- 1195 Earliest report of ball lightning in London by Benedictine monk Gervase of Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury [1]
Addled Parliament Dissolves
1614 Second parliament of King James I dissolves after passing no legislation, earning itself the name of the Addled Parliament
Elephant Attack
1633 14-year-old Mughal prince Aurangzeb, the future Emperor Alamgir I, survives an elephant attack
1937 Time magazine publishes the second of the only two known photos taken of the United States Supreme Court in session
- 1953 First color network telecast in compatible color (Boston, Massachusetts)
1st President on Color TV
1955 Eisenhower becomes the first President to appear on color TV
- 1965 Sony Corp introduces its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
- 1972 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease," starring Barry Bostwick, Carole Demas, and Adrienne Barbeau, opens at the Broadhurst Theatre in NYC; runs for 3,388 performances
- 1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public
God Save the Queen
1977 During the Queen's Jubilee, the Sex Pistols attempt to perform on a boat on the River Thames, but are forced to stop by the police
- 1989 First baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors as Toronto Blue Jays' stadium closes roof during game at 8:48 and beat Brewers 4-2
- 1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
Curtain Theatre Found Under a Pub
2012 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays first performed found under a pub in London
- 2017 Earliest-ever evidence of Homo Sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, are unearthed by archaeologists published in "Nature," at 300,000 years old
- 2018 Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal "Science"
- 2021 Multicellular organisms (bdelloid rotifer) frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia to return to life after Russian scientists have them thawed [1]
- 2022 New study reveals Shark Bay sea grass, off Western Australia, may be world's largest plant, covering 77 square miles of sea floor, having cloned itself for 4,500 years [1]
- 2023 Britain's Boxford Timber identified as UK's oldest decoratively carved wood at 6,000 years old by radio carbon dating after being found in West Berkshire during house renovations [1]
2024 At 98, actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke becomes the oldest winner of a Daytime Emmy, for a guest performance in "Days of Our Lives" [1]
Sajak's Final Spin
2024 Pat Sajak’s final appearance on "Wheel of Fortune" after 43 years; the longest continuous stint by a game show host [1]
