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Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color, is launched in the United States.
Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
The First siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.
The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.