- 1809 Berners Street Hoax: Theodore Hook bets he can make any address the most talked-about in London; he proceeds to win by bringing London to a standstill
- 1870 The New York Times dubs baseball the national game
- 1885 The first photograph of a meteor is taken by Austro-Hungarian photographer Ladislaus Weinek in Prague, Austrian-Hungarian Empire
- 1889 Curtis P. Brady is issued the first permit to drive a car through Central Park in New York
Nobel Prizes Established
1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prizes through his will, dedicating the bulk of his fortune to funding annual awards for those who have conferred the "greatest benefit to humankind"
- 1910 New York's Penn Station opens as the world's largest railway terminal
- 1911 Audience throws vegetables at actors for the first recorded time in the US
The Mark of Zorro
1920 First American superhero film, "The Mark of Zorro," directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks, is released in New York
- 1924 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held
First to Score 1,000 Points
1960 Gordie Howe becomes the first NHL player to score 1,000 points
All Things Must Pass
1970 Apple Records releases George Harrison's triple album set "All Things Must Pass;" it becomes the best-selling solo album by any of the Beatles, reaching 6x Platinum status in the US
- 2000 Norway opens the Laerdal Tunnel, linking Oslo and Bergen, the world's longest road tunnel at 15.3 miles (24.6 kilometers) [1]
- 2005 The first partial human face transplant on a living human is performed by Bernard Devauchelle on Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France
- 2015 "Holy grail" of shipwrecks the San Jose, sunk 1708, is confirmed found by an international team off the coast of Colombia
- 2017 Eight donkeys are released from jail after being held for 4 days in Orai, Uttar Pradesh, India for eating expensive plants
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