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The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
Luo Yixiu, first wife of Mao Zedong (died 1910)
First Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, was captured by rebel forces during the Battle of Sirte, and was killed shortly thereafter.
Pope Pius XII (pictured) published his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, which critiqued ideologies such as racism, cultural superiority and totalitarianism.
Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Es erhub sich ein Streit, a cantata for Michaelmas.
J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Es erhub sich ein Streit, BWV 130, for the feast of Michael, the archangel.
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah becomes caliph. He is the first Fatimid ruler to have been born in Egypt and arguably the most controversial member of the dynasty.
Pope Urban V enters Rome, the first pope to do so in more than fifty years since the begin of the Avignon Papacy.
Walter Sans Avoir, a leader of the First Crusade
HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
The first and second of three treaties were signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, between the United States federal government and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains, requiring them to r�
First Crusade: At the Battle of Civetot, the Seljuk forces of Kilij Arslan destroyed the army of the People's Crusade as it marched toward Nicaea.
Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
In the 1945 French legislative election French women vote for the first time.
The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
First Balkan War: The Greek navy completes the capture of the island of Lemnos for use as a forward base against the Dardanelles.
HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.