- 1645 Michael Cardozo becomes the first Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1827 English chemist John Walker sells the world's first friction matches, for 1s 2d (6 new pence) per 100 matches in a tin case with a piece of sandpaper [1]
1st Long Distance TV Transmission
1927 First long-distance television transmission: an image of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover is sent from Washington, D.C. to NYC by AT&T
- 1933 National Beer Day: Cullen-Harrison Act comes into effect, legalizing the sale of low-alcohol beer
- 1948 World Health Organization is formed by the United Nations
- 1959 Radar first bounces off the Sun in Stanford, California
- 1966 US recovers a lost hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean sea floor (whoops)
- 1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
- 1978 Guttenberg bible sells for $2,000,000 in New York City
- 1985 First live telecast of the Easter Parade in New York
- 1999 The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas
- 2016 Longest-ever captured python found on Penang Island in Malaysia (26ft/8m)
