1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.

1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.

1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.

 buzz wrote: 
Or a bus full of right and left wing politicians that were fighting over the steering wheel thus causing the crash in the first place. 

 buzz wrote: 
Not my bus, not my morans.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
why couldnt it be a bus full of lawyers or lost dental patients?

 Proclivities wrote: 
Not the third switch!

 aflanigan wrote: 
 Red_Dragon wrote: 
"Reverse the Polarity of the Neutron Flow!"

 aflanigan wrote: 
Sure that wasn't a chartered bus full of accountants?

 buzz wrote: 
Not clear. It reached 7,000,000,002 when half a dozen time travelers returned from a visit to Renaissance Florence, but then a moment later it dipped back down to 6,999,999,964 when a bus full of chartered accountants vacationing in Peru plunged down a mountainside.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
what time was that?

2011 – The global population of humans reaches seven billion.

2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.

1885— Poet Ezra Pound is born.

1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

1974 – As a member of the California Angels, Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan throws the fastest recorded pitch, at 100.9 MPH.

1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

Jonas Salk born - 1914.
 

1886— The Statue of Liberty is unveiled.