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Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in (pictured) as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
Wilfred Rhodes of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
The first National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opened in a house in Shanghai.
Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War.
Trevor Francis, Britain's first "£1 million football player" (born 1954)
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.
Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.