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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata for Pentecost, Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172, at the chapel of Schloss Weimar.
Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the U.S. (died 1921)
Bonne of Luxembourg, first wife of John II of France (died 1349)
The first of two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy, resulting in seven deaths.
The first session of the National Diet opened in Tokyo, Japan.
Thomas Thorpe published the first copies of Shakespeare's sonnets, possibly without William Shakespeare's consent.
Ulysses, who would be famously depicted in a posthumous woodcut, landed in Lisbon, becoming the first of his species to visit Europe in a thousand years.
Nolan Bushnell opens the first Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California.
Members of the Melbourne Football Club codify the first rules of Australian rules football.
First Barons' War: English forces under William Marshal defeated French troops at the Battle of Lincoln.
A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.