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World War II: the Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.
World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of�
Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and in�
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean and disappear while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an indust�
The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
Battle of Megiddo – the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland.
The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.