Clifton Suspension Bridge
1864 The Clifton Suspension Bridge opens in Bristol, England, 5 years after the death of and as a memorial to its designer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
In Flanders Fields
1915 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine
- 1946 US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes its first powered flight
- 1952 First TV acknowledgment of a pregnancy in the "I Love Lucy" episode "Lucy is Enceinte," which incorporates Lucy's real-life pregnancy into the storyline
Peter Pan
1960 Musical "Peter Pan," starring Mary Martin, is broadcast for the third time on NBC as a special event, the first full-length production videotaped in color
- 1961 Construction workers top off the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, less 8 months after work began
- 1961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive points without a miss for the Syracuse Nationals, setting an NBA record
- 1982 Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons, and is killed by police after 10 hours (he had no explosives)
1st NHL Goalie to Score
1987 Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes the first NHL goalie to score a goal, shooting the puck into Boston Bruins empty net in 5-2 win at The Spectrum in Philadelphia
SpaceX Achieves First
2010 With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft
- 2019 Polar explorers Mike Horn and Børge Ousland complete an 1,800 km (1,118 miles) journey on drifting ice in darkness in the Arctic
- 2019 Sanna Marin becomes Finland's youngest-ever Prime Minister at the age of 34
- 2019 Vienna State Opera stages its first show by a female composer in 150 years: Olga Neuwirth’s opera “Orlando”
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