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Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.
The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.