- 1681 First recorded boxing match is organized by Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, between his butler and his butcher
- 1839 Two-day storm off the Irish and English coasts is immortalized as the "Big Wind"
- 1896 First US women’s six-day bicycle race starts at Madison Square Garden
- 1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
- 1930 First diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) is completed
- 1942 Pan American Airways becomes the first commercial airline to complete a flight around the world; the aircraft "California Clipper" is rechristened "Pacific Clipper" after the feat
- 1958 BOAC Britannia flies from London to New York in a record 7 hours and 57 minutes
1959 USSR's Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity
- 1964 Rolling Stones' first tour of England as headline act: The Ronettes and The Swinging Blue Jeans open for them
- 1968 The Beatles' album "Magical Mystery Tour" goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks
- 1971 Berkeley chemists announce the first synthetic growth hormones
- 1974 In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time begins nearly four months earlier in the United States
- 1975 TV game show "Wheel of Fortune" debuts on NBC
- 1978 First US postage stamp is copyrighted, the Carl Sandburg stamp
- 1979 Village People's "Y.M.C.A." becomes their only UK #1 single; at its peak, it sells over 150,000 copies per day
- 1980 The beginning of the first GPS epoch
- 1987 Astronomers at the University of California witness the first observation of the birth of a galaxy
- 1996 Record £42 million ($65.2 million) British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
- 2016 "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" breaks North American box office record, passing the $760.5M taken by "Avatar"
- 2019 Record $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) price for giant bluefin tuna at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market bought by sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura
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