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Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by John Felton.
First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
The first naval battle of the Svensksund began in the Gulf of Finland.
The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.
The oldest known version of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book produced on a printing press, was completed.
Rome was sacked for the first time in approximately 800 years by the Visigoths under Alaric I.
Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space, becoming the first man-made object to do so.
Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking.
Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.