1662 First public bus service begins, promoted by Blaise Pascal, operates in Paris as the "Carosses à Cinq Sous" until 1675
- 1813 David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas
The Greatest Show on Earth
1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus, traveling as "The Greatest Show on Earth," debuts at Madison Square Garden in New York City after the merger of two existing circus groups [1]
- 1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn, is discovered by William Pickering
Caruso Makes a Record
1902 Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso becomes the first well-known performer to make a record
- 1910 Frederick Converse's opera "The Pipe of Desire" is the first American opera performed at the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
- 1965 Poppin' Fresh, the Pillsbury Dough Boy, is introduced
- 1966 Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1
- 1967 the Beatles' single "Penny Lane" single goes #1
- 1977 The Clash release their first recording, "White Riot"
- 1978 250,000 attend rock concert California Jam II in Ontario, California
- 1989 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt
- 1990 In the largest art heist in US history, 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
Music History
1992 American pop singer Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
2005 "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" premieres on the Disney Channel, starring Dylan and Cole Sprouse
- 2011 MESSENGER spacecraft enters Mercury's orbit
- 2019 Champion racing pigeon Armando "the Lewis Hamilton of pigeons" sells for a record $1.42 million in Belgium
- 2025 NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally return to Earth from the International Space Station after nine months, instead of one week, aboard a SpaceX capsule [1]
