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First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: On the British Kangchenjunga expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reach the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters);�
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
First National Government / National Day (Argentina)
In a test flight, SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing children to have his picture featured on milk cartons.
Joe Brown and George Band, members of the British Kangchenjunga expedition, made the first ascent of the world's third-highest mountain but deliberately did not set foot on the summit.
The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires, marking the end of the May Revolution.
The first "National Sorry Day" is held in Australia. Reconciliation events are held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
The first 24 Hours of Le Mans is held in France. Run annually in June thereafter, it became the oldest endurance racing event in the world.
The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer, developed the first wiki
Manchester United won the UEFA Champions League final to become the first English football club to win three major championships in the same season.
The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith first appeared in serial form in Punch.
Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.