- 196 BC Ptolemy V, aged 13, is crowned King of Ptolemaic Egypt at Memphis by the High Priest of Ptah; the Rosetta Stone is inscribed afterward to proclaim this event
- 1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid
- 1859 First supposed sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury; it doesn't exist
- 1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures the first commercial motion picture film
- 1885 First modern legal cremation held in England at Woking, Surrey [1]
- 1926 First lip-reading tournament held in America
- 1937 William H. Hastie becomes the first Black federal judge in the Virgin Islands
- 1973 TV soap opera "The Young & the Restless" premieres on CBS
Event of Interest
1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment
Annie
1997 Revival of Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan's musical "Annie" opens at the Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 239 performances
TV Show Appearance
1999 Tom Snyder's final appearance as host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS, after 777 episodes
Doctor Who
2005 "Doctor Who" returns to BBC TV after 16 years with the debut of Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose
Film & TV History
2012 Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, in over 50 years
Film & TV History
2018 "Black Panther" becomes the highest-grossing superhero film in America, earning $630.9 million
Becoming
2019 Michelle Obama's biography "Becoming" sells over 10 million copies according to its publisher Bertelsmann
