- 1853 First flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
- 1901 Alberto Santos-Dumont proves airships are maneuverable by circling the Eiffel Tower in his airship No. 6, winning the Deutsch Prize and 100,000 francs
- 1919 Anna Howard Shaw becomes the first living female recipient of the US Distinguished Service Medal
AL Prohibits Boxing
1923 MLB's American League president Ban Johnson persuades team owners to prohibit boxing in their ballparks, citing "unsavory characters" associated with the sport
- 1936 H.R. Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats two other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights by 18½ days
- 1941 First woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley, in Mexico
- 1952 Alain Bombard departs from the Canary Islands on his solitary journey across the Atlantic Ocean with almost no provisions and only a sextant for navigation to test his theory that a shipwrecked person can survive
- 1953 First jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
- 1954 First ascent of Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 meters
- 1980 Steve McPeak rides a 101 ft 9 in (31 m) tall unicycle
1,000,000th Test Cricket Run
1986 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in all Test cricket (vs. India in Bombay)
- 1988 US Senate passes a bill curbing ads during children's TV shows
- 2014 A functioning human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States
- 2015 Scientists from the University of California find evidence that life on Earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million years earlier than previously thought
- 2020 Ming handscroll painting “Ten Views of Lingbi Rock” by Wu Bin sells for 512.9 million yuan ($77 million) at auction in Beijing, setting a new world record for a classical Chinese work
- 2020 Peru announces the rediscovery of a 37-meter figure of a cat, a geoglyph outline in the Nazca Desert, completed between 500 BC and 200 AD
- 2022 Massachusetts names Podokesaurus holyokensis ("swift-footed lizard of Holyoke") as the official state dinosaur [1]
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