Facts & Historical Events On This Day.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ferried a US National Reconnaissance Office payload into orbit.
Tesla recalled 54,000 of their Model S Sedans, Model 3 Sedans, Model Y SUVs, and X SUVs due to a software malfunction on their 'Full Self Driving' feature.
Forty mummies were discovered and unearthed in Tuna el-Gebel, South Cairo, Egypt.
RuPaul's Drag Race season 1 debuted on Logo TV.
The Oxygen TV Network debuted on cable.
The South African Apartheid system of racial segregation begins to disintegrate.
'The Way We Were' by Barbra Streisand reached number one on the Billboard 100 charts.
The high-end fashion label Givenchy was presented for the first time in Paris, with the first model being Bettina Graziani.
The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end as the Axis Powers surrender.
A polygraph test was conducted by its inventor, Leonarde Keeler, for the first time.
The Great Fall River fire destroyed many businesses downtown in Fall River, Massachusetts.
The first Sears retail store opened in Chicago.
'Ulysses' by James Joyce is published.
Grand Central Terminal opened in New York City.
Queen Victoria's funeral took place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.
London opened the world's first public flushing toilets.
Captain William Dampier rescued British Sailor Alexander Selkirk after 52 months of being left on an island.
