- 1519 City of Havana moves to its current location to avoid mosquito infestations
- 1875 William Bonwill patents the first electrified dental mallet to fill cavities with gold
- 1901 Three-car race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, with the fastest speed achieved by Henri Fournier, who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
LSD
1938 Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland
- 1945 Founding of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
1974 John Lennon's single "Whatever Gets You Through the Night," featuring Elton John, goes to #1 in the US; he is the last of the Beatles with a solo chart-topper, and it is the only one during his lifetime
- 1974 The first intentional interstellar radio message is sent from Arecibo Observatory's radio telescope in Puerto Rico towards M13, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light-years away
- 1984 John Lennon's "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" is released posthumously
- 2012 The game "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the largest entertainment launch of all time
- 2015 A 1,111-carat diamond, the largest discovered in more than a century, is found in the Karowe mine, Botswana
- 2018 An elevator drops 84 floors at the John Hancock Center, Chicago, when the hoist rope breaks; all six occupants survive unharmed
- 2021 Astronauts aboard the International Space Station take shelter after a Russian anti-satellite weapons test destroys a satellite, creating a large debris field
Record for Latin American Work
2021 Frida Kahlo's self-portrait "Diego y yo" (1949) sells for $34.9 million, setting a record price for a Latin American work at auction
- 2022 Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass is the first woman to be elected mayor of the city of Los Angeles, defeating Rick Caruso [1]
- 2022 U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives first safety approval for lab-grown meat, specifically chicken grown from animal cells by Upside Foods [1]
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