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The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the first transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
Pope Clement XII issues the first papal condemnation of Freemasonry and formally prohibits Catholics from becoming Freemasons.
Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (died 2021)
The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the�
The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first woman to walk from London to Brighton.
Parliament passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the express intent of redistributing wealth.
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere (see May 1): Beltane begins at sunset in the Northern hemisphere, Samhain begins at sunset in the Southern hemisphere. (Neo-Druid�
Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in the United States.
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.