- 1680 Hen in Rome lays a uniquely patterned egg, later believed to have predicted the arrival of the Kirch/Newton "Great Comet of 1680"
1791 Britain's "The Observer" is first published and becomes the world's oldest Sunday newspaper
- 1922 Lucille Atcherson becomes the first woman admitted to the US Foreign Service
- 1923 The first US helium-filled dirigible, the USS Shenandoah, makes its first flight
- 1949 Bobby Gage ties the NFL record for the longest touchdown run with a 97-yard score for the Pittsburgh Steelers
- 1954 The first Burger King fast-food restaurant opens in Miami, Florida
- 1958 American pilots Bob Timm and John Cook take off from Las Vegas, Nevada, in "The Hacienda," their modified Cessna 172, in an attempt to break a recently set airplane flight endurance record; the effort succeeds almost 65 days later [1]
MOMA's Upside Down Matisse
1961 NY's Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" the right side up, after stockbroker Genevieve Habert notices it is displayed upside down, the first of 116,000 people in 47 days to notice [1]
Smoke on the Water
1971 Montreux Casino, in Montreux, Switzerland, burns down to the ground after a fan fires a flare gun during concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention; incident inspires rock band Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water"
- 1995 England's captain Michael Atherton bats for 643 minutes (10 hours and 43 minutes) to score an unbeaten 185 and secure a draw for his team in the Johannesburg Test
- 2006 An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo
- 2018 First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil
- 2018 French couture house Chanel ends its use of fur and exotic skins following bans by other companies
- 2018 Scottish artist Charlotte Prodger wins the 2018 Turner Prize with a film shot on her iPhone
- 2019 North American migratory birds are getting smaller, and their wings are getting wider due to climate change, according to a study by the University of Michigan published in the journal "Ecology Letters"
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