- 1954 First regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begin as SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) inaugurates DC-6B service between Los Angeles, California and Copenhagen, Denmark, via Greenland and Winnipeg, Manitoba
- 1964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, the lowest golf score for a female professional at the Tall City Open in Midland, Texas
- 1969 The first color television commercial in the UK, for Birds Eye peas, airs on ATV in the Midlands during a Thunderbirds episode
- 1978 The documentary short "Heartbeat in the Brain," created by and starring Amanda Feilding, screens at the Suydam Gallery and causes several viewers to faint during the film's climax showing a performance of the ancient practice of trepanation
- 1980 The rollercoaster Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens at Disney World in Florida
- 1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album, resulting in the duo being stripped of their Best New Artist Grammy and sparking a scandal
Salvator Mundi
2017 Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for $450.3 million at auction in New York, a record price for any artwork
- 2017 Pakistan unveils the remains of 1,700 year-old sleeping Buddha in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Africa's Fastest Train
2018 Africa's fastest train between Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco at 320 km/h (198 mph) is inaugurated by King Mohammed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron
- 2020 A Belgian racing pigeon called New Kim sells for a world-record price of €1.6 million (£1.4 million) at auction
Swift's Ticketmaster Record
2022 Ticketmaster sells more than 2 million tickets for Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour, the most tickets ever sold in a single day for an artist, amid hours-long wait times for fans [1]
- 2022 World's population reaches 8 billion, just 11 years after passing 7 billion, though now slowing down (9 billion expected in about 2037), according to the UN [1]
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