Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist cou
Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
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Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised.
First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.
Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.
Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
A performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold opens the first Ring cycle at the first Bayreuth Festival.
First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.
Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.