- 764 K'inich K'uk' Bahlum becomes king of the Maya city of Palenque, its last known ruler before the city's collapse
- 1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded
- 1887 Everett Horton of Connecticut patents a fishing rod made of telescoping steel tubes
Hubble's Galaxy Photo
1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
- 1936 The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida
Radio Premiere
1962 The Beatles (with Pete Best) make their BBC radio debut with a cover of Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)", recorded the previous evening on stage at the Playhouse Theatre in Manchester
- 1968 6-year-old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland)
- 1979 First extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Jupiter's moon Io
- 1994 US Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
Film & TV History
1998 The Screen Actors Guild award Gloria Stuart (Old Rose in "Titanic") with their Founders Award
Film & TV History
2016 Turner Classic Movies show several of Claire Trevor’s films to honor the 106th anniversary of her birth
- 2017 Aboriginal DNA study by the University of Adelaide shows the Aboriginal population dates back 50,000 years from a single migration
- 2022 UK band Glass Animals' song "Heat Waves" sets new record of 59 weeks for longest time to reach No. 1 on US Billboard Top 100 [1]
- 2023 Oldest known reference to Norse god Odin from fifth century, revealed on gold disc from Vindelev hoard, Western Denmark, by Danish scientists [1]
- 2024 A report by the Pentagon into UFOs since 1945 finds no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence [1]
