Thomas Jefferson, 1st Secretary of State
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington
- 1871 William Holden of North Carolina becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
- 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière show their first movie to an invited audience
- 1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
- 1954 Northland Center, the world's largest shopping mall at the time, opens in Oak Park, Michigan
Historic Invention
1960 First patent for lasers granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes
I Can Get It For You Wholesale
1962 Musical "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" starring Barbra Streisand in her Broadway debut, opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 300 performances
- 1963 The Beatles release their first album, "Please Please Me"
- 1986 "On My Own" single released by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (Billboard Song of the Year 1986)
- 1999 "Amazed" single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year 1999)
- 2010 NASA's rover 'Spirit' gets caught in a sand trap on Mars and ceases communications with Earth [1]
- 2018 Musical "Frozen" opens on Broadway, based on the film and starring Patti Murin and Caissie Levy
- 2019 "Mind-blowing" discovery announced of 518 million year old fossil site in near Danshui river, Hubei province, China, with thousands of unknown fossils well preserved
- 2021 World's largest painting "The Journey of Humanity" by British artist Sacha Jafri sells in Dubai for $62m to raise funds for children's charities
Beethoven's DNA Analysis
2023 New DNA analysis of composer Ludwig van Beethoven's hair reveals he probably died of cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis B, but doesn't explain his deafness [1]
- 2024 British runner Jasmin Paris is the first woman and 20th person to complete one of the world's hardest ultramarathons, the Barkley Marathons in Tennessee, with one minute and 39 seconds to spare [1]
