NY's First Daily Newspaper
1793 The first edition of the "American Minerva," New York's first daily newspaper, edited by Noah Webster, is published from Wall Street
1868 The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
- 1884 Levant Richardson patents roller skates with ball bearings
- 1909 Henry W. Walden flies the first US monoplane on Long Island, New York
- 1960 First broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV; recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's longest-running television soap opera upon its 50th anniversary in 2010
A Charlie Brown Christmas
1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas," the first Peanuts animated special, premieres on CBS in the US
Morrison Arrested During Performance
1967 Jim Morrison is arrested on stage for disturbing the peace at the New Haven Arena, Connecticut, making him the first rock star to be taken into custody during a performance
The Mother of All Demos
1968 Douglas Engelbart demonstrates in "The Mother of All Demos" the computer system NLS (oN-Line System) to a live audience in San Francisco, showcasing for the first time the mouse, word processing, windows, hypertext links, video conferencing, real-time collaboration, and other modern computing concepts [1]
- 1978 First game of Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL): Chicago Hustle vs. Milwaukee Does
- 1995 The Messel Pit in Germany is inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List as the world's richest fossil site for the Eocene period (57-36 million years ago) [1]
- 2015 Amazon's best-selling book of the year is "Girl on a Train" by Paula Hawkins
- 2017 Hundreds of thousands of people line the Paris streets for the funeral of French rock star Johnny Hallyday, bringing Paris to a standstill
- 2021 More than 40 camels are disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements are discovered [1]
Darwin Papers Record Price
2022 Sheet of paper on which scientist Charles Darwin defended his theory of evolution in 1865 sells for a record $882,000 at Sotheby's [1]
- 2024 Google unveils a new quantum computer, capable of performing a mathematical calculation in 5 minutes that the most powerful supercomputers could not complete in 10 septillion years [1]
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