- 1866 French inventor Pierre Lallement patents rotary crank bicycle
- 1886 Sherlock Holmes's first story "A Study in Scarlet" is accepted by publisher Ward and Lock with payment of £25
- 1888 Willard Bundy patents the timecard clock
- 1914 The US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
- 1923 American inventor Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, adding a caution between "stop" and "go," an important development in automobile safety [1]
- 1948 A US balloon reaches a record height of 42.7 km
- 1953 Scott Crossfield becomes the first person to break the Mach 2 barrier by flying the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket at 1,291 mph (2,076 km/h)
Pele's 1,000th Goal
1969 Brazilian soccer icon Pelé scores his 1,000th goal
- 1979 First artificial blood transfusion occurs at the University of Minnesota Hospital in the US when a patient refuses a conventional blood transfusion due to religious beliefs and receives the blood substitute Fluosol
- 1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes the first solar-powered flight
- 1982 Drew Barrymore hosts "Saturday Night Live" at age 7
- 1984 McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger
Bachchan Pays Farmers Debts
2018 Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan confirms he has paid off the debts of 1,398 farmers worth $560,000 amid the Indian agricultural crisis
- 2019 Oxford Dictionary's word of the year is "climate emergency"
- 2019 Snakes lived with hind legs for 70 million years (Najash rionegrina), according to research from La Buitrera Palaeontological Area, Argentina, published in "Science Advances"
Tallest and Shortest Women Meet
2024 World's tallest woman, Rumeysa Gelgi, at 7 ft 0.71 in (215.16 cm) from Turkey, meets the world's shortest woman, Jyoti Amge, at 2 ft 0.7 in (62.8 cm) from India, at the Savoy Hotel in London, to celebrate Guinness World Records Day [1]
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