- 1769 Design of Madonnina statue chosen, symbol of the city of Milan that stands atop spire of the Cathedral, designed by sculptor Giuseppe Perego [1]
- 1812 A 1471 printed copy of Boccaccio's Decameron sells in England for £2,260 - then the highest price for a book, during the infamous sale of the library of the Duke of Roxburghe
- 1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx is completed, cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
Polar Explorers' Arctic Meeting
1896 Polar explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Frederick Jackson meet by chance in Franz Josef Land, the Arctic
- 1922 First flight across the South Atlantic Ocean arrives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, piloted by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral. First use of the sextant in air navigation.
- 1947 Pan Am Airways' first round-the-world civil air service departs from New York City
- 1958 The Wooden Roller Coaster opens at Playland in the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, Canada, and remains open to this day
- 2018 World electric speed record broken by Jaguar Vector V20E in battery-powered boat at 88.61 mph (142.60 kph) Coniston Water, English Lake District
- 2022 "Running Up That Hill" single by Kate Bush goes to #1 on the UK chart; originally released in 1985, the song was featured in sci-fi television show "Stranger Things", its record 44 year climb to the top also makes Bush (63) the oldest female artist to score a No.1
