- 1592 "Ultimate Pi day": on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)
Macbeth
1847 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Macbeth" at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence
- 1931 First theater built for rear movie projection in NYC
Gilda
1946 American film noir classic "Gilda," starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, and directed by Charles Vidor, premieres in New York City
Event of Interest
1970 Ursula K. Le Guin is the first woman to win the Nebula Award for Best Novel with her work "The Left Hand of Darkness" [1]
- 1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
- 2017 World's oldest golf club, Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for the first time in 273 years
Event of Interest
2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
- 2018 World Happiness Report names Finland as world's happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest
- 2019 Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud
- 2020 Longest-ever scheduled passenger flight by distance is flown by Air Tahiti Nui from French Polynesia to mainland France, covering 9,765 miles (15,715 km) as a domestic flight due to COVID-19
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2022 Dolly Parton removes herself from the ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame saying "I don’t feel that I have earned that right” (she later reconsiders and gets in) [1]
- 2025 Price of gold on the New York Mercantile Exchange hits $3,000.00 an ounce for the first time
