- 1377 Foundation stone laid for Ulm Minster, in Free Imperial City of Ulm, Holy Roman Empire, construction is not completed until 1890, when it becomes the tallest church in the world
Yosemite Grant Act
1864 Yosemite Grant Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln bestowing 200,000 acres to the state of California, establishes America's first state-controlled park [1]
- 1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) then world's largest, discovered in Jagersfontein Mine, South Africa
- 1898 Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline “dispense with a horse.”
1908 A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet, flattens 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in the largest impact event in recorded history
- 1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady, NY
- 1937 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
- 1940 "Brenda Starr, Reporter", 1st cartoon strip by a woman, Dale [Dalia] Messick, begins as a comic-book supplement to Chicago's Sunday Tribune
- 1953 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured
- 1972 One leap second is added to the UTC time system; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
- 1980 British sixpence demonetised after being in used since 1551 and 12 years after introduction of decimal currency
- 1982 New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting; legend of the Jersey Devil, a creature that allegedly inhabited the Pine Barrens of South Jersey
- 1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
- 1988 Brooklyn, New York, dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason and his role as bus driver Ralph Kramden in "The Honeymooners"
- 2011 China opens the world's longest bridge the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge for the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway at 164.8-kilometre-long (102.4 mile)
Ikea Museum
2016 The Ikea Museum opens in the former very first Ikea store in Älmhult, Sweden
- 2021 World's oldest man is 112-year-old Emilio "Don Millo" Flores Márquez (born 8 August 1908) from Puerto Rico according to Guinness World Records [1]
