- 1057 The Ostromir Gospel, now the oldest surviving Russian manuscript is recorded completed by its scribe Deacon Grigory [1]
- 1777 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi in the NY Gazette)
- 1888 Crouching start first used in track and field by Charles Sherrill of Yale
- 1897 A 1,800 to 1,900-year-old fossil known as the Girl of Yde is found in Drenthe, Netherlands
- 1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed in the United States
1st Flight Over the North Pole
1926 Airship Norge is the first vessel to fly over North Pole, led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and piloted by the craft's Italian designer Umberto Nobile
- 1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
1965 The Rolling Stones record their smash hit single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- 1969 Pilot Ken Wallis sets a speed record for autogyros at 179 km/h
Evert's Clay Streak Ends
1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
- 1980 1st non-stop trans-North American balloon flight lands at Sainte-Félicité, Quebec. Maxie Anderson and son Kristian piloted the Kitty Hawk for five days.
- 1989 Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
- 1991 A new cancer drug is announced which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest
- 2000 Tate Modern art gallery opens in the redesigned Bankside Power Station by Herzog & de Meuron in London, now the world's most visited contemporary art museum [1]
- 2012 The discovery of a missing Mayan calendar piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
- 2022 First images published of the supermassive blackhole Sagittarius A* that lies at the heart of the Milky Way captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration [1]
