- 1868 Britain's Dr. James Moore wins the first recorded bicycle race, a 2 km velocipede race at Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris
- 1879 First electric railway opens at the Berlin Trade Exposition
Kellogg's Flaked Cereal
1885 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan, files a patent for "flaked cereal, and process of making same"; controversially excluding his younger brother, Will Keith Kellogg
- 1890 Ulm Minster, in Ulm, Germany, is the tallest church in the world, with a steeple 161.5 meters high, and is finally completed after the foundation stone is laid in 1377
- 1907 Taxis first begin operating in New York City
- 1949 Charley Lupica begins his stay on a 4-foot square platform atop a 60-foot pole, vowing to remain until the Indians clinch the pennant (they don't, and he stays for 117 days)
- 1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
Berryland Opens
1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland, opens in St. Louis, Missouri
Give Peace a Chance
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" in a Montreal hotel, during their second 'bed-in' for peace; other performers include Tommy Smothers, Petula Clark, Timothy Leary, and Dick Gregory
- 1976 The Who set the record for the loudest concert of all time at 120 decibels at 50 meters at The Valley in Charlton, London
- 2000 US reality competition TV show "Survivor," hosted by Jeff Probst, premieres
Bolt Sets 100m Record
2008 Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
Gangnam Style Hits 2B Views
2014 Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube
- 2015 Harriette Thompson aged 92 and 65 days becomes the oldest woman to complete a marathon (Suja Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego)
- 2018 Uganda's parliament imposes tax on social media to stop gossip
- 2022 Lost 3,400 year-old Bronze Age city unearthed on the Tigris river, Iraq due to drought, likely part of the Mittani Empire, including 100 cuneiform tablets [1]
- 2023 NASA panel investigating unidentified flying objects at its first open meeting highlights stigma involved in reporting sightings and lack of high-quality data (mysterious radio signals turned out to be a local microwave) [1]
- 2024 Trillions of periodical cicadas (Magicicada) emerge together in the US for the first time in 221 years, brood XIX (Great Southern Brood) after 13 years and brood XIII after 17 years [1]
