Washington's Honorary Degree
1776 Harvard College votes to award George Washington an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree
- 1868 Hawaiian surfs on the highest wave ever, a 50-foot wave
- 1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
- 1933 First airplane flight over Mount Everest
1953 American magazine "TV Guide" publishes its first issue; the cover features a photo of Lucille Ball's newborn baby boy, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (Desi Arnaz Jr.)
- 1966 Soviet Luna 10 completes its first orbit of the Moon
- 1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon
Planet of the Apes
1968 Science fiction film "Planet of the Apes", starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, opens nationally in the United States
- 1973 First mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NY, by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey
- 1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
- 1987 Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
Music History
2007 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards denies saying he smoked his father's ashes in an interview with NME
#1 in the Charts
2008 Mariah Carey overtakes Elvis Presley's record of 17 No. 1 US hits with her 18th ‘Touch My Body’, only The Beatles have more with 20
Film & TV History
2010 Matt Smith's first appearance as the 11th Doctor with Karen Gillan as his companion in BBC program "Doctor Who" during "The Eleventh Hour" episode
Election of Interest
2012 US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
