The first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is broadcast on radio.

During the Siege of Jaffa, Napoleon Bonaparte troops kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

Nabisco first introduces the Oreo cookie.

The book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus’s is banned by the Catholic Church.

People magazine is first published.

TIME magazine is first published.

Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a game to set the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association.