- 1718 London lawyer James Puckle patents the world's first machine gun
- 1793 Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for about 360 meters at a height of 5 to 6 meters in one of the first attempted flights
Salon des Refusés
1863 Salon des Refusés opens in Paris, exhibition of works rejected by official Salon, features Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Henri Fantin-Latour, James Whistler, and Édouard Manet
- 1902 Lyman Gilmore claims to be the first person to fly a powered craft, a steam-powered airplane with a heavy boiler and coal as a power source [1]
- 1928 Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the silent film "Plane Crazy"
- 1930 Ellen Church becomes the first female airline stewardess aboard a United flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne
- 1940 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California
- 1951 AT&T becomes the first US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases seven shares worth $1,078
Portrait of Doctor Gachet
1990 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sells for $82.5 million
Queen at the Ballpark
1991 US President George H. W. Bush takes Queen Elizabeth II to an Oakland A's vs. Baltimore Orioles baseball game, which she apparently finds dull, with the excursion only lasting two innings
- 2010 Jessica Watson at age 16 becomes the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world
- 2019 Findings from China's Chang'e-4 rover to the Moon suggests huge asteroid created the giant crater on Moon's far side with impact so great it cracked its crust and reached the mantle below published in "Nature"
- 2019 Jeff Koons "Rabbit" sculpture sells for $91.1 million, setting a new record for work by a living artist at auction; buyer later identified as hedge fund manager and MLB NY Mets owner Steve Cohen
- 2021 China lands its Zhurong rover on Utopia Planitia, Mars, for the first time as part of the Tianwen-1 mission [1]
Cover Model Martha Stewart
2023 Martha Stewart is Sports Illustrated oldest-ever cover model at 81, appearing as part of its swimsuit issue [1]
- 2024 Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington's painting "Les Distractions de Dagobert" sells for $28.5 million in New York, making her the most valuable British-born female artist at auction [1]
