- 763 BC Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history
1219 According to legend, Dannebrog, the flag of Denmark and the oldest national flag in the world falls from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia and turns the Danes' luck
- 1667 The first fully documented human blood transfusion is performed by French physician Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys when a small amount of sheep blood is transfused into a 15-year-old boy, who survives the procedure
- 1871 Phoebe Couzins becomes the first woman to graduate from a US collegiate law school
1878 World's first moving pictures captured on camera using 12 cameras, each taking one picture, to determine if all four of a horse's hooves leave the ground
Boeing Model 1
1916 Boeing Model 1 [B & W Seaplane], Boeing's first aircraft product, flies for the first time
- 1919 Alcock and Brown land in Ireland, completing the first non-stop Atlantic flight
1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
Like a Rolling Stone
1965 Bob Dylan records the single "Like a Rolling Stone" (#1 in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time")
Black Adder
1983 "Black Adder" TV comedy premieres starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson and written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson on BBC1
- 1994 Disney's animated musical film "The Lion King" opens in theaters with $42 million
- 2002 Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses Earth by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about one-third of the distance between Earth and the Moon
- 2012 Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
- 2015 Remains of a 2,000 year old women dubbed "the sleeping beauty" are announced discovered in Northern Ethiopia from ancient kingdom of Aksum
Jersey Sells for Record
2019 Baseball jersey belonging to Babe Ruth becomes the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia when it sells for $5.64 million at auction in New York
- 2023 Water pumped from underground reservoirs has shifted Earth's axis at the North Pole by 4.36 cm a year, with over 2 trillion tons of water extracted from 1993 to 2010 [1]
