- 1650 Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard University, is established as the first legal corporation in the Americas
- 1790 First book copyrighted under US Constitution, "The Philadelphia Spelling Book"
- 1860 First US "dime novel" published, "Malaeska, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens
- 1910 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
1st Rocket-Powered Aircraft Patent
1931 First rocket-powered aircraft design patented by Robert Goddard
- 1934 First appearance of Donald Duck in the cartoon "The Wise Little Hen"
- 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon "A Gruesome Twosome" starring Tweety premieres in the US
- 1946 66,545 fans help MLB's New York Yankees break one-millionth attendance mark, the earliest in franchise history
- 1958 Novelty song "The Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
- 1972 Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia Records
Gutenberg Bible Record
1978 Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, one of 21 complete copies of the first book produced using a printing press, sells for $2.4 million in London
- 1979 MLB Phillies wear all-burgundy alternate uniforms for 1st and (almost) last time in 10-5 loss to Montreal Expos at Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia; revived 40 years later as part of a "retro night" promotion [1]
- 1984 Donald Duck's 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
Cox Makes History
2014 Laverne Cox becomes the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine
- 2016 Successful attempts to turn CO2 gases into stone underground in Iceland published in the journal "Science"
- 2021 Record price for a coin sold at auction as 1933 'Double Eagle' gold coin sells for $18.9 million in New York
- 2022 Conjoined twins with a fused brain successfully separated with help of virtual reality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1]
- 2022 NASA announces it will begin research into UFOs, focusing on unidentified aerial phenomena (U.A.P.s) [1]
- 2022 Two people are rescued after falling into a tank of chocolate at Mars M&M factory in Pennsylvania [1]
