- 1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
- 1782 First US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
- 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel by Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries
- 1790 French Revolution: A major riot breaks out in Versailles as people demand lower bread prices
- 1890 African American inventor William Purvis receives a patent for the fountain pen
- 1930 French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers francium (Fr), the last naturally occurring element discovered
- 1931 Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast
- 1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip created and drawn by Alex Raymond debuts
- 1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker
- 1982 TV series "Fame", based on the film of the same name, starring Debbie Allen and an ensemble cast premieres on NBC TV
- 1990 Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
- 2018 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert, with 15 inches reported in Aïn Séfra, northwestern Algeria
- 2019 Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion
- 2022 First successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human when genetically modified pig's heart inserted into a 53-year-old man in Baltimore, Maryland [1]
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