- 1719 First recorded display of Aurora Borealis (northern lights) in New England
- 1844 First dental use of nitrous oxide in Hartford, Connecticut, by John Riggs on dentist Horace Wells
- 1866 First yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean; schooners Fleetwing, Vesta, and Henrietta, with New York playboy Gordon Bennett on board, leave Sandy Hook for the Scilly Isles (Henrietta wins)
Iolanthe
1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, the first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, holds its first performance: W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "Iolanthe"
- 1909 Colored moving pictures are demonstrated at Madison Square Garden in New York City
- 1913 Iconic painting the "Mona Lisa" is recovered two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris
- 1967 The Anglo-French supersonic airliner prototype, Concorde 001, is officially unveiled to the public in Toulouse, France
- 2006 Jerry Sloan achieves his 1,000th career win as a coach when his Utah Jazz defeat the Dallas Mavericks
Fundamental Physics Prize
2012 British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world
Pope Francis Person of the Year
2013 Pope Francis is named Time magazine's person of the year
- 2014 World's first successful penis transplant is performed by a team from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
The Guardians
2018 Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2018 is "The Guardians," journalists targeted for their work, including Jamal Khashoggi
- 2019 Discovery of the earliest figurative artwork in the world, 43,900 years old, featuring figures part human and part animal, from a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia, reported in the journal "Nature"
- 2022 NASA's Orion spacecraft returns to Earth after completing the Artemis I test flight around the Moon in 25.5 days, achieving a record distance traveled by a spacecraft designed to carry humans [1]
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