- 1775 American physician James Jay invents invisible ink
1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
- 1897 First motorcycle race in Surrey, England, is won by Charles Jarrot
- 1910 The first US patent for a traffic light system is issued to Chicago engineer Ernest Sirrine [1]
- 1944 Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore perform the first open-heart surgery, known as the "blue baby operation"
- 1948 The first opera to be televised, Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello," is broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City
- 1953 American Airlines begins the first regular commercial New York to Los Angeles air service
- 1965 17-year-old Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
Yale-Princeton Football Game
1970 Modernist composer Charles Ives' orchestral two-minute piece "Two Halves in Two Minutes," also known as the "Yale-Princeton Football Game," written in 1897, premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York
1972 Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game, at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California
Jesus Manger Fragment
2019 Wood fragment believed to be from Jesus' manger is returned to Bethlehem by Pope Francis after 1400 years
- 2022 Three stowaways are rescued by the Spanish coastguard after 11 days at sea, balancing on a ship's rudder from Nigeria to the Canary Islands [1]
- 2023 Footage of the Vangunu rat, a rare giant rat about half a meter (1.5 feet) long, is captured for the first time on the island of Vangunu, Solomon Islands [1]
Spotify's Most-Streamed
2023 Taylor Swift is Spotify's most-streamed global artist of the year with 26.1 billion streams, and "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus is the most-streamed song [1]
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