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In the Argentine general election, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman to be elected president of Argentina.
The funerary mask of Tutankhamun, possibly originally made for Queen Neferneferuaten, was uncovered for the first time in approximately 3,250 years.
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
Irina Karamanos, Chilean anthropologist and political scientist, First Lady of Chile
Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science (died 1778)
The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
First rescue of a prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state.
The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.
As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected president.
At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.
Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (born 1941)
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.
The U.S. Weather Bureau records that a tornado which struck Timber Lake, South Dakota was 4 miles (6.4 km), among the widest tornadoes on record.