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Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (pictured) staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.
The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called the Women's Air Force (WAF).
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
Betty Ford, 38th First Lady of the United States (born 1918)
Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey to the Canadian Prairies.
The United States Declaration of Independence received its first formal public reading, in Philadelphia.
Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which is later suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta.
Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.