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Thomas Cook, the founder of the British travel company Thomas Cook & Son, organised his first excursion, escorting about 500 people from Leicester to Loughborough.
In the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 777 airliner, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 (wreckage pictured) crashed on final approach to San Francisco International Airport, resulting in three deaths.
Jadranka Kosor became the first female prime minister of Croatia.
Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (pictured) staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.
Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey to the Canadian Prairies.
The United States Declaration of Independence received its first formal public reading, in Philadelphia.
The Virginia Governor's Council made John Punch the first legally recognized slave in England's North American colonies.
Moktar Ould Daddah, the first president of Mauritania, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Mustafa Ould Salek.
The US Navy launched the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first Standard-type battleship.
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons co-discovered the first of his 37 comets, more than any other person in history.
Sixteen-year-old Pauline Reade, the first victim of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, disappeared in Gorton, England.
The English rock band the Rolling Stones (pictured) played their first concert at the Marquee Club in London.
A seven-man mountaineering team made the first ascent of the Matterhorn, marking the end of the golden age of alpinism.
Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000 (pictured), was released in Japan.
The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter , with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published (cover pictured).
The United States conducted the first detonation of a nuclear weapon during the Trinity test (pictured).
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem was first performed in a memorial concert for the composer, conducted by Philipp Wolfrum.