- 1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
- 1894 American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out from Boston to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes journey September 1895)
- 1929 First color television demonstration is performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
- 1949 "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV as the first TV sci-fi series
- 1955 First automobile seat belt legislation is enacted in Illinois
- 1967 World's first ATM is installed by Barclays Bank in Enfield, London
Atari, Inc.
1972 Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California
Lightning Strikes PGA Stars
1975 Reigning PGA Championship winner Lee Trevino and playing partners Jerry Heard, Bobby Nichols, Jim Ahern and Tony Jacklin are struck by lightning at Western Open; suffer minor burns
- 1994 Aerosmith is the first major band to let fans download a full new track for free from the internet
1st '900' on a Skateboard
1999 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a "900" (a 2½-revolution aerial spin) at the X Games in San Francisco, California
- 2005 Daniel Powter releases the single "Bad Day," the first song to sell 2 million digital copies in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)
- 2009 The Tower of Hercules in northern Spain, the only preserved Roman lighthouse still in use, is inscribed as a World Heritage Site [1]
2 Billion Facebook Users
2017 Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users
- 2018 Complex carbon-based molecules are found by the Cassini spacecraft on Saturn's moon Enceladus, previously found only on Earth and in meteorites, in research published in Nature
- 2020 Locust invasion labelled 'Swarmageddon' by The Times of India as it reaches Delhi
- 2022 First rocket launch in Australia for 25 years and NASA's first commercial spaceport outside the US for sub-orbital rocket from Arnhem Space Centre, Northern Territory [1]
- 2023 Archaeologists in Roman city of Pompeii uncover a "pizza" painting in a fresco from house next to a bakery (more likely flatbread as lacks essential ingredients tomatoes and mozzarella) [1]
- 2023 Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's last completed portrait, “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan), sells for £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London, becoming the most expensive artwork sold at a European auction [1]
