2019
Bugatti announces the most expensive new car ever made – the La Voiture Noire costing $19 million, only one will be made
2015
Harrison Ford crash-lands his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR aeroplane in California
2002
American reality TV program The Osbournes” featuring family of Ozzy Osbourne premieres on MTV.
1993
Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.
1985
Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) became the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons.
1960
Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
1918
The Soviets moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.
1868
Stapler patented in England by C H Gould.
1853
Piano company Steinway & Sons founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City
1836
Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.