- 1844 The first telegraphed news dispatch is published in the Baltimore Patriot
Oscar Wilde Sentenced
1895 Writer Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years imprisonment for gross indecency
1927 Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford
- 1932 Goofy, also known as Dippy Dawg, first appears in "Mickey's Revue" by Walt Disney
- 1937 First airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
Return of the Jedi
1983 "Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi," directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, is released
- 1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
- 1986 Hands Across America: 6.5 million people hold hands from California to New York
Film & TV History
1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of US talk show "The Tonight Show"
Film & TV History
2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25 year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show
Dragon Docks at Space Station
2012 A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
- 2013 Yuichiro Miura of Japan becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at 80
Wonder Woman
2017 First superhero film directed by a woman, "Wonder Woman," by Patty Jenkins, starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, premieres in Los Angeles
- 2019 First ever albino panda footage in the wild released (taken in April) from China's Wolong National Nature Reserve
