- 585 BC Solar eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, occurs while Lydians are at war with the Medes and leads to a truce. It is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates are calculated.
- 1742 First indoor swimming pool opens in Goodman's Fields, London
- 1929 First all-color talking picture "On With the Show" is exhibited in New York
- 1934 The Dionne identical quintuplets are born to Oliva-Édouard and Elzire Dionne near Callander, Ontario, are the first quintuplets to survive infancy
1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he sets out the theoretical basis for modern computers
- 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic
Crazy People
1951 Radio program "Crazy People" (later titled The Goon Show) premieres on the BBC, created by Spike Milligan
Melody
1953 Premiere of Walt Disney's animated cartoon in Technicolor "Melody"
- 1959 Monkeys Able and Baker travel 300 miles (500 km) into space aboard a Jupiter missile and return safely to Earth as the first animals retrieved alive from a space mission
1961 Final trip from Paris to Bucharest on the Orient Express after 78 years
- 1971 USSR launches Mars 3; becomes the first spacecraft to soft land on Mars December 2
- 1987 Mathias Rust, an 18-year-old West German pilot, flies a Cessna from Helsinki to Moscow in an unauthorized flight and lands near Red Square, deeply embarrassing the Soviet military
- 1990 David Robilliard achieves the longest bicycle wheelie at with 5 hours, 12 minutes, and 33 seconds
- 1997 American aviator Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart's ill-fated attempted around-the-world flight
The Last Supper Returns
1999 Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display in Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work
- 2018 Coca-Cola launches its first alcoholic drink, Lemon-Do, on the island of Kyushu, Japan
- 2018 One million French smokers quit in one year after anti-smoking measures introduced according to Public Health France
- 2023 Surgeons complete the world's first whole eyeball transplant with a partial facial transplant for a US veteran lineman injured in an accident at NYU Langone Health [1]
