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The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop Spray.
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network created to link the countries of the British Empire, opened.
The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.
German composer Max Bruch (pictured) conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto, which later became his most famous work.
Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States