2026 results for “World War” — type: events (237 ms)
The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional association football.
The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened with the engine Locomotion pulling wagons with coal and passengers from Shildon t�
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
The Philippine port of Iloilo is opened to world trade by the Spanish administration.
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the fiel�
An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have been legally considered to exist.
War of the First Coalition: The Peace of Leoben is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Maximilian, Count of Merveldt, creating an armistice between France and Austria, setting the stage for the Treaty of�