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Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-39, the first unclassified shuttle mission for the United States Department of Defense.
The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others�
The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.