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First English Civil War: Prince Maurice abandoned his siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset after learning of the approach of a Parliamentarian relief force.
American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.
Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
The first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the "New York Nine" defeating the New York Knickerbockers 23–1.
The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Ar�
Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released; it became a summer blockbuster and the first film to earn $100 million in U.S. theatrical rentals.
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told journalists in Downing Street to "rejoice" upon hearing news of the successful recapture of South Georgia from Argentine forces in the Falklands War.
Fletcher Christian, the acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander William Bligh in the South Pacific.
American forces completed a helicopter evacuation of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city and ended the Vietnam War.
Peninsular War: Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera (depicted) fought south of Badajoz, Spain.
The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the American South.
Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.
Riots broke out in Saigon one day after the signing of the Joint Communiqué, an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.
Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-resistance and political organization during World War II.
The 1,388-foot-tall (423.2 m) Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, with the world's highest residence above ground level at the time, held its grand opening.
Japan and the Republic of China signed the Treaty of Taipei, officially ending the Second Sino-Japanese War seven years after fighting ended due to World War II.