First Woman at Royal Society
1667 Margaret Cavendish is the first woman to attend a meeting of the Royal Society, watching demonstrations by Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke [1]
Andrew Jackson's Deadly Duel
1806 Future US President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy
- 1821 James Boyd receives a patent for a cotton rubber-lined fire hose
- 1848 William G. Young of Baltimore, Maryland, receives a patent for “An Improvement in Ice-Cream Freezers”
- 1896 First car accident occurs; Henry Wells hits a cyclist in NYC
- 1911 1st Indianapolis 500: Ray Harroun, driving a Marmon Wasp for Nordyke & Marmon Company, comes out of retirement and wins the inaugural event with an average speed of 74.6 mph (120.1 km/h)
- 1956 Mickey Mantle misses by 18 inches hitting 1st home run out of Yankee Stadium in the first game of a doubleheader against the Washington Senators
Evel Knievel Jumps 16 Cars
1967 American motorcycle daredevil Robert "Evel" Knievel jumps over 16 automobiles on his motorcycle in Gardena, California
One Hundred Years of Solitude
1967 Argentinian author Gabriel García Márquez's most important work "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is published in Buenos Aires
- 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album, "The Beatles," popularly known as "The White Album"
- 1980 First papal visit to France since 1814
- 1987 The North American Philips Company unveils the compact disc video format (CD-V), which can hold up to 800 MB, enough for a full-length movie
Finding Nemo
2003 Animated fish tale "Finding Nemo," directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres, premieres in the US and Canada
Hell's Kitchen
2005 Gordon Ramsay first appears on US television in cooking competition show "Hell's Kitchen" on Fox
Dragon Capsule Launched
2020 SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches the Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station; first private company to launch astronauts into orbit
- 2022 Frontier becomes the world's fastest supercomputer and first exascale computer, able to perform a quintillion calculations per second, at US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [1]
