Transit of Venus
1631 Johannes Kepler is the first person to predict the transit of Venus, though no one observes it as it occurs after sunset in Europe
- 1876 The first cremation takes place at the LeMoyne Crematory in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the US; the first person to be cremated is Baron de Palm
1877 Thomas Edison enters the offices of Scientific American and turns the crank on his cylinder phonograph, astonishing those present by having it say, "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the phonograph?" [1]
- 1884 Aluminum capstone is set atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., making it the tallest man-made structure in the world, overtaking Cologne Cathedral
- 1897 London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs
- 1955 New York psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers wins the top prize of $64,000 on the TV game show "The $64,000 Question" with her expert knowledge of boxing, a subject she initially knew little about
- 1963 The Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fan club members
- 1990 Baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's signature sells for $23,100 at auction
Great Court of the British Museum
2000 Great Court of the British Museum is redesigned by Foster & Partners with the largest covered courtyard in Europe and is opened by Queen Elizabeth II [1]
The Birds of America
2010 A record price for a printed book is set when a first edition of "The Birds of America" by John James Audubon is auctioned for £7,321,250 at Sotheby's, London
- 2017 Astronomers announce the discovery of the most distant supermassive black hole, ULAS J1342+0928, 13.1 billion light-years away with a mass about 800 million times that of the Sun, in the journal "Nature"
- 2017 Starbucks' largest cafe, at 30,000 square feet and half the size of a football field, opens in Shanghai, China
- 2018 Luxembourg is the first country to make all public transport free
- 2018 The discovery of the oldest-known plague sample, found in 4,900-year-old remains of a 20-year-old woman in Gökhem, southern Sweden, is published in "Cell"
- 2022 The 1,574th and last Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls off the production line in Everett, Washington [1]
- 2023 South Fork Wind, the first large-scale offshore wind farm, begins supplying electricity to the US 35 miles off Montauk [1]
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