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The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first standard-type battleship.
The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
France win their first World Cup title, defeating defending champions Brazil 3–0.
The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.
Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
Ferrari take their first Formula One grand prix victory at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
The first ascent of the Matterhorn is completed by Edward Whymper and his party, four of whom die on the descent.
Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.