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U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement�
The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".
John Campbell released the first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British North America.
Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
First Barbary War: United States Marines capture Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
Charles Dickens publishes the first edition of his literary magazine, All the Year Round, containing the first installment of his best-selling classic, A Tale of Two Cities.
The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV (pictured), making him the first pope born in the United States, the first to hold either U.S. or Peruvian citizenship, the first from the O�
First English Civil War: The first siege of Wardour Castle ended after six days with the surrender of the Royalist garrison under Lady Blanche Arundell
India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
The First Council of Nicaea (depicted), the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church, was formally opened by Constantine the Great.
The First Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church, was formally opened by Constantine the Great.
Verdi's Requiem was first performed at San Marco in Milan on the first anniversary of Manzoni's death.
Martha Washington, First, First Lady of the United States (born 1731)
Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem was first performed in the San Marco church in Milan to commemorate the first anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni's death.
First issue of Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler, the first regular Norwegian newspaper (1763–1920).
First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.