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The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars results in a French victory.
First Partition of Poland: The representatives of Austria, Prussia, and Russia sign three bilateral conventions condemning the "anarchy" of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and imputing to the three�
The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, spri�
Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
First Scottish War of Independence: Sir John Stewart of Menteith, the pro-English Sheriff of Dumbarton, successfully manages to capture Sir William Wallace of Scotland, leading to Wallace's subsequent�
Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
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.
First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
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.