- 1825 Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates the first detachable shirt collar
- 1869 World's largest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, is found by John Deason and Richard Oates (weighing 97.14 kg) in Moliagul, Australia
- 1901 First Loop-the-loop roller coaster opens on Coney Island, NY, built by Edwin Prescott
- 1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
- 1936 Silent film "Modern Times," directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released
Captain America
1944 "Captain America" serial film premieres starring Dick Purcell, first appearance of a Marvel superhero outside of a comic book
- 1953 "Peter Pan," an animated film by Walt Disney, opens at the Roxy Theater in NYC
- 1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all within 16 degrees
- 1969 United States population reaches 200 million
- 1972 Bob Douglas is the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame
- 1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
- 1981 Largest Jell-O made in Brisbane with 9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavored gelatin
- 1996 British supermarket chains stock genetically modified tomato puree, the first GM food sold in the country
- 2014 Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code
- 2016 Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities
Senate Acquits Trump
2020 US Senate votes to acquit President Donald Trump 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress
