1st Ballet Staged in Paris
1581 The first ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine," commissioned by Catherine de Medici, is staged in Paris
1582 Gregorian calendar is introduced in Spain, Portugal, and the Papal States after skipping 10 days from October 4 to sync the calendar to the solar year and compensate for the drift that has occurred due to the Julian calendar having too many leap days
1764 Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
- 1783 Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier makes the first tethered balloon ascent
- 1897 Aaron and Samuel Bloch carry the first mail pouch
- 1923 American pianist Henry Cowell sparks a riot among audience members due to his avant-garde piano techniques at Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, Germany; some try to physically stop his performance, while others defend him
- 1956 First plane lands safely on water: Pan Am Flight 6 from San Francisco to Honolulu, with all 24 passengers and 7 crew surviving
- 1971 World's first arcade video game, Computer Space, developed by Syzygy, is first demonstrated at the MOA Show in the US
- 1977 Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record-tying 67-yard field goal
- 1981 Professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson leads what is believed to be the first audience wave in Oakland, California
- 1985 Shelley Taylor of Australia makes the fastest swim around Manhattan Island, completing it in 6 hours, 12 minutes, and 29 seconds
Billy Graham's Hollywood Star
1989 American radio and television evangelist Billy Graham receives the 1,900th star on Hollywood Boulevard, becoming the first clergyman to be granted a star
- 1991 Oh-My-God particle, the most powerful cosmic ray ever detected by the Fly's Eye camera at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, measures 320 EeV, 40 million times more powerful than any terrestrial particle accelerator [1]
- 1997 Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record of 763.035 mph (1,227.985 km/h)
- 2010 "The Clock," a 24-hour movie montage of thousands of film and television clips, created by Christian Marclay, premieres at White Cube art gallery in London
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