The Provincial Freeman
1853 Anti-slavery newspaper "The Provincial Freeman" first published in Windsor, Ontario, edited by Samuel Ringgold Ward and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, first black woman publisher in North America
Glenn Miller's 1st Film
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie "Sun Valley Serenade", starring Sonja Henie and John Payne, for 20th Century Fox
- 1944 RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall is broken by pine trees and soft snow, and he suffers only a sprained leg
Boxing Title Fight
1962 Emile Griffith beats Benny " Kid" Paret by TKO in 12th round in welterweight boxing title fight at MSG, NYC; Paret dies 10 days later; first use of television slow motion replay
- 1965 NASA lunar probe Ranger 9 strikes the Moon 10 miles (16 km) northeast of the crater Alphonsus and transmits high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface
Tony Awards
1977 Lily Tomlin is the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show in "Appearing Nitely" (special Tony award 1977)
Film & TV History
1989 NBC rebroadcasts Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard's 1960 version of "Peter Pan" for the first time since 1973
2015 NASA's Opportunity rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon
- 2025 "The Atlantic" publishes "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans" claiming US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth included a journalist in a group chat detailing airstrikes in Yemen [1]
