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TV Tupi Difusora, the first television station to broadcast in Brazil, begins transmissions on Channel 3 in São Paulo.
Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
Juan de la Cierva makes the first Autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
The Saturday Evening Post publishes the short story "Extricating Young Gussie" by P.G. Wodehouse, featuring the first appearance of Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.
In Washington, D.C., George Owen Squier demonstrated the first system to allow multiplexing of telephone transmissions, sending a message between two laboratories of the U.S. Signal Corps.
�l Oscar, a dish of veal, seafood, asparagus, and Bernaise sauce, is first served at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, in honour of the 25th anniversary of the reign of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway.
The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
The first provincial election for the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly after Canada's Confederation returns a large majority for the Anti-Confederation Party, led by William Annand, who becomes Premie�
The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree (born 1865)
The Blackpool Illuminations (example pictured) in the English seaside town of Blackpool were switched on for the first time.
Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian.
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western�
The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.