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The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn.
John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the US to advocate the rights of women.
Durham University established by Act of Parliament; the first recognized university to be founded in England since Cambridge over 600 years earlier.
The first evening of Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 (Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
Kylie Minogue's first album, Kylie, was released, and went on to top the charts in the UK and New Zealand.
First English Civil War: Royalist forces defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Burton Bridge, securing a crossing of the River Trent for a convoy of supplies travelling with Queen Henrietta M�
The first direct Indonesian presidential election is held.
Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
The BBC broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin.
Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
The United Kingdom holds its first general election in 10 years, which would be won by Clement Attlee's Labour Party.
Thomas Cook organises the first package excursion, from Leicester to Loughborough.
Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (born 1765)
Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections, which resulted in the election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as President of Indonesia after the second round on September 20.