American actress Katherine Hepburn had her first stage performance in New York City, where she played in “Night Hostess.”
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The American neo-noir mystery film 'Blue Velvet' premiered in Toronto, Canada.
French astronomer Charles Messier accidentally discovered the Crab Nebula while looking for the Halley comet.
Henry Hudson began a journey up the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
A new federal constitution was created, which marked Switzerland as a federal state.
Crosshatch drawings discovered on a 1.5-inch piece of stone in Blombos Cave in South Africa were found to be the oldest known human drawing at 73,000 years old.