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The English rock band the Rolling Stones (pictured) played their first concert at the Marquee Club in London.
A seven-man mountaineering team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism.
Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000 (pictured), was released in Japan.
The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter , with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published (cover pictured).
The United States conducted the first detonation of a nuclear weapon during the Trinity test (pictured).
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem was first performed in a memorial concert for the composer, conducted by Philipp Wolfrum.
The Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom, was officially opened.
William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event.
Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in Leipzig.
French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
SS Great Britain, the first ocean-going ship with both an iron hull and a screw propeller, was launched (pictured) in Bristol, England.
USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after a full restoration.
The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.
The first games of the Special Olympics (athletes pictured), for athletes with intellectual disabilities, were held at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.