- 1736 Bellevue Hospital is founded in a New York City almshouse, becoming the first public hospital in the US
Kant Appointed Professor
1770 Immanuel Kant is appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg
- 1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, is the first African American to vote in the US under the provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution in a local election on the town's charter [1]
1889 Eiffel Tower officially opens for dignitaries and an award ceremony in Paris, France; designed by Gustave Eiffel and built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300 meters high, it holds the record for the tallest man-made structure for 41 years
- 1918 First daylight saving time in US goes into effect
- 1923 First dance marathon in New York City; Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours with 6 different partners
The Hound of Baskervilles
1939 "The Hound of Baskervilles" first of 14 films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson is released
- 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Oklahoma!" opens at the St. James Theatre, NYC; runs for 2,212 performances and wins a "Special Citation" Pulitzer Prize
- 1966 USSR launches Luna 10, first lunar orbiter
Music History
1967 Jimi Hendrix first burns his guitar (and his fingers) at Finsbury Park Astoria theatre in London; the guitar is sold at auction for nearly $500K, the building is currently a church
Slaughterhouse-Five
1969 NY Times reviews "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut on its publication, saying "you'll either love it, or push it back in the science-fiction corner"
- 1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit
Film & TV History
1983 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," is released in the US
- 1994 The Journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull
- 2009 "Boom Boom Pow" single released by The Black Eyed Peas (Grammy Award for Best Music Video 2010, Billboard Song of the Year 2009)
- 2020 British pensioner Robert Weighton becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years
Music History
2021 Paul Simon sells his entire songwriting catalog of over 400 songs to Sony Music Publishing for an undisclosed sum
- 2022 First truly complete sequence of a human genome published by Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, after breakthroughs in new technology (previously just over 90% coded) [1]
- 2025 SpaceX mission Fram2 launches four people aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, becoming the first crewed spaceflight to enter a polar retrograde orbit [1]
