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World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop Spray.
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces fro�
Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land d�
The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form tod�
Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form toda�
Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilise a public referendum to legalise gay marriage.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about fifteen�