- 1593 Alleged teleportation of Spanish soldier Gil Perez from the Philippines to Mexico
Mendelssohn's 1st Concert
1818 Felix Mendelssohn, aged 9, performs his first public concert in Berlin, Germany
- 1857 Recognized by FIFA as the oldest existing club still playing football in the world, Sheffield FC is founded in Yorkshire, England, and is now based in Dronfield, Derbyshire
- 1901 Annie Edson Taylor is the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, surviving the plunge on her 63rd birthday
- 1903 George Sutton, known as the handless billiard player, becomes a billiards champion without artificial devices, holding the cue between his two elbows
Wright's Glider Record
1911 Orville Wright remains in the air for 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, setting a new world record that stands for 10 years
- 1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket launched from White Sands, USA, takes the first photograph of Earth from outer space
- 1968 The last high-altitude X-15 flight, piloted by William Dana, reaches an altitude of 77.7 km
- 1971 Harry Drake breaks the world record for the longest shot with a footbow at 1 mile 268 yards (1,854 meters)
- 1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc as the all-time best-selling singer-songwriter
- 2003 Concorde makes its final commercial flight
Theory of Happiness
2017 Albert Einstein's "Theory of Happiness," written as a note for a bellboy instead of a tip in Tokyo in 1922, sells for $1.56 million
- 2018 Largest jackpot in US history at $1.6 billion is won by one person in South Carolina
Air Jordans Sneaker Record
2021 Michael Jordan's 1984 Nike Air Ships sell for $1.472 million at Sotheby's, setting a new record for sneakers at auction [1]
- 2022 A five-month-old bar-tailed godwit becomes a world record holder by flying 8,425 miles (13,559 km) non-stop from Yukon Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska, US, to Ansons Bay in Tasmania, Australia, in 11 days
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