- 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.
- 1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
- 1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1956 – In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
- 2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.