1754 First newspaper cartoon in America, a divided snake with the words "Join or Die" by Benjamin Franklin, is published in The Pennsylvania Gazette
- 1785 British inventor Joseph Bramah patents the beer pump handle
- 1899 John Burr patents an improved rotary blade lawn mower in the US
- 1904 Steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100 mph
- 1932 Piccadilly Circus in London is first lit by electricity
- 2012 Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece sold at auction for $86.9 million
- 2017 Fossil of Chinese feathered baby dinosaur formally identified as Beibeilong sinensis (baby dragon in Chinese)
- 2018 Oldest viral DNA, a form of hepatitis B, reported discovered in 7,000 year old skeleton found in Germany
- 2019 Archaeologists hail the Anglo-Saxon tomb found in 2003 in Prittlewell, England, as Britain’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb as a full report of its contents is published
- 2019 French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin (72) successfully crosses the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel arriving in Martinique
- 2019 New Australian $50 bank note misspells responsibility as "responsibilty" on 46 million notes
Warhol's 'Marilyn' Sells for $195m
2022 An Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe sells for $195 million at auction in New York - the highest price ever for an American artwork [1]
'Here Comes The Sun' Hits 1B Streams
2023 George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun" becomes the first Beatles song to register a billion streams on Spotify; it is also the oldest song to do so
