- 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort
- 1857 James Gibbs of Virginia, patents the chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
- 1903 First patent for adrenaline (epinephrine) granted to Japanese-American chemist Jokichi Takamine [1]
- 1928 Kraft, building on the original 1918 design, rolls out Velveeta cheese
- 1932 Fisherman George W. Perry catches the world-record largemouth bass, weighing 22 pounds, 4 ounces, at Lake Montgomery in Georgia
- 1975 James A. Healy becomes the first Black Roman Catholic bishop in the US in Portland, Maine
Music History
1975 RCA releases David Bowie single "Fame" in the US; the song, which features a cameo appearance by John Lennon, becomes Bowie's first No. 1 hit
Dead Poets Society
1989 "Dead Poets Society," directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke, premieres in the US
- 1989 14-year-old Scott Isaacs spells “spoliator” to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee
- 1999 The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time
- 2003 Europe launches its first mission to another planet, Mars; the European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
Film & TV History
2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated television game show "Jeopardy!"
- 2015 100 volunteers in Bhutan set a world record for planting 49,672 trees in 1 hour
- 2024 Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-6 successfully lands on the far side of the Moon on a mission to analyse and collect rock samples [1]
