Bank Panic of 1907
1907 US banker J. P. Morgan locks over 40 bankers in his library to force them to find ways to avert New York banking crisis
- 1924 Sunday Express publishes first British crossword puzzle
- 1932 The "Great Emu War" begins: Australian soldiers armed with Lewis Guns seek to cull the emu population over crop destruction in Campion district, Western Australia
- 1936 At 3 pm, the BBC begins the world's first regular high-definition TV broadcast service from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace, North London
Spruce Goose
1947 Howard Hughes flies the "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for the first and only time, reaching a height of 70 feet before landing back on the water
- 1950 The Clover Dairy Company begins testing its first concentrated milk under the Sealtest brand in Wilmington, Delaware
- 1959 Charles Van Doren confesses during a congressional investigation that TV quiz show "Twenty-One" was fixed
- 1977 Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life dating back some 3.5 billion years, which they name Archaea
- 1988 Mexican radio station erroneously reports Mike Tyson has died in car crash
- 1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain mainstream media attention, is accidentally launched from an MIT computer and infects MIT, the Pentagon, and six universities
On This Day-Xiaomi Partnership
2017 On This Day and Xiaomi launch a content partnership to display today in history content in Xiaomi's calendar app to users in India
- 2020 Baby Shark by Pinkfong becomes the most-watched video on YouTube with over 7.04 billion views
Now and Then
2023 Apple Records release the last Beatles song "Now and Then" as a double A-sided single, backed with their first "From Me To You"; the new song was built from an unfinished 1978 John Lennon demo and 1995 attempt to complete it that had been abandoned due to technical issues, resolved by new technology [1]
- 2024 Kemi Badenoch becomes the first black woman to lead a major British political party when elected leader of the Conservative Party
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