Victoria Falls
1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe
- 1869 Englishman James Moore wins the first bicycle race, racing 13 km from Paris to Rouen, France
- 1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking the Mediterranean and Red seas
Sullivan Arrested
1884 Police arrest boxer John L. Sullivan in the second round of a match for being "cruel"
- 1913 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
- 1940 Green Bay Packers become the first NFL team to travel by plane
- 1945 H. J. Wilson of the RAF sets a new world airspeed record of 606 mph (975 km/h)
- 1959 De Beers of South Africa announces the invention of a new synthetic diamond process
- 1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks at over 150,000 per hour for 20 minutes, a storm so intense that some people think it is the end of the world
Nixon: "I'm Not a Crook"
1973 US President Richard Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
- 1974 Bonnie Bryant becomes the first left-handed player in history to win an LPGA Tour event; scores a 3-stroke victory in the Bill Branch Golf Classic in Fort Myers, Florida
- 1996 Paleoanthropologists Tim White and Berhane Asfaw discover the 2.5-million-year-old fossils of Australopithecus garhi, representing a new species of early hominid, in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia
Britney Spears
2003 Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 2015 Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling marry in Clonmel, County Tipperary, in Ireland's first same-sex wedding
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