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The Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, was established with Jose P. Laurel as its first president.
The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was published.
Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.