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Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
Pather Panchali, the first film in The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, was released and went on to win many Indian and international film awards.
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published.
The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, took part in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.
Under the Treaty of Nanking, an "unequal treaty" that ended the First Opium War, the Chinese island from which Hong Kong would grow was ceded to Britain.
Michael Faraday (pictured) first experimentally demonstrated electromagnetic induction, leading to the formulation of the law of induction named after him.
A performance of Das Rheingold (scene pictured) opened the first performance of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival, attended by emperors and other composers.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (pictured) demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
Followers of Osho began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.
Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of Indonesia.
Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a powder magazine before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison.
King James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.
First Jewish–Roman War: Roman forces led by Titus set fire to the Second Temple during the siege of Jerusalem.
Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.
The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.
The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.