1819 HMS Kite chases the steamship SS Savannah on its historic voyage across the Atlantic for 3 hours off the coast of Ireland believing it to be on fire. Unable to catch the steamship HMS Kite fires warning shots forcing it to stop and be inspected to the amazement of the British.
- 1846 First officially recognized baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) - NY Nine defeats the NY Knickerbockers 23-1 in Hoboken, New Jersey
- 1910 Father's Day is celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington
- 1917 The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor
Curse of Timur
1941 Soviet anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov opens the tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds an inscription stating that whoever opens the tomb shall "unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
- 1947 First plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1,004 kph) - Albert Boyd, Muroc, California
- 1954 Taz, the Tasmanian Devil, a Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Robert McKimson and Warren Foster, debuts in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series in "Devil May Hare"
- 1973 "The Rocky Horror Show" stage production first opens in London written by Richard O'Brian and directed by Jim Sharman and starring Tim Curry
Garfield Debuts
1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, first appears as a comic strip
- 1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
- 1988 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
- 1988 World's then largest sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
- 2006 Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway
- 2017 First full genetic study of cats published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution," reveals they were domesticated 9,000 years ago and are descended from one species, the African wildcat
- 2018 General Electric is dropped form the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the last original member from 1907
- 2024 World's oldest wine, a white, revealed inside a 1st century CE Roman funeral urn mixed with a man's ashes in a mausoleum in Carmona, Spain [1]
