Facts & Historical Events On This Day.
A literal banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million in New York.
Elon Musk revealed Tesla's first electric cyber truck with shatterproof windows.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released in Japan for the N64.
MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, situated on Las Vegas Strip, caught fire, killing 85 people.
Two bombs exploded in pubs in central Birmingham, UK.
The movie 'Frankenstein,' based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel of the same name, was released in the US.
Benito Mussolini and Leandro Arpinati led squads of fighters in the melee between Fascists and Socialists in Bologna, Italy.
Inventor Moses F Gale patented the cigar lighter in the US.
British Navy Admiral William Brown and his crew discovered Honolulu Harbor.
North Carolina became the 12th state to join the United States of America.
French chemistry and physics teacher Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made his first successful balloon flight.
Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presented the first measurements of the speed of light.
Freed black man Richard Johnson was granted 100 acres of land in the state of Virginia.
Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, fell to the armies of Timur.
Pope Sergius I consecrated Willibrord as bishop of the Frisians at the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, Italy.
Saint Anterus became the Bishop of Rome.
