- 1789 Bourbon whiskey is first distilled from corn by Elijah Craig in Bourbon County, Virginia (modern-day Kentucky)
- 1837 Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts, the first US college for women, is founded
X-rays
1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
- 1984 NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher becomes the first mother to go into orbit when she flies on the STS-51A mission
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia, the first woman to lead an African country
- 2011 The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976
- 2017 Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa breaks the world record for surfing the largest wave ever at 24.38 meters in Nazaré, Portugal
- 2017 In unprecedented move, Indian officials close all Delhi schools for rest of the week due to smog
- 2018 Azerbaijan woman who spent £16 million in Harrods is granted bail in the UK after being arrested for suspested embezzlement under new laws
- 2018 China's state news agency is the first to introduce a virtual newsreader developed by Chinese search engine Sogou [1]
Virgin Hyperloop
2020 First test of a high-speed levitating pod system to carry people and cargo by Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop in Las Vegas, Nevada
Sexiest Man Alive
2022 Actor Chris Evans is named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive and says “My mom will be so happy. She's proud of everything I do but this is something she can really brag about.” [1]
- 2023 European Space Telescope Euclid releases its first images, becoming the first telescope able to capture an entire galaxy in a single exposure and is also built to explore dark matter and dark energy [1]
- 2024 The bells of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris ring out for the first time since the 2019 fire; the restored north tower belfry installation includes three new bells, one commissioned for use during the Olympic Games [1]
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