- 1842 Illustrated London News; the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication
Patent for Condensed Milk
1853 Land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor Gail Borden patents his process for condensed milk
- 1878 Vaseline is granted a patent (U.S. Patent 127,568)
- 1908 First passenger flight in an airplane
- 1973 Skylab, the first US space station, is launched
- 1987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) from 1873 sells for a record $242,000 at auction
- 1991 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
Television Finale
1998 Seinfeld's final two-part episode "The Finale" airs on NBC-TV to 76.3 million viewers, with commercials priced at $2 million for 30 seconds
- 2012 Stanford University scientists develop a prototype bionic eye
Sports History
2016 Gabriel Medina becomes the first surfer ever to land the move "Backflip" in competition
- 2018 Chinese mountain climber and double amputee Xia Boyu reaches the summit of Mt Everest
- 2018 Successful memory transfer in snails achieved by scientists from University of California published in journal "eNeuro"
- 2019 Wikipedia confirms China has banned all versions of its site
Event of Interest
2022 Octavia E. Butler receives the first-ever Infinity Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, an award given to those who have died before they could be considered for a Grand Master award
- 2022 Surrealist artist Man Ray's photograph "Le Violon d'Ingres" sells for $12.4 million, making it the most expensive ever sold at auction [1]
