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The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot was submitted for publication.
Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line opened, with train services running between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh.
The first specimens of the tufted jay (pictured) to be scientifically described were collected in Mexico.
In the congressional elections, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
Jereboam O. Beauchamp murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Beauchamp later became the first person legally executed in the state.
Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.
The Great Mecca Feast, the first documentary film on the Hajj, premiered in the Netherlands.
Fourth Crusade: The Siege of Zara, the first attack on a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, began in present-day Zadar, Croatia.
The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet.
The first episode of Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running television sitcom in history, premiered on the BBC.
William Heffelfinger was paid $500 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player.
Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
Ruby Bridges and the McDonogh Three became the first black children to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana as part of the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Moby-Dick, an epic novel by American writer Herman Melville, was first published in the United States.
German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.
�w York trial court declined to issue a permanent injunction in favor of several Soviet composers against the distribution of The Iron Curtain, the first anti-Soviet Hollywood film of the Cold War era.