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Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
The BBC broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin.
Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
Korean War: Task Force Smith: American and North Korean forces first clash, in the Battle of Osan.
Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.
The United Kingdom holds its first general election in 10 years, which would be won by Clement Attlee's Labour Party.
Thomas Cook organises the first package excursion, from Leicester to Loughborough.
Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
Althea Gibson wins at the Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
The Republican Party of the United States held its first convention in Jackson, Michigan.
First Battle of Algeciras: Outnumbered French Navy ships defeat the Royal Navy in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras.
First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo: Charles VIII defeats the Holy League.
US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.