- 1792 The Coinage Act is passed, establishing the United States Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 Half-Eagle, $2.50 Quarter-Eagle gold coins, and the silver dollar, half dollar, quarter, dime, and half-dime
- 1845 H. L. Fizeau and Léon Foucault take the first photo of the Sun
- 1877 First Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1877 First human cannonball act performed by 14-year-old Rossa Matilda Richter, known as Zazel, at the Royal Aquarium in London
- 1902 Electric Theatre, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California
Girl Strikes Out Ruth, Gehrig
1931 17-year old girl Jackie Mitchell strikes out New York Yankees stars Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition baseball game at Engel Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 1962 First official panda crossing opens outside Waterloo Station in London
2001 A Space Odyssey
1968 "2001 A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
- 1968 Beatles establish the music publishing company, Python Music Ltd
Music History
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to No. 1 and stays atop the charts for 31 weeks
- 1978 Georges de Mestral's patent for "velvet type fabric" expires, puts "Velcro" in the open market
- 2021 New study suggests the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago created South America's tropical rainforests [1]
- 2023 Footage of deepest living fish ever recorded, the snailfish, released caught on camera at depth of 27,349 feet (8,336 meters) in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan [1]
- 2023 Lake Tulare, once the largest body of water west of the Mississippi, re-emerges after a series of storms in California's Central Valley to cover 160 square miles [1]
