- 1872 Donut cutter patents granted to John Blondel, Thomaston, Maine
- 1878 American inventor Henry Tibbe patents an improved corncob pipe design
- 1953 First helicopter passenger service in New York City
Rock Around the Clock
1955 Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops the Billboard chart as one of the best-selling singles ever
Nobelium
1957 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced by an international team at Nobel Institute of Physics in Stockholm, named after Alfred Nobel
- 1958 Giant splash caused by the fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska, washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
Donkey Kong Released
1981 Nintendo releases arcade game "Donkey Kong," created by Shigeru Miyamoto, in Japan (July 31 in the US)
The Office
2001 The mockumentary "The Office," created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Ricky Gervais and Martin Freeman, premieres on BBC Two in the UK
Tesla Model 3 Release
2017 CEO Elon Musk is the first owner of Telsa's first mass-market electric car, the Model 3
- 2018 Bright pink is the world's oldest biological color according to scientists, produced by tiny cyanobacteria in 1.1 billion-year-old marine shale rock from the Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania
- 2018 Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper buys Carolina Panthers for an NFL record $2.275 billion
- 2018 US coffee company Starbucks announces it will stop using plastic straws by 2020, reducing use of more than 1 billion straws a year
- 2021 Death Valley, California, hits a temperature of 130 degrees F (54.4 C), one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on earth [1]
- 2021 June 2021 is declared the hottest June ever recorded in the US in 127 years, with an average temperature of 72.6 degrees F (4.2 degrees above average) [1]
