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Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Nguyễn Khánh's military junta.
Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers' Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions�
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".
Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, world's first female prime minister (died 2000)
World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
First World War: The British Royal Navy launched unsuccessful raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge in German-occupied Belgium.
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop Spray.
First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ott�
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
First World War: Britain, France and Russia signed a secret treaty promising territory to Italy if it joined the war on their side.
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces fro�
First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champion.