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South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country.
Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon pictured) at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peac�
The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against thei�
On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell (pictured) became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
At the Royal Exhibition Building (pictured) in Melbourne, the flag of Australia flew for the first time.
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland.
The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Pride Night in Major League Baseball history.
The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic, discovering the Americas.
Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Desmond Tutu became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of Currency.
U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction.
Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first athlete from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal.
Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist.
Mir EO-19, the first expedition to the Russian space station Mir launched on an American Space Shuttle, returned to Earth after approximately 75 days in space.
Swami Vivekananda (pictured) gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the opening day of the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.
Alexander Hamilton (pictured), co-writer of The Federalist Papers, became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.