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Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
The first clinical cases of AIDS were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.
The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
American Civil War: The First Battle of Memphis, a naval engagement fought on the Mississippi River, results in the capture of Memphis, Tennessee by Union forces from the Confederates.
Shivaji is crowned as the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire at Raigad Fort.
American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.
Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (born 1822)
Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500)
Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres.
The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (born 1942)
Margaret Bondfield (pictured) became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.