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Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of Indonesia.
King James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.
Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.
The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.
The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.
An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw off the coast of Nicaragua became the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks.
South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country.
Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon pictured) at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peac�
The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against thei�
On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell (pictured) became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
At the Royal Exhibition Building (pictured) in Melbourne, the flag of Australia flew for the first time.
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland.
The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Pride Night in Major League Baseball history.
The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas.
Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Desmond Tutu became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of Currency.