- 1637 Cardinal Richelieu of France reputedly creates the table knife
Mozart's 1st Opera
1767 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus", written when he was 11 years old, premieres in Salzburg
- 1878 Danvers State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, opens and later serves as inspiration for Arkham Sanitorium in the work of H.P. Lovecraft, which in turn inspires Arkham Asylum of the D.C. Batman universe
- 1918 First US airmail stamps are issued (24 cents)
- 1950 First-ever race of the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship is run at Silverstone, England, and won by Giuseppe Farina of Italy in an Alfa Romeo
- 1958 The trade mark Velcro is registered
- 1967 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
Scrapple in the Apple
1992 Frank Stallone defeats Geraldo Rivera in a boxing match on The Howard Stern Show called the "Scrapple in the Apple"
- 1992 Three astronauts simultaneously walk in space for the first time
- 2004 The final episode of "Frasier" on NBC is watched by 33 million people
- 2014 Unidentified shipwreck is discovered off the northern coast of Haiti by marine archaeologist Barry Clifford
- 2017 22-year-old UK blogger halts the spread of a global ransomware cyberattack by accidentally identifying a "kill switch"
- 2019 New study on the moon shows it is still shrinking with recent moonquakes as it cools, published in journal "Nature Geoscience"
- 2021 World's largest iceberg 'A-76' at 1,667-square-miles (4,320 square km) calves off the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica [1]
