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Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
First public screening using the Vitaphone process
At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
Susie Taylor, American writer and first black Army nurse (died 1912)
Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
The first British Grand Prix was held at Brooklands.
Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
The brigantine Le Griffon becomes the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
Lynne Cox became the first person to swim between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in the Bering Strait in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
Hurricane Diane, the first Atlantic hurricane to cause more than $1 billion in damages, formed between the Lesser Antilles and Cape Verde.
IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured).
The first section of the Great Northern Railway, now the southern section of the East Coast Main Line, opened between London and Peterborough.
The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
First flight of the nuclear capable Convair B-36, heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft at the time.