1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament
1799 Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys
1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic
1859 Jules Leotard performs the first flying trapeze circus act in Paris; he also designs the garment that bears his name
1885 Montreal & Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
1910 First possible movie stunt: A man jumps into the Hudson River from a burning balloon
1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a one-month flight from London to Australia
1920 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis elected first baseball commissioner by team owners
1923 Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power during "Beer Hall Putsch" coup(what I'd like to know is who sprung bail for the A-Hole)
1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power(another A-Hole)
1932 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photo of the so-called Loch Ness monster
1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese naval forces in the Solomon Islands; US forces prevail after days of intense fighting
1942 The SS Robert E. Peary, a Liberty ship built in 4 days and 15.5 hours at Henry J. Kaiser's Richmond Shipyard #2, is launched, setting a new record
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1955 Doc and Marty McFly are sent "Back to the Future" when lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock tower at exactly 10:04 pm, generating the power to send the DeLorean and Marty back to 1985 [fictional]
1956 The largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, is first sighted
1964 Paula Murphy sets a female land speed record of 226.37 mph
1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie' during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966
1967 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers notch 1st NBA victory, in their 16th game, beating the Trail Blazers 105-103, in Portland, Oregon
1974 A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1981 First balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1988 First commercial bungy jumping company begins operating near Queenstown, New Zealand
1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1990 "The Body Bag Game" - after Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating Redskins so badly "they'll have to be carted off in body bags" the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 28–14, knocking 8 Redskins out of the game
1990 The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau
2003 Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world record for commercial railway systems with a speed of 311 mph
