The first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
The first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
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The first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
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.
Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
Harry Babcock, American football player and first overall draft pick (died 1996)
The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.
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.
Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.
Bach led the Thomanerchor in Leipzig in the first performance of the chorale cantata, Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101.
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.