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Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
The flag of North Korea is adopted with the passing of the country's first constitution by the Supreme People's Assembly.
In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, completing the first circumnavigation.
Gojong of Korea, 26th Emperor of the Joseon Kingdom and first emperor of Korea (died 1919)
Henry Medwall, first known English vernacular dramatist (died 1501)
Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg, Finnish priest and father of K. J. Ståhlberg, the first President of Finland (born 1832)
Several Russian drones incur on Polish airspace and are subsequently shot down, marking the first time a NATO member has engaged Russian military assets.
The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.