- 1819 First bicycles in the US, called swift walkers, are debuted in NYC
- 1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) forms in Paris
- 1908 First American horror movie, silent film "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premieres in Chicago
- 1917 Leo Pinckney is the first American drafted during WWI
Lindbergh Crosses the Atlantic
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St. Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic
1932 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, completing the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman
What's Going On
1971 Marvin Gaye's 11th album "What's Going On" is released; considered the best album off all-time by critic surveys in Rolling Stone (2020), The Guardian (1997), and New Music Express (1985)
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back," produced by George Lucas, opens in cinemas in the UK and North America
- 1992 Reality TV series "The Real World," created by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, debuts on MTV; considered one of the first modern reality shows
1999 All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
- 2013 Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One
Barnum & Bailey Ends 146-Year Run
2017 Barnum & Bailey Circus performs for the last time at the Nassau Coliseum in NYC after 146 years [1]
2017 BTS wins the Top Social Artist at the Billboard Awards, becoming the first K-pop group to win any Billboard Award
- 2019 The oldest and most distant gravitational waves are detected from the collision of two black holes, revealing the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered, 7 billion light-years away
- 2021 Most powerful cosmic ray since the Oh-My-God particle detected by Osaka University from Utah's Array Telescope measuring 240 exa-electronvolts (EeV; 1018 electronvolts) - nicknamed ‘Amaterasu’ [1]
- 2024 French Post Office La Poste issues a scratch-and-sniff stamp that smells of bread, to celebrate the baguette [1]
