- 1817 Baltimore becomes the 1st American city lit by gas street lamps with the first turned on at Market and Lemon Streets (currently Baltimore and Holliday Streets)
1845 The Portland Vase, thought to date to the 1st century BC is shattered into more than 80 pieces by a drunken visitor to the British Museum
The Tramp
1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts silent film character The Tramp in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
- 1915 First wireless message sent from a moving train to a station is received
Event of Interest
1925 Anthropologist Raymond Dart publishes his landmark paper about the discovery of Australopithecus africanus (the Taung Child), confirming Charles Darwin's prediction of an African human origin [1]
- 1928 1st solo flight from England to Australia takes off from Croydon, piloted by Australian aviator Bert Hinkler (arrives 15 ½ days later)
Pinocchio
1940 Walt Disney's second feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres in NYC
- 1960 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
- 1964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
- 1976 World's then largest telescope at 605 cm, the BTA-6 begins operations in the USSR
The Wall
1980 Pink Floyd premiere their live version of "The Wall" at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California
- 1984 David (born without immunity system) touches his mother for 1st time at age 12
- 1985 "New York, New York" becomes the official anthem of New York City
Open Your Heart
1987 Madonna's "Open Your Heart" single goes #1
The Woman in Me
1995 Mercury Nashville Records releases "The Woman in Me", the 2nd studio album by Shania Twain (Billboard Album of the Year, 1996)
- 2018 All citrus fruit can be traced to the southeastern foothills of the Himalayas, according to a DNA study published in "Nature"
- 2018 DNA analysis of Chedder Man, UK's oldest complete skeleton shows he had dark skin and blue eyes
- 2019 New kangaroo fossil research published from Riversleigh, Australia, show Kangaroos learned to hop 20 million years ago, much earlier than first thought
