- 1891 1st great train robbery by the Dalton Gang: Southern Pacific #17, near Alila (now Earlimart), California
- 1894 Bottle opener patented by American inventor William Painter
- 1928 A woman dubbed Anna Anderson [possibly Franziska Schanzkowska] arrives in NYC, using the alias "Anastasia Tschaikovsky" claims to be Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
- 1932 First Olympic dog sled race is held at Lake Placid, New York, as a demonstration sport
- 1935 Board game Monopoly goes on sale for the first time
- 1948 1st radio-controlled airplane flown
Harvey Arrested at Test Site
1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago, Illinois
Shepard's Golf on the Moon
1971 American astronaut Alan Shepard is the first to hit a golf ball on the Moon [1]
- 1982 "Centerfold" by J. Geils Band hits #1 on pop chart
- 1990 Steve Briers of Wales recites entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes 58.44 seconds backwards!
- 1992 The Sámi people of the far northern Nordic countries have an official day to celebrate their culture
Get Rich or Die Trying
2003 American rapper 50 Cent releases his album "Get Rich or Die Trying" (2003 Billboard Album of the Year)
Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee
2012 Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of becoming British monarch, becoming only the second to do so
Leno's Last Tonight Show
2014 Jay Leno hosts "The Tonight Show" for the final time (NBC)
Falcon Heavy Launched
2018 Elon Musk's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket
- 2019 Honeybees are able to add and subtract and understand concept of zero according to research from RMIT University in Australia
- 2019 Quadriga, Canada's biggest cryptocurrency exchange is unable to get to $145 million of bitcoin assets after its CEO dies with its access passwords
- 2022 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking seventy years on the throne [1]
Dune: Part Two
2024 Denis Villeneuve's science fiction film epic "Dune: Part Two" premieres in Mexico City, starring Timothée Chalamet and an ensemble cast
