1831 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board departs England for a survey of South America, a voyage Darwin later said "determined my whole career"
Peter Pan
1904 Stage play "Peter Pan" by J. M. Barrie premieres at the Duke of York Theatre in London
- 1915 US Iron and Steel workers begin a 3-week strike in Ohio for an eight-hour-day; they are successful as the US needs steel for armaments
- 1932 Radio City Music Hall, designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey, opens at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City
Mae West Banned
1937 Mae West performs an Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC Radio for indecency
Songs of Leonard Cohen
1967 Columbia Records releases Leonard Cohen's debut album "Songs of Leonard Cohen"
- 1968 Apollo 8, the first crewed spacecraft, returns to Earth
Hello, Dolly!
1970 Jerry Herman's musical "Hello, Dolly!", starring Carol Channing, closes at the St. James Theatre, NYC, after 2,844 performances and 10 Tony Award wins
Les Misérables
1978 CBS Television's premiere of its version of "Les Misérables", starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins
- 1986 Musical "Les Misérables" opens in the US at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
- 2004 Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth; it is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet
- 2012 NASA unveils plans to capture a 500-ton asteroid, later canceled due to a White House space policy that focuses on the Moon and Mars
- 2019 American couple Valerie and Jason marry in the same Dunkin' Donuts where they broke up 27 years ago
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