- 1609 English mathematician Thomas Harriot is the first person to draw a map of the Moon by looking through a telescope
- 1847 Moses Gerrish Farmer builds first miniature train for children to ride
- 1865 Patrick Francis Healy is the first African American awarded a PhD from the University of Leuven, Belgium
- 1887 First Esperanto book is published
- 1948 First Black host of a network show: Bob Howard Show on CBS
- 1953 Cuban pirate radio station's first transmission in Santiago de Cuba
- 1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes the first woman to solo sail the Pacific
- 1979 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
- 1983 Light flashes are seen on Jupiter's moon Io
- 1990 General Hospital records its 7,000th episode
- 2017 Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040
- 2017 Three live king cobras are found inside potato chip cans by customs officials in Los Angeles
Gravitational Redshift
2018 Observation of a black hole by the Very Large Telescope in Chile proves Albert Einstein's prediction of "gravitational redshift," published in "Astronomy & Astrophysics"
McCartney's Secret Gig
2018 Sir Paul McCartney performs a "secret" gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began
- 2021 Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz becomes the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold at the Olympics in the 55 kg class at the Tokyo Games
- 2023 World's largest office building, Surat Diamond Bourse, at 660,000 square meters (bigger than the Pentagon), is unveiled in Surat, India, by architectural studio Morphogenesis [1]
