| Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer | |
| Jos‚ Martˇ, Cuban poet, essayist, politician | |
| William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine. | |
| Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist, essayist, haiku poet (The Heart) | |
| Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists, explorers | |
| Artur Rubinstein, pianist | |
| Robert Holley, American biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel 1968). | |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer | |
| London's Pall Mall is the 1st street lit by gaslight. | |
| Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica | |
| George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator. | |
| US Coast Guard established, Semper Paratus | |
| 1st Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont). | |
| Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor | |
| first photograph bounced off moon, Washington DC | |
| Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew and NASA. | |
By Scott Labrecque version 9.4.0.0