- 1620 Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, New France
- 1851 First baseball uniforms are worn as the NY Knickerbockers don straw hats, white shirts, and blue long trousers
- 1856 Cullen Whipple patents a machine for making screws
- 1876 Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada
- 1888 Baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published by the San Francisco Examiner
- 1925 Goodyear's first advertising airship, later named Pilgrim, takes flight over Akron, Ohio; it is the first to fly using helium and the first to have an enclosed cabin [1]
- 1935 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage
- 1946 First bikini bathing suit is displayed in Paris
- 1965 NASA astronaut Ed White makes the first US spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission, lasting 23 minutes
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
1969 Innovative and much loved children's picture book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle is published
- 1970 First artificial gene is synthesized
- 1976 Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes Gold
- 2015 Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital
The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum
2017 The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum opens in Springfield, Massachusetts
- 2021 NASA launches 128 baby squid and 5,000 microscopic animals, to study effects of spaceflight, to the International Space Station aboard Space X's Falcon 9 rocket [1]
