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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.
Edward Emerson Barnard is first to discover a comet by photographic means.
First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
British suffragette Margaret Travers Symons became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she escaped from her escort into the chamber and shouted at the assembly.
The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.
Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.
Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1978)
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to become the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.
Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev.
The Queen Elizabeth Way, North America's first intercity divided highway, opens.
The first of the Smith Act trials concluded in New York City, with eleven leaders of the Communist Party of the United States found guilty of violating the Smith Act.
American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.06 on board the Bell X-1, an experimental rocket-powered aircraft.