Delambre Measures a Metre
1792 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre commissioned to measure the meridian between Dunkerque to Rodez to calculate accurate length of the metre
- 1795 Great Britain passes a tax on hair powder - a fee of 1 guinea a year, leading to a decline in its use
- 1809 Mary Kies is the first woman too be issued a US patent for weaving straw
- 1865 First US train robbery occurs at North Bend, Ohio
- 1870 The British and Foreign Society for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind adopts Braille as best format for blind people
- 1921 Miniature newspaper is published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
Chanel No. 5 Released
1921 Perfume Chanel No. 5 is released by fashion designer Coco Chanel
- 1922 After sharing the Polo Grounds with the New York Giants for 10 years construction begins on Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NYC
Johnson's Pioneering Flight
1930 Amy Johnson takes off from Croydon Aerodrome in South London on the first solo flight by a woman from England to Australia
- 1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents a screw-on bottle cap with a pouring lip
- 1952 "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" (also known as "Vitameatavegamin") episode of "I Love Lucy" premieres, garnering 68% of US television viewers
1st American in Space
1961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Freedom 7
West Side Story
1962 "West Side Story" soundtrack album goes #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks, more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
- 1979 Voyager 1 flies by Jupiter
- 2000 Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon
- 2015 Archaeornithura meemannae, the oldest known prehistoric bird, is discovered
- 2015 Scientists announce the discovery of the oldest & most distant galaxy known to man, EGS-zs8-1
- 2021 Evidence of Africa's earliest known burial, that of a three-year-old boy in a cave in Kenya dating to about 78,000 years ago, is published [1]
