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The iron lung (example pictured), a type of medical ventilator, was used for the first time at the Boston Children's Hospital to treat an eight-year-old girl paralyzed by polio.
The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in public schools to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon.
Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.
The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
Edward Emerson Barnard is first to discover a comet by photographic means.
First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
British suffragette Margaret Travers Symons became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she escaped from her escort into the chamber and shouted at the assembly.
The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.
Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.