Marius Discovers Jupiter’s Moons
1610 German astronomer Simon Marius independently discovers Jupiter’s four largest moons one day after Galileo Galilei
- 1675 First American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co.)
- 1708 Spanish treasure fleet led by the San José and loaded with gold, sinks after a British squadron attacks off the coast of Colombia (rediscovered in 2015)
- 1833 Boston Academy of Music, first US music school, is established
- 1835 US national debt reaches $0 for the first and only time in history
- 1925 First all-female US state supreme court appointed in Texas
- 1940 Britain's first World War II rationing includes bacon, butter, and sugar
- 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song
- 1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
- 1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
- 1996 For the first time in 25 years, no one is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
- 2014 First known interstellar meteor to hit Earth, CNEOS 2014-01-08, crash lands in Papua New Guinea [1]
- 2024 Electronics brand LG unveils their Signature OLED T, the world's first wireless TV with a transparent screen at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas [1]
- 2024 Vulcan, NASA's first commercially financed moon mission, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, but its lander Peregrine develops problems soon after [1]
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