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On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is defeated in a major battle for the first time in his career, and repelled by an enemy army for the firs�
Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
The first Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End of London.
The first version of the Java programming language is released.
The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
Martin McGuinness, Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2017)
Ismail I, First Emperor of Safavid Empire (born 1487)
The Airbus A300, the first twin-engined wide-body airliner, went into service with Air France.
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured), beginning events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, is founded.
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
Hugues de Payens, first Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born c. 1070)
The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.