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Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General André Kolingba.
Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to del�
Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magella�
The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom.
Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29 1/2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International A�
A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
The first game of the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, pitting incumbent champion Garry Kasparov against challenger Viswanathan Anand, takes place on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center's Sout�
Peter O'Connor sets the first World Athletics recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.