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First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.
Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
Catherine of Aragon (pictured) married King Henry VIII of England, becoming the first of his six wives.
United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.
In modern Russia's first democratic election, Boris Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia.
The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters.
Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.
Christian feast day: First Ecumenical Council (Lutheran)
Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first film to star Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, was released.