Herschel Discovers a Binary Star
1780 William Herschel discovers the first binary star system, Xi Ursae Majoris
- 1878 US stops minting the 20-cent coin due to public confusion with the quarter
- 1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is first published in the US by Clark W. Bryan
Celluloid Photographic Film
1887 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film (used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope)
- 1952 First scheduled jet airliner passenger service begins with a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Comet from London to Johannesburg, carrying 36 passengers [1]
- 1956 US astronomer C. Mayer detects the first high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
- 1970 Diane Crump (21) is the first woman jockey at the Kentucky Derby [1]
- 1998 Battle of Hogwarts: Fictional battle that ended the Second Wizarding War with the death of Lord Voldemort at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
2012 A pastel version of "The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch sells at auction for $119,922,500
- 2016 Leicester City wins the English Premier League title after starting the season at 5,000-1 odds
- 2018 Date for first humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709,000 years ago
- 2018 New research shows plants "talk" to each other through their roots and the soil in a study on corn published in the journal "PLOS ONE"
- 2019 Drone delivers a kidney for transplant surgery in Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time
Leonardo da Vinci Sketch
2019 Second known sketch of Leonardo da Vinci is revealed on the 500th anniversary of the artist's death from Queen Elizabeth's collection
Actors Immortalized in Cement
2019 The cast of "The Big Bang Theory" are the first TV actors to be immortalized in cement outside Hollywood's Chinese theater in Los Angeles
- 2023 First non-invasive mind reader developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin by combing functional magnetic resonance imaging with AI (results hit and miss so far) [1]
