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The Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom, was officially opened.
William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136, in Leipzig on the eighth Sunday after Trinity.
The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
Kadambini Ganguly, Indian physician, one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree (died 1923)
Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala (born before 1143)
At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event.
Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in Leipzig.
The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
The first line of the Paris Metro opens for operation.
Italian War of 1542–46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland
French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.