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Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104, illustrating the topic of the Good Shepherd in pastoral music.
The first public school in the United States, the Boston Latin School, is founded.
The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, the first album on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the country's unicameral legislature, first met in Ankara in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence.
Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo.
The first knights of the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III of England, were appointed.
The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).
The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
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.