- 1786 Harvard University organizes the first astronomical expedition in the US
- 1817 First Mississippi showboat leaves Nashville on its maiden voyage
- 1891 The first Six Days of New York, an international 6-day bike race, begins at New York City's Madison Square Garden
- 1910 First use of a cork-centered baseball in the World Series
- 1949 Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
- 1956 Hannes Lindemann begins his journey across the Atlantic in a 17-foot craft
NFL Record
1963 Jim Brown sets the NFL single-season rushing record with 1,863 yards
- 1967 A purported Bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek in Northern California by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin
- 1968 American Dick Fosbury, using his unconventional technique, wins the men's high jump gold medal with 2.24 m at the Mexico City Olympics; the "Fosbury Flop" becomes accepted as the most efficient technique
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point in Sydney, Australia, after 14 years of construction
- 1996 MLB Atlanta Braves' Andruw Jones becomes the youngest player at 19 to hit a home run in the World Series
- 2018 The 12,000-year-old fossil called "Luzia," the oldest known fossil in South America, is announced as found mostly intact after a devastating fire at Brazil's National Museum
- 2019 The Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner completes the first New York to Sydney non-stop test flight by a commercial airline in 19 hours 42 minutes
- 2021 Confirmation that Vikings establish a settlement in 1021 AD in the New World at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, is provided by a new dating technique using solar storms [1]
- 2023 Claim that the world's oldest pyramid constructed by humans is under the Indonesian prehistoric site of Gunung Padang, West Java, and is 27,000 years old causes controversy [1]
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