- 1178 BC A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
- 1787 First American comedy play, "The Contrast," debuts in NYC
1st Woman Pilot Crosses Channel
1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first female pilot to fly across the English Channel
Oakley's Shooting Record
1922 Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
- 1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)
- 1956 First solar-powered radios go on sale
- 1972 Two giant pandas arrive in US from China
- 2004 The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Transatlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel
World Record
2017 World record for gathering of Charlie Chaplin lookalikes; 662 at Manoir de Ban, Chaplin's World in Vevey, Switzerland
Pulitzer Prize
2018 Kendrick Lamar is the first rapper and non-classical or jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music with his album "Damn"
Phantom of the Opera
2023 Broadway’s longest-running show, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart's musical "Phantom of the Opera," directed by Hal Prince and starring Laird Mackintosh (substituting for the ill Ben Crawford) and Emilie Kouatchou, closes at the Majestic Theatre, NYC, after 13,981 performances and 7 Tony Award wins [1] [2]
