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Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
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.