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Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.
Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.
The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.
Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1978)
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to become the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.
Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev.
The Queen Elizabeth Way, North America's first intercity divided highway, opens.
The first of the Smith Act trials concluded in New York City, with eleven leaders of the Communist Party of the United States found guilty of violating the Smith Act.
American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.06 on board the Bell X-1, an experimental rocket-powered aircraft.
The Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state, was established with Jose P. Laurel as its first president.
The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was published.
Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.