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The flag of North Korea is adopted with the passing of the country's first constitution by the Supreme People's Assembly.
In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, completing the first circumnavigation.
Several Russian drones incur on Polish airspace and are subsequently shot down, marking the first time a NATO member has engaged Russian military assets.
The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
Thomas Cavendish in his ship Desire enters Plymouth and completes the first deliberately planned voyage of circumnavigation.
Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve a spacewalk, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist.
Edward Maria Wingfield is ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.
The first synod of pope Urban II starts in Melfi, with seventy bishops and twelve abbots in attendance. The synod issues several decrees about church law and deals with the relation with the Greek par�
Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.