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Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs the first antiseptic surgery.
Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.
Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, a chorale cantata on a famous tune.
Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.
The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.