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World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
Based on the world's first children's art museum, the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics opened in Yerevan.
The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.
The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
James Ussher's calculated First day of the world based on the Old Testament. Creation, he believed, occurred at what would have been nightfall on the previous day.
World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.
World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.
The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), the world's oldest offshore oil platform.