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The funerary mask of Tutankhamun, possibly originally made for Queen Neferneferuaten, was uncovered for the first time in approximately 3,250 years.
In the first major engagement of the Texas Revolution, the Texian Army repelled a Mexican attack at the grounds of Mission Concepcion south of Downtown San Antonio.
The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected president.
At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.
Liberian president Edward James Roye (pictured) was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.
In Leipzig, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, one of the few works that he called a cantata.
Frances Kyle was called to the Bar of Ireland, becoming the first female barrister in Ireland or Great Britain.
The serial killer Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1962.
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the space dog Laika as the first living creature to enter orbit around Earth.
The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released (poster pictured) nationwide in Japan.
The Parliament of England passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church of England, supplanting the pope and the Catholic Church.
Barack Obama (pictured) became the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
In a special election in Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a governor in the United States.
The keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
The City and South London Railway (carriage pictured), the first deep-level underground railway in the world, officially opened, running 3.2 mi (5.1 km) between the City of London and Stockwell.
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
American serial killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of first-degree murder.
Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.