- 1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is the first to use the name America on his world map "Universalis Cosmographia"
- 1792 "La Marseillaise", later the national anthem of France, is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg
- 1850 Paul Julius Reuter sets up carrier-pigeon service, using 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices between Aachen and Brussels
- 1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring automobile license plates ($1 fee)
- 1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for a US citizen Morris Frank
1954 Bell Labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon with about 6% efficiency
- 1960 First submerged circumnavigation of Earth is completed by the USS submarine Triton in 60 days and 21 hours
- 1975 First Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macau
- 1983 NASA space probe Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit
- 1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by space shuttle Discovery
- 1994 14 inches of snow falls in Southern California
- 2022 First airport for electric flying cars and large drones, built by Urban-Air Port, begins operations in Coventry, England [1]
- 2024 "Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe", highest-ever resolution map of the moon published after 10 years work by The Chinese Academy of Sciences [1]
- 2024 Popular song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive, according to a new study that analyzes songs from 1970 to 2020 [1]
