- 1576 English explorer Martin Frobisher sights Greenland
- 1735 Mathematical calculations suggest that on this day in history, Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant "planet" from the Sun for the last time before 1979
- 1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his first comet
- 1848 Edmund Hickly achieves the first known 10-wicket innings (Kent vs. England)
- 1859 Big Ben's second and current bell first chimes inside the Clock Tower [1]
- 1877 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
- 1893 The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto in Japan
- 1912 There are six medallists in the Stockholm Olympic pole vault: American Harry Babcock takes gold (3.95 m), countrymen Frank Nelson and Marc Wright tie for silver, and three-man tie for bronze
- 1962 Cosmonaut Nikolayev sets the record for the longest spaceflight at four days
- 1962 First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
- 2011 Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846
- 2012 S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto, is discovered
2015 Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City through a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house
- 2018 Oldest stone tools outside Africa are discovered in Lantian County, western China, estimated to be 2.12 million years old and made by hominins
- 2019 Last models of Volkswagen's Beetle car are produced in Puebla, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years
Branson Flies to the Edge of Space
2021 Billionaire Richard Branson flies to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane in a space tourism test
SMACS 0723
2022 NASA and US President Joe Biden reveal first image from James Webb Space Telescope, a cluster of galaxies called SMACS 0723, 4 billion light-years away, as they appeared 13 billion years ago [1]
- 2022 New study suggests dogs can "see" with their noses, the first documentation of a direct connection between the olfactory bulb and occipital lobe in any species [1]
