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Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year presidency of Ngo Dinh Di�
The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".
Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
First Barbary War: United States Marines capture Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
Charles Dickens publishes the first edition of his literary magazine, All the Year Round, containing the first installment of his best-selling classic, A Tale of Two Cities.
The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
Verdi's Requiem was first performed at San Marco in Milan on the first anniversary of Manzoni's death.
First issue of Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler, the first regular Norwegian newspaper (1763–1920).
First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised.
First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.
Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time�
World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first Allied infantry victory of the War.