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The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.
The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected president.
At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.
James Ussher's calculated First day of the world based on the Old Testament. Creation, he believed, occurred at what would have been nightfall on the previous day.
Hillary Clinton, American lawyer and politician,United States Secretary of State and First Lady of the United States
Liberian president Edward James Roye (pictured) was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.
The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede th�
The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and in�
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of�
In Humen, China, Lin Zexu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
�w York trial court declined to issue a permanent injunction in favor of several Soviet composers against the distribution of The Iron Curtain, the first anti-Soviet Hollywood film of the Cold War era.
Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War.
Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portu�
An English fleet defeats a French fleet in the battle of Sandwich, cutting of Prince Louis of France from supplies and diminishing his hopes to gain the English throne during the First Barons' War.
Under Oliver Cromwell, the English New Model Army ambushed a poorly prepared Scottish force at the Battle of Dunbar, the first battle of the Third English Civil War.