- 1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes the first American colonial government to issue paper money
- 1768 The first of 100 weekly "numbers" of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which are bound into three volumes in 1771, is published in Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1799 The metric system is first adopted in France
- 1831 "Spirit of the Times," the premier sports journal of the 19th century, begins publishing in New York City
Aswan Low Dam
1902 Opening of the Aswan Low Dam at the first cataract, the first dam across the Nile and the largest masonry dam in the world
- 1905 Austrian pacifist and writer Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
First American to win a Nobel
1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1911 Calbraith Rogers completes the first crossing of the US by airplane in 84 days
- 1919 Pilot Ross Smith and his brother, navigator Ken Smith, land their two-engine Vickers Vimy in Darwin, Australia, winning a £10,000 prize as the first all-Australian crew to complete the first flight from England to Australia [1]
- 1932 The "Great Emu War" ends: Emus' surprising resilience to bullets leads to an emu victory over the Australian military in the Campion district, Western Australia
- 1954 USAF Lt. Col. John Stapp travels at 632 mph in a rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
- 1958 The first domestic passenger jet flight using a Boeing 707, with National Airlines flying a leased Pan Am 707 from New York to Miami
- 1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo
- 1997 Environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill begins living in a California redwood tree in Humboldt County to protest deforestation by the Pacific Lumber Company [1]
- 2015 Scientists at Cornell University announce world's first IVF puppies successfully born from a surrogate dog
- 2019 A retrofitted DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver seaplane completes the world's first test flight of a fully electric commercial aircraft over Richmond, British Columbia
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