- 1800 It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013)
Republican Party Symbol
1874 First cartoon depicting an elephant as the Republican Party symbol is published by Thomas Nast
- 1876 Edward Bouchet is the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from a US college (Yale)
- 1910 First air freight shipment is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio
- 1963 Eleven German miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days in the Wunder von Lengede (Miracle of Lengede)
- 1990 Mary Robinson is elected the first female president of Ireland
- 2000 US Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas
- 2009 Jerry Sloan becomes the first coach in NBA history with 1,000 wins for one team after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder
- 2017 Opera soprano Audrey Luna sings the highest-ever note at the Met Opera in New York: an A above high C
- 2018 He world's oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old is discovered in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave in Indonesian Borneo
- 2019 Humans first walk upright 12 million years ago (not 6 million as previously thought), according to a study on a new species of ape found in Bavaria, Germany, published in "Nature"
- 2019 Song lyrics have become sadder, say researchers who studied 50 years of lyrics at the University of Exeter, published in the journal "Evolutionary Human Sciences"
- 2024 Bluey’s World, an immersive experience based on the animated children's TV show "Bluey," officially opens in Brisbane, Australia [1]
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