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Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.
The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile and also gives it a successful test run.
An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres (2.5 mi) in 45 minutes, and reached an estimated 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) in altitude�
Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, one of the first laws in the United States guaranteeing collective bargaining rights to farmworkers.
Élisabeth Thible became the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, covering a distance of 4 km (2.5 mi) and reaching an estimated altitude of 1,500 m (4,900 ft).
The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in a New York trial, becoming the first former U.S. president found guilty in a criminal case.
Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercial mission to the International Space Station.
The Boeing Starliner is launched on its first crewed flight, carrying astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station.
Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.
The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).
Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.