- 1751 The New York Gazette and Post Boy carries first public report of a cricket match played in America; New York XI v London XI on the site of what is today the Fulton Fish Market in Manhattan, NYC
Darwin Sights the Andes
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition sees the top of the Andes Mountains from Patagonia
Roget's Thesaurus
1852 First edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus is published in Britain and has never been out of print since
- 1936 The first professional baseball game in Japan is played as Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
- 1953 First experimental 3D-TV broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV
- 1968 Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado's hippie musical "Hair" opens at the Biltmore Theatre in NYC and runs for 1,750 performances
- 1995 Longest sausage ever, at 28.77 miles, made in Kitchener, Ontario
Rent
1996 Jonathan Larson's rock musical "Rent", loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera "La Bohème", starring Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel, opens at the Nederlander Theatre, NYC; runs for 5,123 performances, and wins 4 Tony Awards, 7 Drama Desk Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- 2004 Oldsmobile builds its final car, ending 107 years of production
The Simpsons Makes TV History
2018 Animated series "The Simpsons" surpasses 635-episode count of "Gunsmoke"'; highest number of episodes of any series on TV
Most Wins at the Same Event
2018 Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal equals his Open-era record for most wins at the same event (11 Monte Carlo) with his 11th Barcelona ATP title
- 2018 Sweden's official Twitter account confirms Swedish meatballs actually originated in Turkey
- 2020 A mile-wide asteroid named 1998 OR2 passes within 3.9 million miles of Earth
- 2020 World record for the longest single lightning flash of 477miles (768km) across US states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi according to World Meteorological Organization [1]
- 2021 World's longest pedestrian bridge at 516 metres (1,700 feet) opens inside northern Portugal's Arouca Geopark
