Herschel Discovers Uranus
1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but actually discovers the planet Uranus
- 1915 Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
- 1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC
- 1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces the discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
- 1965 The Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
- 1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
- 1986 Microsoft has its initial public offering and lists on the NASDAQ
- 2003 The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy
Pavarotti Last Opera
2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his final opera, "Tosca," at New York's Metropolitan Opera
- 2008 Price of gold on the New York Mercantile Exchange hits $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time
- 2023 Vinyl records outsell CDs in the US for the first time since 1987 (41 million vinyl records vs 33 million CDs), according to new report [1]
