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The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, the first settler of Pejepscot, Maine, settling at the site of Fort Andross.
Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
The steam locomotive Best Friend of Charleston causes the first boiler explosion caused by a steam locomotive.
Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (born 1924)
Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian professor and politician, first elected president of Egypt after Egyptian revolution (born 1951)
In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.
The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.