- 1646 Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
- 1749 1st edition of Henry Fielding's novel "Tom Jones" is published
1849 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from the east coast
- 1909 1st National Woman's Day is observed in the United States, organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protest against working conditions
- 1935 Ladby Ship is discovered within a Viking grave on the island of Funen in Denmark by amateur archaeologist Poul Helweg Mikkelsen
- 1935 Wallace Carothers manufactures the first nylon polymer
- 1939 The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation
- 1940 First televised basketball game (University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University 50-37)
- 1967 A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years
- 1977 First killer whale born in captivity at Marineland, Los Angeles, California
Seven Year Ache
1981 Columbia Records releases "Seven Year Ache," the third studio album by Rosanne Cash; it is her commercial breakthrough and goes to #1 on the country music chart
Final Episode of "M*A*S*H"
1983 Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs on CBS, a two-hour special directed by series star Alan Alda titled "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"; a record 125 million viewers watch in the US
- 1988 British television programme "That's Life!" surprises guest Nicholas Winton with an audience full of grown-up children that he saved from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, bringing them to safety in the UK
- 2012 Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall
- 2013 The brains of two rats are successfully connected so that they share information
