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World War II: In the first major naval engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, Japan forced the U.S. Navy to withdraw from the Solomon Islands.
Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign.
Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
First World War: German forces captured Rossignol in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners.
World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
The Battle of Cer ended with the first Allied victory of World War I.
The world's first publicly marketed instant noodles, Chikin Ramen, are introduced by Taiwanese-Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando.
World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine, the Reitwagen.
The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal-combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen (replica pictured).
With the first use of his 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus (pictured).
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.