American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1780 The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is founded in Boston, with James Bowdoin, John Adams, and Samuel Adams as founding members
- 1859 Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge, linking the English counties of Devon and Cornwall
- 1868 World's largest book, the "Kuthodaw Inscription Shrines," recording the whole of Buddhist scriptures on 729 marble tablets, is completed and opened to the public in Mandalay, Burma
- 1871 First baseball league game in the National Association of Base Ball Players: Fort Wayne defeats Cleveland 2 to 0, and Deacon Jim White gets the first hit, a double
1878 Thomas Edison's phonograph is shown for the first time at the Grand Opera House in NYC
- 1893 Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground
- 1896 First edition of the London Daily Mail, costs a halfpenny
1904 Charles Rolls meets Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. Go on to form the car manufacturer Roll-Royce. [1]
- 1927 First balloon flight over 40,000 feet takes place at Scott Field, Illinois
- 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach a record height of 34,668 meters in a balloon
- 1961 NASA's first traveling Spacemobile lecture brings its educational efforts directly to schools and communities
- 1973 PBS is the first TV network to show female nudity in "Steambath," featuring Valerie Perrine
- 1984 Itaipu Dam begins generating electricity on the border between Paraguay and Brazil, - the world's second largest generator of electricity (considered one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world) [1]
- 1987 Dufuna Canoe - the oldest known boat in Africa, 8,000-8,500 years old, is discovered in Dufuna, northeastern, Nigeria [1]
Film & TV History
2010 Julia Louis-Dreyfus receives the 2,407th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, although on the original star her name is spelled incorrectly
- 2021 Malian woman Halima Cisse gives birth to nonuplets (nine babies) in Morocco, in only the third known case worldwide
Madonna's Largest Concert
2024 Largest concert of Madonna's career as she ends her "Celebration" world tour with a free concert in front of 1.6 million at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1]
- 2025 Nearly three weeks of uninterrupted 24-hour live streaming (478 hours) of Sweden's 'Great Moose Migration' end after moose cross the Ångerman River [1]
