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The first knights of the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III of England, were appointed.
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network created to link the countries of the British Empire, opened.
The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.
German composer Max Bruch (pictured) conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto, which later became his most famous work.
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
The first issue of Irish War News was published in Ireland.
First English Civil War: Despite being vastly outnumbered, a Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army near Okehampton, Devon, at the Battle of Sourton Down.
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).
Chris Watson became the first prime minister of Australia from the Australian Labor Party.
Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first woman to walk from London to Brighton.
Parliament passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the express intent of redistributing wealth.
Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in the United States.
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
A crowd of workers, unemployed due to the Panic of 1893, concluded the first significant popular protest march on Washington D.C.
George Washington (pictured) took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus.