Verrazzano Sets Out to Find China
1524 Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano's sets sail aboard French ship La Dauphine to find a passage to China - finds North America instead
Cook Crosses Antarctic Circle
1773 Captain James Cook becomes the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle (66°33′ S)
- 1871 First cable car is patented by Andrew Smith Hallidie in the US (begins service in 1873)
- 1882 First Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens her practice
- 1923 Origin of Brown lunation numbers
- 1928 First fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented
- 1929 Popeye makes his first appearance in the comic strip "Thimble Theatre"
- 1955 US submarine Nautilus begins first nuclear-powered test voyage
- 1972 Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Boulevard
- 1982 "Cold Sunday" in the United States would see temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities
- 1989 Murden and Metz are the first women to reach the South Pole overland (on skis)
- 2023 Revival of 1980s American TV sitcom "Night Court" premieres on NBC TV; John Larroquette is the sole returning cast member
- 2025 Earliest evidence for a human transport vehicle is uncovered with drag marks made by travois—long pieces of wood loaded with goods and dragged—22,000 years old at White Sands, New Mexico [1]
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