- 1702 First English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" is published
- 1744 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London
- 1791 Samuel Mulliken is the first to obtain more than one US patent
- 1957 Charles Van Doren finally loses on the US TV game show "Twenty-One" after winning $129,000, later revealed to be fixed
A Raisin in the Sun
1959 Lorraine Hansberry's stage drama "A Raisin in the Sun," the first Broadway play by a Black woman, starring Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; later transfers to the Belasco Theatre; runs for 530 performances
Film & TV History
1964 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series
- 1986 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21, 753 BC
- 1988 British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one-pound coin
- 2020 Smallest dinosaur ever discovered - skull preserved in piece of amber smaller than a fingertip from a mine in Myanmar, reported in "Nature"
- 2021 Digital art work "Everydays: The First 5,000 Days" a digital college by Beeple, with a non-fungible token, sells for record $69.3 million in online auction by Christie's [1]
- 2025 Astronomers announce the discovery of 128 new moons orbiting the planet Saturn, bring the planet's total to 274 moons [1]
- 2025 NASA's space telescope, the Spherex observatory, is launched by SpaceX from California to study how galaxies are formed by observing their cosmic glow [1]
