- 1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas
- 1869 In the first US college football game, players use their hands, feet, heads, or sides to advance the ball, but they cannot run with it; Rutgers College beats New Jersey (now Princeton) 6-4
- 1879 Canada celebrates its first Thanksgiving Day
- 1905 Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king (or 1909)
- 1928 Colonel Jacob Schick patents a "shaving implement" that he later incorporates into the first electric razor [1]
- 1938 The three DiMaggio brothers, Joe, Vince, and Dom, play together for the first time in a charity all-star game in California
- 1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down
- 1961 US government issues a stamp to honor the 100th birthday of James Naismith, the Canadian-born inventor of basketball
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the fourth film based on the books by J. K. Rowling, premieres in London and goes on to become the most successful film of the year, earning almost US$900 million
St Pancras Station
2007 London's St Pancras Station, with its new high speed extension and Eurostar connection, is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II
Duckworth's Barrier Breaking Election
2012 Tammy Duckworth becomes the first disabled woman and first person born in Thailand to be elected to US Congress, representing Illinois
- 2018 Human longevity is less than 10% dependent on genetics, according to a study published in the journal "Genetics" and based on data from 400 million people from Ancestry.com
- 2018 Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) are the first Muslim women to be elected to the US House of Representatives
- 2018 Sharice Davids (Kansas) and Deb Haaland (New Mexico) are the first Native American women to be elected to the US House of Representatives
- 2022 US Powerball jackpot rises to a world record of $1.9 billion after no winners for more than three months [1]
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