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The last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi, is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
The first YouTube video, titled "Me at the zoo", is published by co-founder Jawed Karim.
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 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.
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.
The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.