- 1723 Ambrose Godfrey patents a gunpowder-fueled fire extinguisher system in England
- 1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic
- 1859 Jules Leotard performs the first flying trapeze circus act in Paris; he also designs the garment that bears his name
- 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500 to become first professional football player in the Allegheny Athletic Association's 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club
- 1910 First possible movie stunt: A man jumps into the Hudson River from a burning balloon
- 1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a one-month flight from London to Australia
- 1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photo of the so-called Loch Ness monster
- 1941 Alma Heflin becomes the first female test pilot for commercial aircraft at Piper Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
SS Robert E. Peary
1942 The SS Robert E. Peary, a Liberty ship built in 4 days and 15.5 hours at Henry J. Kaiser's Richmond Shipyard #2, is launched, setting a new record
- 1955 Doc and Marty McFly are sent "Back to the Future" when lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock tower at exactly 10:04 pm, generating the power to send the DeLorean and Marty back to 1985 [fictional]
- 1956 The largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, is first sighted
- 1964 Paula Murphy sets a female land speed record of 226.37 mph (364.31 km/h)
1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first "space selfie," a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini 12 mission
- 1974 A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833
- 1981 First balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
- 1988 First commercial bungy jumping company begins operating near Queenstown, New Zealand, run by A. J. Hackett
World Wide Web
1990 The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau [1]
- 2003 Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world record for commercial railway systems with a speed of 501 km/h (311 mph)
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