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The first section of the Great Northern Railway, now the southern section of the East Coast Main Line, opened between London and Peterborough.
The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
First flight of the nuclear capable Convair B-36, heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft at the time.
Wilbur Wright makes the Wright Brothers' first public flight, at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.
Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate an NFL game.
As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first president of the United States to resign from office. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president.
The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
The first International Congress of Mathematicians is held in Zürich, Switzerland.
Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
Willa Beatrice Player, American educator, first Black woman college president (died 2003)
On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amid the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign.
The first meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich, Switzerland.
First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
First Indochina War: The French Union withdrew its forces from Operation Camargue against the Việt Minh in central modern-day Vietnam.
American Civil War: The first major battle west of the Mississippi River, the Battle of Wilson's Creek, was fought.
The first wave of the Expulsion of the Acadians from the present-day Canadian Maritime provinces by the British began with the Bay of Fundy campaign at Chignecto.
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
Nickelodeon's first line of "Nicktoons" (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel.