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The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form toda�
Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilise a public referendum to legalise gay marriage.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about fifteen�
Charlotte Motor Speedway holds its first NASCAR race, the inaugural World 600.
World War II: The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose, the first shuttle bombing raid of the war. Avro Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at the Zeppelin Works whil�
Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authoritie�
St. Joseph Mutiny: African soldiers in the 1st West India Regiment – led by former slave trader Daaga – launched a rebellion in the British colony of Trinidad in an attempt to escape to Africa.
World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by th�
World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
World War II: The last German troops retreat from Finnish soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military actions of the Second World War end in Finland.
World War II: The last German formations withdraw from Finland to Norway. The Lapland War and thus, World War II in Finland, comes to an end and the Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn photogr�
World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only Brit�