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The Shandong was launched for the People's Liberation Army Navy, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier.
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president.
Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in the U.S. (steam train pictured).
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" in the Marines' Hymn).
Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scottish army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.
Chris Watson became the first prime minister of Australia from the Australian Labor Party.
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-39, the first unclassified shuttle mission for the United States Department of Defense.
The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others�
The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the first transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
Pope Clement XII issues the first papal condemnation of Freemasonry and formally prohibits Catholics from becoming Freemasons.
Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (died 2021)
The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the�