- 1784 Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes
- 1812 The world's first book club, The Roxburghe Club, is founded before the infamous sale of the Duke of Roxburghe's library at a dinner hosted by the 2nd Earl of Spencer at St Albans Tavern, London [1]
- 1884 America's first purpose-built roller coaster ride, the Switchback Railway built by LaMarcus Thompson, opens at Coney Island, New York
- 1893 German-American F.W. Rueckheim introduces "Cracker Jack" brand snack food consisting of caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts
- 1903 Pepsi-Cola is trademarked by inventor Caleb Bradham
Bloomsday
1904 Bloomsday, the date of the fictional events in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses"
- 1909 First US airplane is sold commercially by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
- 1911 A 772-gram stony meteorite strikes Earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin, damaging a barn
Vostok 6 Launched
1963 Soviet space mission Vostok 6 launches with Valentina Tereshkova aboard, making her the first woman in space
- 1982 Political party "Official Monster Raving Loony Party" is founded by English rocker Screaming Lord Sutch
- 1983 Carlos Vieira completes a 191-hour nonstop cycling effort in Leiria, Portugal
- 1988 A team of 32 divers begins cycling underwater on a standard tricycle to complete 116.66 miles in 75 hours and 20 minutes in Santa Barbara, California
- 2012 Liu Yang becomes the first Chinese woman in space aboard Shenzhou 9, 49 years to the day since cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space
- 2024 105 year-old Virginia Hislop graduates with a masters diploma in education from Stanford University, 83 years after she had to leave early [1]
