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Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
The first "National Sorry Day" is held in Australia. Reconciliation events are held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.
Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.
First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.
The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.