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The United States Congress authorized the minting of the Shield nickel (example pictured), the country's first five-cent piece to be made of a copper–nickel alloy.
Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
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.
The first Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End of London.
HMS Beagle (pictured) departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America.
The Airbus A300, the first twin-engined wide-body airliner, went into service with Air France.
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured), beginning events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened.
In a test flight, SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
Six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to school in New York City, and later became one of the first missing children to have his picture featured on milk cartons.
Joe Brown and George Band, members of the British Kangchenjunga expedition, made the first ascent of the world's third-highest mountain but deliberately did not set foot on the summit.
The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in an open cabildo in Buenos Aires, marking the end of the May Revolution.
Manchester United won the UEFA Champions League final to become the first English football club to win three major championships in the same season.
The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith first appeared in serial form in Punch.