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Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
Emile Ford, Saint Lucia-born British singer and first Black British musician to sell over one million copies of a single (died 2016)
Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (died 1402)
The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was published in the United Kingdom.
Margaret Sanger (pictured) established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
War of the First Coalition: The two-day Battle of Wattignies concluded with Jean-Baptiste Jourdan leading French forces to victory over Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.