Raphael's Transfiguration
1520 Raphael's final influential masterpiece "The Transfiguration" is put on display a week after the artist's death
- 1741 Dutch people protest poor quality of bread
- 1796 First elephant arrives in US from India
- 1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC, opening in the Dodworth Building at 681 Fifth Avenue
Lewis and Clark Expo Gold Dollar
1904 US Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Exposition $1 gold coin
- 1933 First flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
- 1960 The US Department of Defense places "Transit 1B," the first navigational satellite, in orbit around Earth
- 1964 New Zealander Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in one workday
- 1965 The Beatles record their single "Help!"
- 1970 Apollo 13 announces, "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here" after a Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to the Moon
- 1980 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease" closes at the Majestic Theatre, NYC, after 3,388 performances (including Broadhurst and Royale Theatre runs)
Film & TV History
1994 Asteroid 7373 Takei is discovered and named after Star Trek actor George Takei
Music History
2019 BTS is the first K-pop band to perform on US TV show "Saturday Night Live"
- 2019 World's largest plane by wingspan at 117m (385 ft), the Stratolaunch, built as a flying launch pad for satellites, takes its first flight from Mojave, California
- 2025 The MacLean brothers, Ewan (32), Jamie (31), and Lachlan (27) of Scotland depart in a rowboat from Lima, Peru to cross the Pacifiic Ocean, headed for Australia; they hope to raise funds for clean water access in Madagascar through donations [1]
