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Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
A performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold opens the first Ring cycle at the first Bayreuth Festival.
A performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold (scene pictured) opened the first Ring cycle at the first Bayreuth Festival, attended by emperors and composers.
Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, first First Minister of Scotland (died 2000)
First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.
Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed via lethal injection.
The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used.
Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
The first bloodshed of the American Civil War took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C.
For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle.
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.
Chilean Civil War: The armored frigate Blanco Encalada (pictured) was sunk at the Battle of Caldera Bay, the first ironclad warship lost to a self-propelled torpedo.
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
The first issue of Irish War News was published in Ireland.