1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

1307 – William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.

1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.

1922 – The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.

1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos alleged to be of the Loch Ness Monster.

1989  – German citizens begin to bring the Berlin Wall down

1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.

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 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Metric or SI version?

1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.