1871 Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa with the immortal words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
- 1908 First Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
Walt Disney the Spy
1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI to report back information on Hollywood subversives
- 1951 First long-distance telephone call without operator assistance
1989 German crowds begin demolishing the Berlin Wall, quickly followed by officials with bulldozers
2003 Kim Clijsters of Belgium becomes the first female tennis player to earn $US4 million in a season when she overwhelms Amélie Mauresmo 6-2, 6-0 for the WTA Tour Championship at the Staples Center, Los Angeles
¿Por qué no te callas?
2007 ¿Por qué no te callas? ("Why don't you shut up?") incident between Juan Carlos I of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez at Ibero-American Summit in Santiago
- 2020 Word of the year is "lockdown," according to Collins English Dictionary
Peter Jackson Sells Weta Digital
2021 New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson sells Weta Digital's technology division to video games company Unity for US$1.6 billion [1]
Largest Art Auction
2022 Largest art auction in history belonging to late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen achieves sales of $1.5 billion, which is to be donated to charity [1]
Invasive Hippos
2023 Columbia begins a campaign to sterilize its invasive hippos, the escaped ex-pets of drug cartel head Pablo Escobar [1]
- 2023 Record for the most expensive US stamp is set when a 1918 "Inverted Jenny" sells for $2 million (£1.63 million) at auction in New York [1]
- 2023 The Beatles' single "Now and Then" hits #1 on the British singles chart, a record 54 years after their last #1 single [1]
- 2084 Next transit of Earth as seen from Mars
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