- 1527 First known letter is sent from North America by John Rut from St. John's in Newfoundland
- 1678 Robert LaSalle builds the first ship in America, a brig named the Griffon
- 1852 America's first intercollegiate sporting event takes place when the Harvard heavyweight rowing crew beats Yale by 2 lengths over 2 miles on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire
- 1908 French brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000-year-old Neanderthal man, known as the "Old Man of La Chapelle," at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France
Umpire Starts a Riot
1909 MLB umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of A's second baseman Eddie Collins, who questioned a call; Hurst is banned for life
- 1940 Seaplane Clare makes first British passenger flight to the US
- 1954 The Convair XFY-1 Pogo, a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft, makes its first successful flight
- 1958 USS Nautilus reaches the North Pole, becoming the first submarine to achieve a submarine transit of the North Pole
- 1963 Beatles' final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
- 1966 South African government bans records by The Beatles
- 1967 James Law rides the entire New York City subway in 22 hours and 12 minutes
- 1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire passes her driving test on her 40th try
- 1977 Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 personal computer, and within weeks, thousands are ordered
- 1983 John Sain of South Bend, Indiana, builds a 3.91-meter (12.83-foot) house of cards
- 1988 David "Skip" Storch (37) swims 152.9 miles (246 km) of the Hudson River from Albany to NYC
- 1997 Sky Tower opens in Auckland, New Zealand, standing at 328 meters (1,076 feet) as the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere
The Princess Diaries
2001 "The Princess Diaries," starring Anne Hathaway in her film debut, is released nationwide
Dylan Returns to Newport Festival
2002 Bob Dylan returns to the Newport Folk Festival for the first time since his controversial electric set in 1965
- 2022 Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee is certified as the world's tallest timber building at 25 stories, 86.6 meters (284 feet) [1]
