- 1961 The Beatles first gig at Liverpool's Cavern Club; they would play there nearly 300 times over the next two years
- 1963 1st test flight of Boeing 727 jet
1964 First appearance of the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show", live from New York; broadcast draws 73.7 million television viewers
- 1969 1st flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet
- 1971 First gay-themed TV episode - All in the Family
Paul Williams on The Tonight Show
1973 American singer-songwriter and actor Paul Williams sings the torch song "Here's That Rainy Day" in full Planet of the Apes make-up and costume on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show"
- 1979 ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special, featuring archival performances of 62 artists
- 1979 Walter Hill's crime drama film "The Warriors", based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel, is released in the United States, sparking gang violence at many theaters and a halt to the film's marketing campaign
- 1985 Madonna's album "Like a Virgin" goes #1 for 3 weeks
- 1986 Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
- 1990 Spacecraft Galileo flies by Venus at an altitude of 10,000 miles (16,000 km) in a gravity assist maneuver to gain speed on its way to Jupiter [1]
- 1992 Yodeler Thomas School of Germany achieves 22 tones and 15 falsettos in a single second
The Simpsons Record Run
1997 Fox cartoon series "The Simpsons" airs 167th episode; longest-running animated series in cartoon history
Pink Friday
2011 Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday" album reaches number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart
- 2014 Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old
- 2021 The United Arab Emirates is the fifth entity to successfully orbit a probe around Mars as the probe Hope begins to study the planet's atmosphere
