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American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
Great American Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain, California.
Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Nguyễn Khánh's military junta.
India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier.
Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champion.
Chinese astronomers during the Han dynasty made the first precisely dated observation of a sunspot.
The Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of Sagittarius A*.
German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.
The crew of the airship Norge (pictured), led by Roald Amundsen, became the first people to make a verified trip to the North Pole.
Eurovision Song Contest: Portugal won the contest for the first time, with the song "Amar pelos dois," performed by Salvador Sobral (pictured).
Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen.
Zakir Husain took office as the first elected Muslim President of India.
The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the self-designed Russky Vityaz, the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft.
Johann Sebastian Bach first performed the church cantata Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183 in Leipzig, Germany.
Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in 1888–1889.
The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.
Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars built by the scouts are raced.
Fertilisation of Orchids, the first book by Charles Darwin which demonstrated the power of natural selection in detail, was published.
Bach led the first performance of his cantata Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85, about Jesus as the Good Shepherd.