1582 Flanders adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping 11 days making the next day Jan 1, 1583
Phileas Fogg Makes it Eighty Days
1872 Phileas Fogg completes his round the world trip in 80 days, in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days"
1st Game of Basketball
1891 First game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, is played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts, celebrated today as World Basketball Day
Curies Discover Radium
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
- 1913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in the newspaper New York World
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914 First feature-length silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" ia released, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
Coco the Clown
1929 Coco the Clown first appears for Bertram Mills Circus in Manchester, England
- 1933 Dried human blood serum is first prepared at the University of Pennsylvania
Zouzou
1934 French film "Zouzou" premieres in Paris, starring Josephine Baker; 1st black woman to star in a major motion picture
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles
- 1937 Chicago Black Hawks left wing Paul Thompson becomes first player in NHL history to score against his brother, Boston Bruins goaltender Cecil Thompson; scores with just 9 seconds left in regulation as Bruins win 2-1
1970 Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House; the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives
- 1978 Kaikoura Lights incident: possible UFO sighting recorded and filmed off the coast of New Zealand's South Island [1]
- 1987 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts - Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov, and Anatoli Levchenko - to space station Mir. Titov and Manarov stay in space for just under 366 days, setting a new spaceflight record
- 2005 Civil Partnership Act comes into force in the UK, with singer Elton John and David Furnish one of the first couples to form a same-sex civil union
Gangnam Style
2012 "Gangnam Style" by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
Dangal
2016 Indian sports drama film "Dangal," directed by Nitesh Tiwari and starring Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, and Sanya Malhotra, premieres as the first Indian film to earn $300 million worldwide
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