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The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking.
Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.
Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, Scottish lawyer and politician, First Minister of Scotland
Thomas Chittenden, Governor of the Vermont Republic, and first Governor of the State of Vermont (born 1730)
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
The first flight of the Boeing Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff, resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X communications satellite.
President Faustin Soulouque of the First Republic of Haiti has the Senate and Chamber of Deputies proclaim him the Emperor of Haiti, abolishing the Republic and inaugurating the Second Empire of Haiti�
The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
The Fronde: First Fronde: In the wake of the successful Battle of Lens, Cardinal Mazarin, Chief Minister of France, suddenly orders the arrest of the leaders of the Parlement of Paris, provoking the r�
Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (died 1879)
Pather Panchali, the first film in The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, was released and went on to win many Indian and international film awards.
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.
First day of the Sarny Massacre, perpetrated by Germans and Ukrainians.