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American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.
Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.