1498 - Christopher Columbus lands for the first time in South America near the mouth of the Orinoco River in modern-day Venezuela
1883 - Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky integrates modern electric lighting
1987 - Music video channel MTV Europe launches with Elton John throwing the switch; "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits is the first video presented
1992 - NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres, extending the Today franchise to broadcasting seven days a week
2020 - Egypt tells Elon Musk its pyramids were not built by aliens after Musk tweets in support of a conspiracy theory that they were

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1932 - Ron Friedman, American screenwriter (The Transformers: The Movie; Fantasy Island), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2025)
1957 - (Brad) "Taylor" Negron, American actor and writer (Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Easy Money; Punchline), born in Glendale, California (d. 2015)
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