- 1870 Postcards are used for the first time in the US
- 1891 First International Six-Day Bike Race at Madison Square Garden in New York ends
- 1938 American Archbishop of Dubuque (Iowa), Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people," warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell"
- 1952 First Dutch edition of children's magazine "Donald Duck"
- 1955 Tappan sells the first microwave oven
- 1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in the wrong direction for a safety (NFL's No. 1 blooper)
- 1968 Longest Olympic field hockey game: Netherlands beats Spain 1-0 in 2 hours 25 minutes (6 overtimes)
Cycling Hour Record
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) sets a world hour record by riding 30.7 miles (49.431 km) in one hour
- 1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs' popularity as pets
- 2000 A team led by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford discover Orrorin tugenensis, one of the earliest species on the human family tree that lived about 6 million years ago, in the Tugen Hills, Kenya
- 2005 Longest Baseball World Series game in time (5 hours, 41 minutes) and tied longest in innings (14, tied with Game 2, 1916 WS and Game 1, 2015 WS); Chicago White Sox beat Houston Astros 7-5 in Game 3 at Minute Maid Park, Houston
- 2017 The first fossil of an ichthyosaur (a marine reptile, 152 million years old) is found in India, according to a report published in the PLOS ONE science journal
- 2018 First work of art produced by artificial intelligence, "Edmond de Belamy," conceived by Obvious, sells for $432,500 at Christie's in New York
- 2021 NASA scientists announce they may have detected the first planet outside our galaxy in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), 28 million light-years away [1]
- 2022 New Zealand Parliament membership becomes majority female for the first time [1]
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