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Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
Sir Thomas Maitland is appointed as the first Governor of Malta, transforming the island from a British protectorate to a de facto colony.
Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.