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Margaret Sanger (pictured) established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
The Open Championship, the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf, was first played at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland.
Nihilism, the first professional runway show from the British designer Alexander McQueen, was staged in London.
The Soviet space probe Venera 4 became the first spacecraft to perform direct in situ analysis of the environment of another planet (Venus).
The first cat in space, later known as Félicette, launched aboard a French Véronique rocket.
The Robert Burns Memorial Statue, the first public statue erected in New Brunswick, was dedicated in Fredericton.
The first recorded naval battle between Europeans and the Japanese occurred when a flotilla of samurai attacked two Portuguese trade vessels at the Battle of Fukuda Bay in Nagasaki.
Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
At a meeting of its general assembly, the European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
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.
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.
With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.
The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
J. S. Bach led the first performance of the chorale cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul), based on the communion hymn of the same name, in Leipzig.
Jeannette Piccard (pictured) piloted a hot-air balloon flight that reached 57,579 feet (17,550 m), becoming the first woman to fly in the stratosphere.
The Brabant Revolution, sometimes considered to be the first expression of Belgian nationalism, began with the invasion of the Austrian Netherlands by an émigré army from the Dutch Republic.
Liberian president Edward James Roye was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.