- 1814 London Beer Flood: A burst vat at Meux & Company Brewery floods city streets with over 300,000 gallons of porter ale, killing eight, with a possible ninth later from alcohol poisoning [1]
Stanley Reaches Lualaba River
1876 Henry Morton Stanley reaches the Lualaba River, a headstream of the Congo River, and travels down it, proving it is not the source of the Nile
Optical Phonograph
1888 Thomas Edison writes a letter to the US Patent Office describing his idea for "a device that would do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear"
Transatlantic Wireless
1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland
Game of the Century
1956 Chess "Game of the Century": 13-year-old Bobby Fischer defeats 1953 US Champion Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City
- 1967 USAF test pilot William "Pete" Knight reaches an altitude of 102,100 feet (31.1 km) in the experimental X-15 spaceplane
- 1982 First live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)
- 2003 Pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) to become the world's tallest high-rise
- 2006 The United States population reaches 300 million
Congressional Gold Medal
2007 The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal
- 2008 Iran attempts to create the world's largest sandwich (1,500 meters) but fails when crowds eat it before it can be measured
- 2018 Puppeteer Caroll Spinney, known for performing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, leaves "Sesame Street" after 50 years
- 2019 The "Blob," a mysterious yellow slime organism (Physarum polycephalum) with 720 sexes that can move, heal itself, and solve problems without a brain or nervous system, goes on display at Paris Zoological Park
- 2020 Chicago is declared the "rattiest city" in America for the sixth year in a row by pest control service Orkin
- 2024 Teen smoking in the US falls to its lowest level in 25 years, decreasing by 20% in a year from 2.8 million to 2.25 million, including e-cigarettes [1]
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