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American racing driver Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an IndyCar auto race.
Fernando Lugo became the first candidate not from the Colorado Party candidate to be elected President of Paraguay in 61 years.
Ibrahim Khan Lodi, the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, was defeated and killed by Babur at the First Battle of Panipat, marking the beginning of Mughal rule in India.
The first meeting of the Colonial Defence Committee, a standing committee of the British Colonial Office, was held to discuss the defence of Barbados.
Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized the minting of the two-cent piece (pictured), the first U.S. coin to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".
The Rolling Stones released Sticky Fingers, the first album on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the country's unicameral legislature, first met in Ankara in the midst of the Turkish War of Independence.
Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo.
The first knights of the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III of England, were appointed.
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network created to link the countries of the British Empire, opened.
The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.
German composer Max Bruch (pictured) conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto, which later became his most famous work.
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
The first issue of Irish War News was published in Ireland.
First English Civil War: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army near Okehampton, Devon, at the Battle of Sourton Down.
The Shandong was launched for the People's Liberation Army Navy, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier.
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president.
Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in the U.S. (steam train pictured).
Chris Watson became the first prime minister of Australia from the Australian Labor Party.