James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of the Water premiered in London.
2017
Scientists discovered the most distant supermassive black hole.
2017
Starbucks opened its largest cafe in the world in Shanghai, at 29,000 square-feet, which is 1/2 the size of a football field.
2010
A first edition of 'The Birds of America' by John James Audubon was auctioned at Sotheby's, London, England, for £7,321,250 – which took the record for any book at auction.
2002
Adaptation directed by Spike Jonze, starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep, premiered.
1975
A six-day siege began in London when an IRA unit took a couple hostage in their flat while fleeing the police.
1969
The Altamont free concert occurred.
1923
Hasbro was founded as Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island.
1921
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed.
1917
Finland declared its independence from the Russian Empire.
1862
US President Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Indians.
1849
Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery.
1735
Claudius Amyand performed the first recorded appendectomy at St George's Hospital in London.
