Benjamin Franklin
1789 In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, Benjamin Franklin writes "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"
1839 Last bull run in Britain as the Stamford bull run ends after 700 years
- 1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis
1856 The Great Bell of Big Ben first chimes at the foot of the still-unfinished clock tower outside the Palace of Westminster [1]
- 1907 French bicycle maker Paul Cornu flies the first twin-rotor helicopter, lifting 1.5 m (5 ft) off the ground for 20 seconds
- 1937 NBC forms the first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
- 1946 Scientist Vincent Schaefer produces the first artificial snow by dropping pellets of dry ice from an airplane into a supercooled cloud over Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts
- 1954 Dentist Fred Slack invents false fingernails after cutting his nail at work and creating an artificial nail using dental acrylic resin and aluminum foil
Event of Interest
2014 Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the world's shortest man, who is 54.6 cm (1 ft 9.5 in) tall, meets the world's tallest man, Sultan Kösen, standing 251 cm (8 ft 3 in) tall, at an event in London for Guinness World Records Day
- 2014 Indian cricket batsman Rohit Sharma sets a new world ODI record of 264 runs off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata
- 2017 World's earliest winemaking is uncovered in Khramis Didi Gora, Georgia, in clay pots from 6,000 BC
Blackpink
2019 South Korean girl group Blackpink are the first K-pop group to reach 1 billion views on YouTube for their single "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du"
Harry Styles
2020 British pop singer Harry Styles becomes the first solo male featured on the cover US Vogue magazine
Kylie Minogue Record
2020 Kylie Minogue becomes the first woman to top the UK album chart over five consecutive decades with "Disco"
- 2023 Kenya holds its first national tree-planting holiday, aiming to plant 100 million trees as part of a climate change initiative to plant 15 billion trees by 2032 [1]
- 2024 World's largest coral, larger than a blue whale and 300 years old, is found off the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean [1]
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