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The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pu�
At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single FINA world championship.
In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Desmond Tutu became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Liberian president Edward James Roye was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.
Liberian president Edward James Roye (pictured) was overthrown in modern Africa's first coup d'état.
Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmüh�
Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
Nam Duck-woo, South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2013)
Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (born 1946)
Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Choi Kyu-hah, South Korean politician, 4th President of South Korea (died 2006)
Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (born 1897)
Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and politician, 1st President of South Korea (born 1875)
Chung Dong-young, South Korean journalist and politician, 31st South Korean Minister of Unification
Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
Kim Dae-jung, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 15th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)