1st United States Congress
1789 First US Congress begins regular sessions during George Washington's presidency at Federal Hall, NYC (ends 1791)
- 1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder in Amsterdam
- 1923 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. is formally incorporated by siblings Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Sam Warner and Albert Warner, in Burbank, California
- 1964 The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 and stays #1 for five weeks
- 1969 Haskell Karp receives the first temporary artificial heart implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley at Texas Heart Institute in Houston
- 1972 First electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
- 1973 World Trade Center opens in New York as the world's tallest building at 110 stories; later destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks
1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
Event of Interest
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" begins his secret diary in defiance of the totalitarian government of Oceania
- 1988 Eddie Hill becomes the world's first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds
- 2010 Africa's tallest monument, the African Renaissance Monument, dedicated outside Dakar, Senegal, designed by Pierre Goudiaby to commemorate Senegal's 50th anniversary of independence
- 2013 Poecilotheria rajaei, a giant tarantula with a 20 cm leg span, is discovered in Sri Lanka
- 2017 Pink Star diamond sets world record price of $71 million for a gem at an auction in Hong Kong
- 2022 Eon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter stock, making him the company's largest shareholder [1]
- 2024 Rare 1938 copy of the comic (Action Comics No. 1) that first introduces Superman sells for a record US$6 million at auction [1]
