Historical Epic Burnt
1835 Volume One of Thomas Carlyle's famous work "The French Revolution: A History" is accidentally burned by a maid using it as a fire starter before its publication; Carlyle rewrites it
Periodic Table
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society
Historic Invention
1899 Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is patented by Felix Hoffmann at the German company Bayer
- 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers
1st Press Conference by a First Lady
1933 Eleanor Roosevelt is the first First Lady to hold an official press conference at the White House [1]
- 1950 Silly Putty goes on sale in the US
My Girl Hits #1
1965 The Temptations' single "My Girl" reaches #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart; written and produced by the Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
- 1974 An unnamed Italian industrialist loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino
Event of Interest
1997 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, it is recovered a week later
- 2015 NASA's Dawn space probe enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres
Event of Interest
2018 Forbes names Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the world's richest person for the first time at $112 billion, Bill Gates no. 2
- 2018 World's oldest message in a bottle is found in Western Australia, thrown from the German ship Paula 132 years ago on June 12, 1886
- 2025 Spacecraft Athena, carrying a NASA ice drill, built by Intuitive Machines, Texas, lands on its side on the Moon, ending its mission [1]
