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As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.
The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria, ending the War of the First Coalition.
Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay (died 1854)
The Open Championship, the oldest of the four major championships in men's golf, was first played at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland.
NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.
The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1, the first mass-produced transistor radio.
First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.
Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 40th First Lady of the United States (born 1885)
Nihilism, the first professional runway show from the British designer Alexander McQueen, was staged in London.
The Soviet space probe Venera 4 became the first spacecraft to perform direct in situ analysis of the environment of another planet (Venus).