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John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
Henry McLeish, Scottish footballer, academic, and politician, 2nd First Minister of Scotland
American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public.
China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, the first settler of Pejepscot, Maine, settling at the site of Fort Andross.
Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
The steam locomotive Best Friend of Charleston causes the first boiler explosion caused by a steam locomotive.
Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.