Bly Beats Verne's Fogg
1890 Journalist Nellie Bly beats the fictional journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg around the world by 8 days, completing it in 72 days
National Afro-American League
1890 National Afro-American League founded in Chicago by Timothy Thomas Fortune, one of earliest civil rights organizations in America
- 1907 Julia Ward Howe is first woman elected to National Institute of Arts & Letters (USA)
1st US Nuclear Fission Experiment
1939 1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in the US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University by a team including Enrico Fermi
- 1955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
- 1959 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)
101 Dalmatians
1961 Walt Disney's animated film "101 Dalmatians", based on the novel by Dodie Smith and directed by Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske is released in the US
- 1964 Nike athletics company founded in Oregon as Blue Ribbon Sports by University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach, Bill Bowerman [1]
- 1964 The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (Cashbox)
McCartney Released From Jail
1980 Paul McCartney is released from jail after his detention for pot possession in Tokyo, Japan, and is deported
- 1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
Bump n' Grind
1994 "Bump n' Grind" single released by R. Kelly (Billboard Song of the Year 1994)
- 1998 Revival of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease" closes at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, NYC after 1,505 performance
- 2002 Wikipedia switches to a new version of its software ("Phase II"), also known as Magnus Manske Day
2004 NASA's Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on the surface of Mars
- 2006 Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star
- 2016 British rowing team becomes first female crew and first crew of four to cross the Pacific, San Francisco to Cairns in 257 days
- 2018 Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi asked "are there any bookshops in Nigeria?" in controversial French interview
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