- 1483 Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503
- 1598 First theater performance in America, the Spanish comedy "Rio Grande"
- 1808 First practical typewriter is finished by Italian Pellegrino Turri
A Tale of Two Cities
1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" is first published in the literary periodical "All the Year Round" in weekly installments until November 26
- 1889 First US national holiday on the centennial of Washington's inauguration
- 1916 Germany ratifies a bill introducing Daylight Saving Time, the first country in the world to do so
First President on TV
1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first US president to appear on television when NBC-RCA broadcasts the opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair
- 1940 Air New Zealand, then known as TEAL, makes its inaugural flight from Auckland to Sydney. It later becomes the first airline in the world to boil hot water in flight to offer customers hot tea and coffee.
- 1952 Mr. Potato Head is the first toy advertised on television
- 1955 Element atomic number 101, Mendelevium, is announced
- 1986 Ashrita Furman performs 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
- 1993 The source code of the World Wide Web is released by CERN, making it freely available to all
Waldseemüller Map
2007 German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially hands over the Waldseemüller Map (oldest known document to name America) to the US Library of Congress [1]
Blaine Holds his Breath
2008 David Blaine sets a new Guinness World Record for holding his breath underwater for 17 minutes 4.5 seconds on "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
International Jazz Day
2012 UNESCO celebrates the 1st International Jazz Day with a daylong celebration in Paris; a sunrise concert in New Orleans’ Congo Square; and a sunset concert at the United Nations in NYC; performers included Tony Bennett, George Benson, Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi, Angelique Kidjo, Lang Lang, Shankar Mahadevan, Hugh Masekela, and Esperanza Spalding [1]
The DiCaprio Beetle
2018 A new species of water beetle from the Maliau Basin in Malaysian Borneo is named Grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi after actor Leonardo DiCaprio
- 2018 World's oldest known spider, a female trapdoor, dies after being killed by a wasp sting in Western Australia, aged 43
- 2020 British Captain Tom Moore, who raised more than £30 million for the National Health Service by walking in his garden, turns 100 and is made an honorary colonel by the Queen
- 2022 Bach Long Bridge, the world's longest glass-bottom bridge at 632m opens in Moc Chau Island mountain park, Vietnam [1]
