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The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
The Football Association, world's first governing body of association football, was founded in London.
World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
James Ussher's calculated First day of the world based on the Old Testament. Creation, he believed, occurred at what would have been nightfall on the previous day.
World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.
World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942.
World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Battle of Passchendaele.
WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.
The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), the world's oldest offshore oil platform.
U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto.
World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to −12 °C (10 °F) as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
War on terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts�
American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.