The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," a collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine"
- 1922 The first Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue, New York City
- 1922 The Pennsylvania exchange in New York City sees the start of automated dialing
1st Supersonic Flight
1947 Chuck Yeager makes the first supersonic flight in the Bell XS-1 at Mach 1.06
Unité d’Habitation
1952 One of the most influential Modernist buildings, the Unité d’Habitation, designed by Le Corbusier, is officially inaugurated in Marseille, France
- 1965 USAF test pilot Joe Engle in the X-15 reaches an altitude of 50.5 miles (81.3 km) and a top speed of 3,554 mph (5,720 km/h) (Mach 5.08)
- 1968 First live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
- 1968 Gruner and Watson (US) set a scuba depth record of 133 m in the Bahamas
- 1987 In Midland, TX, 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22 feet (7 meters) down a well and is rescued 58 hours later
- 1996 Packer Chris Jacke kicks the longest field goal to end overtime (53 yds)
- 2012 Felix Baumgartner becomes the first skydiver to break the sound barrier, jumping from 24 miles above Earth
Shakespeare's First Folio
2020 A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New York
- 2020 Details of the world's first room-temperature superconductor created by scientists at the University of Rochester, NY, published in "Nature" [1]
- 2021 Record price for a Banksy artwork is paid of 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million) for "Love is in the Bin," which was famously shredded on purchase in 2018 [1]
- 2023 Annular solar eclipse, a "ring of fire," is visible across parts of the US, Mexico, and South and Central America [1]
- 2024 New largest-known prime number 2^136279841-1 found by programmer Luke Durant as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search [1]
- 2024 Russian man is rescued after 67 days adrift in an inflatable boat after his brother and nephew die in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East [1]
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