- 1915 First transatlantic radiotelephone message, Arlington, Virginia, to Paris
- 1918 Margaret Owen sets a world typing speed record of 170 wpm for one minute
- 1945 Women in France are allowed to vote for the first time
- 1948 Facsimile high-speed radio transmission is demonstrated in Washington, D.C.
Huxley Congratulates Orwell
1949 Aldous Huxley, author of "Brave New World," writes to congratulate George Orwell on his new novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
- 1958 First woman in British House of Lords
- 1965 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the Sun and becoming one of the brightest comets seen in a millennium
- 1970 777 couples from around the world wed in a mass wedding ceremony hosted by the Unification Church in Seoul, South Korea
- 1973 Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game
- 1989 Buck Helm is found alive after being buried for four days in the San Francisco earthquake
- 2003 Images of Eris are taken by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz, leading to the discovery of the dwarf planet
First Native American Saint
2012 Kateri Tekakwitha is canonized by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming the first Native American saint
- 2015 Alex Puccio ascends Free Range in Boulder Canyon, Colorado, climbing V13 (8B) after recovering from a knee injury
- 2019 Australia's biggest newspapers all blank out their front pages in protest against press restrictions
- 2019 World's oldest natural pearl, 8,000 years old, is discovered during excavations at Marawah Island near Abu Dhabi, UAE
- 2024 Findings are published of a massive collision of Earth with a large meteorite, four times the size of Mt. Everest, 3.26 billion years ago, so big it boiled the oceans and may have kickstarted early life [1]
- 2024 The "Great Cheese Robbery": A scam is reported to police involving the theft of rare English Cheddar worth about 300,000 pounds from Neal’s Yard Dairy in London [1]
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