• 1941 – Death Day of Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (Birth On 1861)
• 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
• 1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
• 1960 - Ivory Coast Independence
• 1974 - Daredevil Walks a High Wire Between Twin Towers of the World Trade Center
• 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
• 1987 – Lynne Cox became the first person to swim across the Bering Strait, crossing from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
