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President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.
Charlotte Perrelli, representing Sweden, won the Eurovision Song Contest, the first edition not to feature an orchestra or live accompaniment.
Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than five minutes.
The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (both pictured) became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case.
Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War between the Balkan allies and the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans cede all their European territories west of a straight line between Enos and�
Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time after a proclamation by John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic (a veter�
The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the country.
The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792 extent, and restoring the House of Bourbon to power.
War of the First Coalition: In the Battle of Borghetto, Napoleon Bonaparte manages to cross the Mincio River against the Austrian army. This crossing forces the Austrians to abandon Lombardy and retre�
Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (died 1903)
The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.