Casanova Escapes Prison
1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from "The Leads" prison in Venice by climbing onto the roof
Dalton Explains Color Blindness
1794 John Dalton's first lecture to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society is titled "Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours," describing his own color blindness, which later becomes known as Daltonism
- 1913 Lincoln Highway, the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the US, is dedicated
- 1956 American Navy pilot Conrad "Gus" Shinn is the first person to land a plane at the South Pole
- 1956 Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek becomes the first American to set foot on the South Pole
- 1980 Julian Nott sets a world hot air balloon altitude record of 16,806 m
- 1981 "The War of the Worlds," the first live American radio drama in 25 years, is broadcast on NBC on Halloween
- 1983 Ron Grant completes a run around Australia in 217 days, covering 8,316 miles (13,383 km)
- 1987 American jockey Chris Antley becomes the first rider to win nine races in a day (four at Aqueduct and five at The Meadowlands)
- 1992 Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive
Catholic Church Apologizes
1992 Roman Catholic church apologizes for its treatment of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei after 359 years, acknowledging he had been right about the Earth revolving around the Sun
- 1999 Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world solo, non-stop, and unassisted
- 2016 MIT Engineers announce they have engineered spinach plants to detect explosive materials in groundwater and send an email alert via a connected system [1]
- 2017 A judge on Maui, Hawaii, orders a man to write 144 compliments to his ex-girlfriend after violating a protection order by sending her 144 malicious text messages and calls
2018 The Statue of Unity, the world's tallest statue at 182 meters, is unveiled in Gujarat state as a tribute to Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- 2021 World's largest solar farm goes live in Sirindhorn reservoir, Thailand, as a hydro-floating solar hybrid system the size of 70 football fields [1]
Music History
2022 Taylor Swift becomes the first artist in history to claim all top 10 slots on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart with 10 tracks from her album "Midnights" [1]
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