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Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the its first national universities.
The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas.
Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany.
Bernadette Chirac, French politician, First Lady of France
First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.
Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time.
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel�
In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers.