- 1863 Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens the first public bath in Brooklyn
- 1889 Famed cabaret Moulin Rouge opens as the Jardin de Paris at the foot of the Montmartre hills in Paris, France
- 1889 First known ascent of the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, by German climber Hans Meyer and Austrian Ludwig Purtscheller
- 1923 US Lt. Al Williams flies a record 392.2 km/h
- 1945 Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys a seat for his goat for Game 4 of the Baseball World Series, is escorted out, and casts a goat curse on the Chicago Cubs
Proconsul africanus
1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans, on Rusinga Island, Kenya
- 1958 The USS Seawolf (SSN-575) nuclear submarine surfaces after being submerged for a record 60 days and traveling 13,700 nautical miles
- 1967 Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies hold a funeral for "Hippie" to signify the end of "the Summer of Love"
- 1976 John Hathaway completes a 50,600-mile bicycle tour of every continent
- 1978 Hanna H. Gray is inaugurated as the first female head of a US university (University of Chicago)
- 1979 Harry Drake sets the long-distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yards 1 foot 9 inches (1,834.82 meters)
1st Pope at The White House
1979 Pope John Paul II is the first pope to visit the White House, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C.
- 1995 51 Pegasi is discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting it
- 1996 In the final season of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Lois and Clark wed in the episode "Swear To God, This Time We're Not Kidding"
- 2007 Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe
Music Concert
2012 Actor John Cusack strolls onto the stage at the Hollywood Bowl and hands singer Peter Gabriel a boombox before the performance of the song "In Your Eyes," recreating the iconic scene from the movie "Say Anything"
- 2018 Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history by beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta; Wallabies trail 31-7 at halftime but score five second-half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas
- 2023 New research confirms fossil footprints 23,000-21,000 years old at White Sands National Park, New Mexico, as probably the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas [1]
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