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Windham William Sadler made the first successful aerial crossing of the Irish Sea, which he accomplished by balloon.
A crusader army captured Béziers, France, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in (pictured) as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, was forced to resign after the magazine Penthouse published nude photos of her without consent.
Wilfred Rhodes of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
The first National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opened in a house in Shanghai.
Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
Trevor Francis, Britain's first "£1 million football player" (born 1954)
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.