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The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed.
Pitching for the Boston Americans, Cy Young threw the first perfect game in modern professional baseball.
During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper, is published.
Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and diplomat, First Vice President of the European Commission
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, emir of Abu Dhabi and first president of the United Arab Emirates (died 2004)
At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.