- 1690 Revolt in Haarlem after a ban on smoking in public
- 1814 One of the first modern plastic surgeries in the West is performed by Joseph Carpue on a soldier's nose in England using Indian techniques
- 1819 First ship sails through the Erie Canal from Rome, New York, to Utica, New York
- 1854 English newspaper "The Times" gives precise British positions in Crimea during Crimean War
- 1910 Blanche Scott becomes the first woman to fly at a public event in the US in Fort Wayne, Indiana
- 1915 First national horseshoe throwing championship in Kellerton, Iowa
- 1923 A US patent (No. 1471465) is issued to American inventor Sebastian Hinton for a playground climbing structure popularly known as "monkey bars" [1]
- 1934 Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlon attain a record balloon height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) over Lake Erie
- 1947 Husband and wife Carl Cori and Gerty Cori are the first spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the catalytic conversion of glycogen, alongside Bernardo Alberto Houssay
- 1956 First video recording on magnetic tape is televised coast-to-coast
1958 The Smurfs first appear in the story "Johan and Peewit" by Belgian cartoonist Peyo
- 1964 Time magazine uses the term "op art" for the first time to describe the optical illusions created by abstract art
- 1970 Gary Gabelich sets an auto speed record of 622.4 mph (1,001 km/h)
- 1975 Nearly all women in Iceland (90%) stop work to protest the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of unpaid labor, shutting down the country for a day
- 1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces the discovery of a 3.4 billion-year-old single-celled fossil, one of the earliest life forms on Earth
- 2018 The world's oldest intact shipwreck, an ancient Greek vessel 2,400 years old, is found by archaeologists at the bottom of the Black Sea
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge
2018 World's longest sea-crossing bridge, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge at 55 km, is opened by Chinese President Xi Jinping
- 2019 Google's research lab claims it achieved quantum supremacy by performing a calculation in three minutes that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years
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