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Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is established by Nelson Dewey, first Governor of Wisconsin.
Liberia declares its independence from the United States. France and the United Kingdom are the first to recognize the new nation.
First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.
The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
Eva Perón, Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (born 1919)
Hillary Clinton (pictured) became the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
L. L. Zamenhof (pictured) published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
On the orders of Catherine the Great the first of tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian Christians were removed from Crimea and resettled in Pryazovia.
Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland.
The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed Department of State).
American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant: British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
The Great Northern War: The first significant victory of the Russian Navy in the naval battle of Gangut against the Swedish Navy near the Hanko Peninsula.
According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state.
Mattachine Midwest, a gay rights organization in Chicago, held its first meeting.