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The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called the Women's Air Force (WAF).
The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which is later suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta.
Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.
In Johannesburg, Spain defeat the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to win their first FIFA World Cup title.
Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins.
America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.