Mike Woolley

1879: Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb. The following day, using a filament of carbonized thread, he tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb; it lasts 13 and a half hours before burning out.

1978: Australian pilot Frederick Valentich radios Melbourne air traffic control claiming that he is being accompanied by a fast-moving aircraft about 1,000 feet above him and that his engine is running roughly. He goes on to tell them that that it has a shiny metal surface before saying, "It's not an aircraft". His transmission was then interrupted and his plane disappeared, never to be found. Some people claim meteorological conditions that disorientated him leading to a crash, others think he was imitating a scene from the recently released film Close Encounters of the Third Kind for fun. Ufologists believe that a UFO either destroyed his aircraft or abducted him.

2021: Actor Alec Baldwin fires a prop gun on the set of the Western film Rust in New Mexico which had somehow been loaded with a live round. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is killed and director Joel Souza is injured. Investigations would reveal serious safety failures on the set. Baldwin is eventually charged with involuntary manslaughter, but the case is dismissed in July 2024 after the judge ruled that prosecutors had improperly withheld evidence.