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The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
The Battle of Stillman's Run, the first battle of the Black Hawk War, was fought.
Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
The UN commemorates the Palestinian Nakba Day for the first time.
Édith Cresson becomes France's first female Prime Minister.
At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant.
The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85, about Jesus as the Good Shepherd.
Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made)�
The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre (later renamed Chuck E. Cheese) in San Jose, California.
In Cuba, the First Agrarian Reform Law – a cornerstone of the Cuban Revolution – was signed by Fidel Castro, aiming to eliminate large foreign-owned estates and redistribute land to over 100,000 peas�
The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75).