- 1689 Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō leaves Edo on his epic 150-day journey to Honshu Island in Japan, which he writes about in the literary masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
- 1862 Belgian-French engineer Étienne Lenoir builds the first automobile with an internal-combustion engine
Hires Root Beer
1876 Pharmacist Charles E. Hires presents "Hires Root Beer" at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [1] [2]
- 1881 World's first electric tram enters service in Lichterfelde near Berlin
- 1903 The first transcontinental motorcycle trip begins in San Francisco by George A. Wyman, who arrives in New York on July 6
- 1960 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California
- 2019 New DNA research showing bedbugs are older than humans - 115 million years old and outlived dinosaurs, published in "Current Biology"
- 2024 Scientists announce the discovery of a long-lost branch of the Nile, now dried up, that once ran near many of Egypt's pyramids, name it Ahramat (Pyramid) [1]
