- 1886 – At Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, GA, the first sale of Coca-Cola was made.
- 1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
- 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
- 1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
- 1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
- 1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.