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Enkutatash falls on this day if it is a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rastafari)
Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.
An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
Super Mario Bros., one of the most influential and best-selling video games in history, was first released in Japan for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (model pictured) struck the Moon, the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.
Chicago Public Schools began delivering lessons via radio amid to a polio outbreak, marking the first large-scale use of radio broadcasts for distance education.
The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.