- 1616 Dutch mariners Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten are the first Europeans to discover Le Maire Strait, Tierra del Fuego, and go on to round Cape Horn
- 1764 A fire at Harvard University destroys Governor Winthrop's Telescope and its library of 5,000 books is mostly lost
- 1857 University of Calcutta is founded as the first full-fledged university in South Asia
- 1890 World's oldest wooden sculpture, the Shigir Idol, radiocarbon dated to 12,500 years old, is discovered in a peat bog near Kaltay, Middle Urals [1]
Kafka Stops "Amerika"
1913 Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
- 1925 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island
1935 First canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.
- 1972 Japanese Sergeant Shōichi Yokoi is found hiding in the jungles of Guam, where he had been since the end of World War II
- 1975 Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
1984 Apple Computer Inc. unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer in a Super Bowl TV ad directed by Ridley Scott
Disney Buys Pixar
2006 Walt Disney International and Bob Iger announce it is buying computer animation film studio Pixar for $7.4 billion
Adele's 21
2011 "21" second studio album by Adele is released (Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2012, Brit Award for British Album of the Year, 2011 Billboard Album of the Year)
- 2016 TV drama "The X-Files" returns after 13 years, reuniting lead actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and produced again by Chris Carter
- 2019 17 temperature records broken in South Australia including highest ever recorded for capital Adelaide at 46.6C
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