Gulliver's Travels
1726 "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London
Sense and Sensibility
1811 First known purchase of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility" by the Prince Regent (later George IV), who is a fan
French Magic
1856 French Magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin performs for Algerian Marabouts in Algeria to discredit the influence of religious leaders and convince them that French magic is the stronger
1886 Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
- 1904 St. Louis police try a new investigative method: fingerprints
- 1913 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in the New York Evening Journal
- 1922 First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
Taung Child
1924 Miner M. de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child," in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus
- 1965 The Gateway Arch, 630 ft (192 m) tall, is completed in St. Louis, Missouri
- 1992 Lee Jang Rim predicted that today would be the end of the world, causing believers to sell their belongings and leave their jobs
- 2015 In the longest first game of Baseball World Series (5 hours, 9 minutes) and joint longest by innings (14), the Kansas City Royals beat New York Mets 5-4
- 2015 Research indicating the plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons 5,783 years old is published by a University of Copenhagen team in "Cell"
- 2016 Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area is established off Antarctica as the world's largest marine protected area at 598,000 square miles (2.06 million square kilometers), larger than Mexico [1]
- 2020 New coral reef 500 m (1,640 ft) high, taller than the Empire State Building, is discovered north of Australia's Great Barrier Reef
- 2021 One of the world's largest floor mosaics is unveiled after restoration at Hisham's Palace (660-750 AD) by Palestinian authorities in Jericho, West Bank [1]
- 2022 Swedish engineers in Linköping produce the world's first anatomically correct female crash dummy, as previous female dummies were just scaled-down versions of the male figure [1]
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