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Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.
Charlotte Perrelli, representing Sweden, won the Eurovision Song Contest, the first edition not to feature an orchestra or live accompaniment.
Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.
The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case.
Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time after a proclamation by John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic (a veter�
The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the country.
The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792 extent, and restoring the House of Bourbon to power.
Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.