First Surviving Motion Picture
1890 Edison Lab records the first surviving motion picture, "Monkeyshines No. 1," shot by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and William Heise [date disputed between June 1889 and November 21–27, 1890]
Theory of Relativity
1905 Physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?" His general theory of relativity introduces the equation E = mc²
- 1937 Australian endurance athlete Tom Morris sets a world record by skipping rope 22,806 times in a single session
- 1946 Harry Truman becomes the first US president to travel in a submerged sub
- 1952 The first US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) is introduced
1953 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax
- 1961 "La Ronde," the first revolving restaurant in the US, designed by architect John Graham Jr., opens atop the 23-floor Ala Moana Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii
- 1964 The Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, the world's longest at the time
- 1967 Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet (8,534,4 meters)
Inflight Smoking Ban
1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights is signed by US President George H. W. Bush
- 2016 Adam Ondra completes the second free ascent of The Dawn Wall on El Capitan, leading every pitch and finishing in 8 days
- 2016 India celebrates 50th anniversary of IR8, a high-yielding rice variety that helped avert famine across Asia
Tesla Cybertruck
2019 Elon Musk launches Tesla's electric Cybertruck with shatterproof windows that, when demonstrated on stage, shatter
- 2024 Controversial artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan sells for $6.2 million at auction in New York; new owner Justin Sun says he will eat it [1]
- 2024 Evidence is presented of the earliest known alphabet on clay cylinders, 4,400 years old, 500 years older than previous writing, discovered in tombs in Umm el-Marra, Syria [1]
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