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The Virginia Governor's Council made John Punch the first legally recognized slave in England's North American colonies.
Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
Moktar Ould Daddah, the first president of Mauritania, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Mustafa Ould Salek.
Viola Desmond, Canadian businesswoman and civil rights activist (first Canadian woman on a Canadian banknote) (died 1965)
William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell (died 1896)
Lady Bird Johnson, American beautification activist; 43rd First Lady of the United States (born 1912)
The US Navy launched the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first Standard-type battleship.
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons co-discovered the first of his 37 comets, more than any other person in history.
Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.
Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins.
America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first standard-type battleship.
The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.