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Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.
James Mancham, first President of Seychelles (died 2017)
Francis Light founded George Town (city hall pictured), the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.
The first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs the first antiseptic surgery.
Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
Harry Babcock, American football player and first overall draft pick (died 1996)
The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.
Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.
Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.