- 1731 One of the earliest music concerts in North America held at Peter Pelham's Great Room in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1853 A dinner party is held inside a life-sized hollow concrete model of an Iguanodon dinosaur, created by sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and biologist Richard Owen in South London
US Banks Halt Gold Payments
1861 Associated Banks in NYC halt gold payments to government and investors, to disrupt Abraham Lincoln's US bank reform program
1922 Creation of the USSR is formally proclaimed in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre, organized as a union (U) of the Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR)
Hubble Announces Other Galaxies
1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces the existence of other galaxies at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Allen and Benny's Feud
1936 Beginning of the "feud" between comedians Fred Allen and Jack Benny on Allen's "Town Hall Tonight" show
Sinatramania
1942 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater, initiating the term "Sinatramania"
Māori King Receives British Queen
1953 Queen Elizabeth II visits the Tūrangawaewae marae in New Zealand, home of the Māori Kīngitanga movement
- 1953 The first NTSC color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 from RCA
- 1963 TV game show "Let's Make A Deal," hosted by Monty Hall, debuts on NBC-TV
- 1968 Frank Sinatra records "My Way" for the first time, based on the French song "Comme d'habitude" with lyrics by Paul Anka
- 1974 Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
- 1980 "Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV
- 2012 The opening of Line 6 of the Beijing subway makes it the longest metro network in the world at 442km
- 2022 "Queen" guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May (75) receives a British knighthood for his service to music and charity [1]
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