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Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
Catherine of Aragon (pictured) married King Henry VIII of England, becoming the first of his six wives.
Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first film to star Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, was released.
Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.
The New York Times published the first excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page classified Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in the Vietnam�
Lewis and Clark Expedition: Meriwether Lewis became the first white American to sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
First English Civil War: Prince Maurice abandoned his siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset after learning of the approach of a Parliamentarian relief force.
American acrobat Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls.
Bessie Coleman (pictured) became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.
In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strike action.
Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.
The first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the "New York Nine" defeating the New York Knickerbockers 23–1.
The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Ar�
Steven Spielberg's film Jaws was released; it became a summer blockbuster and the first film to earn $100 million in U.S. theatrical rentals.
Ellen Fairclough (pictured) became the first woman to be appointed to the cabinet of Canada.