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Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
Stefan the First-Crowned, Serbian king (born 1165)
Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces.
Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.
In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African academic and politician, 8th First Lady of South Africa (died 2018)
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, First Lord of the Admiralty (died 1779)
CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.