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Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made)�
Janne Seurujärvi, Finnish Sami politician, first Sami ever to be elected to the Finnish Parliament
Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in 1888–1889.
The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.
Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars built by the scouts are raced.
Fertilisation of Orchids, the first book by Charles Darwin which demonstrated the power of natural selection in detail, was published.
Bach led the first performance of his cantata Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85, about Jesus as the Good Shepherd.
The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California.
In Cuba, the First Agrarian Reform Law – a cornerstone of the Cuban Revolution – was signed by Fidel Castro, aiming to eliminate large foreign-owned estates and redistribute land to over 100,000 peas�
The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75).
Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
Members of the Melbourne Football Club codified the first rules of Australian rules football.
Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
The First Congo War came to an end when Laurent-Désiré Kabila proclaimed himself president of Zaire, which was also renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The first copies of the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum were printed.
Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.