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The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792 extent, and restoring the House of Bourbon to power.
Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.
James Clark Ross becomes the first European at the North Magnetic Pole.
A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts; she was found guilty the same day and hanged on June 10.
The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.
Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch.