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Georges Carpentier knocked out former British heavyweight champion Joe Beckett a mere twenty seconds into the first round of their boxing match at Olympia in London.
Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day.
First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
Caroline Harrison, American educator, 24th First Lady of the United States (died 1892)
Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, politician, and first President of Italy (born 1877)
Civil unions between same-sex couples were legalised in Denmark, the first country to do so.
The first political gathering of colonists (president pictured) in Mexican Texas convened to seek reforms from the Mexican government.
The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Émilie Busquant, French anarcho-syndicalist, sewed the first Flag of Algeria (born 1901)
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.
Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.
The United Kingdom successfully conducted its first nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.
Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.