- 1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete
- 1790 Robert Gray's Columbia Rediviva returns to Boston after a 3-year journey as the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe
- 1803 First horses arrive in Hawaii
- 1859 Otis Tufts patents the first passenger elevator in the US
Diesel Engine Patented
1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine
- 1930 Animated character Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's cartoon "Dizzy Dishes"
- 1946 First time all Major League Baseball games (8) are played at night
- 1976 USSR launches Luna 24, the last lunar flight to date from Earth
- 1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets first British nudist beach
- 1988 Just one day after 8/8/88, the number 888 pops up as the winning lottery combination in New York
Shark Tank
2009 Business reality television series "Shark Tank," created by Mark Burnett and hosted by Kevin O'Leary, Robert Herjavec, Barbara Corcoran, and Daymond John, premieres on ABC
- 2016 Longest-ever hunger strike ends as Indian human rights campaigner Irom Sharmila tastes honey after 16 years
2017 A giant inflatable chicken resembling US President Donald Trump is placed outside the US White House as a political protest; Trump is out of town at the time [Note: photo shows return visit to National Mall in October of 2018] [1]
- 2021 A herd of 14 elephants returns home from a 500 km (300 mile) trek across China, leading authorities to evacuate 150,000 people out of their path [1]
- 2025 Jen Pawol, 48, becomes the first woman to umpire an MLB regular-season game when she joins the crew at Truist Park as the Atlanta Braves host a doubleheader against the Miami Marlins [1]
