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Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
The steam locomotive Best Friend of Charleston causes the first boiler explosion caused by a steam locomotive.
Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbocker�
English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
The first EF5 tornado in 12 years occurs in Enderlin, North Dakota.
The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
Michael I Komnenos Doukas, the first ruler of the despotate of Epirus, signs a treaty with the Republic of Venice and becomes their vassal.