1639 English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree make the first recorded observations of a transit of Venus by accurately predicting its path using Johannes Kepler's methods [1]
On the Origin of Species
1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species," radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology
- 1877 English author Anna Sewell sells her manuscript "Black Beauty" to Norwich publisher for £40; the novel is published soon after
- 1930 Ruth Nichols sets the women's transcontinental air flight record from Mineola, New York, to California in a Lockheed Vega
- 1954 First Lady Mamie Eisenhower christens the first plane to be designated Air Force One
- 1958 Mechanisation of Thought Processes, considered the first international symposium about artificial intelligence, begins in Teddington, England
- 1971 American "Dan Cooper" hijacks a plane, extorts $200,000 in ransom, jumps out of the plane over Washington State and is never seen again [1]
- 1974 The most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens, and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression [1] [2]
- 1989 Sachin Tendulkar scores a Test cricket fifty at the record young age of 16 years and 214 days
- 1993 Today marks the end of the world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood
- 2012 Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed YouTube video, surpassing 808 million views
- 2016 International research team publishes the discovery of 1,500 new viruses found in invertebrates
- 2021 Sweden's first female Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, resigns after 12 hours in the job when her coalition government falls apart
- 2022 British-born Flossie, aged almost 27, is crowned the world's oldest cat by Guinness World Records [1]
- 2023 A23a, the world's biggest iceberg at 4,000 sq km (1,500 sq miles), is on the move again after being grounded in the Weddell Sea for more than 30 years [1]
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