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Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first transpacific flight.
The first company of Mormon handcart pioneers left Iowa City for Salt Lake City, Utah.
The first Book of Common Prayer was legally mandated by Parliament, introducing a fully vernacular Protestant liturgy to the Church of England.
The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.
The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.