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Soviet Union Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois.
Seamus Mallon, Irish educator and politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2020)
Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, first prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (died 1638)
Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism, was first published.
The premiere of Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner (pictured) closed the first Bayreuth Festival.
Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
The Volksempfänger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the�
The first British Track and Field championships for women are held in London, Great Britain.
German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter Timbuktu.
The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
Rosalynn Carter, 41st First Lady of the United States (died 2023)
Baji Rao I, first Peshwa of Maratha Empire (died 1740)
Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, first child born to English parents in the Americas (date of death unknown)
Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, first Zaydi Imam of Yemen (born 859)