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The Manchester Metrolink, the first modern street-running light-rail system in the United Kingdom, was officially opened.
William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple took a daguerreotype of Vega, the first astrophotograph of a star other than the Sun.
At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci (pictured) became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event.
Johann Sebastian Bach directed the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz in Leipzig.
French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
SS Great Britain, the first ocean-going ship with both an iron hull and a screw propeller, was launched (pictured) in Bristol, England.
USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after a full restoration.
The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.
The first games of the Special Olympics (athletes pictured), for athletes with intellectual disabilities, were held at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific coast at Bella Coola, British Columbia, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.
Paulinus was consecrated as the first bishop of York by Justus, the archbishop of Canterbury.
The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak (first flag pictured), the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day.
Windham William Sadler made the first successful aerial crossing of the Irish Sea, which he accomplished by balloon.
First War of Scottish Independence: English forces led by Edward I defeated William Wallace's Scottish troops at the Battle of Falkirk.
A crusader army captured Béziers, France, and massacred the city's inhabitants in the first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in (pictured) as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's impeachment.
Wilfred Rhodes of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
The first National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party opened in a house in Shanghai.
Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.