Pascal's Vision
1654 French mathematician and scientist Blaise Pascal experiences an intense mystical vision known as the "Night of Fire," leading him to abandon his scientific work and devote his life to religious writing
- 1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt likely caused by heavy rains causes Lake Merced, California, to drop 30 feet (9 m)
- 1889 Debut of the first jukebox at the Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco
- 1897 American inventor Andrew Jackson Beard invents the "jerry coupler" to connect railroad cars
Anti-Beer Bill
1921 US President Warren G. Harding signs Willis Campbell Act (Beer Emergency Bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond is torpedoed by a German U-boat, leaving him as the sole survivor
- 1948 Dr Frank G. Back of New York City patents a lens to provide zoom effects
- 1976 Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment
- 2004 World of Warcraft, a multiplayer online role-playing video game, is released and becomes the world's most subscribed game
- 2012 JR Tokai unveils a maglev LO train prototype capable of traveling up to 500 km per hour
100m TikTok Followers
2020 Charli D'Amelio becomes the first person to hit 100 million followers on TikTok
- 2021 Egypt reopens its 3000-year-old Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor with a grand ceremony [1]
Theory of Relativity
2021 Manuscript of early workings of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, one of the most important scientific documents of the 20th century, sells at auction for $13 million [1]
- 2022 European Space Agency is the first to announce the inclusion of a disabled person, Britain's John McFall, among their new class of astronauts [1]
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