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Brigham Young led the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, at the time a part of Mexico.
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.
The animated film Castle in the Sky, the first from Studio Ghibli, is released.
The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.
An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.
American surveyor James Thompson produced the first plat of Chicago for the Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners.
Radio Network House (pictured), damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, becomes the first building to be demolished by implosion in New Zealand.
Wizards of the Coast released Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game.
Bertha Benz made the first long-distance automobile trip, driving 106 km (66 mi) from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany, in a Benz Patent-Motorwagen.
Russia, Prussia and Habsburg Austria began the First Partition of Poland, with the primary motive to restore the regional balance of power in Eastern Europe.
Lynne Cox became the first person to swim between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in the Bering Strait in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
Hurricane Diane, the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than $1 billion in damages, formed between the Lesser Antilles and Cape Verde.
IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured).
The first section of the Great Northern Railway, now the southern section of the East Coast Main Line, opened between London and Peterborough.
On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amid the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign.
The first meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich, Switzerland.
First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Việt Minh in central modern-day Vietnam.
American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.
The first wave of the Expulsion of the Acadians from the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces by the British began with the Bay of Fundy campaign at Chignecto.