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The Congress of the Confederation sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times.
The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.