- 1773 British House of Commons passes the Tea Act (later led to the Boston Tea Party)
1904 The Australian Labor Party under Prime Minister Chris Watson becomes the first Labor government in the world
- 1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth's orbit to study gamma rays
- 1965 Robert C. Duncan and Norma L. Baker are granted a patent for the "Pampers" disposable diaper on behalf of Procter & Gamble
- 1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth after lunar exploration, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean 350 km (189 nmi) southeast of the island of Kiritimati
- 1990 50th annual Barbershop Quartet Singing Convention held in Michigan
- 1999 Nevada State Museum discovers the oldest mummy in North America on the shelves of its own museum after the Spirit Cave Mummy is radiocarbon dated to more than 9,400 years old [1]
- 2005 The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France
Problem
2014 Ariana Grande's first single from her album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, is released
Music History
2018 Swedish band ABBA announce they have recorded new songs for the first time since 1982
Event of Interest
2022 SpaceX launches its Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts, including Jessica Watkins, who becomes the first Black woman to serve a long-duration mission on the International Space Station [1]
- 2023 Findings from the Zoonomia Project are published, in which the genomes of 240 mammals are collected and compared; they reveal that 10.7% of the human genome is identical across almost all species [1]
