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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California.
Pope Pontian (pictured) resigned after being exiled to Sardinia, becoming the first pope to relinquish the position.
Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
The First American Track and Field championships for women are held.
The Battle of Pákozd is a stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces and is the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution.
The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 for the feast of archangel Michael, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas.
Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician, 2nd First Minister of Wales (died 2017)
John Roberts became the 17th Chief Justice of the United States; he would be the first Chief Justice to serve for twenty years since Melville Fuller in 1908.
The Lockheed YF-22, the prototype for the F-22 Raptor, made its first flight.
Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
The first Indonesian legislative election resulted in an unexpectedly poor result for the Masyumi Party of incumbent prime minister Burhanuddin Harahap (pictured).
J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael.
The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation.
The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.