, Billy Ocean, and Kate Bush, release a lyric-less album to protest a proposed British law allowing developers access to copyrighted material to train AI [1]
