Flamsteed 1st Astronomer Royal
1675 John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England
James Madison
1809 James Madison becomes the first US President inaugurated in American-made clothes
- 1881 Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson begin their first case together in "A Study in Scarlet"
Nosferatu
1922 First vampire film "Nosferatu," an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, premieres at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Germany
- 1924 The song "Happy Birthday to You" is published by Clayton F. Summy Co
1936 First flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany
- 1954 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant
- 1959 NASA's scientific spacecraft Pioneer 4 misses the Moon, enters a heliocentric orbit, and becomes the second (and the first US) Earth-launched 'artificial planet' [1]
More Popular Than Jesus
1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
- 1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
- 2022 Four-ton rocket debris crashes into the far side of the moon, unconfirmed booster from China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission in first unintentional collision with the moon [1]
