1st Blood Transfusion
1666 English writer Samuel Pepys writes the first report of a blood transfusion (between dogs) in his diary
- 1832 First horse-drawn streetcar by John Mason debuts in New York City; fare is 12 cents and it runs on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Streets
Condensed Milk
1856 American Gail Borden is issued a patent for technology related to his invention of condensed milk
Around the World in 72 Days
1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours.
- 1896 The Emancipation Run: 33 motorists parade from London to Brighton to celebrate England's Locomotives on Highways Act 1896, which increased automobile speed limit to 14 mph
- 1910 First airplane flight from deck of a ship in Norfolk, Virginia
1994 First public trains run through the Channel Tunnel, linking England and France under the English Channel
- 1997 Disney's "The Lion King" sets a Broadway record with a daily sale of $2,700,000
- 2012 Discovery of CFBDSIR 2149-0403, the closest rogue planet to Earth, located a mere 100 light-years away
- 2018 A large impact crater, 31 km wide, from an iron meteorite is identified under the Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland
- 2018 Archaeologists announce the discovery of the ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth, supposedly founded by captives from the Trojan War
- 2018 Astronomers announce the discovery of a Super-Earth planet (3.2 times bigger than Earth) orbiting the red dwarf Barnard's Star, 6 light-years away
Marie Antoinette's Jewelry
2018 Jewelry that belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette is auctioned off in Geneva after not being seen for 200 years
- 2022 Earliest evidence of fire used to cook by humans found in study of fish remains 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel [1]
- 2023 World's first protected area for endangered sperm whales is set up off the coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica [1]
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