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The oldest known version of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book produced on a printing press, was completed.
Rome was sacked for the first time in approximately 800 years by the Visigoths under Alaric I.
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
Pather Panchali, the first film in The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, was released and went on to win many Indian and international film awards.
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published.
The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, took part in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.
William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.
Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).
Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.
A performance of Das Rheingold (scene pictured) opened the first performance of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival, attended by emperors and other composers.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
With the first use of his 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus (pictured).
Followers of Osho began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.
Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.