- 1842 New York Philharmonic's first concert is held at the Apollo Rooms on lower Broadway
- 1872 HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise, the first expedition to explore the deep sea successfully on a global scale [1]
- 1907 Eugene Corri becomes the first referee inside the boxing ring
- 1926 The gas refrigerator is patented
- 1963 First football instant replay when CBS uses the newly developed Ampex video tape recorder to replay a 1-yard touchdown during the Army-Navy game
- 1968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great-grandfather borrowed in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati
1972 Apollo 17 is launched, the final manned lunar landing mission, where the crew takes the famous Blue Marble photo of the entire Earth from a distance of 29,400 km (18,300 mi)
- 2017 Crumbling French château La Mothe-Chandeniers in Les Trois-Moutiers is bought by 9,000 people through a crowdfunding campaign organized by the website Dartagnans.fr; the money is used to save the château from developers and fund its restoration
- 2017 Naples' pizza spinning given UNESCO intangible heritage status along with Germany's organ music, Kyrgystan's Kok boru, and India's Kumbh festival
- 2017 Pantone's 2018 Colour of the Year is Ultra Violet
- 2019 Alexandra Trusova sets a world record as the first female figure skater to land a quadruple flip jump at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Italy [1]
Dylan Sells Catalogue
2020 Bob Dylan sells his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs to the Universal Music Publishing Group for over $300 million
- 2020 Breaking, the competitive form of breakdancing, confirmed as an Olympic sport for the Paris 2024 games
- 2021 The 3,500-year-old Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, part of the Epic of Gilgamesh and one of the oldest known pieces of literature, goes on display in Iraq for the first time in 30 years after being looted during the Gulf War [1]
- 2023 The China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL), the world's deepest and largest underground laboratory at 2,400 meters, begins operating below Jinping Mountains [1]
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