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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.
Hillary Clinton (pictured) became the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
L. L. Zamenhof (pictured) published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
On the orders of Catherine the Great the first of tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian Christians were removed from Crimea and resettled in Pryazovia.