- 1768 The first medical diploma in America is granted to Dr. John Archer by the College of Philadelphia
- 1805 Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire
- 1893 First Ferris wheel opens at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois
- 1913 Tiny Broadwick is the first woman to parachute from an airplane
- 1933 First Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico barge trip is completed in New Orleans
1948 Columbia Records unveils the 33-1/3 rpm LP phonograph record, invented by Peter Carl Goldmark, allowing up to 20 minutes per side (available in 10 and 12-inch diameters) at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC; over the next decade, its popularity and profitability push the 78 rpm record out of production [1]
- 1948 The first stored computer program runs on the Manchester Baby at the University of Manchester in England
- 1990 At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!"
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1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves the last theorem of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat after 356 years, solving the world's most difficult math problem
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2001 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo becomes the first Hispanic woman honored on a US postage stamp
- 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight
- 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra
- 2014 Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean Road System of the Inca Empire, 30,000km long (18,600 miles) through six countries, granted World Heritage status by UNESCO [1]
- 2020 New archaeological discovery announced near Stonehenge of a large circle of shafts surrounding a village 2500 BC, largest prehistoric structure in Britain
- 2024 Ronaldo, a 6-foot Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor, gives birth to 14 babies in Portsmouth, England, despite no contact with another snake, by parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction) [1]
