Today's 6 June Fun Facts in History

1882 Electric iron is patented by New York inventor Henry W. Seely; it weighs almost 15 pounds and is very slow to heat up
1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo leave NY harbor to row across Atlantic; their 55 day record for rowing was not broken for 114 years

1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins, the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century

1914 First flight out of sight of land, from Scotland to Norway
1942 First nylon parachute jump is made by American parachute tester Adeline Gray at Brainard Field, an airport near Hartford, Connecticut; DuPont teams with the Pioneer Parachute Company to develop an alternative to silk
1946 Henry Morgan is the first person to take off shirt on TV

The Beatles Meet George Martin

1962 The Beatles meet their producer George Martin for the first time, and record "Besame Mucho" with Pete Best on drums

2002 "The Bourne Identity," directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon, premieres in Los Angeles, California

2002 A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya, with the resulting explosion estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb
2012 The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
2012 Transit of Venus between Earth and Sun occurs, the last transit of the 21st century
2018 French man announced to have won France's €1 million My Lottery for the second time in 2 years, with odds of 1 in 16 trillion
2018 Special pedestrian lane introduced for "phubbers," slow-walking smartphone users, in Xi'an, China

2023 UK's Prince Harry is the first senior royal to testify in court in 130 years, accusing Mirror Group Newspapers of hacking his emails [1]

2024 Disfrutar in Barcelona is named the world's best restaurant, owned and run by Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch, and Mateu Casañas [1]