| 1771 | Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain. |
| 1889 | Columbia Phonograph Music Company was founded in Washington, D.C. |
| 1939 | Attempts to split the uranium atom at Columbia University were successful. |
| 1952 | The world's first jet passenger aircraft started to serve in the fleet of BOAC airline. |
| 1970 | Boeing 747 made its first flight to London. |
| 1980 | Nuclear physicist Dr. Andrei Sakharov was sent into internal exile in the USSR. |
| 1984 | Apple Macintosh, the first commercial computer with a user-friendly graphical interface that made the computer popular with users, was released. |
| 2007 | The winner of the Golden Spider 2006 "Best Content" award was Wikipedia. |