456 Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
Helen Keller's Lesson
1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to blind and deaf six-year-old Helen Keller by holding one of her hands under a dripping water pump and spelling out “w-a-t-e-r” in Keller’s palm. Keller goes on to learn how to read, write, speak, and graduate from college
Wilde v Queensberry
1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
1930 Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of followers reach the sea at Dandi and boil seawater to make illegal salt, marking the end of his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax
1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fishing family after being adrift for 133 days following the torpedoing of the British ship SS Benlomond by a German U-boat
Armstrong's X-15 Rocket
1962 NASA's Neil Armstrong pilots the X-15 to a height of 54,600 meters
- 1963 The Beatles receive their first silver disc for "Please Please Me"
- 1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set at 121 meters
1st TV Show in Dolby Stereo
1989 NBC's "Late Night with David Letterman" becomes the first network TV show broadcast in Dolby Stereo
- 1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- 1995 Pages of Codex Argenteus (the Silver Bible), the oldest text in the Gothic language (5th century), are stolen from Uppsala University Library, Sweden, in broad daylight; recovered a month later
Film & TV History
1997 Steve Irwin's "The Crocodile Hunter" debuts first season
One Dance
2016 "One Dance" single Released by Drake (Billboard Song of the Year 2016)
- 2063 Earth's 1st contact with the extraterrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe
