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French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
Sixteen-year-old Pauline Reade, the first victim of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, disappeared in Gorton, England.
The English rock band the Rolling Stones (pictured) played their first concert at the Marquee Club in London.
The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.
Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (died 1877)
Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Baháʼí calendar. (Baháʼí Faith)
The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
The first ascent of the Matterhorn is completed by Edward Whymper and his party, four of whom die on the descent.
A seven-man mountaineering team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism.
The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight.
The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice
Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).