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The Boeing Starliner is launched on its first crewed flight, carrying astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station.
Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.
The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).
Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
The first clinical cases of AIDS were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat wins the first presidential election in Mongolia.
The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
American Civil War: The First Battle of Memphis, a naval engagement fought on the Mississippi River, results in the capture of Memphis, Tennessee by Union forces from the Confederates.
Shivaji is crowned as the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire at Raigad Fort.
American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.
Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
