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The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first royal charter.
Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of�
Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.
The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
The Imperial Theatrical School, the first ballet school in Russia, is founded.
Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published.
The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.