- 1875 — The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
- 1885 — The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
- 1904 — Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison’s phonograph cylinder.
- 1923 — TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 1938 — Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 1951 — Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records “Rocket 88”, often cited as “the first rock and roll record”, at Sam Phillips’ recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1831 — George Pullman born, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)
- 1847 — Alexander Graham Bell born, Scottish-Canadian inventor (d. 1922)