- 1716 A lion is tamed and exhibited for the first time in the US by Captain Arthur Savage at his house on Brattle Street, in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1789 First national Thanksgiving in the US
- 1805 Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest aqueduct in the UK and the highest canal aqueduct in the world, carrying the Llangollen Canal 126 feet above the River Dee
- 1832 First streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with a 12-cent fare
Alice in Wonderland
1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in Egypt
- 1922 First successful Technicolor movie, "The Toll of the Sea," premieres at the Rialto Theatre in New York City
First Polaroid Camera
1948 The first Polaroid camera, the Land Camera model 95, sells for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store and becomes the prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras for the next 15 years
- 1952 The first 3D feature film "Bwana Devil," directed by Arch Oboler, premieres in Los Angeles, advertised as "The Miracle of the Age!!! A LION in your lap! A LOVER in your arms!"
- 1956 USSR coxless pairs scull rower Viktor Ivanov wins an Olympic silver medal; in his excitement, he drops his medal, which sinks in Lake Wendouree (Victoria, Australia) and is later recovered by a local teenager
Astérix Satellite
1965 France launches its first satellite, the 92 lb (42 kg) A-1 capsule, and names it Astérix after the popular French comic character
- 2003 Supersonic airplane the Concorde makes its last ever flight, returning to Bristol, England
- 2015 UK nonprofit Raspberry Pi releases its $5 Zero computer, with a 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM; it sells out in a day
- 2018 Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have produced the first genetically edited baby
- 2022 2,500 people pose naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer [1]
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